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Hopefully reasonably type checked, errors and feedback gratefully received as always!
Some of the questions get answered now... Enjoy!
Cheers,
Drew.
Status Quo, Chapter Seven
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Status Quo, Chapter Seven
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Re: Status Quo, Chapter Seven
Wow, thargoid superlasers and military anacondas, will we ever see those in the game?drew wrote:The penultimate chapter.
Chapter Seven
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Well, now, what a ride!
Fantastic battle, drew - you have no need to worry about writing battle scenes!!
Couple of things though - for one thing, you've now revealled that Thargoids use Quirium based fuel!! And that was a military secret, you naughty boy!!
Federal and Imperial ships don't use quirium - they use a more basic 'hydrogen fuel' that isn't as advanced as quirium (which is why Fed/Imperial engines are safer to use and can be removed and upgraded).
Also, and this is an issue I have with lave.oxp too, Lave has no moon - The Frontier Gazetter states that Lave is one of a group of systems that have one planet, one sun.
Fantastic battle, drew - you have no need to worry about writing battle scenes!!
Couple of things though - for one thing, you've now revealled that Thargoids use Quirium based fuel!! And that was a military secret, you naughty boy!!
Federal and Imperial ships don't use quirium - they use a more basic 'hydrogen fuel' that isn't as advanced as quirium (which is why Fed/Imperial engines are safer to use and can be removed and upgraded).
Also, and this is an issue I have with lave.oxp too, Lave has no moon - The Frontier Gazetter states that Lave is one of a group of systems that have one planet, one sun.
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There seems, to me, to be a bit of a discontinuity on how the q-bomb effects normal matter. In the game itself the q-bomb destroys asteroids and unpowered 'stuff', and when it hits these 'non-quirium' items a new cascade is generated. Maybe this shouldn't actually happen.... perhaps only objects containing quirium should create a new cascade.
...Not sure if I can properly reconcile that one, so I've had to take a few liberties with the story. Maybe the q-bomb has a primary effect on quirium and a secondary effect on any other solid matter. If that's the case then it would be able to destroy the thargoid and imperial/federation ships despite the fact they were not Quirium equipped.
Not great, but it's not 100% clear in my head!
As for the moon, maybe the Lavians imported it from "Murgh's Heavenly Bodies Emporium"
Cheers,
Drew.
...Not sure if I can properly reconcile that one, so I've had to take a few liberties with the story. Maybe the q-bomb has a primary effect on quirium and a secondary effect on any other solid matter. If that's the case then it would be able to destroy the thargoid and imperial/federation ships despite the fact they were not Quirium equipped.
Not great, but it's not 100% clear in my head!As for the moon, maybe the Lavians imported it from "Murgh's Heavenly Bodies Emporium"
Cheers,
Drew.
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For the film buffs...Commodore Sics D'fore wrote:Amusing Star Wars references, too!
The "How many guns can see you see...about 20 guns" one is a 'double-quote'.
It was originally in the black and white film 'The Dambusters'. George Lucas liked it so much he included it in Star Wars Episode IV. If you watch the two films' battle sequences and ignore the primitive special effects of the first, there are remarkable similarities.
It's quite wacky to hear that quote from the lead pilot of the Lancaster Bomber!Cheers,
Drew.
ps.. I've decided, for a desperate attempt at continuity between Elite and FE2/FFE, to make the 'moon' a rogue asteroid captured from the Oort Cloud. It's on an unstable elliptical orbit (taking it close to the Sun at one end of its path) that will result in it being lost back into deep space in a few decades. The Lavians, never ones to pass up a business opportunity, are milking it for whatever they can whilst the opportunity lasts.