Freelancer Timeline

[killhappyfool]

Huh? Freelancer takes place entirely in the Milky Way galaxy (Sirius itself being a star around 8.6 light years from Sol) to begin with, so your complaint about the SK being there is fairly strange, especially given the only intergalactic power we know of is the Daam K'Vosh (who are stated, I believe, to hold several galaxies).

Secondly, it is entirely possible the SK that blew up Sol are an entirely seperate group from the Nomad War/Taurvi SK, given the immense size of the Daam K'Vosh Empire.

Third, even assuming the Sirius SK can produce the Sunkiller, the point of their conflict is to get back land they view as stolen. I doubt the IRA would approve of a plan to nuke the 6 Counties.

Looking through I have come to a few conclusions.
1. Sirius is NOT another star. I am stuck between 2 conclusions. Given how the map is made up in the vanilla version it appears to built like another galaxy. However to keep in mind that according to the intro it is called the Sirius SECTOR. Hence, the possibility that its still IN the milky way galaxy. Not saying that it is as they might have wanted to allow for some space during development as to specific locational freedom.

2. As for the distance from Sol. As far as I have found their is NO stated period of time between the beginning of the exodus and the time of arrival. So this rules out a definitive means to determining an answer to this. Also we don't actually know how fast the ships could travel. (though I do find it ironic that the intro shows them all leaving together and yet the writing says that liberty left early. I also noticed that according to the intro, the sleepers left from one of Jupiter's moons. And the Nomad Sun Killer didn't attack until the fight had gotten to Pluto.)

3. I still fail to see the justification for the extermination of the Sol system. It shows them as being an entirely hostile group rather then the cold calculated species that they truly are. However, I will give merit to the possibility that they are separate from the Sirius Nomads. It seems that the Sirius Nomads were dormant before the arrival of the Humans.

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