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Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Lone Knight on May 21, 2005, 02:55:05 pm
The SD Lucifer, in all its greatness was a one of a kind.  Why is that?  I'd at least expected to have seen some in FS2...
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Unknown Target on May 21, 2005, 03:10:58 pm
Maybe it wasn't one of a kind. Maybe it was a regular ship class, and just got replaced by the Sathanis, hm? :)
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Nuke on May 21, 2005, 04:05:43 pm
lucy was designed for long range, deep penetration, planetary bombardment. it designed to use blitzkrieg tactics to get into a species' territory, and take out there home systems. the lucifer was the first ship to lead the ivasion, it seemed to only concern itself with the destruction of planets and installations. ntice it was always on the move, it was never seen standing still. the lucifer relies of a support fleet to follow it and clean up after it. essentially it was designed so that a small fleet could do massive damage to a civilization. the lucifer was probibly on a long term patrol of the galaxy looking for spiecies that were being bad.

in contrast the sathanas seems to have the perpouse of makeing stars go nova, and just happens to have big guns for self defense. it could also be for defending shivan territory form outsiders. not sure if we were actually entering shivan teritory in 'into the lions den' or if that was just a staging area for the attack on the capella star. the shivans, could have sent their entire sath fleet after us before we knew about it and have completed the lucifer's mission. i think the lucifer was so far seporated from the rest of the shivans and may just be carrying out an ancient mission. that ship could have been patrolling for thousands of years and never have returned to shivan space.

the change in the shivan tactics could also be an indication that we passed a test of sorts. having the terrans and vasudans come together as they did. it was we that interupted the shivans the 2nd time around, not vice versa. they simply imrovised.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: TopAce on May 21, 2005, 04:30:42 pm
I still believe the theory that the Lucifer was a scout ship for the Sathanas fleet.
I recall this quote by heart from the FS2 box:
'they are back, and they wonder what happened to their scouting party...'

This is about the Shivans
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: aldo_14 on May 21, 2005, 04:51:38 pm
Maybe the Lucifer is a standard ship, and we've just not seen the others yet?
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Andreas on May 21, 2005, 05:17:37 pm
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Originally posted by TopAce
I still believe the theory that the Lucifer was a scout ship for the Sathanas fleet.
I recall this quote by heart from the FS2 box:
'they are back, and they wonder what happened to their scouting party...'

This is about the Shivans

I hate that quote myself. Advertising bull****. I wouldn't take it as canon! ;) Besides, the Lucifer is too powerful and big to be a scout ship. In my opinion, it's just a superdestroyer, with no other meaning than to annihilate everything that it comes across.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Kie99 on May 21, 2005, 05:20:57 pm
OK Here's my theory on the scouting wave thing.  The Shivans sent some fighters to investigate the reactivation of the knossos.  The NTF shot them down, and then they came back.  Simple.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Lone Knight on May 21, 2005, 05:31:05 pm
No, but was the Lucifer a common ship? Do you think the Shivans had anymore of em?
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: aldo_14 on May 21, 2005, 05:42:35 pm
Maybe.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Fergus on May 21, 2005, 05:43:01 pm
Derelict would say yes.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Charismatic on May 21, 2005, 09:34:35 pm
Guys come on, shivans are not known to have only  1 of a kind ships. They are always mass prodused, aka, 80 ****ing jugs.
Sence were alot smaller, yes, one colossus. Different case tho.

I like Kite's theory.

Its too big to be a scout ship.
If anything, Shivans after annhaliteing the Acients, left one fleet with one lucy deep in Ancient lands, and found the reactivation of the Konossos.

But then again, if Acients didnt put up a fight, there woudl be no reason to have a patrol, a big patrol, waithing there incase of their return..
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: phatosealpha on May 21, 2005, 10:23:28 pm
Maybe the two ships are different groups of shivans.  The original Lucifer fleet was a fringe group of shivan cultists who were out to purify the universe.  The Sathani are the main group of shivans, and always stuck me as a kind of science fleet, either to make stars go supernova or to prevent bad things from happening when the stars do go nova.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Setekh on May 21, 2005, 10:41:45 pm
What's certain is that the Sathanas and the Lucifer belong to different design ethics - it's pretty certain that they had different purposes. Even if there were several Lucifers, we only ever saw one at at time; additionally, both its shielding and armaments were unique among the Shivan armada. The Sathanas, by contrast, was clearly intended for not just mass-production but mass-deployment.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Nuke on May 22, 2005, 03:35:15 am
i maintain theat the purpose of sathani was to create jump nodes by blowing up stars. notice how the shivans werent as agressive this time around. they only really seemed intrested in protecting their sathani so they could complete their mission. the ravana was sent out ot scout the path to capella, when that disapeared they sent a sath, and when that was defeted they sent the rest. once the colossus was neutralised ther really didnt send anymore capships after us. they coulda blockaded the node with a sath if they wanted.

in contrast the lucifer fleet was ion a direct search and destroy mission, it was goung after vasuda and then earth. and then the rest of the colonies and installations.the sath fleet seemed more intrested in blowing up capella. perhaps bosh was able to negotiate with the shivans so they would leave gtva space alone. we would need an fs3 to tell us what was really happeniong.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 22, 2005, 03:41:44 am
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Originally posted by Andreas

I hate that quote myself. Advertising bull****. I wouldn't take it as canon! ;) Besides, the Lucifer is too powerful and big to be a scout ship. In my opinion, it's just a superdestroyer, with no other meaning than to annihilate everything that it comes across.


