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Memory Lane: The Voyages of Raz in 2010

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Raz Beraht, Wed 17 Oct, 2018 3:49 PM
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    #1
    I'd like to introduce an old friend of mine, Augustus Raz:

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    He was my first ever STO toon, graduating from Starfleet Academy in 2010 (before the academy even existed in-game btw). I played him through most of launch version, dropping him probably around the launch of Season 5 A Call to Arms in December 2011.

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    As you can see, he's a Vice Admiral 51. Level 50 was the max level when his adventures ceased, which is why his rank is "low," but apparently I did something with him at some point after that and he managed to gain a level. Note his gear, he's using the old-style ground kits which used to have an ability suite built-in, no mixing or customizing ground abilities back in Raz's day! He's also using a Mark X antiproton hand weapon, I promise you it was top of the line back then, because you had to do STF's to earn Marks of Valor to trade in for the special Mark X gear! He also seems to be sporting a trollacious party popper, he must have been quite the rascal!

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    Here is Raz's pride and joy, the USS Everest Tier 5-U Tac Odyssey. The "U" is new, since T5U wasn't a thing when he was playing, I probably got a free upgrade token when tier 6 came and out logged in just to upgrade him. He's rocking the tier 5 Ody set, the FULL Borg space set (markless), MX AP beams, and garbage engi consoles. Clearly he had yet to meet Dark or Bridger! But seriously, those AP beams, like the pistol, were TOP OF THE LINE back in his day, and the Borg set was THE ONLY set in-game, the Aegis set appeared at some point during his career, but I didn't use it despite having the set. I had to work HARD doing STF's with RANDOM PUGs to get that gear lol!


    Below are some rare BOFFs that Raz has but NONE of my other toons have. A unique looking Borg I had to get the "Assimilated" achievement to earn, a Breen boff which was a reward for completing the Breen Featured Episode arc if I'm not mistaken (Featured episodes were a new thing, and I think the Breen ones were the first ones), and a Reman boff, a reward for completing the Obisek featured missions. I don't know how to collect these guys on my current toons so Raz may be the only toon of mine to ever have them.
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    Here the handsome devil is, at the bank station on ESD (Raz saw like 3 or 4 different ESD iterations in his career). He's there because I put some of his more useful items in the shared bank so that I could use them on my new toons I was playing. My new toons basically robbed him blind and left him out to rot, poor guy!

    When I first made him, he looked like Jason Statham, so much so that I called him Jason Statham for a while. But that's only because my PC had a crappy graphics card and STO barely functioned. When I eventually upgraded I got to see what he really looked like to the rest of the world, like a 110 year old bulldog. I gave him a slight makeover so he more closely resembled what I remembered him looking like, so that's how he looks today.

    He lives on now, only in memories. I used his name as my username in this fleet because he was my only toon when I joined UFP, and considering how painful it was leveling alts back then, he was gonna be my only character. I stopped playing STO until the Romulan expansion, when I started the game over as a new Rommie, who is not quite as retired as Raz is. My current main is my delta recruit, Dehla, but I still consider the USS Everest my primo ship, which is why that name is used in my signature.

    Anyone else remember early STO?

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    Here are some things that came into being during the Voyages of Raz:

    -The level increased from 40 to 50.
    -Tier 5 ships were introduced.
    -Diplomacy missions (now defunct).
    -The foundry.
    -Sector space was redesigned to its current form.
    -Ground combat was redesigned to add a first person shooter variety, which I still never use because I'm so used to the boring old MMO shooting.
    -Featured episodes became a thing.
    -Duty officers were introduced.
    -Reputations were introduced.

    To level, Raz had to complete a lot of the most boring and grindy missions ever, none of them exist in the game at the moment except for maybe the Azura, which has since been overhauled. Ground combat/missions took like an hour to complete as the mobs were hard to clear. A mission wouldn't give you enough xp to raise a level, and you couldn't do the next mission until you got to the next level, so you had to grind system patrols and exploration missions to fill the xp gap. It was horrible, but I guess it gave him character.

    Oh, and The Cure ground, one of the few STF's in the game then, took me like 5 hours on a saturday to complete because my PUG members kept leaving, so I'd have to have one guy stay in the mission while I exited to sector space to spam desperate LFG invites to people. The group I finished The Cure with was completely different than the group members I'd started it with, but I finished it!
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    I've played since Day One as well. It's cool to look back on our "old friends" if I still had a PC capable of running the game decently. I'd check in on my original toon. I switched to a chromebook almost two years ago since I also decided to dedicate all of my gaming to consoles.

    I wish there was a way of porting him over to the console. I've got a lot of memories with the original version of well uhm me. lol
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    I've been playing since Beta. My main toon has been my main since launch....all the screenshots I have would make a crazy photo album
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    I've been playing since Beta. My main toon has been my main since launch....all the screenshots I have would make a crazy photo album
    You should put something together!
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    I've been playing on and off since Friends and Family Alpha (I had a friend who worked at Cryptic during development, he got me in and got me a lifetime sub to both CO and STO for the price of one), I've restarted my "main" so many times its not funny hehe. I would love to put something together like this though, great work!
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