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The waste of potential that is the Ent-C "Temporal Ambassador" Mission.
originalkatic
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The Battle of Narendra III was a pivotal moment in the History of the Alpha Quadrant, one which involved all three major factions of the time, The Federation, the Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Star Empire. We have three Factions in game, those same three, point of fact, and yet, the only mission dealing with the events at Narendra III is the same mission for all three factions, showing us the same viewpoint, regardless of our loyalties. This, to me, is an extremely wasted opportunity.
Sure, the mission came about with the 3 Year anniversary event, and the Romulans weren't in game then, but with LoR having been out, I think it's a fine time to go ahead and adjust and revamp the mission to make it a little better and more interesting to replay as each of the three factions and careers:
Have Feds recruited by a 29th Century Timeship Captain (as Seven of Nine was in Relativity) to serve on the Enterprise-C leading up to the Battle of Narendra III, as their sensors have detected an anomaly in the timeline that could lead to the Enterprise C being absent from the battle. This resulting in an alternate timeline where the Federation is destroyed. They equip you with a Temporal disguise which will alter your features and uniform to that of a contemporary crewman of your target vessel, then transport you to the lower decks of the Enterprise C in time for you to catch a glitch in the secondary Subspace Transceiver Buffer, which allows the Ent-C to receive the Klingons distress call, but the 29th Century captain says there's further distortion, and requires you to stay aboard. Your duties take you to the bridge, where you interact with Captain Garret before witnessing the fateful moment they receive the Distress Call and Garrett decides to go into Battle for the Klingons.
You act as a [career specific lower officer duty) in the lower decks (Engineering-Damage Control, Science-Targeting Sensor operator, Tactical-Torpedo crew) while the Ent-C goes into battle against the Romulans, and then, you find yourself in the mid 2370's, looking out the Window at a Galaxy Class ship, the Ent-D, at this point, contact is lost with the 29th Century Timeship, so you wing it. You assist Lt.Com. LaForge in repairing a few subsystems, mingle with the Ent-Ds crew in Ten Forward, have a chat with Guinan where she seems extremely disturbed by your existence/presence, and then go back aboard the Ent-C to go back to the battle, you witness the ship being boarded, Yar and a few others being captured, and then you're beamed back to the 29th Century Timeship just before the Ent-C is destroyed. As before, the mission rewards a T3 Ambassador Class upon completion.
As a Klingon, you're recruited by the Captain of a 29th Century Korath Temporal Science Vessel, the Uthog, who tells you that you are needed to act as an Agent of the Empire at a critical Battle of the 23rd Century. They equip you with a Temporal disguise which will alter your features and uniform to that of a contemporary crewman of your target vessel, and beam you aboard the only Klingon Ship stationed at Narendra III, the IKS Kom'I'Chu, a Kamarang Class Battle Cruiser due for retirement. You arrive just as the Kom'I'Chu detects the Romulans uncloaking, you keep out of the way as the Captain orders the Governor of Narendra III to activate the planetary shield and send for reinforcements from the Empire.
As the battle rages, the Captain and first officer are killed, there's confusion on the Bridge as you take command. In the space battle, you command the IKS Kom'I'Chu against three Romulan Battlecruisers (of much higher level), when two Romulan ships are destroyed or if the Kom'I'Chus hull gets down to 5% the scene changes to show two more Romulan Ships decloaking and the Kom'I'Chu disabled, floating in space.
Back inside the ship, the rest of the crew is dead, and you find yourself helpless, floating in zero-G as the ship spins. there's a nearby activatable emergency equipment locker with a pair of magnetic boots, which you grab and equip (this puts you on the deck, but moving as if in EVA Suit) as you make your way through the ship, the captain of the Uthog, who guides you to take certain actions based on your career (Engineering-EPS Conduit repair, Science-Subspace Transceiver adjustment, Tactical-bypass security lockout) afterwhich you are instructed to use the ships Communication to send a General Distress Call in the name of the Colony. After this, the Romulans, detecting the activity aboard the Kom'I'Chu, destroy the ship just after the Uthog beams you out. This mission awards a T3 Kamarang Battlecruiser.
As a Romulan, you're recruited by the Captain of a R'Mor Temporal Science Vessel, the RRW In'Andriel, who informs you that due to interference from other factions in the timeline, events in the latter half of the 23rd century have been altered, and if not corrected, the Empire as it was, and the Republic as it shall come to be, may be wiped from the history of the Alpha Quadrant.
