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Mirror of Discovery: Para Pecum!
ambassadorkael
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The first episode of Mirror of Discovery takes you to the planet Pahvo!
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11065843
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11065843
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Vice Admiral Volmack ISS Thundermole
Brigadier General Jokag IKS Gorkan
Centurion Kares RRW Tomalak
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
Seems like 2410-ish to me.
The Borg Assimilator
Live Long and Prosper.🖖[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
I suppose "Para Pecum" could also mean "prepare for cow", but that sort of suggests, in this context, that Cryptic is calling Captain Killy a cow.... which is fine, if they want to do that, I won't stand in their way - but I'm sure as heck not selling them any life insurance, I'll tell you that for nothing.
I just want to point out that 'preparing for a cow' could well be a reference to Saru's experience with the Pahvans and his species being farmed and all that.
Now that that's made clear... on to the next issue: when are playable Voth coming, and where's are my T7 Vesta and C-store purchasable real life shuttle?
Me, too. But only of it's an exploding cow. Other wise, it's sheep for me.
Yeah. You really have know your Roman history to get it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus has been misquote for centuries in both Latin, English and most major languages. And Para pecum leads right back to this thread because of the spelling / misspelling in the heading.
So.....
Now, you don't have a cow? ~audience groan~
Which opens all sorts of other meanings.
Then again it could be a typo/bad translation in the quest to come up with a mysterious Latin title that seems to be popular with them recently.
This sounds to me being right up the alley for PWI & Cryptic. -'Prepare the money'...
This is a very clever hint by some insider 'accidently' warning us, preparing us, that this will be hard for our wallets, so we must already now start saving up our precious gold for us to spend Soon(tm)
I think it is just the continued usage of a typo. In the description of "Illusion of Communication" is a reference to it's previous Episode "Para Pacem", which translates easily to "For Peace".
I think "pecum" is not a possible form, however. Both "pecu, pecus" and "pecus, pecoris" mean cattle, but the accusative is never "pecum". Since they are both neuters, the accusative is like the nominative, either "para pecu" or para pecus".
Anyway, nice to see people who know their Latin!
Right, the connection is still there: Indoeuropean *peku becomes *fehu after the first Germanic sound shift, which leads to both German "Vieh" (cattle) and English "fee".
And now, back to starships and pew pew.
Lets replace that Starfleet Academy Tilly with Mirror Tilly.
That would make the Starfleet Tutorial much more interesting.
As for the language...meh! She didn't even say it!!! LOL!
It is a similar convo I have with the Hubby practically every day....
I will have to tell him, he may be more effective, too, if he was packin'. LOL!
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin
Otherwise the Mission was fairly typical of the Cryptic Type. Scan/Space Battle/Board Ship to repel boarders in three or so locations, ending on the Bridge/Beam back to your Ship/Last Space Battle/Warp Out.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Why was this planet protected, anyways??
Is this Pahvo planet from Star Trek Discovery? I have not bothered to pay for CBS All Access.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin
unfortunately, the new missions are are a visually pretty chore, that make no sense at all. As someone mentioned above, especially the space battles are annoying, as I get such bad UI lag that I die over and over again. I get the lag only in the new missions, nowhere else.
And being such a chore, they bring out the worst in me; I let Patel suffer in the booth for my agony, and regretting the fact that I can't increase the pain and let her suffer her more...
That or use MU Tilly's remark about agony chambers to Patel, with your husband while making him dinner?
Now now, @coldnapalm ...You have to have George of the Jungle/Dudley Do-Right tier villains in STO missions, because it's a Noblebright multiverse of the shiniest kind, and because writing decent villainy is suffering from severe deficiency nowadays. And the players seem to be perpetually covered in Stickum like Lester Hayes, because we can't seem to stop getting the idiot ball.