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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: übermetroid on April 19, 2004, 12:53:13 pm
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Ok, one day you walk in to a room full of the people that mad FS1 and FS2. They are bored and are willing to answer any questions you have about the games as long as they are interesting questions (about the story).
What would you ask?
I would be interested in:
(1) The Lucy, how come she is the only capitol ship with shields?
(2) Why destroy Capella?
(3) Any more background information about the Ancients?
Any other good questions about there? I want to make a general list of what is NOT known about the story.
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the plot, there was a behind the scenes plot that would have gotten revealed had fs...never mind...
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why the commandline code is so uncommented, and why the Big C didn't attack the Sath from behind.
And if they'd be willing to make FS3, given the rights.
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why mr T wasn't in command of the terran fleet.
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LOL! :lol:
I'd probably ask for the Shivan's reasons for not invading Allied Space. The Shivan Manifesto leaves several things to be thought about, but its only theories...
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Why the Hades was made so damned useless....
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I'd first ask about "the bigger problem", like for example, what is it and how do the shivans fit in that perspective.
Then I would ask for a detailed history of the shivans, including it's origins and it's motives... what makes them tick, etc...
If none of the above would answer it, I would finally ask what the hell happened in Capella?! I am still not convinced that the shivans had intended for that to happen or were not the real cause of what happened.
Ultimatly, I would kick their ass for not making FS... er... nevermind.
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
a detailed history of the shivans, including it's origins and it's motives...
that is just it, what much was revealed, was that the shivans where nothing more than a soldier race, forebodes of a much larger thing to come, who's terror and agressiveness would made the threat of shivans look pale in comparison. (like scouts for a colony of egyptian fire-ants)
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That still doesn't tell their history or motives. :doubt:
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Originally posted by ubermetroid
I would be interested in:
(1) The Lucy, how come she is the only capitol ship with shields?
(2) Why destroy Capella?
(3) Any more background information about the Ancients?
I think you just summarized the Qs that would be answered were FS3 to be made :p
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
If none of the above would answer it, I would finally ask what the hell happened in Capella?! I am still not convinced that the shivans had intended for that to happen or were not the real cause of what happened.
The fact that several Juggernauts were also destroyed by Capella could be taken as evidence that the Shivans were actually trying to stop what happened there. :)
I don't actually believe that but I can see why others might :)
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What if more happened in Capella than Alpha 1 knows about? Maybe the Shivans were simply trying to stop something, not fuxplodify Capella for no reason...
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Originally posted by Tiara
I think you just summarized the Qs that would be answered were FS3 to be made :p
oh, and what ever happened to aken bosch and his merry men?
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Originally posted by ionia23
Why the Hades was made so damned useless....
Wasn't Silent Threat made by a fan...
I think:confused:
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It was in the FS1 before Silent Threat... methinks...
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To some degree I think the Shivans were created by the Ancients I don't know why, IMHO kinda like they were made to be a protectorate for the Ancients who used them for universal domination of all species. Then we could add that the Shivan cyborgs got a deadly virus and made them do the exact opposite of what they were programed to do, thus the termination of the Ancients.
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Er... that kind of goes against the whole thing about the ancients thingys in FS1... You know... they found the shivans and fought them, then they retreated, they followed, etc...
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The only reason I ask is because Adam Pletcher said he would try to answer some of my questions... :D
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seriously? :wtf:
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Originally posted by Johnmike
What if more happened in Capella than Alpha 1 knows about? Maybe the Shivans were simply trying to stop something, not fuxplodify Capella for no reason...
hermmm...so you think maybe the shivans knew Capella was gonna naturally go supernova, so they surrounded it and did all that funky green subspace crap to try to stop it, but it didn't work?
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I'd ask if any of the Anuket fleet made it out of the nebula before the supernova. ;)
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Originally posted by redsniper
seriously? :wtf:
Yea, I just aked him if he would over an email and he said he would try, but he does not know if he remembers everything from that long ago.
