Mothership arrival: imminent

That depends. Does an exploding planet check against AoE Defense?

I would think it's a non-positional attack. Three separate ticks of fire, smashing, and energy damage, just to bypass the one-shot code.

Have you seen The Last Starfighter? We die.

That would be funny. The mothership's in transit in cislunar space--and all of a sudden a portal opens and Statesman flies out, punching the mothership into the sun.

"DENIED!"

I have seen it, but not in years. It's one of my favorites. Anything with a Delorian is.

Can I get a refresher? What are you referring to?

It would definitely be non-positional, but Earth's atmosphere has 'Atmospheric Cushioning,' a Tier 10 defensive toggle that gives +100% defense and resistance to all damage types (except psionic) so it'd have to be both non-positional and untyped.

There are a whole slew of reasons they might be using the mothership.

We do know they have long distance teleporters, but it may be impractical for them to build enough to send millions of rikti somewhere across dimensions and space. It's quite possible that shorter distance teleporters, like from the ship to the ground, are far easier than from their dimension to our planet. We know they can mass-teleport from the ship to the ground, and long-distance teleport from their world to ours, but we don't know how practical a long-distance mass-teleport would be.

We know that rikti can teleport very short distances without portals (Headman Gunmen can teleport somewhere around 100 yards), but for longer distances they appear to need portals (Com Officers recalling allies from elsewhere). Rikti who are dropped from very far away would have no means to get back unless they did so through a portal, which they'd have to build, summon, and/or sustain. And it would be something that the homeworld residents could easily destroy, as opposed to a gigantic armored warship. Tossing rikti from the homeworld onto our planet could leave them stranded.

Rikti who are just teleported in would have no air support or cover. They'd be naked in the dark, so to speak. Even if they aren't using drop ships, the protection and armor that the mothership offers is a sort of safe zone and a distraction from the rikti themselves. The mothership allows them somewhere to go and fall back to, and use as cover. And because it's a shorter distance, it would be easier to fall back for supplies.

We pwned them before on their own world. It's possible they want to limit their usage of portals going directly from their world to ours, just in case we decide to counterinvade and wipe them out on their own turf.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

The scene at the end, when the armada is destroyed, and the main ship is so damaged it can't pull itself out of the crash course it's on with the nearby moon.

"What do we do now!?"

*monocle flips over eye* "We die."

Towards the end after Alex has Death Blossomed and done a lot of damage to the Kodan mothership on the bridge Lord Kril demands a damage report and is told that the guidance system is out and they are locked into the moon's gravitational pull. The officer asks Kril "What do we do?"
Kril lowers his monocle thing and says "We die."

Ah yes, I remember now. Thanks!

I'd sure likle to see IP remade, with Terra Volta as part of the zone rather than a separate one - like the dam in Fautline divides the zone.

Earth hates Psi?

It'll be ok - there'll be a small exhaust port somewhere on the ship

In addition to the Omega team taking out the Rikti portal generators the Midnighters and other mystics used magic to build and reinforce dimensional barriers around the Rikti home dimension. It would appear that the Rikti have rebuilt the generators on the homeworld and with enough power stored up can briefly punch through the barriers as well as knock out the War Walls. It's possible that this requires the aid of the massive power and portal generators deep in the crashed Mothership helping to open and anchor the dimensional portals. Establishing stable portal anchors is probably one of the main functions of the motherships besides being mobile fortresses and air support.

But that assumes that the Rikti have less of a grasp on interdenominational travel than we do, or many of the other dimensions. Based on their advanced tech I put them at our level as the lowest possible level they could be at.

Looking at our abilities, we have 6 stable portals active at all times. 5 can drop a team of 8 heroes into another dimension with a high degree of precision. Our 6th portal keeps a constant link to the Shadow Shard.

All 6 if our portals can handle massive amounts of troop movement. It did not take us long to secure Zulu with several platoons of solders.

All of this powered by a leaky dam and reactor that is constantly under attack and could not be running at full power.

If our earth decided to invade another world, would it be logical to build a massive ship or just use our existing portal tech to move troops and supplies into safe areas to stage a multi-pronged attack?



Edit: The only way I can see the benefit is if Rikti portal tech does not increase power requirements as you increase mass. So the portal to move the mothership cost just as much as to move a monkey. Then you would save in the long run by performing large troop jumps.

Since we have never seen an energy cost associated with troop movement on our side so it could be plausible.

Logic doesn't come into it - it's all about the bling, and nothing says you mean business more than a bling-bling mothership the size of several city blocks.

Hro'Dtohz knows that when you gotta be steppin' out, you gotta be steppin' with style - he got himself a sweet mothship ride all tricked out - he knows that pimpin' pays, and ain't nothin' says "Lord of War" more than a superfly saucer.

That....it the best explanation I have ever read.

Hro'Dtohz is a Pimp.

You win.

So ... if we find him and take him out, do we get the temporary superpower "Hro'Dthoz's Pimp Cane?"

Can we then whack him with it in a later run of his mission?

Fo' shizzle - it's just a pity the devs decided not to follow through with their original design, and give him the huge hat, diamond topped cane and fur-lined coat too.

It'd be like the Nemesis Staff - but with more diamonds - it'd be diamond tipped, with bands of diamonds around it, and the top would be a huge diamond-tipped diamond.

I am going to keep this in mind when I see him next. I hope he doesn't kill me while I am laughing at him.

Actually, I DO think that's true. Our portal technology is very good. And just because the Rikti used to be human doesn't mean they're better than us in every way. If they were, they'd have superpowers. They obviously spent a lot of time on armor and warship stuff. Maybe they neglected teleporter technology.

We have teleporters that cover basically our whole planet (or at least all the places we can go to) and can recall people to a hospital so they don't die. Rikti fall in combat all the time. We have portals that open to dozen and dozens of other dimensions and it's trivial for us to just go there by hopping in one. And our hospital technology even works across dimensions, allowing us to be recalled to our home planet if we're near death in some other dimension. And we have portals that just bounce us to other zones for the sake of convenience.

Rikti portal technology seems pretty weak by comparison. Theirs is different, but ours appears to be better.

Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.