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Topic: UQM Fork: Story Idea - Black Spathi Squadron (Read 16222 times)
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Yehat_Sympathizer
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I don't know if Fred Ford and Paul Reiche ever intended to put the black Spathis in the game, but it sounds like a cool idea.
Still, it's better to wait until version 1.0 is ready and relatively bugless before you start a fork. Also, the UQM development team might have some cool ideas of their own about what to do with the black Spathis.
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Death 999
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We did. You did. Yes we can. No.
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But if they do, this is the perfect place to discuss them.
Anyway, I think that this idea is for Frenzy, which has already forked.
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Chrispy
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how many black spathi ships would their be.
and it doesnt add to the plot but to the world. their is more happening than what u are supposed to do to beat the game. i think its a sweet idea
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Yehat_Sympathizer
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since they are supposed to be renegade, you could make them wander around star systems, at random or just set points, to avoid detection, maybe in a single constellations, and could help you in a Yehat/pkunk sort of way, because they don't have a real world of their own.
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Death 999
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I like the idea of making the black spathi simply have a dual-fire forward cannon (fire from left and right sides of ship) (making it useful!), the 'decoy' modules stripped off, and lower crew.
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Krulle
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My two cents (in Euro that is) :
The BSS should fly around in Hyperspace, just outside of the scannerrange of normal Spathi extra-sensitive-scanners. Their goal is not to protect Spathiwa of the Ur-Quan (which would result in the destruction of all sentient life-form which was born on Spathiwa), but to search and destroy the Ultimate Evil.
Just my opinion of where to find'em.
BTW: 9 to 12 months would be too much gain. More of something like 3-6 months (at max.!)!
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HentaiZonga
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Another option would be to make it fire its main gun straight forward, 45 right, and 45 left - sort of a cross between a Yehat and a Pkunk.
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Death 999
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Maybe make the B.U.T.T. faster but non-tracking. But then we end up with a ship like a fast-turning XChagger.
Also, since these ships are custom-modified and probably a little unreliable, perhaps their stats could be within a range, but randomly set at the beginning of a battle?
Lastly, the question of their actual objectives is a serious one -- what are they fighting for and what do they hope to accomplish? If they are resisting the Ur-Quan, what are their targets, and what do they conceive of as their goal? Simply live free of the 'Quan?? Destroy the Sa-Matra and end the Path of Now and Forever?
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