How many years in the future is freelancer?

[dr lameos]

what year is starlancer set in? that'll give a clue as to when the sleeper ships left. As to the Sirius system, i don't think it'd actually be around the sirius star which we know, that seems too close. As you say it'd take only 36 years-ish to get there... i always viewed the cryo sleep as hundreds of years.

6000 years away seems too long to me though

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