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In celebration of Star Trek Online's 10th Anniverh̶̡̻͙̮͈̙̭̉͂e̴̯̬̼̦̘̾̃͐̃͗͐͋́̚ä̴͈̠̙́̈́̀r̶͚̦̳̽̐̒̊̽̅̿̅̔͝ ̷̬̼̺̯̀͐̽͑̽̽m̸̧̗̰̿͋̾͒̕͝e̶͚̦̎̅̊̏̿?̸͙͕̥̙̓̀́̑̄̓̊̍sary: special wallpaper, celebrating the fruitful alliance between the Federation and Klingon Empire!
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which apparently leads to a phone number which lead to a news post.
https://arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11340383
which I'm guessing is it for now.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
baQa' Seng poH
The voice does sound familiar, but all I can think of is Nixon. Maybe a Futurama crossover?
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It is a trace-marker of anime hentai left over by looking at TRIBBLE while at work maybe? :-)
The phone # leading to: 11340383 left my phone vibrating too which sort of freaked me out lol
I wonder if the missing parts of the 50 second recording adds any thing?
Well done, Cryptic, upon the creativity & well done to the gumshoes figuring this out!
This year's 'Anniverhear me?sary' looks scary!
Awoke two days ago, with all of my memories intact.
U.S.S. Enterprise, could it be the version of Enterprise-E from the Picard Countdown comic? Anyways, I'm thinking the person broadcasting is a Synth/Android....
It's Commonwealth knowledge that it's Institutional.
I heard you, Brother. Hoodies aren't a Steal these days..
I agree. MAY NOT BE DUKAT, but it certainly sounds like Marc Alaimo at the beginning there especially
Let us upgrade the Seleya Ceremonial Lirpa and Kri'stak Blade
Wow. It had been a long time since I last watched Descent, where he didn't have the Borg effect on his voice, so I looked it up, and also some more recent things, and yeah, it definitely could be him. I think it would make more sense with the dialogue, too.
First of all, for everyone out there convinced the anniversary has something to do with ST Picard, I can honestly say that it is extremely unlikely. Does anyone remember how long it was before CBS allowed Cryptic to make Discovery Themed arcs (not including the early teaser ships)? It was several months. They didn't want to risk Cryptic giving something vital away about the show until enough of it had aired. You can expect the same with Picard. And since the launch of the new show is so close to the Tenth anniversary, probably the only Picard themed thing we will see in game for a while is this new bundle. Sorry.
Also, for those who think the voice is that of Jonathan Del Arco, I tried comparing it to a video of an interview done with him a while back and the voice does not sound quite the same to me. This recording sounds deeper, older, and more weathered than Arco does. And Arco used his normal voice for Hugh, so it isn't likely he'd suddenly be changing it up even for STO. Borg don't age the same as other species. So I don't believe it is him.
Next, has anyone else noticed the NEW Starfleet logo behind the ships in the new "background"? It is not like any Starfleet emblem I have ever seen before. It almost looks "klingonized", like it is a cross between Starfleet's logo and a Klingon symbol. And the fact that the image is in pieces may also be significant. It makes it harder to piece together the whole.
Now, we know the gibberish on the ship hull picture is in code, but has anyone else also realized the gliffs in the title of this post are also likely a coded message? I have but have not figured out how to decipher it yet. And speaking of the ship hull picture, it is very clearly of the Enterprise-F, not the E. The E has never had that kind of hull pattern that I can find (nor is it's saucer built like that).
Next, we have people speculating on what the guy in the voice is talking about. Is it an android? Is it Control? Is it some kind of mind overlay? Or is it a Borg? Personally, listening to the recording myself, it sound most like someone who was under the control of the Control AI. The Borg would not give anyone autonomy and why would an android be talking about such things? And android would be saying its memory algorithms or memory records were intact most likely. And as for a mind overlay or brainwashing, that doesn't sound like it quite fits to me either. I think the man has been under the influence of Control and has been given some autonomy to make some recordings as Control prepares for its next attempt to take command of Starfleet (or the Galaxy). But I don't know for sure.
Now I want to point something else out that I have been thinking about lately, which may pertain to this. Hasn't Chancellor J'mpok been acting strangely of late? Just two years ago in game time he was all gung-ho for war and fighting to rebuild the glory of the Empire. But now he would rather let another group fight his battle for him, and not send in his troops and ships if he can help it. Sometime before the return of the Dominion and the Hur'q, he changed tunes pretty dramatically. What if he is being influnced by someone/something or is not even who he appears to be? It would explain a lot.
And that leads into my final thoughts. What ships are the ones players have been clamoring the most for over the past ten years? To my knowledge, the Starfleet players wanted to play "captured" Klingon ships and vise versa. And we know that in the future of STO, the Klingons have joined the Federation. What if the 10th Anniversary is when this will happen? Or at least start to happen? If something is wrong with J'mpok, and J'Ula succeeds or almost succeeds in splitting the Empire, what if the resulting civil war ends with the Klingons joining the Feds and the KDF merging with Starfleet? That could also explain the new logo. And all those faction only ships could become cross faction ships for higher ranked players. Though to be honest I'm not sure how they would pull that all off in the game with it already set up the way it is. But still I have to wonder.
What do you guys think?
