An RPG type question.

renata666

From a Role-Play point of view, would you consider the Klingon war done after the final mission in that mission que?

jonsills

After the disappearance of B'vat, the drive to fight the war is gone. J'mpok can't just declare peace, of course, or he loses the chancellorship, but he can wind things down "to protect our technology-sharing agreements with the Romulan Republic". And of course the later Undine and Iconian conflicts show the Klingons that when the chips are down, those Feddies can actually fight, so respect is earned, leading to the Alliance.

So yeah, after the Klingon War arc, the war's effectively over from an RP perspective, aside possibly from the occasional incursion by a rogue House. After all, there's always something worse to fight, and as the ancient Klingon proverb tells us, "Only a fool fights in a burning house."

warmaker001b

Yes, there is a weird spot in the story where the Federation-Klingon War is all out, then once those specific missions are done there's this weird co-operation period despite the two powers still being at war. When LOR came out long ago introducing the Romulan Republic and the Rom subfaction, it was a definite weird point in the game. Eventually around the Solanae arc the Alliance starts taking shape and the Iconians all but cemented it.

spiritborn

I saw the Klingon War arc as neither side really being commited to the war anymore, instead of looking for a weak spot to end the war as the victor without sticking their necks too far out.

When the cross faction storyline starts it's best to assume that there's a (de facto) ceasefire even if the war is still technically ongoing, since the threats in those storylines pose a greater threat to either the Federation or the Klingon Empire.

Jonsills has the gist of it. The Klingon War ends in practice at end that arc from an RP standpoint even if from an RP standpoint the formal war didn't end until just before the Delta Rising arc, this isn't unheard of really, in real life formally the Korean War still hasn't ended, but in practice it ended in 1953.

renata666

Thank you everyone for your input.

thevampinator

Well basically the war was happening for four years by the time of the the starting point of the game. Basically the threats that were greater then both the Federation and Klingon Empire forced both powers to end the conflict or cease fire to deal with these greater threats.. I imagine if J'mpok had known what was coming he woudn't have gotten into it with the federation. The only thing that made the alliance possible was the undine threat and the almost destruction of the Klingon Homeworld plus the destruction of the High Council.