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Title: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on October 06, 2010, 09:59:02 am: Syrk: The Unification Wars
We are the invaders.

Act I will be released no later than April 20th

The campaign that shows you the bloody process that lead to the formation of the GTA is coming to a Sol near you! With 4 Terran factions fighting for control of humanity, starting a story that stretches much farther than any of you could ever imagine, Syrk: The Unification Wars will allow you to witness such milestones of human history as the siege of Pluto or the majestic arrival of the very first Orion ever made. To spice this all up, you will encounter the Destroyers as well!

*record scratch*

Yes, our mortal enemies, the Shivans appear in a campaign that is set long before the Great War. Yet I can assure you, canon will not be contradicted! With 20(...40...60!) dogfightful missions we will be showcasing a yet uncovered part of Terran history, the events that started it all: the Unification Wars.

Featuring

- A cleverly crafted storyline
- Good old FS1 'nameless cog in the great machine'-atmosphere
- Heckadoodle amounts of mods
- Shivans!!! :nervous:
- Four Terran factions

Stay tuned for lots of canned awesomeness in the upcoming yet-undefined-times

Unification. Civil war. Shivans. No canon contradictions.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Commander Zane on October 06, 2010, 11:12:29 am: This is pretty much the base concept to the entire Prelude of a story I've been working on called Shattered Apocalypse: Exodus. Except it looks like there won't be any Weird Time **** ganking it to high-hell. ;7
Plus I have an elaborate scheme so I won't have to make that Prelude unless I really want to... :nervous:

Be pretty awesome to see how this turns out.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: The E on October 06, 2010, 11:16:48 am: Shivans? Before FS1? :wtf:

That doesn't sound right....
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on October 06, 2010, 11:39:42 am: All I have to say is ;7
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Redstreblo on October 06, 2010, 03:17:53 pm: Quote from: The E on October 06, 2010, 11:16:48 am
Shivans? Before FS1? :wtf:

That doesn't sound right....

I agree, The Great War was the introduction to the Shivans and it was stressed that no knowledge of this species existed. Perhaps nobody kept records and the appearance of the shivans in the Unification Wars was forgotten?

Or Command knew all along and just kept the information classified. After all you are informed on a need-to-know basis. :nervous:
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on October 06, 2010, 03:26:38 pm: While I'll obviously not going to give away my explanation (that, rest assured, will satisfy you all), I'd like to quote a theory from the same board, so that hopefully launches your creative idea boxes.

Quote from: -Norbert- on October 06, 2010, 11:33:26 am
If I remember correctly then Silent Threat hinted at the GTI knowing about the Shivans before they started their attacks.
The only thing the Shivans have to do, to stay hidden from the bulk of Humanity is leaving no survivors, except secret agents (probably inclusing the player) who keep the information in a closed loop of what will later become the GTI.
At least that's the only way I can imagine Shivans to appear in the unification war, without breaking canon or seeing the player either dead or carted off by the nice uncles with the white "I hug myself" jacket.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: General Battuta on October 06, 2010, 03:44:11 pm: Yeah I believe a number of mods have played with the notion that GTI was aware of the Shivans well ahead of time.

Quote
...GTI scout wings had been following Shivan movements for weeks prior to the Riviera attack...
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Sifle on October 06, 2010, 06:37:21 pm: Quote from: General Battuta on October 06, 2010, 03:44:11 pm
Yeah I believe a number of mods have played with the notion that GTI was aware of the Shivans well ahead of time.

Quote
...GTI scout wings had been following Shivan movements for weeks prior to the Riviera attack...

Yea the GTI awareness of the Shivans was a major plot point in Silent Threat Reborn, but I figured that was at most two months before the attack on Ross 128. If the campaign doesn't contradict canon though, I'm fine with it.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Alan Bolte on October 06, 2010, 07:11:25 pm: This reminds me of an unedited novel posted to a forum, now removed, in which a xenocidal species which controlled most of the quadrant of the galaxy opposite our own had been known to a conspiracy within military intelligence for centuries. They were dubbed the Lefu. Their long-range scouts had destroyed some outlying colonies and exploration vessels, with very few survivors. The name and a few details eventually became common knowledge to the upper ranks of the military, but the unstoppable size of the threat was concealed. The conspiracy's purpose was to manipulate the rest of the military into avoiding a confrontation which would provoke Armageddon.

Eventually, humanity met and went to war with an all-but-xenocidal empire that was more powerful then the largest human government, but was not unbeatable. Confused generals and admirals dubbed these enemies the Lefu, and the name entered civilian usage. However, all the while, the conspiracy was watching a real Lefu sleeper fleet grow ever closer. Eventually, Humanity and their enemies had to fight for their survival against these Destroyers, who had to be given a new name, which I've forgotten.

