You military isn't really acting like the military
- you got ships shooting at other ships without having a positive ID. In fact, you have ships opening fire simply because another unindentified ship asked them to. The Snipes thing. You'd think he had an IFF on that fighter.
- Ordering execution not only for minor infringements, but also something the commander couldn't see coming or do anything about it (AWACS destroyed by supernova)? And then giving that same commander who's execution you ordered (and who knows it) a fleet under his command and sending him off?
- the player even following with the moronic rebellion
- the GTVA actually agreeing to handing an Orion over to the pirates
etc..
- Pirates having a vast amount of resources without any explanation
- a single small transport (elyisum..that thing can't carry more than two dozen marines) capturing a Orion destroyer..the same Orion destroyer just standing there waiting to be captured and NOT wasting the transport and the frigate with his beams
- pirates having a secret high-tech frigate
- pirates retrofitting an Orion into a super-destroyer within days..with no shipyards to boot
etc..
thats not really a plothole. The CO of the leviathan that shot the elysium was doing so under extreme pressure/impulse, as he might have heard about the mind control incident that happened to the vasudans and thought he was doing the right thing
the snipes thing, well, snipes was likely undercover posing as one of them, so because their communication from high command was cut off since the pirates attacked the arcadia (as explainined in ingame messages) the IFF status did not correct. Also, its against BETAC to shoot escape pods anyway, so of course the CO of the Kiev would react to save the pod.
the player doesent really have a choice to follow the moronic rebellion or not, since by the time he finds out about the rebellion he is stuck in a shivan infested system as part of the rebel squadron, so the only other non-shivans in system, the Vasudans, wouldent have much sympathy for A1. Not much of a choice there.
The option for GTVA would either be to hand over the Orion or lose a Hecate and all its crew. Pretty logical, if you ask me.
There is an explanation for the pirates having a vast amount of resources. In one of the breifings or somewhere it mentions stuff about the GTVA not being able to control pirate activity since it has been fighting the NTF and the Shivans.
An Elysium can very well capture an orion destroyer. A similar event happens with an Isis and a Hoover in Stormfront. An elysium is actually pretty big and can carry at least 80 or so men with still plenty of space for the ship's subsytstems, etc. 80 elite marines against 5-10000 unarmed men with no combat training, demoralized under a wacko C.O.? they wouldn't have much trouble.
They were hiding the frigate in an asteroid belt which also had a lot of interference from the planets magnetic fields and all the moons and crap. its all in the briefings and stuff.
the quick refitting of the orion.... yeah, i admit that one was a stretch, only cuz idk how they build a whole nother chunk on it without a shipyard, since the shipyard was destroyed in a previous mission. touche'! If I make a sequel, i will come up with an explanation for that.
cmon people, my inbox is empty. i take it you guys, despite the "vocal" crowd, are actually satisfied with the mod, or you're not satisfied and also not interested in improving it, which goes against what a few ppl have told me in private.
