[q]In my link you see said area that FS2 Intro beam originates from. In the little video of this seen in the GTA briefing the three prongs can be seen "twitching".[/q]
I disagree with that... That structure thing can also be seen in the Tombach station attach cbani, but it also looks a lot like the shield emitter (we assume) in the lab cutscene, and were never actually modeled into the game lucifer, so i think that was so look like the lucifer's shield system...
[q]There is Zero canon evidence that that the GTVA's beams were reverse engineered from Shivan ones. I don't know why people keep spouting this Bulls**t. The evidence against them being the same is as follows:
1. They are completely Different colours
2. The GTVA's beams are photon beam cannons, the Lucifer's are flux cannons.
3. The Lucifer's beams are in Sol, and the scans from a busted up dragon won't be able to replicate Shivan beams.
4. No other Shivan vessel had beams.
5. There is no evidence that they are the same.
6. The GTVA beams gather light towards them, the Lucifer's beams don't. (But I suppose this is an engine limitation.)[/q]
1: Yeah, so are LRBGreens, VBas', AAAf's, TSlash, and every other terran/vasudan beam. Colour has absolutely nothing to do with it.
2: So? Its also stated that GTVA ships run on fusion drives, and another type (i can't remember which) in two canon places.
3: The lucifer wasn't the only existance of beams. Every shivan had a beam (albeit small) and it IS canon that the GTI kept LIVE shivan's, presumeably dead ones (unless they all exploded like in Hallfight), along with all the debris that they gathered in ross 128 (also canon)...
4: But the shivans did.
5: There's just as little evidence that they're completely different as well.
6: Yes, most likely rendering.