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Your romulan character was cosnidered for command of the RRW flagship...

lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
edited November 2013 in Ten Forward
Or so you find out if you talk to the current captain of that ship (I forget the name). However, the romulan Admiral decides you could do more on your current ship. Do you think that's a slap in the face, or the decision of a truly competent admiral?


And while we're talking about the Sphere of Influence, why is it that Worf chooses YOU to command the Obisek... er.. um... OBELISK carrier despite having two very senior captains in the room with you?
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  • rtk142rtk142 Member Posts: 613 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    One of them being his step-daughter even! I think it's pretty obvious though that word of my exploits has reached Qo'noS and plus my characters are mostly admirals while Shon and Koren are only captains.
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  • marcusdkanemarcusdkane Member Posts: 7,439 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Personal feelings are irrelevant, this is the sign of a competent supervising officer who knows that someone either needs to develop further, or, that they are more useful in their current position, rather than being given a command of their own...
  • waaagh951waaagh951 Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    as a Romulan you are more or less already a "national" hero.
    the flagship should have been yours. that i won't speak against.
    as for Worf's choice. if you are max lvled you are either a Vice Admiral or a General. both ranks are higher then captains.
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    The Romulan campaign has you running around like some kind of black ops preemtive strike team with substantial operational freedom. You're infiltrating the Tal Shiar and gunning your way back out, taking out an Elachi starbase, destroying the only source of livelihood of a Romulan colony and its Ferengi overlord, at one point even indulging in an investigation that could have brought down D'tan if there were even a little truth in the Tal Shiar propaganda. A very large part of your duties have involved working with your allied fleet rather than the Republic fleet to reinforce relations. Basically, Romulan Sisko.

    Romulan Picard wouldn't have done many of the things in the campaign. His ship would regularly be tied down with diplomatic and ceremonial duties, its activities would be more restricted to domestic matters and the Republic fleet, and it would be too high profile to infiltrate much of anyone or quietly snoop around a den of thieves.
  • awolzabrakawolzabrak Member Posts: 30 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    The Romulan campaign has you running around like some kind of black ops preemtive strike team with substantial operational freedom. You're infiltrating the Tal Shiar and gunning your way back out, taking out an Elachi starbase, destroying the only source of livelihood of a Romulan colony and its Ferengi overlord, at one point even indulging in an investigation that could have brought down D'tan if there were even a little truth in the Tal Shiar propaganda. A very large part of your duties have involved working with your allied fleet rather than the Republic fleet to reinforce relations. Basically, Romulan Sisko.

    Romulan Picard wouldn't have done many of the things in the campaign. His ship would regularly be tied down with diplomatic and ceremonial duties, its activities would be more restricted to domestic matters and the Republic fleet, and it would be too high profile to infiltrate much of anyone or quietly snoop around a den of thieves.

    Think that about sums it up.

    Nice analogies btw :)
  • eisenw0lfeisenw0lf Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    hevach wrote: »
    The Romulan campaign has you running around like some kind of black ops preemtive strike team with substantial operational freedom. You're infiltrating the Tal Shiar and gunning your way back out, taking out an Elachi starbase, destroying the only source of livelihood of a Romulan colony and its Ferengi overlord, at one point even indulging in an investigation that could have brought down D'tan if there were even a little truth in the Tal Shiar propaganda. A very large part of your duties have involved working with your allied fleet rather than the Republic fleet to reinforce relations. Basically, Romulan Sisko.

    Romulan Picard wouldn't have done many of the things in the campaign. His ship would regularly be tied down with diplomatic and ceremonial duties, its activities would be more restricted to domestic matters and the Republic fleet, and it would be too high profile to infiltrate much of anyone or quietly snoop around a den of thieves.

    This. The campaign establishs the player character basically as STO's version of Mass Effect's 'spectre', an agent only answerable to D'tan and some persons close to him. You are still in the Republican Military, however you are exclusively sent out on dangerous covert ops and do all the dirty work for the Republic. I wouldn't even say that the player is really considered a national hero. Chances are that his/her achievments were never made public. As such it is simply logical to not give you command of the Republic's flagship since this would create too much attention on your character and people might start asking questions of why you were given this honor.
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    As others have said you are more of a Republic agent than a line officer. Only reason you have a ship and a crew, because it is easier for you to get around and have your own resources then to constantly give you a new ship and crew to deal with for every mission.

    Personally it isn't a slap in the face to not give you the RRW Flagship. You're too busy to be tied to the flagship. Frankly if the offer came my officer's way, she'd turn it down. She has other things to do.
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  • assimilatedktarassimilatedktar Member Posts: 1,708 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    Taking my beautiful, nimble T'varo away and forcing me to command one of those ugly Failchion warbirds? THAT would have been a slap in the face.:D
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  • jonsillsjonsills Member Posts: 10,460 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    And as for command of the Obise- er, Obelisk Carrier, it's a process of elimination. You're on a strange starship; you have to fly it out of there to save your life, and the lives of those who made it through the gate (except poor Maiek, of course); you could be going into a hostile situation. You'll naturally want to have at each position the person most likely to be able to interpret and operate the controls without proper training. By the time you've got the positions covered, command is the only one left.
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  • philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited November 2013
    I'll cosnider thinking about it.
  • cptjhuntercptjhunter Member Posts: 2,288 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    So, it isn't just humanity that practices Nepotism.
  • rose9912rose9912 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    When I did that mission I was already a VA, so I held a higher rank then them. But it would be fun to do this at, say, LC rank and see how they would explain it.
  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited November 2013
    who cares about the Obisek carrier or Admiral Jarok on her scimmy, you have done more important things, gotten into a number of nasty ground wars with the Elachi, helped reduce a planets surface to dust, destroy more enemies then you know existed and made VADM all in a short space of time, and this is from a person who came up from a obscure backwater colony! The vengeance of Virinat is an important symbol in the RR as well as the ever present and annoying Tovan Khev.
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