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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: Stormkeeper on July 15, 2007, 08:03:10 pm
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I'm curious, what's the current state of Ross 128? Does the GTVA still maintain a installation there ?
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IIRC, they never rebuilded it, and it is still left to pirates and smugglers and the like.
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They sold it to Albertsons
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I figured they'd at least leave an installation, because it was the point of initial Shivan contact.
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Methinks I was the only one who saw the topic and thought, "That website went down ages ago, dude."
In FS2, I don't think the system is ever mentioned in the present tense, but I would think that in the thirty-two year interval between FS1 and FS2, the GTVA would have done something to restore order to the system. With Delta Serpentis one jump away, and no other way to access the systems beyond Ross 128, it would be strategically and logistically unwise to leave the system in anarchy. Furthermore, the GTVA seems to like consolidating power under its own umbrella, so I doubt they'd have left the system to another organization.
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well they seem to have done that, especially in inferno.
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Hmm, I have an interesting idea for a campaign. The GTVA could investigate Ross 128 and find the origin of the first Shivan wave. Maybe there could a Knosso portal or something.
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AKA, inferno. :doubt:
give or take a few plot differences and a whole separate war raging in the meanwhile.
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but we do agree on the fact that mods aside, the GTVA would have an installation, plus standing forces?
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ya, knowing it's proximity to earth.
Why, you making a campaign?
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I was considering and still am considering Ross 128 as a possible theater of operations and/or combat against enemies of the GTVA, or using the system to obtain accurate intelligence on the strategic and tactical objectives of forces hostile to the GTVA.
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Vasudans live there now. :p
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... I was planning on blowing Ross 128 up......
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... I was planning on blowing Ross 128 up......
More refugees I guess. At least this time its mostly Vasudans instead of Terran. But seriously, Shivans were first officially sighted in Ross 128. There was got to be something out there. Maybe theres another jump node that leads to a system beyond GTVA space.
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My thoughts exactly. Since Ross 128 is the first system of Shivan contact, the GTVA should have a heavy installation there ... and probably very few civilians.
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... I was planning on blowing Ross 128 up......
More refugees I guess. At least this time its mostly Vasudans instead of Terran. But seriously, Shivans were first officially sighted in Ross 128. There was got to be something out there. Maybe theres another jump node that leads to a system beyond GTVA space.
Thats called Formaulhuat :P
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It's been 30 frikkin' years. You'd think the GTVA would have reestablished itself there.
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This is Command were talking about. :rolleyes:
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It's been 30 frikkin' years. You'd think the GTVA would have reestablished itself there.
Agreed.
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This is Command were talking about. :rolleyes:
Double agreed. :cool:
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This is Command were talking about. :rolleyes:
Double agreed. :cool:
... Sadly triple agreed. :doubt:
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ADVISOR: "Command, we should really investigate and fortify Ross 128..we nkow shivans came from there and we KNOW they use jump nodes too, so there has to be one there, posssibly leading to shivan infested space!"
COMMAND: "Nah, we're gonna build this big thingy with pretty lights..It will only cost 9949329 Kazzilkion credits"
ADVISOR: "What? What the hell does it do to cost that much?"
COMMAND: "Well, ther's lights....and more lights... and the spinning thingy..."
ADVISOR: "But what about rebulding ourt fleets? What about the security of the GTVA?"
COMMAND: "We want a space amusment park! Period!"
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You people realize, of course, the bald black guy isn't Command, but Command's comm officer. Right?
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Duh. Stephen Baldwin is Command, which actually explains quite a bit about his total lack of twenty-fourth century military strategy.
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FS1 command or FS2 command?
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Freespace 2
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God damn it.
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easy cobra.
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Easy?! Everything I've said lately has been either ignored, argued with despite the facts, and as what just now happened, argued with and turned into some stupid "I hate command" discussion.
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um...you can take it out on me if you like, but it better be in PMs before goob comes and kills us all.
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Easy?! Everything I've said lately has been either ignored, argued with despite the facts, and as what just now happened, argued with and turned into some stupid "I hate command" discussion.
That's HLP for you.
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Easy?! Everything I've said lately has been either ignored, argued with despite the facts, and as what just now happened, argued with and turned into some stupid "I hate command" discussion.
Its called humour.
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If you look at the tech room description for the GTC Aeolus you'll see that the shipyards were in Laramis which is a system beyond Ross 128 on the official Volition node chart.
(http://www.volition-inc.com/fs/downloads/fsnodemap.gif)
One can deduce that to operate a major shipyard and build an advanced cruiser that you'd need to have resources flowing in and secure shipping routes to move the ships in and out.
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When i first played Fs1 The map said that Beta Aquilae was connected to Sol.I was like Wtf? It said there was only one Jump node but yet there were 2..... :no: :mad2:
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IIRC it was supposedly connected to Deneb or something like that, too.
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Im going to go mess with Fs1port and see if i can find it. :P
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Yep.There are atleast 3-4.
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i think it was Delta Serpentis, Sirius, and Deneb.
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i think it was Delta Serpentis, Sirius, and Deneb.
It was Beta Aquilae.
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I know that black guy is command, its just bl for him that people identify him with command because he's the face that appears during Command messages.
So aside from the node to Laramis, no known nodes in Ross 128?
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Well I can pretty much bet that Ross128 is crawling with SOC and GTVI ships and maybe even a few hidden SOC/GTVI instalations. They are coaming the sistem to find the node the shivans originaly used 32 years ago. And even if it was found i do not believe they would make it a public knoledge.
Why do I say this? Well because both GTVI and SOC must have a base of operations otherwise they could not operate eficiently. And this is one of the most remote sistems in the GTVA and one of the most rick involving sistems. So it would be avoided !
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They could be based of a flagship and use logistical squadrons to resupply them surely?
Mobile is key !
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Yes agreed but even so the GTVI and SOC could not operate for long from a flag ship. This would seriously limit they moves as well as testing of new techs.
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Ross 128 can't be a "off-limits, secret system".
Why? Becouse it's the only way to go from Laramis, Luytien, Worf 359, Bernards Star, Alphard and Dubbe to other GTVA territory.
Therefore it has to have a ****load of traffic going trough it at all times.
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Well i believe you are right but even so it is by all means ar rather it should be a high risk sistem. And it would be a very good place for the GTVI and SOC to have a base of operations hidden within the sistem.
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I bet the Ross 128 system has a heavy military installation, plus heavy military presence. I bet any convoys moving to Lamaris and onwards would be heavily guarded and all that. Plus they probably used Nav beacons to mark out the safe routes.
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If traffic and flight is regulated / policed, Any int-ops / black-ops would obviously be placed in a no-fly zone anyway... I would think ;7