[Colonol Dekker]

Quite right, Alexandra palace = birthplace of good TV. 

[Bob-san]

Dr. Who was a better show with the "other" doctor on it .... i dont like the new "good-looking" dude (as my sister says). Another good show is "dead like me" but that one i no longer follow...

Anyways SciFi channel has of good stuff... i guessed it was from UK cause of english accents...

My question is how complicated is data encryption in the years around the great war?? ought to be like 1024-terabit encryption... basically impossible to decode after years of isolation. The only thing we might have is Earth GTA's early transmissions, possibly 2-4 years following the Great War... and they'll prolly have our early GTVA transmissions from the Great War.

I think the thing that we succeeded in saving Sol was more of a lie to the people to keep morale high... thus the reason it wasnt actually a high priority until GTVA lost Capella... they needed more space and morale... so they get the Knossos portal to reconnect to earth.

For the GTVA:
1) Stop the NTF and HoL
2) Build the Colossus
3) Defend against Shivans
4) Prevent future rebellions
5) Develop new ships
6) Keep everyone happy, guessing/lying about Sol
7) Get to Sol
8) Find a way to get to Sol

Notice 8 is below 7 because theyres little headway to doing that.

[Locutus of Borg]

On Sol: Directly after the destruction of the SD Lucifer

They build a ship with big F%&k!ng engines and then, load it with messages and people. Set a course for Delta Serpentis and go top speed!!!!!

[Hades]

Because they are 5000 light years from Sol.

[haloboy100]

they would die on the ship before they get there.

[Gamma_Draconis]

You fail to recognize how vital jump nodes are. Without jump nodes, Humans would still be stuck on earth blowing themselves up.

[haloboy100]

yes indeed 

[Bob-san]

Why not go to Alpha Centauri?

EDIT: Sorry--I reworded it and forgot to put back in the "not".

[haloboy100]

He said Delta Serpentis, not Alpha Centauri.

[Topgun]

Alpha Centauri is closer you know.

[Bob-san]

Bleh--I forgot to put the "not" back in.

[Mad Bomber]

Maybe they just did it Star-Control style. I.E. the system names do not correspond at all to real-life constellations. It would explain why there are so many proper-named stars in FS (and how there can be colonies and inhabitable planets around Deneb and Sirius, which ought to be ultra-hot and irradiated).

So, e.g. the GTVA calls it Deneb, but it wouldn't be the Deneb we look at in the northern sky. They'd just be calling it Deneb since it's easier than "HD 331309" or something.

[Excalibur]

Maybe they just did it Star-Control style. I.E. the system names do not correspond at all to real-life constellations. It would explain why there are so many proper-named stars in FS (and how there can be colonies and inhabitable planets around Deneb and Sirius, which ought to be ultra-hot and irradiated).

So, e.g. the GTVA calls it Deneb, but it wouldn't be the Deneb we look at in the northern sky. They'd just be calling it Deneb since it's easier than "HD 331309" or something.

Yes, and also the inhabitants of that system surely wouldn't call it HD 331309 unless they were high definition number lovers

[haloboy100]

The Freespace Wiki has a list of all the canon systems and their proximity to earth.

[Stormkeeper]

Cryo the people and send them off to earth? No point.

[Bob-san]

98% of the information we now have on extra-solar planets wasn't available to 8-10 years ago. Stop nit-picking that part of it--they used what they had and we use what we now have.

[Herra Tohtori]

Meh.

At any rate the GTVA could still communicate with Sol system if they really wanted to, albeit with about 4.365 ping.

They wouldn't be really able to play multiplayer games but they sure could communicate, they would just need to build a honking big radio telescope - not really anything beyond the ability and resources of the GTVA - and bombard the Sol system with it.


Obviously, the fact that they may have done that and there is canonically no answer (since there has been no communication with Sol since the Great War ending) would likely mean that Sol system cannot (or doesn't want to) answer, perhaps due to Shivans, internal powerstruggle or some other event that rendered the system unable to transmit powerful enough radio signals. Go figure.


Seeing how Sol is obviously no longer capable of even keeping radio/TV stations on air (even those could be detected with good telescopes acting together as interferometres), I don't think they could send people away on cryo ships or any other way...

[TrashMan]

OR
Sol has responded but stupid Command is keeping a lid on it..
OR
Stupid Command didn't even try to contat Sol

[Bob-san]

OR
The GTA received word that the Lucifer had been destroyed, meaning there was contact.
OR
Sol became very aggressive very quickly.
OR
They have attempted to find a way out of Sol, meaning some already jumped system and they still don't have FTL-drives.

[Mongoose]

OR
Some type of interstellar debris/anomaly/whatever between Alpha Centauri and Sol rendered conventional communication indecipherable.