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salt vampires

spy8446spy8446 Member Posts: 592 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So i heard that the TOS race of salt vampires as they are called, i think there also called species M - 115 or something?
is in the game and there is an accolade for killing them too.

are they still in the game or were they removed?

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  • timelords1701timelords1701 Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    edited March 2016
    only way now to get that accolade would be through foundry missions containing the salt vampires, as the mission "Mine Trap" was removed from the game at the start of season 11 new dawn, and you were close, they are designated as species M-113..
  • stofskstofsk Member Posts: 1,744 Arc User
    No, they're not called species M-113. That's just the name of the planet, or the designation of the planet since it's not much of a name. The creature wasn't given a name in the episode.
  • timelords1701timelords1701 Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    stofsk wrote: »
    No, they're not called species M-113. That's just the name of the planet, or the designation of the planet since it's not much of a name. The creature wasn't given a name in the episode.

    the wiki says different = http://sto.gamepedia.com/Species_M-113
  • stofskstofsk Member Posts: 1,744 Arc User
    Well that's the game wiki, I'm talking about the actual episode in question. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/M-113_creature
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  • equinox976equinox976 Member Posts: 2,305 Arc User
    Why not just call them... 'Salt Vampires'?
  • spy8446spy8446 Member Posts: 592 Arc User
    lol they need to update a lot of things on here then ...... rather sad.
    do the Vamps use weapons or are they more like animals that just charge at you and melee you?
  • nulonunulonu Member Posts: 507 Arc User
    Melee and had a psionic hold attack while they drained your health.
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]

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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    they can also use a confusion attack that messes with your friend/foe recognition.
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  • whicky1978whicky1978 Member Posts: 110 Arc User
    gueneyhallek0420 wrote: »
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    that's hilarious

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  • shadowfirefly00shadowfirefly00 Member Posts: 1,026 Arc User
    timelords1701 wrote: »
    only way now to get that accolade would be through foundry missions containing the salt vampires, as the mission "Mine Trap" was removed from the game at the start of season 11 new dawn...
    Was a reason for this ever given?

    Now, food for thought. As I recall, the creature seen in the episode apparently found Vulcan (and, perhaps, Romulan and Reman) blood salts unpalatable... yet here on this colony we have a population of them who definitely lack this problem. If we take the episode's creature as the baseline for the species, then the ones encountered in 'Mine Trap' are a variation which is either naturally occurring, or someone's idea of a macro-scaled biological weapon. Assuming for plot purposes the latter - after all, there is/was at least one party with the motive and means to create such a thing - the investigation into it could've been fodder for an optional mission strand...
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    Actually it's apparently a Tal-Shiar mad science experiment in living weapons. This is the same colony where Hakeev used to have a secret hidden base.
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  • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
    markhawkman wrote: »
    Actually it's apparently a Tal-Shiar mad science experiment in living weapons. This is the same colony where Hakeev used to have a secret hidden base.

    By the way those aliens also can make you look like them for a short period of time.
    "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."
  • bubblegirl2015bubblegirl2015 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    whicky1978 wrote: »
    gueneyhallek0420 wrote: »
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    that's hilarious

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  • brian334brian334 Member Posts: 2,219 Arc User
    The creature was based on the 'Coeurl' from A.E. van Vogt's short story, Black Destroyer.

    If you have never read Black Destroyer, find it and read it now. It is one of the very best science fiction short stories ever written, and it was van Vogt's very first one. The first few paragraphs are poetry written in prose, and is a true masterpiece of writing which would have been enough to place van Vogt on the best writers of all time list, even if he had not subsequently written so many more stories that Black Destroyer got lost in the mix.

    Why are you still reading this? Go find Black Destroyer and read it now!
  • equinox976equinox976 Member Posts: 2,305 Arc User
    brian334 wrote: »
    The creature was based on the 'Coeurl' from A.E. van Vogt's short story, Black Destroyer.

    If you have never read Black Destroyer, find it and read it now. It is one of the very best science fiction short stories ever written, and it was van Vogt's very first one. The first few paragraphs are poetry written in prose, and is a true masterpiece of writing which would have been enough to place van Vogt on the best writers of all time list, even if he had not subsequently written so many more stories that Black Destroyer got lost in the mix.

    Why are you still reading this? Go find Black Destroyer and read it now!

    OK...but, I just call them 'salt vampires'.
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