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Resist until the last Dominion soldier has been driven from our soil!
There are more Dominion ships defending OUR starbases in Fleet alert than there are fellow Federation captains. Earth Spacedock is being swarmed by Jem'hadar.
Can we even really say that we won the war when things are like this? When a cloned freak, a spy for the Founders can be found at every station, at our bank and exchange terminals, when they are forcing us to wait when we need ship repairs, while they are recruiting and commanding our crews and even claiming our ships?
Even worse, our own Admiralty and Federation Council apparently have forbidden us to fight back against these invaders - which leads me to the conclusion that we may well be infiltrated by the Founders as well. It's no wonder the Cardassians feel quite at home in the Federation nowadays.
Earth, Vulcan, DS9 may well soon turn into the new Cardassia. By the baseball of The Sisko, we should not have let things come this far! Let us fight back and reclaim our victory ... or we may soon all be dead.
Open PvP in social zones please, Fed, Klingon and Romulans against the Jem'hadar
There are more Dominion ships defending OUR starbases in Fleet alert than there are fellow Federation captains. Earth Spacedock is being swarmed by Jem'hadar.
Can we even really say that we won the war when things are like this? When a cloned freak, a spy for the Founders can be found at every station, at our bank and exchange terminals, when they are forcing us to wait when we need ship repairs, while they are recruiting and commanding our crews and even claiming our ships?
Even worse, our own Admiralty and Federation Council apparently have forbidden us to fight back against these invaders - which leads me to the conclusion that we may well be infiltrated by the Founders as well. It's no wonder the Cardassians feel quite at home in the Federation nowadays.
Earth, Vulcan, DS9 may well soon turn into the new Cardassia. By the baseball of The Sisko, we should not have let things come this far! Let us fight back and reclaim our victory ... or we may soon all be dead.
Open PvP in social zones please, Fed, Klingon and Romulans against the Jem'hadar
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"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Talk about a bunch of ungrateful targs (as the Klingons would say).
Perfectly reasonable that there are tons of Jem'Hadar characters right now, it's the new thing and everyone is exploring the content. It won't be long before the numbers will even back out.
Just let people have fun.
Um... can I get a Translator for this? I have no clue what that means.
Translate: Federation/Starfleet have always been heavily weighted with population numbers. One of the reasons why certain social zones are constantly choked to the gills with a huge influx of Starfleet players. For example, DS9 instance 1. Starfleet has it far easier to get into that zone, than KDF or Rom/KDF, and usually ends up overcapping the population limit until graveyard shift, or just before dawn for some timezones. Like a pest infestation.
Right? Here, I thought that the Federation wants EVERYONE to bend the knee under its banner. Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
You know, every time I see your Dukat flag there, I'm reminded of a wallpaper I have, where instead of the United States "Stars and Stripes," it's the COBRA insignia with the red and white barcode design like Storm Shadow's tattoo.
If you are upset by the fact that the majority of Star Trek fans flock to this faction then that's your issue. Personally, I prefer the Romulan faction, but I was never upset by the overwhelming number of Federation players.
It always made perfect sense and it still does. Nothing is wrong with playing the other factions, but obviously the Federation is always going to be the largest faction.
There have been no elections since Okeg came around. I suspect he's a Changeling too. I thought the Empire was pretty good at exposing infiltrators, so feel free to use that skill guys
The difference is, though, that we are the good guys. We bring peace and democracy, the Dominion and especially the xenophobic Founders hates us, they even tried to invade and defeat us.
And now we're letting them.
You may think that root beer sippers are horrifying, but think what will happen when the Vorta and Jem'hadar become the most populous species in our space. At least we Feds only drink root beer. Jem'hadar use drugs, that's worse because they are classified separately alongside alcohol. And they only use ketracel white. Vorta are even worse customers.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
Drop in to Quark's and have a sit-down with Morn. Take in his unique perspective on the situation and let the calm wash over you. Let Morn help you understand that in this Great Big Universe of Things, Some Things Happen and Some Things Don't.
#CultOfMorn
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I don't have a problem with it being told from from the Federations points of view. I just wish they'd give more options. Like having options where doing something as a klingon, feels like being a klingon. Not forced to choose the same path as the Starfleet officers. This is just insulting to every other faction.
The Federation the good guys? That's a matter of perspective. To everyone else in the galaxy, the Federation is just an annoying, overzealous police officer.
Being the good guy, means making the hard choices. Even being a hero. Who do you save? Who do you protect? The answer is simple, While you're trying to be the "good guy" or the "hero", someone somewhere else is suffering or dying because of your decision. To be a good guy, or hero, you have to be able to make these choices.
Take for instance the Iconian War. all my characters, even my Federation ones made the same choice. "For 200,000 years, the galaxy has prospered without them. Let these few thousand die, to save the millions of lives, if not billions of lives, the war in the future has ended." This is a good guy decision.
