[Stunaep]

Originally posted by hotsnoj
I think all of them played an important role in destroying it so thats my view.

Everything? Even the Disruptor Advanced?

[Bobboau]

I never used the D advanced, it never seemed to work with the ships I wanted, subspace tracking is the one and only thing that alowed us to stop Lucy, without the fighter sized intersystem drives we could have just launched a destroier into subspace and then it could send out the fighters and bombers once in there

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Shrike
Subspace tracking.  Duh.

Indeed.

HeX, say you had your intersystem drives, but no tracking. So your fighters can catch up with the Lucifer. So your fighters can get into subspace without being carried by a destroyer. But with no subspace tracking, the only opportunity you have to attack the Lucifer will be when it has operational shields.

[WMCoolmon]

I'd say shields, because without them the entire Terran resistance would have had little or no chance.
In close second is subspace tracking, but shields were used by the fighters to escort the technology...shields which were badly needed

[Blue Lion]

You have to look at it this way....what would have made it impossible? The only thing they needed was subspace tracking, everything else made it 100x's easier

[Galemp]

Look at the poll! Logic is winning!

[Setekh]

Originally posted by Blue Lion
You have to look at it this way....what would have made it impossible? The only thing they needed was subspace tracking, everything else made it 100x's easier

Indeed. But of course, with Alpha 1 on their side, they'll never give up till they complete all their primary objectives.

[jonskowitz]

[heroic singing voice] "Here I come to save the day!
and prove that crime will never pay!
So, let the trumpet player play for mighty mouse is here today![/heroic singing voice]

Three cheers for that stud Alpha 1!

...

Now that I think about it... why isn't Alpha 1 on the poll?

[elorran]

I see no 'toilet paper' option.  Why it there no 'toilet paper' option?

Everyone knows that without toilet paper, the forces of earth and the GTA would surely have failed!

[Jake101]

Originally posted by HeX
Fighter drives.
Woo hoo...we can track them. Without those drives it would have been "oh look! We can see it's half-way through the tunnel now! Too bad we have no way of intercepting it before it reaches Earth! Whoops too late! Our bad."

Truth is, using Intrasystem drives isn't going to help them if they can't track the Lucifer.  Why?  Because there's not just ONE tunnel that can be opened for going through a node.

Truth is, without both, they would have been lost.

[Jake101]

Originally posted by elorran
I see no 'toilet paper' option.  Why it there no 'toilet paper' option?

Everyone knows that without toilet paper, the forces of earth and the GTA would surely have failed!

If only that was a weapon.

[Setekh]

Originally posted by elorran
I see no 'toilet paper' option.  Why it there no 'toilet paper' option?

Everyone knows that without toilet paper, the forces of earth and the GTA would surely have failed!

Most unique perspective I've heard all week.

[karajorma]

For a glorious moment I thought Setekh was back and then I realised that this was a vote bump

There are 2 topics where he had the last comment bumped.

[Tar-Palantir]

Basicall, all of them were required. Without intersystem drives for fighters and bombers, the attack force would never have been able attack the Lucy in subspace, without the Ursaand Harbringer (sp?) the reactors would have never been able to be destroyed in time and so on and so forth.

Shield shouldn't really count as they weren't intrusmental in destroying the Lucy. Sure they allowed the GTA and PVN to last long enough to be in a position technologically to defeat the Shivans, but in actually destropying the Lucy they're were about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. 'Though they did allow the attack force to reach the Sol jump node in Delta Sep wioth suffering to much hull damage.

[Knight Templar]

Some moron is on another vote bumping spree! whee!!!!!!11



You know, next time I'm pissed, I think I will just go through all the forums and vote bump everything I can find... it sounds like fun when you think about it..

[Eishtmo]

Originally posted by LtNarol
there were destroyers stationed at earth, in fact, all of the 1st Fleet was, but as said before, it would just get blown away by the lucy's beams.  What i dont understand is why they didnt send fighters from earth to help out, because at the end we really could have used some more fighter help.

Uh, the only 1st Fleet I know of (and I might be a touch biased here) is the one I invented for my Great War story.  We're never told what kind of defenses were in Sol, and in truth there may not have been anything significant there as the rest of the fleet would be on the front lines trying to keep the Shivans away.  We really don't know.

If there was, however, it was probably kept close to Earth to try to hold the Shivans and the Lucifer off as long as possible.  Better yet, the Orion might have actually been hiding somewhere waiting for the Lucifer to leave the system and nail it from behind in an act of revenge.

[Knight Templar]

Thread's a billion years old. Oh well.

I guess I ( and everyone else apparently ) assumed there'd be a first fleet in Sol because it just makes sense...

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Shrike
Subspace tracking.  Duh.

EDIT:
*reads KT's post*
*notices the date on some of the earlier posts*

Someone must've bumped this while I was on vacation in the Virgin Islands.

[Zeronet]

Originally posted by Tar-Palantir
Basicall, all of them were required. Without intersystem drives for fighters and bombers, the attack force would never have been able attack the Lucy in subspace, .

You base that on? Destroyers could of attacked it, a Carrier could of taken the fighters into subspace, intersystem drives on fighters were never required.

[LAW ENFORCER]

Come on! You all know that with out Alpha1 EVERYONE was doomed!