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Tales of the War #14
pwlaughingtrendy
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After the attack on the Herald Sphere, the Alliance is left broken and struggling. With the overwhelming odds against them, there are questions of morality and what lines shouldn't be crossed.
Check out the latest Tales of the War here: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9466993
~LaughingTrendy
Check out the latest Tales of the War here: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9466993
~LaughingTrendy
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A third of the overall forces or a third of Starfleets?
In either case... "Every ship we could muster?"
Where were the Delta race fleets?
Where were the Cardassians, Defera, Borg, Undine, Breen, Tholians?
Why didn't we do a Sisko/Garek? (Steal the dreadnought... send it into Fluidic Space... Provoke the Undine into fighting the Iconians)
Why am I British? WHY?!!!!
NOTE: I am willing to forgive if Kurkland was on one of those Defiants.
...though seriously, he's dead? Damn.
Where are the Undine?
Undine... /serious face ... Let's go ask them for help... It's better than TRIBBLE around with time.
This. The Deferi have some special ties to the preservers, the whole story arc was about that. It would be great to see them coming up with something to bring the galaxy back to balance, a new Deferi flagship or something
But yes, I was asking the same question. Starfleet, KDF and RR are not the only races in the alliance. Yes, the others are "old content" but still...
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I'll make you a deal...
You give us Undine support... and i'll buy a Tehtys Dreadnought from a later R&D Pack event thing!
Deal?
Trendy is it time to unleash the secret weapon!?!?! Unleash the unicorn with laser beams on its head and rocket propelled hooves!!!!
Oh, and WTF is up with this line:
The only thing I can think to do is change tactics. We rejected the Krenim ship because it would take too long to build. Because the questions of time alteration are too thorny. Because there should be lines we shouldn't cross. That we can't cross.
uh, wasn't that like our ONLY chance to win this war!?
There was a day before that. The Bridge Officer had a life before he became part of your command.
And do you know what your officers are doing when you're offline?
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Uhm, in Foundry missions.
arcgames.com/en/forums#/discussion/1196009/why-isnt-this-being-discussed
arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1203368/pve-content-a-list-of-gamewide-polishing-pass-suggestions
[ Still Waiting for a Shiny New T6 Romulan Science Ship to Command ]
You know writers cant write when they present a number of options, then railroad you towards the most absurd one because "theres no other option".
Until we have actually exhausted our options in story missions, the timeship remains the worst of a selection of options.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
The Alliance is sending it's fleet against the Iconian Sphere/Iconia itself. They activate the temporal shielding so they don' get affected by the incursion, but something goes awry and they get shunted back in time. They arrive at Iconia to find no sphere, and the planet inhabited and undevastated. Surprise, Welcome to Iconia, 200,000 years ago, as a great alliance prepares to fight the Iconians and end them.
"Ah hell..." How's that for the god of all predestination paradoxes?
With the right writing, dealing with this (Especially if the Iconians are actually nice back then) could be a truly epic ending to the Iconian War. How do you save the Iconians, and yet stop the war in the future? My guess is that some ham-handed genocide cowboy goes ahead with the attack anyways. The player decides or has the option to save the Iconians- perhaps aided by some of the iconic characters (Shon, Tiaru, Paris, etc) and may even result in a civil war of sorts within the alliance. Perhaps you set the temporal shielding to cover Iconia and the "good guys", and leave the "genocide faction" unprotected. You then fire the weapon at Iconia.
After first modifying/resetting it to send Iconia **forward** in time rather then erasing it.
Genocide Crew gets erased, Iconia gets saved, war is over. And the Other saved them before, the Other will save them again as the Prophet in the wormhole said. Being non-Linear, he did not realise it was all effective one time, one incident. As far as the Iconians? If their memories get erased between then and the future, zero net loss since it's a forward shunt. The current day "Evil" Iconians get replaced by more reasonable ones. There are other issues in the timeline, like the Dyson Spheres... but those could be worked around. The text of the Tales #14 post makes me thing that it is our characters that are writing it. So maybe they will give us a chance to make a choice instead of just being a dalek. I say this because there is no name mentioned, just the rank.
The Whole shall be as One.
Speaking of TRIBBLE with the timeline, I think some of that may have already happened. I noticed that the log entry for this Tale of War was dated Stardate 87264.5, which is just after the assault on the Herald Sphere. However, the events of Tales of War #1 took place on Stardate 87305.1, which was stated to have been two days after the invasion started. Also, Tales of War #2 and Tales of War #3 took place on Stardates 87310.7 and 87327.8 respectively.
"No matter where you go...there you are."
In all seriousness, this is STO dealing with the issues and concepts that Star Trek does best. I love these little bits of blurb and 'behind the veil' stories, and this one actually moved me. Actually surprised by that, though maybe I shouldn't be. Thank you Trendy, regardless.
Captain of the venerable I.K.S. Y'Kun.
#MaybeALittleFluffy
Though saying that, like others have already said, where are the cardassians, delta allies (especially benthans and kobali), and undine? Even ferengi mercs could bought.
And what of those races we were at odds with, but who desire self preservation? The iconians have attacked tholians for sure, so they could be persuaded. What about the Breen, Dominion or Eldex's Vaadwuar? No love for the iconians there.
I reckon the voth are the best option of all tbh. Maybe the only race in the galaxy who can go toe to toe with them in terms of tech. I bet they could be convinced to divert some ships and/or tech to fight the greatest threat to them.
Though misguided, I get the impression their mistakes are ones born of desperation, as they tie up the majority of the borg forces almost single handedly. If the borg end up attacking the iconians also, that could give them the breathing room they need.
And since we're truly desperate, the Deferi. Every fleet needs cannon fodder after all.
Then please fill out my dissertation survey on feline attachment, it'd be a massive help (-:
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Uh oh...
Have you been reading my foundry notes for "<Spoiler> <Spoiler> Mol'Rihan"
And when I looked at that time ship being built in the Kyana System (just before the attack on the Sphere), it gave me the shivers. That's a disaster waiting to happen.
I believe our last hope is Sela, who is trying to gather allies beyond the "Prophets' gate" in the Gamma Quadrant (see Iconian Resistance rep. transmissions). In her messages she mentioned old enemies that would not talk to members of the Alliance. Will the Dominion (and maybe the Hirogen [if Sela can reach them], Breen and the Tholians too...?) join the fight?
I wonder if help arrives in time... (no pun intended there)... if there's any help left to count on at all.
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"To boldly go to the stars on the wings of the faithful."
... I shall wait then!!!
Did we left most of our ships behind when we executed the attack ? Then no wonder we got spanked by Heralds. When you need to gather ALL of our ships - you gather ALL of them, and not that "all", which is not "all' at all
Or maybe 2/3 of the task force survived the battle without heavy damage ? Then why is supposed to be major defeat ? While we suffered heavy losses, we still have the resources for continued resistance.
Again we already we were told some time ago that we lost 1/4 of the fleet in the consecutive battles of Starbase-Whatever-Its-Number - New Romulus - Preserver Archive.
Does it mean that we lost only 8% of ships during the attack on the Sphere (33%-25%=8%) ?
During the whole Iconian war arc we start to constantly see this messages "Our fleet was destroyed here", "Our fleet was destroyed there"... Just to find out that the Fleet is still here.
How "unexpected". The Admiral definitely should had read the intelligence we gathered on Iconians during the past operations. Then he would have known exactly, how painful their reaction to any Iconian death - let alone their leader - will be.