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My dad and uncle john.. they've played star control II through about 40+ times (Honestly... They love the game). On some planet theres a wrecked base (3d0 version) talking about something named the planet eaters.. saying they obliterated a whole world. My dad says he found some other scattered info after visiting at least 95% of the worlds and talking to almost if not everything. Does anyone have any information on the planet eaters? My dad thinks they're what wiped out the precursers. Took out their whole world by.. eating it o_o

What? Perhaps you are referring to what happened to the androsyn?

No idea, my dad says it's something he's still trying to figure out to this day. (The planet eaters)

I think he's fallen for the same Umgah trick that the Spathi fell for:


There's another reference from the Spathi:


But there are no actual planet eaters in the game.

Oh, I forgot one reference. When the Spathi leave their moon to go back under their slave shield on their home world, they leave a message behind:

This reference is probably at the "wrecked base" you mentioned.

I know I know, There -is- a world with a wrecked base with a message of the planet eaters. It's not the spathi trick

Or perhaps he mis-remembers the Burvixese, whose culture was destroyed by the Kohr-Ah?

umm, no.

give us the coordinates if you're so sure, but I should warn you that unless you're mistaking the Spathi-Umgah incident (see above) with this one, then you wouldn't find anything.

>:\ I'm not wrong... it's real dammnit!

Well, theoretically, it's possible that the rest of us all missed it in the game, and that TFB removed it from the sources before they gave them to us.
But I'd place my money on you mixing some things up.

Maybe, since your dad has played the game so much, he'd be willing
to go through one more time and find the elusive quotes about the
planet eaters. However, having just done a search through the content
and source (I love grep) I have to agree with Meep-eep.

Edit: There are three matches to the term "planet eater" in the game text.
Each of which is listed above.

And I just did a strings & grep through the original SC2 for DOS.  It had the Burvixese & Spathi quotes, but nothing else in the lander text about the Planet Eaters.

Also remember that we're not saying you're lying, just that your father mixed something up after not playing it for several years (I've done the same thing; I always forget where the cloaking device is hidden).

Yes, but its hard to find cuz its cloaked.

Linux has some pretty powerful built in sensors, but even grep can't penetrate this cloak.

This is one of the hints... my dad picked up on this a long time ago

On your first contact with the arilou they say that they modified earths history to make us invisible to the creatures... and that if we showed ourselves they would surely come for us... the androsynth showed themselves, and there are no more androsynth.

God I love this game

This is true. But there's no indiciation that this has anything to do with the Planet Eaters. In fact the Spathi seem to be convinced the Planet Eaters are nothing but an Umgah hoax. And what the Spathi don't fear, doesn't exist.

There's a very long and extensive thread, from say a year ago, concerning just this topic - on the entity that the Orz represent, which is directly related to the Arilou/Orz/Androsynth story.

It's very interesting and we've discussed many interesting views there, I suggest you read it and it might shed some light for you.

This is the main, original thread:
Arilou and the Orz: What's the Deal? *spoilers* (http://uqm.stack.nl/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Gendiscuss;action=display;num=1039336915;start=0)

And these two are two new ones which I haven't read entirely, but they seem to rediscuss the same things, or most of them at least (damnit people, do a search :P)

The Orz, the Arilou and perhaps a New Idea (http://uqm.stack.nl/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Gendiscuss;action=display;num=1076823295;start=0#0)
'They' cannot see you now (http://uqm.stack.nl/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Gendiscuss;action=display;num=1075727295;start=0)

Enjoy

The Grand Master Planet Eaters were confirmed to be a hoax.

The Orz ate all the Androsynth *on* the planet, after all, but the planet was still there for you to land on, wasn't it? :)

The Androsynth were "snatched" into another dimension, by some entity, probably related to the Orz. All the clues in the game point to the Orz or some kind of entity they represent or are messangers of, but we don't know for sure.

That's what makes them so creepy!

We're not a hoax >:(