Designed in the 2390's (around 14 years before the game's stardate, 2409) the Oslo class is one of the earlier heavily modular ships pushed for by Starfleet Corps of Engineers after the Dominion wars. Thus, the Oslo was based on the Norway class, although shares many components with the Akira and Zephyr classes. By emphasizing on this type of design, an Oslo class starship crew is capable of rapid field repairs after battle using generally whatever components they have on hand.
The Oslo is a fast, nimble ship able to decisively end a scrape instead of drawing it out and thus favors that style of captaining. Offensively, it's a very modern design, with six type XII phaser arrays and fore and aft torpeda launchers.
Visually speaking, we're suckers for this baby's body style. There's just something about the streamlined design that emanates a sleek and sexy lustre. We're really starting to have a hard time picking whether we prefer the Klingon Empire ships or Federation ships. O, the horror!
Reader Comments (13)
Posted: Mar 28th 2009 4:22PM MrGutts said
Looks very slick.. They are coming along well...
Posted: Mar 28th 2009 4:27PM CCon99 said
Such a shame you'll only be able to see it from behind.
Posted: Mar 28th 2009 4:50PM (Unverified) said
I always take the time to enjoy my MMO avatars from various angles whenever I can. Just a simple click and mouse movement away. :)
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Posted: Mar 28th 2009 4:57PM JohnD212 said
That looks like Galactica by way of Starfleet! Adama 2012.
Posted: Mar 28th 2009 5:12PM pcgneurotic said
Isn't this one of those crappy boats that Armada introduced, or is it one of the DS9 background kitbash jobs?
Posted: Mar 28th 2009 5:55PM Lethality said
I am constantly impressed with the info I see released about this game.
I am not a Star Trek fan in the slightest, but I know that it provides an IP with some backstory, so I look forward to seeing what can be done.
I am not a Star Trek fan in the slightest, but I know that it provides an IP with some backstory, so I look forward to seeing what can be done.
Posted: Mar 29th 2009 3:51AM Anatidae said
Looking at the picture, I think the frame is bent. You have to watch picking up used starships. Do a title check to make sure it hasn't been totaled in some previous accident. It's really easy to screw up the frame buzzing too close to a black hole.
Posted: Mar 29th 2009 6:48AM (Unverified) said
Also beware of existing finance/loans against the ship!
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Posted: Mar 30th 2009 8:18AM pcgneurotic said
Sound advice. I once had a Reliant that was anything but.
Posted: Apr 2nd 2009 3:35PM Gridlock said
So there was an episode of Voyager--I believe--where they had a futuristic Battle Ship that detached into 5 separate ships. Anything like that going to end up in the MMO?
Posted: Apr 3rd 2009 3:10PM (Unverified) said
Give me an old Constitution Class heavy cruiser any day over these new designs.







