Federation Diplomat vessel

posted on November 28th, 2008, 1:12 am

I know that this sounds stupid, but it would work. A Federation Diplomat Vessel would be an unarmed vessel that was exclusive to the Federation, and could not be fired on by enemies. You would then send it over to an enemy vessel, and take it's special abilities, or, in the case of a construction ship, it's Starbase design. Of course, this would use up special energy, and the vessel would have to be safely returned to your base, as once it achieves its objective, it's considered an enemy vessel, and will be fired on.

posted on November 28th, 2008, 5:15 am

It sounds too much like spying to me, not enough like Federation culture. The Federation don't go over to an enemy ship, pretending to be diplomats, and steal the enemie's tech. They trade and create treaties, etc, for it. The system right now, the mixed tech is, I think, the closest it'll ever be. That sounds something more like Romulans...though they wouldn't steal starbase plans, they'd just steal tech and tech specs/plans.
Just my opinion.

posted on November 28th, 2008, 10:09 am

Like "auxilio ab alto" said this diplomat vessel sounds like a spy vessel. Why should you get technology as a result of diplomatic contacts with your enemy? And making the ship hostile after it has completed its mission doesn't really make sense to me if we were talking about diplomatic contacts.

But to bring in another idea based upon yours, Megaman, I could imagine a diplomatic ship for every race (except the Borg because it wouldn't fit them) which could indeed lead to an exchange of technology between allied players. If you contact an enemy with that ship you could get some kind of armistice for a certain time. (Of course the Feds and the Klingons wouldn't be able to break that treaty, the Romulans would though.)

posted on December 10th, 2008, 1:30 pm

Then I guess it should be the Shrike classes new ability.

posted on December 10th, 2008, 1:36 pm

Replace Federation Diplomat with Section 31, and you have something more believable.

posted on December 10th, 2008, 2:51 pm

I've got it! Why not make it so that it can negotiate a cease-fire that's optional, and can be canceled at any time? Lets say that the Federation is behind on resources and the Dominion is behind on research, so you send over a Federation Diplomat vessel so that you can catch up on your resources, and they can catch up on their research? The cancel button will show up on the main screen of you Base. This vessel can be destroyed, but not automatically, as  its considered neutral. This will not affect the Borg.

posted on December 10th, 2008, 10:32 pm

Replace Federation Diplomat with Section 31, and you have something more believable.

Sounds good for me and maybe we'll get that some day as a special unit for a Section 31 Avatar. 

posted on December 11th, 2008, 12:25 am

Does not make sense to have a "Diplomat Class" I would Rather see a Section 31 Avitar and have ships from their  "Black Ops Fleet"  have Free-Tech from all the races available.  They would use Ships and tech  from every race for  their fleet. Like a Steamrunner with a Phased cloak  and engine overload and  temporial cloak.Klingon  Mining ship with  Phased Disruptors with Micro torpedos and repair functions Like a Newton class.

posted on December 11th, 2008, 7:59 am

So you're basically thinking that the S31 ppl would get freaking awesome ships? Lol...I could see a fed controlled klingon mining ship that kicks the butt out of the better ships
I like it

[Exodus]

posted on December 11th, 2008, 7:10 pm

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That sounds like the makings of a freakin' awesome single player campaign of some kind - having the ultimate enemy in fact be (probably rogue) Section 31.

... although now I type it, it does sound a little cliched. And there would have to be an incredibly good storyline to build up to it. So perhaps it's not such a good idea.... And I don't think the FO team are into SP much atm 

posted on December 17th, 2008, 2:07 am

That Sec. 31 vessel would be great, but, instead of Diplomat, it would only work on Dom. ships.

posted on December 18th, 2008, 9:15 pm

Oddly enough, what I said might have had some influence, as Construction ships now have that technology thingy.

posted on December 19th, 2008, 3:41 am

So you're basically thinking that the S31 ppl would get freaking awesome ships? Lol...I could see a fed controlled klingon mining ship that kicks the butt out of the better ships
I like it

with massed ships you could sneak  around  causing all sorts of trouble. The Concept I was  thinking  is the Sect.31 ship could trigger  an attack.  as  you start mining an opponents resourses and  Bam  when you opponet tries to  repulse  your "helpless" mining vessels they get  Hammered. You then  blow up the  mining facility  they you leave.  As you leave you lay a barrage of the Gennerix plasma mines  to cover your escape.. the idea would be to have tech from alll races  Romulan Engines,klingon disruptors , Fed. torpedos ,Breen energy systems, since  it has mixed tech. who could well who it belongs to.  In a large  miltiplayer game one could cause Major havoc. 

posted on December 19th, 2008, 1:57 pm

Wow. I never thought of it that way. BUT, what if it had a Rom. cloaking device, AND Phase cloak? Ultimate weapon!

posted on December 20th, 2008, 3:57 pm

With  A  Section 31 Avitar  the possabilities  using "Free Tech" would be  Vast. Since  they would want "Plausable Denial"  of any"Rouge vessel"  the mixing of all the races tech would be a benafit. No could tie  the vessel to any race  or faction.