So anyone bothered by the fact that the Federation is building the perfect weapon of mass destruction and genocide?
Granted, they might not use it, but the fact that they are considering it is enough for me to go watch some TNG episodes (especially "I, Borg" and "The Survivors") that deal with similar topics.
I guess I'm too old fashioned and I'm not part of the post-DS9 "winning excuses everything" crowd.
EDIT: One thing that occurs to me is that the Iconians (and their servants) have been presented to us in the simplistic way of being a pure 'evil' force that is 100% out to get us, and not as races with societies that are complex composed of individuals that may think differently.
So we take in to account that they are unrealistically 100% 'evil' then in that context I guess using genocide is not as bad. Getting rid of Chaotic Evil space wizards from the STO timeline so that everyone forget they exist might be a good thing after all
Sysil you're using your brain again, you know Cryptic assumes all players have none which is why they think they can do this stuff and get away with it.
iconians ruled over everyone with and iron fist.
iconians got their **** handed to them in an open revolt.
iconians vanish and are relegated to the dustbin of time.
the hobus star explodes, thus wiping out romulus and remus, leave the romulan government hopelessly fractured.
the iconians send fake alpha quadrant ships into fluidic space pissing off the the undine.
the undine infiltrate up the command structure of the federation and possibly other races.
klingons scream at the federation for sitting on its ass doing nothing, ultimately ending the khitomer accord and peace between the federation and klingon empire. with open war allowing soon afterwards.
the dividians, breen, mirror universe incursion, borg, undine round 2, lost dominion, true way, and god knows what else, show up. oh and we find the preservors library
iconian gateway discovery under new romulus. gateway is activated, all hell breaks loose, and second dyson sphere is discovered and a gateway network opens up.
the voth show up. omega particle generator is found inside the dyson sphere.
undine infiltrator finds and activates a link system that links the second dyson sphere to a third sphere in the delta quadrant.
undine come ripping out of fluidic space around dozens of homeworlds including earth and qo'nos. summon a giant planetkiller that gets magically blown up by to tiny space planes. great victory party on qo'nos ensues, one iconian shows up, slaughters 6 klingons and states "dont draw our attention."
then the vaaduar show up.
after a long campaign of whooping their asses back and killing the leader. only now do the iconians come out of the shadows, lay waste to anything that might be a threat. starting with the preservor library world that we barely escape from with something downloaded to our ships. and at some point we give our past selves a device.
what little is learned is the iconians cant play god with time stream. so we build a krenim superweapon that manipulates the timestream to unmake the war somehow.
twilight was better.
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
You know, considering all the stuff you allude to above, and the fact all this (and more besides) has occurred within two calendar years, I'm not surprised that the Federation has gone a bit "doolally"
They should really do a war. Now that sector space is redone, turn it all into a huge space battle zone. The only areas you can actually access are varying degrees of safety, and to push the war zone back, you have to get players together for really large scale PVE battles. If you leave it alone too long, the war zones push forward again, and less and less of the galaxy is safe. Treat planets as a ground battle zone. That would get fleets interested.
Lt. Cmdr Pip, Engineering Alpha Squadron
Currently posted USS Winnipeg
12th Fleet, United Federation Of Planets
Let's not forget that in order to reach the Krenim storyline, our characters have pretty much slaughtered their way across every sector of space. With that in mind, it's hardly a surprise that the Krenim weapon is going to be used. Its just adding to our, already high, body count.
WelshAvenger wrote:With that in mind, it's hardly a surprise that the Krenim weapon is going to be used. Its just adding to our, already high, body count.
It might reverse our high body count. It's like using genocide to fix genocide.
pretty much.
