Sensor Ghosts / Hallucination

posted on August 25th, 2010, 6:52 am

A Romulan idea: Sensor Ghosts. Have a Romulan support ship have the ability to duplicate any ship in the vicinity for a period of time. The duplicated ship deals no damage, cannot be captured (but can be transported to) but is indistinguishable by the opponent from a real ship.

posted on August 25th, 2010, 8:17 am

(but can be transported to)

Thats nasty!  Those poor guys in red shirts getting beamed into open space.

posted on August 25th, 2010, 10:03 am

yeah, i think it should be unboardable.

the thing is if the ship isnt really there, we then have to deal with phasers firing into a hologram or sensor ghost or whatever, and going off into the infinite void. which wont look nice.

posted on August 25th, 2010, 10:05 am

I don't see the problem with the phasers, except that they pass through anything not targeted.

posted on August 25th, 2010, 1:11 pm

I don't see the problem with the phasers, except that they pass through anything not targeted.

it would look weird with phasers not terminating, and having to go on forever, or for a fixed distance or something.

posted on August 25th, 2010, 1:14 pm

I still consider that infinatly preferable to the FO phasers. It would actually look real having the beam hit nothing, then disappear after the ship cuts it off.

posted on August 25th, 2010, 5:02 pm

it would look weird with phasers not terminating, and having to go on forever, or for a fixed distance or something.

Maybe the hologram ship could turn transparent when fired on, the same way allied units look when cloaked.