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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace Discussion => Topic started by: NickM on February 13, 2007, 09:56:56 pm
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A forgot where I read this but...I vaguely recall in the story SOMEBODY actually tried to communicate with the Shivans & actually got a response but they gave only one word in reply: "Die!" was all the response supposedly said; So...Does anyone know if this little exchange is actually part of any of the active campaigns or mods or some bit of fan fiction?
TIA;
NickM
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Fan fiction, most certainly.... Dunno what campaign it would have been in if any though.
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That psychopath y'all know and love, Hieronymus van Aken Bosch.
HE SEES THINGS OTHERS DON'T!
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What, you mean like Shivans boarding his ship, slaughtering his command crew, and then taking him off for some wookie love?
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A forgot where I read this but...I vaguely recall in the story SOMEBODY actually tried to communicate with the Shivans & actually got a response but they gave only one word in reply: "Die!" was all the response supposedly said; So...Does anyone know if this little exchange is actually part of any of the active campaigns or mods or some bit of fan fiction?
TIA;
NickM
I think you are remembering the movie Independence Day :lol:
"What do you want?"
Dieeee! DIEEEE!
...at which point the alien tries to kill the POTUS through the possessed human, and the Secret Service pump about 50 rounds from their semi-auto pistols into the suicidal alien's body, finally finishing him off with a few headshots. 8)
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Oh, I remember 'Independence Day'; that Alien was actually quite chatty speaking thru professor Data!
I am pretty sure that one word reply ('DIE!') involved the Shivans & I'm pretty sure it was fan fiction; I was only wondering if this was based on one of the better known mods like 'Silent Threat' or some other one;
NickM
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...quite chatty...
rofl :lol:
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In canon, the Shivans don't say anything other than "<incoming transmission>". :P
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If I remember right, diplomatic contact with the Shivans resulted in the deaths of the diplomats.
Unless Shivans talk via gunfire, then negotiations have been quite heated.
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Like in the Capella barbecue/Deus Ex Machina?
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Snail:
I've never played Deus Ex Machina; care to elaborate?
NickM
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If that's a joke, I apoligize for missing it.
If not, Deus Ex Machina isn't a mission - it's a concept, referring to a completely out of the blue and very arbitrary way of reconciling conflict at the end of a story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
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Deus Ex Machina was a campaign that mocked many of the errors in logic of the Freespace series.
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If that's a joke, I apoligize for missing it.
If not, Deus Ex Machina isn't a mission - it's a concept, referring to a completely out of the blue and very arbitrary way of reconciling conflict at the end of a story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina
Nope...s'no joke; I know that there's a campaign called 'DeM' but have never played it; I thought maybe the quote ("DIE") was from THAT campaign...NOW....given Mars' comments in HIS post I might just give it a shot;
NickM
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I think you are remembering the movie Independence Day :lol:
"What do you want?"
Dieeee! DIEEEE!
...at which point the alien tries to kill the POTUS through the possessed human, and the Secret Service pump about 50 rounds from their semi-auto pistols into the suicidal alien's body, finally finishing him off with a few headshots. 8)
POTUS?! Lol! And the alien did say something else before.
I know there is much we can learn from each other, but only if we can negotiate a truce. We can learn to co-exist. Can there be a peace between us?
Peace. No peace.
What is it you want us to do?
Die. Die.
That's probably not completely correct.
The alien doesn't try to kill him, he uses telepathy to show him what they are up to. IMO the ID4 aliens always seemed similar to the Shivans. Impenatrable shields, big planet/city-destroying ships etc...
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POTUS?! Lol! And the alien did say something else before.
You do know what POTUS means, don't you? :D
BTW, the human that got possessed didn't survive... not sure if that was intentional (I thought it was, considering the message!) or not. If the alien could have, he'd have killed them all... remember when he first got loose before possessing the doctor, he was killing everyone in the room. :shaking:
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I think he just killed the guy and used him as a translator.
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Prolly
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Nope...s'no joke; I know that there's a campaign called 'DeM' but have never played it; I thought maybe the quote ("DIE") was from THAT campaign...NOW....given Mars' comments in HIS post I might just give it a shot;
NickM
Trust me, it wasn't from DeM. When you play the final mission you'll see why. :p
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Dark Hunter;
S'no problem...the concept of the story sounds amusing...trouble is I can't find myself a link...might you be able to point me to a download point for it?
NM
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From Skippy's Campaign list, you can find it:
http://campaignlist.hard-light.net/campaign-12-deus_ex_machina.htm