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What are the Vasarii runing from?

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What are the Vasarii runing from?

Can they pull it off creatively?

from Sins Forums
You know, I like the whole Vasarii storyline but it has me wondering, what is it that's hunting them down?
No doubt its being saved for the expansion or the campaign or some such. But my question is do you think the devs can be creative about this one?
It seems that we've seen all the options for "big bad mystery aliens" before though. Ancients, Killer Robots, Organic ship aliens out to consume all organic life, Bigger aliens than the ones you're fighting? All done. Though no one's gone with the monster being some sort of god...wait Star Trek did that one in a movie didn't they? Hmmm...

So, any original suggestions as to what would make a good ORIGINAL "big bad mystery monster"?
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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top
Well, for a serious answer. I think I'll bet my money on it's some kind of research that went wrong. More specifically it probably has something to do with nanotechnology.


Hey, the game did said they're running away from their own creation and Vasari is very verse in Nanotechnology, things add up. ;)
Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top
They're running from the Space Ponies of course!

That or I'd go for nanite-based AI gone rogue, a la Replicators from Stargate.
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Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top
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Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top
Times only an idea, or a measurement if you will. It doesn't really exist beyond being man-made.
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Einstein's theory of general and special relativity disagrees.

And I don't know what they're running from, but it creeps me out.
Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top
Running from Brittany Spears. Lord knows I want to.


P.S. The ship with the crazy people tried to listen to her music.
Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top
On the back of the North American retail box, it says at the top:

"Assume ultimate control over one of three galactic powers: an ancient alien civilization running from a terror of their own creation, a..."

Apparently, they f***ed up. REAL BAD.
Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top
the borg...
Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top
the Daleks
Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top
Whatever it is--and my personal bet is with some kind of space anomaly, given the opening cinematic--it seems to have slowed down a bit, since "There has yet to be any reports aside from those that were placed prior to entering Trader Space" (description of the Severun Overseer, regarding the unknown threat).
Reply #35 from Sins Forums Top

the Daleks
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Reply #36 from Sins Forums Top
I've got it. The final definitive answer which covers all the evidence.

The Vasari are running from....THEMSELVES! (dun-duh-DUUUUN!)

Here's how it would work. The Vasari Dark Fleet in the future comes back in time and begins destroying the Vasari empire and they can do it easiely because of more advanced technology. So this group that breaks off learns the truth sometime after the current events in Sins and decides the only way to avoid their fate...is to go back in time and destroy the Vasari Empire before it gets the technology to destroy the Vasari Empire. So the entire Vasari race is stuck in an infinite time loop! And the problem was their own creation! BWHAHAHA!
Reply #38 from Sins Forums Top
Ok, I've
Well, if the cutscene is anything, the hints are that they're running from some out of control experiment to do with FTL travel. Maybe they birthed a brand new universe and its eating the old one up as fast as it expands? It moves at the speed of light, so no return signal is possible. By the time you detect it, you're already gone.


Ok, I've got to give you credit for originality on that one. I don't think I've ever heard of "running from an new universe as it expands" before.
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That would be pretty cool actually, it is original at least, which is something very rare in the Sci-fi genre. Though the inevitable problem is how do you defeat an expanding universe? (perhaps you don't, dark sci-fi can be better than run of the mill done right, maybe the humans and advent are destroyed except for a few survivers who join the Vasari fleet and move on or something...) Definatly some interesting possibilities in that one, and a whole boatload of bad sci-fi possibilities (an expanding universe!? Let's set off some nukes in a specific order, making sure that our hero's ship is nearly destroyed in the effort and one of the crewmembers who no one cares about sacrifices themselves to set it off, that'll stop it in it's tracks! Oh man...is it bad that my mind naturally made up a Sci-Fi Channel style movie when I heard this idea? Cause I've got a plot and everything here :P)
Reply #39 from Sins Forums Top
Duh hurrr, it's the Seraphim, who else?
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Exterminate, exterminate!




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You obviously havn't been keeping up with Dr. Who. They hover over stairs now >_>
Reply #41 from Sins Forums Top

I've got it. The final definitive answer which covers all the evidence.

The Vasari are running from....THEMSELVES! (dun-duh-DUUUUN!)

Here's how it would work. The Vasari Dark Fleet in the future comes back in time and begins destroying the Vasari empire and they can do it easiely because of more advanced technology. So this group that breaks off learns the truth sometime after the current events in Sins and decides the only way to avoid their fate...is to go back in time and destroy the Vasari Empire before it gets the technology to destroy the Vasari Empire. So the entire Vasari race is stuck in an infinite time loop! And the problem was their own creation! BWHAHAHA!
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But the more the Vasari kill their past, the more they kill themselves. The further in the future you go the greater the amount of gone people. You kill Vasari#83821 and all of a sudden a genious inovator and his 89 awesome pilots of win dissapear, and now all sorts of things change and either their up against 9000 more people or 9000 less.
Reply #42 from Sins Forums Top

You obviously havn't been keeping up with Dr. Who. They hover over stairs now >_>
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"There has yet to be any reports aside from those that were placed prior to entering Trader Space" (description of the Severun Overseer, regarding the unknown threat).
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Where'd you find this?
Reply #43 from Sins Forums Top
its in the manual...
Well, if the cutscene is anything, the hints are that they're running from some out of control experiment to do with FTL travel
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really?

wheuere?
Reply #44 from Sins Forums Top
I don't remember reading that. I remember that their beacons keep being silenced and this compels them to continue to run faster and faster.
Reply #45 from Sins Forums Top
ME!!!!!
Reply #46 from Sins Forums Top
Second theory:

They are running from failed communism...and...it...keeps...getting...CLOSER!
Reply #47 from Sins Forums Top
I think it has to do with whoever created the phase jump inhibitors. If you read about them in the manual, it pretty much says that all three races just found them and use recovered ones. Even the Vasari just happened upon them. I think whoever created the phase jump inhibitors is chasing them...
Reply #48 from Sins Forums Top
It was probably a comm glitch that cascaded, and caused the friendly fire on the dark fleet ship when they tried to respond. This caused the accidental gas leak that made them go delerious and run. The comm glitch spread to the warning buoys and that's why they've been going offline. Everythings probably alright in the main empire right now. Basically, their running from a mistake an idiot caused by tranposing a digit in the original FTL comms code.
Reply #49 from Sins Forums Top
I think it has to do with whoever created the phase jump inhibitors. If you read about them in the manual, it pretty much says that all three races just found them and use recovered ones. Even the Vasari just happened upon them. I think whoever created the phase jump inhibitors is chasing them...
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seems the most likely theory

although then again this might just be a way for them to explain away why they dont have 3 different meshes for the PJIs :LOL:
Reply #50 from Sins Forums Top
I hope its not the "aliens invaders from phase space" scenario, cause that would be sooo overdone.