[magatsu1]

wasn't the arrival of the Shivans the reason for the Terran/Vasudan armistace ?

Um, I mean the best when I say this, but some of you guys get too wound up in little details you know. Just chill-out and accept some the things are just the way they are.

[Stunaep]

Yes, but where's the fun in that?

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Stunaep
Yes, but where's the fun in that?

[Flipside]

Maybe the fishes take a more 'active' role in Vasudan breeding rituals than we think

Flipside

[Unknown Target]

The Ancients are dead. Completely and totally dead, so far as we know, judging from the FS1 Monolouges. They all retreated back to their main homeworld (which was like Earth in the movie, BTW), and it was completely destroyed, NOT by the Lucifer, but by some sort of oribatal bomb thingy. Look at the video, there's simply a big explosion, no beam or anything.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Ferret
....
I bet [V] never actually thought of all that.

Volition never looked deeper into the universe they have gone with the story ... perhaps FS3 would have revealed more info, but it is of the past.

The forth question was one I had in my mind, but I daren't ask it here. I know why this is: [V] didn't have a Vasudan female in their mind. As simple as oneplusone.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Unknown Target
The Ancients are dead..... Look at the video, there's simply a big explosion, no beam or anything.

Hypersuper Shivan Atomic bomb?
I thought that is only a sun rising up...

[diamondgeezer]

But they have a female Vasudan voice. I don't see your logic.

[TopAce]

You don't see my logic, because I didn't know that [V] has done a female Vasudan voice

OK, Volition had this in mind, but they haven't implemented it, or implemented it, but it was not noticed.

[diamondgeezer]

Listen to the Vasudan voices in game. There's a male one and a female one. Well, two pilots anyway, there's a male Vasudan voice for Vasudan command as well

[Havock]

Originally posted by Hippo
#4

Hm... Uh... Well...
Carl could tell you about Shivans...

where's carl anyway?

here boy!

come on then!

*makes noise with lunchpack*

[karajorma]

Originally posted by magatsu1
Um, I mean the best when I say this, but some of you guys get too wound up in little details you know. Just chill-out and accept some the things are just the way they are.

Quite often the details can be very important to the campaign setting.

The Mercury Affair for instance involves several missions based on where command is and how they pass their orders on to other ships. When someone asks a question about that (as someone did recently) I stated my theory cause in my campaign that is how the things work.

 If I don't and a different theory becomes the accepted fact then I'm going to get lots of complaints that Command doesn't work that way.

[Hippo]

Originally posted by karajorma


Quite often the details can be very important to the campaign setting.

The Mercury Affair for instance involves several missions based on where command is and how they pass their orders on to other ships. When someone asks a question about that (as someone did recently) I stated my theory cause in my campaign that is how the things work.

 If I don't and a different theory becomes the accepted fact then I'm going to get lots of complaints that Command doesn't work that way.

Quite so.

People will go to great lengths to protect their ideas.

[diamondgeezer]

Yes, I throw half-bricks at people who disagree with mine

[StratComm]

Originally posted by karajorma
The Mercury Affair for instance involves several missions based on where command is and how they pass their orders on to other ships. When someone asks a question about that (as someone did recently) I stated my theory cause in my campaign that is how the things work.

Command is an omnipresent but rather uninformed black guy, who simultaneously sits in a fighter deck on the Aquitane as well as being in every system that Alpha 1 happens to wander into.  He retains command over all GTVA vessles.  He can communicate instantly across great distances, but the bad guys can never intercept his communications.  And if the Aquitane is destroyed in a mission, although he was physically sitting on board, command will still notify you of your mission failure.  Any further information on the way command communicates with the fleet or with alpha one is noncanon

By the same token, any explanation of how command works other than the aforementioned statement is a welcome addition to the FS community general knowledge.

[karajorma]

Command probably isn't on board the Aquitaine. I went over that on the other thread I mentioned

[Akalabeth Angel]

How did the Shivans know where the Vasudan homeworld was?

  Maybe the Hammer of Light told them.
  Or perhaps debris recovered from destroyed Vasudan vessels was analysed and computer cores were taken. Who knows. Maybe they just hopped around until they found blew up the right one.

[tEAbAG]

Easy.  The shivans moniter subspace no prob, so I assume they mearly followed the increase of subspace traffic as they got into the general area.

[StratComm]

Originally posted by karajorma
Command probably isn't on board the Aquitaine. I went over that on the other thread I mentioned

Then who are you clicking on when you go into the options screen?

[karajorma]

Originally posted by StratComm


Then who are you clicking on when you go into the options screen?

His twin brother Jeb