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How? Was he not broadcasting as a friendly? No matter how damaged any of my ships or wingmates get, they never stop bradcasting an IFF signal. I killed Stiletto once. She and I were both tailing this one Manta, and I fired a missile (otherwise, she'd get the kill)...so, she moves right in...

I am become Gigabyte, destroyer of systems... Person to guess that quote gets a cookie. But, the quote from the Hindu text in question is, "I am become death, destroyer of worlds". I believe it's said by Shiva... EDIT: Well, the quote may also come from the text...though, I don't...

C:CTP wasn't made by the same company, IIRC. There was a big legal flap...C:CTP was orginally supposed to be called Civlization...they eventually ended up calling it A Call To Power due to the copyright of the Civ name...

Um...isn't there already one? Look at the tab at the very bottom of the main page of http://www.wcnews.com, the one that says CCG.

They do have concubines...probably lots of them...

However, Seether DID go through the academy, therefore he did have a rank in Confed. He worked with Confed Intel. So, he must have held rank - which was a Colonel.

I know that. I didn't say the Nephilim were the Mantu. Actually, I think that the Kilrathi speculate that the darkness is the Mantu, but I'm not sure.

Good for you! Actually, that's exactly what happened. (No, I'm not being sarcastic) See, Paulson literally was a professional bureaucrat. He didn't have much knowledge of tactics, and was only involved in the Project because, well, his home planet was torched.

I doubt it. It probably has a variable amount of energy used in firing the big gun. You know, 500 million gigawatts really can't be that much...

It's fairly concrete. There's dialogue in Action Stations and in Fleet Action that states that there is a "darkness coming from the direction of the galactic core". This is the Nephilim. The Kilrathi say that this is they, and, IIRC, they say that it is not the Mantu.

How are they studying us? They're just fascinated by us, like Jukaga was. In fact, exactly like Jukaga was.

That's very, very fortunate. The Behemoth has a limited use...while it could destroy capital ships, it couldn't do it easily, and by the time the main cannon was primed for firing, the bombers would already be there... The Behemoth's only other use would be to destroy tectoniclly...

And how many Quakers do you know? And Calvinians? They don't consider it a cardinal sin, not in wedlock. But they don't like it...so, they only do it when necessary. Which explains why they're a very small religion. Every religious group...every social group to boot...that considers...

No, I don't. Paulson admitted that he wasn't a warrant officer, he just didn't tell Blair what rank Seether was. He wears the insignia of a colonel, so he probably is a colonel. Paulson going "um..." was probably him thinking like mad to try to avoid telling Blair what rank Seether...

It's Z'ha'dum. Blair's name is Maverick due to his rigid adherence to the flight book. It's sarcasm. Roberts may have been making a reference to Top Gun... "Maverick" was Blair's wartime and Prophecy callsign. His WC4 callsign was "Tiger", short for Heart of The Tiger.

Besides, we were going to destroy Kilrah because, well, it was us or them. Nature cannot breed a species that does not want to survive...

Paulson THEN says that Seether isn't a Warrant Officer, when Blair asks about it. "Um...no, he isn't" Was the quote, IIRC.

Indeed. However, ranks are also a means of identification of admins, mods, and others who have either become Major Generals or done some unique service to the CIC. They also reward people who have spent time on the zone chatting. Doesn't mean the posts are thoughtful and intelligent...

I thought that is was just the lines that are normally yellow were painted Black... I thought that soldiers can disobey illegal orders or disobey them if the officer giving them is acting irrationaly. Hey, why would Seether's rank be classified? He's a colonel by his insignia, but...

No, it mentions Behemoth... It says that the Tiamat can be compared to one thing only in Confed's arsenal: Behemoth. That's only in the raw power it can muster. I took this to mean that Behemoths are still a design that Confed retains. I didn't think it meant they had built a new...