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The Borg (Collective) and the Undine - my hopes for the Iconian War
wimpoman
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The Borg and the Undine, two of the Federation's most deadly enemies - the first has (or had) the capability to wipe out pretty much any species or union of such in the galaxy, and the second very nearly did the same to the Borg.
I really do hope that, when the Iconians invade the Milky Way (or whatever the Klingons call it), that they have to take on everyone in the Milky Way, including those two, and not just us players.
I would imagine that the Undine would find it disgraceful that the Iconians tricked them into killing, essentially, innocent beings and would attempt to right those wrongs. I got the impression from Voy episode "In The Flesh" that they were actually reasonable and honourable.
The Borg would fight because the Iconians threaten their future, both directly and indirectly. When they invade, I can't imagine the Iconians would see the Borg as anything different than just another life form of the Milky Way that needs eradicating. On top of that, the Borg pursue perfection by adding the distinctiveness of other races into the collective, but if the Iconians wipe out all life in the galaxy except the Borg (for whatever reason), there would no longer be other races to add to the collective to pursue perfection.
The enemy of my enemy, and all that.
I really do hope that, when the Iconians invade the Milky Way (or whatever the Klingons call it), that they have to take on everyone in the Milky Way, including those two, and not just us players.
I would imagine that the Undine would find it disgraceful that the Iconians tricked them into killing, essentially, innocent beings and would attempt to right those wrongs. I got the impression from Voy episode "In The Flesh" that they were actually reasonable and honourable.
The Borg would fight because the Iconians threaten their future, both directly and indirectly. When they invade, I can't imagine the Iconians would see the Borg as anything different than just another life form of the Milky Way that needs eradicating. On top of that, the Borg pursue perfection by adding the distinctiveness of other races into the collective, but if the Iconians wipe out all life in the galaxy except the Borg (for whatever reason), there would no longer be other races to add to the collective to pursue perfection.
The enemy of my enemy, and all that.
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The Undine might fight the Iconians out of a need for revenge. Yes they were manipuated, but I get the feeling this particular faction of Undine might not be connected with the group that was reasonable. If they can distinguish between us and the Iconians, then they may be more inclined to fight the Iconians because they were the ones who violated their territory originally. Not us as they were led to believe. If not... I can see the Undine just retreating back into their own territory in Fluidic Space and waiting it out as "It doesn't concern them".
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We already know that if they find a location of Omega they'll go after it with everything they've got. Let both sides weaken each other, assist the cooperative to liberate additional borg and clean up after the dust settles.
1: We win.
2: When the dust settles, we're faced with a united KDF, Romulan, and Federation for the first time since the Dominion War -- with no enemy left to fight.
3: The story refocuses on our own territory once again. Attention is paid to portions of the established Star Trek universe as the three governments carefully try navigating the political waters to avoid future conflict with one another. Also known as making a lasting peace instead of a temporary peace.
4: We see stories involving the Orions, the Gorn, Nausicaans, Aenar, Caitians, Obisek's Remans, the Breen, Preservers, the Children of Khan, the Gorn, and every other 'mini-faction' in the game that could use a more personal touch from Cryptic each time the spotlight shines on them.
Undine - All are weak and all shall perish.
Perhaps something this big will also finally get the attention of some of the Older "Wildcard" entities? (Q, Trelane, Charlie X, etc....yeah yeah, I don't give a **** about what was put in the novelizations)
How about some survivors from the time of the Iconians? Wasn't Balok (Tranya Boy) from the "First Federation"? What about any survivors of say, the T'Kon or Promellians (Yes, they were killed off, etc...but rectoning in Star Trek is oft a popular pastime!)
Anyhow, enough fanboy TRIBBLE. I just hope that there's solid story structure along with the pew-pew.
That could be interesting.
The birth of STO exploration?
Agreed.
So the sacrifice is our eyesight, then? Because holy ****, the Badlands make my eyeballs bleed
I'd love to see a temporary alliance with them against the Iconians. I think we can rule out the Dominion, despite the Iconians reticence in taking them on that Vorta we encountered basically told us "You want our help with the Iconians? Tough **** we want nothing to do with that fight."
Or why they love the Crystalline Entity so much.
... then again the relationship between the Unimatrix Ships and V'Ger was never explained in STO, either. Plenty of player speculation, but nothing firmly explained.