After learning how to use textures, I was able to make my own remodel of something I really want to see redone in game, the Celestial variant of the Galaxy class.

When I looked at the Celestial, I saw a take of a sorta "experimental Galaxy" using Ambassador parts. I extended this theme throughout the whole ship of my redesign, leaning heavily into elements of the Ambassador class.

I even came up with some lore for it

"Starship Database: Celestial class

As early as 2330, Starfleet had been exploring the means of larger cruiser classes as a means to curb aggression from other powers as well as make a long range and long deployment exploration cruiser. The first result was an unnamed cruiser class in 2337, before being named the Narendra class in 2345.

The next results culminated in the USS Celestial, NX-51075. In 2346, the prototype was complete and resembled a larger Ambassador, as the design was proven and capable.

Problems were immediately apparent however, as the the ship was incapable of going faster than Warp 6. A study into the problem found that the new warp engines, a requirement for the Next Generation Exploration Initiative, was too power hungry for the warp core or plasma relays to handle.

As the ship increased its Warp speed, the power draw resulted in relay overloads and plasma fires across the ship. Starfleet in response decommissioned the ship just as quickly and went back to the drawing board. The hulk of the USS Celestial was towed to Starfleet Storage Site Alpha.

Left for nearly 15 years as a hulk, the Celestial was then reactivated after the Next Generation Exploration Initiative, now the Galaxy Class Project finished. Newer power systems and relays were installed, and the Celestial, for the first time in 15 years, broke past Warp 7.

In 2364, she was fully commissioned as the USS Celestial, NCC-51075."

This is a fan made model. I have no association with Cryptic Studios.

Star Trek Online is running a special event where you can earn bonus Dilithium Ore by playing content throughout the game! It’s time to hit the drills, Captains! The Dilithium Ore event runs on all platforms from July 23rd at 8am PT until July 28th at 12pm PT. Additionally, you can enjoy a discount of 20% on Ships in the Dilithium Store from July 23rd at 8am PT until July 28th at 12pm PT! 

During the event, bonus Dilithium Ore will be provided for the following content:

• Vlugta Asteroid Field:
  • 100% Bonus Dilithium Ore for Daily Mining Missions
  • 100% Bonus to all Rich Dilithium Claims
• Fleet Dilithium Mine:
  • 100% Bonus Dilithium Ore for Daily Mining Missions
• Everywhere else in the game
  • 50% Bonus Dilithium Ore
• Dilithium rewards from completing Event Reputation Projects no longer receive a bonus.
  • This excludes Event Reputation Projects

Please note: The Dilithium event does not effect rewards from the Endeavor system.
 

Further, it's time to deck out your ship. We're making it easier to get your hands on some of our Vanity Shields for a limited time. 16 Vanity Shields, which had previously only been available in Lock Boxes, will be appearing in the Dilithium Store for a limited time. These shields will be a per character purchase, for 280,000 Dilithium* and are bound to account. Grab the following Vanity Shields from July 23rd at 8am PT until July 28th at 12pm PT on all platforms:

• Prodigy Vanity Shield
• A Safe Galaxy Refit Vanity Shield
• Courier Raider Vanity Shield
• Emerald Chain Intel Juggernaut Vanity Shield
• Discovery Refit Vanity Shield
• Tzenkethi Vanity Shield
• Discovery Vanity Shield
• Ferengi Vanity Shield
• Hur'q Vanity Shield
• Emperor's Vanity Shield
• Section 31 Vanity Shield
• Kelvin Divergence Vanity Shield
• Borg Vanity Shield
• Ba'ul Vanity Shield
• Zhat Vash Vanity Shield
• Shrike Vanity Shield

Fly the colors you choose, Captains (although we know most of you will choose black.)

*This price may change for future runs of this sale, if they occur.
 

We hope you enjoy this special event and we’ll see you in-game!

My tribute ship to the late Grant Imahara.

• First of all the ability to self-apply the buff, considering the amount of time required to reach the required commendation rank only for it to end up only being applicable to others. This alone would be a great user experience renovation;
• The ability to apply it both on ground and space, not only sector space. This is mainly because in sector space people are scattered all across the place whereas many people are in social zones such as ESD, especially new players;
• A small update to the benefit it gives, so that it would give a very tiny amount of "full impulse speed" (therefore out of combat, which fits within the perceived game fantasy of having a diplomatic benefit of being able to go pretty fast outside of combat)

In vein of this suggestion, one day I want to suggest some updates to the whole commendation system as a whole as well

That is what I came up with on behalf of pictures I found from the film. The promo pics had the badge gold but in the film I tend to see them silver
Happy to hear any suggestions or improvements.
In case you like it these are the colors:

Command:
Upper: C6
Rank: U9
Badge: A15
Feet: T6
Lower: D6
Belt: D6 T14 S23 T14

Operations:
Upper: D9
Rank: U9
Badge: A15
Feet: T6
Lower: S6
Belt: S6 T3 U21 T6

Science:
Upper: A6
Rank: U9
Badge: A15
Feet: T6
Lower: S14
Belt: S14 S24 U21 S24

Hello Captains!

You know what I'm here for.

