What are the Vasarii runing from?

Can they pull it off creatively?

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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 #1 from Sins Forums Top
Space Ponies of the Pink kind. It's the only thing scary enough to chase off the Vasari.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You have entered in a crisis of what we can call "the Simpsons have done it before". The genre has some time already, and while not ALL that can be done have been done, it's not really a problem if it's not the first time something appears as long it isn't overused.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
The same thing that the Honored Matres were running away from in Dune (Before those silly newer books).

It is a mystery.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
It's most likely a bug in their communications software. "Good god, we lost communication to our planets!! It happened so quickly that it must be aliens out to get us!"
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Rouge AI is my guess, and why are the vasari all so old and have soar throats?
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Rouge AI is my guess, and why are the vasari all so old and have soar throats?


Never watched the Dark Crystal? Jim Henson set it in stone: All evil empires are run by old men with bent backs and sound like they've been smoking cigarettes every day for 50 years.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
I think their running from the homer cannon. You don't want to live on a planet that has been hit by the homer cannon its the smell.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
That question will likely be answered in the second x-pack. The DreadLords are coming!!
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
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.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
I vote for screaming teenage girls. Everyone knows that the Vasari's voices are so bad because they were all members of a hair metal band in their former lives. Now they have to get away or end up like Alice Cooper or 'shudder' Ozzie Ozzbourne.
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
The Dread Lords. They have been known to terrorize multiple universes. They got bored terrorizing the races in GalCiv so they decided to hop on over to the Sins universe.
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

The Dread Lords. They have been known to terrorize multiple universes. They got bored terrorizing the races in GalCiv so they decided to hop on over to the Sins universe.


I think it works well to do the cross pollination with the universes lore wise.
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top
The simpsons. You can't kill them and you don't want them as neighbors.
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
It's the Daleks.

Or maybe angry girlfriends/wives that keep maxing out their credit cards, since the Vasari have this big need for resources.. And lord knows that could provoke the kind of fear mentioned in the backstory.
Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top
Hah hah, puny humans, so easily fooled by our propaganda.
Oooh, we are scaareeed, we are running from an unmentionable menace!
Now hand over your worlds for strip-mining!
Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top
You know, I like the whole Vasarii storyline but it has me wondering, what is it that's hunting them down?


The first expansion pack? :)

Seriously.. i dont know, but you can bet your money on it, that the first XP will have to do something with them. :P Given we will have an XP, but i would be suprised if not.

edit: bleh, fenenity did beat me to it. doh.
Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top
I'm inclined to agree with Windexglow. It sounds like they just panicked and ran like little baby girls at the slightest hint of trouble.

For all you know, you've got a bunch of Vasari fratboys sitting back home in Vasari One laughing their asses off:

"Hey, remember the time we gave Vasari Threehundredfiftythree the silent treatment?"

"Oh shit man. That was so fricking funny!"
Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top
I'm inclined to agree with Windexglow. It sounds like they just panicked and ran like little baby girls at the slightest hint of trouble.

If you read the manual it describes the event: "When a single, heavily damaged warship from the Dark Fleet appeared out of phase space in orbit of a planet on the empire's perimeter, the inhabitants decided to board the ship. What they found were the remains of a once battle-hardened crew driven mad with fear" (Training Maunual, pg. 6-7). If the core of your empire was disappearing, I think it would be a wise choice to board the space whales and haul alien behind out of there.

Reply #22 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.
Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top
ok I have to say it, they are running from a lack of single player campaign :LOL: j/k
Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top
The Beast (Homeworld Cataclysm)
Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top
It's the Langoliers I tell you, Stephen king set them loose and now theyre eating time!