[Jestersmith]

Once again, the resort world of Risa opens up its beaches and its activities to visitors from all across the galaxy. The weather-control engineers have been hard at work, making sure that you get a golden summer sky, and touch-ups bring new color and detail to your favorite bungalows. In addition, there are a plethora of new rewards that you can earn this year by participating in all of the regularly-scheduled holiday activities! Come to Risa on all platforms from June 30th at 8am PT to July 30th at 10am PT to get your hands on these new prizes!



By participating in an activity every day you can earn the Cnidarian Defender [T6]. This magnificent creature is a space-traveling life-form that has agreed to work with tiny, planet-bound beings like ourselves so that we can explore the galaxy together!

In addition, this year the Risians have chosen to honor the Andorians with a suite of new rewards and devices that pay tribute to that wintry moon and its blue and white inhabitants. Starting this year, you can acquire...

Andorian Cold Weather Operations Kit Frame:

This kit frame gives you complete immunity to cold—an excellent advantage when fighting the Breen—and in addition is built with a capacitor to improve the defensive capabilities of your EV suits. When you activate an EV suit, it receives significant bonuses to defense for one minute. The capacitor then recharges for three minutes before it can activate again.



Andorian Summer Squall Kit Module:

Summers on Andoria are relatively pleasant... if you enjoy lots of snow and icy mix. The "summer squall" replicates these conditions by creating a swirling blast of ice, snow, and slush in an area. Foes caught in that area are slowed and lose friction, causing them to slip and sometimes to fall down. In addition, they suffer ongoing cold damage and reduced perception, as well as a penalty to their own ability to hit their targets (which reduces their outgoing damage).


Andorian Blue Bores Powerboard:

This high-speed, high-responsiveness powerboard follows the color scheme of the Andorian Blue Bores baseball team.



Andorian Blue Bores Floater:

This top-end floater has the color scheme of the Andorian Blue Bores baseball team.



Andorian Blue Bores Home and Away Baseball Uniforms:

Show your appreciation for the team that never quits on account of rain or snow with baseball outfits themed for the Andorian Blue Bores.



Andorian Blue Bores Vanity Shield:

Put your love for your new favorite baseball team on display with a vanity shield for your ship!



Andorian Caracal:

A genetically-tweaked caracal with Andorian characteristics, designed to help it survive in the snow. The Andorian caracal has the telltale blue coloration of Andorian natives, as well as a pair of sensitive directional antennae to aid it with navigation in snowstorms.
Andorian Tribble:

This blue-and-white furred tribble has developed an extra-dense inner coat that keeps it warm in the coldest of weather. The tribble reminds its owner of the deep cold of Andoria and the ushaan-tor duels, and gives its owner a small bonus to cold damage, melee damage, and damage resistance.

We hope you enjoy your Andorian summer on Risa and we'll see you on the beaches... hopefully without any unexpected snowstorms!

Update and blog added above

I was only saying the other day on TS with Mentioned User Trekchu that I thought it would be the 7th July we getting it a week early this year

[darthnovawave]

It was July 1 last year. Looking at the past events, it looks like they are shooting for a Tuesday or Thursday for the first (even if partial) week of July. Before console it actually was starting at the beginning of June, but I'm guessing they pushed the timeline back to allow for the extra XBox and PlayStation validation checks and run the event concurrently across all platforms.

2020 is the main outlier here for the patterns, but 2020 was an outlier for a lot of things....

[Taku]

I read it as JUNE BOTH

ACK!

[Petrarch]

One of the rumours/speculation about the summer event is that the reward is going to be the Jellyfish from Encounter at Farpoint. I can't quite figure out why something like that would be made a playable ship, but we'll find out soon enough what's on offer for the grand prize this time.

[trekchu]

I was only saying the other day on TS with Mentioned User Trekchu that I thought it would be the 7th July we getting it a week early this year

TBF, I wouldn't put it past them not to bother with an actual event.

[Jestersmith]

I have seen that also Mentioned User Petrarch I think it is on one of the ten forward weekly posts, time will tell and I suspect well will have it on one of the ten forward weeklies between now and then.

[Sul-Matuul]

Please not that daft jellyfish thing for the love of Kahless’ beard!

That’s the most ridiculous ship idea ever since someone at Cryptic though having a ship with more rear guns than from one was a good idea…

I get that the Undine use living ships but that’s kinda their thing and they are grown for combat. Having us fly around in a giant (enslaved?) jellyfish seems a little bit silly even for STO.

[Petrarch]

[Taku]

Gomtu?
GOMTU??

Anyone?

[Remsus]

Gomtu?
GOMTU??

Anyone?

Do you mean Gomtuu?

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[Jestersmith]

This is what leaves me unsure though as they never would confirm someone's guess that easy on Twitter. Say one thing about Cryptic and it is that they only ever confirm when they are ready and never if you guess correct on Twitter, Reddit or any other post

[Akenomyces]

This is what leaves me unsure though as they never would confirm someone's guess that easy on Twitter. Say one thing about Cryptic and it is that they only ever confirm when they are ready and never if you guess correct on Twitter, Reddit or any other post

Maybe now that Beamdog is involved that changed, but then who really knows.

[darthnovawave]

Either they are trolling us hard this year or they really are doing this.

[Sorotia]

Not that far off...wonder what the ship will be this year

[Jestersmith]

From last nights stream apparently