Liberty and Nomad Backstory

[Klaw117]

But it says "In desperation, the Alliance launched 5 sleeper ships." It doesn't reveal the fate of the Hispania in the intro, so why not, if leaving that a mystery, have put 8 sleeper ships and focused on them for the player to eventually encounter in an in game rumour?

The fact is, we have an explicit statement and visual showaround showing a grand total of 5 sleeper ships flying off into space and flying off from wherever it was they had been built. Either aspects of the intro are superseded by developer documents or vice versa.

Can't think of a counter-argument for that. You got me there. For some reason, I still believe that there were 8 ships. I suppose it doesn't really matter though. Like I said before, the ext. intro and the developer's backstories are free to different interpretations. There is evidence supporting BOTH of our arguments, but the only way we can be truly sure who's right is if we can confirm that the developer's backstories have greater or lesser canonical value than the ext. intro. We could email Chris Todd to tell us if you want.

I mean the mechanics used to do it. You would need to accelerate time on the order of thousands of years in a localized region of space, causing distortion after shutting down Sol's core fusion by some sort of electromagnetic explosive of immense power.

Uhh, what? I always thought that the Nomad torpedo just exploded in the Sun and caused a supernova. The only thing I found strange was the amount of time it took for the torpedo to reach from Pluto to the Sun. It took only about 5 seconds. For a torpedo to travel to the Sun in that amount of time, the launcher must have propelled the torpedo faster than the speed of light. I thought that technology was only available in Hyper/Jump Gates, Trade Lanes, and the sleeper ship Jump Drives. How could you put that in a torpedo launcher?

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Carlos Rivera: Corsair Brotherhood Pirate - Retired, shifted to Tripoli Shipyard's Research and Development engineering teams
Anthony Cameron: Guild Core Bounty Hunter - Killed in Action, committed suicide after being trapped in Omicron Minor following its destruction
Juan Ruiz: Outcast Ghost of Razgriz Pirate - Killed in Action, killed by the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army during Bretonian piracy raid
Michael Winchester: Liberty Security Force Agent - Missing in Action, likely killed during Rheinland espionage mission or trapped in Rheinland Space
Eric McCormick: Order Pilot - Retired, shifted to planetside training of new recruits

Liberty and Nomad Backstory, Very interesting - read it!