With the Q’s Winter Wonderland event blowing in with a chill wind, speculation has been rife about exactly what ship would be sledding down the slopes in Star Trek Online and it looks like it’s an honest-to-Q Breen carrier. In a post that outlines the Sarr Theln Breen Science Carrier, Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios are bringing out the big guns.
Previous Q’s Winter Wonderland gave us the Chel Grett cruiser and the Plesh Brek raider. The Plesh Brek is returning as well as a frigate pet for the Sarr Theln, alongside Blesh Chaos fighters for those two hangars.
From a first glance, the Sarr Theln is a science carrier through-and-through with +10 shields and auxiliary as well as a 3/3 weapons layout—it also comes with subsystem targeting. With four Tactical consoles it won’t be for want of firepower (except for missing two guns) but it also has a turn rate of 7, which means it’ll creak slowly from side to side with the grace of a spacefaring brick.
As a T6 ship it also has hybrid Intelligence station, but it takes the place of the Sarr Theln’s only Engineering station, which could mean leaving out essential survivability or EptX abilities—but it also comes with a Lieutenant Universal it might be possible to mitigate that as needed.
The tier 5 mastery ability on this ship will be beloved by carrier captains everywhere. Reactive Repair Nanites unlocks a trait that causes any hull heal ability to also heal nearby carrier pets within 5km. Another reason not to skimp on Engineering Team, Hazard Emitters, and Aux2Struct (if the captain isn’t using that auxiliary for something else.)
More to come with more information.
Meanwhile: Go Breen!
via ArcGames, “Q’s Winter Wonderland – Carrier”
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