[eliex]

Something I never got when I first played FreeSpace 2 was the colouring of Terran beams, which as you know is green.

Why "green" though? Terrans come from the blue planet, have blue shielding, blue engines and is whitish-blue for their ships.
It's just odd, that's all. Does anyone have any possibilities why? 

[Droid803]

In the cutscenes, terran ships use blue beams and lasers.
I guess they chanegd it to green for some reason...

[ShadowGorrath]

Green beams fit better than blue, on such ships as the Hecate and Colossus. Then, there was the possible upgrade of beams in FS3, which could have been blue for terrans, or what I'm doing in End War.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Something I never got when I first played FreeSpace 2 was the colouring of Terran beams, which as you know is green.

Why "green" though? Terrans come from the blue planet, have blue shielding, blue engines and is whitish-blue for their ships.
It's just odd, that's all. Does anyone have any possibilities why? 

       The original blob turrets are green and yellow. Vasudans in the end get yellow beams, terrans get green ones.

[achtung]

Blue anti-fighter beams and blue engine glows and steel-gray/blue ships and blue shields...

Maybe they just wanted to mix it up a little?  I mean, green is an "Earthly" color after all, so it does fit.

Although, I do admit, I like blue beams over green.

[castor]

Green appears as friendly.

[Krelus]

I always thought the green beams were a bit ugly, myself... I modded purple ones into the game ^.^

[Droid803]

The AdvEffects ones look awesome.

[Mongoose]

Green is good, red is bad, yellow wuvs fishes.

[ssmit132]

It's really just a matter of opinion. 

In my opinion, I think that green beams look cool, and, like ShadowGorrath said, suit the retail ships. However, blue beams look cool too. Ships such as Strattcomm's ships (like in Blue Planet) look better with blue beams than green beams. Really, though, most beams, no matter what colour, look cool. Red, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, white, cyan, whatever colours. 

Which reminds me. We need to re-colour Shivan lasers and beams for the re-coloured Shivans! 

[Stormkeeper]

I though the topic was about Terrans being newbies.

Green appears as friendly.

Friendly beams of death?

[Jeff Vader]

I though the topic was about Terrans being newbies.

I thought it was about how environmentally friendly/unfriendly Terran technology was. 

[Hellstryker]

Something I never got when I first played FreeSpace 2 was the colouring of Terran beams, which as you know is green.

Why "green" though? Terrans come from the blue planet, have blue shielding, blue engines and is whitish-blue for their ships.
It's just odd, that's all. Does anyone have any possibilities why? 

Another interesting thing is all the blue weapons in FS 1 were actually pretty weak/or specialized with the exception of the banshee, and we all know what happened to that in FS 2. Yellow and Green weapons (Avenger/Prometheus) However, were quite powerful

[Snail]

I thought it was about how environmentally friendly/unfriendly Terran technology was. 

Me too.

Another interesting thing is all the blue weapons in FS 1 were actually pretty weak/or specialized with the exception of the banshee, and we all know what happened to that in FS 2. Yellow and Green weapons (Avenger/Prometheus) However, were quite powerful

Well, the two absolute weakest weapons in FS1 were green and red (the Training and Vasudan Light Laser respectively).

[castor]

I though the topic was about Terrans being newbies.

Green appears as friendly.

Friendly beams of death?

Hm...  in these modern days of warfare, I think that would sell. Mastery lies in the details.

[Akalabeth Angel]

If Green is good enough for the Galactic Empire, it's good enough for the Galactic Alliance.

[IceFire]

In the FS2 beta the beams were pink/purple

[Snail]

In the FS2 beta the beams were pink/purple

How do you know these things?

[eliex]

Pink and purple . . . 

[Rick James]

Pink and purple . . . 

I...can't quite see that.

But if the beams in FS2 had looked like that I would also have expected them to include a mission set to Elton John's "Candle in the Wind."

"Capella, your candle burned out long before your legend diiid..."