[Akalabeth Angel]

Only the HOL do that...

        Isn't there something in one of the techrooms about a Destroyer being taken out by suicide attacks? Or am I misremembering.

[Droid803]

A few radical Vasudans have been known to load the ship with explosives and attempt to steer themselves into GTA capital ships. The first occurrence of this was the battle of Rexias 4, where the GTD Goliath was destroyed by a squadron of kamikaze pilots.

Yeah. Radicals. prolly means its not standard practice.
Only fanatics like the HoL do that.

[Solatar]

Battle of Rexias 4, an Orion was destroyed by PVN pilots doing the same thing. Although it's still a very rare thing it seems.

Others got to it first.

[Akalabeth Angel]

A few radical Vasudans have been known to load the ship with explosives and attempt to steer themselves into GTA capital ships. The first occurrence of this was the battle of Rexias 4, where the GTD Goliath was destroyed by a squadron of kamikaze pilots.

Yeah. Radicals. prolly means its not standard practice.
Only fanatics like the HoL do that.

     Er, except the HoL didn't exist until the Shivans came.
     Which means that radicals are present in the PVN, or at least there were prior to the Shivans. Radical does not mean Religious Fanatic.  Not all the radicals joined the HoL, and not all people in the HoL are radical.
     It also means its been done more than once, and probably more than twice. Standard practice, no, of course not.

[Snail]

Not that it matters TOO much, but the "sensors" sub-system of the Anubis seems to be set fairly squarely on the upper pod.

Of course so is the eyepoint...I digress. I'll take what I'm given.

Uhh, if the eyepoint is on the top one, doesn't that mean it's the top one that should have the pilot in it?

And BTW, the Anubis is specified as a "Light Skirmish" craft.

[Hellstryker]

Rexias 4?    I agree it's a sensor pod, but please don't add machinery. I like the glossy look on it. Maybe you could do somthing like this though:
http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/bb317/Tyrkeyz/?action=view&current=anubis.png Except the bars would be equally spaced... I can't draw very well

[Droid803]

Machinery inside the shiny glass

[Snail]

Rexias 4?

Anubis TD

[Hellstryker]

I know, but my point is there's no rexias system

[ShadowGorrath]

It's a planet. Just like Cygnus Prime in Deneb.

[Stormkeeper]

And BTW, the Anubis is specified as a "Light Skirmish" craft.

Which is techspeak for cannon-fodder.

[colecampbell666]

It's a planet. Just like Cygnus Prime in Deneb.

No, since the name of the planet is Rexias 4, that signifies that it is the fourth planet of the Rexias system.

[Dark Knight]

It's a planet. Just like Cygnus Prime in Deneb.

No, since the name of the planet is Rexias 4, that signifies that it is the fourth planet of the Rexias system.

Yavin 4 is the fourth Moon of the gas giant Yavin, so Rexias 4 could be the fourth Moon of the planet Rexias, rather than the fourth fervest body from the rexias sun (e.g. Vega I, II, III ...). Rexias dosent even need to be a planet/moon, it could easily be part of a meteor or asteroid group or the fourth object identified by someone named Rexias, an example of this kind of naming would be Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9

[Droid803]

They just made a random name for the tech description...

[Galemp]

Rexias 4?

The Roman numbering system arose with the very first discovery of natural satellites other than Earth's Moon: Galileo referred to the Galilean moons as I through IV (counting from Jupiter outward), in part to spite his rival Simon Marius, who had proposed the names now adopted. Similar numbering schemes naturally arose with the discovery of moons around Saturn and Mars. Although the numbers initially designated the moons in orbital sequence, new discoveries soon failed to conform with this scheme (e.g. "Jupiter V" is Amalthea, which orbits closer to Jupiter than does Io). The unstated convention then became, at the close of the 19th century, that the numbers more or less reflected the order of discovery, except for prior historical exceptions (see the Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their natural satellites). The convention has been extended to natural satellites of minor planets, such as "(87) Sylvia I Romulus".

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Therefore I would say that the battle was fought over the fourth moon of the planet Rexias, in some unnamed system. It's not a stretch to imagine the GTA Xenocartographical Association giving names to all the planets of all the systems, but there's probably not enough motivation to name all the moons of all the planets of all the systems.

[Droid803]

Well, "Rexias" sounds made up.

[colecampbell666]

It sounds like a dog's name.

[MechMantis]

It's a planet. Just like Cygnus Prime in Deneb.

No, since the name of the planet is Rexias 4, that signifies that it is the fourth planet of the Rexias system.

By that logic, Deneb should be named Cygnus, as Cygnus Prime denotes the first planet in the Cygnus system.

Spoiler:

Or we could just roll with it being a strangely named planet or just the fourth moon of Rexias or we could just drop the subject as silly errors by

[Hellstryker]

Agreed. Btw mech, where have you been lately? I haven't seen you on SC for a month

[Droid803]

So...what happened to the model?