overmortal
Bearded Person
The games, however, do give us a diffinitive look at the Firekkans, Mopoks, and then a brief glimpse of the Stelteks . . . oh, and the Kilrathi.
Galatic Races
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ChanceKell
Rear Admiral
Definatly wouldn't call the Kilrathi look "definitive." There were a bunch of species in the games themselves. However, most were just primitive cultures that ConFed had to protect, and really didn't play in on the galactic scale at all.
Agreed. Most of the races were uninteresting primitive races. However, the Steltek interested me the most. As we saw in Privateer ***SPOILER*** when a single drone ship was able to attack an entire Confederation Fleet on it's own, it makes me wonder where exactly these Steltek lived and if they ever had any wars of their own, and how they managed to avoid any conflict with the Kilrathi.
Haesslich
Spaceman
DyNaMiX said:
Considering the Steltek left our part of the galaxy millions of years ago, it's not hard to see how they avoided the Kilrathi. They, like the Nephilim, seem to have the ability to create new jump points, so they don't have to be located ANYWHERE near known space. We've found their ruins all across our part of the galaxy, along with a few artifacts.
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Dundradal
Frog Blast the Vent Core!
Giving that the steltek are so far advanced (they seem to be even well beyond the level of the nephilim, which their jump points require some type of mechanism to keep them open) the steltek are able to create jump points it seems at their will. I don't think it's mentioned if the kilrathi ever found any artifacts, although I'm sure the steltek had colonies near their area of space. Although, like all ancient races in most scifi, the steltek just had to have their mars colony 
overmortal
Bearded Person
I wonder if the Steltek ever met up with the Nephilim . . .
I think the Steltek may be on the run from super powers like the Nephilim and who ever they serve. How quickly did they come to collect their ruins and get out of the Gemini sector, not to mention our Galaxy as we know it?
Also add in the fact that the Steltek also showed that Privateer of our's how to remove the drone. Obviously they are good aligned race, or perhaps so desperate to return to their hiding spot they helped the Privater so their business could be over sooner.
Also add in the fact that the Steltek also showed that Privateer of our's how to remove the drone. Obviously they are good aligned race, or perhaps so desperate to return to their hiding spot they helped the Privater so their business could be over sooner.
I wouldnt say they are "good aligned"
They might as well have destroyed the privateer if he didnt fast-talk them
AND they used him simply cause they didnt have the weaponry (or time?) to deal with the drone. They probably figured the privateer and his piece of steltek tech would be destroyed in the proccess
which is one thing that bothers me, that they would leave Burrows with the gun, when their objetive is exactly to get hid of all their tech and make sure the younger races dont touch them
quite a failure, considering Righteous Fire
Unless they were the ones who bombed the Eden temple as mentioned in that other thread
- K
They might as well have destroyed the privateer if he didnt fast-talk them
AND they used him simply cause they didnt have the weaponry (or time?) to deal with the drone. They probably figured the privateer and his piece of steltek tech would be destroyed in the proccess
which is one thing that bothers me, that they would leave Burrows with the gun, when their objetive is exactly to get hid of all their tech and make sure the younger races dont touch them
quite a failure, considering Righteous Fire
Unless they were the ones who bombed the Eden temple as mentioned in that other thread
- K
Dundradal
Frog Blast the Vent Core!
I think once they steltek had given burrows the upgrade for the gun, they probably returned to where ever area of space they now occupy. They can create their own jump points but it is unknown exactly how far of distances they can create them over (ie going from Sol to Kilrah in one jump).
BlackJack2063
Rear Admiral
Steltek.....Are they part of the original WC bible? Or were they just thrown in for "super"-tech and a story arc for Privateer?
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
They certainly *knew* about the Steltek - as they were one of the groups chasing down the map in Privateer.
Nah, they were acting in their own self interest - they didn't want the technology contained in the drone to fall into our hands, so they enabled Burrows to destroy it.
The original plan was for there to be a scene of a Confed fleet bombing the temple. I think it was cut for space before it was completed (unlike the "Steltek exit" scene cut from Privateer).
They were introduced for Privateer.
They're referenced here and there: in the ICIS Non-Human Analysis document, for instance. The Confederation Handbook gets a good Steltek reference - suggesting that the Scylla anomaly may have been artificially created for easy transit from Vega to their Mars colony.
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
It's discussed in WCP's ICIS Manual. The Mantu were a peaceful-but-powerful race that the Kilrathi attacked and lost a war with... they'd been demonizing them ever since. The Mantu are not a threat to anyone else.
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LOAF
I think it was cut for space before it was completed (unlike the "Steltek exit" scene cut from Privateer).
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any chance you got info on what exactly was on those 2 scenes? and what would be the "Steltek exit"? a scout opening a gate and moving out?
and btw, other than the TCH, any where else mentions the steltek able to create their on jumps? from what it seems, they can create permanent jump points and not just open a gate and get in or out, or even the artificial gate struture the nephilim use
whats the case here?
LOAF
I think it was cut for space before it was completed (unlike the "Steltek exit" scene cut from Privateer).
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any chance you got info on what exactly was on those 2 scenes? and what would be the "Steltek exit"? a scout opening a gate and moving out?
and btw, other than the TCH, any where else mentions the steltek able to create their on jumps? from what it seems, they can create permanent jump points and not just open a gate and get in or out, or even the artificial gate struture the nephilim use
whats the case here?
Bandit LOAF
Long Live the Confederation!
Well, Privateer ends with the Steltek Scout towing the Delta Prime derelict away... it was originally to be followed by a scene between a Steltek Captain and a Steltek Officer where they basically go "What about the gun?" and end with "Well, how much damage can one privateer do?".
The proposed ending scene for Righteous Fire was, IIRC, a fleet of Paradigms pasting the Retro planet. I've seen some storyboards for it, but I don't think it got any further than that - there's no reasonable place to put it in the game, and disk space was limited.
In Privateer (in the Scout and ending sequences) the Steltek create their own temporary jump points - seemingly wherever they choose. That's where that bit of lore comes from.