[Slanker_MT]

Didn't the 'explosions' cover this, already?

[Black Wolf]

Originally posted by Ace
It was stated by Volition that the Ancient's technology was only a decade or two more advanced than Terran/Vasudan technology at the end of the V-T war.

Except where it pertasined to subspace. Still, there's a world of difference between Caeser and GTVA R+D - I think their 5 year estimate was optimistic, but I think eventually they will get it working.

[Genoism]

you guys are talking like they are figuring out how to make it work this very moment

[Kosh]

Personally I haven't always been totally convinced that the GTVA would just pick up the Knossos and make it work. It's alien technology, different and possibily more advanced than the GTVA's - do they for example, have the pre-requisite industrial base or understanding of subspace to make something like a knossos work?

The Vasudans have a solid industrial base. I think the Terrans are still building theirs up.

The technology might be alien, but the GTVA has had decades of experience in tinkering with the Ancients technology (and Shivan technology).

[Roanoke]

Originally posted by IceFire
I can't even get FreeSpace to run properly these days.

must be a good 12 months since I last booted it up.

[Ypoknons]

That interestingly brings up how much Terran and Vasuadan susbspace technology was self-developed and how much of it was based on the ancients'.

[pyro-manic]

Terran subspace drives were developed in isolation in the Sol system. Vasudan tech on the other hand may well have been developed from or inspired by Ancient technology (there is an unspecified link between the Vasudans and the Ancients). Subspace sensor tech (and possibly other advances) was copied from the records found at Altair.

[Mad Bomber]

Except that the Vasudan scientists on Altair didn't seem to know who the Ancients were when they described their find. "These ruins are neither Terran, nor Vasudan, nor Shivan."

So most likely, the Zods developed subspace drives indigenously. Possibly even before the GTA did (they had the motivation of needing resources from offworld).

Either that, or they had to bribe/steal from the Terrans (which is unlikely IMO, since if that were the case, the Terrans might have overrun Vasuda very quickly right after the war began, simply due to the massive tactical advantage granted by subspace technology).

[Ypoknons]

Originally posted by pyro-manic
Terran subspace drives were developed in isolation in the Sol system.

Is that canon, in the literature? Otherwise, if the Vasuadans had outside influences, it's not entirely unconcievable that Terrans might have had bits of something to base itself on, floating around Sol or buried, and ancient technology does seem to be all the over the place (Deneb, Gamma). Now supposedly the discovery of ancient technology in FS1 was shown to us to be amazing and original, but earlier discoveries should simply have not been publicized by the governments involved, but this time they wanted a moral boost in a hopeless war.

Originally posted by Mad Bomber
Except that the Vasudan scientists on Altair didn't seem to know who the Ancients were when they described their find. "These ruins are neither Terran, nor Vasudan, nor Shivan.

I wouldn't take that quote quite that seriously. It's not exactly Terran or Vasudan technology, but that doesn't mean that it is not related technology.

Ah. Our discussions before BWO's release. Waiting happily !

[Charismatic]

Originally posted by Genoism
you guys are talking like they are figuring out how to make it work this very moment

They are..l:nervous:

I can VA btw.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Ypoknons
Is that canon, in the literature? Otherwise, if the Vasuadans had outside influences, it's not entirely unconcievable that Terrans might have had bits of something to base itself on, floating around Sol or buried, and ancient technology does seem to be all the over the place (Deneb, Gamma). Now supposedly the discovery of ancient technology in FS1 was shown to us to be amazing and original, but earlier discoveries should simply have not been publicized by the governments involved, but this time they wanted a moral boost in a hopeless war.

I wouldn't take that quote quite that seriously. It's not exactly Terran or Vasudan technology, but that doesn't mean that it is not related technology.

Ah. Our discussions before BWO's release. Waiting happily !

The FreeSpace bible says that subspace technology was developed in the Sol system and that it enabled the Terrans to achieve interstellar travel.  No help from the ancients required.

As far as I can remember, the only ancient things that had been discovered until the Knossos (or maybe Altair), were ruins and writing on stone walls.

[BlackDove]

Also the thing (in my mind) that more or less proves that Vasudans and Terrans come from the same crucible, is HoL. It is highly persumable they got their "legend" from the Ancients' final scriptures.

[Jetmech Jr.]

BWO Rocks. I loved the voice-acting in the demo, absolutely PERFECT. I can't believe you people can't remember that. I remember thinking "You rotten bastards!" when the Command Briefing told us the Scion vented the Khnum's crew into space. The demo was THAT good.

[tommy185]

I Like the help in the voice acting but how a can help?

[Ace]

Originally posted by Jetmech Jr.
BWO Rocks. I loved the voice-acting in the demo, absolutely PERFECT. I can't believe you people can't remember that. I remember thinking "You rotten bastards!" when the Command Briefing told us the Scion vented the Khnum's crew into space. The demo was THAT good.

There's quite a few more BWO moments like that.

[tommy185]

I Like the help in the voice acting but how a can help?

[BlackDove]

You can't.

Not yet anyway.

[tommy185]

 Sad. But du you need voice acters in the future?

[Mad Bomber]

I can do a pretty good impression of Lt. Cmdr. Cordova if you want...

[Ace]

EPSILON PEGASI!

I hate Cordova...