Star Trek Online Kobayashi Maru & Ship Updates
By Captain Pyke | June 28, 2009 - 3:10 pm
Cryptic Studios has posted a couple updates to StarTrekOnline.com including a new Kobayashi Maru challenge and a Romulan ship update.
Kobayashi Maru Vol. 19
You make first contact with a civilization called the Savii. The Savii have just reached the technology level necessary for the construction of warp-speed-capable vessels. They are an insectoid race connected through a hive mind, spreading information via a complex pheromone system.
Despite their relative technological sophistication, the Savii are slowly dying out due to a hereditary illness. The Savii have been unable to discover a cure, but it turns out that Starfleet Medical will be able to negate the sickness within a generation by performing minor genetic tweaks on a handful of Savii. The cure will spread through the pheromone network instantly, curing all and sundry.
Ship Update
The new ship update takes the form of a Klingon communique with a secret reconnaissance photo showing a new type of Romulan Ship.
To: Martok, Chancellor of the Klingon Empire and leader of the High Council
From: Quen, Klingon Intelligence
Re: After Action Report, choS Battle Group
Chancellor, I regret to inform you of the loss of the choS Battle Group. The crews fought with honor, sacrificing everything to send back to us intelligence about a new threat to the Empire.
The image included in this missive is of the ship that destroyed the battle group. We know little about this starship other than that, and what we do know is due to the heroic actions of Captain D'rakal and his crew. They died well, and I honor them.
In its continuing investigation into the events of the Hobus supernova, agents of Imperial Intelligence have been looking into reports of incredibly advanced starships appearing in Romulan space.
There must be some validity to these rumors. The Narada was a civilian ship captained by a common miner. Nero was no warrior, and yet he defeated a fleet of our finest starships! I cannot look in the faces of the mates and children of blooded Klingon warriors and tell them that these great men and women were killed by a miner! Even if all of the Fek'lhri had fought at his side, this should not have happened. I will not rest until I have uncovered the truth of all that occurred.
With the chaos enveloping the Romulan colony worlds, entering Romulan space has become a simple matter of engaging our cloaking devices. This is the perfect time to increase intelligence gathering, and I strongly recommend that the High Council authorizes more espionage missions. The more information we have, the more questions about the Hobus supernova and the destruction of the fleet we will be able to answer.
