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Title: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Clawandfang on March 26, 2008, 05:36:34 pm
Well... why not? Is there a good reason why the Shivans didn't do this? I reckon this'll probably have already come up at some point, so can somebody direct me there?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mars on March 26, 2008, 05:39:42 pm
Make a Sathanas ib FRED

Check the invulnerable flag

Done
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 26, 2008, 05:41:51 pm
Maybe shielding can be applied on ships below a certain size?

Maybe the Shivans left it out entirely, because the Sathanaseses would still have been vulnerable in subspace. This is, of course, assuming that the Saths were built after the destruction of the Lucifer, which in turn implies that the FS1 Shivans and the FS2 Shivans were closely related, and as a conclusion, this theory assumes a lot of things and can be countered easily.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on March 26, 2008, 05:44:42 pm
Maybe that particular Lucifer was a prototype with shields.  Since it was destroyed they scrapped the shielded cap idea.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: karajorma on March 26, 2008, 05:45:04 pm
Beams go right through player shields and damage the hull without depleting them. One common explanation is that they'd go right through Lucifer shields too. Thus making them those shield pretty much useless against other capships. Balanced against the fact that the shield generators are a weakness in subspace it's probably not worth having them on a Sathanas.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 26, 2008, 05:49:25 pm
IMO it would be because beam cannons would be able to pierce the shields. No canon evidence but still logical.


Otherwise, in my stupid theory (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Snail's_Theory) I think that the Shivans in FS1 and the Shivans in FS2 were not in contact with each other for thousands of years, and the FS1 Shivans were the only ones who "invented" the cap shielding. No canon evidence for that either, but whatever.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Clawandfang on March 26, 2008, 05:50:28 pm
Make a Sathanas ib FRED

Check the invulnerable flag

Done
I was referring to the concept, "plot-wise."
I did think about the sizing issue with the Sath, but the "well they can just get us in subspace argument" holds no depth for me (unless the shields significantley hampered the Sath in other ways) because it would still be useful outside of subspace. Actually, having just written that I have had an interesting thought. Maybe the Shivans don't want the nodes collapsing, so don't want to encourage the GTVA to attack them in subspace. Hmm...

About the beams, how would the Shivans know the GTVA had them until they attacked once again? They didn't have them before, so the Shivans wouldn't have bothered preparing for them. By the time they found out, I can't imagine them having enough time to re-fit the entire fleet because of it.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 26, 2008, 05:56:40 pm
About the beams, how would the Shivans know the GTVA had them until they attacked once again?

Computer simulations, I would guess. They would have enough data for that.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 26, 2008, 06:00:32 pm
About the beams, how would the Shivans know the GTVA had them until they attacked once again?

Computer simulations, I would guess. They would have enough data for that.
Or just speculating. Surely the Shivans noticed during the Great War that especially the Terrans had this annoying habit of adapting to different situations and, more importantly, studying and reverse-engineering Shivan tehcnologies. It wouldn't be hard to guess that maybe they observed the Lucy's flux cannons and decided to study beam weapon technology.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Hippo on March 26, 2008, 10:14:29 pm
if the sathanas had Lucifer esque shields, it wouldnt be hurtable with non beam weapons, making bearbaiting quite unnescessary
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: blowfish on March 26, 2008, 10:16:55 pm
if the sathanas had Lucifer esque shields, it wouldnt be hurtable with non beam weapons, making bearbaiting quite unnescessary

Not so much unnecessary as useless and futile.  The Colossus would have bit it pretty quickly had those beams been operational.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: lenard27 on March 27, 2008, 12:09:53 pm
Also, I'd imagine it would take tremendous power to operate those shields because they have to cover the entire surface area of the ship and the Sath has a lot more area to cover than the Lucifer did.  And a Sath has 4 major beam cannons to the Lucifer's 2 so that requires even more power consumption.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Polpolion on March 27, 2008, 12:14:01 pm
1) Beams go through shields.
2) The Sath is a lot bigger than the Lucifer. It needs more power.
3) The Sath would need like 6 more reactors.
4) Reactors are a liability in Subspace (last mission of FS1).
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Krallis on March 27, 2008, 12:21:21 pm
Maybe the technology of the shields was lost when the lucifer exploded andsince the wreckage is trapped in Sol there's not much chance of getting it back. This could be possible considering there wasn't more than one lucifer.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: achtung on March 27, 2008, 12:29:27 pm
Maybe the technology of the shields was lost when the lucifer exploded andsince the wreckage is trapped in Sol there's not much chance of getting it back. This could be possible considering there wasn't more than one lucifer.

I think they would've designed the ship at some point, and I do believe they would have schematics stored somewhere.  :p
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Hellstryker on March 27, 2008, 12:40:19 pm
I agree with snails theory  :p
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Droid803 on March 27, 2008, 05:17:37 pm
The Sathanas doesn't NEED shields.
Its got a Supercap flag. Meaning, nothing without BGreens or BFGreens (or LRBGreens) can hurt it below 75%. Well, they can. But it will take freaking ages.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mustang19 on March 27, 2008, 05:23:02 pm
Quote from: Karajorma
Beams go right through player shields and damage the hull without depleting them. One common explanation is that they'd go right through Lucifer shields too. Thus making them those shield pretty much useless against other capships. Balanced against the fact that the shield generators are a weakness in subspace it's probably not worth having them on a Sathanas.

1) V has stated that the Ancients were only 20 years ahead of the FS1 Terrans/Vasudans in all areas except subspace technology. This might mean that the Ancients have beam tech.

2) In FS1 cutscenes, the Ancients seem to talk about the invincibility of the Lucifer even though they found out how to destroy it at the very end. In other words, they couldn't beam through those shields.

So perhaps the Lucifer's shields were invulnerable or very resistant to beam fire. We don't know. In terms of "what V intended", I just write it off as a plot hole that Volition didn't care for.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 27, 2008, 05:54:26 pm
1) V has stated that the Ancients were only 20 years ahead of the FS1 Terrans/Vasudans in all areas except subspace technology. This might mean that the Ancients have beam tech.

My name's Mobius. And I think you're wrong. :v: obviously wanted the Ancients to have 5000 SuperJuggernauts!!! LOLOLOLOL


Sorry. I want to know where and when that was said, because I still have an urge to settle an old discussion with Mobius.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mustang19 on March 27, 2008, 05:57:23 pm
Good question. There are a lot of unsourced V statements ("Shivans are a symptom of a bigger problem, etc.) floating around. I know that the "FS3 will have planet-size ships" thing came from a PXO chat with the developers, but that's it. A few people here have supposedly actually visited their offices in Champaign (sp, for the grammar inquisition), so who knows where it all came from.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 27, 2008, 06:02:07 pm
I'm pretty sure the statement came from after the release of FS2 anyway. So to Mobius: :ha:
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mars on March 27, 2008, 06:06:41 pm
I'm pretty sure the statement came from after the release of FS2 anyway. So to Mobius: :ha:
I'm not the only one who feels like that when I get in a discussion with Mobius?

