[Hero_Swe]

>Has any further research been done on the ancients?

[Mobius]

> What is Admiral Petrarch's first name?

James.

It's Francis.

[General Battuta]

> What is Admiral Petrarch's first name?

James.

It's Francis.

I think it's Robertloggia.

[Rodo]

Unlike most of the people around here, I like this new history setting... Shivans tamed, well damn me!
What can be so much worst than Shivans,  enough to deserve a campaign, I wanna know.

Query> How is the taming control over Shivan monitored, and by whom.

[Colonol Dekker]

CNN, Fox, or Disney............

[Topgun]

CNN, Fox, or Disney............

CSPAN

[Sushi]

Well I guess it's now clear that this is the Sushistorian.

SUSHI FAIL!

Well, guess I screwed that up. Trouble with juggling multiple accounts is that inevitably you get them mixed up... alright, I confess, it was me. Goober, feel free to merge the historian account with this one, it doesn't have a use anymore.

I intend to continue adding responses as long as people want to keep making queries.

The bad (or maybe good, depending on your perspective) news: this is it. No campaign announcement is involved here. Judging by the responses, I doubt many people would be interested in a campaign in this universe anyway. I would, of course, but I don't have the time or talent to put together the multiple Freespace campaigns (or even just one) it would take to tell the story I've envisioned properly. So, I decided to have a bit of fun and tell it in a decidedly nonstandard way instead, that would still allow for some fun surprise revelations. Lazy? Maybe. But it's what's within my means. In short, I envisioned a history with multiple campaign settings that I find interesting for various reasons, but with no way to realize them in actual Freespace gameplay, settled for this instead.

[Sushi]

Query> How is the taming control over Shivan monitored, and by whom.

All Shivans have been re-programmed to serve humanity as their prime motivation. That's about the only constant. Although the NTR government attempted to keep the details of Shivan control secret, they failed, and anyone with the right technological resources (anybody with a reasonable amount of money) can reprogram any Shivans they get their hands on for their own specific purposes. Naturally, laws exist to prevent people from tampering with the "don't kill humans" directive, and there are psychobiological barriers that attempt to prevent certain kinds of reprogramming, but these obstacles are surmountable with the right technological and financial resources. Officially, at least, there are no incidents of humans using Shivans to kill other humans. In actuality, there have been several, and more are likely to come.

One of the side effects of this is that Shivan control becomes almost a form of currency. Power and prestige is, in significant part, determined by how many Shivan resources you directly control...

EDIT: To answer the question of who initially distributes control, the NTR government distributes control over various Shivans to all of the various system sub-governments (in theory, based on need), who have a lot of autonomy over how they choose to further distribute that control. In some systems, nearly everyone has a Shivan or two. In others, they are controlled by a small segment of the population. This scheme is, of course, only as equitable as the politicians who administer it are honest... which also varies wildly by location.

[asyikarea51]

The bad (or maybe good, depending on your perspective) news: this is it. No campaign announcement is involved here. Judging by the responses, I doubt many people would be interested in a campaign in this universe anyway. I would, of course, but I don't have the time or talent to put together the multiple Freespace campaigns (or even just one) it would take to tell the story I've envisioned properly. So, I decided to have a bit of fun and tell it in a decidedly nonstandard way instead, that would still allow for some fun surprise revelations. Lazy? Maybe. But it's what's within my means. In short, I envisioned a history with multiple campaign settings that I find interesting for various reasons, but with no way to realize them in actual Freespace gameplay, settled for this instead.

*reads this quote and gets a strange feeling*

I was going to try something similar (well not exactly similar but w/e eh XD) with a combination of text and maybe some artwork since the plot in my head isn't clear and/or consistent either, just a random collection of scenes in my head that even I have trouble remembering... not to mention that scenes I forget sometimes get replaced with new ones I think up on the spot, for better or for worse (usually the latter though ).

I admit to totally not reading anything in this thread but hey, kind of nice to know someone else would try a stunt like this first... though I wouldn't put mine in GenFS if I did. Probably in the fan work section.

Or maybe I didn't get your whole idea after all. XD

[Marcov]

>How large was the empire of the Ancients (how many systems and planets did they take control of)?
>How many ships did they have at their climax?
>How many species did they encounter and destroy?
>How many ships did the Shivans use to crush the Ancients? What were the flagships of the Ancient and Shivan armadas?
>Give me the official title of the BGreen and how much power is required to shoot it out (in watts).
>Who is Command (the balding, black guy from FS2)? Briefly describe him.

And finally,

>What type of music did Terrans listen to during the 24th century? Describe.

[Scotty]

>How large was the empire of the Ancients (how many systems and planets did they take control of)?
>How many ships did they have at their climax?
>How many species did they encounter and destroy?
>How many ships did the Shivans use to crush the Ancients? What were the flagships of the Ancient and Shivan armadas?

This edition of the AHRRA contains data primarily related to the 24th century. Please refer to the Ancient history edition for that data. We apologize for the lack of cross-edition connectivity, this is a planned feature for the next version of the auto-historian software

 

>Who is Command (the balding, black guy from FS2)? Briefly describe him.

Looks like you already did.

[headdie]

what was the position, rank and spacial location of said black dude communicating on the command coms channel

[Herra Tohtori]

>Who is Command (the balding, black guy from FS2)? Briefly describe him.

Does he look like a *****?

[Marcov]

>Did James T. Kirk:

1. Co-exist with the GTVA
2. Come from an alternate reality
3. Exist in a franchise created by Terrans in the 20th century

??

[Sushi]

Now we're getting really silly. Only one worth answering:

>Has any further research been done on the ancients?

Nothing new of note has been discovered about them that you don't already know.

[Marcov]

Err...it's been two days. Mind if you keep us updated...
I hope this won't be some dying thread again, Sushi...

[Sushi]

Err...it's been two days. Mind if you keep us updated...
I hope this won't be some dying thread again, Sushi...

Actually, I'm pretty sure this has run its course. I'm not going to answer your questions about the Ancients because they aren't relevant to the time period I was exploring, and I'm not going to worry about silly Captain Kirk questions.

[Mongoose]

Well then let's get things back on track, shall we?

> Was any evident of Admiral Bosch's ultimate fate ever discovered?

[Sushi]

Well then let's get things back on track, shall we?

> Was any evident of Admiral Bosch's ultimate fate ever discovered?

All files on Bosch remain classified. Please petition your planetary senator for the release of these records!



I never really decided exactly what to do with Bosch, so this is kind of an open end thread in the timeline. Most likely, his attempts to communicate with the Shivans in their own language interested the Shivans enough that they didn't kill him immediately, but once they determined he wasn't one of the Creators, they probably killed him. The destruction of Capella means that even if he had escaped, he wouldn't have had a (known) way to get home.

[Marcov]

I'm not going to answer your questions about the Ancients because they aren't relevant to the time period I was exploring, and I'm not going to worry about silly Captain Kirk questions.

>Give me the official title of the BGreen and how much power is required to shoot it out (in watts).
>Who is Command (the balding, black guy from FS2)? Briefly describe him.

And finally,

>What type of music did Terrans listen to during the 24th century? Describe.

Hmm...seems like you're no longer a bot, eh?