[Solatar]

Think Eishtmo put it well. Terrans were probably concentrated in Sol. Vasudans didn't have anything to gain by staying on vasuda, so they spread out.

[Ace]

Originally posted by karajorma
Nope. There is one of the command briefings where they say that if they can't win the battles they will have to give in to the rebels and grant them autonomy in Sirius, Polaris and Regulus.

Command actually believed that was what Bosch was after and if it had been he would actually have been winning because the war had spread to the surrounding systems and the NTF were doing a very good job of stopping the GTVA even getting into those systems let alone winning them back.

Of course, the real question with the NTF rebellion was wether or not the GTVA was allowing Bosch to win, just to see what he was doing with ETAK. Afterall, if they wanted to defeat him there were more then enough opportunities in the first few FS2 missions, and I'd assume that was true during most of the war.

As for the V-T war, it definately was what World War 1 would have been like if it continued even longer. Long, brutal, pointless battles over a few patches of muddy soil that marked a border that constantly shifted back and forth.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Solatar
Think Eishtmo put it well. Terrans were probably concentrated in Sol. Vasudans didn't have anything to gain by staying on vasuda, so they spread out.

I agree. Vasuda Prime is only a big sphere of sand. No water, and the other planets the Vasudans have discovered were probably more resourceful.

But after the Lucifer bombarded the planet(Vasuda Prime), four billion lost vasudan lifes were reported. So I suppose VP(Vasuda Prime ) was a huge source of tax, or something else. I doubt a planet of that population was not used for anything.

[Galemp]

Um... Vasuda Prime did have water. There were two continents, after all, which implies that Vasuda Prime, while arid, was mostly water.

Most of the surface water was, even by Vasudan standards, undrinkable, though, according to the tech database.

[Woolie Wool]

They're probably itty-bitty oceans:

"...WHAT LITTLE water was on the surface was, even by Vasudan standards, undrinkable."

That implies that there's very little water.

Also, continents do not have to be separate landmasses entirely: Europe and Asia are a sigle landmass, the Americas were one landmass until the Panama Canal was built, and Africa was connected to Asia before the Suez Canal was built.

[StratComm]

Well think about that though... if you have two continents, then you don't have something like Europe and Aisa (two landmasses connected through a relatively small portion of land, a mountain range) but instead just have two huge landmasses seperated by at least a band of ocean that runs completely around the planet (maybe around the equator, but there's no indication of that).  Two continents with no oceans makes no sense, because in some way one continent would completely surround the other, thus rendering the second land locked and therefore not a continent.

[Blaise Russel]

Don't the continental plates have something to do with it? That's why you have the Arabian Sub-continent and all that instead of just including it in Asia or Africa; 'cause it's on its own little mini-plate.

Who knows? Maybe there is no water on Vasuda, just two massive continents that grind against each other constantly, for eternity. There'd be a Vasudan Ring of Fire and everything, with loads of earthquakes and volcanoes along the plate line.

I mean, you don't actually need oceans to make continents, since basically oceans are just pieces of land that happen to have a lot of water on top of them. If water made continents, then Britain would be its own continent, like.

Or is my geography completely sucky? I didn't take it beyond the third year...

[Knight Templar]

Hey, at least you had three years..

[Black Wolf]

Continents are definied by plates AFAIK. Tis why Europe is a continent, India is a subcontinent, North and south america are seen as separate continents etc. etc.

[Goober5000]

Most of the surface water was, even by Vasudan standards, undrinkable.

I find this statement very funny, because most of the water on Earth is undrinkable too.  You have to desalinate it first. The species entry probably could have elaborated on this point.

[Flaser]

Look at the pics our the cb wher the Lucifer blows up Vasuda prime - it hadn't had any surface water.
It's a huge desert.

[Eishtmo]

There is another reason why the Vasudans were able to recover so quickly.  After the node to Sol collapsed and the GTI staged their little rebellion, the Terrans actually split into about four major groups.  Apparently, there wasn't much open commerce between the four, and aside from forming the GTVA to protect them all from the Shivans return, they probably didn't get along too well either.  Over time, they pieced themselves back into one Terran state.  In the mean time, the Vasudans had a single, strong leader which helped their economy grow quickly to fill in the small gap left when Vasuda was waxed.