Quote from: Karajorma
Beams go right through player shields and damage the hull without depleting them. One common explanation is that they'd go right through Lucifer shields too. Thus making them those shield pretty much useless against other capships. Balanced against the fact that the shield generators are a weakness in subspace it's probably not worth having them on a Sathanas.

1) V has stated that the Ancients were only 20 years ahead of the FS1 Terrans/Vasudans in all areas except subspace technology. This might mean that the Ancients have beam tech.

2) In FS1 cutscenes, the Ancients seem to talk about the invincibility of the Lucifer even though they found out how to destroy it at the very end. In other words, they couldn't beam through those shields.

So perhaps the Lucifer's shields were invulnerable or very resistant to beam fire. We don't know. In terms of "what V intended", I just write it off as a plot hole that Volition didn't care for.
IMO Terrans and Vasudans only got beam weaponry because of their encounter with the Shivans. Therefore I doubt the Ancients had beam weapons with their 2355 equivalent technology.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 27, 2008, 07:44:36 pm
My theory: 8472 Theory (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/8472_Theory)
I need to revise it, I left out a bit of stuff.  Basically, the Ancients used subspace to get into a different universe/dimension and attacked the Shivans, the Shivans retaliated, the Ancients were destroyed, the portal to their realm was destroyed.  The Shivans already had beam weaponry, the Sathanases, a Lucifer, and the Lucifer's shields.  They used the Sathanases on the star beyond Gamma Draconis, but it didn't work, the star went supernova, and they had to make an exodus across the galaxy, until they realized that the Terrans and Vasudans would develop space travel, which would cause the subspace shockwave from the Capella star (the star they deemed perfect to get back) going supernova to travel along the subspace nodes and wipe out every charted system in the galaxy.  So, they attacked us to get us to cut off Capella.  Did they get back to their realm?  We may never know for sure.

If you can, please counter my theory or bring up a weak point so I can fix it.  So far, I think that my theory fits pretty well with what's canon.  The Ancients are no better than the Borg...
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mustang19 on March 28, 2008, 08:39:17 am
Can't really argue with anything in the theory.

You see, the information we have on the Shivans is so disjointed that virtually any theory can be justified by canon. I've read the article and I haven't noticed anything really off-the-wall. In fact, virtually every theory has already been discussed to death, so it's rare for anyone to say anything novel.

In general I'd say it looks good. Here are a few little things:

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The supernova of Capella, the star they determined would be perfect for the job, would end life in the galaxy as we knew it, if the shockwaves in subspace were allowed to travel along the subspace conduits that connect stars.

Petrarch never mentioned that the actual supernova would reach the rest of GTVA space; apparently you need a subspace drive to make subspace jumps, matter doesn't just "drift" into and out of subspace.

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Only then would the scientists-made-refugees be led to Altair, where remains of the Ancients would lead them to better subspace technology.

This comes after a mention of Capella, so I assume you're talking about FS2. By FS2 the GTVA was already thoroughly studying the Ancient sites and had probably rediscovered all of the Ancient's subspace technology that they could by then.

What I really like is how you explain what Petrarch meant when he said that the Shivans were looking for a new home. But again, the FS story is pretty disjointed- for all we know V could have been making things up as they went along. So don't worry about having the "correct" theory, there is none.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 28, 2008, 12:10:43 pm
Remember, the GTVA doesn't have the knowledge of subspace that the Shivans do.  The Shivans knew that fear would lead us to cut off the system.  Also, it's not all in order of how it happened.  It sorta goes event, then explain what led to it.  The scientists in Altair was from FS1, after Vasuda Prime was destroyed.  I'll clarify that.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 28, 2008, 03:50:28 pm
Before i can explain my theory on the Sathanas and shields i have to explain my inturpetation of the Death Star.

The Death Star was a huge space station build initially for the purpose of carrying the Super-Laser. Sure, it was large enough to be used for other purposes.
But basically, my understanding of the Death Star is that it is primarily an anti-planetary weapon platform, but is large enough and armed enough to also serve as a Command Centre and Super Carrier.
(I'm ignoring the Tarkin, Eclipse class super-Star Destroyer and the Dark Sabre and others that harried the Super-Laser and going stictly by the films)


---Sathanas
FIRST OFF, I do not in anyway buy the super-node theory. I think they destabalised the star then jumped into subspace to wait out the super-nova. Like diving underwater to avoid waves in the ocean.

IMHO, most of the Sathanas consist of the Subspace weapon Genarator and the reactors that power those 4 BFReds at the front. Individually, Saths probaly functions as dedicated ship-busters. Their could probably take out a small moon on their own. I reackon at least 2/3 to take out a Mercuary sized planet. And the number required increases with planet size. Hey - it did take 80+ to act as a star-buster in capella. Though i reckon that the number Varies according to the size and spctral-type of the star ie 50+ to take out a red-dwarf and 150+ to destroy a super giant.

But basically the sathanas is a subspace-weapon platform

But, i digress. I think for whatever reason the sathanas cant generate the energy required to shield the itself. I dont know, maybe the Subpace weapon reactor, is so delecate that it can't be used for Shield or something like that) Anyway, i figure that in order to genarate the power required to shield a sathanas, it would need more reactors than the lucifer had. Adding these reactors would make the ship bigger. Therefore more power is required to shield the ship. Therefore, more more reactors are required. Therefore the ship gets bigger and the cycle begins all over again.

