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Remasters of the Aurora and Quasar!
Two favorite Science Vessels have been remastered with today's update on PC!
By Ambassador Kael July 25, 2024, 08:30 AM
We are pleased to announce that with today’s patch on PC, we are releasing two new starship remasters. The Quasar and Aurora Science Vessel variants have been totally redesigned and remodeled to bring them in line with STO’s current standards of visual fidelity.
The Aurora has been re-imagined by starship design luminary EC Henry as a late 23rd century science vessel contemporary of the venerable Constitution Refit and Excelsior classes.
For the Quasar, we worked with our partners at Virtuous to add a new Picard-era starship to STO’s collection, with styling inspired by the Sagan and Constitution III-class starships.
Both new models will replace the previous Aurora and Quasar models completely and are free updates to any version of the Science Vessel that can access the Aurora and Quasar parts.
To see these new variants, ready your Science Vessel and visit the Ship Customization UI, then apply the Aurora or Quasar template to your ship. If you don’t have a T6 Science vessel, now is a great time to get one during our currently running ship sale!
Finally, I wanted to mention that intake for these models was done by DECA STO ship artist Keene Sin. Keene has been a STO player and fan artist for a while, contributing awesome renders and videos to projects like the Ex Astris series of videos, STO’s partnership with YouTube channel Spacedock. It is exciting to have Keene aboard the STO team and we can’t wait to share what else he, and the rest of the team, have been working on soon!
