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maxprange
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EDIT: For every time I said Insectoids, replace it with Reptilions due to the fact that I just realized that I had them mixed up :L
This is actually sort of what I was hoping for for Season 9 but I knew it wouldn't happen. I think season 10 should feature the Xindi! A few ideas are:
Lockbox:
Big win - Xindi Aquatic Carrier
800 lobi - Reptilian Battle Cruiser
XINDI AQUATIC CARRIER
BOFF SEATING
CONSOLE LAYOUT
STATS
Console - Universal: Xindi Advanced Repair Siphon
REPTILIAN BATTLE CRUISER (escort)
BOFF SEATING
CONSOLE LAYOUT
STATS
SPECIAL ITEMS
Console - Universal: Subspace Vortex
EPISODE/MISSION/STORY
To keep things simple but still fun, the story should be much like that of the Enterprise TV series: Due to the temporal cold war and suliban influence, the reptilians have frozen some of their best agents in time. Now they come back with a sphere just like that from the Enterprise Era and are attacking planets of the Federation and Klingon Empire. Each faction sends some of its best to eliminate the threat.
To do a PvE mission it would be quite simple. For space: you are in orbit of a random federation planet, They have attacked and captured many of your allied star ships and deployed a virus in your planets defense grid to keep you out. While repelling attacking Xindi battle ships, you have to provide aid to the captured ships, beam over security teams, and reprogram the defense grid. This could be done like in Khitomer Vortex or use lanes like in the new Undine mission. After accomplishing these goals, you come across a xindi sphere. This has a hull intergrity of 750k or 3m (elite). It has the ability to launch Xindi fighters and has a deadly lance weapon that deals 30k or 70k (elite) damage to an attacker every 20 seconds. The goal is to defeat this, beam down aid to the planet then the mission is complete.
For ground, the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire have sent their best to take out an aquatic Xindi facility producing one of these spheres.
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070711002125/memoryalpha/en/images/c/c1/Azati_Prime_underwater_weapon.jpg
Your team must battle through waves of Xindi, and rescue captured hostages and spies while at the same time, uploading a virus to the command center to cripple all other Xindi stations. At the end, you destroy the facility overall crippling the whole Reptilion attack. This mission would be a lot like Manus, where you fight through waves while watching out for firing lines, you pass them the Xindi slowly begin to kill the hostages. You then get to a room, much like the middle room where you defeat one of the borg bosses then have to use 3 consoles to unlock the door, but it would be uploading a virus instead as well as killing a Xindi commander.
Again, I think it would be really cool to see these in-game.
This is actually sort of what I was hoping for for Season 9 but I knew it wouldn't happen. I think season 10 should feature the Xindi! A few ideas are:
Lockbox:
Big win - Xindi Aquatic Carrier
800 lobi - Reptilian Battle Cruiser
XINDI AQUATIC CARRIER
BOFF SEATING
- Ensin Tactical
- Lt Commander Sci
- Commander Eng
- Lt Universal
- Lt Universal
CONSOLE LAYOUT
- 5 Eng
- 3 Sci
- 2 Tac
STATS
- 46,500 Hitpoints
- 1.15 Shield Mod
- 4 Weapons fore 3 Weapons Aft
- +10 shield power +10 aux power
- Subsystem Targeting
- 2 Hangar Bays
- *Think of this somewhat like a deffensive JHDC
Console - Universal: Xindi Advanced Repair Siphon
- 3 Min Recharge
- 10 Seconds Active
- To Self: +4,000 hull regen and 500 shield regen per second and +40 damage resistance rating.
- To Allies: +2,000 hit points and 250 shields per second, +20 damage resistance rating (7.5km max range)
- To Foes: -1,000 Hull and 100 Shields per second, (7.5km max range)
REPTILIAN BATTLE CRUISER (escort)
BOFF SEATING
- Commander Tactical
- Lt Tactical
- Ensign Sci
- Lt Commander Universal
- Lt Universal
CONSOLE LAYOUT
- 3 Eng
- 2 Sci
- 5 Tac
STATS
- 35,500 Hitpoints
- 1.05 Shield Mod
- 4 Weapons fore 3 Weapons Aft
- +15 weapons power
[*]Console - Universal: Xindi Sphere Assault
[*]3 Min Recharge
[*]5 Seconds Activate
[*]Calls in one Reptilian Sphere to attack selected target. Sphere does 30k Damage with a 25% chance to dissable one subsystem
[*]3 Min Recharge
[*]5 Seconds Activate
[*]Calls in one Reptilian Sphere to attack selected target. Sphere does 30k Damage with a 25% chance to dissable one subsystem
SPECIAL ITEMS
- Aquatic Fighters
- Frigate
- 2 Xindi Phaser Beams Fore
- 1 Photon Torpedo Aft
- Fire at will 1
- Emergency power to shields 1
- Eject Warp Plasma
- Xindi Advanced Phasers
- Phaser Color with antiproton "veigns" around
- 2.5% chance, -75 weapons power in one subsystem for 10 seconds and placate for 1 second
- 3 Min Recharge
- 10 Seconds Active
- Your ship activates a Subspace vortex making you invisible to all enemy radar. Your flight speed is set to 50 and turn rate set to 60. Upon leaving the rupture, your ship will have -50 all damage resistance rating for 5 seconds but a 25% damage boost.
- http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070712050717/memoryalpha/en/images/f/f1/Subspace_vortex_open.jpg
EPISODE/MISSION/STORY
To keep things simple but still fun, the story should be much like that of the Enterprise TV series: Due to the temporal cold war and suliban influence, the reptilians have frozen some of their best agents in time. Now they come back with a sphere just like that from the Enterprise Era and are attacking planets of the Federation and Klingon Empire. Each faction sends some of its best to eliminate the threat.