To put it simply, attempting to shield a Sathanas results in a feedback loop resulting in the ship getting bigger and bigger, until it collapses under its own weight and becomes a black hole. Therefore it is not worth the effort or resources to do so

Personally, i think that the Lucifer was the perfect compromise. It was basically a beam-weapon platform. The two on the arms on the original model. 4 if you go cutscene accurate or use the HTL model. However, the reactors/genarators required for those weapons were small enough that shield genarators could be included.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 28, 2008, 04:53:11 pm
I don't think you'd be able to just "sit" in subspace like that. A supernova can take a looooong time to cool down. I really doubt the Shivans could just stay in subspace for that long.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 28, 2008, 06:12:49 pm
Yes, a supernova takes a long time.  I still think my theory of another universe and that the supernova combined with the subspace stuff takes them to their universe.  Confusing stuff, subspace is.  Also, you must remember that they were not simply "destroying" a star, they were making it go supernova.  Usually, the smaller the star, the stabler, and the larger, the less stable.  As such, it should take fewer Sathanases to make a supergiant go supernova and more to make a dwarf go supernova.  It's all about gravity.  The more mass, the more gravity.  The more gravity, the more fuel it takes to keep the star stable.  It is conceivable that the Sathanases subspace pulses caused Capella's fusion to rapidly increase, then suddenly shut down.  I plan on being a game designer, and I want to make my games as plausible as possible, which is why I enjoy learning science and physics.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 28, 2008, 06:18:38 pm
Capella was not a gas giant, though.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 28, 2008, 06:55:33 pm
 :confused: Where did that come from Snail?

Look. Thats not the point. Im not turning this into a thread about capella theories.

Besides if, as is widely theorised, the shivans are inhabitants of subspace, then waiting around in subspace for the supernova to finish would be simple.

Ignoring the supernova itself for now, i say the sathanas is essentially a mobile subspace weapon platform. It has a crew area to pilot and fire the damn thing and a fighter bay & turrets for defence.
And unlike to Lucifer, it was too big to shield. The bigger the ship, the more shield genarators are required. The more shield genarators there are, the bigger ships.
The Lucifer was the right size to shield of enough importance. and the other shivan caps, FS1 era werent worth shielding
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Killer Whale on March 28, 2008, 10:33:12 pm
If shield's don't block beams (which most people are saying, I don't see why, and if they're photons i have to say that the lasers on your fighter/bomber are similar and get stopped by shields, why beams so differant) then there's not much of a point, if you don't have beams, it's almost as inderstructable by it's massive hitpoints than if it did have shields, and beams go straight through shields, so what's the point? Apart from blocking out meson mines or something, which any good fighter could do (saddly, AI isn't that fantastic).

If shields do block beams (your fighter is smaller than a warship [obviously], it has a smaller reactor [obviously], so it isn't as strong. If the shields did block beams, you'd be left with low shield as well as low hull!! A warship has a bigger reactor, and it's big enough for it's reactors to stop, or at least soften, the power behind a beam, and that shield might just save the thousands of lives on board [plus the cost to make it]) then the juggernauts would have to make a new (and powerfull) reactor that can protect the massive surface area of the ship. That might make it a whole lot bigger, and take a lot more recources to build, and require bigger engines, more armour, and might just double the volume of the ship (doubt it though, but you get my point). Then when you jump into space, the shields miraculously don't work, and is at the most favoured attack spot. As shivans have a sensitivity to subspace, they must view it even more than terrans do (they saw it as a disaster, a great travelling road to travel across, and to expand their race, when sol and cappella went, they were mourned, the shivans probably like it even better, and it is seen as a tremendous disaster to fall a node) and therefore do not want that to happen, and wouldn't encourage their enemies to blow up nodes containing warships.

That a good comment? *hopeful hopeful*
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 29, 2008, 02:34:57 am
If shield's don't block beams (which most people are saying, I don't see why
I believe I have read somewhere that :v: actually stated that the energy output of a beam cannon is enough to punch through the shields. Which is why the GTVA assumed that the Colossus could stop yet another Shivan invasion; even another Lucy. This would also at least partially explain why AAAf beams pierce fighter shields. Note that I'm not sure about this, though. I think I remember reading this, but I'm not certain.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Killer Whale on March 29, 2008, 03:36:00 am
Why doesn't your shield go to zero as so as yiu get hit then?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 29, 2008, 03:41:12 am
Why doesn't your shield go to zero as so as yiu get hit then?
Does your entire house collapse if you drill a hole through the wall?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Killer Whale on March 29, 2008, 03:55:20 am
depends what the drills like, it might tear a wall down, and the rest of the house follows it, or it might make a thin hole in one bit of the wall, or somewhere in between. But a shield equalizes to each quadrant, automatically and quickly (not to the whole ship, just each quadrent), so that would mean the beam has to drill through that entire quadrant and into you ship, but that doesn't happen. Also the bigger and rougher the drill, the more of the wall/house comes down, i think beams are pretty big, even to a twenty metre ship.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 29, 2008, 04:02:00 am
I tend to think that the beams themselves are quite thin, but when they react with the (mostly non-existing) gases and particles in space, a big, shiny and graphically pleasing light effect occurs.

And idk. Maybe AAAf beams have been designed so, that they don't care about shields; just go through.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Killer Whale on March 29, 2008, 04:34:42 am
And soon enough, shields become as useless as when we didn't have them because everyone knows how to punch through them without worrying about them, and new lasers would be made that punch through shields like the beams. Great! Now the shivans have actually go to turn around and face us, with a lot more ships to boot.  :eek2: ande weapons and defences will just become sudden and massively important, then useless and a new one would have to be found like :bump:
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 29, 2008, 04:40:15 am
I tend to think that the beams themselves are quite thin, but when they react with the (mostly non-existing) gases and particles in space, a big, shiny and graphically pleasing light effect occurs.

I think it's because Health & Safety ordered the GTVA to add gases into their beams so you could see where they were. Like tracer rounds. Apparently the Shivans also have Health & Safety.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 29, 2008, 06:50:54 am
I tend to think that the beams themselves are quite thin, but when they react with the (mostly non-existing) gases and particles in space, a big, shiny and graphically pleasing light effect occurs.

I think it's because Health & Safety ordered the GTVA to add gases into their beams so you could see where they were. Like tracer rounds. Apparently the Shivans also have Health & Safety.
No arguments here, Mr. Trent.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanas
Post by: Mawhrin on March 29, 2008, 09:41:56 am
Concerning the topic title - one may as well ask why the Cain doesn't have shields. A shielded, fast anti fighter cruiser would be very useful. I'd suggest that there are trade-offs happening here:

Firstly, cost. Big shields are expensive. It may be that the Shivans have decided to sacrifice quality in exchange for quantity. The existence of Scorpion and Shaitan craft could be examples. Even the lack of beams on FS1 era craft could be. This may be because of strategic overstretch, a huge area to patrol and limited manufacturing capacity. Real world example: the British Royal Navy between the wars built cruisers with limited armament, well below what was allowed by international treaty, as they needed numbers to patrol the Empire and Commonwealth. Other maritime powers, especially Japan, built right up to those limits.

Secondly, the needed extra reactors are themselves vulnerabilities should the shield be bypassed somehow. See the death of the Lucifer.

