Protostar Class?

telbasta7386

Think we'll ever get a ship ingame based on the U.S.S. Protostar from the new prodigy series? I just started watching the series and the ship is great; fairly small testbed platform of sorts it looks like, I'd probably make it a pilot escort or pilot scoutship like the equinox/vulcan jellyfish. Pilot scoutship seems to be a better way to go, since the protostar definitely looks like it was meant more for speedy travel and special assignments than combat like an escort would be.

The gravimetric containment drive looks like a singularity drive, but it also has two warp cores, so it'd be interesting if as a special feature the ship could equip both types of equipment at the same time (So you'd get singularity abilities and the ramp up power from a singularity core, while also having a warp core, and it'd allow you to run an extra piece of a space set for some interesting combos!). This could also give it an inherent improvement to quantum slipstream drive or built in transwarp capabilities like the excelsior and her offshoots.

For a starship trait, maybe something based on the holographic training officer? Could provide some kind of boost to your bridge officer abilities, maybe cooldown reduction or something.

And for the console, auto-targeting phaser arrays?

rattler2

As cool as it would be, the Protostar has the added layer of Nickelodeon being involved with that show, meaning Cryptic has to negotiate with them as well. If it was just a Paramount thing like Lower Decks, we'd probably have her sometime in season 2 of Prodigy. However... with Nickelodeon involved... its a bit muddy.

saurializard

Plus, imagine having the Protostar but NOT her gorgeous bridge. That'd be a severe crime... that Cryptic would gladly commit.

fleetcaptain5

It looks OK I guess.

It's not that I dislike the design, I'm just not a huge fan of it myself. Most newer Starfleet designs like the Stargazer and the 4747 different types of Constitutions/original Enterprise don't really look special enough to get enthusiastic about them, in my opinion.

This ship and its resemblance to the Nova are, imo, another example of that.

But since there are people who like it, I'm hoping for them that it will get added. It's more tricky though, for reasons explained by Rattler.

telbasta7386

> @saurializard said:
> Plus, imagine having the Protostar but NOT her gorgeous bridge. That'd be a severe crime... that Cryptic would gladly commit.

Yea, seriously, it would need both the bridge and a good full interior, Including engineering with double warp cores and a federation singularity core.

angrytarg

I like it's similiarity to Cryptic's original T5 Star Cruiser (Emissary variant). The T6 Star Cruiser could be in a design family with the Protostar, and maybe draw it's gadget from that.

rattler2

The problem is that the Protostar is actually a pretty small ship. She's not a full size cruiser. In STO she'd probably fill the Raider/Scout ship class far better than Cruiser.

telbasta7386

rattler2 wrote: »

The problem is that the Protostar is actually a pretty small ship. She's not a full size cruiser. In STO she'd probably fill the Raider/Scout ship class far better than Cruiser.

Yea, if anything it'd be in the same skin/costume collection as the nova/equinox.

angrytarg

I didn't mean it should be a skin for a cruiser, just that they belong to the same family. Like Galaxy and Cheyenne (or the new Shi'kar).