Curiasety queston about the Gates :d

[Staur106]

Hello i havent playd the older x games but i have allways bin wondering who or what facton made the Space Gates all over? i know Terran made some of therese

[jlehtone]

The Ancients. While not physically present, they are suspected to shut down, restart, and rearrange the Gate connections to keep factions alive.

Paranid were involved in construction of a Gate that reconnected Terra to X-Universe (during X3 Reunion).

[Staur106]

The Ancients. While not physically present, they are suspected to shut down, restart, and rearrange the Gate connections to keep factions alive.

Paranid were involved in construction of a Gate that reconnected Terra to X-Universe (during X3 Reunion).

i see have these ancients bin seen in any of the games?

[jlehtone]

No, but in Julian Gardna's story there was a glimpse of an "alien" ship that supposedly was manned by android(?) errand boys that work for Ancients.

[Staur106]

No, but in Julian Gardna's story there was a glimpse of an "alien" ship that supposedly was manned by android(?) errand boys that work for Ancients.

i see intresting, i hope Egosoft gives use some more informason about them in the future i'm really curious about them

[Ezarkal]

You could see flying saucers in the previous titles, although that is probably more of an easter egg than something ancient-related.
I saw no reports of them in X4 so far, though.

[Sao t'Lp]

There's also the X novels by Helge T. Kautz where there's more information about the ancients. Can't remember in which part though.

[Teladi CEO]

There's also the X novels by Helge T. Kautz where there's more information about the ancients. Can't remember in which part though.

Most of the information about the Ancients are in Farnhams legend in which it is revealed

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that the ancients use the Sohjen, a robotic squid like race to influence the galaxy. The sojhen (might) apparently look similar to the Xenon because Nopilious (a teladi) thought that it was a xenon upon his first encounter with them. Even more interesting is if I remember correctly Nopilious described there ship very similarly to a Xenon cpu ship. The Sohjen do directly influence the galaxy by repairing disabled jump gates, saving the Xenon from extinction and rescuing Yoshiko from a slow death. A question I have however is if they participated in the Commonwealth battle against the Khaak in Heretics end, because by the sounds of it Yoshiko entering the system with their help sounded more like a explosion in space than a graceful event.