Originally posted by Dralthi5:
Well, I think it says somewhere that the inhabitants of the Tri-System have been there for a few thousand years, so this is probably the case, strangely enough.
IIRC, the game says only that the three systems have co-existed peacefully for two thousand years and that the planet Anhur has experienced some “serious history” over the same time. There is then no Year One, as such, for Tri-System civilization (even if we could figure out how to translate such a date into a Confed time line).
P2 takes place in the 28th [century].
No, we don’t know. We have no basis for believing that the year 2790 in the Tri-System (the time of P2) translates into the year 2790 in the Confederation proper. We shouldn’t presume that any more than we should object to the fact that the Kilrathi use a different calendar.
Originally posted by Zor Prime:
. . . but i like the idea that Britains colonised that area of space . . .
Yes, I admire the Britains too, but Vondoom is right, we have no basis for believing that Joe Kane of the Tri-System, as opposed to John Hurt the actor, actually speaks with a British accent, let alone that he actually speaks English, let alone that he is actually human instead of humanoid.
Think of it this way. If Origin had decided to make a game exclusively about the Double-Helix and their society, we wouldn’t think twice about why that insect-like race appears to speak English even though we know it communicates principally through scents and pheromones, just as we never think twice about why the Kilrathi in both the games and novels "prefer" to speak English too.