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Offline Mustang19

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Galactic Vasudan Installation?
on: November 13, 2006, 10:40:29 am
Have any of you guys noticed that there is a Terran installation but no Shivan or Vasudan equivalent? Does this imply anything canon-wise, like the Terrans are the only people at home in space and Vasudans only use space for transporting materials from planet to planet? Or maybe there are plenty of Vasudan and Shivan installations, it's just that none of the missions take place deep enough inside their territory for you to see one. In fact, in the whole FS1 campaign, you only see an Arcadia twice (one during the mission where you escort the shield prototypes, the other time is the Joutenheim). I just got FS2 so I haven't played through the whole campaign yet, but it doesn't look like it uses the Arcadia very much either.
 

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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #1 on: November 13, 2006, 10:51:52 am
We never saw earth during the FS2 campaign, bu tyou assume that it exists  :P
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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #2 on: November 13, 2006, 12:28:20 pm
We will never see a Shivan Installation:seeing it means penetrating deeply in their territory,which is impossible.
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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #3 on: November 13, 2006, 01:46:21 pm
And IIRC the GTI Ganymede is a combo of both GTA and PVN tech.
 

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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #4 on: November 13, 2006, 04:18:33 pm
Quote from: Mustang19 on November 13, 2006, 10:40:29 am
Or maybe there are plenty of Vasudan and Shivan installations, it's just that none of the missions take place deep enough inside their territory for you to see one.

Probably.  But lots of modders have made their own Vasudan and Shivan installations.
 

Offline spartan_0214

Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #5 on: November 13, 2006, 05:35:22 pm
is that really as many times as you see an Arcadia Installation???

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Offline Goober5000

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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #6 on: November 13, 2006, 05:58:26 pm
No, it appears twice in the FS1 campaign (three times if you count the FSPort credits mission) and twice in Silent Threat (three times if you count Arcadia debris).
 

Offline spartan_0214

Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #7 on: November 13, 2006, 06:37:45 pm
still, that's not a lot compared to my campaign...OPPPPSSS, I've said too much...  ;)

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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #8 on: November 13, 2006, 06:45:23 pm
Perhaps the Vasudans use arcadias modifed for them? Like the argo in mission 26m return to Babel. It seemes to be modifed for Vasudan use, judging by the head animation.
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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #9 on: November 13, 2006, 06:57:27 pm
Quote from: Goober5000 on November 13, 2006, 04:18:33 pm
Quote from: Mustang19 on November 13, 2006, 10:40:29 am
Or maybe there are plenty of Vasudan and Shivan installations, it's just that none of the missions take place deep enough inside their territory for you to see one.

Probably.  But lots of modders have made their own Vasudan and Shivan installations.

Quite ugly ones, at that...

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Offline Titan

Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #10 on: November 13, 2006, 07:10:46 pm
/spoiler/ who says we'll never get far into shivan territory.... we'll get in there without getting our butt kicked. read this carefully a couple dozen time and you'll see were i'm heading... think politics.....hope you catch on... ;7 /spoiler/
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Offline Dark Hunter

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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #11 on: November 13, 2006, 07:38:33 pm
Quote from: Taristin on November 13, 2006, 06:57:27 pm
Quite ugly ones, at that...

EDIT: Forgot the :p.



:p

I don't think the Cairo or the Karnak look all that ugly...
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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #12 on: November 13, 2006, 08:10:03 pm
Quote from: Unknown Target on November 13, 2006, 01:46:21 pm
And IIRC the GTI Ganymede is a combo of both GTA and PVN tech.
How is that possible? It was developed before the alliance.
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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #13 on: November 13, 2006, 08:40:38 pm
Quote from: Dark Hunter on November 13, 2006, 07:38:33 pm
Quote from: Taristin on November 13, 2006, 06:57:27 pm
Quite ugly ones, at that...

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:p

I don't think the Cairo or the Karnak look all that ugly...

The cairo looks like a squid, and the karnak like a steering wheel...
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Offline Dark Hunter

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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #14 on: November 13, 2006, 08:55:29 pm
And the Arcadia looks like someone took a gigantic drill to its midsection. Seroiusly, what is with that hole right through the center? The docking bay is in another place, and you couldn't squeeze a capship in there...
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Offline spartan_0214

Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #15 on: November 13, 2006, 09:05:28 pm
The docking bay is "outside" the installation, on that disc-like protrusion.

If you're talking about the fighter bay, it's well hidden, small, and, IMHO, in a really good spot for an Installation.

I think they might have that hole in the installation so that access to either side is easier. Think about it, if fighters are dispatched from the fighter bay, it's a hop, skip, and a jump through that hole to get to the other side, rather than having to go all the way around....

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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #16 on: November 13, 2006, 09:25:41 pm
The other Arcadia seen in FS1 (not including ST), not including the GTI Riviera in the opening cutscene, would be the Beta Aquilae instellation, right before the Lucifer torches it ("Failure to Communicate"?)

I agree that the Karnak isn't a terrific example of a Vasudan station, in that it looks too much like a copy of DS9.
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Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #17 on: November 13, 2006, 10:20:41 pm
The Ganymede as a station has to be of TV design.
 

Offline Dysko

Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #18 on: November 14, 2006, 12:41:45 am
In the last mission of "Operation Templar" the HoL uses an Arcadia, IIRC.
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Offline Titan

Re: Galactic Vasudan Installation?
Reply #19 on: November 14, 2006, 03:52:11 pm
ya, i dont get that part..... why an arcadia? probably because in the mission before that they say it's the last hamma o' light destroyer.....
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