As the Shivans knew the Lucy had died, and as they saw the GTVA had beams from the encounter in Gamma Draconis, they decided to hold back any shielded ships.

Which leaves the question of why the Lucy had shields. The Shivans wanted a big ship with big beams to kill planets and GTA/PVN destroyers and installations. This is itself a huge investment, and there's a risk the beam cannons would be blown off. As far as they knew, however, the shields would make it utterly impervious to GTA/PVN attacks and thus the extra investment eliminated any risk. The Shivans keep a few shielded ships around for bullying less advanced species.

Maybe AAAf beams have been designed so, that they don't care about shields; just go through.
I was under the impression that anti cap ship beams also pierced fighter shields. It's rare to survive long enough to see if shields are still up.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mischief Maker on March 29, 2008, 10:17:23 am
Well don't forget that the back of the box says that the Shivans are wondering what happened to their scouting party.

So the Shivans might send out lucifer fleets to wipe out species that first develop subspace drive technology.  The fighters with their shields, and the lucifer with its super shields, would be invincible against a species without beam weapons.  By a lucky shot and a one-chance-in-a-million strike mission, the Terrans and Vasudans managed to take advantage of the Lucifer's subspace weakness and survive where the Ancients and countless other species failed.

Since the shivans found in FS2 are in a nebula system, one might assume they are either part of the main bulk of the Shivan military, which eschews shields in favor of overwhelming firepower against beam-using enemies, OR are another specialized type of fleet.  Lucifer fleets are genocide fleets against undeveloped foes, Sathanis fleets are containment fleets against more advanced foes.  Blowing up Capella nicely cut off the GTVA from Shivan (sub?)space, didn't it?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 29, 2008, 10:21:35 am
The stuff on the box is non-canon.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 29, 2008, 11:49:53 am
Well don't forget that the back of the box says that the Shivans are wondering what happened to their scouting party.

So the Shivans might send out lucifer fleets to wipe out species that first develop subspace drive technology.  The fighters with their shields, and the lucifer with its super shields, would be invincible against a species without beam weapons.  By a lucky shot and a one-chance-in-a-million strike mission, the Terrans and Vasudans managed to take advantage of the Lucifer's subspace weakness and survive where the Ancients and countless other species failed.

Since the shivans found in FS2 are in a nebula system, one might assume they are either part of the main bulk of the Shivan military, which eschews shields in favor of overwhelming firepower against beam-using enemies, OR are another specialized type of fleet.  Lucifer fleets are genocide fleets against undeveloped foes, Sathanis fleets are containment fleets against more advanced foes.  Blowing up Capella nicely cut off the GTVA from Shivan (sub?)space, didn't it?

The GTVA cutting off Capella from the Shivans let the Shivans blow up Capella without destroying the rest of Terran-Vasudan space so the Shivans could get home to subspace.  The Lucifer was there to let the Terrans and Vasudans know that they're powerful and that they can destroy us, so they'll cut off Capella later on.  I don't like to think of the Shivans as mindless killing machines with no other wish than to destroy people.  I think they're smarter than that.  I mean, look at it: if the Shivans just wanted to kill everything, then there would be nothing to do, no motivation for anything on a galactic scale.  And the Shivans aren't destroying for resources, they're destroying the resources.  I think they're just trying to get home, but don't want to hurt people.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mawhrin on March 29, 2008, 12:11:08 pm
...which would cause the subspace shockwave from the Capella star (the star they deemed perfect to get back) going supernova to travel along the subspace nodes and wipe out every charted system in the galaxy.  So, they attacked us to get us to cut off Capella.
Why didn't the Shivans destroy the nodes themselves? If they had never opened fire on GTA or PVN vessels would they have been able to pass through unhindered?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 29, 2008, 12:13:33 pm
Because they don't have two old destroyers that they don't need anymore filled with Meson warheads.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 29, 2008, 12:18:15 pm
If we assume that the Shivans could sacrifice two Sathanases, they could have sent those away and, idk, self-destruct them. Of course I am also assuming that the energy output of a Sath is enough to collapse a node, when fully released. And this assumption comes from the fact that a Lucifer was able to do the trick, while a Sath is huuge and has some dastardly forward-facing anti-capital firepower.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Clawandfang on March 29, 2008, 12:54:09 pm
Hang on, the Shivans are the Guardians of Subspace I thought. Why would they be promoting the destuction of nodes?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 29, 2008, 12:57:32 pm
Hang on, the Shivans are the Guardians of Subspace I thought. Why would they be promoting the destuction of nodes?

Yeah wondering that too.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: RedBaron on March 29, 2008, 01:27:29 pm
Well don't forget that the back of the box says that the Shivans are wondering what happened to their scouting party.

So the Shivans might send out lucifer fleets to wipe out species that first develop subspace drive technology.  The fighters with their shields, and the lucifer with its super shields, would be invincible against a species without beam weapons.  By a lucky shot and a one-chance-in-a-million strike mission, the Terrans and Vasudans managed to take advantage of the Lucifer's subspace weakness and survive where the Ancients and countless other species failed.

Since the shivans found in FS2 are in a nebula system, one might assume they are either part of the main bulk of the Shivan military, which eschews shields in favor of overwhelming firepower against beam-using enemies, OR are another specialized type of fleet.  Lucifer fleets are genocide fleets against undeveloped foes, Sathanis fleets are containment fleets against more advanced foes.  Blowing up Capella nicely cut off the GTVA from Shivan (sub?)space, didn't it?

The GTVA cutting off Capella from the Shivans let the Shivans blow up Capella without destroying the rest of Terran-Vasudan space so the Shivans could get home to subspace.  The Lucifer was there to let the Terrans and Vasudans know that they're powerful and that they can destroy us, so they'll cut off Capella later on.  I don't like to think of the Shivans as mindless killing machines with no other wish than to destroy people.  I think they're smarter than that.  I mean, look at it: if the Shivans just wanted to kill everything, then there would be nothing to do, no motivation for anything on a galactic scale.  And the Shivans aren't destroying for resources, they're destroying the resources.  I think they're just trying to get home, but don't want to hurt people.

no^^ do you think theyve destroyed vasuda prime just to show us that theire powerful?

they were going to destroy earth....they were going to kill every single vasudan and terran! They are not JUST trying to get home :doubt: they are ass****...
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 29, 2008, 01:28:57 pm
they were going to destroy earth....they were going to kill every single vasudan and terran! They are not JUST trying to get home :doubt: they are ass****...

Perhaps the Shivans have more than one goal. Maybe they want to destroy T/Vs, but ALSO want to get home.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Clawandfang on March 29, 2008, 01:38:04 pm
They can multi-task? Gosh... the Shivans must be female!

