[Scourge of Ages]

Third
The icini in the nebula. Why did the Shivans kill almost all of the crew but extract Bosch and key oficers? Did the Shivans just want Bosch for somekind of an experiment, or did Bosch tell the shivans to kill everyon else?       

It's seems most logical to me that Bosch just said, "Come get me, my ship will be here." The Shivans showed up and boarded. Unfortunately, most of the crew of the Iceni weren't told that Shivans would be trying to make non-shooty contact, and started reacting naturally. Cue slaughter, and then Bosch and his lieutenants board the transport once it quiets down a little.
I couldn't begin to imagine what went on after that, but it easily explains why there was combat on the Iceni.

[Grizzly]

I doubt it, the flux cannons were actually a good idea and looked decent.
FSPort made beam cannons out of Lucifer's SSLs, but I don't think it's a good idea, especially that the last time I checked, the beam had retail quality effects.

I think the Port's SSLBeam looks markedly better than the old Streamers o' Doom.

But in any case, the general consensus is that, if had wanted beam weapons (read: "flux cannons") on something like a Demon in FS1, they could have easily added them.  If the FS1 engine could handle a single Lucifer firing them, it could easily do the same for a single Demon.  The fact that no other ships used these weapons suggests that only wanted them on the Lucifer.

Off-course they would have wanted that. If the lucifer only had it's shields, it wouldn't look nearly as badass as it looks now.

[Hippo]

All your answers lay here;

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=450.msg8214#msg8214