Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:22 pm
Ancients were destroyed 8000 years before FS2 and, as far as we know, invaders used Lucifer's beam weapons. This seriously limits theories. Antares described Immune System theory wery well in his Shivan Manifesto on HLP, which is one of my favorite theories.
Anyway were Ancients destroyed by Shivans really? Maybe that was another race using Lucifer technology and Shivans got it little before FS1 by destroying that race or negotiations? Or maybe Shivans have been through large home war which took them back to tech level of our times and returning to Freespace level took a lot of time?
However there's another intresting theory. Maybe Shivans are existing for a very long time and driffences beetwen FS1 and FS2 in their tech level was not because they had no FS2 technology, but...they've specially sent such a low-tech forces? Maybe Shivans are fighting for sport/religy/whatever sending little more advanced forces than their enemises' and Ancients were destroyed because they destroyed races, which could be good Shivan enemises in future?
Anyway were Ancients destroyed by Shivans really? Maybe that was another race using Lucifer technology and Shivans got it little before FS1 by destroying that race or negotiations? Or maybe Shivans have been through large home war which took them back to tech level of our times and returning to Freespace level took a lot of time?
However there's another intresting theory. Maybe Shivans are existing for a very long time and driffences beetwen FS1 and FS2 in their tech level was not because they had no FS2 technology, but...they've specially sent such a low-tech forces? Maybe Shivans are fighting for sport/religy/whatever sending little more advanced forces than their enemises' and Ancients were destroyed because they destroyed races, which could be good Shivan enemises in future?