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Since "Ragnarok" has effectively ended the Temporal Cold War storyline, I have been thinking on whats next for STO.
IMO, from all Cryptic has done, it seems like they are moving ever closer to a DS9/Gamma quadrant based expansion, and here's why.
1. With the release of Season 11 we saw the final of the big story mission revamps, the one for the Cardassian struggle arc. This revamp introduced us to Mirror Leeta(a character from DS9 OFC)
2. Season 11 also brought up the Badlands Battlezone, featuring Mirror Leeta, with her making quips about being the servant of the Pah-wraiths, a fairly important group from DS9.
3. Season 11 and AoY also brought with them a return of the Tholian and Breen enemies, who have basically been absent since before the Dyson Sphere stuff. However, we not only see these races as enemies, but as allies, either part of, or allied to, the Galactic Union in missions in which we go to the future. These races have some big ties to the Dominion, the Breen having outright allied with them during the Dominion War, with the Tholians signing a non aggression pact with them.
4. Along with the Tholians and Breen, we have also seen the Dominion, who has largely been absent since the 2800 arc, sans them sending a few ships to help the battle over earth during Midnight. Much like the Tholians and Breen, the normally hostile Dominion is shown as an ally, or part of, the Galactic Union.
5. All of these encounters with the races takes place on New Khitomer, a planet we visit a number of times in Future Proof/AoY. A planet located in the Gamma Quadrant, which we are told by Daniels, that sits just outside Dominion space. The name New Khitomer itself implies something big, as Khitomer itself is where the Feds and Klingons signed the Khitomer Accords, which ended hostilities between them.
6. While it never materialized in Season 11, we were told a revamp of the DS9 interior was supposed to happen, showing the devs do have interest in DS9 currently.
7. On top of the revamps we did get, we have been told by Cryptic several times that both the Breen and Fek'ihri arcs are going to get revamped. The Breen arc revamp is important due to the known connection the Breen have with The Dominion, while the Fek'ihri arc ended with the suggestion that the Hur'q were behind the Fek'ihri. For those of you who know your Trek lore, the Hur'q are a race from the Gamma quadrant. I suspect both of these, since they are much smaller revamps then the others, may drop at the same time as we get closer to expansion 4.
8. We have been seeing an increase in Hur'q references. First in Butterfly where Nog says that removing the Iconians were prevent the Hur'q from developing warp drive, and again in Vorgon conclusions were the Hur'q are suspect to be behind the Thought Maker device.
9. Both Season 8: The Sphere, and Season 10: The Iconian War, picked up immediately where their previous expansion packs left off, and if Aoy/Season 12 does the same, the Mirror Universe and Leeta will be the big figures of Season 12, since Leeta is currently the only one of the Temporal Threats left.
10. If Season 12 is Mirror Universe based, it will likely tied back into some of the stuff I mentioned above, as its been an unexplained thing for awhile now that Tholian ships sometimes create rifts which Mirror Universe ships come through, both in Tholian red alerts, and in the Crystalline entity queue. And since Mirror Leeta is a DS9 character, and her point of invasion is in the Ds9 region, it makes sense there would be more content around there.
11. The Temporal Defense Initiative reputation messages reference the Na'Khul's attempts to change Cardassian history via a marketplace bombing that would kill Dukat. Reputation messages have historically been tied to future content.
TL:DR, everything in the game thus far points to something DS9/Gamma Quad/Dominion focused being the next step for the storyline, which makes sense, given that they already covered Voyager with Delta Rising, and ToS/ENT/Kelvin with AoY.
I also suspect we might see some content based on Augments in the near future, based on the recent uptick of references to Khan and augments. May time in with the Leeta/time travel stuff of Season 12.
IMO, from all Cryptic has done, it seems like they are moving ever closer to a DS9/Gamma quadrant based expansion, and here's why.
1. With the release of Season 11 we saw the final of the big story mission revamps, the one for the Cardassian struggle arc. This revamp introduced us to Mirror Leeta(a character from DS9 OFC)
2. Season 11 also brought up the Badlands Battlezone, featuring Mirror Leeta, with her making quips about being the servant of the Pah-wraiths, a fairly important group from DS9.
