Gary Mitchell ascends from planet Delta-abandoned-by-Kirk, resurrects Kirk, and send us all on a merry goose chase fixing Kirk's problems that he created during his traipse through the universe - in X5.
X3 will be the "dominion repair" season where we undo Sisko's meddlings and X3.5, X4 and X4.5 will be the undoing of Picard's meddlings...
X5.5 will see the release of the Connie, and season whatever will be the big encounter. However, with Kirk in front of the Iconians, ripped shirt and all, Mitchell will have a revelation (via nerf bat from Q) that forces him to put the Iconians away and leave humanity alone for the next billion years...
Detecting big-time "anti-old-school" bias here. NX? Lobi. TOS/TMP Connie? Super-promotion-box. (aka the two hardest ways to get ships) Excelsior & all 3 TNG "big hero" ships? C-Store. Please Equalize...
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V'Ger returns and, having merged personalities with a potential paedophile, attacks the Ocampa with the intent of conquering them totally. After all, what registered sex offender could possibly resist an entire race of nine year olds?
The Iconians have a complete change of heart and reveal themselves to the Alliance. A brand new Reputation Event, with new gear, becomes available. LTS gets a new playable Iconian char option and the rest of us can earn Iconian Boffs and Doffs through normal mission play or new STFs.
Fifteen new Federation ships, and one new ship apiece for the Klingons and the Romulans are available. None of the ships has more than the most ephemeral connection to the IP. All of the new powers they come with will not work until after the second patch. Which will break all the things which do work. Again.
Some players will figure out the most efficient way to acquire the new gear and promptly be accused of exploiting the game. Where upon they will be unjustifiably penalized, thus causing the entire forums to burst into flames. Again.
This will cause an increase in the EP's post count in these forums to at least three or possibly four. Oh frabjous day! Kalloo Kallay!
Numerous other members of the Dev Team will suddenly appear from behind the Mods, Smirk and Trendy in an effort to dampen the flames. Said flames are too high for the resistance of the Mods, Smirk and Trendy to successfully halt. Damage Control is added to the list of Dev Team Mastery Traits.
But ultimately none of this will matter. Due to pwe/cryptic's remarkable talents at being unable to keep a game server functioning smoothly.
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The Voth have lost an average of two million years advancement per year since 2379.
If the Iconians follow that pattern theyll be using bows and arrows by the time we finally confront them. They are actually several million years younger than the Voth, and had a much, much lower starting coolness factor.
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I wouldn't say the Iconians are weak, they simply use proxies to do their dirty work for them so they don't have to, sort of a why do the work when you can sucker someone else into it. It wouldn't surprise me if they write it off as the Iconians fighting a war in Andromeda against the Kelvin or another race over there which prevents them from taking super direct actions. I believe it'll take the current alliance of the Federation, the Romulans, and Klingons along with others such as the Dominion, the Voth and a few others. Perhaps the Undine will agree to help after they see they were conned the by the Iconians. I can't see the Borg agreeing to help unless it's the Cooperative. If you read any of the books the Dream Gem they used to power their gates in the beginning was given to them by the Q. it wouldn't surprise me if something like that came into play. It could be that the Iconians meet their fate through a far more powerful race from another galaxy since there are limitless galaxies and as such limitless potential so to speak.
I personally see it being a bitter fight with us having to take it to them in Andromeda and convincing some of the local Andromeda races to finally wipe out the Iconians once and for all, thus saving 2 galaxies.
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God.. some of you have very good imaginations... and some pretty good ideas but every one of you are wrong... there is aprox. 1 year til the final wrapup of the Iconian arc. Therewill be two more major updates and a substantial ammount of grinding an Zen/cash expenditure.. some necesary.. some because you just MUsT have the latelst eyecandy.. but once it is all done and over with... we will all awake from our collective sleep and relaize all this hard works was just a dream... Nobody shot JR!!! it was all just a dream.......
The iconians were just watching...they didn't actually DO anything.
They wanted info from Hakeev, and he chose to use violent methods when he could've probly pulled that information faster by plugging the variables in the ship's computer.
The elachie handed the romulans an item... With all honesty who just activates a gift from a random new species without knowing what it does completely first... Apparently the Romulans do.
I mean heck, if some random guy left me with a white box with no label on it, I'd have it examined as it could hold an explosive every bit as well as it could a chocolate cake.... But Noo, instead of testing it in a safe inconspicuous area... They decide to pop the lid right there and end up paying big time for it.
There's no indication the automated fleet that appears in fluidic space is a COMBAT fleet, it gets rickrolled by the undine and could have very well had a diplomatic something-something on board. But instead of considering hailing to find out, they just open fire.
For all we know, the Iconians could've tried to set up a peace treaty with the undine ignorant of voyager's actions.
