TheDeepBlue

That's in the 'Get to Know Your Enemy' profile for the Shivan.

A redname, if I recall correctly.

Well,

So I'm not so sure. So, what kind of monstrous horror have we met, or have yet to meet? Jeez, she might even be a former member of the Battalion.

Well, looking through his arc, he calls Arachnos tech 'shoddy' but doesn't say anything about Rikti tech other than it's too advanced to belong to Arachnos.

Y'know, it was really easy to find before when I wasn't really looking for that particular thread...but from what I recall on the open beta forums, Big Blue in Ouroboros spills the beans after you beat the Underground Trial.

Where's that at? All I remember is Anti-Matter not being impressed at all by Arachnos' jerry-rigged Rikti UXBs.

You might recall that the two times that Primal Earth stopped the Rikti from destroying the planet, we had to proactively prevent the Rikti's main battle forces from coming into the fight. Primal Earth doesn't actually have the power to destroy the Rikti military machine. EDIT: Then again, this at most puts us on the same level as the Battalion; however, I don't see anyone on Earth using planet-devouring, meteor-born space goo as scouts.* There's a good chance the Battalion is still quite powerful.

This actually brings up a couple of potential plot threads. Are we actually going to try and get the Rikti to help Primal Earth? This would be very difficult considering that Hro'Dtohz is still trying to justify tooth and nail that humanity should be destroyed and denying all evidence of a dupe by Nemesis.

In fact, if the Rikti find out that the Battalion is coming after something on Earth, it might give the Rikti all the reason they need to help defend Earth...or blow it up completely.

*Except Dr. Aeon.

I think this is a common misconception. In the first mission of Serpent Drummer's arc, Ambassador Il'los does mention 'creators', and Serpent Drummer's initial clue for a mission later in the arc does mention that the Rikti fought (and won) against the Battalion, but there's nothing said about the identity of the Rikti's creators, and there are no implications that the two parties are one and the same.

Well, that's what I meant by 'cloning'. My bad.

That's not what I said. I said that, currently, every Nemesis Battle Suit with a brain in it is a 'real' Nemesis, AV class. There are still boss class Fake Nemeses running around wherever the reals send them.

We don't really have idea what the Battalion is right now, or what technology base they use, if they use what we think of as 'technology' at all. They have 'ships' and, based on Ramiel's arc, some sort of overmind that traverses time at will. Those ships could be anything from rocket-propelled hunks of metal to boats made out of the fingernails of the dead.

wat? I understood that he actually succeeded in cloning his brain and we, saps that we are, were fooled into thinking that he'd cloned only one brain and the standard now is that any Nemesis Battle Suit that contains a brain is a 'real' Nemesis.

Nemesis is known for making precise duplicates of himself. Mender Silos is the far-future version of Nemesis, so he still has the know-how to do that. All he'd have to do is jump backwards, make a clone of himself with a fresh jump range, and perform the feat recursively back to the present day. Easy. Also explains why he claims to know so friggin' much at any given point: the clones still communicate.

Yup, that's canon. Our far-future selves ported him back to the present day with Incarnate hax.

Not that you would know, eh?

I'm partial to the idea that she's Morganna le Fay. Why is she helping Hero-1? How would I know?

Doesn't account for female characters and Dean's affirmation that LW is male.

But sir, this is the Internet.

"We are Legion."

What makes you think that Praetorian Hamidon is a threat to the Well? I think there was some dev discussion on PraeHami also being an Incarnate.

Well, there's this:

...and, of course, it doesn't explicitly say that the Rikti have actual medical teleporters.

That's really the only thing I could find by doing searches on ParagonWiki.

The job of Rikti Priests is to do exactly that.

Very rare critter for some reason. Dunno why they don't spawn like other bosses.

The Rikti destoyed the gods of their world and purged magic and nature from their culture, and turned their entire being into something abberant. No self-respecting Oranbegan would be caught dead inhabiting a Rikti body, especially if it had no ability to use magic and connect with the supernatural. In addition, the Rikti psychic network would probably pick up on the foreign presence and purge it quickly unless precautions were made.

As for the Circle taking captives, I do think they try and catch Rikti for sacrifice when the two forces collide. There's at least one mission where that happens somewhere in the game.

I think the best we can do right now is to squint.

I don't think that's what Angelxman81 was saying. He was saying they were fixing the performance bug that was preventing Paragon from feeling good about activating 2XP.