TL;DR: It would amuse me if the Shivans were initially called Vasudans, and then the name ended up being applied to the Vasudans we know, so GTI had to come up with the name "Shivans" instead.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: -Norbert- on October 07, 2010, 03:41:12 am: Considering the meaning behind those two names I highly doubt that.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Snail on October 08, 2010, 12:17:05 pm: Quote from: General Battuta on October 06, 2010, 03:44:11 pm
Yeah I believe a number of mods have played with the notion that GTI was aware of the Shivans well ahead of time.

Quote
...GTI scout wings had been following Shivan movements for weeks prior to the Riviera attack...
Yeah, but 14 years prior stretches it a bit.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Droid803 on October 08, 2010, 05:09:11 pm: 14 years is just...700 ish weeks.
Still just "a few", if you look on the cosmological order or things.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Snail on October 08, 2010, 05:12:39 pm: Quote from: Droid803 on October 08, 2010, 05:09:11 pm
14 years is just...700 ish weeks.
Still just "a few", if you look on the cosmological order or things.
Yyyeah...
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Alan Bolte on October 08, 2010, 10:44:40 pm: Quote from: -Norbert- on October 07, 2010, 03:41:12 am
Considering the meaning behind those two names I highly doubt that.
'Vasudan' or 'Vasuda' has a meaning?

EDIT: googled it

Quote from: Behind the Name
Means "granting wealth" in Sanskrit. This is another name of the earth.
As if that makes a lot of sense for either species, unless whoever met the Vasudans got rich off it.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Snail on October 09, 2010, 07:08:37 am: You missed the second sentence.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Mobius on October 10, 2010, 10:38:06 am: Excuse me, but... shouldn't this board be renamed "Syrk: The Unification Wars" instead? :)
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on October 10, 2010, 11:17:32 am: Quote from: Möbius on October 10, 2010, 10:38:06 am
Excuse me, but... shouldn't this board be renamed "Syrk: The Unification Wars" instead? :)

Let's just say... it is not necessary. :pimp:
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Snail on October 10, 2010, 11:57:51 am: Was that supposed to be a Bruce Willis one-liner or something?
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on October 10, 2010, 12:24:35 pm: No, it was a Horatio Caine one. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Snail on October 10, 2010, 12:27:47 pm: :cool:
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Davros on January 22, 2011, 04:31:31 pm: perhaps the shivans could wear sunglasses?
that would explain them not being recognised in fs when they turn up for the first time
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on January 22, 2011, 04:33:03 pm: Nah, we have a way better explanation.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Veers on February 11, 2011, 08:49:04 am: Sunglasses, a wig with hat, and a false moustache?
(obviously, it's not hard to fool me)
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on February 11, 2011, 01:36:17 pm: Screenies time! (finally...) The trailer will arrive soon as well.

(http://img227.imageshack.us/i/96988975.jpg/)
(http://img820.imageshack.us/i/83790800.jpg/)
(http://img37.imageshack.us/i/30908920.jpg/)
(http://img138.imageshack.us/i/81962392.jpg/)
(http://img46.imageshack.us/i/12798164.jpg/)
(http://img607.imageshack.us/i/19469059.jpg/)
(http://img833.imageshack.us/i/82093467.jpg/)

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Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: General Battuta on February 11, 2011, 01:37:45 pm: Nice progress. Keep the bullets flowing.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on February 13, 2011, 06:21:25 pm: (http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8634/fs2open3612rinf20110214.jpg)

The mission is so secret that even you cannot see what is going on! :lol:
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Snail on February 14, 2011, 12:53:33 pm: :blah:
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: ShadowsOfLight on February 14, 2011, 01:06:08 pm: Screenies now moved to the Syrk website, under the media section.

http://syrk.hard-light.net/
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Nyctaeus on February 14, 2011, 02:38:24 pm: Pegasus? o__O
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: headdie on February 14, 2011, 03:27:27 pm: Quote from: Betrayal on February 14, 2011, 02:38:24 pm
Pegasus? o__O

where???
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: General Battuta on February 14, 2011, 03:31:11 pm: Shield icon in that screenshot, probably a placeholder.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Lucika on February 15, 2011, 07:44:50 pm: Note: temporarily deleted the teaser trailer topic because YouTube is under maintanence. Great timing.
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Jessnec on July 30, 2011, 12:30:15 am: Some pics of a recent new shockwave, than looks as a big ball of fire :D

(http://i.imgur.com/fnDqBl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/fnDqB)
(http://i.imgur.com/dq2xyl.jpg) (http://imgur.com/dq2xy)

Updated:

(http://i.imgur.com/5URR4l.jpg) (http://imgur.com/5URR4)
(http://i.imgur.com/w56E5l.jpg) (http://imgur.com/w56E5)
:nervous:
Title: Re: Syrk: The Unification Wars
Post by: Deadly in a Shadow on July 31, 2011, 06:59:33 am: WHAM!

The only thing me says.