What do U think about this thought?
- Thread starter Tommieboy
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Assuming for the moment (and really, just to keep your argument alive long enough to get to what I feel is the more important issue) that the six “items” you listed cannot be reconciled with the rest of canon, I am at a complete loss to understand how six is “too many”. As a result of these six–oh, just for fun, let’s say you believe you can point to another ninety-four from the games, novels and what-have-you for a nice round sum of one hundred–“irreconcilable inconsistencies”, you confidently conclude that the effort to build canon is . . . what? Pointless? A waste of (certainly not your) time? Is that what you’re arguing? That the rest of us (certainly not you, since you’re not doing it) should just forget about the vast number of other facts that can be consistently explained and woven together to make for a richer WC storyline and canon?
All pretty presumptive of you, isn’t it?
An “Alternate Universe” is “better”? Asserting alternate realities to serve as the respective homes for all the “troubling facts” you believe exist is better than our sticking to the one WC universe with its canon to date?
How “better” exactly? Just what does such an alternate universe give us pray tell? An excuse to stop boring you (pardon my own presumption) with the “game” of canon that you obviously have no interest in playing? Do tell.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
That's fine -- they're not the same spacecraft. The Rapiers in the movie are CF-117 Rapier class fighters... as the Kilrathi Saga manual will confirm, the Rapiers seen in WC and WC2 (which enter service *after* the movie) are F-44 Rapier II class fighters. Completely different ships -- like the P-47 Thunderbolt and the A-10 Thunderbolt II.
The various novels would tend to disagree with you -- capital ships get from place to place by accelerating to thousands and thousands of kps with 'scoops closed'. You can't maneuver at such speeds (which is why the Snakeir couldn't stop)... but they're necessary for traveling from place to place in a star system.
Typo in the script (it's spelled both ways at varying times in the document).
Halcyon was Wing Commander of the Tiger's Claw -- he shows up in the movie novel.
Angel was a *squadron* commander -- she commanded Black Lion squadron in the movie (as the novel and handbook will confirm). She's Blair's Wing Commander in the sense that Blair was Spirit's Wing Commander when WC1 began. Halcyon commanded the fighter wing, made up of multiple squadrons.
The movie didn't say he had retired from flying fighters (I seem to recall that he flies a fighter in the movie
)... although the WCIV novel will confirm that he *was* also an intelligence operative before Blair arrived on the 'Claw.Never thought of that explaination for the snakeirs inability to escape Chymera(???). I always thought it was just normal physics of gravitaion. Two bodies attracted to each other exhibit a force characterized by something close to the following (been awhile since I had to use Newtonian physics):
F=k*m1*m2*/r^2
Where k is a gravitational constant, m1 is the mass of one object(spacecraft), m2 is the mass of the other object (Chymera), and r is the distance between them. I just always assumed since the Snakier was more massive than the Rapier, once it got within a certain distance, the pull on it was much greater than the pull on teh Rapier, hence we have kitty soup.
There's my short physics lesson for the day, but I like the scoops closed idea too
C-ya
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
You're confusing the Charybdis Quasar (in the Dakota System) with Scylla, the anomaly near the Sol system.
