1 hour ago, ShonFrost said:
Cam and Xenon, good job guys! Now, let’s analyze the message. “There is a shipyard”.
Yaaaay! 
1 hour ago, CinnamonFake said:
Yaaaay! 
Oh s*** hype is getting real 
1 hour ago, CinnamonFake said:
Yaaaay! 
Wait a sec, does that mean that my assumptions are correct? Anyway, the hype is real!
Cool, now all you have to do is turn this stuff into a campaign… ;p
That’s all? Elli get the edge over all other(especially the factions themselves)?
Doesn’t this could lead to the next war/dictate? Who will stop them?
Where we can report eugene?
6 hours ago, Lord_Xenon said:
That’s all? Elli get the edge over all other(especially the factions themselves)?
Doesn’t this could lead to the next war/dictate? Who will stop them?
Where we can report eugene?
They have the edge in hibrid technology, but that doesnt makes them superior to other technologies. We can see that the new hibrid weapon has strong efects, but strong drawbacks as well, preventing it from being a super weapon. Also they seem to be a very small number compared to other factions, which translates into fleet strenght (lol). These guys might be like the Protoss of StarCraft.
BTW im loving all the coments and conclusions of this thread. Keep it up!! 
How long will these drawbacks exist? Having technology that noone else have is something that is of an advantage. And what or who is Protoss?
Fleet strength is nothing. Not at least if you translate this to sector controll. Having sectors occupied by cartels, pirates, cyber and aliens is nothing that the faction itself can give an indication of strength. So it could only be time until this Ellydium corporation will be or cause the 4th faction conquering in existing sectors. How will the attacked faction(s) will defend if they already have own problems? Oh and maybe Miss Sommer will use this trouble too!
I just think that tech is different, cant be superior in every mean (considering existing human tech has been refined for many many years, it has to be good, also taking into account that the’ve deffended quite well against aliens).
Protos: they are a race with a low population amount compared to terrans and zerg, but manage to survive thanks to their superior tech.
Fleet strenght is important to make effective alpha strikes, maintaining many sectors under control, being able to respond against a large fleet. Holding a sector may not require that many ships, but in a large battle, if you are heavily outnumbered, you will certainly loose. Other factions could organize to make a full scale attack and blast the Ellydium base and fleet, seriously crippling them and forcing them to hide. If you dont have a good fleet size, you wont be able to conquer most important objectives.
Shipyard=fleet size
The factions itself don’t have a huge fleet strength(at least what you can imagine from all the texts and scenarios ingame). Why they can’t clean Solaris Wasteland or Poseidon Complex from the aliens? Why does Cartels, Cyber or Pirates occupy their sectors? They could easily blast them away if they had such a giant fleet. Even protecting these sectors as you say. But why is this not happening? Because they can’t! They are already exhausted from the invasion of the aliens and the many mini-wars. They can only maintain their fleet and some sector protections. If now something like Ellydium go on their own, they can’t do a xxxx against this. And if they do, they will lose at another end. So or so, the faction(s) are already decaying. The ‘piece’ is only obtained by mercenaries(us), but this can easily shift if Miss Sommer or even Ellydium itself pay us with rewards the faction(s) can’t.
And to the sectors itself: It’s right that a giant fleet can easy conquer and protect it, but this is at the cost of guerilla tactics and along with the inflexibility of said fleet. They don’t need to fight the war open as the faction(s) can’t send out such big fleets long else they will have another enemy using their weakness and go rioting. So or so: They have lost. They only can do preventive arrangements. Like giving Ellydium something they need/want so they won’t break the loyalty with their faction.
