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Title: Node map question
Post by: Sesquipedalian on December 09, 2004, 09:41:36 pm: According to canon, are Ribos and Ikeya in Terran or Vasudan hands?
Title: Node map question
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 10, 2004, 12:15:01 am: If you're talking about the status at the beginning of the FS1 campaign, I'd say Terran as far as I know. I remember that Tombaugh Station is in the Ribos system.
Title: Node map question
Post by: Andreas on December 10, 2004, 03:30:34 am: Terran, both in FS1&2. Ribos was apparently a major industrial hub for the GTA, for example, that's were they began the mass-production of the Avenger. Ikeya was propably just anoether backwater system, and it is WAY behind the front lines to be a Vasudan-held system.
Title: Node map question
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 10, 2004, 12:52:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Ai No Koriida
Terran, both in FS1&2.

Well, technically speaking, they were both under Shivan control for PART of FS1. :rolleyes: That's why I specified "the beginning of FS1".
Title: Node map question
Post by: Blaise Russel on December 10, 2004, 01:20:46 pm: Dude... that kind of pedantry really isn't worth the rolleyes.

Besides which, it's irrelevant. Guy didn't limit the question to a specific time frame.
Title: Node map question
Post by: Andreas on December 10, 2004, 01:37:48 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Trivial Psychic

Well, technically speaking, they were both under Shivan control for PART of FS1. :rolleyes: That's why I specified "the beginning of FS1".

:confused: Umm, okay. I just meant that they belonged to the Terrans for the greater majority in the Freespace timeline.
Title: Node map question
Post by: Goober5000 on December 10, 2004, 02:06:46 pm: Short answer, I think, is *we don't know*. There's no definitive canon answer. Since Tombaugh Station was in Ribos, it was at the least a heavily contested system, at the most a strong Terran system. Since the Taranis operation was conducted by Terrans, I'd say that Ribos and Ikeya were Terran.

That's only 1/3 of the way through FS1, though. We don't know if anything changed when FS2 rolled around.
Title: Node map question
Post by: Sesquipedalian on December 10, 2004, 04:33:12 pm: Hm. Antares was Vasudan, though, as I recall. I wonder how they could be Terran, since Antares is the only way to get to those systems according to V's node map.

Maybe it is a discrepancy due to the change in the node map between FS and FS2
Title: Node map question
Post by: Goober5000 on December 10, 2004, 04:35:13 pm: Well, maybe. According to several fan sources, Antares is a shared system - probably for this very reason.
Title: Node map question
Post by: Sesquipedalian on December 10, 2004, 05:21:58 pm: I've looked at the Wiki. Seems the ownership of the systems was very fluid, but originally Antares was Vasudan as near as I can tell. But the fluidity explains things.
Title: Node map question
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 11, 2004, 12:26:53 am: Quote
Originally posted by Blaise Russel
Dude... that kind of pedantry really isn't worth the rolleyes.

Besides which, it's irrelevant. Guy didn't limit the question to a specific time frame.

Actually, the rolleyes was more directed at my own statement. I'm a person that likes to poke holes in statements whenever I can find them. I know that kind of nitpicking can get annoying (which is kinda the reason I do it :drevil: ) so the rolleyes should be taken as my expected community reaction to my nitpickiness. No insult was intended Ai No Koriida.
Title: Node map question
Post by: Carl on December 11, 2004, 12:30:31 am: I think Ikeya is in Swedish hands.
Title: Node map question
Post by: FireCrack on December 11, 2004, 01:13:02 am: yes
Title: Node map question
Post by: Janos on December 11, 2004, 02:14:17 am: no norway shall reclaim what's rightfully theirs :mad:
Title: Node map question
Post by: Andreas on December 11, 2004, 04:01:19 am: Quote
Originally posted by Carl
I think Ikeya is in Swedish hands.

:lol: I've been waiting for someone to say that for a long time!