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Title: FSURP wants an NTF timeline
Post by: Galemp on May 02, 2003, 08:31:29 pm

Does anyone know of a timeline that covers the NTF rebellion? I have very little info concerning the dates of actions of the NTF. That means, the dates of when Regulus and Sirius fell, when the Iceni was launched, the date of the deployment of the Colossus, etc. Something along the lines of this FS1 timeline (http://www.angelfire.com/games2/fsarchive/project/data/00001.html) would be extremely useful. :)

Title: FSURP wants an NTF timeline
Post by: CP5670 on May 02, 2003, 09:06:13 pm

Try Su-tehp's FS2 campaign timeline:
http://ugcworld.com/fredzone/su-tehp_fstl.shtml

There is some NTF-specific stuff here, but more for mission designers:
http://ugcworld.com/fredzone/su-tehp_ntf.shtml

Title: FSURP wants an NTF timeline
Post by: Galemp on May 02, 2003, 09:14:01 pm

Thanks, CP. Are there confirmed dates for any of the missions? I know the FS1 command briefs always had the date and system of your command ship on them.

Title: FSURP wants an NTF timeline
Post by: Su-tehp on May 04, 2003, 10:04:44 pm

FS2 didn't have any dates in their mission briefings. I tried to extrapolate dates as well as I could, but alot of it was guestimates.

All I know is that the main campaign of FS2 took less than a month. Admiral Petrarch says at the beginning of the campaign that the GTVA has been fighting the NTF for 18 months. When the NTF flees to the nebula about two-thirds of the way through the main campaign, Petrarch refers to "18 months of carnage finally coming to an end." If the main campaign had lasted longer than a month, then Petrarch would have said "19 months" or longer instead.

Title: FSURP wants an NTF timeline
Post by: Black Wolf on May 05, 2003, 12:20:10 am

You know, 18 months could be nothing more than a convenient rounding point. Concieveably they could have rounded up from 17 months and two weeks and rounded down from eighteen months and 2 weeks. Or they could have been even further apart and just roundedup because 18 months (1.5 years) is a neater figure than seventeen or nineteen. I'd be willing to accept FS2 took two months, maybe evenb 2.5 - 3.

Title: FSURP wants an NTF timeline
Post by: karajorma on May 05, 2003, 02:36:29 am

Yep. One thing you have to remember about canon. Characters CAN get their facts wrong :D

Title: FSURP wants an NTF timeline
Post by: CP5670 on May 05, 2003, 08:50:14 am

Two months sounds like a better estimate to me. Even if we are going by those Petrarch words, I think he says it in sm2-04, which is only halfway through the campaign. Also, there is no reason to think that the missions all have (approximately) the same time intervals between them; some may take place immediately after the ones before while others have gaps of several days.