Dyson sphere releases the transport hubs that the undine find out about probly because they have infiltrated star fleet on all levels and no doubt had access to the data stream comeing from the jenolean sphere that was in the delta quadrant before the jump.
The iconian that shows up at the end of surface tension only attacks AFTER the Klingons draw their weapons. You don't pull out a weapon unless you plan on useing it, so it'd be safe for the Iconian to assume they wanted to fight and it was not in the mood,!that was the PERFECT time to talk with the iconians, but instead they challenge the messenger and run the risk is of bringin the pain lol.
Granted, the elachie are like the Iconian trash mob species. But once again it was Hakeev who joined with them and requested their services in return for what he saw as rebels...
I'm sure in his eyes the elachie could have the prisoners if they wanted them. It'd have saved him brig room and he should've had the tap shear kill them anyway.
And the elachie breed in a similar to the kobali in the fact that they need bodies to increase their population... Elachie steal people who were gonna die anyway and let them live a bit longer... But the kobali stole vaadwar bodies and the vaadwar just want their dead back. Oh but they're evil because possible iconian affiliation...
So now we're helping a race that technically should and would not exist normally, fight off a race which normally exists and does not want their dead reanimated... It's THEIR dead, and we're defending grave robbers due to POSSIBLE affiliation...
The Elachi kidnapped "those who were going to die anyway" only in the sense that all life dies. They took almost everyone on Virinat, for starters - people who, had the Elachi not happened along, would have lived out normal Romulan lifespans (around 200 Earth years or so).
And they don't just reanimate bodies - they feed on the bodies, growing their fungal young in the living victims they've captured. Some folks cite the crazy hologram in Drozana Station as the creepiest moment in the game ("Bonnie-kin, bonnie-kin..."); I think the creepiest moment was in the Romulan mission to the Elachi station, as you looked at the poor corpses in the tubes - and some of them started moving...
The people in the raided villages weren't going to live, they were branded traitors by the tal shiar.
Rebels, so it was either join the tal shiar and die by the player/Romulan republic, or get eaten/ shot for treason by the tal shiar
Except that without the backing of the Elachi, the Tal'Shiar raids would not have happened. Do the Kobali go out to conquer other worlds so they can resurrect the corpses they've just made?
For that matter, as I understand it, the Kobali at least have the courtesy to wait until you're dead before using your corpse; the Elachi seed living beings with their young, like a fungal version of tarantula wasps, so that the young can eat their hosts from the inside out.
And evidence suggests Hakeev knew exactly what the Elachi sunkiller bomb would do, and lied about it to his superior officer Taris.
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I had this whole thing planned out involving luring a stupidly huge Borg fleet to (presumably reclaimed) Iconia with an Omega molecule, having the Borg keep the Iconians semi-occupied, and blowing up the planet with said Omega molecule. But the Dyson sphere mass-producing the things kinda throws that under the bus. And at this point I'm not sure how much good the entire Collective would do against a few Iconian ships, so...
In all likelihood, though, we'll somehow send them scurrying back into subspace or wherever they're hiding. I doubt we'll defeat them permanently.
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I kid, I kid. More seriously, the fact the Alliance knows what the Iconian intentions are has removed their greatest weapon - that everyone thought they were dead. The primary goal of Delta seemed to originally be (before finding the whole Vaad situation ) to help improve lines of communication across the galaxy to limit their ability to manipulate species, as it seems the Iconians feel they lack the numbers for attrition in a direct battle.
The problem of course, is that we're relying on items with the Spheres and gateways we barely control and don't understand. I suspect the final battle will be after the Alliance can construct their own gateway, and I really suspect it will take place in subspace.
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X3 will be the "dominion repair" season where we undo Sisko's meddlings and X3.5, X4 and X4.5 will be the undoing of Picard's meddlings...
X5.5 will see the release of the Connie, and season whatever will be the big encounter. However, with Kirk in front of the Iconians, ripped shirt and all, Mitchell will have a revelation (via nerf bat from Q) that forces him to put the Iconians away and leave humanity alone for the next billion years...
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
V'Ger returns and, having merged personalities with a potential paedophile, attacks the Ocampa with the intent of conquering them totally. After all, what registered sex offender could possibly resist an entire race of nine year olds?
The Iconians have a complete change of heart and reveal themselves to the Alliance. A brand new Reputation Event, with new gear, becomes available. LTS gets a new playable Iconian char option and the rest of us can earn Iconian Boffs and Doffs through normal mission play or new STFs.
Fifteen new Federation ships, and one new ship apiece for the Klingons and the Romulans are available. None of the ships has more than the most ephemeral connection to the IP. All of the new powers they come with will not work until after the second patch. Which will break all the things which do work. Again.
