Warning: Spoilers for Delta Rising and "Uneasy Allies" follow. Spoiler (click to show/hide)When we last saw an Iconian, it was after the attack on Qo'noS in "Surface Tension." That being warned us not to attract their attention again.
We didn't listen.
After "Surface Tension," the combined fleets of Operation Delta Rising went to the Delta Quadrant, where they faced off against the renewed threat of the Vaadwaur. The Vaadwaur were defeated, but not before we discovered that much of their new power came from an alliance with the Iconians. Both the Vaadwaur and the Iconians were species out of time that had lost power and wanted it back. The Vaadwaur needed to update their 900-year-old technology and gain strength. The Iconians needed willing minions to break any alliances that might rise against them. They gave the Vaadwaur ships and weapons, but they kept control over them with their neural parasites.
The Vaadwaur were defeated, but that wasn't the end. In "What's Left Behind," players followed the signals from the device Gaul was using to communicate with the Iconians to a hidden subspace base where they not only found out what they neural parasites were, they found Sela.
The deposed Romulan empress claims she was the captive of the Iconians, not their ally. But can she be trusted?
In "Uneasy Allies," Sela leads the player to a Dyson sphere being used by the Iconians as a staging area for their fleets. The Iconians are back, and their Heralds bring news of our coming destruction.
The Iconian story continues in Season 10. Admiral Quinn and the leaders of the KDF and the Romulan Republic are gathering the best and brightest of their commanders to plan for the inevitable conflict. The battle begins in "Blood of Ancients," a new Featured Episode releasing with Season 10.
In the aftermath, elite teams will make surgical strikes against the enemy. Join them in "Delta Flight," a new episode releasing simultaneously with "Blood of Ancients." (Note: We recommend you do not skip "Blood of Ancients" before playing "Delta Flight.")
War is coming. There will be sacrifices that must be made. If you don't succeed today, there might not be a tomorrow.
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Capt. JJJH Schimdt
Engineering Division Alpha Team
UFP 12th Fleet
USS Lusitania NCC-93015 Nebula Class
Patrolling
Infected/Cleared, Cure/Cleared, Kithomer Accord/Cleared, Terradome/Cleared Foundry FED: Player Concept Housing*, Great Raid (part 1), Training Ground 2.0, Ultimate Deathmatch, Redshirt Zombie, All Hallows Eve
I like that Cryptic has been recounting the story-line thus far, after all it has changed here and there over the years, so having a cohesive recounting of the back story to the game is nice.
Hopefully we'll be wrapping up the Iconian plot for a while so that some new stories can be told.
QorDaq wrote:I like that Cryptic has been recounting the story-line thus far, after all it has changed here and there over the years, so having a cohesive recounting of the back story to the game is nice.
Hopefully we'll be wrapping up the Iconian plot for a while so that some new stories can be told.
We'll see how it goes.
maj!
unless its the klingon side of the story. then its the worse hackjob ever.
Capt. JJJH Schimdt
Engineering Division Alpha Team
UFP 12th Fleet
USS Lusitania NCC-93015 Nebula Class
Patrolling
Infected/Cleared, Cure/Cleared, Kithomer Accord/Cleared, Terradome/Cleared Foundry FED: Player Concept Housing*, Great Raid (part 1), Training Ground 2.0, Ultimate Deathmatch, Redshirt Zombie, All Hallows Eve
Capt. JJJH Schimdt
Engineering Division Alpha Team
UFP 12th Fleet
USS Lusitania NCC-93015 Nebula Class
Patrolling
Infected/Cleared, Cure/Cleared, Kithomer Accord/Cleared, Terradome/Cleared Foundry FED: Player Concept Housing*, Great Raid (part 1), Training Ground 2.0, Ultimate Deathmatch, Redshirt Zombie, All Hallows Eve
Well not going to spoil anything but if you have been leveling a delta recruit and been gathering the Iconian stuff in the different missions there are some interesting things that do come up about the Iconians and their place in the galaxy.
To be more to the point look at the info gathered during the mission "Crack in the Mirror." This mission gives the coolest info I have seen yet about the Iconians.
Retired Command Officer You can find me on Risa enjoying the beaches, sipping on Romulan ale
