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What's the "Story" of Starbases?
greedo42
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What's the "Story" behind Starbases?
This is both a rhetorical question and a request. Something I would like to see is a narrative explaining WHY my fleet is building our starbase and WHAT our purpose and objective is in buidling it. WHERE is our starbase actually located (yes, I know it is ETA Eridani somewhere..., the same place everyone else's is),.
Since these things are still maleable and in flux, I thought it would be interesting to hear some suggestions from people, perhaps some foundry authors, for an interesting backstory that answers some of these questions, and provides a sense of grounding.
Thoughts?
This is both a rhetorical question and a request. Something I would like to see is a narrative explaining WHY my fleet is building our starbase and WHAT our purpose and objective is in buidling it. WHERE is our starbase actually located (yes, I know it is ETA Eridani somewhere..., the same place everyone else's is),.
Since these things are still maleable and in flux, I thought it would be interesting to hear some suggestions from people, perhaps some foundry authors, for an interesting backstory that answers some of these questions, and provides a sense of grounding.
Thoughts?
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I just think of it as a home base. Most military organizations have them as well as area bases.
For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg
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Space is three dimensional. I know you couldn't tell from playing this game but it is and ALSO endless in all directions. Good luck covering that.
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Instead of Cryptic making the story, why not let us make up the story. Have something like a Starbase Bio?
With Cryptic's end, perhaps you go through a Fleet Tutorial when you create a fleet? And that explains you've been granted permission to construct a new base along the Neutral Zone to defend assets in the Eta Eridani sector.
Hmmm.....I like the idea of giving us some control of our bases' story through a bio or the like. Very interesting idea, and easy to implement....
just wondering...
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Just because the game depicts the Fleet Starbases in a two dimensional way, doesn't mean we have to think of it that way.
There will probably end up being thousands of bases in time...
One could think of them as forming a grid between the Fed's and the KDF with each just far enough apart to still be able to reasonably scan the distance between each adjoining station.
Kinda like the grid that Q put in front of the Enterprise-D in the first (and last) episode of TNG, but of course on a more massive scale...
Or even like the Star League Frontier in The Last Star Fighter.
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One could imagine that as being one of the special projects the Fleet could earn as they climb through the different ranks to Tier-V.
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Yea you right. I guess star fleet has been doing it wrong by trying to defend themselves all these years. Guess we shouldn't even try...
You don't seem to get how space works. You can put as many bases as you want there and still not cover everything. The only way to ever do that is to build a sphere out of starbases around all of Federation space. I don't ever have to pass between two bases otherwise, I can go up or down for as long as I want, pass over and head in the opposite direction.
Sure it's impractical but so is building an endless wall of space stations somewhere in space. And I guarantee you going around will be more cost effective than actually building all those bases.
I think Cryptic should make use of their new characters and the Enterprise when debuting this system. A tutorial built around the new captain and crew stepping us, the players, through the new features of the Starbase would be pretty cool.
It would both introduce the Starbase system to the community, make use of the new stories and characters Cryptic developed, and... well, this IS Star Trek, after all, so the Enterprise is kinda important.
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You couldn't tell that from watching Star Trek either.
They routinely had blockades and treated space as a flat, two dimensional disc.
But, hey, part of Star Trek is that there are barriers keeping us inside the galaxy. We know of one at the rim and one at the center. There's probably a ceiling and a roof too since people are unable to leave the galaxy in Star Trek. (Especially since one would think that going up or down would be the most convenient way to do that.)
The galaxy is walled into a fairly flat donut in Star Trek.
IP trumps realism.
I understood perfectly...
But as Levi-99 said this ain't reality, it's Star Trek.
And who's say that the bases won't form more like a curved arc back toward the Federation, rather than a straight up-down/side-to-side wall along the Neutral-Zone.
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The base itself doesn't cover anything directly. It acts as a resupply, repair and command control facility.
Fleets stationed at a base can intercept and/or strike from there, providing the 3 dimensional coverage needed.
The base itself becomes a strategic target, even though it doesn't control any space directly.
I mean come on, not even the Kazon would live there, and they're Gang-Bangers. IN SPAAAAAACE!
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I would assume that a Transwarp destination to the private instance for your starbase is one of the upper tier rewards since there appears to be a transwarp gateway under construction in the instance near the starbase. However, whether that is true or not, a transwarp destination to the Eta sector block is one of the early tier rewards for Diplomacy in the DOff missions. At least for me (on my Fed character), the only other Transwarp destination I have right now (other than Sol) is to Sherman's Planet, Deep Space K7, which is right next door (sector space-wise) to the Federation entrance to their starbases instances. I do not know where the Klingons get as a destination to that sector (or when they get it), but even if it is K7, their starbases entrance is just on the other side of the sector block.
Warping directly into the instance would be more convenient, sure, but it is probably easier to grind out the diplomacy reward than it is to get a starbase to whatever tier may have transwarping to the instance as a reward. In other words, no, it is not going to be a pain to get there from anywhere else as long as you have done your Diplomacy tiers in DOff missions.
And you don't seem to get how science fiction space travel works. To quote a different franchise, "Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy! Without precise calculations we could fly right through a star, or bounce too close to a supernova and that'd end your trip real quick, wouldn't it." Imbeded in the concept of hyperspace travel in science fiction is that there are specific routes through hyperspace. Star Trek does not make as big a deal of that concept as other franchises, but even Star Tek supports the idea that you can blockade space.
Take, for instance, the DS9 Episode, Sacrifice of Angels. Sisko and his armada have to run a Dominion/Cardassian blockade of DS9. The context is that the blockade is well away from DS9. When I saw that scene, I couldn't help but picture the scene from Robin Hood: Men in Tights where Robin confronts Little John on the log bridge. Achoo is baffled why Robin chooses to fight him when I could just come down and hop over the tiny stream. That is basically the idea that you are portraying.
However, deep within heart of the science fiction idea of hyperspace travel is that you have to avoid gravity wells and other space phenomenon, causing there to be specific routes you have to travel through hyperspace. That being the case, the idea that you can blockade these routes with far fewer resources to keep someone from going from a specific destination to a specific destination is quite reasonable. That is, you would not have to blockade all of space. Just enough to force the invader to travel vast, impractical distances at less than light/warp speed. Meaning, yes, you could always travel up, down, left, or right and eventually get around any blockade, but doing so would be less practical than trying to break the blockade.