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Vendetta Background Story
Okay, seeing how Viriani (aka Verdandi) initiated a rather heated debate on IRC over who was right about the storyline of Vendetta, I thought I'd highlight a few things and see what everyone else thinks about these theories. Or you may have one of your own.
To start off, allow me to copy and paste what is given so far on the official webpage:
The Vendetta Universe, as determined by the background storyline, puts the "present" date at approximately AD 4432, or 2122 years since a large colony of the human race was cut off from the Sol system, following an unexpected Wormhole Area phase-shift in AD 2310. Since then, due to an unsurprising mix of human arrogance, misunderstanding and conflict, humanity in Exile has split into three Nations. The Serco, once peaceable scientists who pursued their interests for the benefit of all mankind, now a formidable, warlike race, feared throughout the known galaxy. The Itani, formerly the aggressors responsible for countless wartime horrors, now a wise and benevolent people, haunted by their dark past. The Neutral Territories, a loosely knit Nation of corporations, merchants and explorers (not to mention smugglers and pirates), now clinging to life in the more hostile regions of deep space.
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Suicidal Lemming's theory is that the aliens (Furie ships) have taken over Earth and that these factions are all separated in their own little system. Planet Earth is still lost to the human race and none of the factions have been back to it since the phase shift.
My theory is that sector 1 is in fact the location of Earth and that the Itani actually found their way back home (whether they knew it or not). Now remember, this is the year 4432 AD and Earth would have obviously changed by a lot. The moon could have been destroyed, asteroids and other celestial bodies could've moved into the region, and some of the planets we know today may have drifted off.
Nowhere in the above paragraph does it designate where each faction currently is in the universe. All it says is that they were separated by a phase shift. There is no mention of how long it would take for a wormhole to reopen to our solar system, so it's possible that part of the main colony (now Itani) could've made it back to Earth by camping at the spot they last left off and waited for the wormhole to reopen. While the rest of the population split into two (Serco and Neutral) and decided to search for another hospitable planet.
In any case I think there are quite a number of possibilities since we know very little about the story. So feel free to add your own. Hopefully we'll get more information along the way and we'll see who is right in the end. Or maybe the devs will be evil by keeping a lot of it a secret even after the game has been finalized.
To start off, allow me to copy and paste what is given so far on the official webpage:
The Vendetta Universe, as determined by the background storyline, puts the "present" date at approximately AD 4432, or 2122 years since a large colony of the human race was cut off from the Sol system, following an unexpected Wormhole Area phase-shift in AD 2310. Since then, due to an unsurprising mix of human arrogance, misunderstanding and conflict, humanity in Exile has split into three Nations. The Serco, once peaceable scientists who pursued their interests for the benefit of all mankind, now a formidable, warlike race, feared throughout the known galaxy. The Itani, formerly the aggressors responsible for countless wartime horrors, now a wise and benevolent people, haunted by their dark past. The Neutral Territories, a loosely knit Nation of corporations, merchants and explorers (not to mention smugglers and pirates), now clinging to life in the more hostile regions of deep space.
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Suicidal Lemming's theory is that the aliens (Furie ships) have taken over Earth and that these factions are all separated in their own little system. Planet Earth is still lost to the human race and none of the factions have been back to it since the phase shift.
My theory is that sector 1 is in fact the location of Earth and that the Itani actually found their way back home (whether they knew it or not). Now remember, this is the year 4432 AD and Earth would have obviously changed by a lot. The moon could have been destroyed, asteroids and other celestial bodies could've moved into the region, and some of the planets we know today may have drifted off.
Nowhere in the above paragraph does it designate where each faction currently is in the universe. All it says is that they were separated by a phase shift. There is no mention of how long it would take for a wormhole to reopen to our solar system, so it's possible that part of the main colony (now Itani) could've made it back to Earth by camping at the spot they last left off and waited for the wormhole to reopen. While the rest of the population split into two (Serco and Neutral) and decided to search for another hospitable planet.
In any case I think there are quite a number of possibilities since we know very little about the story. So feel free to add your own. Hopefully we'll get more information along the way and we'll see who is right in the end. Or maybe the devs will be evil by keeping a lot of it a secret even after the game has been finalized.
In AD 2235, the first wormhole area was discovered by the human race, near the orbital path of Saturn. Subsequent exploration led to the successful colonization of a planet on the far side. Ignorant of the phase-shifting properties of wormhole areas, the colony was stranded in AD 2310 when the area connecting the colony to Earth ceased to exist. That wormhole would not reactivate for another two million years. Utterly cut off from their home planet, humanity in Exile subsisted, thrived and eventually expanded to cover many wormhole-linked systems throughout the galaxy. However, after over two thousand years and much exploration, they have never found a way Home. (c/p from http://guildsoftware.com/ven.nav.and.universe.html)
>>>Suicidal Lemming's and Verdandi's theory is that the aliens (Furie ships) have taken over Earth and that these factions are all separated in their own little system. Planet Earth is still lost to the human race and none of the factions have been back to it since the phase shift.