Oh, and Cryptic, I'm on the edge of my seat, totally filled with anticipation. Can't wait to see what you guys have created for us this year.
"Never Surrender! Never give up Hope!"
"Prosperity and Success in everything you do."
"To Boldly go.........well punch it already!"
"To Be or Not To Be"....Alas, the Foundry is Not To Be. We Shall miss Thee, dear Friend!
"Does anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Thank You, Cryptic......even when I don't agree with all your decisions....Thank You for Star Trek Online!
Considering they may have Patrick Stewart making a guest VO for the Anniversary, I've a funny feeling Star Trek: Picard, which is supposed to be 10 years before STO, is going to be a part of the Anniversary.
Just guessing.
Wasn't it two years ago or so we had the Iconian War? J'mpok being a bit more hesitant to commit forces could be a result of the Iconian War and the losses the Empire took. He refused to commit forces to fight the Hur'q yes, but it could be because he felt that it would only weaken the Empire more, and a weak Empire, in his mind, is ripe for conquest. The only reason the Empire deployed any forces at all against the Hur'q was because of Worf lighting the Beacon of Kahless. NO Klingon would ignore that.
With J'Ula... he seems concerned with the risk of fracturing the Empire with a possible civil war. I think Martok pegged him correctly at the end of the Hur'q arc. J'mpok's more of a politician than a warrior.
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Maybe, maybe not. We will see.
And I was referring to in-game time, not our real time. Only two years have passed in-game. That means two of their years ago, the Iconians were not yet fully on the radar and the Klingons were fighting the Federation. It was a war pushed forward by J'mpok, supposedly to help the Empire and stop the Undine infiltration. Maybe your right. And then again, maybe J'mpok just got far more war and fighting than he ever wanted and is now sick of it. Who knows?
No one has actually said it is Patrick Stewart, that is just what people are wanting to believe. And besides, even if it is him, they could be including him in other stuff, not anything relating to ST Picard. Or they could be recording lines from him in advance for an update further down the road, just along side other actors recording stuff for the anniversary. Though, as some people in another post have pointed out, it would likely be easier for them to get lines from him over Skype than in person. Still, though it is possible, I doubt it is him.
We will just have to wait and see on this as well.
"Never Surrender! Never give up Hope!"
"Prosperity and Success in everything you do."
"To Boldly go.........well punch it already!"
"To Be or Not To Be"....Alas, the Foundry is Not To Be. We Shall miss Thee, dear Friend!
"Does anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Thank You, Cryptic......even when I don't agree with all your decisions....Thank You for Star Trek Online!
I have no idea who it is, the voice does not sound familiar to me, but I will say this, whatever its about definitely involves the borg in some way. Listen to this recording from a couple weeks ago:
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11341963
Its in the background and not easy to hear but 'we are the borg' among other things cuts into what he is saying at times, so whatever is going on definitely involves the borg in some way
I'm calling it now, given that if the regular cycle holds, its an expansion year, whatever we're leading up to is going to involve the borg, a storyline or possibly a cooperative faction. The fact that the borg TFO missions are being revamped and pushed, the seven of nine overhaul, new borg related equipment is being made front and center for the TFOs and the fact that cryptic has been building up to it for years with not so subtle hints in various missions over the last few years that things have changed with them and they have become a bigger threat (remember the start of the 2800? or the stuff about the borg assimilating something new that made them far more powerful and led to the whole assimilated romulus incident?) and given the picard series focus on the borg, at least for the time being, it does make sense to push things toward a borg centric storyline for awhile. Even the TFO event rifle looks like it came out of the picard series. It very much seems like they are attempting to use the focus of the picard series to draw people into STO and vice versa
Now just to be clear, i'm not saying the anniversary event has anything directly related to do with said storyline, i'm just saying i'd bet good money that its coming. It also wouldn't surprise me if something in said event hinted at it in some way. Remember how that went with the romulan expansion being hinted at a a bit during one of the anniversary events?
So mark my words, whatever is coming is going to be borg related. The TFOs, new borg equipment and hints like these audio logs are only the first indications of it
I didn't say the voice for the Synth was Patrick Stewart either
First off, thank you for posting that other transmission. I have been looking to see if there were others I missed out on and I couldn't find any. I had ignored the forums for quite a long while do to negativity and fighting and was wondering if I had missed other clues. This helps a lot. I had not heard that one before.
And you are quite right about there being the sound of "We are the Borg.." in the background of this recording. And so that does seem to point more to this being a Borg themed event. I had just figured they were redoing the Borg related content in preparation for ST Picard themed stuff later this year.
Still, this doesn't mean the anniversary event will have anything to do directly with ST Picard. CBS would never risk allowing Cryptic to reveal their new show's surprises before enough of that show's episodes air.
I still wonder if Control is involved as well (though to be absolutely honest, I wish Control would just forever vanish into the inky intergalactic blackness, as it haunts my nightmares about where its supposedly been all these years, lol; doubt that will ever happen though).
"Never Surrender! Never give up Hope!"
"Prosperity and Success in everything you do."
"To Boldly go.........well punch it already!"
"To Be or Not To Be"....Alas, the Foundry is Not To Be. We Shall miss Thee, dear Friend!
"Does anyone remember when we used to be explorers?"- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Thank You, Cryptic......even when I don't agree with all your decisions....Thank You for Star Trek Online!