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Seriously, this lack of information flow after the large amount of promised blogs is increasingly infuriating.
Give us something. Your playerbase is aching for answers about some really important questions, ones that could make or break their continued interest in your game, and you give us nothing.
You're testing my patience.
Everyone wants more information here but its the middle of August and the big show isn't until some point in October. We aren't going to find out the answers to big questions right now because in addition to how standard PR tactics work there's a fair chance that those details haven't been finalized yet (to the point where they could make a decisive blog post about them.) And as far as "a lack of information flow" we had two dev blogs last week (and this one was substantial, it did setup some pretty big themes for the DR story line) in addition to the normal announcements about this last promo and weekend event. Your patience would be tested by a microwavable burrito. Turn down the self-entitled ranting about how we need this or that (in all honesty we don't, its not crucial to survival as STO players. It would just be nice to have the details to a big MMO update sooner rather than later) and you might just get through these little intervals.
Why is this back on the front page despite no new information?
Assuming no glitch, it is the most interesting bit of bloggery ATM. They might as well be leading with it.
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Why is this back on the front page despite no new information?
I'm not saying it's the demons of air and darkness, but we may just be dealing with the premiere race hailing from the Z-6 Sector in the Iota Pavonis Sector Block.
With Seska's son for a leader and the technological data she had no doubt hoarded having been in their hands for 30 years now who knows what the Kazon are capable of now.
I still don't think they won't be capable of much. Cryptic did lean pretty heavily on their background as a technologically inept species (simplifying but you probably get the point) with numbers being their big tactical advantage. Seska may have given them a technological bump up but without a dynamic civilization behind them there's probably not much chance that they could have added to those minor advances with leaps of their own. More likely they've been fighting amongst themselves and other minor DQ powers for much of the last 30 years. Perhaps they've settled in a bit more to their role as a warp capable species (so perhaps they may have more of an infrastructure), but I don't think that they'll be up to too much in DR (besides being the maurader type plot device that we burn through in the first few FE's.)
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...30 years now who knows what the Kazon are capable of now.
Yeah, it would be interesting to see what had actually become of them. We know what's been going on locally, but waaaaay over in the Delta Quadrant...?
For all we know, the Kazon may be fighting for survival against the Borg, who after a rather unsuccessful series of assaults against the Alpha and Beta Quadrant species have re-evaluated their need for disposable troops, leading to conflict between them and significant advances in Kazon technology among the survivors (similar to how Alpha and Beta Quadrant technology has advanced). This could be both due to salvaged Borg technology or advances of their own that were necessary for their survival, or allegiances with other species.
Mabye one of the Sects managed to get ahold of salvage from the duplicate Voyager, after it was destroyed to prevent the Vidiians from capturing it. It is possible that some aspect of that salvaged technology inspired a technological breakthrough among that Sect, similar to how the combination of MP3 players and cell phones has drastically altered the way many of us now communicate. Maybe access to simple photonic, replicator or transporter technologies has led to unique systems; possibilities include:
*A torpedo that actively scans their target's shields in flight, and if an opening is found will use a one-shot transporter to beam its charge directly into the target.
*Photonic hull sheathing, which uses holoemitters to project a false hull around the actual one, absorbing the majority of damage applied (in a similar manner to reactive armor used on modern tanks).
*Replicated ballistic weapons, since the Kazon probably lack the knowledge that "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest SOB in space" or merely don't care.
*Hull repair systems, which actively re-apply layers of protection to the outer hull using replicators.
*Actual Marvin the Martian style disintegrator beams, that use a transporter beam to directly remove pieces of their target and then dissipate fragments of those pieces into nearby portions of the enemy ship; naturally this only works when the target's shields are down.
*Photonic harpoons, that deliver a holoemitter sheathed lance into an enemy ship. Once it has pierced the enemy, the harpoon then forces its photonic projection to expand, opening up massive holes in the hull before the holoemitters burn themselves out in the effort.
Another possibility is that they have been conquered entirely by the Krenim, and now serve as a soldier species-caste similar to the Jem'Hadar of the Dominion (with the Krenim serving as commanders and strategists). The female population of Kazon society could be integrated with and "protected" by the Krenim, with only those Kazon serving successfully being allowed to "retire" into civilian life. These "retirees" might look down on their fellow Kazon, considering them too weak or stupid to be worthy "retirement" and therefore the continuation of the species, a view encouraged by the Krenim.