Saving them in the past and sacrificing all those lives in the the future, just so you can make peace with them. As stupid as this decision is, it is the hero's decision. On this one, Sela was right. The Federation's decision to save them, makes them the most evil of all. Because it means sacrificing all those lives, for an outcome that doesn't help anyone one, other than the Iconians.
J'mpok's choice to withdraw from the Hur'q conflict is the good guy choice, and his first real decision of honor. Well, other than giving the House of Torg a discommendation. This is also a good guy decision. He's thinking of the Empire, not the houses, not the Alliance. But what he needs to do to ensure the Empire survives.
Being a good guy, means doing what is right, and making some seriously hard decisions.
Being a hero, means being stupid enough to endanger everyone around you, just so you can say you were the "good guy."
As I said in @ambassadorkael#6946 question about an "evil faction." We already have four, depending on how you look at it. But to have a faction set out to be the true evil faction, they'd have to show a lot of love to PvP. Because this is where the real Good vs Evil fight will take place. Not in some scripted episode or PvE queue. Plus, it would require something that Cryptic just can't do. Make an enemy that will never be friends with the Federation.
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As Kagran said....."We ARE the Others!"
The whole mission was preordained....it was preordained that you were going to go to the past, and help the 13 (not thousands) Iconian survivors escape to Dewa III. And that Sela's stupidity would bring about the Iconian War....your toon even has the option of pointing out that you were probably all in the midst of a predestination paradox after Sela uses a pistol to achieve immortality by becoming the 25th Century's Gavrilo Princip. And that returning the World Heart to the Iconians in the present would end the War. The mission had to happen the way it did....changing it could well have changed everything, including possibly eliminating the Federation, Empire, and/or the Romulans from history. The logical move was to go with the flow and hope for the best....which fortunately happened. The Iconians called off the War at the moment of victory, and apparently fade into history around the 28th century.
But if the goal was to prevent the Iconian War.....that could easily be done by using the Annorax's weapon on Sela and remove her from the timestream. Without her provocation, the Iconians would possibly have never returned....they certainly wouldn't have blown up Romulus. But then.....it may have made things worse, just like the incursion that was intended to delay the discovery of the Iconians that led to Romulus being assimilated instead of blown up.
Torg was incontrovertibly a Traitor, and his House backed his Treason.....discommendating him wasn't a "good guy" move, it was J'mpok doing what was expected of him as Chancellor. And as far as the Hur'q....seems to me fighting them outside of Klingon space with allies would be better than fighting them alone in Klingon space, which they would be if the Hur'q overwhelm everybody else. I also recall being told by Klingons letting others do your fighting for you was the sort of thing a Romulan would do...by that they meant deeply dishonorable.
It could well be...and it seems to be the case from the blogs....that the KDF, and Empire's finances, haven't recovered to the point they can make a Maximum effort, which is why J'mpok is reluctant to commit to the war. In that case he'd be better off ordering Martok to lead what ships they can spare into action, and taking credit for the idea even if he knows Martok will do it anyway. The goal is to not telegraph weakness....and I would expect many Klingons would also want to know why they weren't being led into battle against their greatest foe. I don't think claiming that the Feds were taking advantage of them would be a satisfactory excuse.
Though personally, I wonder if the Klingons are as bad off as J'mpok claims....after all, we know that the Iconians planned on rendering Humans and Romulans extinct, and then try to groom the Klingons to be a servitor race ruled by a Quisling High Council (but they would be exterminated if the plan failed).
And "evil" factions? there is only one left in STO....the Mirrortards. The RSE is irrelevant and falling apart as more and more of it's territory defects to the Republic, the Tal'Shiar are being ground to powder by the Republic (and everyone else), the True Way is completely irrelevant and everyone else that could qualify has been crushed already or (like the Iconians and Dominion) is now "misunderstood", not evil. While there is a fair number of people that would love a MU faction.....a story line full of genocide and tormenting people weaker than yourself will get Cryptic unwelcome attention from Anita and her ilk (and her analogues on the Right).
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
1st: Star Tek has always been a Fed Centric Franchise, told from the PoV of the Federation. Just look at the show. So naturally... Fed will have the highest pop.
2nd: Again with people obsessing with DS9 1. What is it about DS9 1 that everyone is in love with?! If its full... find a less full instance! Simple as that! If the KDF RPers can't get in 1... claim another instance! Sheesh... I will NEVER understand the need to get into DS9 1 just to RP. If there is a slot open in multiple instances and 1 is one of them... naturally which one will be taken first? Instance 1. And with DS9 basically being the de facto Dominion Home Base, like ESD for Feds and Qo'nos for KDF... there's gonna be A LOT more activity there, making DS9 1 less viable for RPers to congregate in.
You and me both, Rattler.
I don't understand the obsession with instance 1 either. All instances look exactly alike.
And I like to RP on occasion, so not all RPers are obsessed with instance 1
I dabble on occasion myself.
So that's two who aren't obsessed with Instance 1
This obsession with instance 1 is nuts, IMO.