[Dark Hunter]

Woomeister just loves tormenting us with these cryptic hints.... since he knows we won't be seeing R2, an the answers to all our questions, likely for another year. 


I'm joking of course.

[Snail]

Why does everybody want to burn me? 

[Woomeister]

Woomeister just loves tormenting us with these cryptic hints.... since he knows we won't be seeing R2, an the answers to all our questions, likely for another year. 

Well it is a really BIG spolier that one.

[Rand al Thor]

Cause I'm betting you weigh the same as a duck....





Sorry it's a monty python joke. Except in this case it's probably just annoying, especially considering you don't seem to have seen the films. Or else I just did it very badly. No, I can safely say that if you were burning, I would definately throw a some water on you.

Big Spoiler eh? Do the shivans send a couple of Gigas to weight-watchers until they can squeeze through?

[Dark Hunter]

No, I can safely say that if you were burning, I would definately throw a some water on you.

Big Spoiler eh? Do the shivans send a couple of Gigas to weight-watchers until they can squeeze through?

Could just use the HLP's water-filled flamethrowers instead. 

[Woomeister]

I'm sure they just destroy the Sol Gate, regardless if Woo admits it or not

Nope we won't be blowing up the big Terran stations.

[Woomeister]

No the Gigas won't come out of the Sol jumpnode.

[Woomeister]

The Gigas doesn't have that ability.

[Depth_Charge]

heres the part i'm confuse bout the gigas,  if its so big, how did it fit in the sol jump gate????

[Dark Hunter]

FREDding trick: position the player behind the Gigas, and have the Gigas jump out in front of the gate, looks to the player as if it jumped into the gate.  8)

[Goober5000]

heres the part i'm confuse bout the gigas,  if its so big, how did it fit in the sol jump gate????

It can shrink!!!!!!1111

[darkship]

maybe the shivans built it in the sol system with prefabricated parts..
 

[Depth_Charge]

lol of course  . 

[Colonol Dekker]

WOOT! Gargant Hyperdrive, Millenium Falcon style,

FREDDERS are gonna stick it on the extreme edge of space and ive it an initial speed of 50,000,000,000 and calculate it so the ship slows down just about in the right place






Maybe not LOL.

[perihelion]

What makes intrasystem jumps possible without the need for a subspace node?  Assuming it is still possible to make an intrasystem-type jump even when well outside a star system, could you not continue making (relatively) short hops all the way from one star system to another?

Or...

Subspace isn't the only way to get between star systems.  It is just the fastest currently known.  They could conceivably send a fleet to Sol the long way.  Point your telescopes towards Capella, and you may see the light of their braking maneuver...  Actually, unless you knew exactly where to look, you'd probably never even see them coming.  A node is very small compared to the entire sky.

[perihelion]

Well, if it were me, I wouldn't light my drives for the deceleration burn until I was pretty much about to enter the system, then I would decelerate as hard as I could to minimize the amount of time my drives are shining.  If I was really clever, I'd be coming into the system with a bright light (i.e., the Capella supernova) shining right behind me so drive-light would be missed in the glare of a much brighter light.  A garden variety star would probably work too.  Unless someone is looking very closely, it is unlikely they'll notice the spectrum of the light is very wrong.

[mr.WHO]

What really bother me in Fs2 is that Sol is ~4 LY from Alpha Centauri. This means that both SoL and GTVA would be able to intecept their 4 years old transmissions and send an inter galactic E-mail with 8 years reply delay. Then why in FS2 they say that they have no clue what happened to/in SoL? 30 years would be enough to sent a lot of information (you can send more than one E-mail per once) to both sides.

[Mefustae]

What really bother me in Fs2 is that Sol is ~4 LY from Alpha Centauri. This means that both SoL and GTVA would be able to intecept their 4 years old transmissions and send an inter galactic E-mail with 8 years reply delay. Then why in FS2 they say that they have no clue what happened to/in SoL? 30 years would be enough to sent a lot of information (you can send more than one E-mail per once) to both sides.

The tech description mentions 'declassified transmissions', meaning whatever came out of Sol at the time of the subspace cataclysm, the GTVA is keeping close to its chest. Any and all transmissions intercepted from Sol - detailing whatever events took place; whether it be civil war, collapse to anarchy, or shivan invasion - would undoubtedly be kept classified, natch.

Moreover, that's even more damning evidence for some kind of highly negative effect to being cut off, as if life continued as per usual, the GTA at the time would have most likely capitalised on the situation to inform the Terran populous for a boost to morale in staving off collapse.

[Woomeister]

From the Delta Serpentis system, a squadron launched from the GTD Bastion pursued the Lucifer into the Sol jump node. These fighters and bombers had to destroy the Lucifer's reactors before the superdestroyer extinguished all life on Earth.

According to declassified transmissions, the mission succeeded. However, the explosion of the Lucifer created a subspace cataclysm that collapsed the Sol jump node, severing all contact between Earth and the other systems of Terran-Vasudan space.

The transmission could of been from the Bastion and the players group attacking the Lucifer and not from Sol.

[mr.WHO]

Now this make sense. I know why GTVA would classify news from Sol:

GTVA - Hi!
SoL - We're Earth Alliance, Martians are evil, Jupiterians are evil, Terrans are evil, all your base belong to us.
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