Still another possibility is that the overbearing patriarchal society let to a revolt among female Kazon, following underground distribution of records from the various defeats that (female) Captain Janeway handed the patriarchy. This was far more violent than the bra burning and protests that led to early changes in the treatment of Human females, and organized quietly. The Kazon females planned out their actions meticulously; timed perfectly, over the course of mere hours they initiated a purge of every adult Kazon male in the Sects, sparing only those that had either not reached the age of maturity or those that had only just reached that point. With most of the males murdered in their sleep, survivors were then given the choice to serve their mothers and sisters, or die, with any crime committed by a male being a capital offense regardless of its severity. In this manner, the violent gender revolution among the Kazon could have created a female dominated society, with young males serving to earn the right to continued survival, and the highest honor a male can achieve being taken as a mate for one of the females. Males are still executed upon a certain age to ensure that females remain more numerous and experienced than males, and no male Kazon currently survives that remembers their species' initial contact with Voyager.
Then again, maybe the Kazon will remain exactly as they were, numerous and aggressive but technologically inferior, going for quantity over quality. Maybe various neighbors have been using Kazon space as a sort of buffer between them, selling arms to opposing Sects to maintain their internal conflict, resulting in a species with a variety of weapon types rather than merely phaser or antiproton, quantum or transphasic... and unintentionally resulting in an increase in military competence and technology. So many possibilities, considering the devs have access to a whole chunk of space that hasn't been interacted with much lately.
Still, I'd rather hear about the changes to endgame that are coming :P
With each passing day I wonder if I stepped into an alternate reality. The Cubs win the world series. Donald Trump is President. Britain leaves the EU. STO gets a dedicated PvP season. Engineers are "out of control" in STO.
So 3 blogs mostly about lore and teaser stuff and this funky little widget. Any word on when there'll be a blog about T6 ships?
T6 ships are mostly just a bait for the players who are more about meta than Star Trek itself which it'll be made up Cryptic ships that don't even look Star Trek but they won't mind because most of those ppl aren't really franchise fans.
Now I will say I don't know exactly what they are going to be doing exactly because I am not behind the scenes of what they do. Although the way it boils down in my thinking process is that they will basically add some fee like whatever was paid for a ship like 25 bucks worth of fleet modules or something to that nature per ship will give it close stats to a T6 ship but enough where meta players won't use canon ships anymore and just buy whatever they put out. So if you wanna content with these meta players you will have to pay out the nose to keep up with them in canon ships.
In reality if this is how its gonna come down. Plus the fact the KDF is so behind in development compared to fed and romulan republic stuff I am pretty much on the verge of uninstall. Which they can't blame me if I can go play some enterprise game and get much of what sto has to offer why would I come back here if they quit development on the KDF lol. Although I highly suspect that X2 is just what I typed above plus a sector block of time gated content that everyone is coming to expect that has gotten old and boring and they are starting to see the metrics drop off because of it.
The Klingons in this case overthrew their former masters 1500 years ago, while the Kazon only did so a few decades ago, they haven't even finished wiping out their old masters yet. With Seska's son for a leader and the technological data she had no doubt hoarded having been in their hands for 30 years now who knows what the Kazon are capable of now.
They'll be like TOS klingons just savages which can easily be exposed off by fed captains and completley obilterated by Klingon captains.
Like another player I would not play these as I think romulans are not even living up to the potential being allies of the KDF and feds they should be standing on there own
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If I didn't know any better I would figure they were trying to go belly up on purpose. You would think even at 9.5 they would be hyping that up but unless you combed thru forums on an hourly basis you wouldn't know it was coming out when it did lol.
You know just thinking about it... It would be something if reason the rank is so low on that restricted access is if they plan on demoting every character to level 1 so that they don't have to put any more blogs/teasers out lol.
Lastly I want to know how they get to the near Delta Quadrant where Delta Rising takes place when they originate in the Far Delta Quadrant. Did they actually follow Voyager home?
it will be based near the nekrit expanse.
both spheres are in the delta quadrant, but the second one the jenolan sphere jumped in near the nekrit expanse. all that will be used is the iconian portals between the two spheres, one very close to a sun and other near the outside shell.
