You know what made me laugh, cannons are not the ideal weapon for this mission, beams an FAW pretty much get the job done.
Not the ideal weapon for the first stage, at any rate. I have a feeling that secondary beams will become a mandatory part of Breach player inventories...
In case somebody didn't understand: Holding beams and boffs with FAW in inventories to swap out for the initial stage may become popular with cannon-capable ship captains running this mission.
Edit: That said, I can confirm that cannons are still important for taking out the SIF nodes. My Defiant and Nebula were both blown away by those turrets, and neither were optimally built. The Defiant had high-quality weapons, but they were laid out to match its canon armaments (plus KCB aft), while the Nebula had whatever gear I could scavenge from loot drops and stuff.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Can we PLEASE eventually play hide and seek and maybe lure one of THESE "puppies" to play with a borg say unimatrix assault force??? it would be a nice (and over quick) cut scene to weaken the Fortress vessel and allow a specialized joint task force to maybe take one down as well as put the borg in there "new" respective place...:eek:
After destroying the ships primary reactors just like, the second Deathstars main reactor in return of the Jedi? Now I've seen my fair share of flying out at the nick of time films, but i'm sure even Bran has to admit there aren't really many other films with a ending like that.
Not saying it was the only influence but it was a major one.
It used to be a staple of old b/w sci-fi like Flash Gordon. Though really crappy special effects (sparklers on model rockets woohoo) never made it quite as exciting and they often got the timing horribly off. And I think it was in like 5 or 6 episodes of the silverhawks TV show. Plus there's the airplane versions that aren't sci-fi but have the escape from exploding hangars, blimps, etc. And then the boats getting out of blowing up buildings (James Bond did this a few times).
While all these new replayable events and team missions sound like a ton of fun, I'm wondering where the story will come in. Do the missions have to be played in a certain order to make sense? Where does the Dyson Sphere saga fit into the overarching Iconian storyline? How will it affect what happens in future updates?
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them." -Thomas Marrone
Thanks for the blog.
I've played a few times myself this mission, its soo awesome, i think its my favorite from the new space ones
Storming the Spire kinda falls back for me becouse of the choice at the end, where you have to choose shuttles or the dread. The Breach its just straight forward and can be done easy even with a pug team. For me feels alot like some boss fights from some of my favorite console games, where in ordor to defeat a very large enemy you have to destroy diferent stuff.
Loved the pics, especially the comparrison one. Borg now looks so tiny lol
Imo one thing it misses a bit, its a Voth escort fleet around the backround, where you see the ship from outside at the begining and at the end, like some bastion cruisers, dreads, battleships etc.
It used to be a staple of old b/w sci-fi like Flash Gordon. Though really crappy special effects (sparklers on model rockets woohoo) never made it quite as exciting and they often got the timing horribly off. And I think it was in like 5 or 6 episodes of the silverhawks TV show. Plus there's the airplane versions that aren't sci-fi but have the escape from exploding hangars, blimps, etc. And then the boats getting out of blowing up buildings (James Bond did this a few times).
Really it's a very common thing.
Well, destroying something important and then getting out in the nick of time is very old, yes. But given that this is a very large spaceship, that earlier in the mission we have to do a trench run, and how often STO has ripped off Star Wars, yeah, pretty sure that's all the devs were thinking of, IMHO.
Soo. Just over 80 miles long. Not sure if I should be awed or smh...
Please reconsider ARC. Please make it optional, at the least. PLEASE.
It seems the vast majority of your most active players (forum regulars) hate the idea... and while that's a small subset of the playerbase, I think it's an important constituency.
THE PLAYERS DO NOT WANT THIS.
Just wondering how many captains to do this mission?
From my experience getting any missions above 5 players to start is a roll of the dice. 10 might get enough. 20 seldom has players to do except for the easiest quickest missions, and even then, they don't happen often.
Fortress ship... borg cube ... fortress ship ... borg cube...
How exactly are the Voth not ruling the entire Delta Quadrant with the Borg as their gimpsuited manservants again?
I would imagine because they don't want to. After all they are descended from Hadrosaurs, not Tyrannosaurs.
