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Anyone else think a civilian/independent Faction would be fun to have? There are multiple starships in Star Trek that were civilian operated like the SS Vico NAR-18834 (an Oberth class Starship), and the SS Raven NAR-32450 (as seen in Voyager).
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A Civilian faction like the Romulan Republic? It's literally their first rank.
Yep. And one of my Federation captains is a mirror universe defector who crossed over with his Paradox ship and crew.
You don't need anything new to have a civilian captain.
So it's not like you can't RP your character being something special, that said a full third faction is very unlikely as it would need rebuilding of several parts of the game.
When did Starfleet ever employ mercenaries? That wouldn't be their way...they wouldn't put civilians in harms way. You can say the Dominion war was going nearly as badly as the Iconian war...we never saw them use civilians.
"As for Mercs go the Orion Syndicate are your best option, Nausicaans are slightly worst compared to the Orions but they still get the job done, Ferengi are a no go, they'll try to ask for latinum up front, try to sell you the crappy versions of their goods, then ask you to pay double the price for goods you already paid for plus their loyalty can be bought by the highest bidder, Personally I'm not sure if Romulans count as Mercs but they do get hired a lot by Klingon Great Houses." -The Klingon's Guide to Mercenaries PG 24
PLS don't look up this book up, it's completely fictional and made up, You can tell that that writer isn't a Klingon by how neat the writing is, safe to assume he/she/they probably sealed their fate the moment they wrote something Bad/Dishonorable about the Klingon High Council.
Now, I would very much enjoy seeing the devs flesh out each of the factions that they do have by adding new featured story content in events that they can fit into the games meta. Frankly pushing the story content that was seems to have been eclipsed by the grand opportunity to entwine anything and everything that is part of CBS All Access (or I suppose now Paramount+) Trek series.
But Discovery is now set further than our own 2411 time frame and that leaves an awful lot of wiggle room for following up on story threads that had served this game for its decade plus existence. Let's do try and get back to some of that too, shall we?
I'm fine with another Faction I have at least one of each, however I wonder when Disco Andorians will become a priority again, they're not in game yet, they did say they were planning on adding other races to the disco faction besides Humans, Vulcans and Aliengen around when it launched.
This, exactly, and I've been saying it for a while now...
hey @rattler2 this guy is trolling again. pelase dont let him ruin the forums for everyone else.
The infamous The Great Vegetable Rebellion from Lost in Space was just such a situation, but the deadline was so close that the writer did not have time to write anything else after writing the (in this case silly) idea out of his head to break the writer's block and the show ended up having to use the script to stay on schedule. He got a number of ideas once it was largely finished and some of those appeared in later episodes.
There is no reason to think the STO writers would not follow that same pattern, only having those few ideas until they clear them out of their heads and into the game.
There are a lot of potential storylines (though the devs might be waiting to see what happens in the shows this season instead of going for something totally original, which is understandable), even some potentially epic length arc ones, like for instance the idea that the Fesarians are so paranoid because they are sitting on some barely contained interdimensional (or whatever) threat that they don't want disturbed.
There is also Delta, only a rather narrow corridor across a vast area is known to the Alliance and there is plenty of room for threats to appear out of the unexplored regions (the same is true of Gamma if you trust Jeffrey Combs and the DS9 writers when they say that Weyoun was lying as part of his propaganda job, among other things exaggerating the size and power of the Dominion to intimidate the Federation.
And since it is hinted that PIC is going for a deep dive into time travel and alternate timelines care of Q, that could open a lot more story ideas as history thrashes around (especially since STO in general seems to be in a sort of relative calm eye of the storm where time/dimensional things happen around it more than directly to it).
With PIC season 1 we got some insight into romulan culture, it's not much but we still learn more about them than the previous entries.
It's not so much an argument. I find the "only 1-2 more story arc ideas left for STO" statement rather hard to believe as well. It's just my personal belief so I wouldn't read anything into it. No idea what four channel is, I just play STO
It is not "four channel", it is 4-chan, a chat site that has a very bad reputation for trolling, extreme flaming, extreme views, and other bad and questionable behavior.
Thanks. Had no idea. People have to watch reading that sort of thing. Too much of it might encourage paranoia and thinking everything is a conspiracy theory.
The same could be said about Twitter, However we should get to the Topic at hand, Civilian/Merc faction would be hard, I could see the KDF or the Romulans hiring mercs but there's no way the Federation would use mercs to get things done they're all high and mighty and morally in your face about it with their so call Prime Directive, If you're a civilian can just ask the Federation for help unless you and your species haven't invented warp travel in which case you are doomed to die a horrible death and the Federation won't lift a finger to help you.
Lower decks touched one. the Landru planet had started worshiping the computer again ( who was the idiot who repaired it?)
There could be something going on with the gangster planet.
From TNG we could return to the planet where the Irish and the clones were put together.
a story along the lines of the first Cochrane story, a sentient energy cloud diverts a shuttle with the captain and 2 boffs