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Can we get avians too...?

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited August 2011 in The Art of Star Trek Online
I just saw the concept art for Champions' Avian costume set. So FREAKING COOL.

http://champions-online.com/node/595453

If CBS isn't amenable to outright giving us the avians who frequently appeared in TAS... Would they at least go for some exotic costume/trait packs for custom aliens?
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    :eek:
    Two words;

    DO

    WANT

    The armor is just icing on the cake but I have to ask.... can haz also if you'd be so kind? ;)
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Why does girlie bird have cleavage?
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Leviathan99 wrote:
    I just saw the concept art for Champions' Avian costume set. So FREAKING COOL.

    http://champions-online.com/node/595453

    If CBS isn't amenable to outright giving us the avians who frequently appeared in TAS... Would they at least go for some exotic costume/trait packs for custom aliens?

    Wow Defiantly cool, but not really Trek
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Not really Trek? :eek:

    You know there are other Avian species that shown in Star Trek, right?

    http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Avian
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    There's also the Skorr.

    http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Skorr
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    HeathenStorm wrote: »
    Why does girlie bird have cleavage?

    Go watch the Howard the Duck movie... :p
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    jreyes64 wrote: »
    Wow Defiantly cool, but not really Trek

    We basicaly have walking lizzards and cats bouncing all over the place... so why not the Avians? They dont have to fly.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    USSDelphin wrote:
    We basicaly have walking lizzards and cats bouncing all over the place... so why not the Avians? They dont have to fly.

    Gliding alone would be a cool power. The tech exists for reduced gravity. Caitians have the innate ability to jump higher. It would likely just be a reduced fall speed but if they really outdid themselves, it could be a reduced fall speed or maybe a flight that caps out at around Caitian jump height, without the ability to jump while flying, kinda like the levitating ghost costume in Warcraft.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Didnt catians get stolen and put in trek (well not stolen but borrowed) from a sci fi author ? I beleive he also wrote about avians in 'Rama' so shouldnt be a stretch to borrow them too!
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Leviathan99 wrote:
    Gliding alone would be a cool power. The tech exists for reduced gravity. Caitians have the innate ability to jump higher. It would likely just be a reduced fall speed but if they really outdid themselves, it could be a reduced fall speed or maybe a flight that caps out at around Caitian jump height, without the ability to jump while flying, kinda like the levitating ghost costume in Warcraft.

    That would be good.... im not against them flying though.... I just said they didnt have to fly incase that would be an excuse for not adding them.... I would not make one myself but im sure people out there would love one of these.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Cpt_Equinox wrote:
    Didnt catians get stolen (well not stolen but borrowed) from a sci fi author ? I beleive he also wrote about avians in 'Rama' so shouldnt be a stretch to borrow them too!

    You're thinking of the Kzinti, the evil cats in TAS.

    And they weren't stolen (or borrowed), because both were created by Larry Niven.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Azurian wrote: »
    You're thinking of the Kzinti, the evil cats in TAS.

    And they weren't stolen (or borrowed), because both were created by Larry Niven.

    Ah my bad :)
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Birds of Waaaaaaaaaaaaaar!!!
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    HappyHappyJoyJoy wrote: »
    Go watch the Howard the Duck movie... :p

    Why did you have to remind me of that? :(
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Avians? Why not.

    http://i42.servimg.com/u/f42/15/42/13/71/burd10.jpg

    Now this is Trek-like.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    USSDelphin wrote:
    We basicaly have walking lizzards and cats bouncing all over the place... so why not the Avians? They dont have to fly.

    Don't forget foxes! They don't even need to be blue :D.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    According to the timeline on this very website, the USS Voyager encountered an avian species by the name of the Lorians in 2402. If they're going to ever add an avian species to this game, why not them?
    DeltaFox wrote:
    Don't forget foxes! They don't even need to be blue :D.

    It's too bad I can't *give* the species I've made to Cryptic, I've worked out a lot on them. ...Do I really have to sell my ideas to them? I'm mentioning this while quoting you because one of the three species I've come up with is vulpine.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    What was that from Buck Rogers...."HAWK-MEN...DIVE!"
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    I'm good with having Avians in the game :) They were in TAS, and also written into the novel "The Final Reflection" as a race that the Klingons had conquered prior to the TOS era.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    USSDelphin wrote:
    We basicaly have walking lizzards and cats bouncing all over the place... so why not the Avians? They dont have to fly.

    Oh man, BUT flying would be COOL!
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    From a purely Trek point of view: We know that species exist in trek that can fly (Xindi Avians, and that species mentioned in DS9 that had wings), so its not purely out of question.

    But from a Game-technical standpoint, I dont think it is a good idea. If people have wings, then the next step is to let them fly... I dislike that idea, from a balance point of view, and from a technical standpoint.
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    DeltaFox wrote:
    Don't forget foxes! They don't even need to be blue :D.

    I agree with this
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    Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited August 2011
    Holy non humanoid alien Batman!

    STO needs more alien Aliens!
    The federation should not be an homo sapiens club. (And i bet some in the empire would want such aliens too)
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