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Star Trek Online: Tales of the War #20

thetaninethetanine Member Posts: 1,367 Arc User
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Star Trek Online: Tales of the War, Log 20
This feels personal. The Iconians are targeting New Romulus and the Romulan people, and not just because of the old gateway. Crateris suffered an outbreak of an engineered plague. Gasko station’s chief of security was subverted by a neural parasite. The Iconians want to hurt us specifically.

But why? And what can we do about it? The allied forces were barely able to stop M’tara, and at a huge cost. If there’s a reason for the Iconians to pay special attention to us, we don’t even know what it is, and we may be exterminated before we ever find out.

I’m going to try to track down the predators that the Iconians have introduced before they can completely unbalance the biosphere relations, but this is just one more point to a many-pronged attack. The Iconians have something special in mind for us – and if they were somehow involved in the destruction of Romulus, that may just be the start.

LINK: http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9526953-star-trek-online:-tales-of-the-war-#20

What do YOU think is the reason the Iconians are being so harsh with the Romulans? Did Sela actually suffer as a prisoner of war under the Iconians? Could she have struck a palpable hit to the Iconians? Could future Romulans be the cause of the downfall of the Iconians in the past? The present?? The future???

Discuss!

Peace! And Long Life!

T9​​
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  • nero#6673 nero
    nero#6673
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    edited September 2015
    Perhaps in this case it is because the Romulans are currently the 'weakest link' in the allied chain... Currently Romulans are a badly divided and split up faction - as the remnants of the RSE cling to their ideals, the Tal'Shiar does whatever it is the Tal'Shiar wishes to to do, and everyone else is somewhere in the middle...

    Despite the pride of many - the Romulans that are present right now are not the powerful force they once were - and if the Iconians can take out the Romulans - the allied forces lose what I would say is some of the most powerful weaponry in the quadrant... Not to mention the Romulan people are a powerful force themselves - and if they can unify themselves, they would be even more formidable against the Iconian scum.
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  • skylarcometskylarcomet Member Posts: 182 Arc User
    It started before Sela was a prisoner, so there has to be more to it than just her. I am intrigued by it though, what connection do the Romulans and Iconians have that the Iconians wish to completely destroy them?
    >:)ruff, meow, moo, whatever.... *shrug*
    [ Still Waiting for a Shiny New T6 Romulan Science Ship to Command ]
  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    skylarcomet wrote: »
    It started before Sela was a prisoner, so there has to be more to it than just her. I am intrigued by it though, what connection do the Romulans and Iconians have that the Iconians wish to completely destroy them?

    Perhaps it is as simple as the fact that Romulan territory was all formerly part of the Iconian central power base? Romulans are in the way of the Iconian plan for "All must be as it was"?
  • skylarcometskylarcomet Member Posts: 182 Arc User
    protogoth wrote: »
    skylarcomet wrote: »
    It started before Sela was a prisoner, so there has to be more to it than just her. I am intrigued by it though, what connection do the Romulans and Iconians have that the Iconians wish to completely destroy them?

    Perhaps it is as simple as the fact that Romulan territory was all formerly part of the Iconian central power base? Romulans are in the way of the Iconian plan for "All must be as it was"?

    Possibly, though in that scenario, apparently the Romulan home world was not part of that "was", and maybe it wasn't, maybe it had yet to form into a planet when they were the power that ruled the galaxy?
    >:)ruff, meow, moo, whatever.... *shrug*
    [ Still Waiting for a Shiny New T6 Romulan Science Ship to Command ]
  • nero#6673 nero
    nero#6673
         Member Posts: 49 Arc User
    I would imagine that there will be some twist introduced by STO writers that will put some connection between the Iconians and either the Tal'Shiar or RSE... Either way, they will undoubtedly do something once again that makes the Romulans seem to be 'part of the problem' rather than part of the solution...

    Which in all honesty seems to be common on the part of ST writers in general...
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    protogoth wrote:
    Picard and his gang of misfits (Commander Quagmire, his sometime-girlfriend Counselor State-the-Obvious, Pinocchio aspiring to be a real boy, a blind helmsman, and Microbrain, not to mention Doctor I'm-here-as-a-thinly-veiled-love-interest-for-the-captain-and-otherwise-have-no-real-purpose and her son Annoying Boy Geekwiz)


    I am no ones minion - I will do what is right
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    My guess: Sela travels back in the past and builds up the coalition that defeats the Iconians the first time.​​
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  • thetaninethetanine Member Posts: 1,367 Arc User
    You guys have great ideas on this. I'm still trying to pin the disruptor on the warbird...oh sorry bad joke.

    Something that has crossed my mind is on the Delta Recruits. I haven't been able to level mine up to level 20 yet. So, I don't know if that thread leads to any significant foreshadowing of what's to come by having a Delta toon reach the end of their Iconian chain.

    Did any of you guys get a Delta Recruit maxed out? Did that give you any foresight into what could be coming next?​​
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  • thetaninethetanine Member Posts: 1,367 Arc User
    Hmm. I put some Shakespear in my original post, just like True Trek Fashion. Did anyone notice it?

    I will post a link here as a Spoiler. So, don't open the spoiler unless you want to see the answer.
    http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/hit-very-palpable-hit
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  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    edited September 2015
    mustrumridcully0 wrote: »
    My guess: Sela travels back in the past and builds up the coalition that defeats the Iconians the first time.​​

    My guess: Sela's been lying about everything the whole time -- I know, no surprise here either way (no surprise that I would say that, and no surprise that Sela would be lying; in fact, sometimes I wonder if she be a pathological liar, or simply be so disconnected from reality that she doesn't realize that she's full of fertilizer). She ran only to cover her own behind, just like she has done multiple times in the past.
    thetanine wrote: »
    You guys have great ideas on this. I'm still trying to pin the disruptor on the warbird...oh sorry bad joke.

    Something that has crossed my mind is on the Delta Recruits. I haven't been able to level mine up to level 20 yet. So, I don't know if that thread leads to any significant foreshadowing of what's to come by having a Delta toon reach the end of their Iconian chain.

    Did any of you guys get a Delta Recruit maxed out? Did that give you any foresight into what could be coming next?​​

    Yes, I have a DeltAlt at level 60, and another at level 57 (and two more of lower level, one in the low 40s and one in the high 30s). There's no particular revelation at the end pertaining to the Iconians.
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    protogoth wrote: »
    Yes, I have a DeltAlt at level 60, and another at level 57 (and two more of lower level, one in the low 40s and one in the high 30s). There's no particular revelation at the end pertaining to the Iconians.
    well... there's the revelation that you go collect all this tech and information and watch as the alliance utterly ignores all of it.....,
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
  • bltrrnbltrrn Member Posts: 1,322 Arc User
    kodachikuno wrote: »
    protogoth wrote: »
    Yes, I have a DeltAlt at level 60, and another at level 57 (and two more of lower level, one in the low 40s and one in the high 30s). There's no particular revelation at the end pertaining to the Iconians.
    well... there's the revelation that you go collect all this tech and information and watch as the alliance utterly ignores all of it.....,

    Many things were/are collected before the Alliance is formed, and even then, not all "Captains" will be privy to such information.
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    Tal'Shiar/Reman Resistance/Romulan Nemesis uniform, pls.

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