But i feel like we’ll get access to their sector pretty easily cause i’m pretty sure we all notice those closed super gate in each main faction sector ”)
12 hours ago, Lord_Xenon said:
The factions itself don’t have a huge fleet strength(at least what you can imagine from all the texts and scenarios ingame). Why they can’t clean Solaris Wasteland or Poseidon Complex from the aliens? Why does Cartels, Cyber or Pirates occupy their sectors? They could easily blast them away if they had such a giant fleet. Even protecting these sectors as you say. But why is this not happening? Because they can’t! They are already exhausted from the invasion of the aliens and the many mini-wars. They can only maintain their fleet and some sector protections. If now something like Ellydium go on their own, they can’t do a xxxx against this. And if they do, they will lose at another end. So or so, the faction(s) are already decaying. The ‘piece’ is only obtained by mercenaries(us), but this can easily shift if Miss Sommer or even Ellydium itself pay us with rewards the faction(s) can’t.
And to the sectors itself: It’s right that a giant fleet can easy conquer and protect it, but this is at the cost of guerilla tactics and along with the inflexibility of said fleet. They don’t need to fight the war open as the faction(s) can’t send out such big fleets long else they will have another enemy using their weakness and go rioting. So or so: They have lost. They only can do preventive arrangements. Like giving Ellydium something they need/want so they won’t break the loyalty with their faction.
Not because theres no mention of it, it means theres no large fleet; destroyers and dreadnoughts were used long before mercenaries knew about and have access to them (weve never seen a ship bigger than a destroyer owned by jericho/fed/emp, except for the wreckage, even when theres mention of cruisers). Aliens have the largest fleet by far, since they can attack 3 factions at the same time. Cartel, cyber and pirates are guerilla fighters, great tactic for small armies that has proven effective in many situations (like USA trying to control Vietnam, but utterly failing even they had way bigger army, better equipment, better training…), this renders them a constant threat big nations (factions) cant deal with easily. Personally i think the factions are slowly recovering from the alien attacks.
Big fleets have devastating powers and work extremately well capturing/destroying stations, big targets, smaller fleets, but lack flexibility. Small fleets are flexible but lack destructive power. The story of SC leaves a lot to imagine since mercenaries dont have a wide view of whats going on. So either if Ellydium has a big or small fleet, it can be a pain in the xxxx or be suppressed, all depends on what resources have and which movements do each faction to beat the other one. Anyways, if Ellydium turns out to be the new faction, its obious the history wont go 100% in favour of it, eliminating all other factions, since it would mean decreasing drastically faction variety/availability for players.
I’m not sure what you want to say. Can you say it in short?
10 hours ago, Lord_Xenon said:
I’m not sure what you want to say. Can you say it in short?
Basically that we dont have enough information to state anything for sure, so there are plenty of possibilities. Also that balance is important in the game, so lore will be limited by the balance factor.
5 minutes ago, Papitas said:
Basically that we dont have enough information to state anything for sure, so there are plenty of possibilities. Also that balance is important in the game, so lore will be limited by the balance factor.
Thats what i wanted to say too, it seems like it should be a faction in a smaller number of ships to reduce unbalanced ideas for now.
48 minutes ago, Papitas said:
Basically that we dont have enough information to state anything for sure, so there are plenty of possibilities. Also that balance is important in the game, so lore will be limited by the balance factor.
I’m stating how the sectors look like in OS. You won’t have so many enemies within your territories, especially occupied by them, when you had the strength to easy defeat them or to install defences.
Sk’Rah ricochet weapon. I guess we can freely assume that this is an interceptor kinetic weapon. And now that the law is involved, xxxx’s gonna get real fast.
I look forward to a contract from Mrs Summer saying to destroy 50 law enforcement ships that resets daily.
Ok. This 5th cryptogram is much harder than the 4th. Other than out of place capital letters, there are also mispronounced words, and other anomalies.
This is everything strange I found:
1LfzDoivuI
One thing to note: the word “Tracking” is written “t racking”. I don’t know what that could mean.
Also, it’s not a Caesar cipher, I already checked. The closest result to something meaningful is “1KeyCnhutH”, but I think is just a coincidence.
EDIT: I wrote the code in a wrong way, now I corrected it.
CAM - calling in, working on it!
Just now, cam40902 said:
CAM - calling in, working on it!
I’m sure you’ll solve it in no time ”)