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They blew up two planets. Yes, both were under attack at the time. And the Lucian Alliance is *likely* to attack if they find out about a functioning connection to Destiny. Which does not inspire confidence.

Also not covered in the series: We don't know what passes for a Milky Way Galaxy News Network, but word would tend to spread when whole planets start exploding. The spin on these stories is not likely to be favorable to Stargate Command.

Alternately- a stasis pod should keep food fresh, too.

As is typical in such things, the decision about renewal for Season 5 was not made until well after Season 4 was filmed and finished. As a result, the last episode of Season 4 was written to be the last episode of the series, and to make no references to events of Season 5. That way, if S5 were canceled, they'd show that ep at the end of S4. And when S5 was approved, they put that episode aside and didn't air it until after the complete run of Season 5. Which worked, but left the last episode as rather disjointed.

I recall River was shooting at the back of the suit. It is reasonable that the back and chest area are more heavily-armored than the helmet faceplate, particularly if the armor was built with 1960's tech.

A lot of this can be put down to Hollywood's dislike of hiding the actor's faces.

Now, if Destiny had been equipped with five spacesuits, each in a different primary color and a unique weapon on the belt, *those* would have full face shields. And Destiny would turn into a giant mecha. :-)

So the people to fight off the alien invaders are the Plumbers? No, wait, that's from someplace else....

I too can report that Ninja Run and the previously-available Jump Pack have ceased to work in Incarnate trials.
And what really annoys me: I can report that my Mini-Booster 30-day rental rocket pack did not work at all in a trial, and it used to. I specifically paid for that thing for the sole purpose of reaching the turrets in the Lambda trials with a non-flying character. It used to work just fine for that purpose.

Electric lighting is pretty much always useful for survival; its got major advantages over flame-based methods. Communications also ramps up in usefulness rapidly once the village gets larger than a few hundred people.

At work, we've had problems with the latest video drivers on the XP CAD workstations; the fix is to re-install old ones. The working theory is that the drivers weren't tested on XP properly before release, but I'm out of the loop on that one.

That part is consistent with previous behavior. The "Confuse the drone" trick worked like this:

* Control Ship A had been destroyed, leaving it's drones dead in space.
* Control Ship B appeared and launched more drones.
* Destiny's crew opened up one of the dead drones leftover from Control Ship A, and used it to re-program A's drones to defend Destiny. They were vastly outnumbered by the drones from B, but lasted long enough to cover Destiny's escape.

So to make this trick work, you must first destroy a control ship, and then capture one of it's drones. Then you can re-program the drones to fight for you, but *only* the drones launched from that specific control ship.

I suppose they could have sent out their one "A" drone to fight. But just one wouldn't have made much difference.

I'm trying to figure out how they're still exploring the ship after gaining full control of the bridge and computer system. Eli should not have to open a door with no clue of what's on the other side; he should be carrying a printout of the ship's blueprints with a nice label for "Stasis Chamber Room". Or whatever the Ancients used as an output device.

It says "Team-wide buffs", so I would assume it is referring to buffs that normally apply only to one's team, such as Grant Invisibility, and is explicitly stating that these buffs won't apply to the whole League.

I suspect the OP is talking about the various instant-death zones in the Incarnate-related content: orbital death rays, falling swords, etc.

That's very, very grindy to me.

With another warning that most ways to spend A-merits are time-gated to once every 20 hours. So if you have 4 Hero Merits, you'll need about 4 days to spend them on 20 random rolls, or 2 days days buying a pair of specific recipes.

I'd have to disagree about not needing a hangar. Vehicles require maintenance, and it's really hard to change the oil/dilithium/protoculture/whatnot while wearing a bulky Destiny-era spacesuit.

If a ship is on a short-term voyage where it can stop at existing facilities with maintenance yards, then sure, mount the small craft on the outside. But a giant ship on open-ended exploration voyage into the unknown with only two small craft? They were *really* confident that nothing would go wrong.
For the first couple of episodes, the situation was believable; we could assume that the two craft on the outside were the "ready shuttles", and the rest were in some depressurized part of Destiny that the Earthlings had not found yet. But they have run of the whole ship now, and nobody's found it yet.

I suppose it's possible that the Ancient plan was to bring replacement shuttles through the Stargate in pieces and re-assemble them aboard Destiny, since a whole shuttle won't fit. Which would imply a room big enough to do that in, with an exterior door large enough to get it outside, which is.... oh, nevermind. :-)

As I recall, it worked out this way:
Shuttle #1: Was found in old, but flyable condition.
Shuttle #2: Was found broken, not flyable, with a hole in the windshield.

The Dad sealed himself up in Shuttle #2 because they didn't have spacesuits at the time.
A few episodes later, they found some suits. With these, they could remove the body and partly fix up #2.

A few eps later, they found a planet that several people wanted to stay at. They were given Shuttle #2. It could enter an atmosphere (once) and fly around a but, but was in too bad a shape to reach space again.

A few eps later, Shuttle #1 crashed; leaving Destiny with no shuttles.

A few eps later, something that looked like #2 materialized in deep space right next to Destiny with the "remain behind" folks aboard it. They all died before the end of the episode. The shuttle was in brand-new, factory-perfect condition. The assumption is that some godlike aliens had built a copy of the shuttle and some short-lived copies of the people for mysterious reasons. Call this Shuttle #3.

This last ep: Rush went through a time-loop. They now have an identical copy of Shuttle #3 that's 12 hours older than the original, and slightly crispy. Call this Shuttle #4.

Did I get that all straight...?

And does anybody else think that they went for this whole "Dock the shuttles on the exterior of the ship" business because the production crew didn't have the budget to build a set for a hangar bay?

If each new Incarnate ability requires yet another new type of loot, we're going to end up neck-deep in Incarnate Shards, Incarnate Threads, Incarnate Chains, Incarnate Bits, Incarnate Cheese Wedges, Incarnate Subatomic Particles.....

.... I suddenly feel a Steelclaw list approaching......

And I was really hoping for rodent heads for the Rat-Pack villain group. Maybe I need to play with the dog head and see if it can be made to work.

This is the "Player Questions" section; it's where players ask questions of other players. While the Devs do read it from time to time, this is not the best place to get their attention.

I typically want to switch between "All" and "Invention" most of the time, but those tabs are rather far apart in the current UI. So yeah, some sort of improvement would be nice.