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Title: super weapons
Post by: miniDwarf on February 21, 2003, 10:53:01 am: Just a quick query if someone were to make a campaign,
What would be the next big superweapon the shivans would use?
I mean in FS1 they had a planetkiller and in FS2 they had a starkiller so whats next?
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Post by: Black Wolf on February 21, 2003, 11:09:02 am: Galaxy Destroyomatic ray

:p
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 21, 2003, 11:11:24 am: Galaxy Gun

:D
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Post by: CP5670 on February 21, 2003, 11:14:12 am: Only problem is, how would you destroy a galaxy? After all it is mostly empty space... :D
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Post by: Black Wolf on February 21, 2003, 11:23:49 am: Drop an Acme Anvil on it's head.

Or maybe generate a massive gravity source at its centre, potent enough to contract the entire galaxy into one massive black hole
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Post by: miniDwarf on February 21, 2003, 12:03:04 pm: like the black hole in the middle of our galaxy?

Oh my god, we're all gonna die:eek:
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Post by: Nico on February 21, 2003, 12:27:25 pm: noooooooooooo. just a veryvery big explosion :D
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Post by: Stealth on February 21, 2003, 03:10:44 pm: how about in the 7.5 minute Freelancer trailer, like that big shiny ship that sends a charged rocket thing into the sun, which in turn wipes out the entire galaxy when the sun explodes (implodes?)

:D
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Post by: Nico on February 21, 2003, 03:38:34 pm: it "only" destroyed the sol system up to Pluto ;) ( yeah, that's quite enough if you ask me lol )
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Post by: beatspete on February 21, 2003, 04:26:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by miniDwarf

What would be the next big superweapon the shivans would use?

A BIG GIANT CHAINSAW!!!!!!

calm down peter
:sigh:
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Post by: Razor on February 21, 2003, 04:47:09 pm: HeI think it would be some weapon to rip appat subspace tunnels and use the energy to destroy anything they want.
By the way, Shivans didn't have planet killers in Fs1. They had Super Laser. It was also used on ships. Star killer was only used on stars. :nod:
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Post by: Bobboau on February 21, 2003, 05:12:17 pm: the lucifer took like 20 hours to kill a planet, and the Sathanas fleet took, several days at least to kill Capella, so I think a true planet killer would be nice,
shows up, blast the planet to bits in a manner of seconds, move on to do something more important
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Post by: Knight Templar on February 21, 2003, 07:37:06 pm: *Pats inferno vp file*

:p

EDIT: You could just go the way of Woomeister and make an Uber Juggernaught
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 21, 2003, 08:34:51 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
I think a true planet killer would be nice...

:wtf: You odd chap :D
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Post by: Anaz on February 21, 2003, 10:57:55 pm: okay...without having superweapons as backups to negotiations, they are just dumb...why waste the effort to destroy a planet? or even a solar system?
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Post by: Bobboau on February 21, 2003, 11:15:50 pm: why not?
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Post by: CP5670 on February 22, 2003, 12:33:28 am: because explosions look cool, and shivans like them too. :D
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Post by: Bobboau on February 22, 2003, 01:29:43 am: yes, a mass of super heated streaming meason charged plasma with a radius of a small moon means "lets be frends!" in shivan
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Post by: diamondgeezer on February 22, 2003, 09:45:46 am: Let's not forget that Mantrid destroyed an entire universe :nod:
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Post by: ShadowWolf_IH on February 22, 2003, 09:47:39 am: i don't think the shivans were nicknamed "The destroyers" due to a lack of gunboat diplomacy. They don't conquer, they destroy. They Iced an entire system, it would have made the job much easier if they would have had the weapon being discussed, the planet killer. Then they could have used it to destroy the planet (s), instead of using 80 juggs. That has to be expensive. Not to mention very time consuming when you think about the sheer number of manhours spent in that operation.....or shivanhours ( i just know someone will want to split hairs over that one).

On the other hand, a well known man who was very nice to everyone once said, "The power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force."

Maybe the Shivans will become Force users next.:D
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Post by: Nico on February 22, 2003, 09:55:03 am: let's not forget that the shivans were called the destroyers by a kind of ancient poet, actually :p
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Post by: Solatar on February 22, 2003, 11:05:38 am: I think if a Sathanas fleet attacked a planet, the planet would be dust...
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Post by: ChronoReverse on February 22, 2003, 01:42:52 pm: Yeah, but we want the planet to become dust in a matter of seconds. Big weapons are cool until they're pointed at you.
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Post by: Razor on February 22, 2003, 03:33:42 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Bobboau
the lucifer took like 20 hours to kill a planet, and the Sathanas fleet took, several days at least to kill Capella, so I think a true planet killer would be nice,
shows up, blast the planet to bits in a manner of seconds, move on to do something more important

13 hours to barbeque Vasuda prime. The planet is still there though. And it took the Sathanas fleet some 30 secs to kill the star. It took them days to assemble the Sathanas fleet arround the Capella star though.
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Post by: beatspete on February 22, 2003, 03:34:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by ChronoReverse
Yeah, but we want the planet to become dust in a matter of seconds.

A death star with shivan textures?
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 22, 2003, 03:42:12 pm: Quantum Singularity Gun (or something) - fires black holes. Hardly original, but the oldies are the goodies.

Or a subspace phase gun - tears a planet into pieces by warping chunks of it through subspace.
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Post by: karajorma on February 22, 2003, 04:03:24 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Razor
13 hours to barbeque Vasuda prime. The planet is still there though. And it took the Sathanas fleet some 30 secs to kill the star. It took them days to assemble the Sathanas fleet arround the Capella star though.

It took seconds to explode but the briefings in earlier missions say that unusual subspace readings were bein detected hours earlier.
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Post by: ChronoReverse on February 22, 2003, 11:36:57 pm: How about a giant super knossos device? Open a giant portal between the centre of a star and the planet. Instant vaporization :D
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Post by: miniDwarf on February 23, 2003, 05:12:14 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
Quantum Singularity Gun (or something) - fires black holes. Hardly original, but the oldies are the goodies.

Or a subspace phase gun - tears a planet into pieces by warping chunks of it through subspace.

i like the subspace one, keeps in mind with the shivans advanced subspace tech.

Maybe the shivans could drag a planet into subspace, you know to use it as one of their colonies or slave planets or whatever.

Anyways, My original question was supposed to be asking what superweapon would have gone into fs3
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Post by: Stryke 9 on February 23, 2003, 05:16:36 am: Device that shuts down subspace altogether, and for good.

After all, it IS their element.
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Post by: CP5670 on February 23, 2003, 12:37:56 pm: That would be kind of boring to use in campaigns though, since you could never leave a mission... :p (unless you are using fs2_open or something like that)