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THE KING AND COLLECTIVE EVENT!

baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 10,864 Community Moderator
Participate in the King and Collective Event to unlock the Alliance Rex Pilot Escort!

https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11561653
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  • saber1973asaber1973a Member Posts: 1,225 Arc User
    edited January 15
    So..
    The Alliance Rex Pilot Escort, much like the great Dukan’Rex himself, is a bridge between quadrants. It draws primarily from the Jem’Hadar Fighter and the Defiant, and is employed similarly – groups of three, made of a lead ship and two wingmates.

    So, does that mean that it got both Pilot Maneuvers and Vanguard Wingmen mechanics?

    Edit:
    Now, all it needs is some nice console, interesting experimantal weapon ... and antiproton Quad Cannons B)
  • inferiorityinferiority Member Posts: 4,382 Arc User
    edited January 15
    When y'all said the ship was beautiful, you were really understating it!
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    A clear homage to the bugship & the Defiant, with little touches that harken to Klingon and Romulan ships too.

    I want to be flying this ship yesterday!
    groups of three, made of a lead ship and two wingmates
    Don't toy with me now - does this mean the Vanguard wingmen mechanic will also be available on the Rex?

    Why isn't "Assimilation of Starbase 1" a qualifying TFO this time around?
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  • fleetcaptain5#1134 fleetcaptain5 Member Posts: 5,051 Arc User
    I hope we'll be able to use parts of the Defiant ship family on it - and vice versa.

    I've got a toon that's flying the Legendary Pilot warship and I'm not so eager nowadays to retire my ships just because I get a new one. Creating new toons isn't really an option for me anymore, either. Already have like 30 of them, so yeah. It would be nice if we could use parts of these ships.

    Unlikely, I know. But still, one can hope.
  • calford24calford24 Member Posts: 32 Arc User
    edited January 15
    Very Cool!! Love the Wingman feature! Only thing that would make it better would be if unlock a frigate pet along with the Jarok Alliance Carrier! like a throw back to the Jem'Hadar carrier and attack ship. Not that I'm upset about this ship. But, we sorely need a good frigate pet for our carriers!!!
  • foxman00foxman00 Member Posts: 1,505 Arc User
    Alliance ship is stunningly beautiful.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,547 Community Moderator
    calford24 wrote: »
    Very Cool!! Love the Wingman feature!

    Except we don't know if it is a Vanguard ship yet. We'll find out when the stat blog comes out. The blog just has some lore fluff about it filling the same role as a Defiant and leading wolfpacks of three ships.
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    I can't take it anymore! Could everyone just chill out for two seconds before something CRAZY happens again?!
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  • irm1963irm1963 Member Posts: 682 Arc User
    edited January 15
    Looks very nice, looking forward to seeing the stats. Consoles on the other Alliance ships are pretty handy for AP builds, and the possibility of quad AP cannons if we're lucky and it takes after the Defiant and it's faction cousins..

    Really hoping that Vanguard hint isn't just flavour text, one man strike wing yes please :)
  • mariqa#4594 mariqa Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    irm1963 wrote: »
    Looks very nice, looking forward to seeing the stats. Consoles on the other Alliance ships are pretty handy for AP builds, and the possibility of quad AP cannons if we're lucky and it takes after the Defiant and it's faction cousins..

    Really hoping that Vanguard hint isn't just flavour text, one man strike wing yes please :)

    I'll be the pessimist and point out that all the other Quad Cannon variants have been found on pay for ships (Either Zen or Dilithium and the Dil ones at one point were Zen purchases), though I would be really happy if they did an AP Quad as a nice present. Maybe for the 15th Anniversary?
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,655 Arc User
    That's a very nice looking ship. I think it will work well with different vanity shields too, to make it more like a faction's own ships.
  • thehubby2thehubby2 Member Posts: 11 Arc User
    One thing they seem to have left out - When is this running? Start and end date would be nice.
  • smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,668 Arc User
    <3:o<3
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  • sthe91sthe91 Member Posts: 5,953 Arc User
    edited January 16
    > @thehubby2 said:
    > One thing they seem to have left out - When is this running? Start and end date would be nice.

    Good catch! We do know when it starts though according to the anniversary blog. It is January 23 but yes it would have been nice to have that information there as well as when it ends.
    Where there is a Will, there is a Way.
  • mariqa#4594 mariqa Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    thehubby2 wrote: »
    One thing they seem to have left out - When is this running? Start and end date would be nice.

    They'll probably do a more specific Anniversary event post in a day or two as Cryptic usually do but will probably be from Jan 23rd to Feb 24th as it's the usual 40 daily progress job. Nominally 3 weeks and a week extra for anyone who goes somewhere for a few days.
  • inferiorityinferiority Member Posts: 4,382 Arc User
    A 40 progress (20 days) Event runs for 30 days, so this will likely run Jan 23rd - Feb 22nd.
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  • irm1963irm1963 Member Posts: 682 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    calford24 wrote: »
    Very Cool!! Love the Wingman feature!

    Except we don't know if it is a Vanguard ship yet. We'll find out when the stat blog comes out. The blog just has some lore fluff about it filling the same role as a Defiant and leading wolfpacks of three ships.

    Livestream has it with Wingmen and Pilot Manoeuvres, Quad AP was a "we'll see".
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