User talk:Gildan Bladeborn

Knossos article

Anytime you say something contradicts canon or doesn't make sense, please be specific if it isn't obvious why. There are many non-canon theories on FSWiki. Mustang19 15:39, 8 November 2007 (CST)

I've seen a few, but that one really takes the cake. How can anyone actually think the Knossos doesn't stabilize jump nodes? When it was off, no node. They SAY in multiple command briefings that it's a mechanism for creating/stabilizing jump nodes, every one you run into that's active has (surprisingly enough! (not really)) an active subspace node to accompany it. The ending cutscene where Petrarch makes a point of mentioning that our "Journey into Hell" netted us a prize: The means to construct our own gate, to return home? How can you reconcile things like that with this absurd "it's actually designed to do the opposite of everything the game says it does" theory? I can see how citing reasons why something doesn't make sense might be a good policy, but that theory directly contradicts every single piece of information about the Knossos in the entire game!

There are plenty of things in the game to speculate about and devise non-canon theories to explain, the Knossos (or at least it's core functionality) isn't one of them. If that theory wasn't obviously nonsense, then I don't know what is. -Gildan Bladeborn 14:13, 13 November 2007 (CST)

Look at it from a legalistic point of view. Just because the Terrans at the end of FreeSpace 2 thought that the Knossos was a link between systems, doesn't mean that they got it right. Yes, the GTVA wasn't aware of the nebula system node until they found the Knossos, but that doesn't mean that the subspace corridor was created by the Knossos, no more than it's a stretch to say that the Colly was built in secrecy or that the GTVA never noticed this humungous contra-rotating ring thingy sitting around in Gamma Draconis. And although Petrarch says that it will give us a means to return home, the Admiral doesn't necessarily understand the technical workings of the device. Plus, many community members take Petrarch's words as his personal opinions and not fact (for reasons that I don't quite get).

A lot of theories out there contradict common sense yet are within stretching distance of canon. Mustang19 15:20, 13 November 2007 (CST)