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Weird new "faction" ideas based off the TOS Starfleet faction
rosetyler51
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I know a few people are iffy that we don't have a Carddie,Dominion, or Borg faction yet (oddly enough the borg looks to be the easiest of the three to do Republic style) but I like what Cryptic did and it gave me an idea for a KDF (and maybe Republic version)
Nimbus Rogue:KDF Subfaction (I should think of a better name)
Basic plot: Before Captain Hero heads to Nimbus to stick a fork in everyone's beloved big green toad you was there playing a simple card or some form of gambling game (*wink* *wink* Cryptic that card game that a few players have been asking about). You're making a killing, so much so that one of the people you're playing with wagers their ship, you win of course...you was also cheating of course. CUE BAR BRAWL, you fight your way to your tier 1 ship and set off. After this I have only a really loose idea of what's next. I'm thinking you help a KDF solider, get invite to join house honorary and properly join the KDF faction.
What does Nimbus ships do that other factions don't. I'm thinking a group of clickies that are not 100% legal built into the ships. Maybe a very old cloaking device that gives off a short range burst scrambles sensors? Speaking of ships, how would they look? No clue.
So what do you think? Do you have your "own not quite factions" factions ideas? I had one for ferengis but really, they have a worst ship line up than the Carddies also they are in the same place with them thanks to lockboxes and the event ship.
Nimbus Rogue:KDF Subfaction (I should think of a better name)
Basic plot: Before Captain Hero heads to Nimbus to stick a fork in everyone's beloved big green toad you was there playing a simple card or some form of gambling game (*wink* *wink* Cryptic that card game that a few players have been asking about). You're making a killing, so much so that one of the people you're playing with wagers their ship, you win of course...you was also cheating of course. CUE BAR BRAWL, you fight your way to your tier 1 ship and set off. After this I have only a really loose idea of what's next. I'm thinking you help a KDF solider, get invite to join house honorary and properly join the KDF faction.
What does Nimbus ships do that other factions don't. I'm thinking a group of clickies that are not 100% legal built into the ships. Maybe a very old cloaking device that gives off a short range burst scrambles sensors? Speaking of ships, how would they look? No clue.
So what do you think? Do you have your "own not quite factions" factions ideas? I had one for ferengis but really, they have a worst ship line up than the Carddies also they are in the same place with them thanks to lockboxes and the event ship.
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The idea was to keep the Nimbus Rogue away from there until the story sent him in as the Captain Hero of the main storyline but hey. There is a lot of open space on that map. Toss down a new town or something maybe.
finally there are no nimbus ships, nimbus was the planet of galactic peace and home to representatives of United Federation of Planets and the Klingon and Romulan so any ships you would find there would likely be from one of those 3 factions.
I also don't see there being any Rogue factions in the game, as a Rogue you would be completely independent not taking missions or directives from anyone unless you joined some outlaw group and as a captain I would rather not be part of organised crime faction.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
It's a rough draft of an idea also a few key points.
One of things I hear a lot about the KDF is how so very Klingon it is. Yes I know what that K stands for but between the Orions, the Nausicaans, the Letheans, and the Ferasans there is an underworld in the KDF. This minifaction is kind of meant to play with that. The nimbus ships are not ships from nimbus but ships used only by players of that faction.
Each faction has their own style in a sense, with the ships, uniforms, and story. This idea is meant to give the KDF a new form of that.
I thought about something while typing this. Asking Cryptic to do something this KDF focused is madness. So do them flat out Republic way. They wind in the middle of a fight between a KDF and Fed ship, who ever they help is the faction they join. Maybe have the player get locked up during a mission before Drake does Drake things and break them out.
This is kind of a risk of turning the Temporal War into "It has always been Iconians" 2.0 but sure. People call STO a theme park of Trek it would make sense to add the rides that everyone want.
Dont misunderstand Im not saying we need to pull temporal shenanigans all over time and space... for example a Romulan that becomes a captain(commander) around 2300 is only middle aged by 2409 :P
Outside of that the bozeman wasnt the only "older" ship the enterprise d ran into out there that were out of time :P
borg subfaction:
Start off as a drone upto level 10 still apart of the collective as you are ordered to assimilate many innocent lives and the horrors on the borg cube you are the effective leader of and take part in. when you reach level 10, get the basics in command from the queen herself of how to operate with perfect efficiency, you are your borg teams beam down to a planet to assimilate life forms on the surface only to be knocked out by a starfleet team operating on the surface in guerilla warfare style.
after being freed from the voices, you learn to adapt to a new role as a liberated borg and find the cooperative after a short stint from a starfleet ship to a borg scout (small sphere-like borg ship with hexagonal armour plating) operated by the collective. on your way the ship is attacked by the borg collective as you have to take command when the leader of the ship is killed in action while repairing damage near the surface of the ship. the cooperative knows of your experiences in the collective and how to operate a borg vessel. you attack the borg enemies in the area, pull off as many survivors from the borg ships just before explosions and liberate them, more borg join the battle as does a nearby klingon kobali taskforce in order to safeguard the collective interceptor, finally a cube shows up!
the kobali and klingon forces are massively out matched when the cooperative arrives with hugh on his ship and 2 cubes. together with remains of your allies in the klingons and kobali, the cooperative and your ship, the borg are completely wiped out. the klingons and kobali ask for assistance in repairs, you help them as they go back to safety to tells their leaders about this latest borg attack and a renewed strength of unity with the cooperative in making sure there is security in the delta quadrant.
However all is not well within the cooperative as the borg has begun to attack these "defective drones" with pathogens that tries to to force them to return to the collective, a few have, others have self-destructed their ships rather than going back. You arrive to get a heroes welcome for your efforts on the scout, you are given command authority and the ability to move up to another ship class, the borg interceptor (a small rectangular borg ship) and given your orders to seek out this pathogen and find out how to stop it.
The mission arc bring you across the quadrants and back to the queen of the collective, and back to the otherside of the galaxy, with the help of a starfleet, cooperative, klingon and romulan taskforce, a massive transwarp hub is destroyed which was designed to create this pathogen and use the conduits to transport it to specific locations at will. a massive battle happens, as the queen a number of borg vessels travel through the hub before it was destroyed. a distress call from the cooperative home systems was received, as the taskforce travels and arrives in the area along with kobali and benthan reinforcements. a massive coordinated borg collective strike has begun as the allied taskforce comes to reclaim the home systems.
The queen launches nanovirus bombs into the upper atmosphere of several cooperative planets, as everything on the surface was starting to become borg. however a team of scientists in the task force identify the pathogen can be altered after breaking into the nanobots operating systems. with permission to proceed, the pathogen became a weapon to destroy the collectives work on the planets and undo some of the horrors the collective managed. it worked as the queen could sense lifeforms disconnecting from her ever diminishing collective.
The battle for the cooperative finally begun when all the collective ships in the area including some reinforcements arrived to try stop this taskforce, however the borg were wiped out or retreated, the queens diamond with the queeen herself was destroyed.
after this the cooperative rebuilds and joins main powers of the alpha quadrant as peacekeepers of a new potential alliance for the future after agreeing to a non-aggression pact and trade rights. the last cutscene shows a new borg queen on that damaged cube as she mentions she is looking to start over and to get revenge on those former drones who left her collective with only just a single cube to its name.
but thats just my take.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.