Sweepstakes Over, First Storyline Update!

Well, for the 17,995 that entered and didn’t win the Lifetime Subscription Sweepstakes, today is no different than yesterday.  I give a very backhanded congratulations to those who won the contest.  I’m not going to hide my feelings on this subject.  I wanted to win badly.  Probably more than I’ve ever wanted to win a contest before.  I’d rather have not won the $100 contest for WoW which I did win and won this instead.  Not just because of the cash value, but because of my excitement about STO.  Also, I didn’t lower myself to cheating aka making multiple accounts and entering them all in this contest and I hope no one that won did that.

MOVING ON!

Cryptic released their first storyline update for STO!  Covering 2379 to 2380, it talks about how the Romulan government was taken over by Tal’aura (female Romulan Senator from the beginning of Nemesis).  However, Commander Donatra (female Romulan who helped the 1701-E fight Shinzon) hated Tal’aura for siding with Shinzon so loyally, and so Donatra formed a rebellion with fellow Commander Suran and Admiral Braeg.  Tal’aura then had Braeg executed and it only turned him into a martyr.  Then the Remans took the opportunity to put pressure on the Romulan government and try to gain freedom from hundreds of years of slavery.  Tal’aura had famous Romulan Commander Tomalak blockade the planet and cut off vital supplies like food and medical equipment.

That’s not even half the story, too!  (read it all here)  If this keeps up in every update, Star Trek Online will have a rich story to draw upon that’s all created by Cryptic.  What I love about this first update is how they took the characters that were in Nemesis and built upon them with a story that makes sense.  Kestrel, a Cryptic employee working on STO, is in charge of writing these, and I must say thank you.  Please come up with a great story to explain why the Federation and the Klingon Empire are at war again!  If you can do that I will have ZERO complaints about the game!