Metallinauts wrote:Trailers this is via battlenet
Mekanta, are you ignoring me?
Did someone hear something? And where's Metallinauts? I haven't seen him around...
Actually, with so many damn participants in that fight, I can only open up on a few people at a time.
Shivans apparently have ADD.
A Worldflleet Shivan, sans mechanical crab-shell... Look like unshelled crabs. After birth, a Shivan (full-grown) looks a lot like how they look with the mechanical crab shells, only minus the mechanical-ness. The powerskeleton is an adaptation for the military caste, as are other enhancements.
Shivans have a queen-like caste, whose sole purpose is to lay eggs. They're pretty much genetic blanks, and genetic material (any kind, Shivans don't really have reproductive organs) is fed into the egg, which absorbs resources from a concentrated soup-like atmosphere like the Shivans natural environment. When it's fully grown, a full-grown Shivan bursts out. The whole process takes about two terran-standard years. They also have a small measure of genetic memory, and all warriors are derived from the same genetic stock, so creating an average pilot/operator/marine of the warrior caste only takes four or five years from egg laying to hatching. Given that a Shivan queen lays anywhere three to seven hundred eggs per day, Shivans have an explosive population growth. Even after a crippling defeat, their rapid production and retraining can bring a full recovery in less than a decade.
That's the other scary factor. The war will introduce the SI Tartarus. Anyone familiar with Freespace designations will know that "SI" is no doubt equivalent to the "GTI" in GTI Arcadia. The Tartarus serves as the center of Shivan support and administrative services. Or rather, clusters of them do. A single dock from an SI Tartarus can churn out a fully equipped SD Demon with full fighter and bomber wings in two days. The average Tartarus has between four and twelve docks, depending on the installation. A single Tartarus can keep a fleet of two hundred of Demons, or fifty Sathanases, supplied for three years if it stops production. Eris will, in the first part of the war, have fifteen Tartarus installations
jump in. This will be expressed as an "outpost" of the Shivans.
Wanking to an obscene degree, I know, but hey... They're
Shivans.
