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VB6 Aurora => Spoilers => Topic started by: Icecoon on September 24, 2012, 09:17:01 AM

Title: Precursor population
Post by: Icecoon on September 24, 2012, 09:17:01 AM
Hi. In my game I have recently wiped out some precursors(I think they were precursors because the communication with them has proven impossible and they didn't leave any lifepods when their ships blowed up. ;D ) in a system and sent in a geosurvey vessel to check out the planets for ruins. When my geosurvey ship moved to the first planet of the system it registered  a thermal 5 population belonging to the precursors. So what is this population? Somwhere I've read that thermals pick up industrial machinery on a planet, so can it be some abandoned industrial stuff?
Or some other nasty surprise from the precursors? ;D
Title: Re: Precursor population
Post by: icecoldblood on September 24, 2012, 09:30:32 AM
You've probably found one of their outposts. Its guarded by precursor ground troops and possibly contains fuel and precursor ammo(missiles).
Title: Re: Precursor population
Post by: Shooer on September 24, 2012, 09:34:42 AM
It will also have a deep space tracking post, and ground troops aren't always going to be guarding them.
Title: Re: Precursor population
Post by: Icecoon on September 24, 2012, 09:38:29 AM
Cool in my game they are using the same size 5 launchers as my ships.  :D
Title: Re: Precursor population
Post by: Icecoon on September 24, 2012, 12:07:30 PM
Yes, a DSTS and 176 Gur Anti-Ship missiles.  :D Too bad there are no ruins at all in this system.


Edit:
I have one more question. I've captured the precursor base with those missiles, but i've got not one colony but two. One with my ground troops and one with the DSTS and the missiles on the same planet. Is that normal? This was my first offensive ground operation.  :) 
Title: Re: Precursor population
Post by: Theokrat on September 25, 2012, 04:01:48 AM
Yes, a DSTS and 176 Gur Anti-Ship missiles.  :D Too bad there are no ruins at all in this system.


Edit:
I have one more question. I've captured the precursor base with those missiles, but i've got not one colony but two. One with my ground troops and one with the DSTS and the missiles on the same planet. Is that normal? This was my first offensive ground operation.  :) 
yeah thats normal
Title: Re: Precursor population
Post by: Icecoon on September 25, 2012, 05:29:39 AM
Ok, thanks. Is there any way to merge these two new colonies in one?
Title: Re: Precursor population
Post by: TheDeadlyShoe on September 25, 2012, 06:49:54 AM
Transfer everything to one population or the other, then delete the empty population.  Note that any remaining units or supplies at a deleted population will be lost.