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Delta Rising - Playable Species ? ? ?

kmhkmh Member Posts: 21 Arc User
edited October 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hi all,

i've been feverishly watching the news releases leading up to the new Delta Rising content. And so far I'm liking everything i'm seeing.

Is there the slightest chance that a new playable species/race will be available for purchase in the C-Store/Z-Store. Whether it be Fed aligned, KDF aligned?

This current Double XP event until Delta Rising launch is nice, but i already have level 50 toons of each race and faction so the double xp doesn't excite me atm.

If new playable races/species were being released with Delta Rising I'll just wait and buy it and level that toon the old fashioned way - storyline quest.

Anyways - Thanks to STO, cryptic and PWE for all the hard work and energies put into make this one of the most sweet TRIBBLE games i've ever played. I've spent a few hundred dollars across 3 accounts in this game and already another accumulation of Zen point cards purchased waiting for launch.
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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I have not heard anything but I would not be surprised to see that the Delta Rep unlocks a Talaxian at T5 - much like Romulan Rep unlocked a Reman - or that you can buy a Talaxian as playable from the C-Store upon Launch.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    I have not heard anything but I would not be surprised to see that the Delta Rep unlocks a Talaxian at T5 - much like Romulan Rep unlocked a Reman - or that you can buy a Talaxian as playable from the C-Store upon Launch.

    That would be odd though, since there are no Talaxians outside the Delta Quadrant and new players would start at the same time as any other, long before there is an accessible way of transportation. :)
  • hyefatherhyefather Member Posts: 1,286 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    They still might offer a playable species through the Delta pack. One can hope.
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    It does not need to make canon sense to be in the game. :)
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    It does not need to make canon sense to be in the game. :)

    In this case I would disagree, it just make no sense. :)
  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    qjunior wrote: »
    That would be odd though, since there are no Talaxians outside the Delta Quadrant and new players would start at the same time as any other, long before there is an accessible way of transportation. :)

    There WERE no talaxians outside the delta q 32 years ago. Since then neelix has been the ambassador to the alpha and it's not a gigantic leap to propose a few are moving in. Much like liberated Borg in the romulan republic, there weren't any in the shows, but Picard and seven open the door to it in game. Or kdf trill. Or romulan aliens.

    I suspect there will be at least one race for sale or unlock.
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    qjunior wrote: »
    In this case I would disagree, it just make no sense. :)
    It is a game. Some people want to play a Talaxian. They will probably be made available for them to do so. That is really all there is to it. Just as you can overlook the logic that Starfleet should not have 100,000 Fleet Admirals you can overlook the logic of how Talaxians got into Starfleet. It is about player-fun, not canon logic. It is a game.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • daan2006daan2006 Member Posts: 5,346 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    ppl trying to make sense of anything this game does word to ya dont your going to hurt your head trying to do so
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  • azmodeasazmodeas Member Posts: 132 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    If there are play able races with the expansion. I'd not be suprised to see something like talaxians for feddie bears, Ocompa for roms , and khazon for kdf. as seperate C store purchases . but I'm only tossing a crazy thought on a wall an see if it sticks . :eek:
  • blahhdreyblahhdrey Member Posts: 313 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    KDF Talaxians please! :D
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  • morchadesmorchades Member Posts: 123 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    A Talaxian would be odd, so would an Ocampan. But how about a Xindi? They just adapted the NPC creator make Xindi primates and Reptilians, why not offer them as a new playable species with the expansion?

    Or some other canon species that isn't in the Delta Quadrant but they've figured out how to create?
  • leviathan99#2867 leviathan99
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    edited September 2014
    qjunior wrote: »
    That would be odd though, since there are no Talaxians outside the Delta Quadrant and new players would start at the same time as any other, long before there is an accessible way of transportation. :)

    There are now possibly Talaxians/Ocampa in the Alpha Quadrant, either ones who migrated here prior to 2409 or Preserver resettlements.

    Quinn has had an Ocampa yeoman since launch.
  • ironcaniacironcaniac Member Posts: 131 Media Corps
    edited September 2014
    qjunior wrote: »
    That would be odd though, since there are no Talaxians outside the Delta Quadrant and new players would start at the same time as any other, long before there is an accessible way of transportation. :)

    Some time prior to 2409, a Talaxian vessel encountered an unstable anomaly which was actually a temporary reappearance of the Barzan Wormhole. Caught in its gravitonal eddy, the ship found itself pulled in and reemerged in the Alpha Quadrant. Unable to return before the highly unstable wormhole disappeared, the small crew of Talaxians sought out the Federation for help. While most of the crew wanted to return to the Delta Quadrant, a few decided to remain in the Alpha Quadrant.

