[Carl]

   probably looked something like that.

[Xelion]

Cool FX Carl, though I don't remember the SD Lucifer blasting a lightning bolt onto Vasuda Prime.

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[Carl]

it's the SSL, but i guess it is a bit jagged now that i think of it. but art > realism.

[Dr.Zer0]

Wasent Vasuda prime a desert plannet?

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[jonskowitz]

Ouch...  and it did that for 13 hours straight.

Anyone here ever play MOO2? (hee-hee-hee, terraforming with plasma cannons!)


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[KillMeNow]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh please telll me how you did that - thats great

[Sandwich]

Awesome, dude! All it needs now is that eerie close-up pic of the Shivan face in some of the unused   pics. Hehehe  

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[Darkage]

  Whahahawkdkof *jumps out window*

looks cool dude

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[Nico]

Funny, while I was away, I wanted to post about that. On the command briefing, we clearly see that the beam that fries that city is white/blue (otherwise I'm colourblind lol). So it can't be the main Luci beams... What's the weapon shivan used?

[Setekh]

That looks pretty nice.  

Oh and yes Venom, that occurred to me once or twice in the past - I think I know one possibility. In space, the beam is an orange hue - but under atmospheric conditions (like so many other things), the SSL's appearance changes, taking on a bluey-white colour. Possible...  

[Black Ace]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Oh and yes Venom, that occurred to me once or twice in the past - I think I know one possibility. In space, the beam is an orange hue - but under atmospheric conditions (like so many other things), the SSL's appearance changes, taking on a bluey-white colour. Possible...  

Leave it to Setekh to rationalize the unrationable (sp?)...  

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[Shrike]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
In space, the beam is an orange hue - but under atmospheric conditions (like so many other things), the SSL's appearance changes, taking on a bluey-white colour.....

..... as it ionized the air and emits Cherenkov radiation, which is blue.

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[Night Hammer]

Wow, I learn more here than science class  

[Carl]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
 ..... as it ionized the air and emits Cherenkov radiation, which is blue.

that would only happen if it traveled faster than light does in air.

[Shrike]

And who says it doesn't?  After all, it's what makes up the beam that's important, not the beam itself.

[Red5]

Question: So was the planet completely destroyed? or just rendered uninhabitable,if not, are vasudans back on it?  

[jonskowitz]

A lightning or electrical arc also appears blue within an atmosphere.  If the super-duper planet buster gun on Lucy is a particle beam then the following law applies (don't remember the name of it , dammit! must be getting old).

"...Any group of charged particles travelling in the same direction through another medium will behave as an electric current..."

Yikes!  Can you just imagine what that sucker would do to the planet's powergrid (ignoring the hellish devestation wrought by the release of terrawatts of energy on the planet itself).  Any part of the planet NOT flattened would be reduced to stone age existance anyway.

If I remember the command briefing corrently, the planet itself was not destroyed, but intense radiation from the bombardment rendered the vast majority of the surface completely uninhabitable.  It was not my impression that this had changed by the time of FS2 (it's only been 32 years, how long was it postulated it would take the Earth to recover from a nuclear war?  Over a hundred?)

[Killfrenzy]

 

Originally posted by Red5:
Question: So was the planet completely destroyed? or just rendered uninhabitable,if not, are vasudans back on it?  

It was rendered uninhabitable by the Lucifer. The Vasudan capital is now Aldebarran. (They had to pick somewhere!  )

 

Originally posted by Dr.Zer0:
Wasent Vasuda prime a desert plannet?

No. Vasudans evolved from an aquatic species (or if they didn't, they damned well look like they did) and so much of Vasuda prime was a semi-ocean world.

Or am I talking rubbish?

Vasudans, your input please!  


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[Jabu]

Vasuda was a mostly desert world, but obviously had SOME water, or a species would have a hella hard time evolving there.

[Nico]

According to FS1, there was some toxic water plans on Vasuda. I always wondered how the vasudan could have evolved on that. Toxic water, even for vasudan standards, it is said... So were did they take water?