Some players will figure out the most efficient way to acquire the new gear and promptly be accused of exploiting the game. Where upon they will be unjustifiably penalized, thus causing the entire forums to burst into flames. Again.
This will cause an increase in the EP's post count in these forums to at least three or possibly four. Oh frabjous day! Kalloo Kallay!
Numerous other members of the Dev Team will suddenly appear from behind the Mods, Smirk and Trendy in an effort to dampen the flames. Said flames are too high for the resistance of the Mods, Smirk and Trendy to successfully halt. Damage Control is added to the list of Dev Team Mastery Traits.
But ultimately none of this will matter. Due to pwe/cryptic's remarkable talents at being unable to keep a game server functioning smoothly.
If the Iconians follow that pattern theyll be using bows and arrows by the time we finally confront them. They are actually several million years younger than the Voth, and had a much, much lower starting coolness factor.
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I personally see it being a bitter fight with us having to take it to them in Andromeda and convincing some of the local Andromeda races to finally wipe out the Iconians once and for all, thus saving 2 galaxies.
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They wanted info from Hakeev, and he chose to use violent methods when he could've probly pulled that information faster by plugging the variables in the ship's computer.
The elachie handed the romulans an item... With all honesty who just activates a gift from a random new species without knowing what it does completely first... Apparently the Romulans do.
I mean heck, if some random guy left me with a white box with no label on it, I'd have it examined as it could hold an explosive every bit as well as it could a chocolate cake.... But Noo, instead of testing it in a safe inconspicuous area... They decide to pop the lid right there and end up paying big time for it.
There's no indication the automated fleet that appears in fluidic space is a COMBAT fleet, it gets rickrolled by the undine and could have very well had a diplomatic something-something on board. But instead of considering hailing to find out, they just open fire.
For all we know, the Iconians could've tried to set up a peace treaty with the undine ignorant of voyager's actions.
Dyson sphere releases the transport hubs that the undine find out about probly because they have infiltrated star fleet on all levels and no doubt had access to the data stream comeing from the jenolean sphere that was in the delta quadrant before the jump.
The iconian that shows up at the end of surface tension only attacks AFTER the Klingons draw their weapons. You don't pull out a weapon unless you plan on useing it, so it'd be safe for the Iconian to assume they wanted to fight and it was not in the mood,!that was the PERFECT time to talk with the iconians, but instead they challenge the messenger and run the risk is of bringin the pain lol.
Granted, the elachie are like the Iconian trash mob species. But once again it was Hakeev who joined with them and requested their services in return for what he saw as rebels...
I'm sure in his eyes the elachie could have the prisoners if they wanted them. It'd have saved him brig room and he should've had the tap shear kill them anyway.
And the elachie breed in a similar to the kobali in the fact that they need bodies to increase their population... Elachie steal people who were gonna die anyway and let them live a bit longer... But the kobali stole vaadwar bodies and the vaadwar just want their dead back. Oh but they're evil because possible iconian affiliation...
So now we're helping a race that technically should and would not exist normally, fight off a race which normally exists and does not want their dead reanimated... It's THEIR dead, and we're defending grave robbers due to POSSIBLE affiliation...
Mwahahahahahahaha
And they don't just reanimate bodies - they feed on the bodies, growing their fungal young in the living victims they've captured. Some folks cite the crazy hologram in Drozana Station as the creepiest moment in the game ("Bonnie-kin, bonnie-kin..."); I think the creepiest moment was in the Romulan mission to the Elachi station, as you looked at the poor corpses in the tubes - and some of them started moving...
Rebels, so it was either join the tal shiar and die by the player/Romulan republic, or get eaten/ shot for treason by the tal shiar
Mwahahahahahahaha
For that matter, as I understand it, the Kobali at least have the courtesy to wait until you're dead before using your corpse; the Elachi seed living beings with their young, like a fungal version of tarantula wasps, so that the young can eat their hosts from the inside out.
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Quite so. The dialogue in the Romulan encounter with Taris is extremely suggestive of this.
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In all likelihood, though, we'll somehow send them scurrying back into subspace or wherever they're hiding. I doubt we'll defeat them permanently.
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"And I would have gotten away with it, except for you meddling captains!"
I kid, I kid. More seriously, the fact the Alliance knows what the Iconian intentions are has removed their greatest weapon - that everyone thought they were dead. The primary goal of Delta seemed to originally be (before finding the whole Vaad situation ) to help improve lines of communication across the galaxy to limit their ability to manipulate species, as it seems the Iconians feel they lack the numbers for attrition in a direct battle.
The problem of course, is that we're relying on items with the Spheres and gateways we barely control and don't understand. I suspect the final battle will be after the Alliance can construct their own gateway, and I really suspect it will take place in subspace.
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