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Black Energy Weapons?

firelordzx5firelordzx5 Member Posts: 79 Arc User
edited March 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
in STO we have a large variety of energy weapons, each one has their own color.

Phaser - Yellow/Orange

Disruptor - Green

Tetryon - Blue

Plasma - Cyan

Polaron - Purple

Anti Proton - Red

There are also mixed energies weapons or weapons that have certains affinities.

Phased Polaron - Magenta

Polarized Tetryon - Sky Blue

Protonic Polaron - Light Blue

Elachi Crescent - Greenish Yellow (Color no avariable)

and Finally

Destabilizing Tetryon - White

alright, we got an Rainbow of energy weapons... quite literally. but now we just need the black to complete the color palette of energy weapons and with the Delta Quadrant approaching, this can be a possibility.
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  • nikkojtnikkojt Member Posts: 372 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Have fun seeing them.
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    nikkojt wrote: »
    Have fun seeing them.

    This.^^^^^^
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,559 Community Moderator
    edited March 2014
    Can't really think of a damage type that would work with a black color scheme. Also... you forgot the Chroniton Dual Beam Bank, which literally is Rainbow colored.
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Black could work for Ground, but as others have said, it just won't work for Space.
  • ghyudtghyudt Member Posts: 1,112 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Dark matter projection array. Give it about 2/3rds the damage of beam weapons of the same Mk and quality, but with 60% shield penetration, and drain triple the energy that it would normally cost (minus 10 weapon power becomes minus 30) or more if necessary. It should also have a relatively long codown. Something like 10 or 15 seconds for a single beam array type.
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  • nikkojtnikkojt Member Posts: 372 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    ghyudt wrote: »
    Dark matter projection array. Give it about 2/3rds the damage of beam weapons of the same Mk and quality, but with 60% shield penetration, and drain triple the energy that it would normally cost (minus 10 weapon power becomes minus 30) or more if necessary. It should also have a relatively long codown. Something like 10 or 15 seconds for a single beam array type.

    Oh god, not more shieldpen. It's already possible to die with 90% shields in PvP, don't make it worse.
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  • magniacapramagniacapra Member Posts: 544 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Given most of space in STO is bright colours, I don't agree that black weapons would be invisible.
    Check out this effect for an example
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  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    skollulfr wrote: »
    you want to extend out to other rodenberry franchises, then there are these lovely things called "point singularity weapons".
    sorta like... grav well beams.

    Might as well throw in Nova bombs and that Gamma Ray Burst weapon the Drago-Kazov had..


    Seriously though, I could see the actual Iconians using some sort of smokey black 'death rays' with violet outlines that match the color schemes of their ships. Granted, I have no idea what kind of power their ships could or would be running on to even begin to start the treknobabble about it.
  • wildmousexwildmousex Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    The retrofit phaser arrays that come with the connie are blue, as well as the mk ones you can get as a mission reward.
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  • ghyudtghyudt Member Posts: 1,112 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    nikkojt wrote: »
    Oh god, not more shieldpen. It's already possible to die with 90% shields in PvP, don't make it worse.

    Lol. Sry. I don't do pvp, so I wouldn't know. Besides, I was just tossing out something that fit the OP's desire for black energy beams. Any other thoughts out there?
  • onyxheart1onyxheart1 Member Posts: 347 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    szerontzur wrote: »
    Might as well throw in Nova bombs and that Gamma Ray Burst weapon the Drago-Kazov had..


    Seriously though, I could see the actual Iconians using some sort of smokey black 'death rays' with violet outlines that match the color schemes of their ships. Granted, I have no idea what kind of power their ships could or would be running on to even begin to start the treknobabble about it.

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    *Iconian ship moving towards them, all ominous and foreboding like*

    Captain: Hail them!

    Ensign: No response..

    Tactical Officer: I am reading some sort of energy buildup...i think they are charging weapons!

    Captain: Shields up! lock phasers and fire!

