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Offline Zach

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The Path to 2409: 2381
« on: 11 November 2008 12:03 PM »
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Starfleet is monitoring the deteriorating state of the Romulan Star Empire, which appears to be moving toward open civil war. Federation ambassadors are consulting with representatives of the Klingon Empire and other Alpha and Beta quadrant powers about a proposed course of action to either bring peace to the Romulans or control any conflict that spills out of Romulan space.

The imperial forces led by Tomalak have skirmished repeatedly with Reman ships in the space between their two worlds. The Romulan blockade of Remus is holding for now, leading to concerns that the Remans are suffering from shortages of food and supplies. The United Federation of Planets has offered humanitarian aid to both Romulus and Remus.

While Ambassador Spock has returned to Federation space, the unification movement he founded continues to grow on Romulus. Xiomek of the Reman Kepeszuk Battalion has allied with the Unification movement, seeing the underground organization as another population that has been exploited by the Romulan government, although the two sides disagree on how best to reach their goals. Xiomek is promoting a military solution to force the Romulans to accede to the Remans’ demands, while the Unification movement is calling for a nonviolent, diplomatic alternative.

On stardate 59480.33, Spock presents a formal request for aid for the Unification movement to the Federation Council, which agrees to take the matter under consideration.

With the blockade of Reman and upheaval at home, Praetor Tal’aura has insufficient forces to stop Commander Donatra, who rallies the breakaway military forces under her command to conquer several agricultural worlds in Romulan space. With these planets under her control, Donatra declares herself the first empress of the Imperial Romulan State and establishes a capitol on Archenar Prime. Tal’aura vows to retake the territory by any means necessary.

A coalition of planets led by Bajor demand that members of the Cardassian government and military stand trial for crimes against sentient beings for actions taken during the Occupation of Bajor and the Dominion War. The Cardassian government refuses any request to surrender its citizens for prosecution, so the coalition appeals to the Federation Council and the Klingon High Council to join them in seeking justice for past crimes.

Following increased activity by the Borg in the Alpha Quadrant including the possible recreation of a Borg Queen, Starfleet appoints Captain Jean-Luc Picard to lead the defense against the renewed threat. He calls on Seven of Nine to research ways to use technology brought back from the Delta Quadrant by Voyager to either directly combat the Borg or to give the Federation an advantage in the coming battle.

But not all of Starfleet’s energies are directed toward military concerns. On stardate 58839.03, Starfleet celebrates the start of construction of the USS Stargazer-A at the San Francisco Fleet Yards. The Stargazer-A and her sister ships will be the first of a new class of starships designed for scientific research and exploration.
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Re: The Path to 2409: 2381
« Reply #1 on: 11 November 2008 03:21 PM »
At last, some info!!

I hope we'll now soon get something more about gameplay...
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Re: The Path to 2409: 2381
« Reply #2 on: 11 November 2008 07:57 PM »
While there is a lot of speculation over at the ST:O forums on the class of the new Stargazer-A, it is generally believed to be a new class, which I myself believe to be a Cryptic design. The Stargazer that Picard was aboard obviously cannot be revived, and the hints coming from the posters at those forums are varied and conjectural.

I like the premise put forward for the Romulan Star Empire...civil war between Praetor Tal’aura and Commander Donatra. I hope this leads to some expansive PvE in the game...until the Romulans are introduced as an expansion playable race.  :huh2:

The Bajoran/Cardassian plot is thickening, although I had thought that Bajor had forgiven the Cardies. And the Borg hints are welcoming from a PvE point of view! I mean, who of us wouldn't want to take on a Borg Sphere or two, eh?  :muaha:

And last, but not least, Federation Ambassadors are talking with the Klingon Empire? I understood that they (Klingons) were the 'other' playable faction arrayed against the Federation. Obviously, from with 28 years yet to go in this time line...a lot of trouble will arise between these two factions.

All in all, I welcome the year 2381 as a excellent addition to the plotted time line from Cryptic. I hope the next 'year' won't take as long to put up. We don't have that many months left to game release.
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Re: The Path to 2409: 2381
« Reply #3 on: 12 November 2008 08:39 AM »

    From what I read the the stargazer class will be a research/exploration vesel, probably of cruiser size, but doubt it will be a "ship of the line". We will have to wait and see, but it should be interesting to see.

   Also interesting about the problems in the romulan empire, however IT IS AN EMPIRE afterall and as far as I know the remans are restricted only to remus. So really with the resources of an entire empire at ones beck and call ( before Donatra's betrayel) how hard could it be to subjugate one planet?
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Re: The Path to 2409: 2381
« Reply #4 on: 12 November 2008 02:59 PM »
they're utterly screwing trek lore and hostory up, its so sad. I still thnk they should have stuck to the "Missing" era and expanded it. that being the 75 or so years from "generations" to "TNG: Farpoint".

here we have a Known beinging and a known end and can build a ame that people can relate to and understand the story line. there's so much in that time that wasn't known, planets that were explored, races encountered, diplomativce problems still being hashed out (like the klinks still not 100% confortable with the feds, Romulan incursions and clashes, ect). Space was still small, ships were slower, so people could have taken time to explore and expand and discover all thsoe places that would soon be in TNG. then when the time came for a major expansion 3-5 years down the roads, they could jump it forward to TNG time, as we only know it from the Big D's perspective, there were other things going on too they could cover.

But just going after TNG makes no sense, is bad design and really doesn't lead to anything but an open ended combat design.
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Re: The Path to 2409: 2381
« Reply #5 on: 10 December 2008 11:21 PM »
Quote from: Falin on 12 November 2008 02:59 PM
they're utterly screwing trek lore and hostory up, its so sad. I still thnk they should have stuck to the "Missing" era and expanded it. that being the 75 or so years from "generations" to "TNG: Farpoint".

here we have a Known beinging and a known end and can build a ame that people can relate to and understand the story line. there's so much in that time that wasn't known, planets that were explored, races encountered, diplomativce problems still being hashed out (like the klinks still not 100% confortable with the feds, Romulan incursions and clashes, ect). Space was still small, ships were slower, so people could have taken time to explore and expand and discover all thsoe places that would soon be in TNG. then when the time came for a major expansion 3-5 years down the roads, they could jump it forward to TNG time, as we only know it from the Big D's perspective, there were other things going on too they could cover.

But just going after TNG makes no sense, is bad design and really doesn't lead to anything but an open ended combat design.

Another way they could have gone would be to jump 100 or even 200 years to the future beyond Nemesis, which would have given them much more breathing room from the established canon up to Nemesis and the soft canon of the post-Nemesis books. They could have covered the history in much broader strokes and really given fans a completely new adventure.

Although, I was always more in favor of using the Lost Era as you have stated, or even using the TOS era to explore, given that the majority of our known canon history of that era is centered around the explorations of the Enterprise alone. Imagine what it could have been like, living the Kirk era with Klingons beating the war drums everyday and Romulans hiding in every nebula!
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Re: The Path to 2409: 2381
« Reply #6 on: 10 December 2008 11:27 PM »
Quote from: BLZBUB on 11 November 2008 07:57 PM
While there is a lot of speculation over at the ST:O forums on the class of the new Stargazer-A, it is generally believed to be a new class, which I myself believe to be a Cryptic design.

I would imagine that the Stargazer-A is meant to be a knock off of the Luna class. I would imagine that Cryptic did not want to pay for the rights to use the actual Luna Class from the Titan series, therefore, they are creating a similar vessel without naming it the same.
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