Help identifying a ship? O_o;

capemike4 · February 2014

I would've asked this a LOT sooner, but I nearly forgot about this, until now....

Just after New Years', I ran across a bizarre-looking Fed ship that I've never seen before or since, including in the Shipyard's 'store' or even the Zen store!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v615/CapeMike/screenshot_2014-01-05-01-00-48.jpg

It's the extremely 'tall' Quad-nacelles ship located just above my own in the center of the pic, with an almost whale-like body...I've not seen anything on it anywhere else, including the STO Wiki...anyone have any clue on it's identity?

O_o;

xigbarg · February 2014

Its the Typhoon Class ship that some people want flyable in the game. Its been in the game for a good while, nobody has been able to fly one though.

jabberwalkie09 · February 2014

I think that is the Jupiter class..... Typhoon looks a little more conventional IIRC

patientnr0 · February 2014

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Federation_Dreadnought#Jupiter-class

edit: too late

themadrigogs · February 2014

I think that's Jupiter Class. Non-playable, obviously. You can see one near the transwarp gate in Gamma Orionis.

xigbarg · February 2014

I have failed the people.

*commits hegh'bat*

ltdata96 · February 2014

I hear Jupiter? xD

patientnr0 · February 2014

it looks like a flying bathtub

capemike4 · February 2014

Yep, that's it! Wouldn't mind having one'a those monsters....

steamwright · February 2014

patientnr0 wrote: »

it looks like a flying bathtub

How is it that the Jupiter uniforms are very cool, yet the ship looks like, as you say, a flying bathtub?

gjohnny1990 · February 2014

Ha I think it's one butt ugly ship but it'd nice to be a flyable option.

ddesjardins · February 2014

The Jupiter was a stop-gap development designed specifically to deal with the Borg. Mind you this was at a time in the game when 10K dps was considered a high damage rate.

Fast forward 4 years; dps is reaching 50+K for some Scimi builds. Cruiser builds can solo sides in KASE, and the NWS is entirely winnable.

Note: this happened in Champions Online. Power creep made it less enjoyable.

I feel confident in saying that within 12 months we will see something in Scimidar-type design for the Federation and Empire - either in a BOFF layout improvement to existing ships or an entirely new class built for war. The Avenger is NOT even close to the destructive capabilities of the Scimidar. It's all about the boff stations...

Personally I would not want to see a Jupiter-type craft. Go full on TAC Carrier, or perhaps a Tactical Drone Command Ship with four drone hangers. Go big or go home

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insanerandomnes · February 2014

skollulfr wrote: »

kdf already has the bortas.
if the scimitar gets a 7 turn rate there is no reason for any other ship to turn slower than it does.

NEITHER of those statements are excuses. The Bortas ISN'T a klingon ship. Klingon ships tend to be fast and powerful, striking hard and quick. This ship, while not being terrible, isn't klingon. It is neither fast nor hard hitting.

The scimitars design is fragile at best, it's big and monstrous, but it's not bulky, it's slim. Fed cruiser, like the galaxy-X I'm assuming ar much bulkier and in general more massive, and thus slower.

Also the warbirds tend to be the fastest ships for their size. The mogai is actually the size of a soverign class, but it's performanc ewouldn't tell you that, now would it?

maxvitor · February 2014

gjohnny1990 wrote: »

Ha I think it's one butt ugly ship but it'd nice to be a flyable option.

It will be a sad sad day when they make that THING flyable.
Sure make it flyable.....during 'The Doomsday Device" mission and you have to fly that THING down the throat of the planet eater on a suicide mission with a last minute transporter escape, but sadly (crocodile tears), the ship doesn't survive.

trycksh0t · February 2014

insanerandomnes wrote: »

NEITHER of those statements are excuses. The Bortas ISN'T a klingon ship. Klingon ships tend to be fast and powerful, striking hard and quick. This ship, while not being terrible, isn't klingon. It is neither fast nor hard hitting.

The scimitars design is fragile at best, it's big and monstrous, but it's not bulky, it's slim. Fed cruiser, like the galaxy-X I'm assuming ar much bulkier and in general more massive, and thus slower.

Also the warbirds tend to be the fastest ships for their size. The mogai is actually the size of a soverign class, but it's performanc ewouldn't tell you that, now would it?

The Bortas isn't Klingon because it isn't fast and maneuverable? Klingon battle doctrine started leaning towards having larger, slower, more heavily armed ships a long while ago, when they introduced the Negh'Var-class battlecruiser (which is larger than a Sovereign).

As for Warbirds, the simple answer is that Romulans have better impulse engines than the Federation and KDF. I have no documentation, canon or otherwise, to back that up, but it is the only thing that makes sense.

ebeneezergoode · February 2014

Yeah, it's not just size that's in the equation. If you look at a Bentley Continental, it weighs nearly 3 tons. But because the engine, suspension and brakes are so well put together it still goes quickly and does it tidily. Conversely, a Robin Reliant, light though it is, only need look at a corner wrong to end up on it's roof.

The Jupiter is a strange ship though, and frankly, I was very surprised it wasn't jazzed up a bit to become the Starfleet carrier vessel as opposed to the Atrox. People wanted a Starfleet carrier, they wanted a Jupiter. They had an existing asset rather than going to the effort of making a new one.

Help identifying a ship? O_o;

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