Freelancer Timeline

[Klaw117]

This is why i didnt count the jumpdrives, they wouldnt have been able to activate them until they were already nearing Sirius. Which would mean the first 1/3 of the journey was still made the slow way taking possibly hundreds of years.

I think what's confusing you is the distance between Sirius and Sol. Sirius is actually very close to Sol, being only 8.6 light years away. However, the general consensus is that the sleeper ships simply used Sirius' as a slingshot to go much farther than the real Sirius star system. Now, Igiss says:

I'd say that it's logical if Gamma was located several hundred LY away from Sol (300-500 LY), this is where the green circle starts. Gallia might be 700-900 LY away from Sol.

Omicron Gamma is on the edge of Sirius, so that means each sleeper ship traveled approximately 300-500 (I'll pick something in the middle and say 408.6. The 8.6 is to count the distance from Sol to the Sirius System) light years (going maybe 10 LY/year in my opinion) before they reached the edge of the cluster of stars that they called the Sirius Sector (they didn't have to reach Gamma, just anywhere along the edge of Sirius).

The quote can be found at: http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?sh...27678&st=50

This is how I think the journey went:

Sol----Sirius Slingshot-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Arrival in Sirius Sector

The line between Sol and the Sirius Slingshot would be when the sleeper ships are just travelling on thrusters (faster than impulse speed, but not fast enough to activate the jump drives). I would say that the ships could be travelling at about just lower than the speed of light (remember, under the laws of physics, travel at the speed of light is impossible under normal means), making the travel time to the Sirius system about 10 years. As they get closer and closer to Sirius, they get faster and faster.

As the ships just pass Sirius, they will reach what I will call the "activation velocity." After reaching the activation velocity, the jump drives activate, allowing the sleeper ships to make the last bit of the journey while going at immense speeds and reducing the travel time greatly (represented by the line between Sirius Slingshot and Arrival in Sirius Sector).

Now, add up the times. It took 10 years for the ships to make it to the Sirius System (8.6 LY) and then 40 years for them to make it to the Sirius Sector (going 10 LY/year to travel the remaining 400 LY is 40 years of travelling). 10+40=50, a fairly reasonable amount of time for the ships to be travelling.

By the way, if you or anyone else is confused, you could think of the activation velocity like the time machine in the movie Back to the Future. The DeLorean (name of the time machine car) had to go to 88 mph before the "Flux-Capacitor" (which was what made time travel possible) could activate, which is a prime example of the activation velocity.

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Carlos Rivera: Corsair Brotherhood Pirate - Retired, shifted to Tripoli Shipyard's Research and Development engineering teams
Anthony Cameron: Guild Core Bounty Hunter - Killed in Action, committed suicide after being trapped in Omicron Minor following its destruction
Juan Ruiz: Outcast Ghost of Razgriz Pirate - Killed in Action, killed by the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army during Bretonian piracy raid
Michael Winchester: Liberty Security Force Agent - Missing in Action, likely killed during Rheinland espionage mission or trapped in Rheinland Space
Eric McCormick: Order Pilot - Retired, shifted to planetside training of new recruits

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