Romulan Intel Center Ideas

posted on May 12th, 2010, 1:17 am

You mean like disabling the mining beams?  That'd be cool

posted on May 13th, 2010, 12:22 am

Hehe, indeed, that would be nasty. If you are romulan nasty = fun. 

posted on May 13th, 2010, 12:55 am

I doubt the Tal Shiar would need to build it, they'd just steal the Federation's plans. Assuming they ever learned about S31, that is.

Yes, I think they  allready know about  the Fed phased cloak . Two words: USS PEGUSUS.  I  wager 100 slips of gold pressed latinium that the  Feds after the Pegisus incident  would have  gave them  most of the  Sensor/and engineering  logs to keep their(Romulan) ego's soothed.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 1:17 am

You mean like disabling the mining beams?  That'd be cool

It be cool to see a Shrike  plant a  cloaked Klingon Gravity styled mine  to Slow a mining ship.  Doing it that way you would slowly starve a  mining station of materials. Esp. if  a  Shrike or a  Generex  would lay bunch of  gravity mines ,or plant a  mine  that disables or slows  a mining  stations ability to process materials.  To remove it from the station you have to  shut down  the station (like Borg Refresh Collective).To remove the mine from a ship you have to go to a shipyard.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 3:01 am

Thats a good idea i like it

posted on May 13th, 2010, 7:36 am

what is it that Odo said from DS9, not even the romulan tal-shiar can keep up with the obsidian order, or something along these lines on the episode: 'the wire', garak also made an opinion that the tal-shiar was sloppy a year later.

Since the Tal-Shiar was almost dispatched around the Omarian Nebula and the recent Reman warship slipping through their fingers, it's safe to assume that their control is far from absolute. so based on the lack of being a secret agency working on behalf of the empire, they have failed in several key instances to mop up their own affairs.

i would say the standard spy and sabotage efforts are sufficient enough and the later spy on all ships with more ranks. the idea of a spy is to sabotage enemy efficiency by the biggest possible margin by any means, at the moment, the intel center is solid enough as it is.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 5:31 pm

Hmm, well do you have an idea for the Intel Center?  That's what we're trying to brainstorm.

  I'm really liking the idea of Tal'Shiar vessels complete with some very exciting specials. 

  I also think that the concept of "singularities" is a really neat idea present in both the Warbirds as well as the Singularity Generator.  Perhaps something more could come out of that like a special Intel Center that is working on new technologies randomly applied to your vessels at the cost of supply or some such thing.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 5:39 pm

Yes, I think they  allready know about  the Fed phased cloak . Two words: USS PEGUSUS.  I  wager 100 slips of gold pressed latinium that the  Feds after the Pegisus incident  would have  gave them  most of the  Sensor/and engineering  logs to keep their(Romulan) ego's soothed.

you spelt pegasus two different ways in the same post, both incorrect

they wouldnt even need the plans for the pegasus device, they had their own device (the next phase)

posted on May 13th, 2010, 5:42 pm

you wanted to bring your idea to the table and i want to hear it, its upto you to convince me and everyone else it is good enough to be added. i am just trying to help you by pointing out some of the problems you got and to see if your idea is capable of being accepted if you think you got a counter to that problem.

in canon the romulans like to pull the strings from a distance and are not that interested in getting their hands dirty with affairs that are not their concern, but if it is, a spy is inevitably sent in to gather information for the time being. in any case, if there was a tal'shiar ship, they cant very well just acknowledge to a federation ship in the neutral zone they are agents. but what i am saying is, with real events that have happened, how can you convince me the tal'shiar are deserving of better when so far they havent been on par to that of s31 and even klingon intelligence?

[Tyler]

posted on May 13th, 2010, 5:47 pm

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The Tal Shiar are as paranoid as the Founders, everything is their concern or a possible threat, even if it isn't.

they wouldnt even need the plans for the pegasus device, they had their own device (the next phase)

You mean the experiment that nearly destroyed the ship? Hardly could be considered a fully-functional Phase Cloak in the state it was in at the time.

Assuming theirs was as good as the Pegasus one, we never learned how the two compare. The Romulans aren't above stealing tech to enhance their own.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 5:55 pm

the pegasus one resulted in the destruction of their ship too lol. i never said it was functional, i just said they had a device. presumably the feds one worked under the same principle.

[Tyler]

posted on May 13th, 2010, 6:00 pm

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Are you sure the device killed peagsus or the gun-wielding, angry (anger + rational thinking isn't exactly standard) mutineers? It worked perfectly for Enterprise, so the crew likely caused that one (damn conscience).

Same principle doesn't mean same tech, though. Starfleet tech is different to what the Romulans use.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 6:18 pm

the mutineers certainly weren't helpful, but i just think the technology was prone to accidents in its early phase (get it? phase? )

posted on May 13th, 2010, 6:24 pm

Heh, funny.

Well, it was a prototype so I suppose bugs would have existed. Nothing starts out perfect.

posted on May 13th, 2010, 6:50 pm

you wanted to bring your idea to the table and i want to hear it, its up to you to convince me and everyone else it is good enough to be added. i am just trying to help you by pointing out some of the problems you got and to see if your idea is capable of being accepted if you think you got a counter to that problem.

  Hahah, well this is a brainstorming thread, buddy.  I have no interest in CONVINCING you of anything .  I don't NEED to convince you, I just need to throw ideas out there.  Optec and Doca read the idea threads and have always welcomed suggestions.  Rarely do they take an idea without altering it, so as long as the the suggestion gets out there they can take it in as creativity for themselves.

  I was asking people like YOU to add in suggestions of your own ideas for ways to evolve the Romulan Intel Center.  If you don't feel like doing that, then feel free not to comment .  You're bringing up speculative points from "canon" based on assumptions you made about the Tal'Shiar and such.  Those opinions are ultimately up to the Developers, not you , so I don't hesitate to put the idea out there and let them decide how to implement it "story-wise".

  So please, I'd love to hear your own Romulan Intel Center ideas .

  And guys, keep the Pegasus convo in another thread, again.  It's not helping this thread at all.