[BlackDove]

You're the entertainment here man.

[General Battuta]

Agreed, I always look forward to reading your posts.

[TrashMan]

You're the entertainment here man.

While you're uneducated guesses are amusing they are also completely off-topic (and wrong).

So let's get back on topic.

We know that the ancients had a huge empire and that Altair was part of it - but where was their homeworld. From where did they start to expand? Maby we're looking it it from the wrong direction and the ancients actually came from the area beyond the nebula..

[General Battuta]

you're uneducated guesses

Hee! The irony. Believe me, sonny, we're all making uneducated guesses here -- there's such a terrible paucity of information.

I think it's relatively unlikely the Ancients came from beyond the nebula. The ruins the Vasudans discover in FS1 were clearly from very near the end of the Ancient's existence - they contain a record of a way to attack the Sathanas, but there was never a chance to implement it - and they were also quite near Earth on the galactic scale.

Quite probably the Ancient homeworld was in that neighborhood.

[Wobble73]

Not only that, if the Ancients came from the other direction, how the hell did they build knossos devices on the other side of of an unstable node??? 

[Kie99]

Not only that, if the Ancients came from the other direction, how the hell did they build knossos devices on the other side of of an unstable node??? 

Great point.

[Jeff Vader]

Hee! The irony. Believe me, sonny, we're all making uneducated guesses here -- there's such a terrible paucity of information.

I think it's relatively unlikely the Ancients came from beyond the nebula. The ruins the Vasudans discover in FS1 were clearly from very near the end of the Ancient's existence - they contain a record of a way to attack the Sathanas, but there was never a chance to implement it - and they were also quite near Earth on the galactic scale.

Quite probably the Ancient homeworld was in that neighborhood.

Or if not their homeworld, at least some other important planet still under Ancient control. But you misspelled 'Lucifer'.

[TrashMan]

Not only that, if the Ancients came from the other direction, how the hell did they build knossos devices on the other side of of an unstable node??? 

The node were stable back then *GASPS* and when they collapsed/started to fluctuate they ancients build Knossoses to re-eastablish contact/stabilise nodes?

The ruins the Vasudans discover in FS1 were clearly from very near the end of the Ancient's existence - they contain a record of a way to attack the Sathanas, but there was never a chance to implement it - and they were also quite near Earth on the galactic scale.

Quite probably the Ancient homeworld was in that neighborhood.

There's no way to tell the shape or scope of their empire. That planet probably was one of their last refuges, but that doesn't mean it was near their homeworld.
If the ancients empire really was that big, then it's safe to assume they had many colonies, and I doubt the shivans would sistematicly wipe out every single one and leave the homeworld for last. After all, they went straight for the homeworlds in FS1.

[Marcus Vesper]

Not only that, if the Ancients came from the other direction, how the hell did they build knossos devices on the other side of of an unstable node??? 

The node were stable back then *GASPS* and when they collapsed/started to fluctuate they ancients build Knossoses to re-eastablish contact/stabilise nodes?

That strikes me as needlessly convoluted and counterintuitive, as you could then apply that logic for the other 2 Knossos that we know about.  It's WAY more likely they were extending their empire by stabilizing nodes rather then fixing broken doors after they were already past the threshold.

Plus now I get to say Occam's Razor again, since I know it annoys you.  Yay!

[BlackDove]

When the rookies are making more sense than you, you know you've got some issues.

[redsniper]

* redsniper facepalms

[Goober5000]

Enough...