Exercise 01: Establishing the Status Quo

[KaiserStratosTygo]

Well, for one, the warp drives on the terran super carriers took, what, 40 - 60 years to reach their destination? Even the UED had to use cryo on personnel traveling to the K sector.

I think it took about half a year for the UED to get to the Koprulu sector.

[ragnarok]

I think it took about half a year for the UED to get to the Koprulu sector.

Where did it say that?

[Turalyon]

Well, for one, the warp drives on the terran super carriers took, what, 40 - 60 years to reach their destination? Even the UED had to use cryo on personnel traveling to the K sector.

I think it took about half a year for the UED to get to the Koprulu sector.

It took "nearly 30 years" (not 40-60) to get to what would eventually be known as the Koprulu sector according to the Terran history in the manual. The ships got lost and were not heading to their intended destination of Gantris VI, which was intended to last only a year. This makes it seem kinda weird if the K-sector is only half-a-year's travel out because if we are not to assume the supercarriers just shot past Gantris VI, it suggests the supercarriers somehow looped around and got closer to Earth when they got lost or that the UED developed much faster ships in the interim.

In sc1, space travel did not seem as easy as sc2.

Keep in mind that in Sc1, the K-sector Terrans didn't have to incorporate interstellar travel since all their initial colonies were actually located in one system. Comparatively, space travel would actually be easier in Sc1 than it is in Sc2 because of the retcon of most planets now actually being in different solar systems.

[ragnarok]

Keep in mind that in Sc1, the K-sector Terrans didn't have to incorporate interstellar travel since all their initial colonies were actually located in one system. Comparatively, space travel would actually be easier in Sc1 than it is in Sc2 because of the retcon of most planets now actually being in different solar systems.

Was it in the manual that said they were all the same system?

[Nissa]

Am I on everyone's ignore list, or is my input that boring? Aren't we trying to create our own campaign, hypothetical at least? In any case, I'd like to know what people think of keeping the hybrids away for another game.

[ragnarok]

Am I on everyone's ignore list, or is my input that boring? Aren't we trying to create our own campaign, hypothetical at least? In any case, I'd like to know what people think of keeping the hybrids away for another game.

You're not. Besides most of what I've said have been ignored also.....

[KaiserStratosTygo]

It took "nearly 30 years" (not 40-60) to get to what would eventually be known as the Koprulu sector according to the Terran history in the manual. The ships got lost and were not heading to their intended destination of Gantris VI, which was intended to last only a year. This makes it seem kinda weird if the K-sector is only half-a-year's travel out because if we are not to assume the supercarriers just shot past Gantris VI, it suggests the supercarriers somehow looped around and got closer to Earth when they got lost or that the UED developed much faster ships in the interim.



Keep in mind that in Sc1, the K-sector Terrans didn't have to incorporate interstellar travel since all their initial colonies were actually located in one system. Comparatively, space travel would actually be easier in Sc1 than it is in Sc2 because of the retcon of most planets now actually being in different solar systems.

I imagine they had different technology by the time the UED supplanted the UPL.

"I'd like to know what people think of keeping the hybrids away for another game."

i'm 100% in favor of that.

[GnaReffotsirk]

nissa, do you have ideas on what the story would be focusing on?

[ragnarok]

I'm curious Stratos, back when you saw the hybrid in Dark Origins for the 1st time, if you didn't think terran tech was vital for creating it, what role did you think terran tech played in Duran's lab there?

[Turalyon]

Was it in the manual that said they were all the same system?

Yep.

"After twenty-eight years of warp travel, the huge ships emerged into real space near the edge of a habitable star system. Some 60,000 light years from the Earth, their engines destroyed and their life-support batteries nearly exhausted, the ships engaged their emergency protocols and plummeted towards the nearest habitable worlds in the system."