But I think there's a far greater risk. Is there anybody that wants to find out what would happen if the Borg managed to assimilate one Voth commander or Starship?
Hang on, imagine this. Assimilated Tyrannosaurus Rex.
After destroying the ships primary reactors just like, the second Deathstars main reactor in return of the Jedi? Now I've seen my fair share of flying out at the nick of time films, but i'm sure even Bran has to admit there aren't really many other films with a ending like that.
Not saying it was the only influence but it was a major one.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't The Wrath of Khan come out a year before Return of the Jedi? If so then the nick of time escape was used at the end of the Battle of the Mutara Nebula as well. (Though backwards, whereas in Return a moon like object was destroyed, in Wrath a planet was created).
Now here's the real question. How the heck did that monster get inside the Dyson sphere? Is there some heavy load cargo door for ships of 20km breadth and above?
The Voth have mastered Phase Cloaking Technology.
"Rise like Lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many they are few"
A Borg Cube is supposed to have a crew between 64.000 - 100.000 drones, I would say there are several million Voth on this ship.
The scale of this thing, 134km long is Death Star scale. The first Death Star according to Wookiepedia was 160km in diameter with a total embarked crew complement of 1.7 million. Now this thing is designed differently and doesn't have the volume or the mass, but still the million mark is pretty easy to hit. Consider, that thing is bigger than New york City...in fact New York to Philly is only about 156km. 8 million people can fit into New York and a starship is going to have a much larger population density than a standard city (though maybe not my closet apartment New York). Also consider that it actually probably has greater living area than most metropolitan areas on account that it has more vertical space. That thing is way taller than any skyscraper. She's a true titan. Ship must run on the power cosmic.
"Rise like Lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many they are few"
Now here's the real question. How the heck did that monster get inside the Dyson sphere? Is there some heavy load cargo door for ships of 20km breadth and above?
It's quite simple, really. The idea behind a Dyson sphere is an object that would completely encompass a sun-like star while having a radius of 1 AU. This would means that the Sphere's diameter is 2 AU, or roughly 149,597,870.7 kilometers. The Voth Fortress, however, is only 134.5 kilometers. An object with the size and purpose of the Dyson Sphere has to have access ports for ships.
Both of these dwarf my semi-assimilated Sovereign at .685 kilometers.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] Boldly going where no one has gone before!
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Not the ideal weapon for the first stage, at any rate. I have a feeling that secondary beams will become a mandatory part of Breach player inventories...
In case somebody didn't understand: Holding beams and boffs with FAW in inventories to swap out for the initial stage may become popular with cannon-capable ship captains running this mission.
Edit: That said, I can confirm that cannons are still important for taking out the SIF nodes. My Defiant and Nebula were both blown away by those turrets, and neither were optimally built. The Defiant had high-quality weapons, but they were laid out to match its canon armaments (plus KCB aft), while the Nebula had whatever gear I could scavenge from loot drops and stuff.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
"available from the queue at any time"
Wrong! Not live on Holodeck yet.
If you are referring to something on Tribble, please list it as such.
If you are referring to an upcoming part of Season 8, please add that to the description.
Otherwise it's "Vaporware."
it's in the title
5 billion zen +6 trillion lobi :P
DELTA PRICE RISING
They already did mention it in the blog post, twice.
First, before you even open it the description says this:
Second, the blog post also contains the following:
So if you failed to notice that it doesn't exist yet, don't blame them, they did tell you.
It used to be a staple of old b/w sci-fi like Flash Gordon. Though really crappy special effects (sparklers on model rockets woohoo) never made it quite as exciting and they often got the timing horribly off. And I think it was in like 5 or 6 episodes of the silverhawks TV show. Plus there's the airplane versions that aren't sci-fi but have the escape from exploding hangars, blimps, etc. And then the boats getting out of blowing up buildings (James Bond did this a few times).
Really it's a very common thing.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
I've played a few times myself this mission, its soo awesome, i think its my favorite from the new space ones
Storming the Spire kinda falls back for me becouse of the choice at the end, where you have to choose shuttles or the dread. The Breach its just straight forward and can be done easy even with a pug team. For me feels alot like some boss fights from some of my favorite console games, where in ordor to defeat a very large enemy you have to destroy diferent stuff.
