World of Warcraft
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World of Warcraft (WoW) is an early 21st century video game of Earth origin, known throughout the Federation as an extremely addicting, gear-centric game. This game's name, when translated from Klingonese or Romulan to English, became World of Warcrack. (RIS Bouteina)
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[edit] Fan continuities
[edit] RIS Bouteina
Annika Hansen was given a set of Federation treats, along with the other people in her cloning creche, so their transition to their mission can be eased. However, due to a nanite infestation, the program that was scheduled to be the final battle of Magisters' Terrace has been damaged and the repairers modified the program somewhat. Instead of having the final boss (Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider) fight the party in Magisters' Terrace, they fight him in the Senate Hall. Also, characters who fight Praetor Kael had access to weapons and abilities their classes could not normally wield in the canonical game: Mages could wield spears and healers could steal items from enemies. The program itself was acquired from a captured pirate ship operating near the Neutral Zone.
Also, after her tour of duty in the IRW Letant, she could enjoy a holosuite treat with a criminal scheduled for execution, alongside the other people in her "firing squad". The program turned out to be a re-enactment of the final battle of the famous South Park episode Make Love, not Warcraft. It was presumed that, by 2375, the Klingons got a hold of World of Warcraft-based holodeck programs.
[edit] Introduction in the Romulan Empire
What is commonly known of how World of Warcraft was introduced in the Romulan Star Empire was that it came through Tal Shiar operatives as late as 2370. By 2373, the translation from English to Romulan was completed and the first study commissioned by the Romulan Senate took several months to complete, but it revealed that Romulans could become addicts to this drug. The original project leader, Erei'erein L'avar was arrested on malpractice charges and was forced to abandon all research.
In mid-2374, the first Romulan-language strategy guide for World of Warcraft came out. Its author, the same as the project leader of the World of Warcraft study, built her reputation almost overnight. Despite her reputation as the foremost World of Warcrack authority within the Romulan Empire, Annika Hansen was press-ganged in battle. After the Dominion War, her surname became synonymous with World of Warcraft itself in the Romulan language and was used by Romulan-speaking people who desired not to refer to WoW as a drug.
[edit] Contemporary World of Warcraft
If Annika's vision is correct, the Klingon High Council has kept a classified video filmed in the 2370s that began with World of Warcrack Volume One (trasnlated from Klingon) being stolen from a Qo'noS computer shop. The Klingon volumes of World of Warcraft were not precisely hinted to apart from the first volume, whose subsets were known on Earth as early as 2009 (the conference in question was held four hundred years later), if only by name. The Volume One contained the core game and the expansions Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm. However, Annika had the box art of all expansions of both Volume I and II as her ready room decorations, and the Romulan version of Volume Two was released in 2379. (The Departure)
One of the expansions of Volume 2 (since they were all published at once in Romulan) included a phaser, classified in-game as a gun, whose crafting required a Storm Lord Eye, a Bronze Dragon Scale and a Wildkin Claw. And it also granted players who possess a spellcaster that died at least once past level 55 to create a lich character, without racial restrictions and, like all hero classes, started at level 55 and you could only make one per server.
It should be noted that at least one of these expansions in a subsequent volume allowed the characters to gain any skill, provided that the player paid the proper amount of money, in-game, to undertake the training. However, the expansion in question was published in the 2370s at the latest in its English version. As it turns out, this expansion was part of the Romulan Volume 2 and, therefore, came out in 2379.
The moment at which Klingons have obtained access to World of Warcraft could be situated anywhere between 2293 and 2370. However, it is uncertain that the Klingon Empire could have gotten access to World of Warcrack by capturing Federation settlements on Organia, in which case the Klingons could have obtained the game as early as 2267. So World of Warcraft was, most probably until 2267 at least, a Federation-only game.
[edit] Trivia
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- The Romulan Star Navy won a battle against a Dominion battlecruiser wing using a computer virus built around World of Warcrack. Annika Hansen's contribution to the ploy granted her a promotion to centurion.
- Annika Hansen has executed a convict during her cadet cruise, using a holodeck program that made her fight the boss of the Tower of Ilgalar
- The name World of Warcrack had been coined many years before the Federation was founded.
- The World of Warcraft on real-world shelves was referred to as the Federation Edition in the main plot.
- Leeroy Jenkins rammed the enemy flagship in Operation Telenoes with the USS Vortex, a move seen as reckless as the move made by his 21st century counterpart. However, unlike his 21st century counterpart, his move actually allowed his wingmen to survive.
[edit] External links
- World of Warcraft article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- World of Warcraft wiki