They equip you with a Temporal disguise which will alter your features and uniform to that of a contemporary crewman of your target vessel, and beam you aboard a (new) T3 Romulan Battlecruiser, IRW Hu'Shoi, just as it enters the Narendra System. You are told to lay low and perform minor repairs on a few subsystems as the battle rages (Engineering-Calibrate Singularity Containment, Science-enable Hull polarization suroutines, Tactical-Monitor Plasma Coil performance), until the IKS Kom'I'Chu is defeated, then, you are instructed to set the short range biofunction sensors on a loop, to allow survivors on the Kom'I'Chu to go undetected long enough to send a General Distress Call. After the call is sent, and detected in spite of your sabotage, the Kom'I'Chu is destroyed.
Just as the remaining Romulan ships begin their attack on Narendra IIIs planetary shield, the Enterprise C warps in, and quickly destroys all but two of her attackers. As the killing spread of Torpedoes impacts her, she flickers, and suddenly has her shields, weapons, and engines back online. After a brief skirmish in which another Romulan ship is destroyed (leaving the Hu'Shoi), the Captain orders you and several other teams to board the Enterprise and take her Captain prisoner. At this point the Captain of the RRW In'Andriel attempts to contact you, but is cut off as some kind of temporal interference.
Beaming aboard the Enterprise C, you fight your way through her midship decks, to find the bridge empty. Following the bridge crew to the nearest escape pods, you find and stun Yar, Castillo, and several other Bridge crew, and beam back to the Hu'Shoi. Just as you return to the Hu'Shoi, Klingon reinforcements enter the system, and rather than be destroyed, the Captain orders the ship to cloak and set course for Romulan space, as Federation prisoners are at least a consolation prize for this failed venture. Then the Captain of the IRW In'Andriel beams you back to his timeship, and congratulates you on ensuring the continued existence of the Romulan Star Empire, before beaming you back to your own time. This mission awards a T3 Romulan Battlecruiser of the same type as the IRW Hu'Shoi.
Sure, the mission came about with the 3 Year anniversary event, and the Romulans weren't in game then, but with LoR having been out, I think it's a fine time to go ahead and adjust and revamp the mission to make it a little better and more interesting to replay as each of the three factions and careers:
Have Feds recruited by a 29th Century Timeship Captain (as Seven of Nine was in Relativity) to serve on the Enterprise-C leading up to the Battle of Narendra III, as their sensors have detected an anomaly in the timeline that could lead to the Enterprise C being absent from the battle. This resulting in an alternate timeline where the Federation is destroyed. They equip you with a Temporal disguise which will alter your features and uniform to that of a contemporary crewman of your target vessel, then transport you to the lower decks of the Enterprise C in time for you to catch a glitch in the secondary Subspace Transceiver Buffer, which allows the Ent-C to receive the Klingons distress call, but the 29th Century captain says there's further distortion, and requires you to stay aboard. Your duties take you to the bridge, where you interact with Captain Garret before witnessing the fateful moment they receive the Distress Call and Garrett decides to go into Battle for the Klingons.
You act as a [career specific lower officer duty) in the lower decks (Engineering-Damage Control, Science-Targeting Sensor operator, Tactical-Torpedo crew) while the Ent-C goes into battle against the Romulans, and then, you find yourself in the mid 2370's, looking out the Window at a Galaxy Class ship, the Ent-D, at this point, contact is lost with the 29th Century Timeship, so you wing it. You assist Lt.Com. LaForge in repairing a few subsystems, mingle with the Ent-Ds crew in Ten Forward, have a chat with Guinan where she seems extremely disturbed by your existence/presence, and then go back aboard the Ent-C to go back to the battle, you witness the ship being boarded, Yar and a few others being captured, and then you're beamed back to the 29th Century Timeship just before the Ent-C is destroyed. As before, the mission rewards a T3 Ambassador Class upon completion.
As a Klingon, you're recruited by the Captain of a 29th Century Korath Temporal Science Vessel, the Uthog, who tells you that you are needed to act as an Agent of the Empire at a critical Battle of the 23rd Century. They equip you with a Temporal disguise which will alter your features and uniform to that of a contemporary crewman of your target vessel, and beam you aboard the only Klingon Ship stationed at Narendra III, the IKS Kom'I'Chu, a Kamarang Class Battle Cruiser due for retirement. You arrive just as the Kom'I'Chu detects the Romulans uncloaking, you keep out of the way as the Captain orders the Governor of Narendra III to activate the planetary shield and send for reinforcements from the Empire.
As the battle rages, the Captain and first officer are killed, there's confusion on the Bridge as you take command. In the space battle, you command the IKS Kom'I'Chu against three Romulan Battlecruisers (of much higher level), when two Romulan ships are destroyed or if the Kom'I'Chus hull gets down to 5% the scene changes to show two more Romulan Ships decloaking and the Kom'I'Chu disabled, floating in space.
