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Topic: Why aren't battle thralls fighting the Kohr-Ah? (Read 43458 times)
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Krulle
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Seeing as the active Sa-Matra can apparently wipe Broodhomes off the map before they get into range, I'm inclined to agree.
But in that case, what's the deal with the Chmmr? I mean, their ships aren't even close to the Chenjesu range-wise, and they aren't as fast as the Mrnhrm ships. [...] they were doing alright against the regular Quan forces, and then they got blasted into bits. the Chmmr, while undoubtedly great ships against the rest of the Hierarchy couldn't really defeat the Sa-Matra anyway, so what's the point of merging at all? WHY HAVE YOU INTERUPTED THE PROCESS? The process of merging was not finished when you came. Who knows what kind of ship the Chmmr would have designed when the process would have completed as planned.
They designed the process to emerge so strong, that they can defeat the Sa-Matra alone, since they did not believe that the rest of the Alliance could help them then.
BTW: Did they plan to hunt the Kzer-Za until they could destroy the Kzer-Za fleet and the Big Trophy? Even in SC1 it must have been known, that the Ur-Quan would leave this sector for new races to subjugate in nearby quadrants.
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Krulle
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Lukipela: I like that idea. But they must have planned to be stronger than the Sa-Matra, because the Ur-Quan would have supported the Sa-Matra with their fleet.
BTW: They planned to overthrow the Ur-Quan slave empire (as far as i remember). Therefor, they must have planned to confront the Ur-Quan, even if they are not in this region of space anymore.
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Krulle
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Something like that. I just wanted too make it clear. But in the end we'll probalbly never know, since we _have_ interrupted the process, and not just speeded it up.
Likely it's as said before: they needed time (for starship research, weapon-research and so on) and energy for the synthesis/ emerging from the cocoon/planetary shield. Since you gave them energy in plenty, they missed some time for their complete schedule.
Unless the Chmmr will tell us in SC3v2, we'll never know. And it's not something i need answered. What's more pressing to me, is: how many races can i free from being slaveshielded in SC3v2, who created the Mycon (if the Umgah were right about them being artificial), what becomes of the Druuge, why we never find any remnants of colonies founded by other species (they all have just one homeworld, even in Zoq-Fot-Piq space, who tell you about their destructed colonies, i have never found any bombarded planet),...
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« Last Edit: February 05, 2003, 03:26:12 pm by Krulle »
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As for colonies left behind by other races, I don't think there is any great mystery. I bet they simply didn't have time to write in any colonies/mines/etc, so they just went with a homeworld and a region of space where you can find the ships. I think that is a pity, but not a huge deal. I am interested in see how they fortified a system, though....
As for the Chmmr becoming/building a huge ship to fight the Sa-Matra, that's a cool idea. It would take a long time, I imagine to build something close to the power of Sa-Matra, as it was a precusor warship.
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I think the race-as-a-battle-platform idea may be clever, but I don't like it.
What I think morelikely is that the chmmr avatar was supposed to be much like it is, except that instead of 3 zapsats, it has like 80, and together their lasers are powerful enough to neutralize the sa-matra weapon. At that point, it wouldn't need a main weapon - just more tractor power... MUHAHAHA
Either that or they wanted to make the main laser have a range as long as that of the sa-matra. Or they'd cross the beams and do a death star like converging gun thing... only lots of them and firing continuously, with five second breaks every ten seconds. Not something that can be done in melee, but in cut-scenes it would make sense.
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I doubt they'd have bothered to have the plans for Avatars whipped up already when you first bring down the shield if they weren't planning to need them.
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I have never seen any Avatars, except in my fleet. Apparently (to me) they have never built any Avatars. They just gave you some resources, and your starbase built the Avatars. Even when i revisited Procyon, i never saw any Avatars.
From the storyline i know what Talana tells me, that the Chmmrs cut through both Ur-Quan forces with their Avatars. I supposed they started building them when i started for the destruction of the Big Trophy.
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