What year is this set in?

Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:57 am by Chris03

What year in AS (what does that stand for anyways?) and what year in our time does the game take place in?

Also, is there any complete story threads that detail about not just the corsairs and outcasts but Liberty/Rheinland and Kusari? Thanks.

Mon Sep 15, 2003 7:41 am by Killzone

As far as im concerned AS stands for "After Sol", after they left and colonised Sirius. And the game is set in 800AS, just like it says at the opening acually.... well there you go, hope it clears something up.

"Lets settle this like men... with guns" Killzone

Mon Sep 15, 2003 8:37 am by Nickless V2

AS means After Settlement.

Mon Sep 15, 2003 1:58 pm by DragonBreath

i thought it is after shipping...

look at planet manhattan info: 1as
look at planet new tokyo: 5as

the ship landings where
liberty 1as
kusari 5as
rheinland unknown, it's after the landing of kusari (about 20as)
bretonia about 45as
hispania didn't land, crashlanding in omicron alpha (u can look at the wreckage)

if u look at it, u would say that only liberty had no problem...
kusari had maybe a little problem... problem unknown...
rheinland had also maybe a few little problems... problems unknown...
bretonia had a problem... jumpdrive system failure... not serious, but still...
hispania had exrteme problems... sabotage... jumpdrive system problem...

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Mon Sep 15, 2003 3:55 pm by Nickless V2

Lib had a head start. Rheinland and Kusari arived about the same time, 5 years after Lib and Bretonia was way behind, as they had the use of only one engine.

DB, looking at your post I'd say After Shipping would be fair, but only if the trip itself took one year.

How long would a year be anyway? but that's a different discussion...

Mon Sep 15, 2003 5:00 pm by Sybot

In our time...hmmm

The war in Starlancer started around 2160 IIRC and lasted 100 years before the sleeper ships were launched. Estimating the journey as 50 years (I have absolutly no idea how fast jumpdrives are supposed to be) and 800 years after they arrive that would put the year at about 3100.

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Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:04 am by Arania

3300 a.d
The intro said that the 23rd century was the war so thats 2400 add 100 year for the war
2500
and the intro said the battle of Jupiter was 800 years ago, so we dont have to incorporate travel time:

2500+800 =3300A.D.

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Arania
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Tue Sep 16, 2003 8:08 am by Killzone

Well I could rant an rave an say yourll screwy but... If you look at some in game sources it clearly says 800as. Of course what time it is in Sol, I cant be bothered to try and figure out... but who cares what time in Sol it is? Im livin here an now in Sirius! 800as!

"Lets settle this like men... with guns" Killzone

Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:59 am by Nickless V2

In that case, something isscrewed up bigtime. DB said that the infocards on the planets say that Manhattan was founded 1 AS

look at planet manhattan info: 1as
look at planet new tokyo: 5as

So, unless the narrator meant 800 years since setlement (After Setlement=AS), the dates are mixed up.

Here is what I think: The time it took for the sleepers to get to Sirius is not mentioned, so it could've been 1 year or 100 years, maybe even 1000 years before they got there. Probably longer than a lifetime, otherwise they wouldn't need to freeze.
800 AS (current year in Sirius) means they are in the 800th year after they arived in Sirius. In the first year ater the arival (1 AS) Manhattan was founded. after that, the others came.

This way, it is not possible to determine how long it has been after they left Sol.
They only way is to asume that the FL Sirius is the same as the Sirius sector in real life. I saw a post somewhere about this same subject, with a scematic drawing of the Sirius sector, so It could be the same as the one out there.
Then you would have to determine the speed of the Sleeperships, wich I can't.

So the actual date in wich Trent and his buddies live, would be:

The intro said that the 23rd century was the war so thats 2400 add 100 year for the war
2500

Plus the time needed to get to the Sirius sector (the great unknown)
Plus 800 AS.

Does anyone know the distance to Sirius and the speed of the Sleeperships?
That way we can finaly determine the time and get this over with

Edited by - Nickless on 16-09-2003 13:00:35

Tue Sep 16, 2003 3:47 pm by Sybot

The intro said that the 23rd century was the war so thats 2400 add 100 year for the war 2500

The 23rd century is the 2200s (we're in the 21st in the 2000s). Since hes talking about the time the sleeperships are launched then take away 100 to get the start of the war. The ships were launched around 2250 by my estimate as I read that the war in Starlancer started about 100 years before that time.

"I'm not a Corsair, I just spend my time taking work from them"
Child of the Hispania- http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1404122

Tue Sep 16, 2003 11:45 pm by OmegaLeader

I don't like math, but I know stuff, so here we go:

We can detirmine the acurate speed and distance of the sleeperships to there destination of Sirus.

Microsoft states in extended manuel that the sleeperships were weighed in at 857,000 tons of mass (it's a bigger problem, but as I said, I hate math) Take the mass by another takeout of the manuel. It states the sleeperships were outfited with X1-34 Ion Super Thrusters. Speeding through space at a 1,000 lightyears per minute at top speed. Since we can easily come up with the answer of how estimatedly big the Earth system is, it makes the problem easier. To get to the point, the facts are that with already stated theroies, the ships took 121 years ( that's rounded, by the way) to get to Sirus.

Someone do the rest of the math, by brain hurts and I'm ganna go laydown for a few minutes.

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Wed Sep 17, 2003 11:59 am by Nickless V2

So with Sybots 2250 (estimate) and PZ's 121 years travelling (I'll trust your maths

) we end up in Sirius at year 2371.

Now, assuming that one year in Sirius is as long as one Earth year, the story would be at 2371+800=3171 wich is the 32nd century.

Ofcourse a year on Earth is equal to one round trip around the sun and Sirius has many planets around many suns, so many different years, day's (planet rotation) and hours, minutes and secs.

The thruth is, we will never really know, but I'll setle for year 3171.

Wed Sep 17, 2003 12:33 pm by ???VivaHispa?a16!!!

They mention the sleeper ships in the Starlancer manual? But I thought the Allience won in that game. --- RR16

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Wed Sep 17, 2003 3:57 pm by Nickless V2

Coalition won the war.
I bet that winning Starlancer would mean achiefing your ultimate goal, wich I assume is getting the hell out of Sol.

But I don't know, cause I never played SL

Thu Sep 18, 2003 9:14 pm by OmegaLeader

This is not Punkzombie, this is his brother Chris.

Listen, the sleeper ships must have taken only 6 to 7 years.
Someone said that that would not need to be frozen if the flight was less then a lifetime. This doesn't make sense. You see, they were frozen so they didn't have to be fed. They also didn't need to age this way. It kept them in healthy form till they arrived.

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