Seriously though, the Shivans appear very single-minded to me. Have you ever seen military Shivan forces retreat? I can't think of any, and this would be a sign of no long-term planning. Hmm... after having written this I realise that they arn't that well connected... ah... make of it what you will.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 29, 2008, 01:56:51 pm
Which is why i believe that the Shivans are Destructivly testing the GTVA. Capella was done for sheer "WTF?!" value to see the reaction.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Droid803 on March 29, 2008, 02:58:46 pm
Or maybe, they're on the run from something even bigger badder and meaner...
And don't want to be bothered.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 29, 2008, 03:20:10 pm
That could work. The shivan fleets are refugees. That would make us mass murderers. Though it makes you wonder. How powerful must this enemy must be to make the shivans run?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 29, 2008, 03:23:00 pm
That could work. The shivan fleets are refugees. That would make us mass murderers.
Still, as far as we know, they shot first.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: NGTM-1R on March 29, 2008, 03:30:45 pm
In addition to the extra surface area to be shielded (and let's face it, the Sath's design is not nearly so efficent in this context as the Lucifer's either), the Sathanas is using up a lot of power on both its BFReds and the star-nuker equipment presumably, and probably on propulsion as well. So shielding it is probably out of the question. Or, they can shield it, but it requires diverting so much power from other systems as to cripple the ship.

We assume the juggernauts that we saw "go dark" in the process of destroying Capella were destroyed in the supernova shockwave, but we didn't actually see it happen. Instead, possibly, they shut down all systems and put the power into the shield devices they haven't used so far because they can move and shoot, or turn on their shields: pick one.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 29, 2008, 03:47:12 pm
Personally i think GTI made the first shots, or did something that honked off the shivans and made them want retaliation. I dont know, maybe they accidently killed the shivan's leader or experimented on the wrong people
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 29, 2008, 03:51:34 pm
I doubt that every war the Shivans got in to was started by a misunderstanding.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 29, 2008, 03:58:07 pm
I dont know. Maybe the shivans take Aliens experimenting on their kind personally, like someone insulted their mother.

Completly new theory.
Maybe the shivans just dont like being insulted.
The whole war with the shivans is because on the unofficial 1st contact before fs2 (it is stated canonically that GTI knew about them prior to Ross 128), Someone from GTI said something like "Your Mother/mum...(Fill rest of insult here)" and the shivans took it personally.

Has any read the star trek book I.Q. by John De Lancie? There;s a bit where he talks about how the conflict between the Q and M continuums started. Basically they met up and decided that they dont like each other. They then stood around not likeing each other for a while trading the odd rude comment. Eventually, someone made the coment "Your Mum!" and that started the whole conflict started.

 I postulate that something like that started the great war with the shivans. And then in FS2, the initial shivan conflict was caused because someone on the NTC Trinity swore at the shivans, saying the worst swareword in the umiverse  :nervous: :nervous: :nervous: "Belgium" (no offence to any Belgians, im a douglas adams fan). Then later when the Iceni comms with the raphraem, Bosch says the worst insult imginable to Shivans "I seem to be having a great deal of difficulty with MY lifestyle lately".

This leads to capella being Nuked
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 29, 2008, 04:00:39 pm
I dont know. Maybe the shivans take Aliens experimenting on their kind personally, like someone insulted their mother.

Insulting someone's mother is a reason for war? A reason to sacrifice millions of their kind?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: blowfish on March 29, 2008, 04:02:17 pm
I dont know. Maybe the shivans take Aliens experimenting on their kind personally, like someone insulted their mother.

Insulting someone's mother is a reason for war? A reason to sacrifice millions of their kind?

Apparently :p
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 29, 2008, 07:57:41 pm
Maybe the Lucifer's reactors are different from the Sathanas' reactors.  It's not enough for there to be an explosion, it has to have a large enough energy density.  And as shown from the ending cutscene from FS2, Terrans and Vasudans don't just live on their home planet.  "Many of us lost a place that we call home."  Plus, they need all the Sathanases they have to destroy Capella.  Just one imbalance in the amount of energy in their subspace pulses could ruin their plans.  They only made as many Sathanases as were necessary to make Capella go supernova.  Then they found out we would develop space technology by the time they got here.

Also, yes, I have seen Shivans retreat.  Several times, in fact.  Can't name a specific mission or anything, but I've lost some directives because Shivan fighter or bomber wings jumped out before I could mercilessly exterminate them. :warp:  :snipe:
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mischief Maker on March 29, 2008, 10:10:10 pm
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And the Shivans aren't destroying for resources, they're destroying the resources.  I think they're just trying to get home, but don't want to hurt people.

Well they sure did a bang-up job of that at Vasuda Prime.

"Bzzexxxbzzzzrrrt!  I thought I told you to set the Lucifer's beam cannons to Hug, not Annihilate!"
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Retsof on March 29, 2008, 10:15:43 pm
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And the Shivans aren't destroying for resources, they're destroying the resources.  I think they're just trying to get home, but don't want to hurt people.

Well they sure did a bang-up job of that at Vasuda Prime.

"Bzzexxxbzzzzrrrt!  I thought I told you to set the Lucifer's beam cannons to Hug, not Annihilate!"
:lol:
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 29, 2008, 11:09:40 pm
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And the Shivans aren't destroying for resources, they're destroying the resources.  I think they're just trying to get home, but don't want to hurt people.

Well they sure did a bang-up job of that at Vasuda Prime.

"Bzzexxxbzzzzrrrt!  I thought I told you to set the Lucifer's beam cannons to Hug, not Annihilate!"

Would you rather they let everything along every subspace connection to Capella get wiped out?  Or just a couple planets that they were still able to evacuate a lot of people from?  Who'd want to live on Vasuda Prime anyway?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Jeff Vader on March 30, 2008, 02:51:38 am
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And the Shivans aren't destroying for resources, they're destroying the resources.  I think they're just trying to get home, but don't want to hurt people.

Well they sure did a bang-up job of that at Vasuda Prime.

"Bzzexxxbzzzzrrrt!  I thought I told you to set the Lucifer's beam cannons to Hug, not Annihilate!"

Would you rather they let everything along every subspace connection to Capella get wiped out?  Or just a couple planets that they were still able to evacuate a lot of people from?  Who'd want to live on Vasuda Prime anyway?
Umm... Vasudans? Say what you want about Vasuda Prime, but for Vasudans, it's still their home.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 30, 2008, 01:50:42 pm
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And the Shivans aren't destroying for resources, they're destroying the resources.  I think they're just trying to get home, but don't want to hurt people.