Compared to 80 Sathanases, the Lucifer might as well be a toothpick.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Andreas on May 22, 2005, 03:56:41 am
Ah, but you are forgetting one important thing; the Lucifers shield system. I'm not sure how effective it is against beam weaponry, but Lucifer is certainly much, MUCH more intimidating and sexier ship design than 80+ fugly Juggernauts. :ha:
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Black Wolf on May 22, 2005, 09:49:14 am
Because an invincible ship is a white elephant in a storyline I should think.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: brugger on May 23, 2005, 11:55:03 pm
I definatly think that there are more lucifers in the Shivan armada whether or not they are sheilded I think not. i believe that the fs1 armada was very very far away from Shivan territory for what ever reason ( i'm talkin centuries away) and was on its way back. their path home brought them to ross 128 where they ran into the terran and vasudans and the rest is history. The point is they never made it home. At some point during their journey they must have developed or stole the technology to sheild a capital ship. The Lucifer fleet could have been a shivan version of scientific expedition or part of a much larger fleet that was deployed to destroy an advanced civilization that had sheilded capital ships. either way they never made it home to share this technolgy with the rest of the species, hence the lack of sheilded shivan capital ships in fs2. however this is just trying to make sense of the facts given to us through the games.
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
Because an invincible ship is a white elephant in a storyline I should think.

this probably the real reason the lucy had sheilds though
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Cannikin on May 24, 2005, 05:25:07 am
I find I like the Lucifer more than the Sath. The way it always popped in without warning, dominated the scene and you always knew it was THE Lucifer, not A_Random_Sathanas_08, made it a more powerful presence to me than the Sath, despite being smaller, wielding less firepower and looking less cool.

Btw, I don't have FS1 installed to check, but I think they said that the Lucifer's shields were so strong that nothing in the GTA or PVN's current arsenal could penetrate. Doesn't say if it's merely so strong that it just absorbs the attacks or if it somehow bounces off or something. Considering that the arsenal of the GTA included the Harbinger, which is still a fairly powerful bomb, and still made no effect (invulnerabilty tag is cheap) it might be a completely new technology in the shield, rather than just a giant version of fighter shields.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: aldo_14 on May 24, 2005, 05:29:39 am
The Lucifer was a scalpel, the Sathanas was a sledgehammer.... and the Sath fleet was a bulldozer.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: psycho_fergo on June 15, 2005, 12:46:35 pm
i like that new sheild tech idea..perhaps the reason they didnt use them was because perhpase something like beam weapons had a devistating effect on the sheilds....like in dune..when you use laser tech on a shieild..it has a chain reaction nuclear cataclysm or whatever....so perhaps thats why we didnt see one because they became just like a big thing to blow up when shot at...making it obsolete...
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Cobra on June 15, 2005, 02:12:28 pm
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Originally posted by TopAce
I still believe the theory that the Lucifer was a scout ship for the Sathanas fleet.


if the lucifer was a scouting ship, why would it have invincible sheath-shields with 2 (or 3, i dunno... stupid :v: ) planet-destroying beams?
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Flipside on June 15, 2005, 02:18:36 pm
Could be an extreme form of colony ship? Destroy what's already there then move in? And if what's already there destroys the Lucifer, then they are obviously too powerful and get the Sathy treatment?
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: aldo_14 on June 15, 2005, 02:36:03 pm
Maybe it's not actually an attack vessel.... I remember an analogy from a book; say a microscopic - intelligent - space bacteria discovers a satellite.  It explores inside, and kills itself by tripping an electic current.  And it thinks 'this is a test, I'm dead because I failed it'; but it's not, it's just a satellite.

Maybe the Lucifer - and the Shivans - is like that.  The Shivans aren't aware they're killing civillisations and destroying planets, because they perceive things in an entirely different way.  Maybe they're just mining energy (for example); attracted to conflict and explosions without regarding them in the same way humanity, etc, does.

