The Sirius Star System

[Grumblesaur]

Eh, personally, I don't think humanity would be dumb enough to do that. I still think that Sigma-19 is Sirius. Sure, sure there are some inconsistencies between that system and real life (the planet, one of the stars being green instead of white), but hey, it's just a game.

I just thought of something. It could be stupid, but...maybe a jump hole could suddenly open up that leads back to the Sol System...

I think Edinburgh is where the Sirius star is. IRL, the star Sirius is actually two stars orbiting each other. The two stars in Edinburgh are EXTREMELY close together.

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A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

[Klaw117]

Sigma-19 has two stars that are quite close also. It's also closer to Kusari than Edinburgh.

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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!

[Grumblesaur]

Sigma-19 has two stars that are quite close also. It's also closer to Kusari than Edinburgh.

We don't always have to be in a perfect circle around the center. We may be one group of nebulae on the side of the stars.

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A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

[AdamantineFist]

Eh, personally, I don't think humanity would be dumb enough to do that. I still think that Sigma-19 is Sirius. Sure, sure there are some inconsistencies between that system and real life (the planet, one of the stars being green instead of white), but hey, it's just a game.

I just thought of something. It could be stupid, but...maybe a jump hole could suddenly open up that leads back to the Sol System...

Isn't S-19 trinary? Or was that S-17? Oh, and Tau... 40-something is binary as well. Vanilla, too.

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[Grumblesaur]

Isn't S-19 trinary? Or was that S-17? Oh, and Tau... 40-something is binary as well. Vanilla, too.

S-17 is trinary.

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A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay,
brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

[AdamantineFist]

S-17 is trinary.

Ah. I knew ONE of the buggers was trinary.

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[Unseelie]

I really, really, really don't think it makes sense to have Sirius actually in the sector. Its way too close to sol. Sleepers took 800 years...
Monk! How fast would you have to move, to reach Sirius in approx 800 years?

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[Gamazson]

Erm.... Its been 800 years since the sleepers ships first made planet fall. We have no idea how long they were in transit. That makes the distance of anything from Earth all realative to the sleeper ships max speed. We can assume that they were not traveling faster than light, other wise sirius would be using FTL's instead of jumpgates based on alien tech. I would say a milenium in transit would be close.

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AKA Nexus

[Monk]

Just for giggles...Sirius is about 8.5 light years out.

To make that trip in 800 years would require an average speed of about 31,944.44 km/s. That is really very fast, however, if you could maintain an acceleration of 29m/s^2 (liftoff acceleration of space shuttle) it would take 127 days to reach that speed.

So conceivably you could just shut off your main boosters after 127 days and stay at that high speed till you get there. Assuming, of course, you don't encounter any interstellar dust or gas that can slow you down. Also keep in consideration that the amount of thrust required to move the fuel and people at that acceleration would be ridonkulously enormous.

Take these numbers with a grain of salt. I did this w/o a calculator and rounded off like hell where I felt like it. Though generally this should give you an idea.

EDIT: I also did not consider the gravitational effects of our solar system. Though I don't think it would be significant as it would affect the amount of thrusting you would have to do to compensate.

[Unseelie]

The biggest problem with assuming the sirius system is in the sector is this: Bretonia landed 19 years after Liberty, and in that time, traveled across multiple star systems...Cali, Magellan, Manchester/Leeds, to land in NL, so we can assume they were going very fast, or that the Bretonia accelerated more than the Liberty, or something.

Thing is, Sirius is the -closest- star to Sol, so the sleeper ships passed that, and reached liberty...well, crossing only a few systems. Sol would have to be between Liberty and the Omicrons. Its a dead system, sure, maybe even empty, but...Guys, I don't think its realistic to assume its in the sector. NT and NB are in a line with Liberty, and assuming liberty is directly in the line of Sirius, they would have to have been aimed in drastically different directions, rather than just starting out in a small arc pattern.

Assuming Sirius is in the Sirius sector implies many weird things about the way the sleepers launched, and of course implies that Sol would have been between the omicrons and Sol...

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