When Exactly Is Ns Set?
RyoOhki
Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
Join Date: 2003-01-26 Member: 12789Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Having a bit of trouble here</div> Currently I'm writing a complete history of the NS universe, from 2000 - the present. Problem is, I'm still trying to figure out exactly when "the present" is.
By utilising the official sources, I can get some info:
c2050 would seem to be roughly the start of the Expansion Period. source:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->around midway through the last century, the Kensky/Libovah team discovered phase gate technology, which transformed human civilization. Or more accurately, the idea of gate technology did - phase gates themselves proved horrifically expensive, and the further the distance and heaver the mass, the more expensive they were. Nevertheless, every major government, consortiums of smaller governments, and a few corporations that were as rich as governments, all set out to build them. This period, enthusiastically called The Expansion, nearly bankrupted everyone who touched it, and stripped our solar system of resources.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Then we have what I have termed the Consolidation Period, where for 8 years small scale conflicts occured in an attempt to determine who owned what star systems:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->After eight years of conflict - mainly small incidents that rarely escalated into large scale combat -- the power struggle, for the most part, stabilized.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now then we have the formation of the TSA. The only info I can find on when it was created is this:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->“We should have had something like this back in goddam twenty-one-fifty. I was training cadets with live ammo and crash test dummies. For skimmer-mines, we’d buy remote control hover cars from a toy wholesaler. They were day-glow green with cartoons painted on the shell. Tough to feel like a goddam soldier blowin’ the crap out of Disney Characters, y’know?”
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Which would seem to indicate that the TSA Charter was formed in c.2150 (meaning the consolidation period was c2140 - 2150)
Then we have this:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> “Suddenly they’re all pulling the Charter back out, like ‘What the hell did we just sign?’ And they don’t like what they’re reading. So they spend the next 50 years trying to cut off the balls they gave us. The past half century has been like working for a boss who hates you, and doesn’t want to pay you, but can’t really fire you either.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Which leaves us at circa 2200.
Now does that sound right to everyone?
By utilising the official sources, I can get some info:
c2050 would seem to be roughly the start of the Expansion Period. source:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->around midway through the last century, the Kensky/Libovah team discovered phase gate technology, which transformed human civilization. Or more accurately, the idea of gate technology did - phase gates themselves proved horrifically expensive, and the further the distance and heaver the mass, the more expensive they were. Nevertheless, every major government, consortiums of smaller governments, and a few corporations that were as rich as governments, all set out to build them. This period, enthusiastically called The Expansion, nearly bankrupted everyone who touched it, and stripped our solar system of resources.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Then we have what I have termed the Consolidation Period, where for 8 years small scale conflicts occured in an attempt to determine who owned what star systems:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->After eight years of conflict - mainly small incidents that rarely escalated into large scale combat -- the power struggle, for the most part, stabilized.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Now then we have the formation of the TSA. The only info I can find on when it was created is this:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->“We should have had something like this back in goddam twenty-one-fifty. I was training cadets with live ammo and crash test dummies. For skimmer-mines, we’d buy remote control hover cars from a toy wholesaler. They were day-glow green with cartoons painted on the shell. Tough to feel like a goddam soldier blowin’ the crap out of Disney Characters, y’know?”
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Which would seem to indicate that the TSA Charter was formed in c.2150 (meaning the consolidation period was c2140 - 2150)
Then we have this:
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> “Suddenly they’re all pulling the Charter back out, like ‘What the hell did we just sign?’ And they don’t like what they’re reading. So they spend the next 50 years trying to cut off the balls they gave us. The past half century has been like working for a boss who hates you, and doesn’t want to pay you, but can’t really fire you either.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Which leaves us at circa 2200.
Now does that sound right to everyone?
Comments
That's what the info seems to suggest. It's not long, true, but I've been able to accomidate it.
the solution, PM Flayra and ask the offical stance on when NS is set.
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Yeah, I'd do it, though I'm worried that the poor guy must get like a hojillian pms per day and it's probably not important enough to trouble him. I'll see what happens. I'm still writing the period from 2000 - 2050 so it's not entirely nessessary yet <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->