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Topic: The Remains of the Precursors (Read 14641 times)
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SupremeLordTanaka
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yea, even the artifacts shouldnt have survived 390,000 years, but o well
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EnjoyTheSauce
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I don't think so. The Precursors built to last. Most of their stuff we either can't understand period or seem like magic. Weaponry with longer range than the "infinite range" Chenjesu, a tug that can plow through any modern-day ship like a hot knife through butter, whole worlds supposedly created, bombs that can trigger a near-nova, and so on. Obviously they are much more technically advanced than us, and there is no question that rock or metal can survive less than a half a million years. We have, in fact, found rocks that are 2 or 3 billion years old, I believe, and the tug can theoretically take (50*16+1) 801 damage to destroy, or over 32 nukes, it's reasonable to assume that the Precursors had more durable materials as well.
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EnjoyTheSauce
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Sorry, over 200 nukes. That's a lotta nukes, ain't it?
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Matt
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Honestly, I think that the technology is there, but most of it is hard to discover. My guess is that a lot of it is buried underground, out of range of the energy scans (rock can block a whole lot of radiation), like the factory at Vela was. My guess is that most of the easy-to-find artifacts have been found and taken elsewhere by various alien races, but that there is still quite a bit of undiscovered, buried technology. The factory is one example; the Mark II is another (Okay, we don't know for sure that the Mark II was a Precursor ship, and we don't know that it was underground, but we do know that nobody discovered it before the captain, and I think it's safe to assume that it was made by the Precursors). So, I think that there's stuff that's still out there; you just need to look carefully.
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guesst
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You know, if you play SC1 there were alot of percursor artifacts lying all around. Somehow they weren't sun devices or bombs. Thrusters and dynamos (hmm, don't the melnorme sell you dynamos and tech for your precursor ship? Wonder were those mel-naum, er, melnorme got them) and stuff were all over the SC1 full game. Just cause sc2 didn't have you finding them every two seconds doesn't mean they weren't there. Your precursor ship didn't seem to have under surface scanners. The ships in SC1 might have before the Ur-Quan leveled galactic civilization. (okay, that's a weak excuse, but still plausable.)
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Culture20
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Don't forget that in SC1 you can find precursor mines and colonies (don't have any special effects in the game, but they're free mines and colonies w/o any need to build them), so they did live on the planets - or at least made colonies that others might use in the future.
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guesst
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Now, didn't someone on a different thread (different board?) mention that the blast of the Ur-Quan in the Antartic, along with a few other "odd" targets, might be inline with the Cthulu (sp?) mythos. Perhaps they were targeting sites of precursor artifacts, and perhaps Ur-Quan artifacts. I don't know.
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ScreamingTemporalDoom
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... Star Control 2 hints that the Precurors left their technology around so as to defeat some "greater threat"...
Mm. Maybe the Precursors became *slippery* and found some *fingers* that they weren't supposed to, nessisating the need to flee or become *happy campers*?
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