[Jeff Vader]

It is also good to note that even though tackling Dragons with secondaries might seem like a good strategy, the reality is that you can only have so much missiles in FS1. Not too much, oh no. Never. They always run out. And let's face it. The only missile with even a half-decent chance of hitting a Dragon is the Interceptor.

[S-99]

Firing dual harpoons seems to be less accurate than firing one harpoon. Generally if i'm picking off one target where the missile must get to it's destination i only fire one. I usually only do dual secondaries on bigger ships.

I'm pretty sure comm node is what comm node stands for. Communications that is. Even if it stands for command node, it's still performs communications anyway. But, if the knossos had to do with the knossos in a way, then that makes it a very unique device. Sort of like how the terrans have the charybdis class vessel. The shivan comm node could probably be shivans version of a charybdis, except not shipified. If the shivans can use it to block communications and cause signal jamming, then maybe they used it to keep the ancients from locking down knossos'es like how the ancients locked down the knossos in gamma draconis. Except that in this case in the situation that the shivans efforts to keep the ancients from locking down this one was the fact that the ancients got to it first before the shivans warped into gamma draconis first to lay down some multi-purpose comm nodes.

However this seems like an unlikely situation. But, the shivan comm node being multi-purpose for communications and performing awacs functionality could be likely. It sucks that a shivan transport vessel wasn't captured so that one of the shivan comm nodes couldn't have been captured. Then again, that mission was a suicide mission and was only meant to see what was behind the knossos in the nebula. The only way gtva would have tried to capture one of those comm nodes is if they knew they were there in the first place, which they didn't. And if they did know those devices were there in the first place, they would have already flown a suicide mission into the system that lied behind the knossos in the nebula, in which the gtva would have been ****ing retarded for not pulling all of it's forces out of the nebula because the shivans would follow.

[Man-Whore]

Which object? You're very descriptionless.
martialc?

Oh?

[S-99]

Just the object which you destory in the Mission " Into the Lion's Den"(The loop mission that you drive a Shivan

class Fighter Mara)

I think it was the most secret martial device in the game, and there is no explanation in the TECH ROOM


PS: Mara(reconstructed by the GTVI) was the actually best type of Fighter i have used……

You're first post in this thread is oddly written. It confuses readers. So i didn't know what you were asking.

[Snail]

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

By that logic certain things would be random crap. Like the Boadicea is a cruiser, the Ganymede is a drydock AND a capital ship, Asteroids are navbuoys, the Sathanas is an AWACS, the list goes on. Stuff in the tables doesn't count as in-universe stuff IMO.

[ssmit132]

the Sathanas is an AWACS,

What?

[Mobius]

Check the table entry

[ssmit132]

Code: [Select]

$Subsystem: communication, 3, 0.0
    $AWACS: 1.0 2500.0 ;; intensity, radius - intensity is currently ignored

Ah.

That's not random crap, that's making it inevitable the Shivans find you!

[Kopachris]

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?

That makes no sense at all.  For one, tahyons are hypothetical particles with imaginary mass, so they don't interact with normal matter or energy, and for them, the speed of light is a lower speed limit.  For two, a singularity can't have a fluidic event horizon because fluid dynamics do not apply to an abstract gravitational boundary.

Also, none of these "functions" of any ship in the game is hard-coded.  A FREDer has to SExp whatever function it is.  Therefore, it can have whatever function you want.  You can give an Orion cruiser the "ability" to disable shields and jump drives if you desire.

[Jeff Vader]

That makes no sense at all.  For one, tahyons are hypothetical particles with imaginary mass, so they don't interact with normal matter or energy, and for them, the speed of light is a lower speed limit.  For two, a singularity can't have a fluidic event horizon because fluid dynamics do not apply to an abstract gravitational boundary.

I know. I was merely putting together some funny words I've heard in various Star Trek shows. And if we want to talk about physics, how about the way ships behave in space in FS?

[Colonol Dekker]

Yeah, get the ground crews to uninstall them.
Who's to say that all that technobabble isn't feasible in his fictional universe

[Kopachris]

That makes no sense at all.  For one, tachyons are hypothetical particles with imaginary mass, so they don't interact with normal matter or energy, and for them, the speed of light is a lower speed limit.  For two, a singularity can't have a fluidic event horizon because fluid dynamics do not apply to an abstract gravitational boundary.

I know. I was merely putting together some funny words I've heard in various Star Trek shows. And if we want to talk about physics, how about the way ships behave in space in FS?

I know, and I know. More than a few theories on Star Trek shows actually have grounds in theoretical physics, theories such as warp drive.  The only problem with warp drive is that it requires matter that breaks known physics.  (BTW, I'm watching Star Trek: Voyager right now.  8472 Boothby )

[Mars]

It's actually a psionic-pulse generator that excites the subatomic waves of subspace thereby stimulating the celestial realms and producing complex prions.

[S-99]

It's actually a psionic-pulse generator that excites the subatomic waves of subspace thereby stimulating the celestial realms and producing complex prions.

All this for the shivan Pr0n channel

[Jeff Vader]

(BTW, I'm watching Star Trek: Voyager right now.  8472 Boothby )

Hence the word "fluidic" in my jargon.

It's actually a psionic-pulse generator that excites the subatomic waves of subspace thereby stimulating the celestial realms and producing complex prions.

All this for the shivan Pr0n channel

Someone has found the Truth^TM! *gasp*

[Kopachris]

(BTW, I'm watching Star Trek: Voyager right now.  8472 Boothby )

Hence the word "fluidic" in my jargon.

Ah...  BTW, I put my 8472 Shivan theory on the wiki, if any cares to take a look.  I think it's more plausible that the Capella Barbecue theory.  Homework time, goodbye!

[Colonol Dekker]

I found the Truth© earlier on in this topic :-P

[S-99]

It's actually a psionic-pulse generator that excites the subatomic waves of subspace thereby stimulating the celestial realms and producing complex prions.

All this for the shivan Pr0n channel

Someone has found the Truth^TM! *gasp*

On the left we have carl dressed up, on the right we have carl going down the catwalk.
Carl's a ****ing freak!

[Admiral_Stones]

(BTW, I'm watching Star Trek: Voyager right now.  8472 Boothby )

Hence the word "fluidic" in my jargon.

It's actually a psionic-pulse generator that excites the subatomic waves of subspace thereby stimulating the celestial realms and producing complex prions.

All this for the shivan Pr0n channel

Someone has found the Truth^TM! *gasp*

When will people discover a real TM sign is made by pressing ALT, Shift and X together? Well, atleast on swiss keyboards...

[Snail]

When will people discover a real TM sign is made by pressing ALT, Shift and X together? Well, atleast on swiss keyboards...

Clearly not on any of my keyboards.