Exactly Where Is All The True Ns Background Info?

Fire_EelFire_Eel Join Date: 2003-08-19 Member: 19950Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">Please tell me where is the TRUE info!</div> Too many a time have I seen ( and made the same mistake ) of people making a fanfiction about NS with the facts all messed up.

Now, my original Behemoth beginning quoted that the Kharaa were unbeatable and the TSA was created. This is obviously nonsense and I edited it into the TSA creating the Frontiersmen. Heck, the TSA was already around before the Kharaa appeared.

Also, I have heard from Kyliegirl that the first encounter between Kharaa and man was when a Skulk dropped onto the canteen table of a group of eating marines. I am curious, where did she find this info from?

I also realized some members here are really knowledgable about the background info of NS, much more than I do.

Besides the NS manual or background stories in www.natural-selection.org such as Six Days In Sanji, are there anymore accurate background info?

This is important as it can enhance my knowledge of the NS universe and improve or edit my stories accordingly.

Thanks!
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  • Bill_DoorBill_Door Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11792Members
    Material is availible on the main page, under world.

    The incident that Kylegirl refers to is the 'six days in sanjii' article
    Both the techtrope article and the frontiersman manual give background info.

    It might be a good idea for someone to compile a 'writers bible' giving offically sanctioned info on timelines, technology, ect.
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  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    no that is from the manual, when it has the <a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/manual/alien_skulk_observation.html' target='_blank'>observation</a> on the skulk.

    <!--QuoteBegin-manual+ the frontpage--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (manual @ the frontpage)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I don't know if I blinked, or there's some vent we missed, but suddenly a Skulk was sitting on the counter of the executive lunch room – like we had caught it scrounging for a late-night snack in the kitchen, but the six of us looked tastier. It dodged our lmg's up the wall, bullets splintering black chrome and ugly artwork, zipped to the ceiling then dropped straight onto Zachary. They went down in a tumble of claws teeth and plush chairs, his gun still firing, moldy food packs and Styrofoam cups scattering everywhere. We kept firing, bullets sparking off the tables and metal chair legs, knowing FriendlyFire would stop us from hitting Zach. A large bloody piece of nano-armor popped lazily up into the air, and Zachary's gun went silent. We took our fingers off the triggers, popped new clips in, and started circling for a good angle to hit the monster, when there was this faint hissing sound and suddenly an explosion, bits of bone and Skulk whizzing by my ears, and a whole table flipped sideways and racing towards me – a black shiny circle getting bigger and bigger then 'wham!', and I'm out. Good news was the same table blocked most of the shrapnel. But the rest of the squad … medical nanites wouldn't have the faintest idea what to do with that mess." <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    and I would be down to create an writers bible, I've poured over pretty much all the offical works and have been around NS to confidently say I have the grasp to make or help out with the creation, but I would want to get approved by the mod team before any "offical" backstory / timeline deal goes down.
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  • Bill_DoorBill_Door Join Date: 2003-01-04 Member: 11792Members
    edited March 2004
    Ah. I saw first contact and thought '6 days in sanjii', which is supposed to be the first TSA contact with the Kharaa

    <!--QuoteBegin-6 days in Sanjii introduction+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (6 days in Sanjii introduction)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Few records exist as vivid and historically important as Fajid Roha’s award winning “Six Days in Sanjii,” the account of his rather remarkable experiences aboard Sanjii, the Genghis Labs mining facility. Fajid had the dubious honor of being a part of the first TSA team to ever encounter the aliens<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <!--QuoteBegin-6 days in Sanjii+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (6 days in Sanjii)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Daring shouted, “On your six!” and I got my first glimpse of alien (though I didn’t know that, yet). Glimpse being the word -- a dark green bar of movement from behind a stalactite and Shellack spun like a top, three times, before crashing to the ground. Something landed with a light thump under the air vent.

    In slo-mo it goes something like this: we’re swinging our guns around and the bugger hunches down and lifts its head. We start to fire, and it leaps -- like nothing I’ve ever seen, like a frog on speed, straight up to the tube in the ceiling, and we run under the lip of the shaft, and see it touch the wall and kick off again, 40, 60 feet, again, 80, 100, like it’s swimmin’, like it’s falling down the shaft, not up, gives you vertigo, and of course we’re firing, but it’s getting smaller and smaller, and if we hit it, well, it doesn’t stop.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    [EDIT]Getting some info on spaceships and the sorts of weapons to expect and their power would be good and help with any stories which explore space combat[/EDIT]
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  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    yeah, that big pipe in Sanji was the first contact with the aliums


    I liked the first Sanji better than the second for some reason
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  • john_sheujohn_sheu Join Date: 2004-02-26 Member: 26917Members
    well then WHERE THE HECK IS THE REST OF SANJII

    lol.

    As a side note, I've noticed that none of the official stories actually reference any kind of a date. Perhaps intentional? In that case, I'd advise discretion in assigning any sort of timeline...
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  • That_Annoying_KidThat_Annoying_Kid Sire of Titles Join Date: 2003-03-01 Member: 14175Members, Constellation
    yes, extreme discretion would be used, but the generall time is noted...

    I *yelled* for the second sanji for a looooong time

    Pretty sure Jeff Paris is the author, and he does a good job but takes ages
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  • xectxect Join Date: 2002-11-24 Member: 9807Members
    There's the manual, and the information under "world" on the main NS page. That's all for the official NS world info, anything else is unofficial.

    The TSA creating the frontiersmen is true enough, the first encounter happening at a dinner table is not (first encounter was Sanji).
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    As I understand it, the marines in Sanji are -not- frontiersman. The frontiersman are created sometime after that, when several governments had attempted alien control on their own and failed miserably.

    The Frontiersman are sort of both the TSA's and Human's 'Last Stand.' If they fail, the TSA will surely be disbanded, and most likely individual governments will resort to their own "methods" (big nukes/mass genocide) to "contain" the alien threat before it propegates further.
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