:cool: :cool:
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Bosch and his merry men are dead! I know the dolt in my debriefing didn't think so, but I nailed that $&^# and his shivan transport every time! ;7
And if you do find out the shivans are minions of yet another all powerfull race, please dont tell me. That plot line has been done in every space-sim game except Tie Fighter. And thats only because the latest series of starwars books hasn't made it into PC game format yet. Yech.
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Good times.
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Mrfun, the transport carrying bosch jumps out before you can even touch it, and that other transport(that get's destroyed) is not carrying him. in the next mission, you wont even see the transport
so it's impossible to kill bosch, except by letting the Iceni to be destroyed by the vasudans, but that doesn't count, as you didn't actually kill him then, and anyway the mission fails and you have to retry it
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I made a mission where Bosch is killed. Does that count? :)
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Hmmmmmmm... It's so much more fun NOT knowing though, I'm kinda interested, but the answers are either going to dissapoint or produce another 50 questions ;)
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hehehe, noone can escape the almighty power of the FRED- not even an evil genius like Bosch! ;)
I like my version better than the scripted one anyway hehheeh.
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Hey mrfun, welcome to HLP :)
:welcome:
Originally posted by ubermetroid
Ok, one day you walk in to a room full of the people that mad FS1 and FS2. They are bored and are willing to answer any questions you have about the games as long as they are interesting questions (about the story).
Do you mean made FS? :D If that's the case, I would definitely ask, if I could have Adam Pletcher's brain. That would solve all my problems. :p
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ok.
one question I would ask, before I asked him anything else.
Would he be willing to lead, or at least be the back-bone for an FS3 if the rights to do so had been secured? We dont need a new engine just yet; the SCP and the future Ferrium project will do, so no actual corporation would be needed...just the #$@^@^ rights.
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Firstly;
The Shivan Enigma...
Where is there home?
Do they even have a home?
How come they've been cruising around for so long, yet, the lucifer was their first ship with beam weaponry, and they technologically advanced at the same speed humanity did since then?
Was The Lucifer really just a scout fleet or was it their true flagship? Since, it was invulnerable.
What were the Shivan's doing in Capella? -- It's obvious they wanted the harness the star for some reason, and looking at the capella star in FS2, their Sun is just like OUR SUN, what is it with Shivan's and Yellow Stars?
Surely, if any star would do they'd have blown up a different one, so it has to be something about the temperature and gravity of this class of star right? :P
Bosch;
The Man escapes, so...will we see another, three sided war in a potential FS3 Storyline? (Shivans + Humans vs Humans + Vasudans, vs Enemy X).
I think I have the ancients pretty locked down, but;
Are the Vasudan's decendant of the Ancients?
Or even might we be decendants of the Ancients?
Earth;
Would we have gettin back there for FS3? (did you see anything on the BlackWater Operations campaign that was being worked on by HLP? That would make a very fitting FS3 imo...)
Shivan Comm Nodes wtf?
And...
The original V Team still around anywhere?
I'd like to have a little 2on2 or 2on4 with you guys on PXO someday with my choice team mate XD (...Us being the two not you :P)
...That's about it...
Apart from something that would include a possible campaign that I might someday make...
Never gonna get done though....
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All the more proof that Adam is a kickass guy
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My question:
Why did the GTVA use dumb**** tactics?
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Originally posted by Kazan
All the more proof that Adam is a kickass guy
:lol: I think I swamped him with all my questions! He has yet to write back! :D
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Originally posted by jdjtcagle
Wasn't Silent Threat made by a fan...
I think:confused:
No, it was made by [V], but all the single missions that were included were made by fans.
Originally posted by Ghostavo
It was in the FS1 before Silent Threat... methinks...
No, it shipped with ST.
Originally posted by Carl
hermmm...so you think maybe the shivans knew Capella was gonna naturally go supernova, so they surrounded it and did all that funky green subspace crap to try to stop it, but it didn't work?
Nope, sorry, you can tell if a star is going to go supernova or not well in advance :)