The Great Spirits

[Klaw117]

1: I don't understand what bearing on Disco the extended intro might actually have, were it cannon. Sure, earth is gone...but, then...so? Earth is out of sight/out of mind anyway, as is. Order founded by some other bloke? Really doesn't change things. Nomads with a superweapon? Weeeeeel...and here's where it falls through: if they had it, why haven't they used it (don't tell me Sol was unsalvagable after 200-300 years of solar exploration, but, say, NY is salvageable after 800?)
2: if it doesn't change anything, why does its cannonness...change..anything? I don't think it matters. And I of course don't consider it cannon. There's a reason it wasn't included, and it wasn't them thinking their intro was too long.

1. Exactly my point. I don't understand why they have it either, which is why I don't believe it's canon. And the reason they didn't use it is because the Nomads in Sol aren't the same as the ones in Sirius. For all we know, they could have no knowledge of each others' existence. Also, we don't know if Sol is the home of the Sol Nomads. They could've jumped in from a nearby system, which would make them perfectly willing to destroy another system with an aggressive race (unfortunately, humanity is extremely aggressive) that might have been disturbing them.. On the other hand, Sirius was built FOR the Sirius Nomads. They wouldn't want to blow up their home.
2. Exactly my point as well, which is why I don't consider it canon. Apart from it not mattering, I just don't like the intro. I think it COULD make sense, but I'd much rather believe this: A couple hundred years after the Coalition takes over Sol, economic failure sets in like in the USSR and North Korea (the People's Republic of China is approching that stage as well now), the people (led by the Alliance Remnants) call for anti-communist revolution due to failure of the government and the economy, and Sol becomes a democratic capitalist society under the Alliance instead of a totalitarian communist society under the Coalition.

The 8 ships thing comes from a vanilla rumour on malta or crete (i cant remember) that there were 8 ships launched from sol.

It's on Malta. Still, no one ever said whether or not it was canon. Personally, I don't think it is. The only other Alliance superpower that didn't build a sleeper ship was Australia, but I have reason to believe they were on the Bretonia. Therefore, who else could build the other 3 sleeper ships?

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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!