The Sirius System, Does it Actualy Exist?

Sat Jun 05, 2004 12:12 pm by Heltak

Since we have no clue as to how long the Sleepers were in flight we cannot tell WHERE they ended up. They probably had a course that was near Sirius or a codename, so that the Coalition wouldn't be waiting or following.

Sat Jun 05, 2004 1:00 pm by Gowserpaul

Or they determined where the nearest Earthlike planets were and headed for them

Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:35 am by {MN} Admiral Nazbit

Well with the nav map saying "sirius sector" then are we to assume this means they did arrive at siruis but perhaps they occupied a large aread around it, being the "sector" around the two stars?

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Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:00 am by Heltak

Then where IS Sirius in the game?

Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:12 am by Zack Lyons

Keep in mind that this is a GAME

Does it really matter where they ended up? We've answered the original question: does the Sirius System exist?

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Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:13 am by Megistos

If it's in the game at all, it would have to be a system with binary stars, because that's what the real Sirius system is. Somewhere like Tau-37, maybe. Although I don't think any of the stars in binary pairs anywhere in FL are white dwarfs

Sun Jun 06, 2004 2:55 pm by Pinkie Epsilon 5

Yes, there should be all sorts of different star types here. We had a nice long discussion on it nearly a year ago I think, just search for posts by me.

Also, it wouldn't really be the "Sirius system", it should be (and I refer to it as) the Sirius Sector. This way, it would refer to a region of space where a cluster of stars reside. A system would be like sol, which is just plain wrong for the purposes of Freelancer. Yoop.

Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:46 am by greyhawk1970

True Pinkie, it is more of a 'sector' than 'system'. You are basically looking at the tune of somewhere in the neighborhood of 45 system stars or so. All having differant characteristics and sizes giving us a large cut of the galaxy. I know everyone says 'its just a game', but alot of authors when they write a book, do a little research into the background if they are going to write something about the past for example. One would hope whoever created the storyline would have done that too............

Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:17 am by Zedicus

Yah I know, I posted the thread when I was tired & wasn't thinking to Clearly...

actualy, I'm begining to think the thory that it was a codename to keep the coalition from finding them may be right, the Sirius Sector looks an awfull lot like part of the Orion Nebula.

Mon Jun 07, 2004 2:58 pm by Forinec

Lol. This makes me think of that screenshot on the homepage with the caption about the system not looking like Manhattan.

"It was two lefts, a right, another left . . . Hey, this doesn't look like Sirius . . ."

Do we really know how long the sleeper ships travelled? They could have ended up on the other side of the galaxy for all we know. How the ships themselves survived such a trip would be interesting to find out.

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Tue Jun 08, 2004 10:38 am by Megistos

The ships aren't human, they don't die after however many years. So long as fuel lasted, they could carry on going. They would undoubtedly have been checked and checked again for possible errors that could lead to system faliure, with a project this big

Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:09 am by Zack Lyons

Remember that the Hispania was supposedly lost though: went off-track

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Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:14 am by Megistos

Only because there was a Coalition saboteur aboard. Wasn't a natural error.

Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:45 pm by Forinec

Here, take a look at this and see if it helps in locating where they may have gone.

Galaxy Map

Zoom in or out if you have to.

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Edited by - Forinec on 6/10/2004 5:50:30 PM

Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:54 pm by freighter fighter

ooh ooh i know, i know!

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