akkamaddi wrote:On the last part, I think it's likely that the Gremak were winning the war, and were the "bad guys". They are slavers, and in game lore hints that they are not above eating their slaves. Further, their marauder bases are stocked with generational chattel slaves that are either Human or Ashdar.
nweismuller wrote:I'll agree the fate of Sol is mysterious, but I'm not convinced it was 'sacrificed'.
nweismuller wrote:I'm absolutely certain Humans were not allied with the Ashdar Empire against the Gremak. Humans, after all, still retain a grudge against the Ashdar, at least as much as against the Gremak. And there's a lot of evidence to suggest the old Ashdar Empire was aggressively expansionist, even if not as tyrannical as the Gremak Empire.
akkamaddi wrote: The Human's home system is "lost". There is no "Sol" or "Terra".
Arioch wrote:Or, it could be "lost" in another sense. If Sol still existed, but the star charts didn't identify the system as "Sol", and there was no current human habitation there, would you know it if you saw it?
Astroth16_6 wrote:at some point it was actually discovered that the warp lane network was not in fact built to allow interstellar travel in "real space", which was just a side effect of it being there, but for some other most likely nefarious purpose, by beings existing purely in hyper space, for whom the Arda Seed are just artificial workers.
zolobolo wrote:Astroth16_6 wrote:at some point it was actually discovered that the warp lane network was not in fact built to allow interstellar travel in "real space", which was just a side effect of it being there, but for some other most likely nefarious purpose, by beings existing purely in hyper space, for whom the Arda Seed are just artificial workers.
I like this idea, as there are also Stargates in the game that are way more efficient, so why use Hyperspace at all? Surely it is handy if you do not yet have gates, but if the races during the Great War were so advanced to have Super dreads, then why would have they still be using Hyperspace to get around?
Astroth16_6 wrote:zolobolo wrote:Astroth16_6 wrote:at some point it was actually discovered that the warp lane network was not in fact built to allow interstellar travel in "real space", which was just a side effect of it being there, but for some other most likely nefarious purpose, by beings existing purely in hyper space, for whom the Arda Seed are just artificial workers.
I like this idea, as there are also Stargates in the game that are way more efficient, so why use Hyperspace at all? Surely it is handy if you do not yet have gates, but if the races during the Great War were so advanced to have Super dreads, then why would have they still be using Hyperspace to get around?
Do Stargates work on a different principle though? I assumed they were sort of hyperspace slingshots, essentially propelling ships along the warp lanes much faster than their own engines could. That could also explain way most were destroyed, the destruction of the warp network causing a backlash effect of some kind on them. It still leaves the question of why the haduir one survived open though.
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