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I doubt that. The knossos surlly worked, when it was constructed, and it did not stabilized the node, obvioulsy. And if its purpose was just to stabilize a node, it would not need to stay after the node is stabilized, I suppose thy would move this structure everywhere it is needed. And I'de like to know how a captain did open the knossos...
I think the shivan just knew about about the knossos but didn't care about it. I think the shivan attack just when something interferes with their goals.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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Maybe it was a short term stabilizing job only relative to the 8000 years that had passed....it could stay stabilized for 50 years and that you probably wouldn't be able to tell a difference in node stability during the couple weeks or so the GTVA was in the nebula.

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i got the impression from teh game that the knossos had only stablised teh node for a short time and that had the shivan tried to jump in afew months later oven days then the node wouldn't have been there- my opion only though - as to the reason they blew up capella - perhaps they needed a star of a very specific mass and capella met that size - think about it the node is opened and the run through and move to secure capella i dont think they ever went beyond capella - but they were very determined to get there - so i believe they had been waiting for an opertunitie to get through so when bosch opened the potal they came through

take note that alot of the ships that sent tot nova off were destroyed - perhaps a smaller star wouldn't have opened the nessary size of portal tog et home but a bigger star would have destroyed all of the ships not just some of them so thats why it had to be capella

alternativley someone said that the shivans were called teh great preservers or something - then perhaps they blew up capella to stop up from moving out into the other regions of teh galaxy and conquering other less advnaced races - maybe the shivans are teh galxys police force they saw us fighting to conquer the vasudans assumed we and the vasudans are violent like the ancients who were also conquerers - and descided to remove us - seeing a slight improvement in our behaviour the second time they move to just us off fromt eh rest of teh galaxy - perhaps because of bosch showing them that we were capable of comunicating and being reasonable or something

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I think that the shivans can adapt to any terain because in fs2 you encounter Terran troops in transports.

The thery that the shivans wanted to seal us of from the rest of the galexy is a good one that I am useing in DESA. I beleve that the anchebts who inhabited the planets in capella and other places were only outposts in a vast empire and the shivans destroyed capella to stop the GTVA from descovering something in capella

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Registered: Mar 2001
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the shivans are a race that just wants to fight.thats why the are hell bent on xeno-genicide.(they want to kill everything).

they want to be the most superior race forever.

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The question that no-one is asking is that even with the Shivan's affinity to sub-space and their sure goal to silence all sub-space activity, why have the Knossos portals not been destroyed or disturbed by the Shivans?

The portal within the nebula beyond Gamma Draconis remained unscathed for over 8,000 years...

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because they dont travel in subspace tehy dont effect it in a way offesive to the shiven - maybe they are seen as devices that quiet the subspace into order from chaos - since they do stablise subspace - the just object ot people suing them thats all

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Registered: Mar 2001
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they dont want to destroy subspace,nor dominate it.They just want to rule the galaxy forever.Why they didnt deploy their BEST ships during the 1st Great War is because they presumed that with the terrans and vasudans fighting eachother,they only needed to finish off the race left standing.

Now that the GTVA exists,they had to deploy their juggernauts to fight.With the GTVA safe (for now) from shivan presence,they can restore the GTVA.the shivans will have to bring their bigger guns to bear.............

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Registered: Feb 2001
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i think your being alittle nieve there - i dont believe there single motivating force is to shoot stuff - and even if they do want to crush all other races - whats the motivation for doing so

also take into account that 8000 years ago they were in gtva space they could have destroyed us then without having to wait for us to finish a war with the vasudans - nope there efforts do involve subspace - they dont appriate otehrs using it and since they cominucate through subspace i'm guessing its because ships traveling though subspace are unplesant to tehre senses or something

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