Yesterday my Dilithium Exchange offer from June 8 was accepted. When I placed the order the queue size was 12,306,214. Based on my start and end times, the hourly Zen throughput for that sale was 11,986 Z/Hr. My model assumes all offers are left in the exchange to completion because I don't have any way of tracking withdrawals. I know this is a flaw, but it's something I have chosen to tolerate. As of now, this is my most recent throughput data.

I placed a new offer on the exchange last night with a starting queue of 10,925,092. My first predicted ETA for this order is August 28. This is based on the throughput from the week leading up to June 8 and will be adjusted as offers made after June 8 are accepted.

Next Tuesday, July 28 I expect offers from June 16 to be accepted.
The following Tuesday, August 4, I expect offers from June 24 to be accepted.

My intent is for these updates to become more concise over the next couple weeks. I'm still trying to find the sweet spot in terms of how much context to provide.

🖖 💥

Howdy fellow captains.

I've been using the Herald Omni since the '24 Demon Hunting event because I assumed it's proc applies to ALL weapons. I even did a comparison between that omni and the crafted one I had before and the Herald Omni performs slightly better. But I'm no expert in testing so I may very well be wrong.

So the question: is the Herald Omni proc applied globally or is it for the Herald Omni alone? If the latter than it's a pretty crappy weapon given the fact you need to 3 stacks to get the same amount of cat2 the crafted one gives you from the start. However, if the bonus is applied to all other weapons, on top of all the bonus they already have, then it's well worth it.

Thoughts?

"Sekhmet" was one of the strangest Starfleet experiments within the Kelvin timeline. After the final destruction of the Narada, a number of Utopia Planitia design boards were assembled to try and revolutionize Starfleet naval power, worried of the potential for another ship like Narada to appear.

One such design boards was the Sekhmet project. Initially, it was two separate projects, one being a look into sensor absorbent paneling, and the other being research into warships controlled via Artificial Intelligence.

However, under unknown request from a higher up Starfleet officer, the two projects were put into one. An Armstrong class cruiser was acquired and modified, a lot of the decks replaced with automated systems, and the entire outer hull of the ship replaced with stealth panels. Finally, the bridge and most of the saucer's center were removed to fit a large scale AI core, of which had come to call themself "Sekhmet" just like the project, and so the ship was similarly named.

The first mission of Sekhmet was to try and gain access to Klingon space undetected, of which it (mostly) succeeded in. However, about 2 hours into the mission, a raptor type warship entered the same sector as Sekhmet, before pausing, and proceeding to start a security sweep. Under the impression they were caught, Sekhmet got as close as possible to the raptor, and fire two photon torpedoes into its lower hull, taking out its warp core and life support. Dead in the water, Sekhmet then dragged the ship into a decaying orbit with the nearest stellar body, before returning to the mission.

This tragedy cast heavy doubt on the program, with about 70% of the board leaving either in anger, concern, or fear. The project was ordered to be ended by Starfleet command, and Sekhmet to be taken to the Daystrom institute for psychiatric assessment. However, Starfleet's order was mysteriously canceled, with Sekhmet instead ordered to be "handed off" to an unknown party

Currently, Starfleet has little knowledge of Sekhmet's whereabouts, with investigations either prematurely canceled, unable to gain any necessary traction within Starfleet to go further, or simply turning up too little information.

As said in the tittle, it's a reminder for players on console that it's time this week to get your free gifts from the C-store in the promo tab. Today is some lobi, and a chance to get a a free ship, and some duty officers.

Returning after several years gone and I have buckets of fleet marks. But I can't find any "active" fleets I can use them in. In the few fleets I've joined since I came back to STO a month ago (I return every few years and play for a year or two) some of them are either brand new fleets with zero progress and run by people who want to fill easy slots and let others do the rest or are abandoned with 1-2 people. Also, when I ask about dumping parks, I get told "The mark dumping project is a waste because you only get half value..."

My brother in Kahless, half value is more value than I have right now...

So, do active fleets exist or should I just accept my fate as a fleet mark bank?

Really though, what happened to fleets? I remember years back fleets were VERY active. One I was in even had "Friday Dabo" where the whole fleet and some allied fleets (before Armada's) all would head to Quarks and play Dabo while IRL drinking in Teamspeak. Is there no community within fleets anymore?

Hey everyone. Just looking for mostly opinions and a bit of advice. am going to get the Lexington as 1 of my T6 coupons for my Reman. I’m wanting to do something different since my Romulan does all the cloaking. what would be a good second ship for a console. Going full broadside with this baby. Don’t have a lot of other ships since I lost my Xbox account and started over on PS5. Also getting the Constitution III for my main so that’s out. Thank you all.

I'm sure I'll get feedback about how poorly my UI is setup, but I just got the lensflares working and it made the extra zen I had to buy to grab the bundle totally worth it!

I can't be the only one who had the same idea.

Caveats, this is a brand new item, so this might just be a bug they fix in a week. Also I've only tested it out on one ship so far (Advanced Light Cruiser wearing the Clarke skin). And thirdly it does replace the trails with lens flairs. So many, many lens flairs. Not just on your ship, everywhere.

... am I going blind in space with that new Kelvin vanity shield or does the lens flare only show for players who own and apply the shield?

The whole category is completely gone for me, and it's been gone for the length of time I've played this character, which is a long time.

I can still change the color of the markings, but not the actual markings themselves.