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C-Store Inc. is still looking for active members on the fed side. If you don't have a fleet feel free to contact me in game @stegi.
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(For those that missed the stream, the consoles portal acts similar to a portal from the Portal games, but in STO space combat. Activating the console creates a wide portal in front of you and to a right angle, near and facing your target. Fly through it, shoot through it, lot of work went into it. It can activate from up to 15km out, so you can use it to create a sudden ambush, shooting through the portal, or a shortcut to target by simply moving through it. At close ranges, this can be used to immediately get a target into your firing arcs. Hangar pets, targetable torpedoes, and NPC's will also make use of the portals.)
Notable missions: Apex [AEI], Gemini [SSF], Trident [AEI], Evolution's Smile [SSF], Transcendence
Looking for something new to play? I've started building Foundry missions again in visual novel form!
They ought to update the Iconian missions with the portal tech.
I have been waiting for this ship to be announced all year and was preparing to spend a ton of money on R&D Boxes because I really liked the look of it and I wanted it sooo badly until I found out it was an Intel ship (again!) with poor seating.
Like we don't have enough Intel ships already. However, I shouldn't have been surprised given the devs/ship designers bias towards Intel ships. I mean look at the Paradox Temporal Dreadnought which is, errm, "Temporal" in name only as, surprise, surprise, its an Intel ship. Yes that makes a lot of sense. IMHO I would have thought the Shrike should have been a Miracle Worker ship because of how its weaponry is cobbled together from stolen tech. The seating on it is also bad for a ship that does a lot of science-y stuff. The lieutenant Science BOFF Station should have been a Lt. Universal to give the flexibility of using the Lt. Commander Universal for a Science Boff if you want to throw out a gravity well and still have an effective secondary Tac Boff in the Lt. Universal. An Ensign Universal slot is just a complete waste of time. All-in-all somewhat of a let down although I'm sure Intel lovers will be over-the-moon.
The crew are good technicians and operations people able to quickly work out how to integrate use new tech, not the kind of inventive scientists and engineers who develop new tech out of whatever is at hand (which is why the heroes could turn the tables on them when the Shrike's people had the upper hand).
Unfortunately, with it being a promo pack ship the odds of actually getting it before next year's event campaign ends are about nil.
I got one for my KDF, its a a really fun ship. Though I think my set up is a bit unique for it. It only cost me 15k zen in boxes which did nothing for me and 1.85 billion EC so I could buy it after I had no luck with the boxes. I hate gamble boxes but what we all do to get the ship we want...
Here is what I put in it, still working on the upgrades though. The setup is Polaron.
I only have 100