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Topic: The Arilou sphere of Influence -Why? (Read 9131 times)
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Lukipela
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Wow, I can't believe you found this old thing! 
It still doesn't explain it though. Yes, we know that the portal is where it is, and Scotts explanation of the sphere for mining purposes makes sense, but as I recall there were a few other questions that never got solved. for example, you never see any Arilou on the quasispace side. And as good old Omni pointed out, they have the ability to pull back to Quasispace completely, they've done it before. So they can clearly surivive without their spehere.
And guarding the natural portal from the inside wouldn't require much, even a booby trap would suffice, if a few Skiffs charging the unprepared intruder didn't do the trick.
Btw, was that really Omni telling me I had a valid point? Heh, that must've been the first and last time 
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Death 999
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Yeah, no arilou in quasispace is sort of weird.
Also, I figured that - in terms of out of game reasons - the portal closest to the homeworld was the one nearby so that you wouldn't suddenly find yourself in the middle of Ur-Quan space with arbitrarily low fuel (with no portal spawner if you haven't gotten the Warp Core first!!)... the closest one was the most likely for you to 'randomly' sample, and if is pretty close, that's fairly neutral (principle of least surprise).
Edit: d'oh! The pet has already come and gone; it's the warp core you need. Silly me.
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« Last Edit: April 09, 2003, 02:44:39 am by Death_999 »
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Death 999
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I've sometimes wondered why you can't split your fleet and give them instructions to go somewhere, to make a delivery, say. Of course, the simple answer is game playability and programming...
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Omni-Sama
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And as good old Omni pointed out, they have the ability to pull back to Quasispace completely, they've done it before... ... Btw, was that really Omni telling me I had a valid point? Heh, that must've been the first and last time
No! I won't admit it! It never happened!  By the way, when does someone reach "good old status"? I feel honoured by your kind, yet demeaning gesture. 
Anywho, I seem to believe that the Arilou have a sphere of influence in TrueSpace because of the Umgah. I think that if they left that area of space undefended, the Umgah would be glad to pick it up as their own, greatly hindering Arilou ships from spilling in and out of their re-occuring hole into Quasispace. I assume the juvenile pranksters have played one or two jokes on the Arilou in their past and they're guarding the door so that they can't do it again.
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« Last Edit: April 09, 2003, 03:29:31 am by Omni-Sama »
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"Even Our House Pets Are Rather Evil." - Ilwrath Captain
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Death 999
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Perhaps they have control over the shape of quasispace, so that if anyone of whom they did not approve entered, they could just fold the place up and squeeze the intruders out? Meanwhile, you can get to their homeworld...
Just an idea.
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