[Rodo]

campaign is great as it is, it's a shame only 30.000 GTVA crewmen died in that battle... It should have been a bigger number.

[Polpolion]

campaign is great as it is, it's a shame only 30.000 GTVA crewmen died in that battle... It should have been a bigger number.

hmm?

[Droid803]

That's a really small number for a 6km long ship.

[Akalabeth Angel]

    I don't see how changing the number is going to mean anything, the ship is the ship and that's as much compassion or empathy that the player is going to have for it.

[Aardwolf]

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.

I do hope that was sarcasm.

They did something like that. They threw a Ravana at it, and then threw a Sath at it.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

They should've thrown a Demon at it too.

[Akalabeth Angel]

They should've thrown a Demon at it too.

         Demon's crap on the attack, it can only bring one LRed and one SRed to bear. What's impressive about that?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

One LRed can still do a considerable amount of damage.

[Droid803]

A single LRED is better than a BFGREEN, since it basically never stops firing.

[Rodo]

campaign is great as it is, it's a shame only 30.000 GTVA crewmen died in that battle... It should have been a bigger number.

hmm?

More ships to the slaughterhouse, that's what I ment.

In FS1 an entire planet was laid to waste, in this version only a handfull of escaping ships and a terran-vasudan jug was lost (outside of almost totally evacuated capella, lets just say that I would rather lose that sistem that my homeplanet).

that's almost the last mission, it should be really intense so that everyone remembers it for decades.

Where's the CAP'S to CAP'S battle in volition's missions?? none of their's involve more that 5 or 6 cap ships in simultaneous action.

[eliex]

You get shot down by random bolts too easily if in a BOE-type battle is you remain there too long?

[NGTM-1R]

That's a really small number for a 6km long ship.

Considering our thoughts on how GTVA ships are designed, probably not.

[Akalabeth Angel]

In FS1 an entire planet was laid to waste, in this version only a handfull of escaping ships and a terran-vasudan jug was lost (outside of almost totally evacuated capella, lets just say that I would rather lose that sistem that my homeplanet).

      Are we ever given actual figures on exactly how evacuated Capella is? As in, what percentage has been evacuated and what percentage as not, or what number of people? I don't recall as I haven't played the main campaign in some time.

[Mongoose]

For some reason, I feel like one of the command briefings stated that the vast majority of its 250 million people had managed to be evacuated by the time the final Shivan influx began.

[MT]

In FS1 an entire planet was laid to waste, in this version only a handfull of escaping ships and a terran-vasudan jug was lost (outside of almost totally evacuated capella, lets just say that I would rather lose that sistem that my homeplanet).

      Are we ever given actual figures on exactly how evacuated Capella is? As in, what percentage has been evacuated and what percentage as not, or what number of people? I don't recall as I haven't played the main campaign in some time.

I think the evacuations were about the complete when the supernova occurred. I recall the Command saying the deployment of the final convoy, Lambda?, and that is the last convoy to appear in the mission. Of course, I am sure there has been considerable losses in the transports during the evacuation even before you arrived so while the evacuations were practically complete prior to the supernova, not all of Capella's inhabitants made it to Vega.

[Titan]

Hmmm... well, BP accounts for one of those losses...

[Goober5000]

The supernova occurs during the third of four scheduled convoys before the Vega node collapse.

Petrarch says the evacuation must be "completed" before the Vega node is collapsed, but just because Command decided to stop evacuating people doesn't necessarily mean there were no more people to evacuate.  It's entirely possible that Command just gave up, figuring the risk of keeping the node open would be too great.  It's also entirely possible that some people refused to leave, figuring that the Shivans weren't interested in destroying planets this time around.  Naturally, they wouldn't have reckoned on the supernova...

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Nice title, Goober.

But honestly, I didn't notice that the Blue Lions only escorted the first three convoys. I thought the four Lambda transports were the last.

On the 250 million evacuees...keep in mind that Command has been evacuating them since Sathanas 01 destroyed the GVCv Tatenen. They've had plenty of time to evacuate that many people.

[Mongoose]

And also keep in mind that Petrarch has a line in the outro cutscene to the effect of, "Capella has been destroyed, but its people are safe, maybe forever."  I don't think he'd use the phrase "its people" if the vast majority of them hadn't made it out.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

And also keep in mind that Petrarch has a line in the outro cutscene to the effect of, "Capella has been destroyed, but its people are safe, maybe forever."  I don't think he'd use the phrase "its people" if the vast majority of them hadn't made it out.

You got it wrong, Mongoose.

We sealed off the system and our people are safe, maybe forever.