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It's just that I don't think the Kazon are socially compatible with either Starfleet or the Romulans.
Which leaves KDF as the only choice.
I don't think Starfleet or the Romulan Republic would ally themselves with a race as aggressive as the Kazon.
Besides, if the KDF don't get at least one new playable race when the other faction/s do, there will be more pitchfork waving......
Please there be Vidiians! Please let there be Vidiians!
If they bring Vidiians into the game, I hope they're not silly enough to make them Phage infected and organ havesters!
The Vidiians hired the Think Tank to cure the Phage and they did so, therefore the Phage should not be in any stories relating to the Vidiians.
Although I wonder what price the Think Tank charged for that service, they're weren't exactly ethical when it comes to payment.......
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If they bring Vidiians into the game, I hope they're not silly enough to make them Phage infected and organ havesters!
The Vidiians hired the Think Tank to cure the Phage and they did so, therefore the Phage should not be in any stories relating to the Vidiians.
Although I wonder what price the Think Tank charged for that service, they're weren't exactly ethical when it comes to payment.......
They wanted Vidiian phage torpedos!
Maybe Kurros received intelligence on Voyager in return. While reputation preceded the ship's course, the Vidiians actually met and visited Voyager on several occasions.
It's just that I don't think the Kazon are socially compatible with either Starfleet or the Romulans.
Which leaves KDF as the only choice.
I don't think Starfleet or the Romulan Republic would ally themselves with a race as aggressive as the Kazon.
I disagree.
I believe the Kazon's interactions with Voyager/Starfleet started a renaissance, of sorts.
In their quest to balance their society, they decide to aid the Feddies.
I disagree.
I believe the Kazon's interactions with Voyager/Starfleet started a renaissance, of sorts.
In their quest to balance their society, they decide to aid the Feddies.
The Talaxians ate some of Neelix's cooking and dieded a slow genetic death.
its not impossible to have the occasional delinquent if you like, a kazon outside the standard norms acceptable to a kazon who sees more to life then as others on this forum put it like a dullard. so a boff or a doff wouldnt go a miss, but generally the kazon typically despise any uniforms and their regulations, klingons would likely be no different to the kazon.
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Yeah, it would be interesting to see what had actually become of them. We know what's been going on locally, but waaaaay over in the Delta Quadrant...?
For all we know, the Kazon may be fighting for survival against the Borg, who after a rather unsuccessful series of assaults against the Alpha and Beta Quadrant species have re-evaluated their need for disposable troops, leading to conflict between them and significant advances in Kazon technology among the survivors (similar to how Alpha and Beta Quadrant technology has advanced). This could be both due to salvaged Borg technology or advances of their own that were necessary for their survival, or allegiances with other species.
Mabye one of the Sects managed to get ahold of salvage from the duplicate Voyager, after it was destroyed to prevent the Vidiians from capturing it. It is possible that some aspect of that salvaged technology inspired a technological breakthrough among that Sect, similar to how the combination of MP3 players and cell phones has drastically altered the way many of us now communicate. Maybe access to simple photonic, replicator or transporter technologies has led to unique systems; possibilities include:
*A torpedo that actively scans their target's shields in flight, and if an opening is found will use a one-shot transporter to beam its charge directly into the target.
*Photonic hull sheathing, which uses holoemitters to project a false hull around the actual one, absorbing the majority of damage applied (in a similar manner to reactive armor used on modern tanks).
*Replicated ballistic weapons, since the Kazon probably lack the knowledge that "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest SOB in space" or merely don't care.
*Hull repair systems, which actively re-apply layers of protection to the outer hull using replicators.
*Actual Marvin the Martian style disintegrator beams, that use a transporter beam to directly remove pieces of their target and then dissipate fragments of those pieces into nearby portions of the enemy ship; naturally this only works when the target's shields are down.
*Photonic harpoons, that deliver a holoemitter sheathed lance into an enemy ship. Once it has pierced the enemy, the harpoon then forces its photonic projection to expand, opening up massive holes in the hull before the holoemitters burn themselves out in the effort.
