Actually it's quite simple. Starlancer (the prequel to Freelancer) was set in the year 2160. That's when the war between the Eastern Coalition and the Western Alliance began. In the FL intro movie they say that the war between the Coalition and the Alliance already endured for a century (100 years), so it would be around 2260. Then the sleeperships were launched to escape the war and finally they arrived in the Sirius sector. FL's story begins in the year 800 AS, what probably means something like After Settlement (though this has never been confirmed).

So normally you would say it's about 800 years after the sleeperships left the Sol system, which was in the year 2260 and it would now actually be the year 3060. But, the sleeperships had people in Cryo-Pods, so if the trip would only take a few days to the Sirius sector, people wouldn't have to be in Cyro-Pods (hibernation) now would they ? So i think it's save to say that the trip took many years and we actually don't know what year it really is, because we don't know how long the travelling to Sirius took...



Due to its gravitational pull, you've just been sucked into the vortex called The Lancers Reactor, from which there is no escape...