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Could any image editing pros zoom and clarify this pic? I thiiiiiink the several cruiser sized ships might be new; they don't look like an Aurora or a Paragon! They almost look like an Eagle but they have the blue high tech engine flares and have an indentation at their front. And don't give me no bogus claims about resolution being too small either! Haha

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Taken from Alex's twitter, btw.
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2017, 05:34:17 PM »

Could any image editing pros zoom and clarify this pic? I thiiiiiink the several cruiser sized ships might be new; they don't look like an Aurora or a Paragon! They almost look like an Eagle but they have the blue high tech engine flares and have an indentation at their front. And don't give me no bogus claims about resolution being too small either! Haha

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Taken from Alex's twitter, btw.
Are these turquoise guys Tri-Tachyon fleets with a weird tint on them, a new faction, or just me being blind and also dumb?
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2017, 05:42:03 PM »

I wanna say that might be new. Persean League? TT has a different shade of blue...unless it was simply changed in Alex's dev build for whatever reason.
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2017, 05:44:27 PM »

Could any image editing pros zoom and clarify this pic? I thiiiiiink the several cruiser sized ships might be new; they don't look like an Aurora or a Paragon! They almost look like an Eagle but they have the blue high tech engine flares and have an indentation at their front. And don't give me no bogus claims about resolution being too small either! Haha

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Are these turquoise guys Tri-Tachyon fleets with a weird tint on them, a new faction, or just me being blind and also dumb?
I think they are a new faction/ sub faction. Maybe the drones or maybe something else. It looks like there are a few fighter wings in those groups and I don't THINK I see an Astral in there. So maybe a new high tech carrier?
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2017, 06:12:42 PM »

please for the love of god don't differentiate factions by slight shade differences unless you've exhausted the spectrum, am colorblind and no mi gusta ):
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2017, 07:59:26 PM »

Frigates with triangle-ish silhouette, boxy cruisers, and horizontally long DDs?  That's interesting...
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2017, 08:25:59 PM »

if the last blog post is to be believed, Persean League is gold. This is either new TT or a sub faction of TT
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2017, 09:37:06 PM »

We really need a thread dedicated to stuff from Alex's Twitter.
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #8 on: March 19, 2017, 10:36:41 PM »

Meh, I think it's fine. The board is slow enough that any sort of new topic is welcome, and surely once things pick up with the release of the patch we all won't be so starved to the degree that we make posts based on Twitter pics.

Hopefully we get them patch notes soon and Alex will list the new hulls!
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2017, 09:57:43 AM »

It's the empire. Now we need a rebellion.





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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2017, 10:36:06 AM »

@Dri
On that note, the spring equinox is today.....  ;)
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2017, 11:12:27 AM »

Could any image editing pros zoom and clarify this pic? I thiiiiiink the several cruiser sized ships might be new; they don't look like an Aurora or a Paragon! They almost look like an Eagle but they have the blue high tech engine flares and have an indentation at their front. And don't give me no bogus claims about resolution being too small either! Haha

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Taken from Alex's twitter, btw.
Are these turquoise guys Tri-Tachyon fleets with a weird tint on them, a new faction, or just me being blind and also dumb?
I think they are a new faction/ sub faction. Maybe the drones or maybe something else. It looks like there are a few fighter wings in those groups and I don't THINK I see an Astral in there. So maybe a new high tech carrier?

Wouldn't it be weird to see still fighter wings on the campaign? Them being a "weapon" now and all.
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2017, 11:34:16 AM »

Not really. Flying a defensive wing or two at all times is not only likely but is real navy doctrine.
Maybe it would show the strongest wing for each carrier, or a wing for each fighter type the fleet has.
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2017, 12:24:24 PM »

it's a CAP my man

they're flying a defensive CAP
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Re: Zoom and enhance! Desperate times call for desperate measures!
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2017, 06:06:10 PM »

Could any image editing pros zoom and clarify this pic? I thiiiiiink the several cruiser sized ships might be new; they don't look like an Aurora or a Paragon! They almost look like an Eagle but they have the blue high tech engine flares and have an indentation at their front. And don't give me no bogus claims about resolution being too small either! Haha

I originally decided to have a go at this using up-to-date bleeding edge technology in order to analyze this image down to the pixels. I wasn't expecting much - maybe a teaser of a ship, a new, tantalizing outline of a future frigate, but no. What I found was far more insidious then I had ever imagined, a true monument to Alex' genius, or insanity.

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I began my investigation of the picture by zooming in on this section here, to observe the tiny craft around the central blob of ships.


Zooming in, we can see (round white circle) several small fighter wings, possibly drones from their scale, trailing in the back. To the front, we can observe 3 larger ships, (white rectangle) The way they are aligned implies that these are not fighters, but three of the same type of frigate or gunship. Finally, in the middle (orange, highly detailed paintbrush) we can osberve what appears to be either three craft of the same size, or two smaller craft orbiting a slightly larger inner craft. But what faction does this belong to? Is it an upskinning of the Tritachyon? Derelict autonomous ships? Or...is it the fabled aliens we have been teased? To determine this, I zoomed in more on the central section, hoping to tease apart the ship silhouettes to get more information. I foolishly thought I was looking for starships, when I should have been looking for something else.

And that's when I found it.



Here is the central blob, zoomed in and after careful sharpening tools and enhancements. It was only after several hours of meticulous examination that I saw what this was, what Alex has been hinting at all this time, what the future of Starsector was. Do you see it?

Maybe not.

But once I broke down the image the conclusion was unescapable.


First, these two bright spots are far too bright in the image, almost shining like windows to the soul. The soul of what? The spaceships? The crews? The captains?


Then, these two blobs representing the fighters and frigates - they were randomly placed - but only APPARENTLY randomly placed, for in truth Alex put them EXACTLY where he wanted them to be - why else would he do this? Why else would he leak it? By now, the truth should be coming, but some of you will refuse to see. For if you outline the main central blob, and then outline the inner darker section, and add appropriate lines...the truth becomes clear.

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Yes, it's the Banana from 'Peanut Butter Jelly Time'. Alex had, knowingly or subconciously, put this banana in the teaser for a future update. Why? It's obvious. The alien species will be a devious race of banana people, who seek to take the Domain of Man and turn human's into a source of peanut butter jelly, for their cruel and heartless feasts of peanut butter jelly celebrations. During these celebrations humans will be crushed and beaten with baseball bats until they are peanut butter jelly, wherein the Banana's will dance and feast upon the remains. It will be up to the player to defeat these Banana's and save the Domain of Man. This is obviously a reference to 'Day of the Triffids' and 'Night of the Killer klowns', both trademark and groundbreaking horror films of the past, thematically linked through the horror brought about by plants and false-humour. So that's what we're going to see in the next patch - Killer Bananas.
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