Another possibility is that they have been conquered entirely by the Krenim, and now serve as a soldier species-caste similar to the Jem'Hadar of the Dominion (with the Krenim serving as commanders and strategists). The female population of Kazon society could be integrated with and "protected" by the Krenim, with only those Kazon serving successfully being allowed to "retire" into civilian life. These "retirees" might look down on their fellow Kazon, considering them too weak or stupid to be worthy "retirement" and therefore the continuation of the species, a view encouraged by the Krenim.
Still another possibility is that the overbearing patriarchal society let to a revolt among female Kazon, following underground distribution of records from the various defeats that (female) Captain Janeway handed the patriarchy. This was far more violent than the bra burning and protests that led to early changes in the treatment of Human females, and organized quietly. The Kazon females planned out their actions meticulously; timed perfectly, over the course of mere hours they initiated a purge of every adult Kazon male in the Sects, sparing only those that had either not reached the age of maturity or those that had only just reached that point. With most of the males murdered in their sleep, survivors were then given the choice to serve their mothers and sisters, or die, with any crime committed by a male being a capital offense regardless of its severity. In this manner, the violent gender revolution among the Kazon could have created a female dominated society, with young males serving to earn the right to continued survival, and the highest honor a male can achieve being taken as a mate for one of the females. Males are still executed upon a certain age to ensure that females remain more numerous and experienced than males, and no male Kazon currently survives that remembers their species' initial contact with Voyager.
Then again, maybe the Kazon will remain exactly as they were, numerous and aggressive but technologically inferior, going for quantity over quality. Maybe various neighbors have been using Kazon space as a sort of buffer between them, selling arms to opposing Sects to maintain their internal conflict, resulting in a species with a variety of weapon types rather than merely phaser or antiproton, quantum or transphasic... and unintentionally resulting in an increase in military competence and technology. So many possibilities, considering the devs have access to a whole chunk of space that hasn't been interacted with much lately.
Still, I'd rather hear about the changes to endgame that are coming :P
both spheres are in the delta quadrant, but the second one the jenolan sphere jumped in near the nekrit expanse. all that will be used is the iconian portals between the two spheres, one very close to a sun and other near the outside shell.
Ahhh right, which places them between The Swarm and the Collective.
In that case yeah, the Kazon, Talaxians, Ocampa, and Vidiians is more than possible. The nice thing is that the Vidiians should be healed up by now, so they should be a lot less hostile...better look too (Denara Pel drool).
It's just that I don't think the Kazon are socially compatible with either Starfleet or the Romulans.
Which leaves KDF as the only choice.
I don't think Starfleet or the Romulan Republic would ally themselves with a race as aggressive as the Kazon.
Besides, if the KDF don't get at least one new playable race when the other faction/s do, there will be more pitchfork waving......
If they bring Vidiians into the game, I hope they're not silly enough to make them Phage infected and organ havesters!
The Vidiians hired the Think Tank to cure the Phage and they did so, therefore the Phage should not be in any stories relating to the Vidiians.
Although I wonder what price the Think Tank charged for that service, they're weren't exactly ethical when it comes to payment.......
I don't know about the Romulans, but the Federation is made of being accepting of alien cultures, they're not going to reject anyone who is actually interested in joining them based on their species.
"Rise like Lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many they are few"
If they bring Vidiians into the game, I hope they're not silly enough to make them Phage infected and organ havesters!
The Vidiians hired the Think Tank to cure the Phage and they did so, therefore the Phage should not be in any stories relating to the Vidiians.
Although I wonder what price the Think Tank charged for that service, they're weren't exactly ethical when it comes to payment.......
The Vidiians don't need the Phage just to be enemies. The Phage made them outcasts for a period of two thousand years, 40 years isn't going to change that. Maybe there are Vidiians out there who became addicted to transplanting, similar to how there are real people who become addicted to plastic surgery? Or maybe they've become a race of blackmarket organ harvesters? Two thousand years of cultural history isn't going to change overnight, and there are species out there like the Solanae that would be interested in their services.
On the other hand maybe I'm completely wrong. Not a lot of known species in the galaxy have medical technology on their level, which exceded even the Federation. Maybe the Vidiians went through a massive cultural shift and became the Delta Quadrant's equivilant to the Red Cross.
