I will say that I wish all of these nomad weapon type X had actual names...
Also, in minor and upper major, they have 10 missiles.
@Kress: I get slews of them with missiles/cds in Major(also, they fly through the dyson sphere on major, can that be fixed?)/minor...Which is order home space. I daren't check what they have floating in Nomad home space.
I'm honestly terrified of nomad ships at this point. Course, my last encounter with player nomads was a 6 on 1 which turned into a 6 on 2, then back to a 6 on 1 as I quickly died...but even so, I was taken out frighteningly quickly. And the NPCs are quite likely the most dangerous npcs in the game. Ah woo, the nomads are supposed to have some sort of advanced tech, but I'm not sure I follow that. The humans have been adopting D'k tech direct from Valhalla for some 700 years, and adopting nomad tech from nomads for at least the last 20(how long's the order been active?)...But the fact remains that the nomads are supposed to be in a weakened state, due to getting their rears kicked quite firmly in 800. Sure, they're growing back, but the humans are growing too, and the humans didn't lose so much as the nomads.
I think the power of the nomads is vastly exaggerated by people who want their rp to be that of a species much more powerful, while the fact remains, from the cannon, the nomads got smacked pretty hard. They didn't, before the hypergate was activated and they got majorly hurt, have the forces to push out humankind, and now humankind, by and large, knows about them. You can argue that they're still pupeteering, causing things like the Tau war and the Rhienland/Liberty debacle, but as a student of history, I'd suggest that these wars make plenty of sense without an outside influence. Nations don't get along for very long, Empires especially, and we've three(four) Empires in our Four(Five) Houses.
Point being, I'm wondering why and how the nomads are kicking such a fuss, and if we should fly in and activate their hypergate again.
They've very, very dangerous NPCs/platforms. That I think is both a little unfair, and then slightly off, because they've geared up for a war in such an extreme manner...Growth can only support so many, they were pruned earlier, its beginning to make me wonder why they even bothered with subterfuge. These bits are not internally coherent.
