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The role of 39-Sierra
isthisscience
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Since the walls fell, it is pretty much as easy to get to Earth from the Romulan missions as it is to get to Starbase 39-Sierra while the Klingons still have to travel all the way to the bottom of the map to access their hubs (unless they're replaying later on so they have NR or Omega).
If Sierra isn't a hub of convenience anymore, does it still fulfil a useful story role? It doesn't give off any intrigue or covert feeling you'd expect from the Romulan border, being a standard starbase with a trade negotiation side story and that weird Heading Out mission (that really should have had a map refresh with the others).
If 39 is ever revisited, it would be cool to see it as more of a covert base of operations monitoring the RSE border. Based on an asteroid like the Earth Outposts in Balance of Terror with an interior feeling like Regular One. Filled with intelligence officers and a representative from the RR, you'd be sent by Burgess instead of Heading Out. Move the trade daily to DS9 and have a frequency monitoring daily like on Of Bajor. Then give it a single transiton from sector space to ground so it has a clear advantage over Earth for basic services.
And then the Klingons - have a cloaked Klingon ship in orbit of the stations that is spying on Starfleet's spying of the Romulans. It would offer the same services to KDF players as the base does to Feds. That would give them their first hub in the region.
Though, more generally, what do you see the role of a hub being? Simply a stop off point for bank etc., a social zone, part of the story?
If Sierra isn't a hub of convenience anymore, does it still fulfil a useful story role? It doesn't give off any intrigue or covert feeling you'd expect from the Romulan border, being a standard starbase with a trade negotiation side story and that weird Heading Out mission (that really should have had a map refresh with the others).
If 39 is ever revisited, it would be cool to see it as more of a covert base of operations monitoring the RSE border. Based on an asteroid like the Earth Outposts in Balance of Terror with an interior feeling like Regular One. Filled with intelligence officers and a representative from the RR, you'd be sent by Burgess instead of Heading Out. Move the trade daily to DS9 and have a frequency monitoring daily like on Of Bajor. Then give it a single transiton from sector space to ground so it has a clear advantage over Earth for basic services.
And then the Klingons - have a cloaked Klingon ship in orbit of the stations that is spying on Starfleet's spying of the Romulans. It would offer the same services to KDF players as the base does to Feds. That would give them their first hub in the region.
Though, more generally, what do you see the role of a hub being? Simply a stop off point for bank etc., a social zone, part of the story?
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It's just a starbase / social zone on the Fed-Rom Boarder
That area is RSE controlled - that's what the arc is focused on. Tal Shiar and Sela. Fed and Romulans would totally cooperate on intelligence sharing to bring down the remaining forces.
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