If they bring Vidiians into the game, I hope they're not silly enough to make them Phage infected and organ havesters!
The Vidiians hired the Think Tank to cure the Phage and they did so, therefore the Phage should not be in any stories relating to the Vidiians.
Although I wonder what price the Think Tank charged for that service, they're weren't exactly ethical when it comes to payment.......
Why would you believe anything the Think Tank said? We only have their word for it that the Vidiians were cured; and the Tank showed themselves to be quite untrustworthy.
The Vidiians don't need the Phage just to be enemies. The Phage made them outcasts for a period of two thousand years, 40 years isn't going to change that. Maybe there are Vidiians out there who became addicted to transplanting, similar to how there are real people who become addicted to plastic surgery? Or maybe they've become a race of blackmarket organ harvesters? Two thousand years of cultural history isn't going to change overnight, and there are species out there like the Solanae that would be interested in their services.
On the other hand maybe I'm completely wrong. Not a lot of known species in the galaxy have medical technology on their level, which exceded even the Federation. Maybe the Vidiians went through a massive cultural shift and became the Delta Quadrant's equivilant to the Red Cross.
Both are excellent options.
There could also be rogue elements of the Sodality that haven't been cured, some kind of civil war. Those Vidiians would be very happy to prey on Klingons since their genetics are a viable treatment.
For all we know the Think Tank did cure the Phage, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they gave the cure to the Vidiians or ALL Vidiians.
"Rise like Lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many they are few"
Maybe there are Vidiians out there who became addicted to transplanting, similar to how there are real people who become addicted to plastic surgery? Or maybe they've become a race of blackmarket organ harvesters?
My body is ready. (said in Schwarzenegger's voice).
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"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
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Everyone wants more information here but its the middle of August and the big show isn't until some point in October. We aren't going to find out the answers to big questions right now because in addition to how standard PR tactics work there's a fair chance that those details haven't been finalized yet (to the point where they could make a decisive blog post about them.) And as far as "a lack of information flow" we had two dev blogs last week (and this one was substantial, it did setup some pretty big themes for the DR story line) in addition to the normal announcements about this last promo and weekend event. Your patience would be tested by a microwavable burrito. Turn down the self-entitled ranting about how we need this or that (in all honesty we don't, its not crucial to survival as STO players. It would just be nice to have the details to a big MMO update sooner rather than later) and you might just get through these little intervals.
Assuming no glitch, it is the most interesting bit of bloggery ATM. They might as well be leading with it.
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I'm not saying it's the demons of air and darkness, but we may just be dealing with the premiere race hailing from the Z-6 Sector in the Iota Pavonis Sector Block.
I still don't think they won't be capable of much. Cryptic did lean pretty heavily on their background as a technologically inept species (simplifying but you probably get the point) with numbers being their big tactical advantage. Seska may have given them a technological bump up but without a dynamic civilization behind them there's probably not much chance that they could have added to those minor advances with leaps of their own. More likely they've been fighting amongst themselves and other minor DQ powers for much of the last 30 years. Perhaps they've settled in a bit more to their role as a warp capable species (so perhaps they may have more of an infrastructure), but I don't think that they'll be up to too much in DR (besides being the maurader type plot device that we burn through in the first few FE's.)
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Yeah, it would be interesting to see what had actually become of them. We know what's been going on locally, but waaaaay over in the Delta Quadrant...?
For all we know, the Kazon may be fighting for survival against the Borg, who after a rather unsuccessful series of assaults against the Alpha and Beta Quadrant species have re-evaluated their need for disposable troops, leading to conflict between them and significant advances in Kazon technology among the survivors (similar to how Alpha and Beta Quadrant technology has advanced). This could be both due to salvaged Borg technology or advances of their own that were necessary for their survival, or allegiances with other species.
Mabye one of the Sects managed to get ahold of salvage from the duplicate Voyager, after it was destroyed to prevent the Vidiians from capturing it. It is possible that some aspect of that salvaged technology inspired a technological breakthrough among that Sect, similar to how the combination of MP3 players and cell phones has drastically altered the way many of us now communicate. Maybe access to simple photonic, replicator or transporter technologies has led to unique systems; possibilities include:
*Photonic hull sheathing, which uses holoemitters to project a false hull around the actual one, absorbing the majority of damage applied (in a similar manner to reactive armor used on modern tanks).
