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Ilyas
Cadet
Joined: February 19, 2007
Posts: 5
|  Posted: 2007-03-18 05:23
Crystalline Entities
The most terrifying space entity is the crystalline entity. One of these creatures can lay waste to a planet. If these creatures are spotted near inhabited space, it is only a matter of time before lifeless planets are all that remain. Its crystal ray destroys population and structures alike. Reports have stated that the crystalline entity is capable of moving at over 200gu per second, although most physicists believe this to be impossible.
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Has anyone ever seen one of these?
They sound kewl. Please tell me if u hav a screenshot 
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Enterprise
Chief Marshal
Joined: May 19, 2002
Posts: 2576
From: Hawthorne, Nevada
| Posted: 2007-03-18 06:42
Yes, alot of oldies have probably seen one before...
Yes, they are also exactly as powerful as they sound.. or at least they used to be. They aren't anymore. HOWEVER, they were always prone to diving into planets.
Yeah, and that explosion HURTS. Or it used to anyways.
They move at superfast speed (like, jumpdrive speeds) And can turn like a scout. But no armor, only hull.
Theres also its brother, the Energy Entities, which are just as irritating. Well more irritating. They can drain all the energy within around 800gu in a matter of seconds. Also prone to running into planets. The wink out of existance rather than explode though.
You probably wont find them running around the MV, but if you do, they're mostly harmless.
-Ent
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Azrael
Cadet
Joined: August 11, 2001
Posts: 12
From: Manitoba, Canada
| Posted: 2007-03-18 08:44
I recall seeing these and the other NPC entities frequently a few years back but not anymore.
*reminices of the great Gaifen hunts of old*
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BackSlash
Marshal
Galactic Navy
Joined: March 23, 2003
Posts: 11183
From: Bristol, England
| Posted: 2007-03-18 08:59
Crystalline Entities are a little more dangerious, due to their nice death beams.
You think MiRV's are strong? Hahahaha, you ain't seen a death beam then.
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Fatal Rocko Willis
Fleet Admiral
Fatal Squadron
Joined: March 01, 2003
Posts: 1336
From: Kentucky
| Posted: 2007-03-18 11:19
I remember the Crystalline Entities... :::shudder:::
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warner_lowcharge
Admiral
Joined: September 27, 2004
Posts: 205
From: Finland
| Posted: 2007-03-18 11:25
I saw one in .482...didn't know what it was so didn't dare to attack it=) but then some other players told me what they do, so i tried to intercept, but didn't reach it.
it crashed into a planet, didn't do any damage though
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Fattierob
Vice Admiral
Joined: April 25, 2003
Posts: 4059
| Posted: 2007-03-18 11:26
I remember a Crystalline Entity.
Let me bring you back a couple of versions..
During the time when I subbed, I was sitting around a recently captured planet, building it in my dinky little engineering ship. It was bombed a bit (Mind you, bombing was a lot harder in those days), so I was happily building it along.
All of a sudden, theirs that blip. The "Enemy in range" Blip. I click it and the camera focuses on..
A CE.
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What the hell?
I had no idea what it is. nobody was around. and here was this GIANT AS HELL Thing coming straight at the planet I was orbiting.
Dear god, the speed of that thing.
I remember an explosion, the planet being reduced to nothing and my dinky little engineering ship down to 40% hull and no armor.
To this day, I am scared to all hell of those things.
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Supertrooper
Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: March 18, 2004
Posts: 1895
From: Maryland, U.S.A
| Posted: 2007-03-18 11:53
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GothThug {C?}
Fleet Admiral
Joined: June 29, 2005
Posts: 2932
| Posted: 2007-03-18 12:09
do not attack a CE directly it will shoot back 
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MrSparkle
Marshal
Joined: August 13, 2001
Posts: 1912
From: mrsparkle
| Posted: 2007-03-18 13:13
Yeah they were pretty cool. You'd have entities flying around messing up your planets, and gaifens in the nebula and gas clouds. You also had AI transports that did the trading between starports unlike now where it's automatic every few minutes or so.
It was fun back then.
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Lark of Serenity
Grand Admiral
Raven Warriors
Joined: June 02, 2002
Posts: 2516
| Posted: 2007-03-18 16:15
you also had fleets of AI transports being used as decoys or fire support. that was fun.
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Feralwulf
Grand Admiral
Joined: January 24, 2004
Posts: 1729
From: sitting somewhere drinking beer
| Posted: 2007-03-18 19:59
I parked a Suppy at a Planet in Nicea (.482) and had 5 or 6 Crystallines crash the planet right on top of me over a period of about 15 between minutes each....they never scratched me or the planet, Gaifen Herds killed me many times at Mars in early (1st 3 weeks) of .482, and a Energy nearly killed me about the same time.
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-Smokey-
Grand Admiral
Joined: October 22, 2004
Posts: 784
From: Florida
| Posted: 2007-03-18 20:24
one always ran past A planet in ross something a long time ago
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Peter Wiggin
Midshipman
Joined: November 10, 2005
Posts: 636
| Posted: 2007-03-18 20:37
In the Fleet Admiral server(481 I think) they were always flying in and blowing up every planet I built.. made me quit building back then and focus on combat haha.
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Borgie
Chief Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005
Posts: 2256
From: close by
| Posted: 2007-03-19 00:24
seen and killed a few, mith spawned a few one night
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