[Goober5000]

Lol appreciate the kudos. But I dunno where the BSG reference is =3

I think that's his point, you've gone and lost some of your BSG-geek credit to ST geek credit ^^

What I mean is that most of the sci-fi traffic on HLP is BSG-related thanks to Diaspora.  The majority of HLP posters, when thinking of a computer-controlled takeover of a spaceship in a sci-fi series, would immediately cite the opening of the reimagined BSG series when all the colonial ships get taken over by a Cylon virus.  The virus was made possible thanks to information retrieved from a Colonial expert.  It's similar to the situation in Wrath of Khan, but it differs in scope and in some minor details.

[Dilmah G]

I would like to confirm the existence of flying bikes with laser beams in WiH.

[Colonol Dekker]

I'd like you to as well. . . . .
 
But can you definitively?
 
Also, Goob, WOK was on last night ;D

[NGTM-1R]

I would like to confirm the existence of flying bikes with laser beams in WiH.

Hoverbike swarm?

You've been playing X-Com Apocalypse again...

[General Battuta]

How did you arrive at that conclusion? I am genuinely interested in the reasoning, as I am pretty sure we haven't published any info about the UEF Ground Forces....

Some of you enjoy comparing them to The Culture far too much, forgetting The Culture wins because it's never faced an opponent of remotely comparable resources.

The UEF is not the Culture. It's similar in one respect where analogy is useful.

That said the Culture definitely tangled with the Idirans, which in military terms were certainly remotely comparable.

[Rodo]

You've been playing X-Com Apocalypse again...

Damn you for reminding me!

[Dilmah G]

You've been playing X-Com Apocalypse again...

I can't help it!

[Colonol Dekker]

I never really liked apocalypse.
 
From the box art to the music.
 
 
 
Do the UEF play xcom still? I'd imagine that forcing children to play it would instill a love of Earth. . . . . . . But a fear of Mars. :d'oh:

[-Norbert-]

Or loyality to Mars. After all you wipe the sectoid base (Cydonia?) on Mars out. Maybe kids will think that X-Com build a base there to keep vigil and the Marsies are descentants of that guardian force 

[Snail]

...the Shivans appear and the UEF and GTVA have to team up to defeat them...

[General Battuta]

...the Shivans appear and the UEF and GTVA have to team up to defeat them...

boooooooo

[Goober5000]

Also, Goob, WOK was on last night ;D

Awesome.

And speaking of which, this is EPIC...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxwJjh1oUSQ

[Colonol Dekker]

That's so funny I've got a semi.
 
Cheers lol.

[-Norbert-]

Capship shields are loveable and I'm surprised more campaigns haven't used them. I believe they're still split into quads.

Does that mean we are seeing cap ships with shields in BP? 


*throws the bomb and runs away*

They are a feature we have worked with and plan to use, but don't draw any storyline conclusions from that.

Speculate away

[General Battuta]

Capship shields are loveable and I'm surprised more campaigns haven't used them. I believe they're still split into quads.

Does that mean we are seeing cap ships with shields in BP? 


*throws the bomb and runs away*

They are a feature we have worked with and plan to use, but don't draw any storyline conclusions from that.

Speculate away

...

[NGTM-1R]

There will be a severely underarmed UED with shields dispatched to collapse the node to Delta Serp with magical sillytech that the UEF has developed.

[General Battuta]

There will be a severely underarmed UED with shields dispatched to collapse the node to Delta Serp with magical sillytech that the UEF has developed.

Pretty hard to do anything like that with the Sol Gate on the other side. They could just reopen it.

Also, man, I wish you people could read.

[Ravenholme]

Bats doesn't say that they are using them, only that they looked at them. Which, for me, suggest, that they're not going to be in WiH at the very least (If in BP saga at all)

[Droid803]

They'll probably be appearing in BP3, on Shivan capships, if anything...

[NGTM-1R]

Pretty hard to do anything like that with the Sol Gate on the other side. They could just reopen it.

That's why it would be magical sillytech. I wish you could read.