Did our Solar System survive the Nova?

[Majestic]

We know it destroys Earth but what about the rest of the Solar system?

 

Will it be possible to eventually visit our old system? I know the Ark travelled for 10 millenia but at what speed?

 

That would be fun to visit our solar system.

[Darius Sanguna]

Nope a neutron star that is travelling through a solar system will completely destroy it, if not the planets per se than at least the stability of the orbits of the planets and the 10 millenia will do the rest.

[Code24]

I believe the Ark travelled for ten millenium at FTL. So Alioth is far from the where the Sol system was, even if there was something left of it.

[yamamushi]

Nope a neutron star that is travelling through a solar system will completely destroy it, if not the planets per se than at least the stability of the orbits of the planets and the 10 millenia will do the rest.

 

/* Conspiracy Theory */

 

That's just what they want us to believe. 

 

In truth the Neutron star was a giant Illuminati conspiracy perpetrated to get all the world governments to build massive Arkships for them to escape an overpopulated and polluted planet. 

 

All of the Arkship passengers had their memories wiped so they wouldn't remember the true reason for their departure, and so they might have the opportunity to rebuild civilization without bringing the weight of their past with them. It was also a safety guard against anyone who might be a traitor to the cause. In doing so they underestimated the true nature of man though.

 

Through playing the game and exploring we will discover ancient alien artifacts that point towards the existence of a massive alien civilization somewhere in the past. 

 

Eventually we'll all discover that the "Aliens" weren't alien at all, and that they were actually the last remnants of a long extinct human civilization that had gone into the stars in search of the Arkships. 

 

/* End Conspiracy Theory */ 

[Warden]

/* Conspiracy Theory */

 

That's just what they want us to believe. 

 

In truth the Neutron star was a giant Illuminati conspiracy perpetrated to get all the world governments to build massive Arkships for them to escape an overpopulated and polluted planet. 

 

All of the Arkship passengers had their memories wiped so they wouldn't remember the true reason for their departure, and so they might have the opportunity to rebuild civilization without bringing the weight of their past with them. It was also a safety guard against anyone who might be a traitor to the cause. In doing so they underestimated the true nature of man though.

 

Through playing the game and exploring we will discover ancient alien artifacts that point towards the existence of a massive alien civilization somewhere in the past. 

 

Eventually we'll all discover that the "Aliens" weren't alien at all, and that they were actually the last remnants of a long extinct human civilization that had gone into the stars in search of the Arkships. 

 

/* End Conspiracy Theory */ 

 

 

--- Immediate alert: subject has awakened ----

 

 

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Prep covert retrieval team and perform memory wipe --- re-integrate into workforce

 

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[Majestic]

Ooh, I like this conspiracy.

 

 

'There is something familiar about these artifacts..' 

[Quinn23]

/* Conspiracy Theory */

 

That's just what they want us to believe. 

 

In truth the Neutron star was a giant Illuminati conspiracy perpetrated to get all the world governments to build massive Arkships for them to escape an overpopulated and polluted planet. 

 

All of the Arkship passengers had their memories wiped so they wouldn't remember the true reason for their departure, and so they might have the opportunity to rebuild civilization without bringing the weight of their past with them. It was also a safety guard against anyone who might be a traitor to the cause. In doing so they underestimated the true nature of man though.

 

Through playing the game and exploring we will discover ancient alien artifacts that point towards the existence of a massive alien civilization somewhere in the past. 

 

Eventually we'll all discover that the "Aliens" weren't alien at all, and that they were actually the last remnants of a long extinct human civilization that had gone into the stars in search of the Arkships. 

 

/* End Conspiracy Theory */ 

 

/* Missive redacted to insure historical accuracy and prevent confusion.*/       --- Aphelia.

[DaSchiz]

/* Conspiracy Theory */

 

That's just what they want us to believe. 

 

In truth the Neutron star was a giant Illuminati conspiracy perpetrated to get all the world governments to build massive Arkships for them to escape an overpopulated and polluted planet. 

 

All of the Arkship passengers had their memories wiped so they wouldn't remember the true reason for their departure, and so they might have the opportunity to rebuild civilization without bringing the weight of their past with them. It was also a safety guard against anyone who might be a traitor to the cause. In doing so they underestimated the true nature of man though.

 

Through playing the game and exploring we will discover ancient alien artifacts that point towards the existence of a massive alien civilization somewhere in the past. 

 

Eventually we'll all discover that the "Aliens" weren't alien at all, and that they were actually the last remnants of a long extinct human civilization that had gone into the stars in search of the Arkships. 

 

/* End Conspiracy Theory */ 

 

It's really just that we are in the Matrix ..... red pill or blue pill?

 

[Majestic]

Conspiracies geez.

 

I heard one thats suggests we weren't evacuated rather the planet was purged.  They didn't know where they were sending alot of the ARK's they just launched them.

