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The thin veneer of justification for lockbox ships is the lobi consortium. I think it's "thin veneer" because we know very little about it, and there is nothing that makes us believe such a thing could exist.
But what if we turned that around ?What if there was a mission in game that actually introduces us to the lobi consortium and how it works?
By what we know from the bit of background information and its meaning for the game, it belongs to Quark and it was selling surplus Ferengi ships. How did he get his hands on them?
From there, it grew - it collected Jem'Hardar Attack Fighters that suddenly appeared in the alph quadrant, and make them fit for duty. It got its hand on Cardassian Galors, and more and more ships and made them all fit for duty for the KDF, Federation and eventually Romulan Republic.
It seems the lobi consortium has highly skilled engineers and scientists in employ, as they are able to refit Borg Adapted ships and even Undine bioships!
Let us visit one of their ship yards, and see what they are doing, introduce us to their lead scientists. Let us help them, or steal something from them, or whatever.
Bonus points if you can get Armin Shimmerman or another DS9 alumni, but if not, that's okay, too.
But what if we turned that around ?What if there was a mission in game that actually introduces us to the lobi consortium and how it works?
By what we know from the bit of background information and its meaning for the game, it belongs to Quark and it was selling surplus Ferengi ships. How did he get his hands on them?
From there, it grew - it collected Jem'Hardar Attack Fighters that suddenly appeared in the alph quadrant, and make them fit for duty. It got its hand on Cardassian Galors, and more and more ships and made them all fit for duty for the KDF, Federation and eventually Romulan Republic.
It seems the lobi consortium has highly skilled engineers and scientists in employ, as they are able to refit Borg Adapted ships and even Undine bioships!
Let us visit one of their ship yards, and see what they are doing, introduce us to their lead scientists. Let us help them, or steal something from them, or whatever.
Bonus points if you can get Armin Shimmerman or another DS9 alumni, but if not, that's okay, too.
Star Trek Online Advancement: You start with lowbie gear, you end with Lobi gear.
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So I wouldn't want to see missions centered around it. The easier it is to ignore, the better in my opinion.
I prefer to deal with alien ships on a "meta-level" instead of an in-universe level... as in... I am trying to overlook them. Elaborating on the lackluster explanation would make things worse in my opinion.
Well we sort of had that introduction with the Lobi Store, so that would be a good starting point. So if they ever add Ferenginar, would be an interesting mission to have Level 50 players do (since the items in the Lobi Store can't be used by anyone who isn't an Admiral).
Maybe at the Lobi Consortium HQ, there could be terminals that give us the story of how they acquired X ship from Y Lockbox, and providing players with information of stuff in the lockboxes.
That and because the "explanations" they come up with actually do insult my intelligence/suspension of disbelief more than they clear things up. It's a game, I get it, no need to butcher certain elements of it to ridiculousness.
EDIT: Someone once mentioned his personal headcanon is whenever he sees Tholian, Ferengi, Breen etc. vessels is that those ships in fact are contributions of these powers to combat the "threat" that each of the sentient races of the galaxy face in STOs lore. Granted, the bioships can't be explained that way, but I tend to ignore players using those. Quite literally, I don't look at them and probably don't heal/support them as well XD
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Obviously we would need to perform the picard maneuver to outrun them
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It is easier than getting a beer from fridge. Just visit Drozana, and talk to the ferengi with a funny icon over his head. Mission accomplished :P
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Why? They are a threat to federation security, thats why.
Not only are they selling Stolen gear to current and former enemies, they are also known to be in possession of temporal AND Starfleet technology.
So they would all accidentally have to die.
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