    *Iconian ship fires on ship with black beams wreathed in indigo fire*

    Ensign: Shields down to 60%! Those beams cut straight through our shields like they weren't even there! Reading heavy damage on decks 6, 8, and 11..

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    Tactical: I am unsure, I am reading intense graviton emissions, but different from our own phasers, these gravitons seem...fused...into an even more dense particle

    (and i'm going to end it there...unless ya'll want to see me attempt more of what i think treknobabble for Iconian vessels would be like :D )
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  • minusthedrifter2minusthedrifter2 Member Posts: 26 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Technically speaking the Iconian's are a Type 3 or even 4 civilization. Fights with then would be futile.

    Though, that'd never actually happen in the game or lorewise. Can't wipe out everything we know :P
  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I'm sorry, but this is what just came to mind when I read about black energy weapons in space:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv5c-tV8PUo

    Black holes, black weapons, same thing. Lol.
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  • phoeniciusphoenicius Member Posts: 762 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    its possible to have black energy weapons, just need to have another color on their edges, like blue or something like that.
  • unangbangkayunangbangkay Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Can't really think of a damage type that would work with a black color scheme. Also... you forgot the Chroniton Dual Beam Bank, which literally is Rainbow colored.

    I love that CDBB. I keep it on every antiproton ship I use, and I don't give a TRIBBLE that it's weak and the proc is no longer unique.
  • caasicamcaasicam Member Posts: 228 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Graviton Beam Arrays.

    Black Hole Beam Lasers, I mean really.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Realistic energy weapons would be invisible with maybe a dot on the enemy ship and signs of weapons firing from the main ship. A X-ray Laser would be completely invisible. There is actually very few Star Trek energy weapons that should be visible if the series was realistic. Of course, Star Trek is not about being realistic so having invisible weapons or weapons that are only visible on certain maps goes against the style of Star Trek.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    What about a graviton based beam which is improved by sci graviton generators instead of tactical consoles? The whining of power creep 5-6 tac console lockbox ubership fanboys would be magnificient :D
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Black is not a color...
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    you expect to see stars and nebulas in space? yes? no, you wont, so firing off a black beam of energy, you wont even see it, not unless its got a strong enough tint around it to notice it fired at all.
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  • plummyg33gplummyg33g Member Posts: 82 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    We truly need pinky type weapon energy signature for ultimate pimping our ships :D
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    nikkojt wrote: »
    Have fun seeing them.

    ^^ Obvi-Ninja-ed. :P

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  • jim625jim625 Member Posts: 907 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    wait wasnt there black energy beams in the TNG show I think there was or maybe im thinking of STAR WARS not so sure now
  • zipagatzipagat Member Posts: 1,204 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    caasicam wrote: »
    Graviton Beam Arrays.

    Black Hole Beam Lasers, I mean really.

    Its Master of Orion 2 all over again.
  • ijimithyijimithy Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Anti Proton is Black in the middle with evil looking red surronding it but I always imagined the Iconians using Anti Proton weaponery as it seems like they did in that one Mission with the Borg at the end "Fear Us"
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  • badname834854badname834854 Member Posts: 1,186 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I'm sure we'll see opaque "Black" energy weps, likely with the Iconians. They might only be 3/5ths as strong as normal weps but they might fire faster.

    It wouldn't be hard to do from an art standpoint - you just make their highlights a different color.
  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    anazonda wrote: »
    Black is not a color...

    Actually, it is all of the colors. It just doesn't reflect any back. That is why when light hits a black surface, you see no color, it isn't reflected.

    Space is different than an energy weapon, or black colored surface. In space, you see black because there is nothing to reflect light.
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  • deathsremnantdeathsremnant Member Posts: 265
    edited March 2014
    DT isnt white its just another light blue...Black in space? Might as well give invisable beams. Also someone doesnt know basics Black is the lack of light, so a energy sauce would never cause for a black appearance.
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