[Kosh]

As a support ship.

[Primus]

What game?

[Grug]

[Fury]

Nexus - The Jupiter Incident.
Great game.

[TopAce]

How could a Support ship be called Colossus? Is that the biggest ship in the game?

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by TopAce
How could a Support ship be called Colossus? Is that the biggest ship in the game?

actually, yes, it is


it's basically a giagantic shield generator (fortress sheild)

[Flipside]

Well, considering Colossus was a Giant who held up the Sky, that's actually a far more appropriate name. And strictly speaking, Colossus wasn't a Giant, he was a Titan, who chose to hold up the sky for eternity rather than get sent to Tantarus.

The Giants were actually the Earths revenge on Zeus for ousting his Father, Chronos, and could be defeated only with the help of Herakles.

[Axem]

Argh, I hate that Colossus even more than the FS2 one. Takes them some stupid amount of time to bring up their fortress shield, and then they say "Oh by the way, they have a long range fortress shield peircing seige laser." And they're 30km away and the Colossus is down to a third hull...

From this, I conclude that anything named the Colossus isn't worth it.

[aldo_14]

Am I the only one who finds it appropriate the the Colossus also shares its name with the Colossus of Rhodes, a gigantic statue which was also destroyed?

[TopAce]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Am I the only one who finds it appropriate the the Colossus also shares its name with the Colossus of Rhodes, a gigantic statue which was also destroyed?

Coincidence

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by TopAce


Coincidence

why?  It's even introduced as the '8th wonder' (and the Rhodes one was, of course, one of the original wonders of the ancient world).

Seems eminently plausible to me.

[Freyr]

It could be named after the HMS Colossus, which survived several battles before sinking in a gale?

[Kie99]

Originally posted by aldo_14


why?  It's even introduced as the '8th wonder' (and the Rhodes one was, of course, one of the original wonders of the ancient world).

Seems eminently plausible to me.

Wasn't the mission called the 6th wonder?

[aldo_14]

Don't think so.  6th wonder would be a strange name, wouldn't it?

[karajorma]

Mission SM1-08.fs2 was indeed called The Sixth Wonder.

I'm pretty certain the Colossus was named after the Colossus of Rhodes. The name of the mission shows that [V] were definately aware of the 7 wonders. (Although by the name of the mission they appear to have believed that there were five of them )

[Nuclear1]

It was... I remember it being titled "The Sixth Wonder."

Oh well, it doesn't matter. It was crap anyway

[aldo_14]

Hmm... furry muff

Still find it an odd name, though - were the Ancient Wonders numbered?

[Gank]

Colossos is usually listed as the sixth, bit obvious that one really.

[TrashMan]

the Nexus Colossus was a extreemly usefull and durable ship. one the Fortress shield got up, only a siege laser could pierce it.
It can allso carry more AA guns than any other ship and can be equipped with some heavy weapon.

Falls short of a battleship in firepower, but with 4 anihhhilatoir missile launchers....oh boy! Loved those blinding blasts!

[Grimloq]

Wasn't... I thought there were 7 'Wonders', and 5 'Wonders of the World'... Hmm... Shows how much I know.