[Snail]

The Lucifers will be the only beamed and shielded cap ships.

I did a test yesterday- Akrotiri against 3 Demons. Akrotiri ( Ancient carrier ) destroyed all 3 Demons easily, with hull down to 80%. But a Lucifer took almost no damage, and destroyed the carrier. I seem to have forgotten that the HTL Lucy needs a surface-shield. . .

That stinks of something being overpowered. If the Akrotiri can defeat 3 Demons without receiving any serious damage, but loses to the Lucifer just like that, I think something's gone seriously Inferno.

[ShadowGorrath]

I'm thinking of getting the Lucifer's glow maps and beam cannons to look like in the cutscenes.

[blowfish]

The SSLBeam from fsport looks a lot like the cutscene.

[ShadowGorrath]

The one in the cutscene looks like a more orange BVas.

[Droid803]

Just open photoshop and orange-ify the BVas?

[terran_emperor]

As for the Beam in the Vasuda Taosted scene: One of the Blue-beams from BP

[ShadowGorrath]

The ones in the Vasuda cutscene are different than the BP beams. I'll have to work on these.

As for the orange ssl beam- that's exactly what I'll do - orangify BVas. Or just orangify a Shivan beam cannon. . .

[Droid803]

I made some beams like that (Here and Here) which used VA's beam texture with a blue outer glow, if that's what you're looking for.

[blowfish]

The other cutscene.

[terran_emperor]

I've created a nodemap for this campaign.

Its stats as follows:

1)It is based on the FS2 map with ALL the nodes from FS1
2)Talnia appears in its widely accepted position
3)Diones from the FSRef Bible has been added in the same location as Solatar placed it in his map in a thread in the FSPort board
5)Map includes all the well known systems added in Fan Mods (N-362, E-Eridani, Tau Sigma, etc)
4)All Systems labled with both original names and "Ancient Designations"- all of witch are places from Norse mythology.

Tell me what you think


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[ShadowGorrath]

Wow. It's amazing. I'm definetly going to use it, if you don't mind. 

And I think I decided on the Ancient homeworld. I don't know what people think about it if the home-system was:

Spoiler:

Talnia. It's near to Vasuda, and you never visit it in the main FS campaigns too.

And, Droid803, the beam cannon that fires on the second link ( EUD Sirona ), the upper beam, that's the one that looks the most fitting.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

The nice thing about subspace nodes is that they've probably changed a lot in 8000 years. You could make a node from Vasuda to Sol, and nobody would care. BUT there is no evidence that the Ancients have been here, so at that time, there probably were no nodes leading to us.

[ShadowGorrath]

Or there WERE, but they were too faint to even be detected.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

... by the Ancients? The only ones with (I think) subspace technology comparable to that of the Shivans? I dunno...

[ShadowGorrath]

I'm saying that they were almost non-existing by then.

[Titan]

I think the reason the Lucy's beam looks different was because, say for vasuda, they had all power to that one beam, resulting in a different color.

[Galemp]

4)All Systems labled with both original names and "Ancient Designations"- all of witch are places from Norse mythology.

BZZZZT. Wrong!

Norse mythology is used almost entirely for the GTI Rebels (Loki, Jotunheim, Bragi, Buri, Hrid.)
As stated in the FS2 Tech Room, the Ancients use a Minoan naming convention.

If you're really serious about using the Ancients, you ought to use the names found HERE.

[Snail]

Where did the idea the Ancients were using names from Norse mythology come from anyway? I noticed it but thought it was an intentional change (that is, of course, assuming that it isn't).

[Mobius]

Nothing but a mere suggestion with no canon support. Minoan names are the ones that should be used.

[terran_emperor]

Using Minoan names is the terran naming convention. I wanted to give this campaign a more alien feel by using different names

My idea is that while Terrans dub the Ancients with Minoan designations, the Ancients use Norse Mythological designations for themselves, while they use Shinto Mythology names for the Shivans.

Galemp:
Names from Norse mythology werent limited to the Rebel GTI:
Fenris = Alternative spelling of Fenrir - the Great Wolf child of Loki who kills Odin in Ragnarok
Dis = Fair goddesses/minor dieties benevalent or molevalent to mankind (Members include the Norns: Urdr, Verodandi and Skuld)
Mjolnir = Thor's Hammer

(Cookie to those who recognise the names of the Norns)

Besides ive said that Terran's have dabbled in Norse names. They havent gone using them full out. (Like the Hades could the Jormungand (he Midgard Serpent) or designated it Loki, since he led the Giants in Ragnarok, or even Ragnarok)

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I find it rather amusing that the Terran name the Shivans after demons, but have a cruiser named after one of Ragnarok's Key antagonist