The original ship suddenly looks like the ugly Galaxy Variant. I forget its name but the saucer and nacelles sure seem to come from that.

http://sto.gamepedia.com/Exploration_Cruiser

Definately has elements if not most of the Envoy class about it. Personally I find that the ugliest but anyhow... :)

And as to the PE ship, I think they used a lot of that in the Fleet Avenger. Even if that ended up more blocky, it has the same lines from the back.

Hello there!
I am rank Envoy in Diplomacy and got my first First Contact mission lately from Jiro Surosomething. I did the mission, I liked it and I'd love to do more since I am focusing on reaching rank 4. But I seem to be unable to get them. Jiro on ESD gives me only Diplomatic Investigations. How do I get more First Contact missions? The article on the gamepedia doesn't answer this question :(
And btw, is there anything else I can do to earn Diplomacy XP? I try to do assignments that appear simply in the assignments choices, but maybe there is a hidden way to get better ones? Sometimes I click the head of departments tab, then First Officer assignments, but it has usualy just the Entertain Foreign Dignitaires assignment.

The ship design looks likes a combination of Akira and Galaxy design features. Not an exact feature of those two ships type but there are some similarities...

Hey guys, just a reminder the next PvP Tutorial Livestream is tomorrow night at 8 PM.

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If I'm not mistaken, that was a concept drawing from the company that was originally developing STO before cryptic started working on it. I forget who the original company was but that was definitely part of their info page on the official star trek site years ago. I think there may be licensing issues with the original company for using it but perhaps they're finally resolving it and we'll see it in game. :)

Perpetual Entertainment. When Perpetual Entertainment went belly up and Cryptic got the rights, they also got all of the intellectual property from PE, including the alpha game engine that had created, but the threw everything out cause they wanted to use their engine, except for some artwork.

You can actually see this ship ingame. When you warp into many sector defends, you'll see this ship broken and abandoned near the spawn point, as kind of a nod towards the PE STO.

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PLEASE LET THIS BE REAL
oh wow I adore this ship.

If I'm not mistaken, that was a concept drawing from the company that was originally developing STO before cryptic started working on it. I forget who the original company was but that was definitely part of their info page on the official star trek site years ago. I think there may be licensing issues with the original company for using it but perhaps they're finally resolving it and we'll see it in game. :)

If you look at it's hull it looks like the Atrox.

Swordsman it seems to be a more magical version of Age of Wushu.

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PLEASE LET THIS BE REAL
oh wow I adore this ship.

yup me too!

Hey guys!

/u/dproeder from Reddit made this Guide Map of GW2. I think it can be helpful for some of us with new characters to quickly explore Tyria! It can also help with getting some waypoints for guild missions. Happy exploring!

I'll be in Vegas the following week, so I doubt I'll be able to make it for the convention too. I'm going to be jealous of you all though!

Have fun! ...and don't catch anything from the Orion slaveboys... =P

OOOH YAY!!!!

Hobbes shall rise again!!!!!!!!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
:woohoo: :lol: :P ;) :woohoo: :woohoo:

Well, you pretty much have to seat a tactical BOFF in that Lt. Cmndr universal station. Kind of scary, since you'd be able to equip Torpedo spread 3 and Beam Overload 3... pretty insane damage potential there as well as high healing potential with Engineering team 3.

Oh power creep... how you make Cryptic lots of money!

That is one killer boff setup on the fleet version. :whistle:

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Good news, we are getting a new ship.

Bad news, not that ship...

THIS SHIP

Sick! I'll probably end up getting one of these. :evil:

Good news, we are getting a new ship.

Bad news, not that ship...

THIS SHIP

Definitely looks like the Perpetual Excalibur, with a slight twist.

that does look like it.....