Raven's Flight:- Chapter 1 Cóup dé Etát

[Stormtrooper1990]

SSD is certain a huge improvement over standard hard drive ....but actual storage space is still pretty low for the Xbox Series consoles. Especially given the size of games these days. The Series S/X specific version of GTA V that came out March last year is 113.9GB in file size.

Series S comes with a 500GB internal SSD and Series X 1TB. But 203GB is instantly gobbled up by the User Interface.

The real kicker is the cost of the external SSD cards that are proprietary to the Series consoles. The 1TB SSD card cost me £220 back in 2020. You actually get 920GB of useable storage space on that.

Last July I bought the 2TB card for the bargain price (!) of £389 (including postage) ....just £61 short of the cost of the Series X itself. You actually get 1.8TB of useable storage space on that. 200GB is penalised for some reason.

Adding the cost of a spare controller ....I spent £1,104 on Series X hardware since November 2020.

Did you ever watch the Spartacus show from Starz (2009-2013)?
I absolutely obsessed over that show! Must have binged watched it hundreds of times!

3 females I liked in particular

Oh, Spartacus. Some fine looking females there, plenty of T&A on display. I have to agree with you on those three. Sura, Kore and Laeta such fine looking girls. Thanks, void, you have made my day.

I much have watched it as many times as you. I always imagined them as three sexy infiltrators, in need of disguises. A pity that there are no opportunities for uniform stealing in ancient rome. Given the Romans were a boys only club.


Oh and before I forget. "I'AM SPARTACUS." Sorry couldn't resist

Brilliant stuff... especially like John Hannah at Batiatus...he is a serious quote machine. Also never heard the word "cock" used so many times in a show! Always lose count.
I hear there is a "sequel" show planned. Wonder what story that would cover?

John Hannah, was absolutely priceless as Batiatius. A brilliant villain, who flew to close to the sun and got burned. He shouldn't have killed Sura, big mistake. I think he used the word Cock at least over a hundred times, but like you I lost count. But behind every great villain is a great woman. I simply adored Lucy Lawless as his loving, if a little conniving wife. Who went to great lengths to try and secure her husband an heir. First Gannicus then Crixus, very busy woman. Even had some time to make out with her lovely friend in the prequel.


I cannot think of how a Spartacus sequel would pan out. Maybe centre it around Caesar and his rise to fame and fortune. In real life, he had quite the life of adventure and beautiful women.

[Void99]

Oh yeah...Lucretia was a total bitch and a psycho! Batiatus never finds out that it was she who killed his Dad with the poisoned wine ....which also unintentionally killed Melitta, the wife of Oenomaus and lover of Gannicus (which was a big story in itself) ....Gannicus and Oenomaus never find this out also.
Lucretia never had any physical relationship with Gannicus, but her first sexual encounter with Crixus was very awkward to watch ...they really captured the uncomfortableness with that one! Though as we know...she ends up loving it as the whole story progresses.
"What we once turned from in disgust, we embrace as necessity".

Her friend (and enemy) in Blood and Sand, Ilithya was also another extreme BITCH! The dynamics between those 2 in Blood and Sand and Vengeance was BRILLIANT. Hit the ultimate climax in the 10th and final episode of Vengeance "Wrath of the Gods". That episode in general was SHEER SPECTACULAR. 6 big major characters meet their end. And Ashur (another awesome sneaky bastard character) final words before he died....defiant to the end!!!!

One thing that frustrates me no end is that Spartacus never finds out Ilithya was the one who masterminded the whole set-up that resulted in him being forced to kill his best mate, Varro, in episode 10 of Blood & Sand. Wonder how he would have been when they had her prisoner in Vengeance if he had found that out. Would he still have let her go?
Though I guess death at his hand would have been merciful compared to the fate she ultimately received!

For a sequel show, I would personally have Gaius Cassius Longinus as the lead character.
He went through a few major events, such as the Battle of Carrhae, which saw the death of Marcus Crassus and his son Publius (shown as a child in Spartacus: War of the Damned) and the brewing conflict between Julius Caesar and Pompeius Magnus/Pompey the Great. But this might all seem like a repeat of the HBO/BBC show Rome as that kicked off literally immediately after the Carrhae battle.

The Carrhae battle in Parthia has never been given the proper live action treatment from what I can gather. Would love Simon Merrells to come back and play Marcus Crassus again. He was a right ruthless, unforgiving and unremorseful bastard in War of the Damned!