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STO's story after ViL / the Hur'q
fleetcaptain5
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I wonder where the story will take us after the Victory is Life / Dominion expansion and after we've defeated the Hur'q. It will probably take a few more seasons before the story has developed that far, but nevertheless I'm curious what we'll see after these arcs have been concluded.
Both the Hur'q and the Tzenkethi are storylines based entirely off species that were only named once or a few times. If they decide to walk the path of continuity (sorry
) then I guess we would either see species like the Sheliak being the new big enemy, or perhaps one of the individual enemies like the 'god' of Sha Ka Ree or the devil that tried to lure Janeway to her death. Maybe they'll bring back T'ket.
Or they could do the civil war thing that has been requested often (not my preferred option to be fair).
Another idea would be to bring back another ancient civilisation like the T'kon. Or we could have a peaceful season that focusses on rebuilding relations with the Iconians, maybe some of their servitor species or helping the Romulan Star Empire defeat the Tal Shiar and merge it with the Republic.
Both the Hur'q and the Tzenkethi are storylines based entirely off species that were only named once or a few times. If they decide to walk the path of continuity (sorry
) then I guess we would either see species like the Sheliak being the new big enemy, or perhaps one of the individual enemies like the 'god' of Sha Ka Ree or the devil that tried to lure Janeway to her death. Maybe they'll bring back T'ket.Or they could do the civil war thing that has been requested often (not my preferred option to be fair).
Another idea would be to bring back another ancient civilisation like the T'kon. Or we could have a peaceful season that focusses on rebuilding relations with the Iconians, maybe some of their servitor species or helping the Romulan Star Empire defeat the Tal Shiar and merge it with the Republic.
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For that matter, the Kelvans from the TOS episode who settled in our galaxy... The fact that the Kelvan Empire is in the Andromeda Galaxy, the Iconians spent the last 200,000 years in Andromeda, and we now have some degree of access to the Gateway Network makes things interesting. We could always end up help the Iconians protect their Andromeda holdings (or whatever's left if they're trying to bring everything back over to Iconia) from a Kelvan expansionistic leadership seeking to escape their galaxy's eventual radiation death...
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
... as you might know, PWE and Cryptic both can't come up with anything that doesn't involve combat in some way.
The trailer for 'A new Dawn' gave me some hope in that regard, but when it arrived, it had 'Fight the Tholians because... why not'. And then again, and then 'Fight the Na'kuhl', 'Fight the Krenim' and you get the idea.
Lau- lau- lau- lau- launch Fighters!
My smooth and hostile face would certainly like to greet the Spathi again though.
If anyone has some examples of an MMO with decently implemented exploration/diplomacy then point it out, it will give us something solid to try and work into STO. Although the purely linear mission structure in STO would tend to limit the possibilities.
To borrow a real-world situation for comparison, it would be a bit like going back in time to the late 1980s to help the USSR "overcome" the KGB and merge with the Baltic states.
Well the Soviet Union did undergo a transition to something else... not what most would call a democracy, but it changed considerably nevertheless and that is somewhat related to the more succesful democratisation in some of the Baltic states.
I don't think it would be that farfetched to have the Empire transition to something more democratic and eventually end up being a part of the Republic. We've already seen colonies and people breaking away (or rebel against as the Empire would indeed call it) from the Empire and moving to the Republic, there are no examples of it happening the other way around.
And I think that, after all the successes (especially against the Iconians), it will become ever more difficult for what remains of the Tal Shiar and the population surpressed by them to be reminded that there is a reason why this 'rebellion' is happening in the first place.
Maybe we can find the NX-02 Columbia in the Gamma Quadrant, and thus get an NX interior?
Anyways... STO's got a few directions to explore for sure.
This. Oh, baby, a First Federation lockbox? Who wouldn't want to fly a disco ball?
To boldly go where no human has gone before!
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Humans just cannot live without their conflict...tsktsk
It's a short lived escape since the Andromeda galaxy is currently on a collision course with the Milky Way and the Milky Way will be devoured by Andromeda in the future. This isn't science fiction by the way, it's really happening.
I wouldn't say "devoured", the Milky Way and Andromeda are close enough in size that I'd call it a "fusion". Which, apart from making some nasties close in, won't be as bad as it sounds.
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However, again, we're talking about two or three billion years down the road - the odds of my being around to be dismayed by this are, if you'll pardon the expression, astronomical.
Well, the precise effects on Sol are hard to predict, especially with out galaxy turning and everything, but yeah, a few stars will be flung into dark space, and the rest will form some chaos until it settles a couple million years down the road. But being flung out, as far as we understand it, won't be that bad as long as the solar system itself is not shaken up too much. Of course, evacuation to neighboring systems a billion years down the road when Sol meets its maker may become kind of a hassle.
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> To borrow a real-world situation for comparison, it would be a bit like going back in time to the late 1980s to help the USSR "overcome" the KGB and merge with the Baltic states.
Well, Western Germany did support Eastern Germans overcome the STASI and finally both split states merged... so the plot idea laid out above is not as far-fetched as it might seem on first sight.
Seeing how far humanity has come in just a few centuries or even a few decades, I'm not too worried at all about things that happen billions of years in the future. Because we * will find some way to counter it. The human species is a few hundreds of thousands of years old. Civilisation started some 10.000 years ago. A billion years is a time period that lasts a couple hundred times as long as humanity has been around, and even 10.000 times as long as civilisation has existed. In that time period, we've come to dominate the earth to an extent we're causing a new mass extinction and actively changing its climate.
That's just one planet, but given 10.000 times more time I wouldn't underestimate what humans will be able to pull off. If we haven't been wiped out before the Alaskan Bull Worm arrives, I at least expect us to be... everywhere basically. And if, for some reason, we haven't colonised the galaxy by then, there still that one miracle worker who could just push us or the Alaskan Bull Worm away.
* And by we, I really mean 'we' as in I and the other people alive at that moment.