I ended up accidentally doing a lot of work on my Stellaris mod today, even though there wasn’t much to do.
I ended up sucked into a rabbit hole of wiki pages and lore and videos, trying to get the flavour of a piece of tech down.
And then after that I decided to revisit my idea list and see if anything really stood out.

Well nothing small did, just some long term projects I might do.
At the very least I did get the ARGO System tech implemented, so now everyone can do the asteroid ring defence trick!
It was actually a fun one to concept, an alternative armour method, I had a few ideas on how to do it, such as having the game check if the system you were in had asteroids before applying the bonus, but in the end I decided to go simple and just have it give a flat bonus to armour and a partial bonus to armour regen.

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So the new Star Trek Picard trailer showcased the Enterprise F, and that guy who won the Design The Next Enterprise competition for Star Trek Online in 2011 must be over the moon because they decided to canonise the Odyssey Class from that.

Imagine not only only winning a competition get your design included as both the flagship and playable vessel in the online game, but also ten years later having it showcased on television.

I do have to say that I was quite mad at one of the news articles that was very dismissive of the entire thing, it seemed like they were trying to be neutral but they kept adding in snide comments like “call me crazy but the E looks better” and “they didn’t even design a new class” with “it came from an old video game” before going to compare the ship lengths like somehow the 400m extra the F has somehow invalidates it.

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