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Posted by sandwich on 07-26-2001 06:30 AM:

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Originally posted by IceFire

Does it? Wasps know howto build hives and where to place them. Spiders know where to build webs and catch as many insects as possible.

They aren't perfect, but the Shivans could be operating on a very high level of instinct. It could be simple instinct guiding them to search and destroy the homeworlds of the races that they destroy.

Hmmmm... okay, for arguments sake, let's say that their homeworld seeking IS in fact instinct. What indications would they have gotten about the locations of these planets? Considering their ties to subspace, it is not unreasonable that they could have detected the high rate of traffic in the jump nodes to those systems, as well as high in-system jumps to the locations of those specific planets.

Now when an animal or insect attacks something, it is usually for one of two reasons: It either needs that thing dead for food or other materials, or it considers it a threat to either themselves or their young. We know (don't we?) that the Shivans did not hang around Vasuda after they blasted Vasuda Prime, so we can assume that the first option is not the case. But what of the secons possibility?

The only thing that I can think of that makes sense in such a case is that the homeworlds were seen as generating the heaviest subspace activity, which disturbs or threatens the Shivans in and of itself, and thus needed to be eradicated - in self-defense?!?

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Posted by Snipes on 07-26-2001 02:11 PM:

I'm gonna pull an 'Ace - make fun of response' here:

If shivans are protecting their young... then fighters, cruisers and corvettes must be b4by 5h1v4n5...

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Posted by Ace on 07-26-2001 07:34 PM:

Sandwich, you are so very close...

Yes, sub-space activity is what led the Shivans to the homeworlds of the Terrans and Vasudans in FS1.

In FS2 Shivan activity in the first acts were driven by this same response.

What occured with Bosch was not a calculated move, it was a reaction.

subspace activity, which disturbs or threatens the Shivans in and of itself, and thus needed to be eradicated - in self-defense?!?

Capella was a reaction of this self-defense.

Defense against what Volition mentioned as "the problem."

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Posted by Shrike on 07-26-2001 09:49 PM:

Like if termites are eating at your house. What do you do? Call the Orkin man, that's what.

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