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It just seems odd that the Shivans didn't show up again until Bosch reactivated the Knossos device. For that matter, was the Knossos creating an artificial jump node or was it stablising an existing one?

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What if the hive mind turned out to be soem black dude. "Yo what's up homie G. Prepare to be assimilated yo."

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Hmm, very sterotypical, but whatever.

anyways all this talk about possible endings make me really wistful about there not being a sequel in the works. I would think that with an ending as ambiguous as that, they were planning on a sequel. I dunno. i just dont know... oh and to go back to what I was actually trying to say....

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Well if you remember the Ancient recollections, it specifically stated that when they entered subspace, the Destroyers found them. Coincidentally, when Terrans and Vasudans discovered the amazing technology that allows subspace travel, the Shivans came after them too. I guess that IMO this is not enough evidence to prove that the Shivans attacked the Ancients and went into hiding until someone else showed up, but it indeed is an intresting thing to think about.

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Bigbossman, be careful asking about FS3. It can get you rather badly burnt

I covered the reasons why FS3 wasn`t made in my FAQ (in fact it was the first question I answered cause EVERYONE wanted to know the answer at one time or another )

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We should test it out blow a star up in the game and put a Lucifer roaming around and record its readings of % Damage taken :P

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Unfortunately the supernova effect mearily blows up (at the veru least) your fighter and does no damage to any capships in the area. Therefore the Lucy would take on damage.

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IMHO we're always taking shivans a little lightly.
Personaly I believe them to be fundamentally different than our standards.
However I'd like to suggest a reason as of why they do attack any spacefaring race - I have a tehory about subspace, but since I've already explained that in another thread (subspace) I'm gona stick with the basics:

-Subspace is paralel with our universe, it even exists in the same space. It's another dimension, but it needs gravity to be "stretched out". Solar systems have gravity as well as planets *ever wondered why jumpnodes would be so close to planets?

-Energy inside subspace accumulates, and whenever someone eneters it they pollute it with even more - the energy forms rings inside subspace tunnels - you don't use a tunnel during and intrasystem jump, only during an intersystemjump. (Inside a solar system the subspace is actually spherical -but it's also so fluid that travelling is almost instanteous). These rings stabilise the tunnel, but their balance is frail one - exess energy can lead to storms - which may last anywhere between a microsecond and a milenia.

Now, Shivans seem to be living in space - or they spend most of their time inside it, their only mean of travel is subspace (I think even in Capella they just used the stars energy to create an artifical node, the supernova was a sideeffect).

A new race starts to use subspace - polluting it, making it harder for Shivans to travel. It is unknown how far the effects can go, since the systems are connected by tunnels - so even remote tunnels could collapse.

The very life of the race is threatened since they relly on subspace to the utmost. Another subspace faring race is not just another traveler - they are another pyromanian inside a gunpowder barrel.

Maybe shivans limit the use of subspace - and destroy those who would endanger their priviledge to any extent.

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The techroom suggests they even evolved in space ,Even with extreme mutagene interference it would take a couple of mileniums at least. This is my main reason why shivans have to be fundamentaly different, that much time in space is out to change one view of life.

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The techroom suggests they even evolved in space ,Even with extreme mutagene interference it would take a couple of mileniums at least. This is my main reason why shivans have to be fundamentaly different, that much time in space is out to change one view of life.

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We can speculate that GTI had obtained "live/dead" Shivan specimen after the Great War. The research and scientific data were not released, and are still classified. After the GTI and the Hades incident, much of what GTI accomplished or was doing before the incident (and even before the arrival of the Shivans) were classified.

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We can speculate that GTI had obtained "live/dead" Shivan specimen after the Great War. The research and scientific data were not released, and are still classified. After the GTI and the Hades incident, much of what GTI accomplished or was doing before the incident (and even before the arrival of the Shivans) were classified.

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...and destroyed on board the Jotunheim and Hades. You'll find out soon enough where most of the data was recovered from...

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We know that the Lucy and its fleet first appeared in Ross 128, and we speculate that the GTSC Einstein was there also. However, GTA also met its first Shivan resistance in the systems of Ribos, Ikea, and those outer systems. Intel and past references rarely talk about these systems. We KNOW that these were the Shivan's first occupied systems (they set up cargo depots, repair shops, etc.). But why all the hush-hush about the happenings of Betelgeuse and around theres?

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Betelgeuse and Beta Cygni are at a jump node dead-end. Not much to be gained from there, so there were probably not that many battles. We don't even know if the Shivans were interested.

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But so was Capella (or so we had thought). After the Great War, we discovered Gamma Draconis, and from there, the return of the Shivan fleet. Ikea was the place for major Shivan presence (well, it may not have been Ikea, but it was a system close to the "core", but a dead-end system). The prospect that Ikea was a dead-end to OUR knowledge leads to the theory that the Shivans entered through an unknown jump node to us both then and now.

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Possessing weight doesn't need gravity.

It's obvious that Shivans should have undergone serious conditions to develop their strengh, but if you examine the "design" it's more adepteds to a 3D environment, than a planet.
Being in space doesn't mean constant weightlessness.

You accelerate and as a result you have force which generates weight. Imagine a race that experiences all kind of stresses in all directions. - So in other words you gota get used to a lot of different weights in differents directions.

They could live in space colonies which spin to generate gravity - even that kind of gravity is different than a planet's and needs a constant knowledge of direction.

Or they could have artificial gravity - which would be more pleasant, but it may still not be enough to counter all the forces experienced during a long-term space voyage - one lasting milenias will definitly have an effect.

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You're missing one major point Zolee. If they did evolve in space who built the spinning stations to give them weight?

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"Spinning stations"?? Am I missing something??

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I didn't say they were born in space - only that they've evolved there.
Evolution just doesn't stop because people like to think of a race as a constant thing.

It's just a matter of time...

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I didn't say they were born in space - only that they've evolved there.
Evolution just doesn't stop because people like to think of a race as a constant thing.

It's just a matter of time...

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If you say that the shivans design is the result of them tinkering with their own DNA (or equivalent)

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I note that you said "or equivalent". DNA only applies to carbon-based life-forms, or as far as we know. As far as DNA on a Shivan, I'm pretty skeptical, but you gotta be able to understand what the "equivalent" is to be able to say they can tinker (nice word choice ) with their own... makeup material.

Hell, I would love to have my DNA altered so I can have a plasma beam or whatever mounted on my head.

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I note that you said "or equivalent". DNA only applies to carbon-based life-forms, or as far as we know. As far as DNA on a Shivan, I'm pretty skeptical, but you gotta be able to understand what the "equivalent" is to be able to say they can tinker (nice word choice ) with their own... makeup material.

Hell, I would love to have my DNA altered so I can have a plasma beam or whatever mounted on my head.

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I said equivalent cause it's highly unlikely that the shivans have DNA since there are other replicating molecules that they could have evolved to use instead and the chance of them evolving exactly the same one as us (especially if you consider the chance of them having the same nucleotides as us).
However it is possible. No one has yet proved exactly where the first replicating molecules came from (although there are lots of theories) and it is possible that the shivans (or another race) seeded planets with DNA billions of years ago.
The Shivans almost certainly will have some sort of genetic material that is alterable because evolution doesn`t work without it. So I said equivalent since it's doing the same job as DNA

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