Freelancer Timeline

[mickliddy]

2200 C.E./0 A.S. - Eight sleeper ships launch from one of Jupiter's moons. The other three sleeper ships were built by the French, Italian, and Australian armies. However, they were destroyed before they could escape. The Bretonia's starboard engine array was destroyed during the Exodus. Therefore, it had to travel much slower than the other ships and arrived much later than them.

Nobody knows how long the ships were in hyperspace/subspace/warp/etc. for. They could have traveled for 5 seconds, or 5 centuries for all the knowledge that the colonists had/have. Thats part of the reason that they cannot directly pinpoint the actual location that sirius is, in relation to earth - they headed in the Direction of the Sirius binary sequence, but they have no idea how much they overshot it by.

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Heightmeyer: "Can you tell me a little bit about your drawing?"
McKay: "This is a diagram of one of the control panels we're going to have to reverse-engineer if we're to have the slightest prayer of getting me back into my own body before I hit puberty again."
Heightmeyer: "I see, and what about this bit you sketched over here in the corner?"
McKay: "That? That is a kitty cat."