Well they sure did a bang-up job of that at Vasuda Prime.

"Bzzexxxbzzzzrrrt!  I thought I told you to set the Lucifer's beam cannons to Hug, not Annihilate!"

Would you rather they let everything along every subspace connection to Capella get wiped out?  Or just a couple planets that they were still able to evacuate a lot of people from?  Who'd want to live on Vasuda Prime anyway?
Umm... Vasudans? Say what you want about Vasuda Prime, but for Vasudans, it's still their home.
Yeah, even though where I live is a desert, I wouldn't want it to get destroyed.  But all this brings up a huge flaw in my theory: why couldn't the Shivans have simply built a communications device similar to our own and get their xenolinguists to figure out how to communicate with us?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Droid803 on March 30, 2008, 01:58:59 pm
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And the Shivans aren't destroying for resources, they're destroying the resources.  I think they're just trying to get home, but don't want to hurt people.

Well they sure did a bang-up job of that at Vasuda Prime.

"Bzzexxxbzzzzrrrt!  I thought I told you to set the Lucifer's beam cannons to Hug, not Annihilate!"

Would you rather they let everything along every subspace connection to Capella get wiped out?  Or just a couple planets that they were still able to evacuate a lot of people from?  Who'd want to live on Vasuda Prime anyway?
Umm... Vasudans? Say what you want about Vasuda Prime, but for Vasudans, it's still their home.
Yeah, even though where I live is a desert, I wouldn't want it to get destroyed.  But all this brings up a huge flaw in my theory: why couldn't the Shivans have simply built a communications device similar to our own and get their xenolinguists to figure out how to communicate with us?

They don't have slaves to build them an ETAK.
Or maybe, they were in too much of a hurry.
Or *points to the theory about plasma communication*
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 30, 2008, 02:04:36 pm
Yeah, even though where I live is a desert, I wouldn't want it to get destroyed.  But all this brings up a huge flaw in my theory: why couldn't the Shivans have simply built a communications device similar to our own and get their xenolinguists to figure out how to communicate with us?

They don't have slaves to build them an ETAK.
Or maybe, they were in too much of a hurry.
Or *points to the theory about plasma communication*
So now you're trying to support my theory?  They had plenty of time, they built the Lucifer on the way from the other side of the galaxy.  How hard could it be to scan our communications systems with their advanced sensors and build one?

*/me goes to eat a hard-boiled egg.*
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Droid803 on March 30, 2008, 02:09:01 pm
I actually was going along with this one:

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Trailer_Shivan_Theory
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 30, 2008, 06:43:31 pm
Who says they havent built a comms device like ETAK?

Maybe they just refused contact since any phase in Vasudan or any Terran Languages translates as an insult in Shivan.

Ie "Belgium" could be the worst Shivan swear-word
"I seem to be having a great deal of difficulty with my lifestyle lately" the worst insult imaginable to a shivan
Any greeting/friendship message - A very rude comment about the Shivan's Mother
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: aurora_energy on March 30, 2008, 07:20:57 pm
What if the sathanis used the reactors used to power the EM generator to power the shields whilst they're not in use? Pointless, but possible.
But even so, it would take at least 100 bombers to take one down, and even then it would take a while. you need beams... and beams go straight through shields.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on March 30, 2008, 09:24:21 pm
IMO it would be because beam cannons would be able to pierce the shields. No canon evidence but still logical.


Otherwise, in my stupid theory (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Snail's_Theory) I think that the Shivans in FS1 and the Shivans in FS2 were not in contact with each other for thousands of years, and the FS1 Shivans were the only ones who "invented" the cap shielding. No canon evidence for that either, but whatever.

       Hmmn, my theories vaguely similar. But rather than that, I just figure the nebula and/or shivan comm node system are REALLY far away. The Lucifer fleet came through the Knossos, and then in desperation to stem the tide the Ancients turned off the Gamma Draconis Knossos. So the Lucifer was trapped here, but that didnt matter since the Ancients couldn't touch it anyway. So the Lucifer wipes out the Ancients, and its fleet goes around looking for other guys.
       Then the GTA/PVN comes along, the ancient Lucifer fleet is still nearby and eventually attacks them but once they're destroyed the Shivans are all gone. Then 20 years later, some douche bag turns on the portal and re-opens the door to shivans and from out of the portal comes the new, advanced Shivan fleet. The new fleet is equipped all with beam weapons, but they've abandoned the Lucifer idea since they decided to go with other tactics. Hell, maybe the whole thing about ancient ruins giving new enemies ways to kill us (the shivans) has led them to nuking the entire star system instead of just the planetary surface. After all, the shivans dont really care about planets. Supernovas will give them more fuel as nebulas, and they can get ship building material from wherever. Debris, anything.
       Maybe they've also decided to not put all their eggs in one basket, why have one super weapon when you can have 80 not-quite-as-super-but-still-really-buttkicking weapons.

       But basically, Lucifer fleet is an older-style Shivan fleet that was trapped on the wrong side of the knossos. (wrong side for both the Shivans and the Ancients, haha)
       Sathanas fleet is a new style Shivan fleet (and much more up-to-date).
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Droid803 on March 30, 2008, 10:46:14 pm
       Then the GTA/PVN comes along, the ancient Lucifer fleet is still nearby and eventually attacks them but once they're destroyed the Shivans are all gone. Then 20 years later, some douche bag turns on the portal and re-opens the door to shivans and from out of the portal comes the new, advanced Shivan fleet.

Bosch had the portal opened so he could ally with the Shivans. He didn't intend for a second great war, it just happened that way.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on March 31, 2008, 12:15:42 am
       Then the GTA/PVN comes along, the ancient Lucifer fleet is still nearby and eventually attacks them but once they're destroyed the Shivans are all gone. Then 20 years later, some douche bag turns on the portal and re-opens the door to shivans and from out of the portal comes the new, advanced Shivan fleet.

Bosch had the portal opened so he could ally with the Shivans. He didn't intend for a second great war, it just happened that way.

       Yeah I know what his intentions were. And as noble as they may have been, he's still the cause of countless deaths in both the NTF-Rebellion and the second Shivan-incursion.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 31, 2008, 01:35:19 pm
Ie "Belgium" could be the worst Shivan swear-word
"I seem to be having a great deal of difficulty with my lifestyle lately" the worst insult imaginable to a shivan
Any greeting/friendship message - A very rude comment about the Shivan's Mother

Shivans don't communicate with sound, they communicate with quantum pulses.

