[Black Wolf]

I've never believed that the ancients empire covered the entire galaxy, nor that they went intergalactic. I'd be happy with a dramatic interp of the cutscene, or even that they had a single node spreading into a nother galaxy (maybe this was what drew the Shivans to them in the first place?)

[Mongoose]

I kind of like the interpretation that the Ancient-Shivan War Act 1 went with, where the Ancients discovered a node leading to one of the Magellanic Clouds.  If nothing else, it allowed for an absolutely gorgeous skybox of a spiral galaxy.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

There was a skybox of a spiral galaxy in ASW1? I didn't notice.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

There was a skybox of a spiral galaxy in ASW1? I didn't notice.

Did you even play it? That skybox is pretty hard to miss

http://www.sectorgame.com/ASW/ASWGallery.html

[Colonol Dekker]

Whaaaaaaaaaaaa.





Malia sensor cruiser, i don't remember it
It's pretty damn nice.



EDIT- Just saw the pic showing its big red arse. I rmember them now

[Mongoose]

There was a skybox of a spiral galaxy in ASW1? I didn't notice.

There was an issue with the skybox texture being too hi-res for older video cards (like mine) to display, which at least in my case led to a plain white background.  I resized the texture down a power of two myself, and the skybox displayed properly, albeit a big grainy.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I don't think it was a skybox texture issue on my end. Looking at FSF's link, I think I assumed it to be just another nebula back then.

[Marcov]

The only thing I dislike about it is that it's really bright in the middle.

Best background I've seen ever, though 

[Snail]

oops i accidentally voted wrong

[BengalTiger]

They might be telling the truth about the multiple galaxies. If so, they most likely colonized a few star systems, raised the Ancient Flag of the Awesomeness of the Race to claim the whole spiral to themselves and moved on to expand.

Then they wrote about themselves as being a multi-galactic empire.