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[PC] Featured Episode: Of Signs and Portents
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The Featured Episode of Season 12: Reckoning is called "Of Signs and Portents," and will feature your Captain teaming up with Dr. Kuumaarke and General Rodek to investigate mysterious protomatter detonations.
Full details here:
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10359283-featured-episode:-of-signs-and-portents
Full details here:
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10359283-featured-episode:-of-signs-and-portents
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Gee, I wonder who it could be? :P
I'm looking forward to the mission. Feels like it's been ages since we got one.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
Unlikely. Having said that, it will be interesting which direction the devs take for the rewards.
Starfleet: jeez, that iconian war was tough. we lost 99% of our fleet, half our starbases, dozens of systems. Its going to take us years to recover from this. Good thing the galaxy is peaceful now, and we're all friends.
Lukari: Hey, someone is using Protomatter over here. I think its the Tzenkethi...
Starfleet: oh ****, not them again... um... do we have any ships to send? no? ok erm... ask the Klingons
Lukari: gah
Romulans: don't you want an Epohh friend?
It might be like the past anni sets, which would suck. The Deflector/Impulse/Shield will be from the anni episode and the Warp Core is from the Anni Project meaning if you miss it, you're SOL until you can gamble for the Phoenix box!
I honestly hate that, the full set should be from the mission. If the console is on the ship that's fine, but the amount of sets in game missing a warp core is already bordering on the ridiculous and they need to stop contributing to that.
Klingons : Bah we are warriors not space explorers
Starfleet : But "someone" is using protomatter weapons
Klingons : Like starfleet hasnt done THAT before , for all we know it could be YOU
Starfleet : We would nevrdo such a thing EVER
Klingons : Remember genesis?
Starfleet : [Redacted all files on project genisis is classified]
Klingons : HAH see you cover up your indescretions by making them secrets, but secrets have ways of coming to light you miserable to'bahs
Romulans : Get your cute and cuddly epohhs here
Hmmm.....Maybe we'll be getting an omni-directional weapon that fires epohhs with protomatter bombs attached to their backs.
The Romulan representative is off-screen chasing an epohh.
The 23rd Fed is off-screen getting a temporal debriefing about how the timeline is secure.
LOL you know id actually pay money for a weapon like that imagine the BFaW xD
Also a nod to maybe material of Klingon Academy (which is a "direct prequel" of sorts to Star Trek VI:Undiscovered Country ) of the Klingon Cadets going through 'training to this day' about a war with the Federation they were still doing --quoting TVtropes:
....and for the heck still involving Starfleet's Flagship The Enterprise with a simulated James T. Kirk on it. Or, an updated version Picard's Enterprise. Or depending if they decide to have cadets go through both versions for a feel of how the Federation got "weak" over time.
Also the plot of the civil war that happened to the Klingon empire in that game could be an interesting for heck of the Gravitational Hyper mass black hole things.
Would be better if there was a "holodeck" mission of that simulation from Klingon Academy (not the same, property rights and all, but similar) of the assault on Earth that showed this to give people an idea of how the weapon works... (sadly not enough time to do such I assume as the story arch is already planned out probably)
BUT...if they could give info of such to an NPC or the Lukari star base or some console in some mission that you can read up on, which would be easier to add at this point, to describe the events of STII, STIII, Klingon Academy/Simulation of Assault on Earth with Genesis Bomb+Enterprise attack run, and slight events with some Genesis like device used to detonate some star with protomatter into a black hole that took out the Klingon Empire's main Dilithium production during Civil War that lead to Praxis blowing up, and the resulting Khitomer Accords(ST VI).
(I mention this because it's said to see players in game asking how to play the mission.)
PWE ARC Drone says: "Your STO forum community as you have known it is ended...Display names are irrelevant...Any further sense of community is irrelevant...Resistance is futile...You will be assimilated..."
What I want to know is how Rodek is a "legendary general"? Or even a general at all...
Kurns memory was wiped, DNA altered and given a new identity as someone else in a different family.
Which means if he wanted to join the KDF he had to start from the bottom again... At the age of, what 40ish going through officer school to get a commission?
Then to become a general in such a short amount of time, it is not logical.
I can see if all this was based on Kurn, but this isn't Kurn. We know he is Kurn, but he doesn't.
I hope they tell a well constructed story to go along with all this...
-General Chang
How long did it take us, the player, to go from Ensign to Fleet Admiral? Not very long.
Not saying it's realistic, but it's hardly unprecedented in the game.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
In game wasn't our toon already a Captain? The tutorial has it our toon is a cadet being the first officer and the Admiral, after all that happened, made us captain. And a year later we are an Admiral.
That is best I remember.
The mission wasn't too short and didn't feel long enough to make me loathe the grind. The beginning of the mission feels a little familiar, moving from moon to moon, but being down to the planet is where this mission really takes off. The map is very well done! It's colourful, the various watefalls and movement of the water is a very nice addition, and even the cave really shows off what a little creativity can do for a mission. This map is now one of my favourites maps that STO has ever seen.
The voice acting of Mr. Todd ranks up with Nimoy for me. He captures his character well and demonstrates how Klingon voice acting should be in STO. Well done, sir! Thank you for taking pride in your work! Not sounding like you are just sitting in a room bored out of your mind reading an incredibly boring script really goes a long way for making a missing very enjoyable. I sincerely hope PWE pays you well for your exceptional talent and welcomes you back many more times to contribute to this game.
Interesting that they're trying to destroy those crystals... I wonder what they could be? What's so dangerous about them that destroying entire habitable worlds - most of which are potential colony sites - is considered an acceptable means of destroying them?
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
Space - the final frontier. These are the adventures of Tovan Khev - told by his loyal servant ... err... Commanding Officer.