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Post by sparda4 on Aug 10, 2017 12:40:15 GMT -5
Anyone who can put all the TB games in chronological order feel free to do so because some new players like to play games in a "timeline" if you will.
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on Aug 10, 2017 15:39:30 GMT -5
Well, from the Star Traders games, there is no concrete timeline.
Star Traders 4X takes place in a wide variety of timeframes, as each Quadrant settled took their first settlements as their 1 AE dates. Templar Battleforce takes place during the settlement of one of these splinter Quadrants.
Templar Assault's campaign arcs take place during and after the settlement of the Quadrant from Star Traders.
Star Traders 2 will take place 200 years after Star Traders 1 started, after the Quadrants rediscovered the ability to use the hyperwarp network.
The other games are in separate universes and have their own timelines.
Cyberknights takes place in the future of modern Earth, with a destroyed environment, corporate dominions, and shadow ops sourced out to mercenaries.
Heroes of Steel takes place 70 years after the death of the All Father and humanity's refugees fleeing to the Underdeep.
Age of Pirates takes place during Larbakar's (don't quote me on the spelling) golden age of sail and beginings of it's magic fueled industrial revolution.
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Post by sparda4 on Aug 10, 2017 15:46:43 GMT -5
So no concrete timeline as in what game takes the earliest. As a side note all the games could be set in one universe. In my opininon they are built ( intentionally or not ) in a way that allows that.
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Post by stratego on Aug 10, 2017 15:59:47 GMT -5
So no concrete timeline as in what game takes the earliest. As a side note all the games could be set in one universe. In my opininon they are built ( intentionally or not ) in a way that allows that. We here believe it was intentional😉 |
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Post by Brutus Aurelius on Aug 10, 2017 16:23:41 GMT -5
Except for the fact that Andrew and Cory repeatedly said it isn't possible, and Star Traders has no magic, unlike Heroes and AoP  |
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Post by sparda4 on Aug 10, 2017 16:32:18 GMT -5
So Heroes and AOP are in a separate world. So then CK,ST 4X,ST,T2,TA,TB could still be in the same world. Thanks for clearing it up.
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Post by En1gma on Aug 10, 2017 17:31:41 GMT -5
Not to burst any bubbles, but only the ST and Templar games are in the same universe... Earth (CK) doesn't exist in the ST universe, never did.
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Post by ntsheep on Aug 10, 2017 17:44:07 GMT -5
In the beginning, there were bears.
These bears were evil. VERY evil.
So evil in fact that their code
itself made programmers scream in terror.
How evil can these bears be you ask?
Let me say this,,,
Narvidians fear them!!!
These are truly evil bears.
They give Freddy nightmares.
Jason jumps into the lake.
Michael yells beam me now Scotty!
I'm telling you, THESE are evil fricking bears.
Beware them.
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Post by athios on Aug 10, 2017 18:09:33 GMT -5
Hmm... okay, so cribbing off of Brutus Aurelius 's notes and what I remember of what Cory said previously: ST4X: starts at 1AE; by 50AE you are either overrun by Xeno or you've settled >40 planets [ link] Templar Battleforce: during settlement of a splinter quadrant = around 1-50AE (give or take a dozen years, since AE is relative) Templar Assault: during and after settlement of The Quadrant = starting at some point after 1AE and ending at some point after 50AE STRPG: starts at ~50AE and your game can continue on for hundreds of years if you're highly skilled ST2: starts at ~200AE Hope I'm more or less correct. Also side note: Andrew has said that a proper timeline will be included in the final version of the ST2 Lore Book [ link]. |
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Post by sparda4 on Aug 10, 2017 22:12:13 GMT -5
Not to burst any bubbles, but only the ST and Templar games are in the same universe... Earth (CK) doesn't exist in the ST universe, never did. Space and planet colonisation in ST had to start from somewhere. Maybe not earth but from somesort of a planet that was able to sustain life enough for technology to advance to that degree. |
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Post by athios on Aug 10, 2017 23:49:24 GMT -5
Whether a similar type of setting could have existed in the same universe is a different argument than whether it did exist in that universe...
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Post by Zer0Winds on Aug 11, 2017 2:15:26 GMT -5
There was probably an Earth like planet in some long lost quadrant, but it wasn't Earth.
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Post by stratego on Aug 11, 2017 3:06:01 GMT -5
There was probably an Earth like planet in some long lost quadrant, but it wasn't Earth. Proposition to Cory Trese next Templar game must be called origins and must contain the battle for first quadrant😉 |
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Post by En1gma on Aug 11, 2017 5:53:09 GMT -5
Not to burst any bubbles, but only the ST and Templar games are in the same universe... Earth (CK) doesn't exist in the ST universe, never did. Space and planet colonisation in ST had to start from somewhere. Maybe not earth but from somesort of a planet that was able to sustain life enough for technology to advance to that degree. Absolutely correct. But the TB have said that the specific planet Earth, and I think even Sol never existed in the ST universe. |
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Post by contributor on Aug 11, 2017 12:15:49 GMT -5
One way to look at ll the ST/Templar games is that they are different lenses on the same events. The exodus from the core broke up and was spread out across dozens or hundreds of quadrants. So ST RPG, TA, TB and ST4x are all stories of different groups arriving in their quadrant, settling it, securing it from xeno, cultists and maybe even narvs. You just get the view of a single Startrader Captain, a Templar Unit or a conglomeration of princes and factions. ST2 goes back to the lone Startrader view further down the timeline.
But yes all the other games are in separate worlds.
Except for maybe the bears...
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