Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
"My son died on Omicron Theta. He was sixteen when the colony was attacked. That is the reason I have become an expert on the Crystalline Entity. I have spent my life studying it, tracking it and hoping one day to find it. And if I learn you have been helping that thing in any way whatsoever, I will see to it that you are disassembled piece by piece!"
- Doctor Kila Marr informing Data of her motivations for studying, and hating, the Crystalline Entity
The creature known simply as the Crystalline Entity is a space-faring organism of terrifying power. With a vast, intricate and stunningly beautiful form crackling with energy, the Crystalline Entity is completely unlike anything encountered before, even among the list of strange and exotic space-faring life forms studied by the Federation.
Much of the intrigue surrounding the Crystalline Entity lies in its utter mysteriousness. Years pass between encounters - very little is known about it in general, and absolutely nothing is known about its origins. What has been observed, however, is utterly terrifying. The Crystalline Entity appears to feed on electromagnetic energy, specifically that generated by biological life-forms, and possesses the ability to convert living material to energy it can consume. Over the course of days or even hours, the Entity can strip entire worlds of life, leaving nothing, not even bacteria remaining.
For all the horror attributed to the Crystalline Entity, there is no malice or evil intent behind its actions. Likened to a whale of Earth's oceans consuming plankton or cuttlefish, the Crystalline Entity is essentially an animal acting on the instinctive need to feed. Of course, this is cold comfort to those who have lost friends and loved ones to the Entity's hunger.
While an initial attempt to communicate with the only known specimen of these unique creatures ended in disaster, there are undoubtedly others of its kind still wandering the reaches of the galaxy. They are highly dangerous.
destroy it...
survival of the fittest!
In STO this boss dies in less than a minute. Not always, of course.
Hm... Will it be able to summon some Tholian frigates?
True, in STO, the Crystalline Entity is incredibly weak...
Well, it isn't that it's weak, its the fact everyone is super overpowered.
Perhaps, crystalline shards would be better than Tholians. Like Prometheus' vectors or SotP stridents on Infinity.
It separates, thus dealing damage to entity's hull. Then, it acts as separate vessel until reintegration with heal or destruction without heal.
This event is boring. Shards spam could make it more fun.
Have you ever considered making your own mod?
Have you ever considered not asking provocative questions and not being reactionary conformist? Let we ignore your remark and come to something more interesting, eh?
It's not so easy to create your own stool of wood and nails. Video game modification is something much harder to make. Choosing this, One must understand that it's a long journey, full of poor choices, paper work, long discussions and fan talks. It demands dedication. It consumes a lot of time. And sometimes a lot of nerves.
I don't see myself searching the Internet for right people, allocating resources and techincal assets, promoting homepage by making videos and writing stories. Not because I am a lazy bastard, who wants to criticize poor devs for good reason or not. Well, not only... I see no joy in building long sentances in foreign language, pleading for changes that (most likely) won't be implemented and pointing at issues either already solved or not going to be solved at all.
Armada III team is quite competent and they'd shown that they're up for the task of finishing TFF. And so I am here to deliver my point, in order to make TFF a little more interesting to play. I can be biased towards Federation and against Romulans, over-conservative person with strange mania of spamming Stargazers and Defiants, but still there are some things I can bring up to table.
So, that's how I make my mod. My, not because I am the one of founding fathers or active playtesters, but because I love to play it on weekends and so I want my playtimes to be more... grasping.
Have you ever considered making your own mod if you find this one not grasping enough ?
If that's a provocative question then you need to stop being a "reactionary conformist." The question is valid. You seem to consistently provide feedback that clearly is being ignored so best you keep practicing since you seem to be having trouble with the game.
How's about some positive comments from your end instead of your usual nonsense.
Thank you for your advice.
Most appreciated.
I wish there was some more history on the Crystalline Entity. It clearly has intelligence. I doubt its consuming life maliciously, it just does what it does to survive. When it consumes life on a planet, I don't think its going muhahahaha **** everything. More like: mmmm food and oh, these androids look interesting, I can't eat them, so lets have a chat! I bet if they were taught that eating sentient life is bad, they would consider it, at least for awhile.
Using Picard's analogy, when a whale consumes huge amounts of plankton, does it even consider that the plankton are alive? The Crystalline Entity's intelligence seems to be animal-like in that respect.
If another source of palatable sustenance could be provided for them, they might well leave people alone. But then, they might not. The whole moral issue of 'Silicon Avatar' was, we have the means to destroy it, but do we instead choose to respect the right to exist of this life-form and reach for compromise, even though it's responsible for the deaths of many thousands, and may continue to be a threat?
It's one of the things that make Star Trek great, imo - striving to take the enlightened road in a morally grey dilemma. Can we rise above the 'us or them' mentality?
Now I can't look at the Crystalline Entity without thinking it's a giant space whale... Dammit Picard!