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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
Wait, when was this?

In the last mission of Silent Threat after the Orff arrived.

The actual Silent Threat, that this, not ST:R, so it's canonical. One wing of Seraphim.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
The actual Silent Threat, that this, not ST:R, so it's canonical. One wing of Seraphim.
Never noticed this.

 

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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
Wait, when was this?

In the last mission of Silent Threat after the Orff arrived.

The actual Silent Threat, that this, not ST:R, so it's canonical. One wing of Seraphim.

I remember seeing that wing launch and thinking 'DAMN it is this thing gonna throw endless dragon waves at me as well?' and then it was just Loki's haha
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
The actual Silent Threat, that this, not ST:R, so it's canonical. One wing of Seraphim.
Never noticed this.

Could have been a goof. What else did it launch?
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
It probably was a goof.. but that's besides the point. It's still canon.

However, (I don't remember how the argument got to this point) I would guess that they had Terran pilots flying them, not Shivans.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
Actually, in my Silent Threat disk it had launched Zeus bombers instead of Seraphim...
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
eh? perhaps this warrants further investigation.

Go find your ST discs, pop em in and open that mission. Let's see just how many Seraphim reports we have.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
riiiiiiight.... now what were we talking about? oh right the shivins.

 

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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
eh? perhaps this warrants further investigation.

Go find your ST discs, pop em in and open that mission. Let's see just how many Seraphim reports we have.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
Could have been a goof. What else did it launch?

Endless streams of Lokis. I was pretty confused.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
Endless streams of Lokis. I was pretty confused.

So maybe it's more reasonable that if we're going to assume it's canon, then it would be more feasible that they were ships reverse-engineered for Terran use. It would fit with the rest of the Hades' Shivan-Terran tech mix. That is, providing we determine that it DOES actually drop Seraph's.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
Nobody wants to open up their copy of ST to confirm/deny, do they?

The missions aren't even written up on the wiki, which is actually sort of hilarious.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
They don't seem to be present in mdmm-12 and stmm-12 from my Silent Threat disk. Granted I only opened them up in Notepad++, but seraching for "SB" or "Seraphim" turns up nothing for me.

 

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I'll verify after I get out of work on original retail if no one has by then.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
I was going to check myself, but I apparently don't currently have Silent Threat installed on my retail FS install.  Now I'm wondering why I didn't bother installing it when I took the time to install FS. :p

 

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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
I checked my install (1.06) and see no Seraphims in that mission file, nor do I remember ever seeing any in the game. There is a single wave of Zeus bombers though. Maybe it was changed in the patches, which did some other things with that mission like removing the new music. The ST CD had version 1.04 originally.

 

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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
Interesting. I actually have my original CD, time to find it.
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Re: SPECULATION: Origin of the Ancients
I remember seeing that wing launch and thinking 'DAMN it is this thing gonna throw endless dragon waves at me as well?' and then it was just Loki's haha

If I recall correctly, aren't Lokis about as annoying and dangerous as Dragons? Or are the Dragons still much harder to hit?
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