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Title: Colossus Preminition?
Post by: Kie99 on November 21, 2004, 01:36:47 pm
Found this oddly shaped cloud on the FS1 ending cutscene...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/kietotheworld/ColossusPreminition.bmp)
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Post by: Carl on November 21, 2004, 01:38:44 pm
show us without the red line.
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Post by: an0n on November 21, 2004, 01:41:37 pm
No, that's how it looks in-game.
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Post by: Lynx on November 21, 2004, 01:43:10 pm
OMG it's the face of teh devil!!!111:eek2:












:p
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Post by: TopAce on November 21, 2004, 01:44:57 pm
The in-game nebulae had similiar shapes. I am not surprised.
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Post by: Axem on November 21, 2004, 02:23:17 pm
Pfft, that's nothing. Once I saw the baby-faced sun from Teletubbies when I was playing in OpenGL. Suddenly it makes sense, the Shivans were out to destroy the Teletubbies!
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Post by: Galemp on November 21, 2004, 02:38:08 pm
No, that must have been Descent III...
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Post by: Falcon on November 21, 2004, 02:52:15 pm
It was from Descent III I saw the same thing :p
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Post by: Taristin on November 21, 2004, 03:10:55 pm
:sigh:
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Post by: TrashMan on November 22, 2004, 02:49:25 am
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Originally posted by Axem
Pfft, that's nothing. Once I saw the baby-faced sun from Teletubbies when I was playing in OpenGL. Suddenly it makes sense, the Shivans were out to destroy the Teletubbies!


All hail the Shivans, saviours of the universe!:D
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Post by: Flipside on November 22, 2004, 02:59:22 am
It's a Plesiosaur! Ancient ancestor of the Aesir! ;)
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Post by: Singh on November 22, 2004, 03:32:32 am
Could be......

I've always had a thought about the colossus...and how it's destruction could have been easily faked in Gamma Draconis....but its a wild theory at best.......

One question: in which system was that cutscene based on?
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Post by: Mongoose on November 22, 2004, 06:46:09 am
First of all, that shot's from FS1, not FS2.  As far as I know, it's supposed to be from Sol; it's shown while your character is speaking the final monologue about the Shivans.  Second of all, the Colossus was destroyed in Capella, at the Vega node, not in Gamma Draconis; you jump directly from there to the Epsilon Pegasi node, where the Bastion is making its run.  Finally, how in the world can the Colossus's death have been faked?  You were there when the big S took it down; that's direct eyewitness evidence.
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Post by: aldo_14 on November 22, 2004, 06:50:47 am
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Originally posted by Mongoose
First of all, that shot's from FS1, not FS2.  As far as I know, it's supposed to be from Sol; it's shown while your character is speaking the final monologue about the Shivans.  .


Er... he said it was from FS1.  'sides which, there wouldn't be much point in a subtle preminition in FS2  - the bloody thing's shown in the intro cutscene anyways.

Oh, and this is a bit tenuous a subject, do you not think?  I bet if you looked really hard you could pick out any old pish from nebula patterns.
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Post by: Singh on November 22, 2004, 08:02:41 am
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Originally posted by Mongoose
 You were there when the big S took it down; that's direct eyewitness evidence.


Not exactly. The theory has more to do of that Colossus being a fake; something Command created to act as a decoy. Furthur evidence can be found from mentioned from elsewhere if you're really paranoid and have a good eye. One of the most obvious was that the Colossus then was unable to move or even launch fighters - it clearly showed as Disabled in the screen.

I'd rather not say it not though, as tis a potential campaign plot :nervous:
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Post by: Flipside on November 22, 2004, 08:44:44 am
They did it for the Insurance money! :p hehehehehe
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Post by: aldo_14 on November 22, 2004, 09:17:10 am
ala Babylon 4?
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Post by: Lightspeed on November 22, 2004, 11:27:01 am
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Originally posted by Mongoose
First of all, that shot's from FS1, not FS2.  As far as I know, it's supposed to be from Sol; it's shown while your character is speaking the final monologue about the Shivans.  


It is not Sol. It is a different system. The cutscene changes. It first shows Sol and the surviving Vasudan and Terran fighters (and Earth), then fades out, fades back in in some system of the ancients with the narrator speaking again. It is clearly a different system, for numerous suns and background nebulae are to be seen, whereas Sol obviously only has one sun and only a slight hint of blue nebula in the back.
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Post by: TopAce on November 22, 2004, 12:49:59 pm
Altair.
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Post by: Kie99 on November 22, 2004, 01:16:07 pm
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Originally posted in the FreeSpace Ref Bible
(6)  End of Game.  In the player’s voice.
With visuals similar enough that it will be obvious this narration is of a similar nature to the previous five.


Teh player was trapped in Sol
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Post by: Lightspeed on November 22, 2004, 02:24:19 pm
Read. My post. :)
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Post by: Carl on November 22, 2004, 02:46:41 pm
that shape you outlined is so basic that i'm sure it appears all the time in nebula. maybe if it were more detailed and accurate vs. the collosus you might have something, but it's such a blob that it must be coinsidence.
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Post by: Lightspeed on November 22, 2004, 02:58:54 pm
Especially since the blob actually has another shape than the red line indicates. Look at the lower edge - the nebula extends well over the red line.
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Post by: Kie99 on November 23, 2004, 02:45:37 pm
Here it is without the red line:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v517/kietotheworld/PreminitionNoLine.bmp)
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Post by: Fergus on November 23, 2004, 02:54:19 pm
You know I can just see it.  Oh and a Mentu, a Sobek too and look the entire Spanish Armada.  ( I can actually make out the GTVA Oversized-target-and-FREDer-problem causer)
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Post by: Striker on November 23, 2004, 05:38:52 pm
I actually do see a hatshepsut...
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Post by: FireCrack on November 23, 2004, 05:58:57 pm
Atualy i can see an aten in the rightmost cloud in that pic, prongs pointing down, about the size of the colossus


And the bottom bit of the middle cloud looks like the fornt of a seth, or sobek for that matter
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Post by: Lightspeed on November 23, 2004, 06:31:33 pm
Look! I can see my voice!