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Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?
Posted By: D-M.A.Date: 2/3/02 7:19 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner? (SiliconDream =PN=)

They could have just flown out into space and try to hide in the Marathon somewhere far from Tau-Ceti though...

: IIt was only 3 months, actually.

: 1) They may not have been able to. Even if the Marathon had originally
: carried sufficient fuel and supplies for a two-way trip, it took
: considerable damage during the Pfhor attack, and a good part of the crew
: was lost.

: 2) They probably didn't want to risk endangering Sol. The Marathon was a
: government project, after all, and most of the colonists were
: 1st-generation...I'm sure they still felt loyalty to the home system. Even
: if they weren't feeling particularly heroic, Leela was still there to act
: as their conscience.

: 3) What would be the point? A return trip would take 300 years, and it's not
: like a moon-sized ramscoop ship is particularly unobstrusive. If the Pfhor
: were going to retaliate, they could easily reach the Marathon as it
: chugged along through interstellar space. Better to dig in on Tau Ceti and
: have both the planet and the Marathon as defensible territory.

: I don't think an explicit reason is ever given in the game, though.

: --SiliconDream

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Replies:

Why didn't the colonists do a runner?darky 2/2/02 3:27 p.m.
     Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?SiliconDream =PN= 2/2/02 3:46 p.m.
           Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?darky 2/2/02 4:01 p.m.
                 Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?Rincewind MoG 2/2/02 8:39 p.m.
                 Possible Halo ConnectionAlfred Mordeir 2/2/02 9:15 p.m.
                       Re: No Halo ConnectionREB 2/2/02 10:49 p.m.
                             Re: No Halo Connection•M 2/3/02 3:48 a.m.
                                   Re: No Halo ConnectionREB 2/3/02 11:58 a.m.
                                         Re: trouble with annihilating a moon•M 2/3/02 11:06 p.m.
                                               Re: trouble with annihilating a moonREB 2/4/02 9:59 p.m.
                       Re: Possible Halo ConnectionRincewind MoG 2/3/02 10:41 a.m.
                 Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?SiliconDream =PN= 2/3/02 10:56 p.m.
                       Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?darky 2/4/02 5:59 a.m.
                             Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?SiliconDream =PN= 2/4/02 12:04 p.m.
                                   Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?[Tycho?] 2/4/02 1:51 p.m.
                                         Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?SiliconDream =PN= 2/4/02 3:24 p.m.
                                               Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?elmer 2/5/02 5:37 p.m.
                                                     Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?SiliconDream =PN= 2/5/02 7:38 p.m.
                                   Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?Tru7h 2/4/02 3:26 p.m.
           Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?D-M.A. 2/3/02 7:19 a.m.
                 Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?darky 2/3/02 9:37 a.m.
                       Re: Why didn't the colonists do a runner?Tru7h 2/3/02 5:26 p.m.
                             Yupekul 2/5/02 6:23 p.m.



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