I remember how Earth, Sol was for us before we went to the Sirius system. How did the Nomads destroy the Sun, as we left behind the Coalition to create a new future out there amongst the stars? What a normal situation we have now in the Sirius system as of this writing.
Here's something for you. Do you know what really happened out there? Of course there might be life amongst the stars, and if the Nomads were real... presumably real aliens show up and disfigure our star. This life is about war, and terrorism. With the ISIS leader dead, and this is really off-topic, with real world discussion presumably about aliens, and about the mod and the game itself... imagine if we lost Earth along with our solar system, as it happened in your timeline. Crossfire is not even a good mod, Discovery Freelancer has stories to tell. Imagine after I die... there will be a revolution with what the current system is about. That leads into Starlancer. The Alliance will happen, the Eastern Coalition will happen, along with losing Moscow to the most powerful nukes, and have Russia rebuild and create it along with the Chinese, and the Middle Eastern nations. Of course the war that happened before we fled to the Sirius system will happen, and many will die for our same piece of rock, again and again. And Earth being lost... will happen.
How come aliens never came now... so good so far. If the Nomads were real, and the Dam Ka'vash are really out there, why come then? And then the Nomads infest our colonies and bring almost the end of humanity out there, only for the Order and Trent to come to the rescue... saving us. This won't happen if it weren't for shenanigans with people I know way up high...
And someone very despicable... the mighty leader of the Terran Dominion himself, James Harper, otherwise known as Emperor Arcturus Mengsk from Starcraft all the way to his death.
I was at One WTC, and saw a shootout devolve into havoc. WE LOST IAN ZIERING! And with that there will be questions for all. I mean it. I was going to go there... and I am going there.
There is a simple reason why we can't see Aliens and they can't see us. The further or deeper you look into space , so the further you look away from our Planet. The further you look into the past, since the light needs million and million of years to reach us. That's called the Fermi Paradox.
Also the colonisation of for example Mars is the next "big step or big filter" on our evolution that we need to manage, if we don't manage to do that mankind will simply vanish.
// check the vids I know there are vids that explain it in more detail but I think these will everyone understand.