It depends on whether the mission where the Psamtik is destroyed is the mission Snipes relates to in the briefing for "Into the Lions den". He states that the Knossos you are exploring was "another, found by Intel even deeper in the
nebula."
That seems to suggest a second one to me. Especially as you where on a "capture and contain" mission for the Vasudan battle fleet, not an intel mission, when you find the 2nd portal.
Don't use qoutation marks unless you're making a direct qoute. What you're doing is paraphasing, and it's incorrect. Here's the exact text:
"SOC needs a unit to fly suicide to check out a second Knossos device the Vasudans found deep in the nebula."From the above we can decipher three things:
-its the second Knossos
-the Vasudans found it
-its deep in the nebula.
In the mission where the second Knossos is found the player is with the GVD Psamtik in the officer exchange program. The mission takes place deep in the nebula. Clearly, this portal is the one that Snipes is referring to. There's no reason that Snipes would know or care what the player was doing two days before, there he wouldnt' say "that you found deep in the nebula.". Also note the inflight message titled "No idea":
"What? Do I look Shivan to you? Uh-oh. Take a look at this. Knossos device number three. 150 clicks out in right field. Where the hell are we?" If there were two Knossos in the nebula, Snipes would label it number four. He doesn't. He calls it number 3.
Number 1 is/was in Gamma Draconis
Number 2 is in the nebula
Number 3 is in the binary system featured in loop2-2.fs2
No as they recive the technology to find an almost infinitely tiny pinhole in normal space that a particular Shivan vessel used to open a subspace tunnel to Sol. If the GTA could find that, and the sensors the Ekrikson used to scan
the system were based on that tech suggests a hypothesis that the knossos was heavily stealthed to all wavebands to prevent detection. this is why Bosh needed the tech he aqquried from the ancient digs... only it could scan and locate inactive Knossos devices.
Exactly, which suggests that the GTVA would be unaware of any other knossos devices in their space... Without the device Bosh used to find the Knossos in FS2 they may never be found.
At what point does it say that the GTC Trinity used an alien (ancient) artifact/device to find the Knossos? I am and always have been under the impression that Bosch found records of the Knossos' existence and position, and data on how to activate it. Nothing more.
Why would the Knossos be stealthed? The ancients who built the thing weren't challenged until they met up with the Shivans, they had never retreated. Why would they have any need to hide the device from sensors?
As for the Lucifer. I don't remember anything about them finding a pinhole in space, just that the Lucifer was tracked through subspace.
Nope, not in all systems. I`m suggesting that the Knossos in Gamma draconis, a device which allowed a huge jump into a section of space so far away that the GTVA didn`t know where it was, was not the only one.
The Knossos led to a gas filled nebula with no points of reference such as position of the stars. There's no way of knowing if the nebula was 10 light years away or 50,000. To assume it's "far away" is therefore unfounded. The binary system in loop2-2 did have stars visible but there was no indication from any briefing/debriefing about where the system was located. If GTVI did figure out where it was, I doubt the player would have been informed. Not at least until FS3 as in the missions following loop2-2 there's more important things to think about.
