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The enemy ships in prophecy are described as being organic and a lot of people seem to assume this means that the bugs are flying around in living ships, but, as some people have pointed out, something can be organic without being alive. Is there any evidence, either way, on whether or not the...

The Kzin from the Man-Kzin wars books.

In one of the episodes of Academe they are about to attack Thrakhath’s dreadnought and I think someone says that the shields are so strong a torpedo might not be able to get through. Does this mean that it’s possible to make shields strong enough so that torpedoes can’t skip through them or am I...

Is there any information on exactly how powerful the torpedoes are? It would make the games feel a little different if I knew that each salvo from my guns had the same amount of energy as even just a few kiloton nuke.

I could be wrong about some of this but I believe that the wc2 torpedoes had either nuclear warheads or equivalent antimatter warheads and they were supposed to do little damage if they went off outside the shields of a capital ship. By wc3 weapons technology had increased and fighters were...

According to Voices of war the Reaper Gun has “gunned down more ships than all other weapons combined”. Armada takes place in 2669, I don’t know anything about what happened in the years between then and prophecy.

Any reason we more threads this week in particular?

I think we should put together some kind of Christmas Present for the people at Gaia Industries. Anybody have some good ideas?

Do the Kilrathi ever enslave other Kilrathi?

I think using a gravity field to pull you in the opposite direction of inertia sounds like a good way to counter act that. As long as the gravity is pulling on every molecule in your body equally there shouldn’t be any turning into paste problem.

Without knowing much about how the artificial gravity works I don’t think we could say a lot how it would effect things outside the ship, if at all. It’s possible to mix together positive and negative electrical charges and get forces pointed in all kinds of weird directions. We know that...

All of the big ships in Wing Commander seem to have some type of artificial gravity that keeps people from floating around most of the time. In one of the episodes of Academy there seemed to be a gym area on the Claw where it could be turned on and off. Do we know any details about it? Do...

I think it’s clear that ships in Wing Commander have some kind of artificial gravity, there has to be some force holding people’s feet to the floor. I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t extend a little ways beyond the deck, either intentionally or as a side effect.

I just took a looked at Star*Soldier. It says the Port Broughton was “one of the first ships modified to fight effectively across the barrier” I’m not sure exactly what kind of barrier it was but it does say something about confed making raids into “Nephilim fluid-space” yay That makes...

How much do we know about the tactics and strategies used during the Nephilim war on both sides? Any idea about why both Confed and the Kilrathi decided to use giant groups of heavy hitting capital ships? One possibility I thought of was that they tried to split the Nephilim fleets into...

During SO1/2 I was under the impression that Confed was going back on the defensive despite the fact that Blair was still flying. Also in End Run they seem to be in pretty bad shape until Vukar Tag.

No, weasels get run over by cars instead.

That’s certainly a possibility. Star Soldier gives lots of answers about what happened after prophecy and secret Ops but I think I raises even more questions, which is a good thing. If it wasn’t for those big guns the battlecruisers would probably be considered carriers. I remember hearing...

Apparently battlecruisers were a very important part of the war against the Nephilim, both the Confederation and the Kilrathi decided they needed giant squadrons of them. Fighters obviously still had a large role to play, both the Midway and the Port Broughton had many wartime achievements and...

How absent-minded of me.