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Season 10 Storyline/Foes I'd like to see.
eisenshorn
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The Federation is stretched to the limit. Resources and Ships are both dwindling in number from fighting wars on Multiple fronts. For now the Borg have been repelled and the Romulan plot thwarted. Threads of Undine influence still wend their way through the fabric of Starfleet and Starfleet Intelligence has turned it's hand toward finding any further Iconian activity.
The Klingons Empire still reels from the summary execution of its High Council giving rise to many internal political conflicts. They too are stretched thin as war invariably takes it's toll more heavily upon the economically inferior Empire.
But from across the borders of space hateful eyes turn upon the Federation and the Klingons. The Tzenkethi are once more arming for war, feeling that their time has come to strike against a weakned Starfleet whilst the Kinshaya and the Kreel have formed a new alliance and begun annexing Klingon border worlds.
The Klingons Empire still reels from the summary execution of its High Council giving rise to many internal political conflicts. They too are stretched thin as war invariably takes it's toll more heavily upon the economically inferior Empire.
But from across the borders of space hateful eyes turn upon the Federation and the Klingons. The Tzenkethi are once more arming for war, feeling that their time has come to strike against a weakned Starfleet whilst the Kinshaya and the Kreel have formed a new alliance and begun annexing Klingon border worlds.
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Iconians.
I want to shoot Iconians. Over and over and over.
"THAT's for setting the Undine on us!"
"THAT's for blowing up ch'Rihan and ch'Harvan!"
"THAT's for causing JJDrek!"
"THAT's for assassinating the Klingon High Council! I LIKED those guys!"
"THAT's for being generally honorless disgusting vermin!"
"THAT's in case I've forgotten anything!"
Yeah. If we get Iconians to shoot, I'm buying an LTS at full price, plus a few hundred thousand ZEN so that I can buy the entire C-store just out of support for the devs.
I wanna shoot some Iconians...
WHY, Iconians ... WHY?? :P
Yeah but STO is quite some years after that. I think, on balance, we can assume that the Tython pact fell (especially after the fall of Romulus). Especially since the Gorn have return to being, essentially, pirates again.
So I think that enemies such as the Tzenkethi, the Kreel and the Kinshaya would find the current situation in STO quite favourable for launching a new offensive.
Pity all that is soft canon and, thus, not available to cryptic.
Imo, season ten should be about adjusting to the end of the war.
The Feds and the Klingons at each others throats was fortuitous for the Romulans.
Now that's over, can the RR still count on both factions support?
And while the various leadership might be happy to be at peace, I'm sure there are hawks on all sides who are unhappy.
Plenty of intrigue and adventure in that scenario, no need to look to books for new enemies.
Yeah, I guess you're right. S10 could be about adjusting to the end of the war, with criminals and pirates taking advantage of certain situations that the player has to deal with.
But I honestly think Cryptical will just pull the war trope on longer with the Iconians and the Undine.
See, I think the end of the war is an opportunity for the Tal Shiar.
Uncertainty over the RRs relationship with the two main factions could build them some support.
And are they arrogant enough to think they could play the Iconians?
And the very best, extremely hopeful bit?
This could be the opportunity the devs take to make the Romulans a full faction.
Of course, there's still a laundry list of species in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, like the Talarians, or the Husnock (who can be magically brought back to life by ICONIANS), or the Tzenkethi, or the First Federation, or the Lysians, or the Sheliak.
The Sheliak could be an interesting one. And honestly there's nobody in the Delta Quadrant after the Borg who pose any sort of threat. The Krenim were reduced to a pre-warp civilisation, the Kazon are far too stupid, etc. etc.
One thing that could be done is exploring the race that Armus (the black goo creature who summarily killed tasha) came from and, perhaps, what their intentions and suchlike are. Commence the invasion of the black goo aliens!
Consider, perhaps, the power vacuum left by the Klingon High Council's deaths causing another free-for-all between the houses (and possibly round 2 of House Martok vs House J'mpok)
Or, alternatively, seccessionist movements/evil admirals/Section 31 causing something similar in the Federation.
Or perhaps we could see the faults finally showing in the Romulan Republic, especially between the Romulans and Remans. For all of D'tan's idealism, after all, centuries of prejudice don't go away overnight.
If Season 10 comes prior to the next EP the it will simply be setting the foundation for the EP; and if it comes after then it will be expanding what the EP has brought to the game. Cryptic will have been working on the EP for around a year by the time it goes live. They are not going to go in another direction until the EP has run its course.
Plus the Sheliak, or even Armus, are really too obscure to focus on. There are a lot of other well known species that the fans would rather see expanded: Ferengi or Cardassians to name but two.