Yah your cutscene is great. But here is an idea, I was thinking, as you show the Lucifer warping into the system and approaching the planet, have some vassudan ships in the background maybe a station or 2, and then, when you cut back to it, throw in a allot of debris a few wrecks and some bomber escort. The player can make the connection that all defenses were wiped out, and quickly, rather artistically I think.
The chronos debate is rather irrelevant at this point, and its all speculation. But here is what I think truncated down to a single paragraph, if you want to bother to read. Just because It could do that in space where orientation doesn't matter, doesn't mean It had to fly upside down in the atmosphere, all because it couldn't land on a lower fin. There is such thing as a prebuilt racks or landing gear, and allot simpler solution I think. First, It would be disorienting to pilots to have the ground so close above them. Second, it would require allot of wasted energy on devices to maintain internal gravity; which would be harder then in space, as its counteracting a huge gravity well. Third It would severely complicate the boarding and offloading procedure. Any engineer would laugh at such a crazy design, and the Vassudans were suppose to be smarter then humans or at least they boasted it quite allot.
