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"It's time to chip away at the boulder people"
Snail:
The mission was mainly capturing the Taranis, not protecting it. The mission designer could have just sent the Shivans to attempt to kill the Terran fighters near it.
Clawandfang:
Okay, I concede.
Colonol Dekker:
But they reds WILL blow it up if you give then free reign to. :beamz:
Galemp:
Some clarification here from the FS1 guru.
Originally, the largest ships in Freespace were designated cruisers (like in real life navies.) If you watch the Briefing cutscene you'll see that the Taranis icon is that of a capital ship, like the Galatea or the Lucifer.
Therefore we can assume that the Taranis was supposed to be a Demon or some other capital ship. The FS Reference Bible backs this up. For some reason, though, it was scaled back to simply a Cain, and that part of the campaign was never completed.
colecampbell666:
:necro:
I think that they realized that they wouldn't have been able to tow a Demon, or disable/disarm it for that matter, so they scaled it down.
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