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How big is the Vault?

psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Just wondering, have any numbers been cited as to how big the Vault it? My boff says it's the size of a small moon, but that's not very helpful. Is it as big as the Voth Fortress? It has a pretty huge interior.
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  • captainhunter1captainhunter1 Member Posts: 1,632 Arc User
    It's big. REALLY big.
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  • shrimphead2015shrimphead2015 Member Posts: 536 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    One of the things that I have always wondered about when they created the vault was how they gave the illusion to it's size in comparison to the shuttle you fly in with. The only theory I have is that they somehow "shrunk" the shuttle craft and the romulan ships but the corridors you fly through would be just your average size room. So if hypothetically you would have your captain walking through the corridor instead of a shuttle at his normal height he would look like a giant in there. It's probably the reverse that our ships are normal size and the rooms are just bigger but I'd like to think they did it the other way.

    As for the question at hand, I tried looking up some information about it but the best I could get was the mission itself. It should be noted though that the Vault is also too big to be cloaked ( I am guessing by Romulan tech standards).​​
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  • ssbn655ssbn655 Member Posts: 1,894 Arc User
    edited November 2015
    The builders of the vault used technology that was recovered from interogation of the Time Lord known as "The Doctor". They reverse engineered the space folding devices that allow the TARDIS to be larger on the inside then the outside but on a far larger scale.
  • kontarnuskontarnus Member Posts: 289 Arc User
    ssbn655 wrote: »
    The builders of the vault used technology that was recovered from interogation of the Time Lord known as "The Doctor". They reverse engineered the space folding devices that allow the TARDIS to be larger on the inside then the outside but on a far larger scale.

    Oookaaayyy...
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  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    It's really hard to guess the size of the Vault from the mission. On the one hand we have our shuttles, the Scorpion fighters and T'varo and Mogai warbirds as references which make it look huge. On the other hand we have that ridiculously oversized Borg sphere which if shrunk down to normal size would make it considerably smaller. Too small for the warbirds to fit through the doors...
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  • rahmkota19rahmkota19 Member Posts: 1,929 Arc User
    I'm guessing to describe the size we best use the following quote:

    "Thats no moon...."

    That, compared to the information I got from The Vault: Ensnared, places its height at about 50-100 kilometers (its been a while, okay?)
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