To do a PvE mission it would be quite simple. For space: you are in orbit of a random federation planet, They have attacked and captured many of your allied star ships and deployed a virus in your planets defense grid to keep you out. While repelling attacking Xindi battle ships, you have to provide aid to the captured ships, beam over security teams, and reprogram the defense grid. This could be done like in Khitomer Vortex or use lanes like in the new Undine mission. After accomplishing these goals, you come across a xindi sphere. This has a hull intergrity of 750k or 3m (elite). It has the ability to launch Xindi fighters and has a deadly lance weapon that deals 30k or 70k (elite) damage to an attacker every 20 seconds. The goal is to defeat this, beam down aid to the planet then the mission is complete.
For ground, the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire have sent their best to take out an aquatic Xindi facility producing one of these spheres.
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070711002125/memoryalpha/en/images/c/c1/Azati_Prime_underwater_weapon.jpg
Your team must battle through waves of Xindi, and rescue captured hostages and spies while at the same time, uploading a virus to the command center to cripple all other Xindi stations. At the end, you destroy the facility overall crippling the whole Reptilion attack. This mission would be a lot like Manus, where you fight through waves while watching out for firing lines, you pass them the Xindi slowly begin to kill the hostages. You then get to a room, much like the middle room where you defeat one of the borg bosses then have to use 3 consoles to unlock the door, but it would be uploading a virus instead as well as killing a Xindi commander.
Again, I think it would be really cool to see these in-game.
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Those ideas for the ships are neat. I'd buy them!
-Yoda
That said, I'm not sure an Xindi Faction would truly work. What I would however go for is an Xindi FE Series, along with an Xindi Lock Box (or a series of them). The FE Series could tell a story, and the Lock Box(es) could release each of their ships, and maybe a unique Bridge Officer per (though likely excluding Aquatic for obvious reasons).
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
That, and Cryptic is hardly known for consistency in this regard.
Fixed for you.
C-Store ships should be faction specific only; if Federation (not Andorian/Vulcan) and Klingon/Orion/Gorn/Nausciaan for KDF (because of how that faction is set up). The Andorian and Vulcan ships should have been lock box ships set up similar to how the Tal Shiar Ships are; lock box specific to a single faction.
Nah, should still be in the cstore. They don't need to be rare, as they are faction specific ships.
The only way around that would be for the Xindi to leave the UFP, which is entirely possible in Cryptic's world.
To be fair though, in Cryptic's World there's no reason why they can't release UFP member world ships in lock boxes. They've the creative license (somewhat) to do as they please. If CBS gave the green light (likely here) then it's good to go, and I'd support it. Why not?
Right, so this is why I said the temporal cold war or the suliban or now even the iconians froze some of those reptilionsin time. Would make it reasonable for then fighting to start. Sort of like the deep space 9 episodes where some Dominiom who were frozen in time came back to take DS9. Now i cant remember this perfectly but it still didnt seem at the end of the show that the Reptilions were exactly the federations friends so you know they could also say that they alone defected and thats whats coming back to attack.
My character Tsin'xing
insectoids are ugly, who would want to be one? i created a qularr bug on CO a while back and all i got was the character was ugly from others, i would imagine the same here. in any event though the aquatics could end up like a retconned protoss walker, an aquatic floating in a small bubble hanging from underneath.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Everything unfortunately decided to vote about a year ago , which did not participate in so many players , but which Cryptic grab , so STO flooded delta quadrant and the alien-of-the-week and dinosaurs with lasers on their heads.
But when they run out of ideas , maybe that some we will see the Xindi with great aquatic and reptilian ships.
Here is one older idea:
Depending on how long Season 10 lasts, we might end up coinciding with the 50th Anniversary of the Star Trek franchise, we could just use Season 10 and/or 11 as vehicles to lead us to the return of the Nexus and whatever big plan they have for the 50th Anniversary.
Hopefully that plan involves getting Patrick Stewart and William Shatner to voice Picard and Kirk.
-Leonard Nimoy, RIP
Reptilians were the really angry ones, at the end the Insectiods realized the Sphere Builders had betrayed them, and were destroyed by the Reptilians.
Kirk. Picard. In the Nexus.
Just for fun, imagine a popular (and proven) Trek author to build more momentum around the storyline. (No offense intended towards the current STO writer(s).)
Back to the original OP's thread post:
The idea of using the Xindi, such as you've suggested, is a grand idea. I'm personally tired of the Iconian influence angle. I do think it'll be used as the eventual end game/lights out mission for STO.
Having the Temporal War factor into a new Xindi plot line could be interesting (with Temporal Investigations participating in a new cross-time/altered timeline adventure). Or using one of the interesting ideas from others within this thread.
Xindi aside...
What I'd really like to see is a Cardassian faction that wants to ally with the Federation and Klingons, but is torn with renewed Dominion ties, trade pacts with the Romulans, and internal struggles with the True Way (and potentially a Romulan Tal Sh'iar alliance sub plot).
So, either Season 10 = Xindi.
Or Season 10 = Cardassians.
My vote, anyways...
Yah im now realizing that ive been saying this all wrong... Instead of insectoids think Reptilians... I would get them confused during the show and I still do now lol.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=16693701#post16693701
I know how much fun it is to make up statistics for ships, but in the end, I suppose the developers will make up their own mind.
By the looks, I'd say:
Insectoid: Escort
Reptilian: Battlecruiser
Aquatic: Escort or Science (it looks "fast", but it has components that may make good "secondary" deflectors.
Primate: Cruiser
Aboral: Cruiser or Carrier