I NEVER said the Furies took over Earth. I ONLY said that sector 1 was in NO way earth. And alienb was right. You DIDN'T read the history. You would have seen what I just c&p'd.
By the way, Arolte... It's Virian*A*, and... Theory BUSTED.
>>>Suicidal Lemming's and Verdandi's theory is that the aliens (Furie ships) have taken over Earth and that these factions are all separated in their own little system. Planet Earth is still lost to the human race and none of the factions have been back to it since the phase shift.
I NEVER said the Furies took over Earth. I ONLY said that sector 1 was in NO way earth. And alienb was right. You DIDN'T read the history. You would have seen what I just c&p'd.
By the way, Arolte... It's Virian*A*, and... Theory BUSTED.
True that.
My bad, I got the two of you mixed up. I've now credited Suicidal Lemming for the alien theory in my original post. Please avoid turning this thread into a flamewar. I only did it to have fun and speculate about Vendetta's storyline. I was unaware of a second link which contained additional information on the storyline. I did in fact read the "Races and History" section which is where I partially based my theory from.
So just chill out. I've never seen someone so ridiculously hostile over something so trivial as a theory. If you have other issues to deal with please take it over to starfreeze.com or elsewhere. The same goes for alienb. I'm tired of this attitude I keep getting from both of you. So let's drop it.
Anyway, I feel that part of my theory can inspire others to think of new ones. So I will leave it up. Had it not been for that last sentence about never finding Earth, it would've still been plausible because there could be more than one wormhole back to our solar system, much like how we have multiple wormholes to some of the sectors that are available now.
The way I interpreted the story was a large group of colonists that split into three in such a way: One group (now Itani) camps at the deactivated wormhole site in hopes of going back to Earth, and the other two (Serco and Neutral) split up for survival purposes and/or finding more planets to colonize on. The reason behind this is that you cover more objectives this way, or at the very least you guarantee the survival of some of the colonists out of the total population. It beats everyone staying in one place and dying together after drifting in space around in circles for eternity.
There, I'll leave it at that. Have fun with your theories and be creative. It'll make for some interesting reading.
So just chill out. I've never seen someone so ridiculously hostile over something so trivial as a theory. If you have other issues to deal with please take it over to starfreeze.com or elsewhere. The same goes for alienb. I'm tired of this attitude I keep getting from both of you. So let's drop it.
Anyway, I feel that part of my theory can inspire others to think of new ones. So I will leave it up. Had it not been for that last sentence about never finding Earth, it would've still been plausible because there could be more than one wormhole back to our solar system, much like how we have multiple wormholes to some of the sectors that are available now.
The way I interpreted the story was a large group of colonists that split into three in such a way: One group (now Itani) camps at the deactivated wormhole site in hopes of going back to Earth, and the other two (Serco and Neutral) split up for survival purposes and/or finding more planets to colonize on. The reason behind this is that you cover more objectives this way, or at the very least you guarantee the survival of some of the colonists out of the total population. It beats everyone staying in one place and dying together after drifting in space around in circles for eternity.
There, I'll leave it at that. Have fun with your theories and be creative. It'll make for some interesting reading.
It's interesting to see how quickly he turns everything around as if we were the ones getting all hostile and in-your-face about it. Oh well..
Well CELKAN DID type a BUNCH of words in CAPS as if he was YELLING at AROLTE.
In the yeeear twenty fiive twenty fiive . . . if man . . . is still aliiive, if wo-man can surviiive . . . they may find . . .
Those damn furies...
crazydeb8r, he started one of his "I'm right" fits in IRC, Verd and I were on the recieving end, I'll post a log if you want, but he was just sputtering on about how he knew the story, and we were both stupid and didnt know what we were talking about. Whatever..not really important.
Forum Moderator, please delete the flame bait posted. I kindly asked that this thread not be turned into a flamewar. Unfortunately alienb is having trouble complying yet again. Thank you.
That is not a flame, it is a post that says something that you don't like. There is a difference.
You lied in your first post in the thred, and I was clearing it up for another user. If anything, your response is provocative and possible flamebait.
You lied in your first post in the thred, and I was clearing it up for another user. If anything, your response is provocative and possible flamebait.
I was in IRC, Arolte was not the one throwing names and flames around...alienb was the main aggressor. Here's a log for your viewing pleasure, contains almost all of the arguement, contains language and stuff. http://upload.localnetsys.com/upload/irclog.txt
Aaand we're done. Take this to another site folks.
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