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If I remember one novel quote right, they reported that they were sending fighters out with half loads for the mass-drivers in End Run. We just don't run out during missions. Stormfires just don't need gun capacitor power the way mass drivers do, but at the expense of REALLY limited ammo. And...

The Piranha was a good light craft, but the Stormfire seemed to be an afterthought. If they wanted another gun-with-a-punch, why not a single charging mass driver? It's not like she didn't have the maneuverability to use it, and it wasn't as ammo-limited. If I'd wanted limited ammo for a...

Plus, we don't know what information Blair had access to during and after his recovery - while Rollins was a comms officer, and would've heard all sorts of things. Whether High Command let everyone know it was such a war... I don't recall if Jukaga's message to the Senate had said as much...

I've got like 3-4 copies still, even after sending a few away (IIRC). I'll have to dig one or two up.

Eh, at least they're both light fighters. He mixed a Sartha up with a Drakhri, somehow... despite one being more like a flying pancake than a two-finned crescent. Well, he did get better...

Secret Missions 2 and the associated novel, Freedom Flight, make mention of a Firekkan pilot who left his planet - Larrhi. K'Kai and others soon followed in his footsteps, which made them pariahs to many Firekkans.

My mistake.

On Page 8 of Claw Marks, we have this sidebar: The problem was that Admiral Dayan's task force was basically her carrier (Ark Royal) plus escorting frigates and destroyers... which, had Seventh Fleet been mobilized instead of locked into the docking ports on Alexandria, would have been able to...

That's probably a cultural imperative, stemming from their history as predators and the 'honor' one accumulated by taking down a foe (or prey) by one's own skills; that's why Jukaga was so eager to fly a fighter back in Action Stations, as were the other nobles... which made it all the more...

... and for those who don't remember, there were three types of fiction you could read on the website, depending on how you did on the missions; there was the 'success' password path, the failure one, and then there was 'general' fiction which was the same no matter how well or poorly you did...

Well, the Kilrathi one's 22 kilometers long, and possibly has better shields due to having 22km worth of volume to hold reactors in as well as massive shield generators. The battleship probably has more guns, though, or at least more heavy plasma turrets. The TCS Concordia, Confed-class, had...

Project Orion basically had 'throw nuke out back of ship, blow up nuke, let plasma wave of exploding nuke hit pusher plate, and pusher plate moves vessel'. The Excalibur got rattled probably by the wave of STUFF flying from where the planet was (crust, solidifying magma, atmosphere) and...

IIRC, they landed forces on McAuliffe AND Enyo the second time (the Enyo Engagement)... but it was Captain Tolwyn's mine-dropping gambit which cleared a jump point for a counterattack. The first time, Lieutenant Tolwyn and company (in Wildcats) shot down a whole parcel full of Imperial Marines...

IIRC, the Vorgath's threat to fleets was due to the sheer volume it encompased which would allow for more CapShip-type missile weapons; the main damage done to Vorgath was the fact that his storage bays were penetrated, causing the munitions within to blow) and probably to carry larger (and...

Indeed. I meant the Blue Horizon bit, with the 'plague of doom', unlike the Albergetti's own version of the mobile man-eating surprise.

Gave no hope, even. Gah. The OTHER piece that Boomer accidentally tossed into the newsgroup was never expanded on, or even used, IIRC - this one was a bit of a puzzler, as it didn't appear anywhere; not in the manual for Prophecy Gold, not in the game, or anywhere else. It just seemed odd...

I remember that name. Man, it's hard to believe that people we've known or at least read about are dying off like this. It's been a heck of a year for such things, hasn't it? ... Still, my condolences to his family. I recall seeing him as a name on the channel a few times, and he seemed to...

DX3 isn't due till like 2009, IIRC - so they've got plenty of time to fix what they did wrong in DX IW (namely: short missions and small areas, not so much replayability, general feel that it was 'DX cut down for consoles', making it so there's more ways to do things, better story)...

Google's dumb like that.

I've always wondered just WHY the Blue Horizon fiction surrounding the survivors was removed. Was it due to the fact that it was too 'dark'? That it gave by hope for the rescue team or the Albergetti's survivors? It SHOULDN'T have been an issue of 'space' on the WCSO servers, and I don't...