[Titan]

I know this has probobly been discussed DOZENS of times, but i wanna know. Do you think it was just something to forshadow the introduction of the Ravana/Sathanas, or something ELSE...........

[Jeff Vader]

Ye just couldn't search th' forums, could ye? Aye, there be a topic/topics about th' everyday happenin's o' Kappa win'.

Theories:
Got lost
Were ambushed by numerous Shivan fighters
Were ambushed by Ravana/Sathanas
Decided t' take a hike.

But if they were ambushed, how could one o' them just magically survive an' find his way t' GTVA forces in order t' say some gibberish about "th' truth somethin' big bein' out there"?

[Goober5000]

Look here.  Specifically, at the 9.6.99 entry.

[redsniper]

"You may press [G] to target the nearest ship attacking your target. If your target is being attacked by a turret, the turret will be targeted. This is especially useful when your objective is to protect a convoy."

I'm still learning new controls!

[Knight Templar]

Kappa wing left to throw a kegger.

[Snail]

Kappa 2 or 3 came back sometime in the Barracuda squadron missions.

[TrashMan]

[Freespace 2] Dave, I'm not sure which programmer I should assign this to so I was hoping you could pass this to the relevant person. I set up and event to give the "Distinguished Inelligence Cross" for a loop mission and Fred crashed with the following error:
<error removed from bug list display>

Jeff Farris: I got $10 that says this is the "no-room-for-null-terminator" wackiness that was discussed a while back.

Dave Baranec: This medal name is exactly one charcater too long.

Jim Boone: Well Jason, looks like we need a new name. Any ideas?

Jason Scott: Hm. Can we just call it "Intelligence Cross" in the table and "Distinguished Intelligence Cross" in the debriefing?

Dave Baranec: How about "Conspicuous Intelligence Cross" ? That fits.

Anoop Shekar: Yeah, but would you want an Intelligence Cross to be conspicuous?

Jason Scott: Let's just leave it Intelligence Cross. I don't want to touch the debriefing.

Jasen Whiteside: Good call. Make it so.

Jim Boone: Done.

And you thought putting medals into the game was simple!

LOL!

[CP5670]

I always wondered about that. Snipes says you are awarded a really nice, distinguished intelligence cross but he then gives you a plain old intelligence cross that is not distinguished at all.

[Polpolion]

IIRC he comes and goes.


EDIT: Oh! That Kappa Wing! I really need to start playing Freespace again.

[Titan]

you thinkin about the one on the bottom of my title?

and its was beta somethin in the barracuda  mission.

dang V left of open plotlines.

[Jeff Vader]

No. There was a Beta something in the mission as well but the one who announced that the Shivans can't be stopped was the only surviving member of the Kappa wing. Kappa 3 if I can remember the lines correctly. I'd check but I'm missing FSO due to a complete XP reinstall.

[Mars]

IIRC he comes and goes.


EDIT: Oh! That Kappa Wing! I really need to start playing Freespace again.

I thought the same thing

[Titan]

it was Beta 3, at least back when i played retail, i beat the campaign once, then never got past the ravens missions again. 

[Jeff Vader]

Assuming that we're talking about "A Game of TAG", it was Kappa 3 who suddenly arrived in the battlefield, speaking frantically about getting the fleet out of the nebula, something big and that they can't stop the Shivans this time. So, we know something about what happened to Kappa wing. At least one of them saw something awful and survived long enough to say something about it to GTVA forces.

Beta whatever was one of the fighters who lured Shivans towards the AWACS and the Warspite.

And what is this 'the ravens mission' you're talking about? You flew for the 107th Ravens quite in the beginning of the campaign, when the Knossos device in Gamma Draconis was discovered. How on Earth could you be stuck there?

[Titan]

dont play the campaign, just goof off in FRED. i WANNA play with my favorite ships, but im too lazy to finish a mission that uses them.

[Warp Shadow]

Aaaaah! Aaaaaaaah! No! Nooooooooooooo! Aaaaaaaaah!

Pretty much sums it up. It is supposed to be a hint at the Ravana

Warp in, scream and explode, the classic foreshadowing formula

[Jeff Vader]

Again, assuming that we're talking about "A Game of TAG". That mission was way after the Ravana incident. It'd be illogical for Kappa 3 to suddenly arrive and warn the GTVA about the Ravana when the Ravana was brutally beaten up quite some time ago.

If we were talking about a completely different mission, I must have missed some key element in this discussion.

[Knight Templar]

By Ravana, he probably meant the juggernaut.

[Snail]

By Ravana, he probably meant the juggernaut.

Though command prolly thought it was the Ravana.

[Grizzly]

Kappa 3: Don't like this place.
Kappa 2: Me neither... why do they want us being out here anyway?
Kappa 1: Your not to qeustion that, pilot.
Command: all f------
Kappa 1: Command, we did not read that transmission, please say again
*No response*
Kappa 1: Command, please say again.
Kappa 2: this ain't good...
Kappa 3: we should head back.
Kappa 1: Neg... this part of the nebulae is just interfering with our transmissions, we will get out of it when we continiue our pa--*

*A missile hits Kappa 1, Kappa 1 blows up. Kappa wing breaks and attacks, but they are hit hard, kappa 2 blows up... kappa 3's is heavily damaged and play's dead...*