Loved the pics, especially the comparrison one. Borg now looks so tiny lol
Imo one thing it misses a bit, its a Voth escort fleet around the backround, where you see the ship from outside at the begining and at the end, like some bastion cruisers, dreads, battleships etc.
Well, destroying something important and then getting out in the nick of time is very old, yes. But given that this is a very large spaceship, that earlier in the mission we have to do a trench run, and how often STO has ripped off Star Wars, yeah, pretty sure that's all the devs were thinking of, IMHO.
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It seems the vast majority of your most active players (forum regulars) hate the idea... and while that's a small subset of the playerbase, I think it's an important constituency.
THE PLAYERS DO NOT WANT THIS.
The Solanae sphere might be an exception because of the apparent abundance of Omega particles in there.
And the Voth built a ship capable of running over the Unimatrix Command Ship without slowing.
EDIT: Seriously, that thing is it's own Zip Code x5
Still waiting on this for the majority of Romulan and Nukura rep missions... and chance we'll be getting those anytime?
HAHAHAHHA +1 make that "ITS OVER 9000!!!" miles long...
per my prior post we should use these enemies instead of wasting them,, Sun Tzu style:D
At three kilometers a Borg cube holds 130,000 drones so that makes the Fortress ships crew to be in the Billions by my estimate.
Or roughly the same number of Borg I've blown up in STF's.
Why exactly do people WANT that hideous thing?
Besides, it's irrelevant, we're not in that time frame, and it wouldn't be a usable ship anyway, it'd be a stationary object like this Voth... thing.
Those who can read have clearly an advantage.
Looks great.
Just wondering how many captains to do this mission?
From my experience getting any missions above 5 players to start is a roll of the dice. 10 might get enough. 20 seldom has players to do except for the easiest quickest missions, and even then, they don't happen often.
A Borg Cube is supposed to have a crew between 64.000 - 100.000 drones, I would say there are several million Voth on this ship.
http://images-cdn.perfectworld.com/www/c0/25/c02500dc6851ce0f602ebf92d8afb9441383681461.jpg
I imagine it with this music. As soon as your squadron flies into close visual range....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBNBwZe6GTI
I would imagine because they don't want to. After all they are descended from Hadrosaurs, not Tyrannosaurs.
But I think there's a far greater risk. Is there anybody that wants to find out what would happen if the Borg managed to assimilate one Voth commander or Starship?
Hang on, imagine this. Assimilated Tyrannosaurus Rex. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't The Wrath of Khan come out a year before Return of the Jedi? If so then the nick of time escape was used at the end of the Battle of the Mutara Nebula as well. (Though backwards, whereas in Return a moon like object was destroyed, in Wrath a planet was created).
The Voth have mastered Phase Cloaking Technology.
The scale of this thing, 134km long is Death Star scale. The first Death Star according to Wookiepedia was 160km in diameter with a total embarked crew complement of 1.7 million. Now this thing is designed differently and doesn't have the volume or the mass, but still the million mark is pretty easy to hit. Consider, that thing is bigger than New york City...in fact New York to Philly is only about 156km. 8 million people can fit into New York and a starship is going to have a much larger population density than a standard city (though maybe not my closet apartment New York). Also consider that it actually probably has greater living area than most metropolitan areas on account that it has more vertical space. That thing is way taller than any skyscraper. She's a true titan. Ship must run on the power cosmic.
the trench run was pretty kool with faw going off
can be easy to get lost on the interior though
It's quite simple, really. The idea behind a Dyson sphere is an object that would completely encompass a sun-like star while having a radius of 1 AU. This would means that the Sphere's diameter is 2 AU, or roughly 149,597,870.7 kilometers. The Voth Fortress, however, is only 134.5 kilometers. An object with the size and purpose of the Dyson Sphere has to have access ports for ships.
Both of these dwarf my semi-assimilated Sovereign at .685 kilometers.
Boldly going where no one has gone before!