Will we be commanding Very Rare Federation ships.

morrow · April 16

Alright to make things very interesting will there be newer ships arriving via Lobi store, Zen Store and Starship Customization? Ships like the Discovery Era Class-III Freighter, TNG Freedom Class and the 2x Extra Nacelle Nebula Class (from Wolf 359). Or for the Summer event will it be a Federation ship or the Doomsday machine (joking) but what I really would like is the original Shangri-La Class light cruiser.

Also will there be a Starfleet Museum at Athan Prime somewhere in-between the Alpha and Beta Quadrant its one of many things that's missing from STO.

baddmoonrizin · April 16

New ships are coming all the time. 🤨🤷‍♀️

rattler2 · April 17

I wouldn't be surprised if the TNG Freedom comes in at some point as we do have the model for it. I was surprised that it wasn't included in the Wolf 359 Bundle.

phoenixc · April 18

I would like to see another rare Federation ship type that they have the model for already (since they used it for an April Fool's joke) is the Yeager class kitbash from DS9. Theoretically it could use the extra room in the large secondary hull to make a good tactical torpedo ship or carry some sort of auxiliary generators for extra power to the weapons or shields.

With its fixed engines it is probably not as fast as the Intrepid class its primary hull is from but having the freighter secondary hull is realistic for a war where the Allies were desperate for more ships quickly just like back in WWII and used the same solution of building warships on (often) beefed up civilian hulls.

In WWII the US even had yacht manufacturers building wooden hulled warships (not just boats, the SC Subchaser corvettes) and aircraft companies building fighter aircraft out of plywood, and Germany's only long-range bomber type in that war was a quick modification of a civilian airliner.

Since the Yeager class would make a good, quickly built, picket and patrol class (and probably be more economical on resource use without the exotic bleeding-edge tech of the Intrepid class engineering section) it seems reasonable that they would have made a bunch of them (like the "jeep" carriers of WWII) and that after the Dominion war they could have ended up as system defense ships in Federation member and associate member worlds' defensive fleets (similar to how Saber class ships are used in the Sol system according to a line of throwaway dialog in the show), ready for redeployment if needed.

They are also something some bureaucrats might squirrel away in out of the way locations for a rainy day since auxiliary cruisers or destroyers could reasonably be assumed to "fall off the books" easier than a mainline warship, and some off those could come to light in a time of need (which is pretty much the norm in STO).

Another good one to have would be the four-engined Excelsior proposal model. It only appeared in the mothball yard Unification II way in the background, but it was recognizable. It had variable-geometry warp nacelle struts, the first time such a thing was proposed (behind the scenes anyway, apparently the S31 ship had variable geometry warp drives too though I don't remember seeing it do anything like that in the show):

saurializard · April 21

I just wish they made the S31 Hou-Yi class. In fact, I wish they made the Hou-Yi instead of the Shiva, since the latter is just a dark emo Miranda.

And where are the XCV 330 Enterprise and Phoenix-class (the SS Eleos)?

smokebailey · April 22

Probably gonna be lockbox or promo pack ships...again. In that case, probably you're going to need to paint a pentagram on the floor in sacrificial blood, then.

rattler2 · April 22

I know that feeling. I've only won... 4 ships that I can recall from lockboxes, and 0 promos.

Tarantula
Crossfield x2
T6 choice pack (Praetor Warbird)

I'm no whale, but my luck is E rank either way. Most of what I got was ground out and bought off the Exchange back when prices were far more reasonable, or given as gifts. Think I've won more T5s than I have T6s.

questerius · April 22

saurializard wrote: »

I just wish they made the S31 Hou-Yi class. In fact, I wish they made the Hou-Yi instead of the Shiva, since the latter is just a dark emo Miranda.

And where are the XCV 330 Enterprise and Phoenix-class (the SS Eleos)?

I kind of like the Eleos design, but given the size where would it fit in.
It would estimate the size between a runabout and the Raven.

saurializard · April 22

questerius wrote: »

saurializard wrote: »

I just wish they made the S31 Hou-Yi class. In fact, I wish they made the Hou-Yi instead of the Shiva, since the latter is just a dark emo Miranda.

And where are the XCV 330 Enterprise and Phoenix-class (the SS Eleos)?

I kind of like the Eleos design, but given the size where would it fit in.
It would estimate the size between a runabout and the Raven.

They can do what they did with the Jellyfish and la Sirena: scale it up enough.

rattler2 · April 22

Well we also have the Maquis Raider, which in some cases was a rather small ship.
The Elos would make a pretty good frigate type ship.

questerius · April 25

rattler2 wrote: »

Well we also have the Maquis Raider, which in some cases was a rather small ship.
The Elos would make a pretty good frigate type ship.

The Maquis Raider size is rather inconsistent between TNG, DS9 and Voyager.
The size varied between shuttle/runnabout sized, small cargo vesse to Frigate/Defiant sized.

But since the specs were not mention on screen and we lack a Technical Manual entry for the Elios Class.

Will we be commanding Very Rare Federation ships.

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