PRELUDE TO SEASON XI : SHIP LEAKS, A WTF LOCKBOX AND A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE

The following blog post contains Leaks about ships and the new Lockbox for Star Trek Season XI: A New Dawn. Please remember this post must not be reposted on either /r/sto or on the official company forums, as it will violate their terms and conditions.

Note: While every effort has been made to confirm these ships are planned for release, Cryptic in the past has held back and not released some ships. Any details as to abilities, consoles etc are subject to change. You’ve been warned;)

And NO, we will not be posting anything about upcoming episodes. Why spoil the story?

C-Store Ships

May be part of a ‘Dreadnought Bundle’

• [T6] Kolasi Siege Destroyer – updated Gurumba Siege Destroyer YAY
  – has fleet variant
  – comes with an integral lance weapon (not a console)
  – has a hangar bay
  
• [T6] Yamato Dreadnought Cruiser – Updated Galaxy X
  

  

  Mirror Skin Variant

  – has fleet variant
  – comes with an integral lance weapon (not a console)
  – likely has a hangar bay (not confirmed)

• [T6] Kara Advanced Warbird – updated Ha’apax Class
  – formerly 120,000 dil ship, may be Hakona variant from the C-Store
  – odd that they chose this as the Romulan Dreadnought.
  – has fleet variant
  – comes with an integral lance weapon (not a console)
  – has a hangar bay

  Console ‘Unknown Drain’: All three (speculation) come with the following:
  When this console is activated your starship’s maximum subsystem power levels will be increased substantially for a short time. Incoming energy weapon attacks will damage the attacker, leech a small amount of the attacker’s subsystem power back to your own subsystems. Each time you are hit with an energy attack, you will gain 1 Subsystem Overload Counter. After obtaining 20 counters you will emit a devastating pulse of electrical energy that deals heavy damage to nearby enemies. Affected enemies will also have all of their subsystems knocked offline short a brief period.

May be part of an ‘Escort Bundle’

• [T6] Valiant Advanced Escort – updated Defiant Class YAY
  
  
  
  – has fleet variant
  
• [T6] Kor Bird-of-Prey – updated B’Rel Class YAY
  
  
  – has fleet variant
  
• [T6] Malem Light Warbird – updated T’Varo Class
  – has fleet variant

  Console ‘Multiple Torpedo Launcher’: Currently only the Valiant is listed as having this console, and I am paraphrasing the description: Will allow you to fire up to 6 photon torpedoes simultaneously, and you can fire it again at any time as it reloads. Likely has a 2 min CD, so 1 additional torpedo every 20 seconds as it recharges. Unknown if these torpedoes are impacted by spread or high yield.

• [T6] ‘Unknown Class’ – updated Prometheus
  
  
  
  
  – has fleet variant
  – likely Pilot Specialized Seating

  Console ‘Unknown Name’: Like the ship’s namesake, the Prometheus-class Multi-Vector Advanced Escorts can be outfitted to bring fire to the night. The inclusion of special heat sinks and particle exciters allow the ship to vent dangerous plasma fire, causing plasma damage to enemy ships within 5 km. When separated in Multi-Vector Assault Mode, the separated sections of the ship will all ignite simultaneously. Use of high-energy Pilot maneuvers causes this plasma fire aura to “flare up” and cause even more damage to nearby enemies. This console provides a passive bonus to plasma and tetryon damage resistance. This Console Mod can be equipped only on Prometheus-class Multi-Vector Advanced Escorts and variants, in any console slot. You may only equip one of these mods.

Herald Lockbox / Lobi / PROMOTIONAL Ships

Herald Lockbox (WTF?) : Herald Antiproton weapons, uses a powerful new proc ‘Magnitude’ % Bonus Energy Damage to Self for 20 sec, stacking 3 times. Unknown mechanics.

• [T6] Herald Quas Flight Deck Cruiser

• [T6] Herald Vonph Dreadnought Carrier
  – Ship Mastery Self: -7.5% Recharge Time to all Bridge Officer Abilities every 5 seconds hull strength is at or above 80%
  – this effectively is a constant cool-down reduction.

• [T6] Herald Baltim Heavy Raider

UNRELATED LOBI / PROMOTIONAL SHIPS

• [T6] Temporal Dreadnaught
  
  – Complete Speculation: lobi store / promotional version of the Krenim Weaponship?
  – Can be currently seen in the new DS9 STF.

• [T6] Breen Rezreth Dreadnought Cruiser
  – Winter Event, no model or details.

How do we ‘know’ these ships are ‘real’? At this stage multiple sources have confirmed the files or placeholders for these ships exist. Plus the new ‘Admiralty System’ uses small icons for each ship, and these ships all have the icons:

We will be updating as more information is made available. As always, what you see here may not make it into the game.

Thanks again to this entirely new group of data-miners dedicated to finding out what’s next in our favorite game