And the concept is stupid. It's not like "hello, we want to make peace with your species" is a swear word in Japanese/French/Italian/Latin/Mobuisian or anything.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: ShadowGorrath on March 31, 2008, 01:39:09 pm
Lucifer is 12 times smaller than a Sathanas and needs much less energy to have it working. Sathanas would need aprox 60-62 reactors.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 31, 2008, 02:06:21 pm
Lucifer is 12 times smaller than a Sathanas and needs much less energy to have it working. Sathanas would need aprox 60-62 reactors.
Where'd you get that figure?  The Colossus, which is 12km long, fits 12 Lucies, as said by the cutscene.  The Sathanas is 6km long, about half the size of the Colossus (well, maybe 2/3 the size, if you're actually going by volume).
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mars on March 31, 2008, 02:09:49 pm
Uh... no.

They're both 6 km
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on March 31, 2008, 02:16:01 pm
Where'd you get that figure?  The Colossus, which is 12km long, fits 12 Lucies, as said by the cutscene.  The Sathanas is 6km long, about half the size of the Colossus (well, maybe 2/3 the size, if you're actually going by volume).

Wrong.

The Colossus is 6km, as is the Sathanas. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanas
Post by: Mawhrin on March 31, 2008, 02:26:26 pm
The Lucifer fleet came through the Knossos, and then in desperation to stem the tide the Ancients turned off the Gamma Draconis Knossos. So the Lucifer was trapped here, but that didnt matter since the Ancients couldn't touch it anyway. So the Lucifer wipes out the Ancients, and its fleet goes around looking for other guys.
Interesting... but still I would have expected rather more technological change in 8 millennia. According to Wikipedia, which is Completely Reliable [citation needed], three thousand years after the Ancient-Shivan war humans invented... the wheel. Hence I suspect that Shivans utterly suck at developing tech, and got their tech from someone else. Possibly this donor race was also a Shivan creator race. The Shivans may still have had enough creativity to shrink beam cannons so they can fit on non-Lucy ships.

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some douche bag
An entirely fair description of Bosch, regardless of his intentions.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on March 31, 2008, 05:58:48 pm
Where'd you get that figure?  The Colossus, which is 12km long, fits 12 Lucies, as said by the cutscene.  The Sathanas is 6km long, about half the size of the Colossus (well, maybe 2/3 the size, if you're actually going by volume).

Wrong.

The Colossus is 6km, as is the Sathanas. :rolleyes:
Hm.  Where'd I get 12 from?  I gotta start paying more attention to these things...
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 31, 2008, 08:02:06 pm
Besides, the Lucifer is grossly undersize in that cutscene. See the Trivia/Innacuracies page on the Wiki
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanas
Post by: Akalabeth Angel on March 31, 2008, 09:23:54 pm
Interesting... but still I would have expected rather more technological change in 8 millennia. According to Wikipedia, which is Completely Reliable [citation needed], three thousand years after the Ancient-Shivan war humans invented... the wheel. Hence I suspect that Shivans utterly suck at developing tech, and got their tech from someone else. Possibly this donor race was also a Shivan creator race. The Shivans may still have had enough creativity to shrink beam cannons so they can fit on non-Lucy ships.

       Yeah, well you know what Hawking or some other famous guy said about the possibly of contacting alien races. If we ever do find aliens, odds are they're going to be "Apes or Angels". Meaning, far less advanced than us or mind-boggling advanced.
        If the Shivans were angels (or more accurately, demons) there wouldn't be much of a game would there? Having advanced races stagnate is a fairly common thread in popular sci fi as it allows the backwards humans to catch up. So I'd say leave it at:

         "The Shivans are really old and can wipe the floor with us, but because they're not too advanced it's still fun when they're doing it."
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: terran_emperor on March 31, 2008, 09:44:36 pm
On the other hand, they could be toying with us.

I personally believe that the Lucifer's shields are completely impenitrable to anything other that BReds, BFReds and the Semi-Canon Lucifer-Beams (Super Lasers were a cop-out in FS1 in place of actual beam weapon). The only time they are vulnerable is in Subspace. If the Lucifer had been faster, then it would not have been defeated.

Anyway, seeing the Sathanas Fleet in operation and combined with Lucifers, it is painfully obvious that they are capable of wiping the floor with us anytime. They just choose not to.
Sometime the most sadistic thing to do is give someone hope the snatch it from them. So when we finally have hope of victory, thay will do the Genocide dance on us
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanas
Post by: Mawhrin on March 31, 2008, 10:47:31 pm
Yeah, well you know what Hawking or some other famous guy said about the possibly of contacting alien races. If we ever do find aliens, odds are they're going to be "Apes or Angels". Meaning, far less advanced than us or mind-boggling advanced.
Arthur C Clarke
 (http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3aa.html)
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        If the Shivans were angels (or more accurately, demons) there wouldn't be much of a game would there? Having advanced races stagnate is a fairly common thread in popular sci fi as it allows the backwards humans to catch up. So I'd say leave it at:

         "The Shivans are really old and can wipe the floor with us, but because they're not too advanced it's still fun when they're doing it."
I prefer to minimise handwaving. Also, saying Shivans got their tech from somewhere else involves a new race, which itself opens up new plot possibilities.

FS is never going to be very realistic though. Space fighters (http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3x.html#fighters) are a highly dubious element.

Spoiler:
Rickrolled? April 1st? Or is it always like that?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: S-99 on April 01, 2008, 04:50:17 am
One theory why the lucifer had shields and no other shivan ever did could be that the lucifer was designed as a terror weapon. The lucifer obviously had a different kind of science going into which was sort of worthless. 5 reactors to get the lucifer fully shielded, that's sort of unnecessary since it's just a destroyer and in the fs1 era tv ships wouldn't have been able to stand toe to toe with it anyway because of the lucy's beams. It would have caused just as much terror in fs1 had it not been shielded because it'd be wiping out capships with it's beams anyway. The fact that the lucifer had shielding which was sort of unneeded, it definitely made it even more feared since bombs and primaries couldn't get through it's shields and that is when the lucy gets the heralded "invulnerable" labeling from tv forces. The lucy struck fear and terror more than anything with it's shielding and the relatively few targets it took out (lucy didn't do too much).

And why would a sath need shielding anyway? They're so hard to destroy, it takes a couple of coordinated strikes with a lot of forces to take one down. A collie head to head with a sath...the collie is going to die first (unless of course the collie gets into a more strategic position for taking on the sath). And even still, it takes a long time for the collie to take down a sath than it takes a sath to take down a collie. The collie should stick with eating destroyers by itself, and only take on a sath like a wimp calling for many many others to help in the fight.

