Hey, would you look at that. It's story time! PT. 3 POSTED!

[AHadley]

did all of them die?

All of the ones still on the planet, yes. The moon would have wiped the entire planet out.

what happens to them that escaped through the portal, did they colonize Icarus?

The Cthonians, yes.

what happend to the third cthonian faction and all their technology?

Dead. A few may have made it through the portal to Icarus that we don't know about, but other those few lucky ones they're all dead.

what about the scions that lived after going through the portal?

They return to the first planet, hide the drive, and set up defences. They live as best they can there, but inevitably don't last long as even then it is rather dead.

did the portal power-down and thats why those hadeans and olympians couldn't escape?

Is that what we said, Mr X?

why would the remaining hadean and cthonian forces that realized they were stuck there, start firing on anything whatsoever? they all realized they were all going to die anyway, why fight?

I don't think they realised that the portal had closed.

Can't quite remember some of this stuff though.

[Mr X]

The portal is too far away for the enemies to reach.

The ones that escape form a small colony on the moon from the start and set up the heavy defences, they die out when their food recyclers are drained.

[Clavin12]

I'd like it...if the main character didn't die. Unless of course he died for a noble cause, but then what would define that?

[AHadley]

I'd like it...if the main character didn't die. Unless of course he died for a noble cause, but then what would define that?

Defending your allies is probably the most noble cause around.

[Mr X]

I'd say that to die so that others can live is noble enough.

[sabrebattletank]

But don't they all die?

[Clavin12]

Apparently the ones who escaped merely died off anyway. That's no fun!

[AHadley]

Apparently the ones who escaped merely died off anyway. That's no fun!

This is war, boy! Since when was war supposed to be fun?!

[iron maiden]

my views have changed on this matter, I now agree with the ending, very noble.

[Clavin12]

Its a Game! Games are supposed to be fun. I think the ending would be fine if the people who escape actually survive.

[iron maiden]

And it will be fun Clavin! Since when is shooting aliens in Bio-metal tanks not fun? The action can be fun, the story can be noble, shooting and storytelling are fortunately not heavily intertwined enough so that a slight change to one drastically alters the other.

[Clavin12]

The story would be a little more fun if the cause that you died for actually succeeded. Whats more depressing than dying for something that doesn't ever come to pass. Whats the point? I think we'd get a lot of frustrated players.

[iron maiden]

Clavin, just because you died does not mean you did so in vain. Only the un-noble see the no point in death of ones-self for the betterment and safety of others.

[Clavin12]

But the betterment and safety of the others that you caused was compromised anyway. I don't think it would make the act more noble I think it would make the game a little more fulfilling. Isn't that what we're striving for?

[iron maiden]

Ugh.................were the defenses they establish not for defending a certain object?

      {Would one of the writers care to help me out on this one, i need some back-up on this argument.}