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Ok, I just finished playing Derelict. Again. Anyways, it left me with two main questions:
1) What happened to the MTD Auriga in the end?
2) In one of the Command Briefings before the point when the GTVX Gorgon is revealed, there is a reference to a "photon cannon" - WTH?

I don't really expect answers to these questions, but will they be answered in BWO?

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IceFire you can answer this I'm sure...

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IceFire? 'ello? I guess it's jus' you 'n me, DragonClaw...
Do you remember in which mission they mentioned the photon cannon?

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1) What happened to the MTD Auriga in the end?
2) In one of the Command Briefings before the point when the GTVX Gorgon is revealed, there is a reference to a "photon cannon" - WTH?

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That means it can take down a ravana in 1 shot.... holy crap!

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Pretty powerfull, heh? Now if we could just line a few Shivan destroyers in front of it...

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Originally posted by IceFire:
1) I don't know, it may just be another one of those mysteries.

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No that particular issue is not addressed in BWO. We've got far too much going on to add another subplot.

Yes, the Golgotha can destroy a Ravana in one clean shot. It can also wipe out a Sathanas in three. On standard power. If you really needed to get rid of a Sathanas quickly, full power is possible too.

But that would take months of repairs afterwards.

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That is classified level Omega. You are to refrain from further discussion of this topic, or face up to 3 year in the Vega Penal Colony.

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damn, Ice, you ruined my rebuttle!!!!

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Taken from the Command Briefing of the GTVX Gorgon mission: Fortunately the personnel and the photon artillery prototype were successfully evacuated before the shipyard was destroyed.

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Same difference.

The Gorgon is more artillery like because its pretty much an immobile structure. At least in tactical terms.

The Golgotha is a full blown destroyer with more speed and manuverability than previous generation destroyers.

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Actually... correction time...

It's a little-known fact to anyone else but Agatheron and I, but the photon artillery was a long-range and high-velocity weapon - like a photon torpedo but cooler, obviously - that we made and were toying with using for some time. In the end the Gorgon replaced it. And the Gorgon was a fluke - I was sticking ships together and it just became that, really. Lucky.

And it made an excellent unintentional predecessor to the Golgotha. I assure you that the Golgotha won't explode quite as readily as its prototype, however...

Ah, the photon artillery. We set it to fire at fighters and bombers once (due to speed and power it was capships only) - and you should have seen the golden bolts rip right through bombers. Aaahhh...

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As regards the Auriga, the mystery certainly isn't answered this time around in BWO. However...it may be in the future. I don't know - time shall tell, and I need to think of a fitting end to such a tale.

Glad you liked Derelict enough to play it through more than once sandwich! It's a fair old slog...did you catch some of the foreshadowing of future events the second time around? Now THAT is something that only Agatheron knows about in its entirety...

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Originally posted by Kellan:
I assure you that the Golgotha won't explode quite as readily as its prototype, however...

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it better had...
on one plot branch anyway...

you can't just 'break away' from the tried n tested sci-fi rule...

'prototypes & 1-off super-weapons always fail or explode when they are needed most'

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Originally posted by G-UK:
'prototypes & 1-off super-weapons always fail or explode when they are needed most'

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Originally posted by Kellan:
Glad you liked Derelict enough to play it through more than once sandwich! It's a fair old slog...did you catch some of the foreshadowing of future events the second time around? Now THAT is something that only Agatheron knows about in its entirety...

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No...Kellan means forshadowing in Derelict. There is quite a bit of it and its fantastic when you know the outcome to see and understand the forshadowing.

We hope to achieve a similar level with BWO. But its an entirely different beast so it'll have to be done differently.

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Originally posted by RKIF-DragonClaw:
That means it can take down a ravana in 1 shot.... holy crap!

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How come it took so long for it to blow up that aeolus cruiser in the trailer than?


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