    :cool: I think it's easy enough to come up with a personal canon reason for why you want to play a certain species.
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  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    blahhdrey wrote: »
    KDF Talaxians please! :D

    no, kdf ocampa I want psychic shock troops.... ok cute psychic shock troops... ok I just want my own river tam...

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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,891 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    gavinruneblade wrote: »
    There WERE no talaxians outside the delta q 32 years ago. Since then neelix has been the ambassador to the alpha and it's not a gigantic leap to propose a few are moving in. Much like liberated Borg in the romulan republic, there weren't any in the shows, but Picard and seven open the door to it in game. Or kdf trill. Or romulan aliens.

    I suspect there will be at least one race for sale or unlock.

    First off they left Neelix in the Delta Quadrant if I remember(Haven't seen the end of Voyager since it aired) Second...Voyager used all kinda of shortcuts and even Borg means to get back to Earth early. Talaxians didn't seem to have any real kind of advanced technology from what I've seen.

    How/why would they suddenly travel to the Alpha Quadrant? I don't see how you can compare Liberated Borg to Talaxians...we saw multiple people Liberated from the Borg...in the alpha Quadrant...they didn't have to travel half way across the galaxy with limited technology to be Liberated.
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  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,923 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    It is a game. Some people want to play a Talaxian. They will probably be made available for them to do so. That is really all there is to it. Just as you can overlook the logic that Starfleet should not have 100,000 Fleet Admirals you can overlook the logic of how Talaxians got into Starfleet. It is about player-fun, not canon logic. It is a game.

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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    It is a game. Some people want to play a Talaxian. They will probably be made available for them to do so. That is really all there is to it. Just as you can overlook the logic that Starfleet should not have 100,000 Fleet Admirals you can overlook the logic of how Talaxians got into Starfleet. It is about player-fun, not canon logic. It is a game.

    you maybe pushing the realm of non canon and game logic a bit too much on the subject. talaxians are not found growing on trees on vulcan, they are in the delta quadrant, you also seem to be forgetting that this is 2410 as well by the time we get back to the delta quadrant to rediscover them, so the class of 2409 has already sailed. the chances are now, there could be boffs or doffs, but i wouldnt go beyond that.
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    ironcaniac wrote: »
    Some time prior to 2409, a Talaxian vessel encountered an unstable anomaly which was actually a temporary reappearance of the Barzan Wormhole. Caught in its gravitonal eddy, the ship found itself pulled in and reemerged in the Alpha Quadrant. Unable to return before the highly unstable wormhole disappeared, the small crew of Talaxians sought out the Federation for help. While most of the crew wanted to return to the Delta Quadrant, a few decided to remain in the Alpha Quadrant.

    :cool: I think it's easy enough to come up with a personal canon reason for why you want to play a certain species.

    that would be mary sue, and the barzan wormhole would never made any sense due to how unstable it is.
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  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    mirrorchaos wrote: »
    that would be mary sue, and the barzan wormhole would never made any sense due to how unstable it is.

    star trek is the series the that that bought TechnoBabble to the masses, they can B.S. one reason or another, the shows did it all the time!! and so was kirk. and just being talaxian wouldn't make a mary sue. he/she wold have to be some the secretly prince/princess of all talaxians and even his/her flaws only make him/her better to be a mary sue.


    people throw that term around far to much. actually the reasoning given is more sound then a good number of the episodes of any series. I'm not buying any slots to make one but I wouldn't protest them.

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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    nightken wrote: »
    star trek is the series the that that bought TechnoBabble to the masses, they can B.S. one reason or another, the shows did it all the time!! and so was kirk. and just being talaxian wouldn't make a mary sue. he/she wold have to be some the secretly prince/princess of all talaxians and even his/her flaws only make him/her better to be a mary sue.


    people throw that term around far to much. actually the reasoning given is more sound then a good number of the episodes of any series. I'm not buying any slots to make one but I wouldn't protest them.

    so if a star explodes and creates an immortal captain who can survive anything and then gets shot down by orion pirates onboard the azura, how will that look to your mary sue character. your overplaying your hand. even in a mary sue character, there is always something or someone referenced that they have seen done and met, but the barzan wormhole, that was already unstable, it would be like saying your captain jumped out of a burning ship in space before it exploded and suddenly found a way of breathing in space. this is star trek not a silly hack and slash fantasy game.
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  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    mirrorchaos wrote: »
    so if a star explodes and creates an immortal captain who can survive anything and then gets shot down by orion pirates onboard the azura, how will that look to your mary sue character. your overplaying your hand. even in a mary sue character, there is always something or someone referenced that they have seen done and met, but the barzan wormhole, that was already unstable, it would be like saying your captain jumped out of a burning ship in space before it exploded and suddenly found a way of breathing in space. this is star trek not a silly hack and slash fantasy game.

