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Cool Good to see another cool project over SectorGame. I hope it'll bring more life into this board. I'm expecting new eye-candy thread soon
A shockwave emitter.P.S. Snail, for once, give me an ORIGINAL weapon idea, that you actually like!
TBH I don't think they'd fit with anything, just throwing ideas around.I see no use for a snipre rifle actually... And if you like these ideas, why don't you make them and use them in ED or some other mod that you're in.
The Ancients were sentient, yes, they did have a fair load of technology, in that sense, but I don't think they were sentient to a point of being on a higher level of universal understanding to us Terrans and them Vasudans. I believe that the Ancients were just like tyrants wanting to expand their empire beyond known borders, much like how most of the European states suddenly found themselves with a whole world to conquer during the 1600s.Interested in knowing how the story is gonna go - I always believed that the ancients were a sentient like race - who tried to find a peaceful cohabitation with the worlds they colonised, thus unprepared for the military wrath of the shivans, whom seem to be focused on destroying everything in their path.
That basically shows, without a doubt, that the Ancients were no peaceful entrepreneurs. They were ruthless, die-hard conquerors who saw it fit to annihilate any life that opposed them, or enslave it if they thought it useful. This is much like the 17th century expansionist governments of Europe and Britain, who fought and killed needlessly to expand their borders through force. For this the Ancients would need quite an established military force, and hence, were not as unprepared for the Shivans as you might think.And we discovered subspace. It gave us our galaxy and it gave us the universe. And we saw other advanced life. And we subdued it or we crushed it. In months the extermination of billions of years of evolution on a similar but slower path. With subspace our empire would surely know no boundaries.
Here, we can see that the Ancients made the first move against the Shivans (or at least, retaliated with some meaningful force). They attacked, quite clearly, with an intent to annihilate the Shivans as they had done to all the other races they had previously encountered.When the destroyers came for us we attacked. Never had we been defeated. They like the others. Strange, hideous, resisting, fighting. Only these were not like the others. They did not die.
Here we can see what I call the "FreeSpace 1 Shivan Mythos" - The theme that the Shivans destroyed all life that was too powerful with the intent of preserving the balance. If not for the Shivans, the galaxy would probably be ruled by some evil, tyrannical empire much like the one the Ancients established. That basically rounds up all the mysteries of FreeSpace: The Great War.I know why the Ancient ones were destroyed and I know what they knew. I know that if not for the Shivans they would have perished long before. Without the Shivans someone would have discovered the Ancients in their infancy, and eliminated them, just surely as they eliminated countless billions of others.
I believe it is only the destroyers who are killed. The Shivans are the great destroyers but they are also the great preservers.
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