And one last thing pertaining to your idea, Nai, that we have vast Empires... Last time I checked the alliance didn't control anywhere near the 270 systems the Scion have currently :\

Also, I'm waiting for Matt or Wolves to post about the Funeral things going on at Blacken, seeing as how Garrus is already there.

Two posts? This is madness!

Madness? THIS IS SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!*kick*

EDIT: Remember that last time you guys actually saw Jeodan he was mostly machine.

In my last post, you might need to read up a little bit on some of hte theories involving the large hadron collider, and thie "micro" universe's they are in theory able to create... Anyhow, there is your "bone" to work with for the Scion Communication blocks. Enjoy!

Well, the Scion could be viewed as holding position, and in future posts would be essentially protecting the Talus from outside influences.

If you would allow it, a CotC cruiser could show up to offer protection. It would be crewed by Talus members of the CotC, and it's captianship/steward offered to the govenor of the Talus world. For purely defensive purposes.

"and thie "micro" universe's they are in theory able to create"

Meh all that sientific theory stuff. I'm not that much into that especially not interested since i would have to read up on the highs boson and a lot of stuff that start with electro...

> Nai wrote:

> No I didn't annihilate the space force.. Just the vessels equipped with the Acid Rain weaponry, and vessels and facilities that would have produced or transported them. Ie, ships that would be considered Siege ships. Your Space control ships, battleships and frigates etc would not have been targeted.

Any other "conventional" ships would have been untouched.

Nai... Let me say this for I believe the third time. Acid Weaponry was the basis for the ENTIRE Talus Military Fleet. It was their primary comabt weapon. Vessels equppied with Acid Rain would be the entire stand Fleet. Production, that would have been almost every modern munitions factory dedicated to the Fleet. Battleships and Frigates (when they were in production) were military vessels. Therefore they had Acid Rain missiles aboard.

Also: "It would be crewed by Talus members of the CotC, and it's captianship/steward offered to the govenor of the Talus world."

Just remember that if you do choose to send such a vessel, that all Talus Citizens were stripped of their citizen upon joining the CotC. In Talisian Society that basically makes them alien, essentially other Talus (or Humans, etc. that have become fully immersed in Talisian Culture) would view them as 'Untouchables' as the poor were viewed in the Caste System. So crewing the ship with Talus would be worse then crewing it with Humans or even Kallum. In any case, violence would most likely erupt.

Ok, well I just  didn't envision everything they had based on it. Just more or less certain vessels, or a weapon system or so on each of em. You'll notice in my post, that many ships survived, I thought I made it clear that the Scion didn't take all of em out. I would content/suggest then, that some suffered serious damage and the acid rain delivery systems destroyed.

As part of the alliance, and with the constuction abilities that the alliance has been shown to have, it would stand to reason then that rebuilding efforts could have been undertaken with conventional alliance weaponry.

I do want to apologize if you think that I totally took out your fleets.

On another note.. Matthias.. nice post

I would agree with that premise. The Scion would have seen that as a consillatory action, and that such abandonment of your weapon stores would have maybe not been understood fully.. but the our message was recieved.

Also, with the blockage down around Blacken, your sensors in it's proximity would work. It's up to you if you want to write that in. I believe in a way you have, seeing you've sent research ships. Also, it's not been hours.. it's been days, you guys have written that part in yourselves. I would gander roughly 5-7 days from how everyone has travelled around etc.

I might add, the Scion can rebuild the Talus fleets, if, communications could be re-established. How you'd react if we sent one of the CotC cruisers for defense tho, would not be something the Scion would expect of you. Your welcome to go there. The CotC cruisers are basically converted transport vessels with a type of scion shield emitter. Weapons would be near conventional energy based, but nothing like a Dreamweaver, or Icharys can put out. I would put it much the way as a monkey, trying to dress up like a 1880 era calvarymen. Yeah, you can look like one, dress like one, but still not be able to fully understand and use the equipment they use.

yup, as I expected fenris pulled an akira..

>Matt

Again, as Sala noted, Acid Rain was the primary armament of the entire Fleet, meaning it dominated most of the ships' weapon systems. They wouldn't be completely defenseless if the Acid Rain delivery systems were simply switched off, having backup weapons (hopefully, right?), but destruction of the Acid Rain systems on the ship would pretty much turn the whole ship into a write-off, at the very least.

I suppose we could rationalize the survival of some ships with the suggestion that the Core Fleet, once it figured out what was going on, jettisoned its stores of Acid Rain warheads into space or something so the ships themselves would no longer be targets. <

That would be accurate. They have Graser weaponry, but until now (I'll be adding this in a convo perhaps) they had no means of mass-harvesting the naturally occuring crystal needed ot power the Graser cannons. The crystal was located on the moons of the Fourth Planet of the Kalnoky system, and is naturally occuring due to intense heat/pressure deep under the surface.

While the Scion may not have destroyed the entire standing Fleet, much of what survived was now only able to power what few Graser cannons it had, making them more or less combat ineffective. Those ships were either gutted and re-built under the new blueprints, or simply scrapped to build new designs.

Also, the vote had been stalled, so the Talus Republic has yet to be formally reinstated into the Alliance, though it is allies with the UEF.

When laser wolves attack, do the cats upgrade their rams?

Lol... good old Wolves, sleeping at 5 in the morning... pfft.