Destruction of Earth

[Jinx]

well, igiss has spoken - so that is canon..

however - i don t like it very much. - from what i know - the extended intro was dropped for a cut version cause

- it revealed too much ( the original storyline was meant to introduce intrigue, inter-house troubles - and only later reveal an alien influence - quite a giveaway to show most of it in the intro cinematic )

- it conflicted with the canon of nomads ( not the custom lore written now ). - the singleplayer storyline places nomads in a network of hyperjumppoints - but without these hyperjumpgates, they travel as slowly as humans. now - Sol had no hyperjumpgate from what i remember from starlancer ( if starlancer is taken as canon ) ... so its doubtful that nomads appeared there just at that time.

- official nomad lore ( dev lore from digital anvil from what i know ) suggests that sirus is a childhoodplace for nomads. thats the reason why there re so many planets cramped into such a small space along with such a diverse enviroment around them ( singularities, alien fauna, cardamine etc. )

the long intro would have messed with that - especially with the end of the story - which suggests that the order cut the nomads off from sirius for good ( or for a longer time ), destroying the hyperjumpnode.

the long intro more or less shows that nomads don t rely on those hyperjumpgates at all - cause they just jumped like several hundred ( or thousand ) lightyears to sol without a gate. - unless we take it as pure random that they showed up there with a star destroyer.



so - in my opinion, the cut intro makes more sense, the long intro is epical - but doesn t really go well with the canon singleplayer campaign.

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