Some of the ARK's were nothing more than massive detention centers pre-launch too.

[wesbruce]

OK this will be where I have the most fun.

I have already proposed several overlapping compatible bits of lore. Here I list and integrate them.
This has several assumptions: they could not just go to mars or alpha centuri or tau ceti because the neutron star is huge and is cutting a swathe though space 40 to 100 light years across. Secondly the Arkship in the games back story is not going to the nearest target safe system others scored that one. Thirdly not all the starting game play technology: Safe star gates, probes, some force fields technology, is known to the people coming off the Arkship; some of it may have not been invented when the left Sol. Hence the need for training and discovery.  

1. Someone tried to leave early, jumping the gun with prototype FTL technology. It went wrong but they survived, damaged genetically but survived long enough, before dying out, to leave artefacts, technology, some enigmatic AI or strange uploaded version of themselves. Something with a memory of man and a desire to help but little understanding of the Arkship's occupants. They have 9000 years head start but this means they have 9000 years to fall into ruin and your as hard to understand as a Neanderthal.
2. Many stayed and worked on projects to help the travellers. Doing vital research that could not be done on a ship and was not finished before departure. Some of their results were beamed to the arkships so they have technology that was not known when the pioneers went into cryo. These are long dead hero's who stayed and died so others would succeed. 
3. Some of the solutions could not be sent to the cryoships in time, they were out of range, so they sent smaller faster relays to deliver the new solutions. The result is basically the same as 1 and 4 but with more AI in play. 
4. One of the ships sent to the closest safe system to Sol arrived hundreds of years ago and survived long enough to buy time, a few hundred years before the neutron star caught them. They have FTL, gates and much better technology. They either used option 2 and 3 themselves before building a new faster arkship and heading off or
5. They set out again by probes and gates to catch the Arkships. Because of the quirks of relativity they can not contact the Arkships directly or match velocity, but they can place things on various worlds to help and welcome them. Their chain of stargates have been destroyed behind them lest strange effects from the neutron star can propagate though them. 9000 years has distorted their mission a little or on some worlds shattered it in war and disaster. They are now space nomads leaving advanced tributes to their sleeping gods. 
6. Not everyone slept on the Ark ships some continued working, living, dying, on the ship, but their children survived. Hence all the corridors. Some are helpful and part AI, some are still human. When the ship landed they slipped away or slipped into the embarking crowds. They have the same technology etc but have a few new technologies developed in transit. However these children of the ship see the earth as a distant legend. There is also a language gap for them, they have no word for tree. They are secretive, seeing the sleepers as alien and fragile. They have been warned not to reveal themselves for that may destroy the sleepers moral and sense of destiny. In this context the children are just Dev's and hand picked players not NPC's but never really seen. They conspire to help. Some may plot to hinder. 
   
   This in SF parlance is the FTL greets STL conundrum. It is as old as the Traveller RPG way back in 1977 but no one has developed it fully. 
   
   The universe of SF has enough ancient aliens and extra terrestrial gods.  Lets make the humanity both sides of the first contact equation. 9000 is a long time. 

[wesbruce]

I believe the Ark travelled for ten millenium at FTL. So Alioth is far from the where the Sol system was, even if there was something left of it.

9,854 years is a long time. Assuming 80% the speed of light, fast STL it's 7883 light years. At 10% the speed of light however it's only 985 ly or so. Almost next door. If above the speed of light its a long way indeed. That was a heck of a big mean neutron star their running from if they have to run even 900 ly to get clear. 

[Warden]

Without having the lore in my blood right now, figuratively spoken, I wonder why they went so far or long when habitable planets are relatively close. Then again not sure what range a star like that can cover without looking it up right now. Probably plot reasons or range reasons, possibly making close areas unsafe or not viable for other reasons.

[wesbruce]

Without having the lore in my blood right now, figuratively spoken, I wonder why they went so far or long when habitable planets are relatively close. Then again not sure what range a star like that can cover without looking it up right now. Probably plot reasons or range reasons, possibly making close areas unsafe or not viable for other reasons.

If there is more than one Arkship then this is the one that drew the short straw and scored the most distant know terrestrial world. Some one else scored Proxima centari b.

This assumes that the swathe the neutron star cuts is not 30 to 80 light years across. I think the assumption is not just radiation or planetary collision. The doom star is moving at high relativistic speeds giving it a mass great enough to tear planets from their mother sun and scatter them into the deep dark space to freeze. While also sucking some planets and stars in to it's mass. A giant cue ball 10000 times the mass of the sun sending stars scattering like billiards on a table. A gravitational sling shot disruptions measured in terms of 10's of light years if not hundreds.  That would make an awesome animation. 

There are some stars out there that have been clocked at 0.3 to 0.8 c!  There are some that seem to be moving at 20c !?! If that's not an error burn your physics books. 

[Majestic]

Hmm, the Scattered Planet Theory, Mars is Alioths new Nibiru.