Destruction of Earth

[Igiss]

With all due respect to Igiss, he's dead wrong. They dropped the extended intro for a reason. It fits into the storyline about as well as I fit into a pair of women's hot pants.

Sure it was dropped for a reason. Question is, what reason would that be. Not to reveal the Nomads until the time comes? Maybe hoping for a future storyline developments that involve Sol? Whatever it was, it's hardly related to what happened in Sirius afterwards.

When the extended was created, it was probably presumed that the whole humanity knows about Sol fate from Rockford and that "we will never forget" applies to the humanity being aware of Nomad threat. We don't use that part. We use only the part where Sol was destroyed. And that someone could report it. And that the Coalition, in the way it was before, no longer exists. That's all.

And, you might just as well fit right in - I bet you never tried:)