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Sword of the Raptor Star melee weapon for Romulans
tilarta
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This is a random thought I had while playing STO:
What if Romulan Republic characters recieved a replica Raptor Star sword for completing the mission The Search for New Romulus?
This could be their unique melee weapon, the Romulan Republic equivalent of the Shard Bat'leth of Kahless.
It should be level scaling like this weapon, so it can be used all at endgame.
What if Romulan Republic characters recieved a replica Raptor Star sword for completing the mission The Search for New Romulus?
This could be their unique melee weapon, the Romulan Republic equivalent of the Shard Bat'leth of Kahless.
It should be level scaling like this weapon, so it can be used all at endgame.
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This is something we have asked for many times over the past year. I for one will continue to ask.
Sword of the Raptor Star Replica
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Though, honestly, I'm not fond of the gladius look they made for it. S'harien swords were described more like a katana or scimitar style blade: long, thin and curved; rather than a short and thick like a gladius. Just looks at the cover from the Rihannsu novels. Though that is suppose to be the Sword of S'task (AKA: the Sword in the Empty Chair), at least one other S'harien sword was described in a similar way to that one, a nameless one belong to Spock.
Katana are really thick (They cut basically how an axe splits woord), so a scimitar is probably more accurate.
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In the old "The Way of D'era" there were the Vrelnec (something like a cutlass), the Neca (dagger) and the Lirash (our versions of the Lirpa)... come on, J.J. might have permanently deleted our hopes for more good ST, but for now we all have our Expanded Universe still alive and well, just take something else from here!
Me too. I also want to see a replica to use in melee combat. I would also assume (maybe inaccurately) that if S'harien made those sword so well that one could survive in a tropical jungle environment such as on Tau Dewa, then could it be possible that the Sword of S'task could have survived the destruction of Romulus? Perhaps that one is somewhere in the debris field of the Romulus/Remus system.
Looks aside I definitely want a replica I can wield. Both my Roms use the Falchion atm as their 'off' weapon.
Although I like the katana version better as well.
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Just like Klingons or Andorian.
Now, I don't like the idea of katana like weapons. Romulan are based on Roman, so anything from Roman, greek, or even egyptian is fine IMO, but japanese sword ? Meh.
I've always speculated that certain people in the Trek universe trained with melee weapons so they wouldn't be defenseless in such a battle should they encounter it.
Or to have an alternative method of fighting should their energy weapon be non-functional for some reason.
Look at Sisko for one example, three Klingons attack him with bat'leths, he takes the bat'leth from the first Klingon and uses it to beat up the remaining two at the same time!
Jadzia Dax also trained in the use of bat'leths.
So, I'm assuming that it would not be abnormal for certain Captains to hone their skills with a blade, in case they needed to fight with one.
Oh and about energy weapons vs blades, witness the Amazing Tholian Sword!
You just tried to shoot me and now my sword can shoot you back. Congratulations.
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The Sword of the Raptor Star was encased in a crystal and thus protected from the environment on Dewa-III.
From the Path to 2409, under the year 2387:
"Intercepted Romulan transmissions indicate that Praetor Chulan and the leaders of the Senate escaped Romulus before the planet's destruction. But the USS Nobel, en route to Romulus, find the bodies of Chulan and the Senate's ruling council floating in space near their derelict shuttle."
I find it hard to believe that the Praetor and Senate would leave and not take the Sword of S'Task with them, but there is no mention of it being found along with the bodies. I believe someone took it from the debris, or from the shuttle before then destroying the shuttle. Who that someone might be I can only speculate.
Though I have always thought that a Katana would be a good Fed side melee weapon, representing the Humans/Terrans.
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Now, imagine if the scimitar guy adapted to Indy's bullets, got up, and assimilated him.
"Guns are better than swords" is a great reason not to add them to, I dunno, Arma 3 or something that simulates realistic ground combat. It's faulty logic in STO.
Modern katanas look the way you describe it.
The classic samurai katana looks close to what the covers show (although they didn't look THAT long).
Scimitars are thin but have a broader blade.
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But I'd prefer the katana version too.
May be someone else took it from romulus. Or Nero took it when he killed chulan. Which means the good thing is lost in the jar jar crapverse for ever
It's not stos faulty logic, it's star treks. Klingons used melee weapons, jem'hadar used melee weapons and I'm prety sure there are more examples.
But that might be connected to the fact that those high tech energy weapons were usually extremely ineffective...
On a side note, swords were in use in the real world a very very long time after guns were invented.
As a matter of fact those kind heavy of armors we usually see knights wearing in cheap middle age films or world of ********... They were invented to protect against pistols, not against swords.
Agreed. People always ignore the situation where a gun runs out of bullets, or power in the case of energy weapons. When you are out of bullets, would you choose to use the butt stock of the gun or would you prefer a cutting edge? Also, there have been several cases in Star Trek where there was a dampening field, whether from natural causes or a duonetic field generator.
The only main difference between modern and feudal katana is the metallurgy. I've been to the Tokugawa Museum in Japan and have seen these first hand (Studied kenjutsu). I also have a friend that owns a Matsuda blade (Authentication documents included) from the mid 1800s. They are as I described.
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Plus they're good on the Borg and nothing beats that personal feed back you get from slicing into a man-machine... Much easier to use than a rifle's bayonet too.
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To the "peoples" defense, while they WERE in use a long time (I think up to WWI? Although I might be mistaken but I think even in Vietnam charlie still used them... ) they are not part of a current military equipment today for good reasons (though knifes still are, why don't we get knifes as melee weapons?).
The situation where you would need a Sword is very rare, the situations where carrying a cumbersome Sword around becomes a problem is not rare. Also it requires a kind of training that would have little use.
In star trek... that dampening field situation was quiet rare and if they had the means to replicate swords... they could have replicated non-energy-rifles like we use them today...
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Yeah but Worf, Dax, or Sisko didn't run around DS9 with a bat'leth on their back nor did you see Romulans with a dagger at their side. :P
Again, even if you could replicate guns, you would still need the bullets which are not infinite.
Doesn't one of the US Army units still carry Tomahawks into combat?
and especially for me cruiser compareable with avenger and mogh ( there are too much Scimitars)
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With Trek technology, who says a sword has to be cumbersome?
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And I doubt it would have little use, as I cited, when fighting Klingons or other enemies who specialize in close quarters blade combat, if you don't have swordfighting training, you will be the first one that gets killed.
Naturally, you'd use it against the Borg most of all, because they're vulnerable to kinetic weapons.
Also, game mechanics.
It's just a slotted inventory item, all it requires is an empty weapons slot or a empty slot in your personal backpack.
Worf carried a mek'leth somewhere, not sure where it was located, but he pulled it off his back in First Contact.
For the record, my Starfleet characters have a dagger at their sides (it's a costume option from the Mirror Universe costume). :P
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Everytime someone makes a character that is an copy of an existing superhuman, Creativity is sad
Battle helmet inspiration
Shoulder pads
Chest armor plate?
personal preference sword variants:
Gladius 1
Gladius 2
Scimitar
Scimitar 2
Just some Ideas....:)
It was semi concealed in his environmental suit, which isn't exactly running around in public with it.
You just never saw anyone commonly running around with a melee weapon except for maybe Klingons.
Same with most weapons...usually even security wasn't seen with more than a side arm...