Star Trek Online's newest starship is Oslo sleek and dangerous

by Kyle Horner Mar 28th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: Lore, New titles, News items, Star Trek Online

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!

Tags: akira-class, atari, cryptic, cryptic-studios, normandy-class, oslo-class, star-trek, star-trek-online, sto, zephyr-class

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MrGutts said on 4:22PM 3-28-2009

Looks very slick.. They are coming along well...

Punkrockdiva said on 4:27PM 3-28-2009

Such a shame you'll only be able to see it from behind.

Kyle Horner said on 4:50PM 3-28-2009

I always take the time to enjoy my MMO avatars from various angles whenever I can. Just a simple click and mouse movement away. :)

Punkrockdiva said on 7:38PM 3-28-2009

Very true, but I was more thinking how nice the inside would look. =)

Lateris said on 10:14AM 3-29-2009

I have to agree. I think they should finish this part of the game and not wait for an expansion.

John said on 4:57PM 3-28-2009

That looks like Galactica by way of Starfleet! Adama 2012.

Neurotic said on 5:12PM 3-28-2009

Isn't this one of those crappy boats that Armada introduced, or is it one of the DS9 background kitbash jobs?

Lethality said on 5:55PM 3-28-2009

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.

Brian! said on 3:51AM 3-29-2009

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.

Shogun said on 6:48AM 3-29-2009

Also beware of existing finance/loans against the ship!

Neurotic said on 8:18AM 3-30-2009

Sound advice. I once had a Reliant that was anything but.

Gridneo said on 3:35PM 4-02-2009

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?