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Post by Twilitbeing on Feb 23, 2009 20:37:48 GMT
Yeah, I can see that happening. Of course, I'd have to watch the episode again, but it seems plausible enough. I mean, the whole thing with the warp field made no sense scientifically, unless they managed to tear off some of the armor with it just before Sonic hit the ship. It's far more likely that they simply knocked it backward into a warp field and sent it away, after which it could have been recovered and repaired.
Yayz! This means I can have it appear in a fleet battle! ;D
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Post by galaxina on Mar 31, 2009 19:09:23 GMT
I still think that it would've been better during the scar ship fight for Taisl to send out the Xtornado and the other smaller ships. I mean the Xtornado has taken on ships that large before, such as E-90 (it first one), The Egg forts 1 and 2, and even the Egg Carrier. If it could beat something that big, it would've done much better in the Scar Ship fight. Plus they wouldn't have lost all those supplies the jettisonned then.
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Post by Twilitbeing on Apr 7, 2009 21:11:52 GMT
E-90 was nowhere near that big. Besides, remember how the laser fire of an entire fleet just bounced completely off Scarship's armor? I doubt small ships would've fared well against it; the only potential weak points I could see on it were the engines (which were protected fairly well by missile pods on the front) and the weapons outputs themselves (self-explanatory). Eggman, on the other hand, seems to go out of his way to leave chinks in the armor of his machines.
The fighters might have been effective if there had been some cover, but in completely empty space, they would have been like fish in a barrel. On the other hand, the plan they actually used wouldn't have worked too well, either; no captain (or pilot AI) would actually try to fire missiles with the outputs blocked, and lasers designed to cut through starship armor should have no problem with garbage.
So, yeah, let's just say they didn't use the best of tactics, and it doesn't really make that big of a difference because (as much as I hate saying this) it's how the episode was written.
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Post by galaxina on Apr 28, 2009 19:02:59 GMT
Besides, remember how the laser fire of an entire fleet just bounced completely off Scarship's armor? I doubt small ships would've fared well against it; the only potential weak points I could see on it were the engines (which were protected fairly well by missile pods on the front) and the weapons outputs themselves (self-explanatory). Actually there may have been another weak point you missed. Here is a pic of it with the weak point circled for you  If you look under its chin, you see two purple clear things. These things look like exposed cores, like the ones you see on Oikonny's warships in Star fox assault on the katina mission, or like the engine core on the back of a Scarab from Halo, or for that matter, the power orb on the Egg Genesis boss in Sonic 2006 (and many other Sonic bosses). I am sure they would've done something if they only concentrated fire to those cores, for as I remember for all of those mentioned to have similar ones, take out those cores and the whole ship goes down. |
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Post by Twilitbeing on Apr 28, 2009 19:48:43 GMT
I think those are more like decorative eyes. The reason I say this is that, if you look at almost any Metarex ship or soldier (including the Commanders), they have at least one round, orblike lens, often in the center of a face with two "normal" eyes. My idea there is that they see out of the lens and have the others just to give the impression of a face. If you look carefully at the ones on Scarship, you can see a pupil and iris pattern surrounded by a radial design. Also, during certain shots in which the ship is talking, the camera zooms in on the lower eyes in the same way it often does for characters' faces.
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Post by Charmander on Apr 28, 2009 19:57:09 GMT
Me think Twilight is righto. Hee.
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Post by Kyle Has Teh Style on Apr 29, 2009 3:56:27 GMT
As usual, Twilight pegged it.
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Post by galaxina on May 3, 2009 17:36:08 GMT
Well I wanna talk more about why I started this topic. There is more than one scar ship. Here is a pic to prove it  But what I don't understand is that in episode 61 Cosmo was like "That's the same ship that attacked mine." How was she sure that is was not one of the other hundreds more out there and not that one? |
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Post by Twilitbeing on May 4, 2009 1:01:38 GMT
Those aren't Scarships. I'm pretty sure there's a shot at some point where you got a better view, and they're quite clearly a different color. They also look a bit smaller in that picture, though camera angles and the lack of reference points in space can make it hard to tell.
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Post by galaxina on May 4, 2009 21:57:25 GMT
Well that sums it up, those are just similar ships, They did look like the scar ship though a lot due to a similar head and turbines. I bet Scar ship was really an enhanced version of one of them. Also maybe this is how Cosmo could tell them apart.
Well My question is solved, so I suppose there is no point in talking about it now. I also reread something I got and posted in my Metarex facts topic. Those are actually metarex gunships, which are self piloted. The description when I read it however must not have done as good a job at describing them, I only cut and saved it in a word document, then put it here.
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