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Regulation Idea for fanfiction

As the title says I have an idea for a regulation that I could write into my story. It would simply state that T3 ships and above of cruiser or science vessel class would be accompanied by a pair of escorts. Typically it would be a pair of frigates (Miranda, Centaur, ect). The idea being to prevent another "Battle of Veridian III" where an aging bird of prey takes down a Galaxy-class cruiser. The type of escort would depend on the captain of the primary ship. So a tactical officer on an Excelsior cruiser could receive a pair of Centaur-class frigates (Which in my mind are the Tactical variant of a generic frigate OR a pair of NX-class light escorts. While an engineer on say a Nebula-class science vessel would receive a pair of ShiKahr OR two Constitution class light cruisers. These particular ships would have a tactical lean, meaning slightly above average weapons for a ship of that type.

The same idea would apply to T4 ships. But they would receive T2 escorts. So a Galaxy-class ship would have a pair of Sabers/Constitution refits or Novas. The same with T5 and T6. So say a Jupiter-class carrier captained by a tactical officer could receive a pair of Defiants as escorts.

Comments?

Note: This should probably go in Ten-forward but I thought I'd post here first to see if I got a response...

Comments

  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,409 Arc User
    The only reason the "Battle" of Veridian III happened was because the crew was acting stupid for plot purposes. In any other scenario, that BOP would have been space dust about 10 seconds after firing.

    Also, while having escorts depending on your rank is, by itself, not a bad idea, in Star Trek norms, it's basically: "having 2 ships worth of redshirts to die" before they can't even properly damage the opponent while you could have handled the job by yourself without problem.

    Also, the feature already exists in the game:
    -Call for Support ability for everyone
    -Photonic Fleet ability for Science player
    -Call for Delta reinforcements with a device
    -Call for Nimbus reinforcements with a device
    -Temporal Ally starship trait
    #TASforSTO
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 11,441 Community Moderator
    @saurializard Except he's not talking about game mechanics. He's talking about an idea for his personal head canon fanfic.

    @sierra078 Not a bad idea. In real world navies, battle groups can be formed around larger ships. I use a similar setup for my head canon fleet: larger cruisers or science vessels being supported by smaller frigates and escorts.
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  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,409 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    @saurializard Except he's not talking about game mechanics. He's talking about an idea for his personal head canon fanfic.
    Yes, me too.

    I'm saying there are already mechanics in the game that can be used in his fic without creating a new regulation that doesn't exist in the game.

    Of course, there would have to be some explanation for their insertion, like the Temporal Ally trait not just being "I found a Na'kuhl ship in a tiny Ferengi lockbox and grabbed the trait" but something like "By salvaging Na'kuhl tech, Starfleet Intelligence managed to replicate the ability to summon a temporal ally for emergencies while respecting temporal regulations".
    #TASforSTO
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  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,602 Arc User
    edited December 2016
    @saurializard Except he's not talking about game mechanics. He's talking about an idea for his personal head canon fanfic.

    @sierra078 Not a bad idea. In real world navies, battle groups can be formed around larger ships. I use a similar setup for my head canon fleet: larger cruisers or science vessels being supported by smaller frigates and escorts.

    However, Starfleet would never build a large cruiser that wasn't capable of handling itself on it's own. It's part of Starfleet's philosophy that almost any ship can operate without the need for assisted protection. It rarely actually assigns ships into a battle group or fleet group when not in a military action either. And the Galaxy's did under-go a refit after that incident to prevent circumvention of the the shields. Considering that ship shields are operated on a modulated nutation, it couldn't again as the frequency would automatically change.
    "You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
  • nikephorusnikephorus Member Posts: 2,744 Arc User
    That battle was stupid. Even if the BoP had the enterprises shield frequency the Enterprise could have released a volley of phasers and photons that would have immediately baked that bird of prey, but since they wanted to replace the Enterprise D with a new ship... well you saw what happened.

    Here's what should have happened.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGAS-vKdKqA
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,559 Arc User
    You can have any regulations you like for your fanfic - check out the Literary Challenges in TenForward, and you'll see a number of divergent universes (some good fics are built around the Masterverse, in which evil Ancient Ones worshiped by the Orions as the "Good Masters" are trying to use the Lament Configuration to break free into the STO universe; Shevet has an excellent series based around his/her various characters from different factions, which shares pretty much nothing but STO with the Masterverse; I went the "lovable rejects" route with my tales of a Ferengi starship captain, his Klingon science officer, and his Pakled chief engineer; and so forth).

    It's also not a bad idea, assuming your main ship is being assigned to a dangerous region of space. (You'd probably make most runs that are within Federation space unaccompanied, but in the Delta or Gamma Quadrants you'd pretty much definitely have your battle group handy even if you're not expecting trouble). My stories are going to stick with the "hero ship" concept, but yours is certainly reasonable.​​
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  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    its your fanfiction do what ya want
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    nikephorus wrote: »
    Here's what should have happened.
    I am so glad Im not the only one that wondered what happened to step1 in anti-borg tech... rotate the damned frequencies to avoid this exact kinda thing.
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 11,441 Community Moderator
    leemwatson wrote: »
    @saurializard Except he's not talking about game mechanics. He's talking about an idea for his personal head canon fanfic.

    @sierra078 Not a bad idea. In real world navies, battle groups can be formed around larger ships. I use a similar setup for my head canon fleet: larger cruisers or science vessels being supported by smaller frigates and escorts.

    However, Starfleet would never build a large cruiser that wasn't capable of handling itself on it's own. It's part of Starfleet's philosophy that almost any ship can operate without the need for assisted protection. It rarely actually assigns ships into a battle group or fleet group when not in a military action either. And the Galaxy's did under-go a refit after that incident to prevent circumvention of the the shields. Considering that ship shields are operated on a modulated nutation, it couldn't again as the frequency would automatically change.

    Never say never. ;)

    But that's not the point. Perhaps it wouldn't happen in canon Star Trek, but he's talking about his own head canon fanfic, where he could have any reason(s) for the way Starfleet operates.

    For instance, in my own head canon, Starfleet undertook efforts to rebuild the fleet after the Dominion War, and decided to reorganize using standing Task Forces rather than assembling them ad hoc.
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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    To prevent another Veridian III, a better regulation would be to require equipment that has been in enemy hands to be thorougly checked for tampering before use. ;)
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