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Originally posted by Vince278
I think it was the original Antarans who created the X's.
I think it was the original Antarans who created the X's.
Spoiler:
I'm convinced that the Xs were created by the Original Orions. It isn't just the speaker not looking like any Antaran that I've ever seen (bald blue humanoid with some kind of spiky ridge along the eyebrows), it's that he speaks about the Antarans in the third person, even before they're "great accident." If not the OO, then certainly another elder race or a branch of the Antarans distinct from both the branches of Antarans we're familiar with.
When the 5 X technologies are researched and prototyped, a movie plays of the 5 physical Xs getting locked down evenly spaced around some kind of platform, and when this happens, a "hologram" shows a single humanoid creature, and he gives a short speech on the history of the 5Xs.
Basically, the Xs are a combination of technologies that when combined lead the assumed Original Orions to their greatest discovery ever, which I suspect is the accension to a higher plane of existence. The Orions then left each of the 5 Xs with one of the younger races for safe keeping, until someone wise enough to use them came along. I assume that they then used the combination to raise their entire race to the higher plane of existence, which would be why the Orions are gone.
The speaker talks about the Antarans searching for the 5 Xs, and even recreating some of them independently, which brought about their downfall (the genetic X lead to the Harvesters, which killed off the Antarans). However, as part of the failed experiment, the surviving Antarans found out where the 5 Xs were hidden, and went forth and annihilated the 5 races, looking for the X each of them kept safe.
From this, I'm lead to believe the following:
Sound like a reasonable set of conclusions, anyone?
If anyone would like to watch the movie without playing all the way through to a 5-X victory, I can email them an autosave that is one turn prior to the X win. I'm sure that the actual movie is in one of the MOB files as well.
EDIT: Never mind, someone started a new game and blew away the autosaves before I could grab them.
When the 5 X technologies are researched and prototyped, a movie plays of the 5 physical Xs getting locked down evenly spaced around some kind of platform, and when this happens, a "hologram" shows a single humanoid creature, and he gives a short speech on the history of the 5Xs.
Basically, the Xs are a combination of technologies that when combined lead the assumed Original Orions to their greatest discovery ever, which I suspect is the accension to a higher plane of existence. The Orions then left each of the 5 Xs with one of the younger races for safe keeping, until someone wise enough to use them came along. I assume that they then used the combination to raise their entire race to the higher plane of existence, which would be why the Orions are gone.
The speaker talks about the Antarans searching for the 5 Xs, and even recreating some of them independently, which brought about their downfall (the genetic X lead to the Harvesters, which killed off the Antarans). However, as part of the failed experiment, the surviving Antarans found out where the 5 Xs were hidden, and went forth and annihilated the 5 races, looking for the X each of them kept safe.
From this, I'm lead to believe the following:
- The Xs were created by the Original Orions (at no time does the original speaker identify his race).
- We've finally seen what an Original Orion looks like.
- The reason the OO disappeared is because they converted to a pure energy state and are on a higher plane of existence now. This could be where the rumors that the Antaran disappearence was caused by them doing this came from.
Sound like a reasonable set of conclusions, anyone?
If anyone would like to watch the movie without playing all the way through to a 5-X victory, I can email them an autosave that is one turn prior to the X win. I'm sure that the actual movie is in one of the MOB files as well.
EDIT: Never mind, someone started a new game and blew away the autosaves before I could grab them.
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