i think it is time for the enemy that is making the cowardly vasari run away.
i think it is a human race, or an evolved vasari race.
I admit it...I am the Vasari nemesis. It was me all along.
Please don't tell.
I like the idea of an extra-dimensional sort of bad guy. I keep thinking of the ship that came back after 50 years in the movie Event Horizon...that sort of badness.
It's either that or their grown up kids showed back up at home and wanted to move back in....maybe Lady Gaga too.
Angry phase space nanobot carebears from the center of the galaxy, basically.
Wait a minute here.
God damn it, there are so many terrible jokes I can make here...
sorry i was a little vague with the op.
the reason it could be an evolved vasari race is because it started at their home worlds. the most secure planet in anyone;'s star empire. also this enemy catchs up to them one generation after they settle down a little to rebuild and gather resources.
the reason it could be a human race is that when they smacked into the humans from earth, we stopped them in their tracks and we didn t even have any warships when they arrived. well a few to take on the pirates. but no caps just some ff.
in either case the vasari are cowards, the first true fight on their hands and they run away.
sorry, danie, but if MY empire began to crumble away from the central worlds and i sent all my ships to destroy whatever was happening. and only one ship came back, badly dammaged, with the crew half mad...i'd want to run away too...
Look at the Vasari tech effects in a late game--they have incredible power and that's their "mobile forces" on the run. In the day, their empire must have been epic.
Now look at the primary areas where they focus tech:
Then you look at the game title and premise, "Sins". So the question is, "What is the sin of the Vasari that unleashed such judgment on them and who did they sin against and what enemy has it brought to them?".
If their technological power caused their dilemma, I think the gravitic/phase specialization points to a real possibility of a breach in their universe to "something else". Maybe they opened a hellgate , summoned Cthulhu or transgressed into the domain of godlike beings or perhaps it is something they did to themselves...think of what a Vasari "Umbrella Corp" could do. Maybe Milla is after them It could be they opened a portal to another universe or dimension adjacent to phase space or on the other side of a wormhole, modified themselves augmented with nanites to survive there and tried to expand their conquest there--only then to find things weren't simply a matter of mere arms and force and that they didn't just go in but let something out that they can't put back.
But I personally don't think its simply that they found as technologically more advanced race and are fleeing it. I think it is something that absolutely terrifies them for their very existence.
The one thing that could do that for sure would be something that can twist the very nature of reality and turn their universe into a living hell.
If you saw in the last Battlestar Galactica series, when it was revealed that "god" was behind human and cylon creation, the more atheistic cylon simply couldn't deal on that level and then blew his brains out.
I think the Vasari did not find another race simply "more technologically advanced" than themselves--I think they found one so fundamentally different and alien and powerful that it shook their confidence and reality.
So it has to be space ponies.
But in defense of Event Horizon--how would you react if not only did a ship come back after 50 years and the recovery crew went mad but then you discovered the original crew was still alive and would never die suffering horrible torment and the thing that had them was now going to rule your universe too.
Space Ponies! It must be
[edit]damn, beaten to it[/edit]
Muwahahahahahaha...yes, foolish mortal...beaten indeed.
if they were playing with genetics, then i stand by my theory of an evolved vasari.
Why would they flee then?
I do belive they are running from an intergalactic "grey goo" scenario. Did you all even to bother to watch the intro video?
the evolved vasari developed psionics.
makes no sence. why would the evolved vasari not be able to outrun the runners? the current vasari have nooo problems staying far ahead of this thing.
Isn't that what sequels are for?
Because their Dark Fleet remants are out of gas.
the vasari are only able to sit on their butts for a single generation before the enemy catches up to them. meaning not only can these guys beat them but their able to track them through space. or the new enemy is born and takes a generation to grow up and become a threat.