[Bobboau]

I honestly think they were consiterably more advanced than the FS1 Tarrens and Vasudans, just based on the echnology they have left us and the vast empire they managed to atain.

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[wEvil]

I beleive the ancients were highly culturally advanced and had a great knowledge of subspace.

Anyway - i'm working on a few bits and peices but as soon as i extract my fingers from all the pies they're in you might see some images  


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[Ace]

They had a great deal about sub-space by expanding on races from before them, much like the Terrans and Vasudans now do.

The fact that their technology is not as advanced as many here believe came out of the horses' mouth at Volition.

More than likely, their combat technologies included systems similar to the Avenger, but they did not have defensive or offensive systems capable of even puncturing Shivan shielding, this is known.

Despite warring with dozens of races, their empire more than likely collapsed in a matter of weeks. (much like the alliance would have fallen if it was not for GTI previous experience with Shivan technology which allowed for shield systems to be engineered quickly)

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[Nico]

Hem, something always make me smile: it is said in the fs1 cutscene that they slained lots of civilisation that didn't evolved as fast as their own... Ok, so everybody thinks: woo, they must be very advanced!!! Now imagine the GTA from the begining of the first shivan war. Not that powerful right? Now throw them  on thousands of civilisations, ot the vasudans, not the shivans. Stone, Iron age civilisation, that doesn't know anything about subspace, space battles, technology? That's how I see what happened. They crushed civilisations that didn't reach space technology. Not always, anyway, because we know that they met other space faring species (the fact that they were not surprised, at first, to meet the shivans). They were more evolved than the others, but not more than the shivans.

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[Ace]

...and the grand prize goes to Venom! Whee!

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[wEvil]

so what about the...errr...ancient ancients.



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