[FUBAR-BDHR]

Yea it's kind of like saying a General would have access to all the CIA intelligence data. 

[Titan]

if it generates a subspace field through which quantam pulses are sent... would that make it into a subspace node? 
it's my plot device!

[Jeff Vader]

if it generates a subspace field through which quantam pulses are sent... would that make it into a subspace node? 
it's my plot device!

It generates a coherent tetryonic beam that, when calibrated appropriately, causes tachyon surges, which result in artificial quantum singularities within fluidic event horizons.

There. Enough jargon for you?

[Hades]

if it generates a subspace field through which quantam pulses are sent... would that make it into a subspace node? 
it's my plot device!

$Name:                          Shivan Comm Node
$Short name:            CommSat
$Species:                       Shivan
+Tech Description:
XSTR("All details concerning this object have been classified level Omega, accessible only by those immediately authorized by the GTVA Security Council.", 3182)
$end_multi_text
$POF file:              Comm2S-01.pof
$Detail distance:       (0, 2000, 6500, 18000)
$ND:               226 2 8
$ND:               200 3 7
$ND:               178 3 5
$ND:               71 1 1
$ND:               198 1 1
$ND:               153 1 1
$ND:               87 0 0
$ND:               250 247 248
$ND:               253 191 200
$Show damage:           NO
$Density:               1
$Damp:                  0.2
$Rotdamp:               0.2
$Max Velocity:          0.0, 0.0, 0.0
$Rotation time:         200.0, 200.0, 200.0
$Rear Velocity:         0.0
$Forward accel:         0.0
$Forward decel:         0.0
$Slide accel:           0.0
$Slide decel:           0.0
$Expl inner rad:        100.0
$Expl outer rad:        2400.0
$Expl damage:           400.0
$Expl blast:            6500.0
$Expl Propagates:       YES                                                     ;; If set to Yes, then when the ship dies, the explosion propagates through it.
$Shockwave Speed:       600.0                                           ;; speed shockwave expands at, 0 means no shockwave
$Shockwave Count:      2
$Default PBanks:        ()
$Default SBanks:        ()
$SBank Capacity:        ()
$Shields:               0
$Power Output:          1.0
$Max Oclk Speed:        0.0
$Max Weapon Eng:        100.0
$Hitpoints:             40000
$Flags:                         (  "dont collide invisible" "knossos")
$AI Class:                      Captain
$Afterburner:           NO
$Countermeasures:       0
$Scan time:             2000
$EngineSnd:            185                   ;; Engine sound of ship
$Closeup_pos:           0.0, 0.0, -870
$Closeup_zoom:          0.40
$Score:               300
$Subsystem:                     piece1A,  30,20
$Subsystem:                     piece2A,  15,5
$Subsystem:                     piece3A,  30,20
$Subsystem:                     piece4A,  2,50
$Subsystem:                     piece5A,  15,5
$Subsystem:                     core,  2,0

If the table says that it is a Comm node, then it is a comm node.

[karajorma]

But what is a Comm node? For all we know Comm is short for Command not Communications. Or Committee, Commerce or a whole bunch of other words beginning with comm. Not that it matters in the slightest cause the only place that you can see that name is in FRED.

I tend to agree that meant it to be for communications but I've got no objection to a 3rd party campaign saying it's for something else. Comm Node could easily be what the GTVA thought it was, that doesn't mean that they are correct.

[Jeff Vader]

Indeed. After all, the GTA originally thought the Scorpion was the best fighter in the Shivans' arsenal.

[Titan]

it wasn't? 

[BlueFlames]

One big argument against it being a communication device is the fact that it has no comm subsystem.

Yeah, I'm going to leave now, before someone decides to murder me for that.

[Hades]

One big argument against it being a communication device is the fact that it has no comm subsystem.

Yeah, I'm going to leave now, before someone decides to murder me for that.

Likely our scanners cannot detect such a subsystem. It just can detect the spinning things( ) the core and the crystal.

[BS403]

if it generates a subspace field through which quantam pulses are sent... would that make it into a subspace node? 
it's my plot device!

$Name:                          Shivan Comm Node
Blah Blah
$Flags:                         (  "dont collide invisible" "knossos")
Blah Blah

If the table says that it is a Comm node, then it is a comm node.

It says its a knossos in the flags.  I always thought it had something to do with the knossos.

[Cobra]

it wasn't? 

Kind of easy to see, seeing as how an Apollo can easily kill it with Avenger cannons

[Clawandfang]

One big argument against it being a communication device is the fact that it has no comm subsystem.

Maybe it doesn't have a comm subsytem is because the whole thing is communications.

[Jeff Vader]

it wasn't? 

The Scorpion was annoying. But not the most dangerous. Or did you forget the Dragon?

[FUBAR-BDHR]

But what is a Comm node? For all we know Comm is short for Command not Communications. Or Committee, Commerce or a whole bunch of other words beginning with comm. Not that it matters in the slightest cause the only place that you can see that name is in FRED.

I tend to agree that meant it to be for communications but I've got no objection to a 3rd party campaign saying it's for something else. Comm Node could easily be what the GTVA thought it was, that doesn't mean that they are correct.

Could be both command and communications. 

[Hades]

it wasn't? 

The Scorpion was annoying. But not the most dangerous. Or did you forget the Dragon?

Dragons were not dangerous but they were pesky little buggers.

[Cobra]

Oh, they were dangerous. In FS1 on Insane, two Dragons took out all of my wingmen.

[Mobius]

They're not dangerous when you launch secondaries from safe distance

[Jeff Vader]

Pilot: "Haha! Die, you puny Dragon, die!"
*missile launch*
Non-canon on-board computer:  "Beep. You missed."
Pilot:  "Dang..."
*Extreme pain and suffering*

[Cobra]

* Cobra facepalms

Mobius totally missed what I was saying.

Lobo's right though.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

They're not dangerous when you launch secondaries from safe distance

Really? Firing dual Harpoons never seem to work.

Either that or I'm firing them the wrong way.

I find the Shivan Comm Node to be some kind of open-ended plot device.