[Snail]

Meh, I did it in 1889, a few days after Hitler was born (April 56th I believe). I used ~+Shift+I on the Colossus and ~+K on the Sathanas. I took 500 screenshots using the German translation of FS2, but when the Nazi party came into power they didn't approve of the mission's name and a few others foretelling their defeat in WW2 (Their Finest Hour and Dunkerque) and so some stormtroopers came along and burned my PC.

[Mobius]

I was serious...

[Jeff Vader]

But you do understand that the lack of evidence does not bode well for your credibility, right?

[Snail]

Not only that, but I'd like to know exactly how you disabled all 4 beams within 60 seconds.

[Mobius]

Why would I come out with that claim, then?

I didn't disable the Sathanas beams, at least not at the beginning. I disabled the LRed because it was a bit disturbing.

The Colossus survived because the Sathanas moved on its side. During most part of the maneuver it fired some BFRed shots which inflicted serious damage, but they weren't enough to take the Colossus down. It took a while to destroy the Sathanas(I didn't even use time compression) and I remember that the Boanerges-class bombers helped a bit, at least in disarming some turrets.

EDIT: The Juggernauts were close enough to fire with their blob turrets, I remember that I took down a few of them to help the Colossus.

As you can see this description of the events is too detailled to be invented. Two posts ago I said that certain things didn't use to happen in Retail. When the Colossus survived I was using FSO and seriously wondered what new players would think of it(ex. "Ehm, the Sathanas moved sidewards...and now? ").

[Snail]

The Sathanas in that mission I think has "Attack Colossus" orders which may have made it become retarded.

[Mobius]

Like the Colossus in High Noon its orders are to attack the Sathanas and performs a maneuver on the side of its target.

It's not impossible.

[chief1983]

I haven't done it, but my friend who introduced me to Hard-Light a few years ago managed to do it once.  He had them all down before it could get a shot off.  Kinda scary really.

[Kaffo]

Ah so this is where Pine posted, I was the "friend" who helped. He bullied me into doing it as well, cos the Juggernaut jumped in and I said "There is no way you are going to destroy that thing, the Colossus will DIE!" and he said "We may as well TRY" and it was only when he took down 2 of the 5 beam turrets I thought "wow he might do this" and helped take out the last 3 and the laser turrets too.
In other words ITS ALL HIS FAULT BLAME HIM 

[LuaPineapple]

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[Colonol Dekker]

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[Mobius]

Ah so this is where Pine posted, I was the "friend" who helped. He bullied me into doing it as well, cos the Juggernaut jumped in and I said "There is no way you are going to destroy that thing, the Colossus will DIE!" and he said "We may as well TRY" and it was only when he took down 2 of the 5 beam turrets I thought "wow he might do this" and helped take out the last 3 and the laser turrets too.
In other words ITS ALL HIS FAULT BLAME HIM 

Welcome to the HLPBB!

May I know if you ordered the Boanerges to destroy some turrets for you during the mission?

[LuaPineapple]

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Why don't I notice those puns?

[S-99]

Meh. I did that many months ago. I took two screenshots(exploding Sathanas and death camera with the debris clearly visible in the background), too. Let's see if I can find them but I'm afraid they're gone due to the repair op of my PC. Anyway, just ike you, I've been destroyed by the exploding Sathanas.

So no, I'm the true Savior of the Colossus!

BTW this reminds me the Colossus' strange behavior when fighting the first Sathanas. In Retail FS2 the Colossus' maneuver was regular while in FSO it's not(the Colossus shakes for a while or moves strangely). More than funny things to look at these seem minor FSO bugs, IMO. 

EDIT: No offense to the coders... 

I once violated a sath.

Mobius, you should take out the sath in high noon also.

[chief1983]

This makes me think the campaign should be tweaked to allow you to save the Colossus.  Anyone think that's possible?  The overall outcome would have to remain unchanged of course.

[General Battuta]

I think it's critical to the overall message and arc of FS2 (a story about human and Vasudan hubris) that the Colossus die ingloriously.

[Jeff Vader]

Dunno. It could work, if there was a scenario, where Alpha wing & Co. give it everything they've got and barely manage to save the Colossus only to have it being wiped out by three more Sathanases that jump in. There'd be some "You can't win, you wankers!" feeling in that, too.

[chief1983]

OMG that would be so awesome, to get a split second feeling of excitement and relief, only to have it taken away again.  I almost wish had taken that into account and done something like that.

[BengalTiger]

Follows the thread's general direction...

Alpha 1 kills the beams and gets a promotion for saving the Colossus. Then A1 destroys the Sath with the help of the Big C, after which 2 transports with parts arrive and fix it's engines. The mission lasts for 3 hours, but ends with the Big C warping out to friendly space in one piece...

And in the mean time the Bastion is without the help of Alpha wing, and gets shipwrecked by the Shivans miles before the jump node, leaving a corridor to friendly space open.

In the debriefing Command informs the player that the Shivans made contact with the GTVA.

They said: "You can't win, you wankers!"

[Colonol Dekker]

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Why don't I notice those puns?

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Aww cack, soprry dude

I'm gonna be finding my "mystery shot" posts for a while...