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At Last, the Eisenberg
fleetcaptain5
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"This year’s Grand Prize for participating in the Event will be none other than one of the many unique and innovative Federation starship designs pulled across time from the distant future. But this time only, this Federation vessel is being made accessible to all captains, regardless of their original allegiance.
We’re thrilled to be offering all captains the opportunity to earn their way to flying their very own Eisenberg Star Cruiser [T6]."
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11503803-at-last,-the-eisenberg
We’re thrilled to be offering all captains the opportunity to earn their way to flying their very own Eisenberg Star Cruiser [T6]."
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11503803-at-last,-the-eisenberg
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It's nice though that they're giving everyone a chance to earn a 32nd century ship.
- The design is not my cup of tea.
- The trait and console may be of use on my tanking characters. Shame they are based on shield power.
- Not too worried about builds on this ship since i will most likely level it for its mastery and then dismiss it.
I once skipped the event for an event ship (Risa party boat T5) because it had better stats than my beloved T5 ambassador, but in hindsight the card would have been useful.
So I'll get the ship, but most likely bin it after leveling its mastery.
aut vincere aut mori pro imperio
either to conquer or to die for the Empire
IMO, the Eisenberg is one of the more elegant 32C designs produced by the show. Not what I'd call "cool" or anything, but it anyway looks like a starship, with a definable fore and aft, and everything but the nacelles actually attached. At least it doesn't look like a giant spacegoing toilet seat, or feature a giant bottle opener for a tail, or reverse direction based on what it's doing at the moment...
Bring the Enterprise XCV-330 to STO
Sending energy back and forth between the detached parts and the main hull is not a problem, they did that at least as far back as the 2250s as shown in The Cage with the dismounted phaser used on the ground.
The biggest problem is sending matter between them efficiently. Sure, they have transporters which can send matter around, but the fact that it takes a lot of energy has been one of the pillars of Star Trek storytelling that keep them interesting by not allowing the characters to simply teleport away at the first sign of danger, or to circumvent enemy defenses too much.
The Eisenburg looks like it takes care of that problem by having tiny bussards on the ends of the nacelles which could serve the needs of the nacelles themselves, and a big glowy thing that could be another bussard (or perhaps combined bussard/deflector array or whatever) up on the front of the engineering section at the top of the main hull. In essence it would allow the system to work with the nacelles acting as a sort of a tug drone pair and avoid the matter transport problem with little or no need for the slush streams moving between the hulls.
I was not at all impressed with the ship when I first saw it in DSC, but looking at the detailed features on the STO model for it has me rethinking that. It might just be the best design of the whole bunch of DSC s3 and s4 ships (not a high bar by any means, but that is another subject).
I think this is one of the best-looking freebies we have yet received.
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