Do you want the returne of the Solar System?

[Korny]

I don't care what Igiss said, it wasn't in the intro and there was no mention of it in the game.

So therefore it didn't blow up.

Actually, if you watch the extended intro you can see how the DK blew up the sun, after that everything went to hell.

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[Gaz83]

Actually, if you watch the extended intro you can see how the DK blew up the sun, after that everything went to hell.

Yes, but it was cut because it didn't make any sense, so it is not canon.

[Ingenious]

Nothing is left.
If the sun, which is what is holding all the planets in their current orbit, exploded, everything would be pushed outwards whilst also losing the thing that is holding them in their orbit.

Everything would go flying off outwards, no asteroid fields and no nebulae left.
Everything is gone.

This is really not true, even if the matter is particulate it would still be attracted toward the center of mass of the aggregate.

Just because Sol is a graveyard doesn't mean it can't be a resource rich graveyard. There might be really interesting deposits of trace elements left over in a system whose stellar life is violently cut short. Sirian explorers only, of course, everyone else is dead.

[Korny]

Yes, but it was cut because it didn't make any sense, so it is not canon.

I don't see how it makes no sense. DK blew up the sun, Sol got destroyed. Igiss who is our master supported this version and thus it is destroyed. Deal with it.

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[Akura]

Yes, but it was cut because it didn't make any sense, so it is not canon.

It's not canon in Vanilla, but it's canon in Disco.

[Rapur]

Why not.

[Gaz83]

It's not canon in Vanilla, but it's canon in Disco.

So how's that then?

I thought Discovery just carried on from Freelancer.
So if it wasn't canon in Freelancer it isn't canon in Discovery.

[Kazinsal]

It's not canon in Vanilla, but it's canon in Disco.

So really, there could be 800 years of potential discontinuity between vanilla and Disco.

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Retired, permanently.

[Gemini893]

I voted for it to be Dam K'vosh. IF it does get added there might have been a jump hole from nomad controlled space that made the journey to Sol easy for them. Perhaps they were preparing Sol for another breeding ground for the Nomads?

Personally I agree that the system was destroyed. I don't know if the sun would even be a dwarf after being destroyed, but there would be mineral riches to be had. However, since Nomads can't mine (no tractor beams) it would take a brave soul to make their way there to mine the resources. That is, if humans ever find the jump hole.

The whole idea does seem odd to me though, I don't remember how many light years Sirius is from Sol, or how long it took the sleeper ships to get to Sirius, but discovering a way back "home" would be just odd. I'm not sure how to process that kind of revelation for modern citizens of Sirius, more than 800 years after settling the sector.

If you figure a generation takes about 20 years, that's 5 generations of families per 100, or almost 40 generations of people that would have no memory of what "home" was like. Sol would be akin to legend, folk-lore, or myth by this point in the history of Freelancer. I would think that many would believe that Sol never really existed.

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[Linkus]

So how's that then?

I thought Discovery just carried on from Freelancer.
So if it wasn't canon in Freelancer it isn't canon in Discovery.

When you make the mod, you choose what's canon.

Igiss created Discovery, he confirmed that the extended into is canon for the Discovery mod.


When it comes to why the extended intro was cut?
The developers thought it gave too much away.
Not because it didn't make sense but because they felt that introducing the baddy before you even play the game wasn't a good idea.
Where'd this info come from?
The FL bonus cd. Alongside all the concept art and the storyline artwork (Including how the Suncrusher got to Sol)

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