*Replicated ballistic weapons, since the Kazon probably lack the knowledge that "Sir Isaac Newton is the deadliest SOB in space" or merely don't care.
*Hull repair systems, which actively re-apply layers of protection to the outer hull using replicators.
*Actual Marvin the Martian style disintegrator beams, that use a transporter beam to directly remove pieces of their target and then dissipate fragments of those pieces into nearby portions of the enemy ship; naturally this only works when the target's shields are down.
*Photonic harpoons, that deliver a holoemitter sheathed lance into an enemy ship. Once it has pierced the enemy, the harpoon then forces its photonic projection to expand, opening up massive holes in the hull before the holoemitters burn themselves out in the effort.
Another possibility is that they have been conquered entirely by the Krenim, and now serve as a soldier species-caste similar to the Jem'Hadar of the Dominion (with the Krenim serving as commanders and strategists). The female population of Kazon society could be integrated with and "protected" by the Krenim, with only those Kazon serving successfully being allowed to "retire" into civilian life. These "retirees" might look down on their fellow Kazon, considering them too weak or stupid to be worthy "retirement" and therefore the continuation of the species, a view encouraged by the Krenim.
Still another possibility is that the overbearing patriarchal society let to a revolt among female Kazon, following underground distribution of records from the various defeats that (female) Captain Janeway handed the patriarchy. This was far more violent than the bra burning and protests that led to early changes in the treatment of Human females, and organized quietly. The Kazon females planned out their actions meticulously; timed perfectly, over the course of mere hours they initiated a purge of every adult Kazon male in the Sects, sparing only those that had either not reached the age of maturity or those that had only just reached that point. With most of the males murdered in their sleep, survivors were then given the choice to serve their mothers and sisters, or die, with any crime committed by a male being a capital offense regardless of its severity. In this manner, the violent gender revolution among the Kazon could have created a female dominated society, with young males serving to earn the right to continued survival, and the highest honor a male can achieve being taken as a mate for one of the females. Males are still executed upon a certain age to ensure that females remain more numerous and experienced than males, and no male Kazon currently survives that remembers their species' initial contact with Voyager.
Then again, maybe the Kazon will remain exactly as they were, numerous and aggressive but technologically inferior, going for quantity over quality. Maybe various neighbors have been using Kazon space as a sort of buffer between them, selling arms to opposing Sects to maintain their internal conflict, resulting in a species with a variety of weapon types rather than merely phaser or antiproton, quantum or transphasic... and unintentionally resulting in an increase in military competence and technology. So many possibilities, considering the devs have access to a whole chunk of space that hasn't been interacted with much lately.
Still, I'd rather hear about the changes to endgame that are coming :P
T6 ships are mostly just a bait for the players who are more about meta than Star Trek itself which it'll be made up Cryptic ships that don't even look Star Trek but they won't mind because most of those ppl aren't really franchise fans.
Now I will say I don't know exactly what they are going to be doing exactly because I am not behind the scenes of what they do. Although the way it boils down in my thinking process is that they will basically add some fee like whatever was paid for a ship like 25 bucks worth of fleet modules or something to that nature per ship will give it close stats to a T6 ship but enough where meta players won't use canon ships anymore and just buy whatever they put out. So if you wanna content with these meta players you will have to pay out the nose to keep up with them in canon ships.
In reality if this is how its gonna come down. Plus the fact the KDF is so behind in development compared to fed and romulan republic stuff I am pretty much on the verge of uninstall. Which they can't blame me if I can go play some enterprise game and get much of what sto has to offer why would I come back here if they quit development on the KDF lol. Although I highly suspect that X2 is just what I typed above plus a sector block of time gated content that everyone is coming to expect that has gotten old and boring and they are starting to see the metrics drop off because of it.
They'll be like TOS klingons just savages which can easily be exposed off by fed captains and completley obilterated by Klingon captains.
