That's nothing.

Have you ever looked at the little brown man in your cockpit closely? He just sits there in the same pose for hours on end, immobile. Time-lapse photography shows that he betrays no motion over a period of a week! Impossible! He is supposed to be your pilot, and yet he doesn't even move his hand to control the flight stick! This game is sooo unrealistic.. What a bunch of crap. This game sucks.

To Microsoft: The next time you want to make a realistic space game, don't dumb it down for us!! Make the little brown men in the cockpits move!

(lol)

new clans:

unmoved-pilot-clan fighters r intersepting we-want-a-movemend-pilot-in-our-fighter-clan...

Believe it or not, I've just read the last 5 pages. Probably because those monkeys freaked me out a bit: Monkeys that knew my name (Hee Trent, good to see you again) and robots that didn't talk with a robot voice. Did any of you ever notice that someone had been giving these monkeys clever names? Their personality may be a copy of another character, their names aren't: Some guy's last name was Mandril, and some other monkey was called Capucin. The other strange last names are probably also species of monkeys. I'm sorry to disappoint you Brown, but the idea of these monkeys being the Dom Kavash is even more farfetched than non-rotating solarsystems.
---Before I'll continue about the monkeys, a little question: Could it be that everything in the solarsystems, including the tradelanes and jumpgates, orbits the central sun(s)? If everything would orbit at the same speed, couldn't it be possible? The distance between every tradelane, jumpgate and planet would remain the same, right?

Ok, more reasons why this must be an easter egg:
- I would be very disappointed if a race of monkeys was introduced in the game without any explanation to why they are here and how they got there.
-The glitches (not working buttons, non-lethal sun etc.)
-After I landed on Primus or Gammu, can't remember which one, I saw other ships flying though the sky, as you see on other planets. I find it hard to believe that I never heard a rumour about an ape planet if other people have indeed
visited it.
-The chances are remote that a race that resembles Earth monkeys would evolve.

But then again...there might have been a lost sleeper ship that carried experimental, genetically engineered monkeys...

By the way, why can't Trent go to another bar on Manhattan? If he is so desperately craving for a 'sidewinder fang', I'm sure he could find a bar that would serve him that? 220 milion people, in a planetwide city and there is only ONE bar, that serves only Liberty Ale?
Trent must be the only man in the universe to go into more than 100 bars and not order a drink (or pick up one of those fine looking ladies!)

Well, I've bored everyone long enough.

Incidentaly, there is no minimum mass for a black hole. Well. Not really.

Of course, it would take quite a feat of engineering to make a black hole out of... umm... a planet, but it could be done.

There was some mad bad physics earlier. There are 4 forces, but they are gravity, strong, weak (nuclear) and electromagnetism. The exchange particles are called the gluon/pion (strong), w/z (weak), photon (em) and graviton (maybe). Neutron stars may spin, as a result of the conservation of angular momentum- a star spins slowly, but as it collapses into a neutron star, the spin speeds up- akin to an ice skater pulling in their arms. They may spin mad fast. Heh.
Oh, and there is a new theory bandying about that what we think are black holes are in fact 'gravastars'. Google it if your interesed.

On the Monkey thing etc, there is no way that that was going to be included in the story. They are easter eggs. How much work would it have been to get rid of the jump holes? 10 mins?

i like cookies.






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my other signature is a ferrari

Yikes!

Well anyway, people don't seem to understand the Unknown systems are just easter eggs, that is all. From the very obvious fact they weren't finished, we can tell that any of these conclusions you're making about it, are invalid. Jeese, if you guys are so keen on making up your own science fiction plots, write a book! lol

Live Long and Prosper.

a book, nice idea,

what do u think about:
starwars
startreck
dune

or something...

I've made a list of all the names of the Monkeys on Planet Primus and the Robots on Planet Gammu:

Monkeys:

Bentley Marmoset - Equipment Dealer
Alexander Mandrill - Bartender
Wesley Gibbon - Captain
Bridget Capuchin
Charles Saimiri - Monkey Rep.
Frederick Colobus - Lt.
Herbert Lagothrix
Beatrice Alouatta - Captain

Robots:
Rebus RN-332 - Equipment dealer
Optimus VK-445 - Bartender
Mersenne QB-400
Isa AE-222
Binarius TM-900
Servo CX-355
Nic VA-110
Hex BQ-880
Riemann RT-525


Well, Monkeys have the names of monkey species and the Robot names have to do something with computers (and Optimus, as in 'Transformers'?). But what or who is Riemann? And does anybody have a clue as to what those letters and numbers mean? Maybe there is some clever joke to their names...


---Everything is evolution---

Good idea, DragonBreath, let's write a book called startreck (!)

---Everything is evolution---

to Triple Helix:

Riemann is a mathematician. I'm no mathematician so I'll let you read about the Riemann Hypothesis here and see if you can make heads or tails of it (I can't!).

I have a bunch of funny vids with the Transformers... and Mr.T

-~-~-~-~
There is no Silicon Heaven[! But where do all the calculators go ?

You could no more evade my wrath... than you could your own shadow[!

Thank you, Chandrasekhar Limit, you just made me lose the little bit of interest I had in math. I don't even want to know how you found this site, but you did answer one of the questions I posted, so my thanks are not entirely sarcastic. Ok, so Riemann is dealed with. That just leaves those other strange names.

Optimus - Is it really transformers?
What's 'Mersenne'?
What's 'Isa'?
I can understand Binarius (binary coding etc.)
I know 'servo' (engines?) are some kind of computer term
What's 'Nic' (if anything)
Hex must have something to do with hexadecimal or something
And rebus, well I didn't find it in the English dictionary, but in Holland (that's where I'm from) it's a sort of a word puzzle.

Anyone having any interesting thought on Planet Gammu/Primus?




---Everything is evolution---

a Rebus is a word/picture puzzle where words are replaced with pictures.
a very simplified version would be: I "heart" New York (wherein the "heart" is a heart shaped drawing)
as for Riemann - i followed a link called "Titans", and i found this:

"Samuel Yates, in his articles "titanic primes" [Yates84 and "sinkers of the titanics" [Yates85, defined a titanic prime to be a prime at least 1,000 digits and defined the titans to be those who discover and prove the primality of titanic primes."

the page has an index list of stats and such but, i found nothing even close to being relevant. (not that any of this is relevant either...)

another strange coincidence i found was for RN-332, it seems that it is a major highway in Spain. i quote:
"It’s only a few minutes’ drive on the RN332 to Ondara and the A7 motorway junction, giving easy access to all parts of the region."

that is from a website for vacation rentals in Denia , Costa Blanca, Spain

thats all i found, i know they're not related but, the coincidences were worth inspection...

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Ah... "Rebus" brings back good memories of one of the groundbreaking sci-fi TV shows in the 1980's-- Max Headroom. Those were the good ol' days when we computer guys salivated over the computer-generated graphics in that show! (Max Headroom fans will remember the Rebus Tape showing the effects of the ZikZak Blipverts).

As far as the other robot character names go...

Isa... That's easy, for people who have worked with PCs for a long time-- There used to be ISA slots in PCs before the Pentium 4 days.

Nic... Gotta have a Network Interface Card (or on-board integrated) if you want to use a cable modem or DSL or LAN. :p