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Offline Lone Knight

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on: May 21, 2005, 05:34:35 pm
Not a lot is known about the Shivans.  Whenever one strikes a comment about the Shivans, that comment is argued or dissagreed with considerably.

So what really are Shivans?

Are they supposed to be the steriotypical bugs from all of those alien movies, or are they just some weird other creature.

Another thing I heard was that they were created in subspace (?).

Do they live on planets? How big is their empire?

Maybe V had some sketchboards or plans or information regarding the Shivans that they never released?
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #1 on: May 21, 2005, 05:41:59 pm
We don't know.
 

Offline Fergus

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Reply #2 on: May 21, 2005, 05:45:37 pm
Anything you come up with or can argue for is both right and wrong.
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Offline Kie99

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Reply #3 on: May 21, 2005, 05:52:52 pm
There have been dozens of threads serving the same purpose.












And I welcome another one. :D
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Reply #4 on: May 21, 2005, 06:11:37 pm
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So what really are Shivans?


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Not a lot is known about the Shivans.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Reply #5 on: May 21, 2005, 07:43:46 pm
The Shivan's are friggin' scary, that's what.
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Offline Carl

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Reply #6 on: May 21, 2005, 09:21:43 pm
all that we know for sure is:

1. they are cybernetic lifeforms

2. they are part of a much bigger problem

cause that's all :v: has told us outside of the game.
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Offline Charismatic

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Reply #7 on: May 21, 2005, 09:26:57 pm
Someone get hired by V and steal info!!
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Offline Black13

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Reply #8 on: May 23, 2005, 02:25:34 pm
Sadly V went out of business IIRc - so we may never know

But I know -

The Shivans are the immune system of space or subspace (not too sure).  They are produced naturally in subspace, and are charged with keeping things cool in space.  Occasionally a form of life appears that starts to take up a lot of area and causes death and pollution (as well as damage to space time, and other un-understandable phenomena)

When said attrocities to space occur the shivans appear, and purge said creatures from existance.  


Ever wonder if the shivans and species 8472 were the same idea?  Perhaps the people at V were thinking along the same lines as the ideas behind species 8472 when all of a sudden that voyager episode comes on and they all drop a load, and never know where to pick it back up at?

I don't know - just a thought
 

Offline Carl

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Reply #9 on: May 23, 2005, 03:03:54 pm
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Sadly V went out of business IIRc


You remember incorrectly. I have no idea where you could have gotten that from.
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Offline Black13

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Reply #10 on: May 23, 2005, 03:08:54 pm
HOT DAMN!

glad I was wrong!  


So where are the answers then damnit!!!!!!:mad: :mad: :eek2: :ick: :hopping:
 

Offline Carl

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Reply #11 on: May 23, 2005, 03:39:35 pm
in the mind of Adam Pletcher.
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Offline Lone Knight

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Reply #12 on: May 23, 2005, 03:49:39 pm
Who? Sorry, I don't follow a lot of stuff here.


>Query to anyone....is Inferno Chapter 2 and above out?  I just have Chap. 1
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #13 on: May 23, 2005, 03:52:01 pm
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Originally posted by Black13
Sadly V went out of business IIRc - so we may never know

But I know -

The Shivans are the immune system of space or subspace (not too sure).  They are produced naturally in subspace, and are charged with keeping things cool in space.  Occasionally a form of life appears that starts to take up a lot of area and causes death and pollution (as well as damage to space time, and other un-understandable phenomena)

When said attrocities to space occur the shivans appear, and purge said creatures from existance.  


Ever wonder if the shivans and species 8472 were the same idea?  Perhaps the people at V were thinking along the same lines as the ideas behind species 8472 when all of a sudden that voyager episode comes on and they all drop a load, and never know where to pick it back up at?

I don't know - just a thought


volition were bought by THQ. Hence there are/were problems over the license anyways, as it was owned by THQs rivals Interplay, meaning any FS sequel might not be/have been made by volition (given Interplays financial problems, it's possible Volition could buy the license, but it depends entirely upon THQ giving the go-ahead, which is unlikely so long as Generic Britney Spears/Wrestling game is selling).

I think V have basic - not sure how detailed - story 'bible' for Freespace still lying around, but they'd never release it.  I'd imagine FS3 would have resolved the questions left from FS2.
 

Offline DeepSpace9er

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Reply #14 on: May 23, 2005, 04:07:44 pm
resolved and brought up more hence paving the way for FS4.
 

Offline Kie99

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Reply #15 on: May 23, 2005, 04:16:29 pm
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Query to anyone....is Inferno Chapter 2 and above out?  I just have Chap. 1


Nope, but Chapter 2 Should be out by the end of the year at the latest, and some of the new stuff is fantastic.
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Offline Hippo

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Reply #16 on: May 23, 2005, 05:32:27 pm
*quickly pushes kie under seats*


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Reply #17 on: May 23, 2005, 06:16:54 pm
read The Shivan Manifesto

about 30 pages of answers to all our questions. :D
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
 

Offline aldo_14

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Reply #18 on: May 23, 2005, 06:39:36 pm
Possible answers.  The Shivan manifesto isn't any more canon than the Capella BBQ theory.
 

Offline Cobra

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Reply #19 on: May 23, 2005, 06:40:31 pm
yeah, but it's still fun to read. :D

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« Last Edit: May 23, 2005, 06:42:40 pm by 2299 »
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta
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