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Battle Maiden came to Steel Canyon FROM SPACE.
Anti-Matter has a lab IN SPACE.
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold, and it is very cold IN SPACE.
What does that last one have to do with anything? Doesn't matter. SPACE.
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Meteor Shower = Space Coming Storm = Shivans Shivans = Meteors coming Storm = Space This is Abductive reasoning: Coming Storm = Space New Zone soon Paper gives mysterious warning of Meteors Paper + knowledge of Coming Storm + Knowledge of New Zone = high probability of new Zone being in Space or pertaining to space. |
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Originally Posted by Mallerick
The Kheldians fled to many worlds. The "enemy" would need to have vehicles that cross the space between planets ... or teleporting ships. Or, TARDISes.
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The Kheldians aren't just alien to Earth. They're alien to our *galaxy,* according to their lore. Which raises a fair number of questions in and of itself, such as how widespread they are, how far the CS's nets are and the like.
By "Extragalactic," we don't know just WHERE they originated - someplace like Canis Major (25,000 light years away from us - possibly "reasonable," time wise,) or Andromeda (closest full galaxy, but several times the distance, 2.5 million light years.) We also don't know *how* they travelled in interstellar, much less intergalactic, space. While the Nictus can jump from one place to another, ignoring the in-between spaces, thanks to Cysts... the cysts still have to GET here. They have mass. It would take quite a bit of energy to get them here - and nothing says the Khelds and Nictus only went one way.
Still, coming from there, at 1/10 light speed a cyst would "only" take 250,000 years to get here.... fairly reasonable. Even at 1/100, we're looking at 2.5 million years (if it's just "sent out," not transported somehow,) so Earth would have existed as a potential target planet at that point.
1/10 light speed from Andromeda (again, basically just "sending out seeds," and assuming - big assumption - that normal Khelds can do this, not just Nictus) we'd still be viable, of cousre - but if they sent them out towards US, why not elsewhere? Would the CS really have been in Andromeda, or other Local Group galaxies?
It's probably much more fair to say that Twilight's Son - assuming he's telling the truth - is the last Kheldian known living *in our galaxy* in his time.
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I think space will explode and turn magic making the globs of destroyed space give life. So when the globs go on the dirt it forms a jungle filled with dinosaurs, yet who's riding the dinosaurs? The 5th Column, who fell off of the moon after it exploded, making them 5th Moonites. The 5th Moonites ride the dinosaurs in GLORIOUS BATTLE. The few remaining humans team up to fight the 5th Moonites and save the newly Prehistoric world. Here's a picture from Beta. 
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This is where something more interesting than my global and this sentence would be.
To paraphrase one of my favorite college memes:
Space, people. Space.
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Don't forget that the Coming Storm is tied in with the Well
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Anytime I hear the Menders make reference to the Comming Storm I always think about the Funny or Die satire video (May not be safe at work or if you have had your funny bone removed. )
I can just see Silos and the other Menders making the same type of PSA video, with dramatic clouds in the background.
Hogwash.
The Coming Storm had zip to do with the Well. Although now Ouroboros and their preparations for the Coming Storm have been completely hijacked by the Incarnate plotline, gods alone know what's become of the Battalion now.
By now the Coming Storm is likely to be an army of Emperor Cole clones, all wearing a comedy seagull on their heads that will take 48 Incarnates all equipped with Dimension Shift.
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Hogwash.
The Coming Storm had zip to do with the Well. Although now Ouroboros and their preparations for the Coming Storm have been completely hijacked by the Incarnate plotline, gods alone know what's become of the Battalion now. By now the Coming Storm is likely to be an army of Emperor Cole clones, all wearing a comedy seagull on their heads that will take 48 Incarnates all equipped with Dimension Shift. |
Really, I'm starting to think The Well is the new Dr. Mindstorm or whatever his name was... as quickly (and appropriately) forgotten as he is now. Pity this fascination and need to tie The Faucet into everything isn't fading as fast.
The Well and the Coming Storm are tied like this (as I understand it): The Well is afraid of the Coming Storm, whatever it may be. As such, it is taking measures to protect itself, and this involves finding a champion and bestowing more power unto him... most likely so that when the time comes, the Well can take direct control and use said champion as a weapon. Of course, it just so happens that the Well's champion is Emperor Marcus Cole.
So, all the current Incarnate content is the result of the Well's interest in Cole, and ultimately because of the threat of the Coming storm.
However, I figure the devs will probably finish the Cole storyline before they get into the Coming Storm (ie the next big threat). So I have to wonder... what will the Well's next move be, lacking his chosen champion?
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Hogwash.
The Coming Storm had zip to do with the Well. Although now Ouroboros and their preparations for the Coming Storm have been completely hijacked by the Incarnate plotline, gods alone know what's become of the Battalion now. |
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You're assuming that the Coming Storm and the Battalion are the same thing. We've never had a lot of solid info on what the Battalion is or has done. You're also assuming that what you're thinking of as two different plot lines aren't actually tied into one another, although that is also speculation.
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Not really. I knew some behind the scenes stuff from when Ouroboros was first introduced although I expect it could all have been ripped up and replaced by now. Unfortunately.
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In all, until in canon, prolly best not to worry or grump over it changing.
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I think space will explode and turn magic making the globs of destroyed space give life. So when the globs go on the dirt it forms a jungle filled with dinosaurs, yet who's riding the dinosaurs? The 5th Column, who fell off of the moon after it exploded, making them 5th Moonites. The 5th Moonites ride the dinosaurs in GLORIOUS BATTLE. The few remaining humans team up to fight the 5th Moonites and save the newly Prehistoric world. Here's a picture from Beta.
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The Battalion was supposed to be a villain group that needed new invention related stuff to fight. Originally, they, the Coming Storm, and the Well were all untied. While the Battalion has mostly been forgotten about (they were announced back when Jack was lead developer) the Coming Storm has been retcon into including the Well and the Incarnates.
That doesn't exactly mean that the Battalion can't show up eventually, considering the Incarnate system uses invention mechanics. They could be a group that can be designed around truly challenging Incarnate powers.
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That incident would have also been a rewrite/replacement of the general idea that Battalion was supposed to be a factor of the invention system.
In all, until in canon, prolly best not to worry or grump over it changing. |
I guess we'll see. But I'd love to see something epic that didn't involve that insipid little puddle.
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"Twilight's Son is the last of his race. The Kheldians have been wiped out and used as a source of energy to power the ships of a deadly alien force in the far distant future.
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The Kheldians fled to many worlds. The "enemy" would need to have vehicles that cross the space between planets ... or teleporting ships. Or, TARDISes.
I'll go as far as to accept that any further appearance of new Shivans could be related to the Coming Storm, but only as a peripheral to any actual invasion.
As for the far future Kheldian plight, the Nictus are candidates for suspicion as much as anything else...which isn't to say that the Nictus couldn't be the force behind the Coming Storm, too, but I'm of the mind that the TARDIS comment is slightly closer to the truth than anything else. Slightly.
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