They said seven minutes till someone found the clues?  On the beta, or the finished game?

I cannot remember.  They said they had put clues in the game code, and that it would take about seven minutes for the people to crack it (joking of course).

Here is a thread that has exactly what was said by an interviewer.  Only they did not put it there, someone quoted them.

https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/418246

Or if you don't want to see for yourself, here it is:

"We were also told that you're finally going to get some solid hints as  to what the Vasari are running from, which has been a plot point teased  for several years now. Apparently little bits of info will be hidden in  the code, and Ironclad is anxious to find out how long it takes the  community to sort through it all and crack the clues.

Our guess? Seven  minutes. Before the game comes out."

I suspect that the clues will be in the final game.

When is this from?!?!  I completely missed it!

oh come on we all know its the care bears

they experimented with his phasecannon to jump to other planets. They just experimented with this gun and a exotic star as a target. As the projectile hits the exotic star the star colapsed and a giant unstoppable phasewave starts running trough the universe. All things which are electrical powered or just out of metal or just technoligical advanced (not sure with this part ) are thrown into phase space as the wave passed by.

So they cant look what happend because all ships that are flying back are thrown into the phasespace as they pass the event horizon of this wave. Thats the reason why the probes from the vasari are disappearing from the radar one by one. An advanced (brained) enemy would not reveal his actual position to the enemy by destroying probes as if they can destroy them without beeing detected they can pass them without behing detected.

So, the vasari are still alive on there old worlds, but without any technologic  they a forced into a new stoneage and they will need centuries to coming back with the first phasejumpcabable ships as the knowledge for this technology is lost.

There is no enemy! There is just a giant cataclysm for the known universe.  As soon all factions will realize the truth, freedom will fill the TEC-Space to find a solution before the wave reach there new homes.

My idea for them to get behind this wave. the should build a giant ark that is completly out of an organic substance and store all knowledge in the DNA of the ark. After the wave has passed they can extract the old knowledge out of the DNA from this ark.

And after that: if you know your enemy the day have structure - the war begins again

greets from the other side of the phasewave  

btw: you want to know how they will find out that there is this wave ? There will be some very powerful advents. They can journey long distances with just there minds (think of there capital). They will see the truth. Maybe they will need some special spice from a nice desertplanet with dunes and worms

Personally I find myself sticking with the old "race that lived exclusively in phase space until the Vasari accidently let them out" theory.

I think that my "All powerful being theory":

"What if there is just one pursuer?  A lab experiment gone awry?  An ultimately powerful physic being, able to destroy planets and control trillions of people with ease?  A nearly immortal vengeful creation, bent on destroying all Vasari, and freeing their slaves, traveling with the mind-controlled Dark Fleet?  The living embodiment of dominance, a billion times more powerful than all the Advent combined?  Coming this way?"

I think that it is very dramaticly told, dontcha think?

ihated2 is pretty much onto it.

Likely an A.I issue or Nanoswarm as another poster stated.

Also the Vasari subjugated so many other empires their are many possibilities.

Of course it could also be an effect from their wormhole/space tunneling technology you never know.

The gray matter/Nanite swarm theory is not possible here. Remember in the lore when the Vasari sent the Dark Armada to deal with the threat, and there was only one ship that came back? The ship was severely damaged and the crew on that ship went insane. I would say that, if it was a rouge nano swarm, then not only would the crew have been eaten alive, but the Vasari would have witnessed the damaged ship slowing turning into nano bots, which it did not.

Maybe there are more nanites than we have numbers for, and they sweep across the galaxy, eating planets, a huge swarm bigger than a solar system.  Maybe they leave nanite populations on planets instead of destroying them, or they build space staions.  Maybe they are building gigantic guns (like a couple light-years long) that they will use to shoot more of themselves to other galaxies.  Maybe there is a whole civilization of nanites, thriving and growing more intelligent.

I know exactly what they were running from. An AI that became sentient went insane and blared justin bieber songs across the comm links. The only way to make it stop was to destroy your ship, the one ship whose self destruct mechanism was faulty went insane and put their ship on autopilot back to the homeworld.

MYSTERY SOLVED

In all seriousness, if you couldn't turn that little ****** ********** ********* off, wouldnt you go insane?