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Offline dragonsniper

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What drives the Shivans so hard?
on: June 18, 2009, 07:21:01 pm
What is it that made the Shivans want to kill everyone? Because after playing FS1 and 2 several times, you realize that they really do want to kill you? But what is it that drives them to do it?
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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #1 on: June 18, 2009, 07:25:55 pm
GTI said something bad about their mothers.
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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #2 on: June 18, 2009, 07:32:05 pm
Quote from: dragonsniper on June 18, 2009, 07:21:01 pm
What is it that made the Shivans want to kill everyone? Because after playing FS1 and 2 several times, you realize that they really do want to kill you? But what is it that drives them to do it?

Really? Especially after FS2, I got the impression that the Shivans made a conscious decision to let both Terrans and Vasudans live....
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Offline voidSkipper

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #3 on: June 18, 2009, 07:50:34 pm
It's said several times during the campaign that the Shivans destroy races who use subspace to prevent those races from destroying other, less powerful races.

Like a natural defense mechanism of the universe.
 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #4 on: June 18, 2009, 08:20:02 pm
I don't know, I don't want to know, and even if I did, I wouldn't be telling. Not knowing is part of their charm.
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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #5 on: June 18, 2009, 08:22:55 pm
Quote from: The E on June 18, 2009, 07:32:05 pm
Really? Especially after FS2, I got the impression that the Shivans made a conscious decision to let both Terrans and Vasudans live....
I guess in a way they did...

Quote from: NGTM-1R on June 18, 2009, 08:20:02 pm
Not knowing is part of their charm.
True... I thought it would be kinda interesting to know...
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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #6 on: June 18, 2009, 08:38:37 pm
They are PMSing.
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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #7 on: June 18, 2009, 09:59:12 pm
I was thinking that if one Shivan wants to kill the GTVA, the rest will follow.
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Offline azile0

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #8 on: June 18, 2009, 11:06:32 pm
Supernovae are the secret ingredient to Bosch Beer. Now that the Shivans have Bosch, the BBQ can go on back home.
You get one chocolate chip.

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #9 on: June 19, 2009, 01:03:52 am
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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #10 on: June 19, 2009, 01:55:08 am
Quote from: High Max on June 19, 2009, 01:03:52 am
This is just another one of those threads that will turn into another debate of what the Shivans' motives and origins are, like that Capella one a week ago and the countless ones before that. Also like the "The one thing I didn't like about FS2 was how it handled the Sathanas" and the "Freespace 3: The Shivans" topics. They are all very similar topics.


Soooooooo?
 

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #11 on: June 19, 2009, 05:23:12 am
Quote from: colecampbell666 on June 18, 2009, 08:38:37 pm
They are PMSing.

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Offline Killer Whale

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #12 on: June 19, 2009, 06:42:28 am
Quote from: Blue Lion on June 19, 2009, 01:55:08 am
Quote from: High Max on June 19, 2009, 01:03:52 am
This is just another one of those threads that will turn into another debate of what the Shivans' motives and origins are, like that Capella one a week ago and the countless ones before that. Also like the "The one thing I didn't like about FS2 was how it handled the Sathanas" and the "Freespace 3: The Shivans" topics. They are all very similar topics.


Soooooooo?
 

Offline colecampbell666

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #13 on: June 19, 2009, 07:00:03 am
Quote from: High Max on June 19, 2009, 01:03:52 am
This is just another one of those threads that will turn into another debate of what the Shivans' motives and origins are, like that Capella one a week ago and the countless ones before that. Also like the "The one thing I didn't like about FS2 was how it handled the Sathanas" and the "Freespace 3: The Shivans" topics. They are all very similar topics.
Dude, why do you care, and why do you come in and try to derail every topic on this board?
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Offline Dilmah G

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #14 on: June 19, 2009, 07:01:31 am
That wasn't de-railing, more stopping in tracks.
 

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #15 on: June 19, 2009, 08:09:59 am
Quote from: Dilmah G on June 19, 2009, 07:01:31 am
That wasn't de-railing, more stopping in tracks.

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #16 on: June 19, 2009, 08:18:48 am
Quote from: NGTM-1R on June 19, 2009, 08:09:59 am
NO BRAKES, NO BRAKES...!

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #17 on: June 19, 2009, 09:58:28 am
Quote from: colecampbell666 on June 19, 2009, 07:00:03 am
Quote from: High Max on June 19, 2009, 01:03:52 am
This is just another one of those threads that will turn into another debate of what the Shivans' motives and origins are, like that Capella one a week ago and the countless ones before that. Also like the "The one thing I didn't like about FS2 was how it handled the Sathanas" and the "Freespace 3: The Shivans" topics. They are all very similar topics.
Dude, why do you care, and why do you come in and try to derail every topic on this board?
So who's been derailing here now, eh? :P

And yeah, the Shivans are... Mysteries... After making five theories myself (and throwing all of them overboard), I'll go with the "Cosmic Flying Dutchman". Meaning, nobody really knows or will ever know.

Although I kinda like this idea as well.
 

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #18 on: June 19, 2009, 10:00:21 am
Quote from: azile0 on June 18, 2009, 11:06:32 pm
Supernovae are the secret ingredient to Bosch Beer. Now that the Shivans have Bosch, the BBQ can go on back home.

That would explain the marshmellows on the end of those Juggernaut spikes. crispy.
 

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Re: What drives the Shivans so hard?
Reply #19 on: June 19, 2009, 11:02:11 am
Well, seeing as we've never been able to speak with the Shivans in any canon campaign or mission (with the exception of... erm, "Return to Babel"? But even then we didn't have a translation), we can't just ask them nor can they tell us. The Shivans are meant to be inscrutable. It's what makes them alien and creepy.
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