Back inside the ship, the rest of the crew is dead, and you find yourself helpless, floating in zero-G as the ship spins. there's a nearby activatable emergency equipment locker with a pair of magnetic boots, which you grab and equip (this puts you on the deck, but moving as if in EVA Suit) as you make your way through the ship, the captain of the Uthog, who guides you to take certain actions based on your career (Engineering-EPS Conduit repair, Science-Subspace Transceiver adjustment, Tactical-bypass security lockout) afterwhich you are instructed to use the ships Communication to send a General Distress Call in the name of the Colony. After this, the Romulans, detecting the activity aboard the Kom'I'Chu, destroy the ship just after the Uthog beams you out. This mission awards a T3 Kamarang Battlecruiser.
As a Romulan, you're recruited by the Captain of a R'Mor Temporal Science Vessel, the RRW In'Andriel, who informs you that due to interference from other factions in the timeline, events in the latter half of the 23rd century have been altered, and if not corrected, the Empire as it was, and the Republic as it shall come to be, may be wiped from the history of the Alpha Quadrant.
They equip you with a Temporal disguise which will alter your features and uniform to that of a contemporary crewman of your target vessel, and beam you aboard a (new) T3 Romulan Battlecruiser, IRW Hu'Shoi, just as it enters the Narendra System. You are told to lay low and perform minor repairs on a few subsystems as the battle rages (Engineering-Calibrate Singularity Containment, Science-enable Hull polarization suroutines, Tactical-Monitor Plasma Coil performance), until the IKS Kom'I'Chu is defeated, then, you are instructed to set the short range biofunction sensors on a loop, to allow survivors on the Kom'I'Chu to go undetected long enough to send a General Distress Call. After the call is sent, and detected in spite of your sabotage, the Kom'I'Chu is destroyed.
Just as the remaining Romulan ships begin their attack on Narendra IIIs planetary shield, the Enterprise C warps in, and quickly destroys all but two of her attackers. As the killing spread of Torpedoes impacts her, she flickers, and suddenly has her shields, weapons, and engines back online. After a brief skirmish in which another Romulan ship is destroyed (leaving the Hu'Shoi), the Captain orders you and several other teams to board the Enterprise and take her Captain prisoner. At this point the Captain of the RRW In'Andriel attempts to contact you, but is cut off as some kind of temporal interference.
Beaming aboard the Enterprise C, you fight your way through her midship decks, to find the bridge empty. Following the bridge crew to the nearest escape pods, you find and stun Yar, Castillo, and several other Bridge crew, and beam back to the Hu'Shoi. Just as you return to the Hu'Shoi, Klingon reinforcements enter the system, and rather than be destroyed, the Captain orders the ship to cloak and set course for Romulan space, as Federation prisoners are at least a consolation prize for this failed venture. Then the Captain of the IRW In'Andriel beams you back to his timeship, and congratulates you on ensuring the continued existence of the Romulan Star Empire, before beaming you back to your own time. This mission awards a T3 Romulan Battlecruiser of the same type as the IRW Hu'Shoi.
Original Join Date: January 2010. Ragequit Date: January 7th 2012. Return Date: October 23rd 2014.
Almost called it.
Almost called it.
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Instead of the nonsense coming out of the Delta Quadrant, why not bring back the Krenim? You could have brought past characters back because of time travel, given us all Temporal Cores and really tied things together.
In canon, I still think is was ridiculous not to reuse the 29th Century and the Wells, instead of the ridiculous 31st Century in Enterprise...
Second this ^^
And OP, love the idea! Though we need more content first.
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The remake of the Fed Romulan Arc is on Geko's personal to do list, so we will get that in the near future.
@Krenim: They are going to be a thing. The Vaadwaur only bombed them to oblivion to make them desperate enough for new timeline incursions, I am quite sure of that.
Bah. Too many games designed these days around the "Multiplayer pvp! We don't need to produce content, the players will provide it!" concept (CoD, MOBAs, etc.)
Personally, I'd be happiest if PvP and PvE were separated into their own specific games, so they'd never clutter up my PvE experiences (single player games & MMOs). PvP & PvPers are a plague.
Rom Repub goal of reunification with Vulcan complete, they are part of the Fed way before 29th Cen.
KDF... well since they are all working together now... it builds to the KDF joining by the 29th Cen.
Plot twist... the Federation joined the Pakled by the 29th Century.
You should've kept reading, you're encountering Captain Garrett before the Enterprise-C is diverted to the alternate future timeline, before she dies in the Enterprise-Ds Sickbay.
Almost called it.