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I MAY HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT'S CHASING THE VASARI

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I MAY HAVE DISCOVERED WHAT'S CHASING THE VASARI

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OK, the dev's said there will be a clues in Rebellion as to what is chasing the Vasari and apparently it's not Sam Neil returning in a ship that vanished into a black hole for fifty years.

They also suggested that they thought it was possible some might get it rather quickly. 

To this end, I posit my guess.

I kept noticing in the varying screen shots the new Vasari ships.  We know the Vasari are quite happy to have institutionalized slavery and to force it on advanced but less powerful empires.

There's one theme in all the ships I saw..."Bugs Mr. Rico...zillions of 'em!".

I suggest the Vasari "assimilated" a space-faring insect species and experimented on them to gain their weapons and travel capabilities. 

Ever poke a stick into a wasp hive?  I did once.  There was a wee hole in the ground about three inches deep with a single yellow jacket in the bottom of it.  I killed it with a stick and then discovered that it was the entrance to a hive. 

Ever see the cartoons where the moving swarm comes out after the cartoon character? That's what happened.  A massive "nanite" cloud of angry wasps came out and chased my brother and I to the back door of my grandmother's house.  She wouldn't open it  because they were bouncing off the screen like machine gun bullets.  We ran to the front door on the other side of the house and when she got there, she couldn't open it either as they had followed us around.

Finally my aunt let us in and threw wet blankets over us and brushed us off with brooms.  I had been stung 32 times and had wasps in my nostrils, the corner of my eyes, between all of my fingers and dozens embedded by stingers in my belt, shoes and jeans.  The city sent an extermination crew out the next day and after gassing the hive dug it open.  It was 4 feet deep, 15 feet wide and 32 feet long.

I believe the Vasari poked a stick into a hive and now the swarm is after them.

If I am vetted officially at some point as being correct, I prefer to be thereafter referred to by name with the honorific, "Most  Mighty and Wise" prefacing it.

Thank you.

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Reply #301 from Sins Forums Top

Who would've thunk it that the glue that's been holding the community together was really spacy pony glue.

Reply #302 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Nezalata, reply 281
An experimental super weapon that made the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy destabilise decide to expand pullin in all the planets and generaly being a nuisance and expanding sucking everything into it becoming more bigger. (At this point physics says 'thats it i need a holiday cos i've been working for 13 billion years and i need a break, so carry on without me') 

Quoting Twilight_Storm, reply 282
The black hole theory doesn't fit.  The planets went dark and the fleet went in to check it out.  Jumping that close to a singularity would cause panic, yes, but not break the minds of every last crew-member who survived, and the ship's logs would likely have hinted to it anyway.  (Not that we have access to those...)

  • It wouldn't be 'chasing them' as claimed in the backstory.
  • It would have to be expanding faster than light speed for it to matter to them... which really couldn't happen because gravity travels at light speed. I say this because the vast distances in space mean if you were to jump a couple of star systems away, you would be a couple hundred light years away
  • Black holes, when feeding, generate light from all the material getting sloshed around and heating up... It would actually be quite bright behind them, not 'dark' (though i believe the original stories say only the beacons went dark, as in stopped working, and they lost contact with the planets, not necessarily saying everything went dark behind them.)
  • Supposing that somehow the Vasari made the edge of the black hole phase-tastic (or something), so that it could travel faster than the speed of light, I suppose that it would be expanding too fast for the material to heat up and so everything would be dark... well, either matter falling into the black hole would contain it, or if it 'could not be contained' this would basically mean that matter doesn't affect it... well, then getting caught in it wouldn't affect you.
  • Oh, but maybe the edge of the black hole is phased, but the inside is a regular black hole. Well, then you're back to the problem of the inside only traveling at light speed, so you've got lots and lots of time. Also, since the edge travels faster than the inside, it will tear itself apart.
  • Physics never takes a day off and never gets sick; people keep stealing it's vacation and sick days.
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Reply #303 from Sins Forums Top

it was mentioned its hidden in the game... space ponies was also referenced, and it made me think... the achievement for space ponies is simply "um...what?"

 

so thats the clue...must be. the eternal enemy is space ponies. the reason the vasari are running is because the ponies are all glittery and sparkly....frightening things really.

 

seriously though, if anyone read the Clone series of books by Steven L Kent... those aliens are powerful and enough to cause anyone to run screaming for the hills...until killed, as they would make the planet over and deplete the sun, could fit with the whole "darkness comes" theme. perhaps the vasari found a version of these...in pony form?

 

to slow these aliens down, they used their knowledge of phasic space and nanites to trap them in an attempt to flee, using the dark fleet to periodically re trap the aliens until they again break free.

Reply #304 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting duskguy, reply 303
the achievement for space ponies is simply "um...what?"

Not sure if you're serious or not, but that achievement has been in Sins since release.  ;)  So it's clearly not the hint that was added in Rebellion.

Reply #305 from Sins Forums Top

Random thought: there should be a comic book for this game...

Reply #306 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 305

Quoting duskguy, reply 303the achievement for space ponies is simply "um...what?"

Not sure if you're serious or not, but that achievement has been in Sins since release.   So it's clearly not the hint that was added in Rebellion.

 

that part of the post wasnt, no. the part about the series of books was however, except that last line about being like ponies

Reply #307 from Sins Forums Top

This post seems kind of dead, but here I go anyway. My guess is that it's some kind of evil(er) ancient empire that has extremely advanced technology and/or some sort of supernatural element e.g. Necrons (best example I can come up with off the top of my head). Either that or a straight up eldritch abomination (including things like the flood or the Beast from Homeworld, cause that shit is fucked up). Or multiple eldritch abominations. I think it would take something like either of these two possibilities to make the Vasari tear up stakes and haul ass like they did (and really should be continuing to do instead of hanging around fighting the TEC and Advent). Seriously guys, this was supposed to be a smash & grab, not a prolonged affair ending in a shootout with both the cops and the homeowner. In fact, it would've been way more dickheaded of you to simply grab what you can get, then run and let them deal with whatever's coming your way, hell, maybe they'd give it indigestion. Son, I am disappoint...