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Sir_Cedric
02-10-2009, 03:47 AM
Taken from the Wikipedia:

( On stardate 3619.2, the starship USS Enterprise has sent down a landing team to a planet to search for tritanium deposits, an element "21.4 times" as hard as diamond. While surveying, Captain Kirk notices a sweet honey smell, and has his men go on alert. He tells them to scan for dikironium and immediately fire at anything that looks like a gaseous cloud. The landing party fans out to explore.

One group picks up a signal but loses it at which point they are immediately attacked. Kirk and Mr. Spock rush over to the scene finding three crewman down; two dead, the other, Ensign Rizzo, near death. All of the men have had their red blood cells drained of hemoglobin. Kirk fears that the killer is the same space-travelling vampiric entity he had encountered 11 years before while serving aboard the USS Farragut. The encounter had killed half the ship's crew. The landing team quickly returns to the Enterprise. )

Now I watched this again over the weekend, and Kirk lost about 4 to 5 red shirts on this missions trying to kill this thing. Now 11 years was a long time, and I was thinking are there more of these clouds around?

Now fast forward to the time in STO.

Now would you like to see this creature return in this game? Think about it, it's not an easy kill, and maybe this time you will get a choice.

Your choice will be as follows;

A. Kill it at all cost!
B. Try to commuicate with it.

Kirk was after it for revenge, and he got it.

Here are a few more questions if you enounter this creature:

1. What would you do if you lost your away team to it?
2. What would you do if a fellow player's ship is surrounded by this creature?
3. What would you do if it's chasing your ship?
4. What would you do if it's headed for a colony?
5. What would you do if you seen it just floating on a planet doing nothing?

I for one would love to see this added to STO, meaning the creature, it might make for a few good missions.

Have fun with questions guys. Just something I was thinking up when watching the old show. :D

47Wasps
02-10-2009, 03:53 AM
My first action would be to look up the records from Kirk's day.
Found out everything I can about it.
I would try to communicate with it
but if it threatened a colony or civilian ship,I would not refrain from destroying it.

Sir_Cedric
02-10-2009, 03:57 AM
I know that makes for a hard choice, you want to learn more about this creature, and at the sametime you don't want people to lose their life. I wonder if this was were they got the Crystal Creature idea from. ;)

Paulo999
02-10-2009, 04:00 AM
i'd try to exterminate it
Bombard the planet, or make the sun go supernova

Sir_Cedric
02-10-2009, 04:01 AM
Ummmm why kill the system over this thing? Don't you think that a little extreme?

Paulo999
02-10-2009, 04:02 AM
Ummmm why kill the system over this thing? Don't you think that a little extreme?

not if it works

Sir_Cedric
02-10-2009, 04:12 AM
Well I hope there are no people in the system. lol

Sir_Cedric
02-10-2009, 05:16 AM
So anyone else want to take a shot at this, or what ddo you think of this idea?

IG_Slayer
02-10-2009, 05:24 AM
I'd attempt to mate with it......................lol. No I'd take the peaceful approach, and if it posed as a threat, I'd attempt to destroy it before it claims any other victims.

Flash9384
02-10-2009, 05:35 AM
i'd attempt to communicate with. if there was a risk to a settlement or ship i'd try to capture or contain it for more study. worst comes to worst blow it up!

Sir_Cedric
02-10-2009, 05:47 AM
Now there is a good idea, if you could get it to work in time. Contain the creature to keep it from harming anyone else, but how do you contain something like that?

Flash9384
02-11-2009, 05:00 AM
never know until you try

Nytok
02-11-2009, 06:49 AM
I also would go the peaceful path. It is a sentient life form, so it must have some way of communication. Good thing I'm going to make sure a Betazoid is my ship's counsoler. But of course if it continues to attack and there seems to be no way to communicate with it, I'll have to do my duty to protect myself, my crew, my ship, and any other sentient life forms.

Sir_Cedric
02-11-2009, 08:15 AM
Glad to see not everyone feels the need to kill 1st. I really hope this creature gets added to the game, would make for a great adventure.

CherryTerri
02-11-2009, 08:32 AM
I'd eat it ... mmm gas ...

Sir_Cedric
02-11-2009, 08:59 AM
Yes but the creature is trying to suck blood out of you. Eatting it would only speed up the process for it. :D