And soforth.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Cobra on June 15, 2005, 02:44:36 pm
ok aldo, you lost me.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: aldo_14 on June 15, 2005, 02:47:37 pm
If you walk on a lawn, does the grass think it's under attack?
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Cobra on June 15, 2005, 02:48:46 pm
ah.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: aldo_14 on June 15, 2005, 02:54:59 pm
*the sound of one hand clapping*
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Fragrag on June 15, 2005, 03:09:01 pm
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Originally posted by aldo_14
*the sound of one hand clapping*


cl-

(Thats it, I've been reading to much Discworld novels)
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Flipside on June 15, 2005, 03:42:10 pm
LOL I was thinking exactly the same thing, and infinity is duck egg Blue ;)
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Ulala on June 15, 2005, 04:17:58 pm
Great, now I'm going to have a hard time walking on the lawn.. *imagines the grass screaming in pain*
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Boomer on June 15, 2005, 04:32:02 pm
Suppose the Lucifer class superdestroyer is similar to the Shivans idea of a flagship?  Perhaps that's why they put so much work into it.  The Sathanai were just the thugs that did the dirty work and heavy lifting.  The Lucifer, however, was the real head of the operation.  That would explain why the Shivans didn't want to get into a long drawn out confrontation with us in FS2.  No flagship.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Flipside on June 15, 2005, 04:50:20 pm
All I'll say is that I've always felt to a certain degree that the whole comment about 'Shivans may look insectoid, but be careful about applying Insect attributes to them' was deliberately misleading ;)

It doesn't say Shivans don't have insectoid attributes, it simply suggests not to take it for granted that they will always act like insects would in certain situations.
Title: Lucy
Post by: Eirs on June 15, 2005, 07:10:38 pm
Okay this is my first post... So the Shivans seem like a multi-galactic species. Couldn't there be one Lucifer per galaxy to eliminate Ancient types who might arise in that galaxy? The Knossos gate in the nebulea could link to the Shivans "home" galaxy (if they have one), the big honkin' fleet could be their main fighting force, reserved for the destruction those the Shivans deem an actual threat.

...OOPs, I didn't mean to start a new thread.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Setekh on June 15, 2005, 07:20:17 pm
Welcome to HLP, Eirs. :)

If you can tell me which thread you wanted this post to go into, I'll merge the two and it will be just like you originally intended. Otherwise, you can keep this thread separate.

Personally, I agree that the Shivans probably have a huge armada waiting 'back home' - in subspace itself, maybe. We never seem to really get to the bottom of how much power the Shivans are capable of unleashing.

:welcome:
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Eirs on June 15, 2005, 07:26:21 pm
I meant it to be under "Story of the Lucifer", :lol:
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Setekh on June 15, 2005, 07:34:09 pm
Merged. :)
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: pyro-manic on June 15, 2005, 07:46:31 pm
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Originally posted by Setekh
Personally, I agree that the Shivans probably have a huge armada waiting 'back home' - in subspace itself, maybe. We never seem to really get to the bottom of how much power the Shivans are capable of unleashing.


I don't think we want to know. There'd be nobody left to record it...

Welcome, Eirs :)

:welcome:
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: JoeLo on June 21, 2005, 05:27:02 pm
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Originally posted by TopAce
I still believe the theory that the Lucifer was a scout ship for the Sathanas fleet.
I recall this quote by heart from the FS2 box:
'they are back, and they wonder what happened to their scouting party...'

This is about the Shivans

   Hmmm intresting point, how ever Interplay designed the box there  fore there is reason to question its cannocity(sp?).
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: TopAce on June 22, 2005, 04:05:02 am
Do you mean canonity?
I have never heard that word used before, of course, it could exist.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: aldo_14 on June 22, 2005, 05:19:23 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
Welcome to HLP, Eirs. :)

If you can tell me which thread you wanted this post to go into, I'll merge the two and it will be just like you originally intended. Otherwise, you can keep this thread separate.

Personally, I agree that the Shivans probably have a huge armada waiting 'back home' - in subspace itself, maybe. We never seem to really get to the bottom of how much power the Shivans are capable of unleashing.

:welcome:


Ships big enough to have gravitational fields....

I think that was a quote from Volition in an interview when FS3 was still a possibility.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: Mongoose on June 22, 2005, 02:41:23 pm
Technically, even something with the mass of a dust mite (or an electron, for that matter) creates a gravitational field. :p If we're talking about something on the order of a moon or small planet, e.g. Death Star, then that would have been something to see.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: TrashMan on June 22, 2005, 05:30:31 pm
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Originally posted by aldo_14
If you walk on a lawn, does the grass think it's under attack?


Yeah, but usually when you walk on lawn it doesn't fight back or shoot your head off. If it did, you would start paying attention to where you're stepping.

So it's kinda hard for the shivans to ignore us (or not to notice us) since we keep killing them...a lot.
Title: Story of the Lucifer
Post by: aldo_14 on June 22, 2005, 05:41:58 pm
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Originally posted by TrashMan

Yeah
 


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