3. Season 11 and AoY also brought with them a return of the Tholian and Breen enemies, who have basically been absent since before the Dyson Sphere stuff. However, we not only see these races as enemies, but as allies, either part of, or allied to, the Galactic Union in missions in which we go to the future. These races have some big ties to the Dominion, the Breen having outright allied with them during the Dominion War, with the Tholians signing a non aggression pact with them.
4. Along with the Tholians and Breen, we have also seen the Dominion, who has largely been absent since the 2800 arc, sans them sending a few ships to help the battle over earth during Midnight. Much like the Tholians and Breen, the normally hostile Dominion is shown as an ally, or part of, the Galactic Union.
5. All of these encounters with the races takes place on New Khitomer, a planet we visit a number of times in Future Proof/AoY. A planet located in the Gamma Quadrant, which we are told by Daniels, that sits just outside Dominion space. The name New Khitomer itself implies something big, as Khitomer itself is where the Feds and Klingons signed the Khitomer Accords, which ended hostilities between them.
6. While it never materialized in Season 11, we were told a revamp of the DS9 interior was supposed to happen, showing the devs do have interest in DS9 currently.
7. On top of the revamps we did get, we have been told by Cryptic several times that both the Breen and Fek'ihri arcs are going to get revamped. The Breen arc revamp is important due to the known connection the Breen have with The Dominion, while the Fek'ihri arc ended with the suggestion that the Hur'q were behind the Fek'ihri. For those of you who know your Trek lore, the Hur'q are a race from the Gamma quadrant. I suspect both of these, since they are much smaller revamps then the others, may drop at the same time as we get closer to expansion 4.
8. We have been seeing an increase in Hur'q references. First in Butterfly where Nog says that removing the Iconians were prevent the Hur'q from developing warp drive, and again in Vorgon conclusions were the Hur'q are suspect to be behind the Thought Maker device.
9. Both Season 8: The Sphere, and Season 10: The Iconian War, picked up immediately where their previous expansion packs left off, and if Aoy/Season 12 does the same, the Mirror Universe and Leeta will be the big figures of Season 12, since Leeta is currently the only one of the Temporal Threats left.
10. If Season 12 is Mirror Universe based, it will likely tied back into some of the stuff I mentioned above, as its been an unexplained thing for awhile now that Tholian ships sometimes create rifts which Mirror Universe ships come through, both in Tholian red alerts, and in the Crystalline entity queue. And since Mirror Leeta is a DS9 character, and her point of invasion is in the Ds9 region, it makes sense there would be more content around there.
11. The Temporal Defense Initiative reputation messages reference the Na'Khul's attempts to change Cardassian history via a marketplace bombing that would kill Dukat. Reputation messages have historically been tied to future content.
TL:DR, everything in the game thus far points to something DS9/Gamma Quad/Dominion focused being the next step for the storyline, which makes sense, given that they already covered Voyager with Delta Rising, and ToS/ENT/Kelvin with AoY.
I also suspect we might see some content based on Augments in the near future, based on the recent uptick of references to Khan and augments. May time in with the Leeta/time travel stuff of Season 12.
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http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1145998/star-trek-battles-channel-got-canon/p1
point is, it's in the Gamma Quadrant, need to go find it right?
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It's also the year the Dax symbiont was/will be born. This has to happen, surely?
Yup.. I'm virtually certain this will happen and if they'll mix the quality of AoY with the quantity of LoR it really will become the best expansion ever!!! *^_^* Just can't wait for it to happen - considering that DS9 is my fav among the ST series.
That then gives the option of a series of missions set in the mirror universe as the resistance attacks the Terran empire ( imagine being able to legitimately attack earth)
Just ask Geko what he thinks will make the best excuse to sell more stuff. That's next.
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Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
I will look it up again. But I'm very sure she said "Deep in Beta Quadrant" and where no "Humans" has never been. IF that is correct, then its not the Wormhole at DS9. As Humans been there and its in the Alpha Quadrant.
USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
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That is a start, and they can have some new stuff as well. However they have to get around the War Treaty. Even during the 2800 they was like. "Your not supposed to be here!"
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Ok, I will look at that part on Sela again. When next time I log on.
Regardless how Kurland said it. The Dominion wasn't too happy about you being in their Space.
USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.