This raises another question? Did the collie ever do any orbital bombardments against ntf positions on planets. Probably not, but it could definitely do it lucy style if needed.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on April 01, 2008, 07:39:06 am
This raises another question? Did the collie ever do any orbital bombardments against ntf positions on planets. Probably not, but it could definitely do it lucy style if needed.
She'd need some adjustments to the beams she uses against ships, they all have a range of ~4km.  The ISS orbits Earth at around 340km up.  Hmm...  :drevil: *goes off to make a Planetary Bombardment Beam...*
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Admiral_Stones on April 01, 2008, 08:22:47 am
Well, if you take a look at the FS2 Lucifer, you'll see it's originally über beams were replaced with SReds, which may mean they are extremely weak already by the time FS2 comes in.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mawhrin on April 01, 2008, 09:06:05 am
5 reactors to get the lucifer fully shielded, that's sort of unnecessary since it's just a destroyer and in the fs1 era tv ships wouldn't have been able to stand toe to toe with it anyway because of the lucy's beams.

And why would a sath need shielding anyway? They're so hard to destroy, it takes a couple of coordinated strikes with a lot of forces to take one down.
In both cases, their handful of main beam cannons could be otherwise destroyed by bombers, rendering them tough-to-kill but much less dangerous. Neither have great secondary armament.

Shielding prevents surgical strikes against subsystems. Big win in a fighter-dominated universe like FreeSpace.

Placing shields around vital subsystems and turrets only would be a decent compromise. There's no canon evidence that this is possible. Perhaps a shield cannot have edges, but must fully enclose its subject. But then how do resupply ships dock with shielded fighters?.

EMPs work through fighter shields so presumably they work through the Lucy's too. Spam the Lucy's main guns with EMPs, and run away.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: S-99 on April 01, 2008, 03:43:24 pm
HAHAHA Happy april ****ing fools you ****ers! I was wondering why my post in this thread has mars name on it :mad: :no:
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Retsof on April 01, 2008, 05:24:13 pm
Well, if you take a look at the FS2 Lucifer, you'll see it's originally über beams were replaced with SReds, which may mean they are extremely weak already by the time FS2 comes in.
:eek2: :wtf: I don't remember posting that...  :nervous: :shaking:

HAHAHA Happy april ****ing fools you ****ers! I was wondering why my post in this thread has mars name on it :mad: :no:
Ohhhh... I get it... Jerk... :ick:
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mars on April 01, 2008, 08:52:14 pm
Hey, I like my name
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on April 01, 2008, 09:41:19 pm
I just thought of another way to do something like this if one were to make a mod, so you can have it impervious to laser/plasma and projectile weapons, but no beam weapons.  Make an addition to the armor table that multiplies laser/plasma and projectile weapons' damage by 0, but leave beams alone.  Can't believe I didn't think of that sooner  :snipe:...  This'll be a big part of the GTVJ Judaculla.  Mm, hmm, 4 giant matter/antimatter reactors to power the weapons, new bio-neural computer technology to make the weapons far more accurate, 4 GINORMOUS matter/antimatter reactors to power the engines (top speed of 65 m/s), and a Lucy-style shield generator that's bigger (~1.7x) than the Lucifer herself.  3 huge hangars that together hold 100 wings of 4 ships each, 5x BFRed, 28x BFGreen, more flak and blob turrets than I want to count...  The turrets alone are probably going to take a month, what with school and all :doubt:.  I'm making the blueprints in the GIMP, making use of the Bank Gothic font :D.

(And yes, it's going to be a joint effort with the Terrans and Vasudans, this time with a Vasudan CO (Prince Khonsu IV (Khonsu V is the new Vasudan emperor))).
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Admiral_Stones on April 02, 2008, 12:37:14 am
Uhm... Faster than most heavy bombers... ok.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: S-99 on April 02, 2008, 03:16:18 am
 :mad: Now it says my post is done by haloboy :no:
Ohhhh... I get it... Jerk... :ick:
Back at you. I never enjoyed april fools at all, and this username switch up thing needs to happen.

I just thought of another way to do something like this if one were to make a mod, so you can have it impervious to laser/plasma and projectile weapons, but no beam weapons.  Make an addition to the armor table that multiplies laser/plasma and projectile weapons' damage by 0, but leave beams alone.  Can't believe I didn't think of that sooner  :snipe:...  This'll be a big part of the GTVJ Judaculla.  Mm, hmm, 4 giant matter/antimatter reactors to power the weapons, new bio-neural computer technology to make the weapons far more accurate, 4 GINORMOUS matter/antimatter reactors to power the engines (top speed of 65 m/s), and a Lucy-style shield generator that's bigger (~1.7x) than the Lucifer herself.  3 huge hangars that together hold 100 wings of 4 ships each, 5x BFRed, 28x BFGreen, more flak and blob turrets than I want to count...  The turrets alone are probably going to take a month, what with school and all :doubt:.  I'm making the blueprints in the GIMP, making use of the Bank Gothic font :D.

(And yes, it's going to be a joint effort with the Terrans and Vasudans, this time with a Vasudan CO (Prince Khonsu IV (Khonsu V is the new Vasudan emperor))).

An april fools juggie? Or a juggie that shouldn't be made. I mean wtf? Too many weapons and too fast. How about you make it as maneuverable as a perseus too.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on April 02, 2008, 05:21:06 am
He's just kidding... I hope...
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Admiral_Stones on April 02, 2008, 06:31:21 am
Will it be 10 km?
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on April 02, 2008, 11:03:45 am
No, it's going to be 50km, it has to be bigger than the Gargant.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Mawhrin on April 02, 2008, 12:30:14 pm
5x BFRed, 28x BFGreen, more flak and blob turrets than I want to count...
If you're going to make an überjug, you may as well replace the blobs with something more useful, such as morning stars or kaysers. Although if it's immune to bombs anyway, it could only include beams.

Isn't there an engine limit to the number of active turrets?

An april fools juggie?

It's in his sig. Maybe the specs are April Fools.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Snail on April 02, 2008, 12:31:12 pm
Kopachris, you can't be serious. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Retsof on April 02, 2008, 05:32:14 pm
:mad: Now it says my post is done by haloboy :no:
Ohhhh... I get it... Jerk... :ick:
Back at you. I never enjoyed april fools at all, and this username switch up thing needs to happen.
I meant whoever was changing the names up, not you.
Title: Re: Lucifer shields on a Sathanis
Post by: Kopachris on April 02, 2008, 07:28:35 pm
You don't have to use it if you don't want to...