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Post Thu Jul 08, 2004 3:01 pm

Timeline SL to FL

okay im having trouble with the timeline from SL to FL there are some odd inconsistencies.

Okay it took thousands of years for humanity to get where it had gotten in SL but it only takes 800 years to rebuild in a brand new galaxy! theres something wrong there. 46 systems populated in only 800 years? come on!

oh and here we have a set of events leading up to FL.

23rd century earth sol system
Alliance - Coalition war. result coalition wins and alliance leaves in 5 sleeper ships. (edited intro plus rumor, 8 sleepers and nomads nuke earth sol system)

0 AL (after landing)
4 sleeper ships arrive in sirius intact and land in their respective systems, the liberty in new york (the only system not needing the New prefixative as it already had it), bretonia in New London, Kusari in New Tokyo, Rheinland in new berlin. the fifth sleeper ship, the hispania, was "Lost" in omicron gamma.

0 - 100 AL
the newly formed governments slowly lost contact with each other as they expanded their borders and grew within themselves.

101 - 200 AL
first renewal of contact between liberty and bretonia. trade pacts start and use of jump gates and lanes increase. Economy skyrockets.

201 - 300 AL
contact between liberty and Rheinland restarts thus opening trade between the three and opening communications between rheinland and bretonia. Expansion into the border worlds begins. no contact has been made with kusari in ages.

301 - 400 AL
Kusari is reached by a liberty probe group out of galileo. It is learned that kusari is a great ship building population of quality not quantity ships. Liberty is granted exclusive trade with Kusari. Tension mounts between liberty and bretonia/rheinland over the trade exlusion.

401 - 500 AL
Trade is opened from Kusari to Rheinland and Bretonia to release tensions between liberty and the two. resentment still exists to Present Day.

501 - 600 AL
Rheinland Expedition into the border worlds produces astonishing results when the party heading into omicron gamma is slaughtered by a rogue pirate group named the Corsairs and their expedition ship, the schiller, is taken. This Provokes rheinland to heavily militarize, rheinland produces heavy strong ships.

601 - 700 AL
Outcasts are discovered on the Edge of kusari space and any attempts to contact them are met with death.

701 - 800 AL
80 years wars between the GMG and Rheinland Military begins. 10 years pass with no end in site, popular revolution in rheinland begins, it is promptly crushed. 10 more and The glorious revolution begins in Kusari with no real end. Battle for sigma 13-begins, longest lasting battle in war, lasts 60 years, ends with the end of 80 years war and defeat of the rheinland military at the hands of the GMG. rewind 10 years within decade, Edison Trent, Junko Zane, King, Walker and most concurrent characters are born. 35 years later the current leaders of the four houses come to power. The war between the houses begins with the nomads pulling the strings. the Nomads are finally pushed out of sirius and stopped but unfotuantely not for good.

some fall.... I FLY!

Post Thu Jul 08, 2004 4:46 pm

I thought it was A.S. (for after sol or something of that sort)

And trade lanes and jump gates weren't developed so early I think. I think they came out a bit later.

The Corsair artifact trade started when Jim Bown (a well-armed freelancer) entered Omicron Gamma with various goods and returned to the colonies with artifacts.

The Hispania was sabotaged and half of the passengers abandoned ship in escape pods and made it to Omicron Gamma (Corsairs) and the other half stayed on the sleeper ship and made it to Omicron Alpha and became the Outcasts.

Actually in the first century of A.S., the colonies had no contact with each other which allowed their culture to develop. (that's why the colonies look different)

In 700-800 A.S., Freeport 1 was established followed by other independent bases.

Actually the human population of the Sirius Sector I would assume is quite small. After all, Planet Manhatten only holds 220 million people while we have about 6 billion people on earth. Besides most of the 46 systems aren't exactly filled to the brim with people. Most of them are almost empty (Omicron Theta. Tau-37, etc.)

The expanse of time it took for humanity to reach the 23rd century is long when compared to the 800 years it took for the colonies to grow and prosper. However, when civilization first began (3500 BC), humans had to create civilization. In the 23rd century humanity had plenty of technology before them.

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Post Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:49 pm

AS= After Sirius it means after the sleeper ships arrived in sirius, the story of Edison Trent in set about 785 AS, 800 Years after the Sleeper ships were Launched

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Post Fri Jul 09, 2004 8:41 am

AS=After Settlement
and there is no real timeline from SL to FL because it's unsure how long the trip from Sol to Sirius took.
It is unsure because we don't know how fast they traveled.

anyway, lets not go into this discussion again. There have been dozens of threads about this. Do a search and you'll see that there's no answer to this question.

Edit: Just to annoy you

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Post Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:39 pm

Good point, and the Bretonia was the last ship to arrive so how did the timelin match for all four houses plus the criminal element.

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Post Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:55 pm

Bretonia was the 4th sleeper ship to arrive in Sirius. They remained separated from the rest of the colonies because they were separated by the Barrier.

Post Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:18 am

it's all on the official site. with dates and all.

Post Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:39 am

They arrived 20 years later.

Post Sun Jul 11, 2004 7:49 am


Okay it took thousands of years for humanity to get where it had gotten in SL but it only takes 800 years to rebuild in a brand new galaxy! theres something wrong there. 46 systems populated in only 800 years? come on!




Actually, I thought it was too long, given the technology.

They would have already had 23rd century technology going into the ships ... and to have spread out but not really progressed in 800 years???

And if you consider the technology present before the trip, it wouldn't take a whole lot to spread out pretty quickly. 220 million on a planet is an awful lot, but I guess it would be possible.


Also, the Sirius Sector is not in another galaxy. It's a different part of this one. The image of space that's shown when the artifact is turned on can't be accurate.


Cyaron

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that which cannot be seen
shall see the truth." -Golden Sun

Post Sun Jul 11, 2004 10:46 am

yep. the sirius system* I believe is the 8th closest star to our system.

* I say system because it is only one system.

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Post Mon Jul 12, 2004 9:54 am

you know what?
who really cares about time lines anyway?
throughout freelancer i found out that many things dont fit in. But if you are actually playing the game you wouldnt realise them. and my opinion about the "Border Worlds" is that once rhienland and kusari reached a certain population they couldn't be arsed to move into the border worlds.

Another thing the hispanya or whatever, the ship that didnt make it actually was sabotauged from the inside by one of the enemies that entered it during the war.
just thought you might want to know.

thatnks for reading my ramblings.

Post Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:56 am

Well, considering that Planet Manhattan is a lot like Earth in terms of Planetary size and inhabitable areas, 220 million inhabitants doesn't seem like a very large number of people to inhabit an earth-sized planet. It also says in the game that the entire planet's surface is almost fully covered by one gigantic city. There must be quite a lot of space on that planet, really.

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Post Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:25 am

Butt the freelancer story we do is at year 3100 because in the intro movie he says its the 23th century and then that was 800 years ago so something is wrong here

Post Mon Jul 19, 2004 8:49 am

Well, here is something that I do not quite understand. In hte opening vid it says that it is the 23rd Century. And then sometime later it says 800 years later. Now, is that 800 years after they arrived to their destination, or 800 years after they launched, or 800 years altogether. I think that 800 altogether would make a little more sense, had they actually gone to the Sirus system, well, thats another thing. The Sirus system is one solar system, yet the FL story takes place in a place called Sirus that is composed of multiple systems. But anyway, given the current conveance(sp?) tech at the time, I think that they had to have travelled QUITE a distance for them to have even needed to be put to sleep to begin with. Because remember is SL, who was it Moose? "Woah, all the way to Saturn in one jump!" I think they are lost in space, don't know where they are, and just happened to get lucky.

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