    no it's a silly 60s space western. just cause we like something doesn't mean it not campy as all hell.


    and how many tries did voyager go though something something unstable something spatial something? it was bouncing around randomly not falling apart I saw that episode a few hours ago. note where I said I wasn't going to make one.

    my characters are fairly boring human fed, kdf klingon, and romulan romulan. and I like them like that.

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  • aaronh42aaronh42 Member Posts: 291 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I just hope they add some of the alien parts into the alien generator.
  • catoblepasbetacatoblepasbeta Member Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I hope we get some new Boff species, and NOT max one per character types like so many species are. (Voth, Jem'Hadar, Breen, Reman etc)
  • nightkennightken Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    catoblepasbeta wrote: »
    I hope we get some new Boff species, and NOT max one per character types like so many species are. (Voth, Jem'Hadar, Breen, Reman etc)

    this. or at least one of each class. it's a bit of a pain to fill out my rom's crew of alien outcasts.

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  • galanis2814galanis2814 Member Posts: 159 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    I don't expect us to see new playable species, I mean we still don't have playable Suliban. Yridians and Acamarians as part of the Republic. I do think it would be interesting to get a couple new races for each faction in DR, though. Talaxians, Ocampa, Kazon, Hazari, Benthans all make sense.
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    mirrorchaos wrote: »
    you maybe pushing the realm of non canon and game logic a bit too much on the subject. talaxians are not found growing on trees on vulcan, they are in the delta quadrant, you also seem to be forgetting that this is 2410 as well by the time we get back to the delta quadrant to rediscover them, so the class of 2409 has already sailed. the chances are now, there could be boffs or doffs, but i wouldnt go beyond that.
    I will say it again, as you apparently did not comprehend, STO is a GAME. STO is not a Trek canon simulator. As I said in another thread yesterday, STO is a game where you can see a 22nd Century NX flying next to a 23rd Century Connie, flying next to a 24th Century Centaur, flying next to a 25th Century ShiKahr. STO is here so that different types of Trek fans can geek-out in their own way and get things they want, even when they do not make sense in canon. STO is not trying to be anything other then that.

    If you want to be an 8' tall alien with horns, STO lets you. If you want to be a 3' tall alien with bug eyes, STO lets you. If you want to wear an NX uniform, or a TOS uniform, or have everyone wearing a different uniform, STO lets you. Because it is a GAME.

    And as was said above, there are already Ocampa in the game - and they have short lifespans. There is nothing to say that some Talaxians did not make it to the Alpha Quadrant in the last 30+ years. The Borg made it. The Undine made it. The Ocampa made it. Why not Talaxians?

    You cannot take this game too seriously. It is not trying to be anything more then what it is: as much of everything possible for every type of Trek fan.
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • ironcaniacironcaniac Member Posts: 131 Media Corps
    edited September 2014
    mirrorchaos wrote: »
    that would be mary sue, and the barzan wormhole would never made any sense due to how unstable it is.

    The Barzan Wormhole is unstable, which is why it's not a reliable way to travel. But for the purposes of explaining why there are Delta Quadrant races in the Alpha Quadrant, it's a plausible and established canon plot device. We've seen that it can transport ships during the brief periods that it is stable so the sudden emergence of a Talaxian or other vessel from the other side of the galaxy would hardly be pure fantasy. Stranger things have happened in Star Trek.
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  • ironcaniacironcaniac Member Posts: 131 Media Corps
    edited September 2014
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    And as was said above, there are already Ocampa in the game - and they have short lifespans. There is nothing to say that some Talaxians did not make it to the Alpha Quadrant in the last 30+ years. The Borg made it. The Undine made it. The Ocampa made it. Why not Talaxians?

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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    ironcaniac wrote: »
    Don't forget the Hirogen!
    Thanks! I did forget them. :eek:
    STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
  • the1tiggletthe1tigglet Member Posts: 1,421 Arc User
    edited September 2014
    If they do now is a good time for them to develop and implement the race change item in the shop because it's terribly needed. With many of the unique items from events some of us have it's absolutely necessary to not have to create a whole new character with every expansion.
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