Like another player I would not play these as I think romulans are not even living up to the potential being allies of the KDF and feds they should be standing on there own
Vice Admiral Volmack ISS Thundermole
Brigadier General Jokag IKS Gorkan
Centurion Kares RRW Tomalak
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THIS IS TO SELL TO MY FRIENDS WHEN I GOT NOTHING NEW TO SHOW THEM? (there not trekkies)
I'm sorry to people who I, in the past, insulted, annoyed, etc.
As mentioned here we should receive information about T6 ships this or next week.
If I didn't know any better I would figure they were trying to go belly up on purpose. You would think even at 9.5 they would be hyping that up but unless you combed thru forums on an hourly basis you wouldn't know it was coming out when it did lol.
You know just thinking about it... It would be something if reason the rank is so low on that restricted access is if they plan on demoting every character to level 1 so that they don't have to put any more blogs/teasers out lol.
it will be based near the nekrit expanse.
both spheres are in the delta quadrant, but the second one the jenolan sphere jumped in near the nekrit expanse. all that will be used is the iconian portals between the two spheres, one very close to a sun and other near the outside shell.
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It's just that I don't think the Kazon are socially compatible with either Starfleet or the Romulans.
Which leaves KDF as the only choice.
I don't think Starfleet or the Romulan Republic would ally themselves with a race as aggressive as the Kazon.
Besides, if the KDF don't get at least one new playable race when the other faction/s do, there will be more pitchfork waving......
If they bring Vidiians into the game, I hope they're not silly enough to make them Phage infected and organ havesters!
The Vidiians hired the Think Tank to cure the Phage and they did so, therefore the Phage should not be in any stories relating to the Vidiians.
Although I wonder what price the Think Tank charged for that service, they're weren't exactly ethical when it comes to payment.......
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They wanted Vidiian phage torpedos!
Maybe Kurros received intelligence on Voyager in return. While reputation preceded the ship's course, the Vidiians actually met and visited Voyager on several occasions.
I disagree.
I believe the Kazon's interactions with Voyager/Starfleet started a renaissance, of sorts.
In their quest to balance their society, they decide to aid the Feddies.
The Ocampa, on the other hand, could have fractured further and a strong "cell" could ally with the KDF.
The Talaxians ate some of Neelix's cooking and dieded a slow genetic death.
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its not impossible to have the occasional delinquent if you like, a kazon outside the standard norms acceptable to a kazon who sees more to life then as others on this forum put it like a dullard. so a boff or a doff wouldnt go a miss, but generally the kazon typically despise any uniforms and their regulations, klingons would likely be no different to the kazon.
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I love all these ideas bravo
Ahhh right, which places them between The Swarm and the Collective.
In that case yeah, the Kazon, Talaxians, Ocampa, and Vidiians is more than possible. The nice thing is that the Vidiians should be healed up by now, so they should be a lot less hostile...better look too (Denara Pel drool).
I don't know about the Romulans, but the Federation is made of being accepting of alien cultures, they're not going to reject anyone who is actually interested in joining them based on their species.
The Vidiians don't need the Phage just to be enemies. The Phage made them outcasts for a period of two thousand years, 40 years isn't going to change that. Maybe there are Vidiians out there who became addicted to transplanting, similar to how there are real people who become addicted to plastic surgery? Or maybe they've become a race of blackmarket organ harvesters? Two thousand years of cultural history isn't going to change overnight, and there are species out there like the Solanae that would be interested in their services.
On the other hand maybe I'm completely wrong. Not a lot of known species in the galaxy have medical technology on their level, which exceded even the Federation. Maybe the Vidiians went through a massive cultural shift and became the Delta Quadrant's equivilant to the Red Cross.
Why would you believe anything the Think Tank said? We only have their word for it that the Vidiians were cured; and the Tank showed themselves to be quite untrustworthy.
no blogs today by the looks of it.
Both are excellent options.
There could also be rogue elements of the Sodality that haven't been cured, some kind of civil war. Those Vidiians would be very happy to prey on Klingons since their genetics are a viable treatment.
For all we know the Think Tank did cure the Phage, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they gave the cure to the Vidiians or ALL Vidiians.
When I read that, I got this mental image of a Star Trek version of Repo! The Genetic Opera.
"No matter where you go...there you are."
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I can't believe I just said that....
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Excellent.
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Keep checking Twitter, they might have a "leaked" picture or info...
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