Destruction of Earth

[sovereign]

There was an original Longer introduction to the game that portrayed more of the war between the Alliance and the Coalition. It continues after the sleeper ships leave for the Sirius Sector. The Coalition go to wipe out the last remnant of Alliance defense on Pluto. Whilst they do this a giant 'Alien' (Nomad) ship uncloaks in the sector, supposedly in those last moments humanity was united as one against a common enemy, sadly it was in vain. The Nomad ship fires some sort of Torpedo or flare at the sun which goes prematurely supernova obliterating the Sol system.

Allow me to cite this as evidence that while we all know how to write, a substantial portion of us have forgotten how to read.



Anyway, here's my take on Earth. We remember it, it's where humanity came from- with the advent of the SCRA, the Alliance-Coalition war is certainly taught in schools these days. However, it's usually not relevant. How often do the habits of the Sumerians come up in your daily life?

People know what Earth was, and that we left it when the Coalition was kicking our capitalist bacon-filled rears. However, as Igiss has pointed out, the use of FTL means that the Alliance would have arrived in Sirius without seeing the change in the light of Sol when it was destroyed. Igiss has now stated that the event still hasn't reached Sirius. Even if a supernova lasted several years, when it starts its really obvious.

In summary, Earth was, people don't know yet that it no longer is. I liked Treewyrm's suggestion... if you want to find out what's up with Earth, why don't you build a sleeper ship and go back there?

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