Lore Questions.

PureHostility

Okey, I've playing NS2 for a while now (just a bit later when last of "Black armor" deal went off).


I've got some lore questions, as I would like to create some content, mostly maps, love doing it and been playing in hammer (source) for a good 2 years with small breaks in between, never released anything as I thought it was crap... even though I had some positive feedback.
Before I create something I really like to rely on lore and keep things as close to the original world I'm creating for.

Straight to my questions.


1) Marine spawning through Infantry Portals.

Infantry portals prints last known marine template, this means... Marines are clones? If so, what's the number of "real"/original marines in their corps? Any more indeepth about this ? Would really like to hear more about it.
Also if everything costs resources, why does printing marines is free (probably balance aspects of the game, I know, but I would want some lore reference :) ).


2) Trans-System Federation (TSF)

Now about the whole organization.
What is it specifically ?
Is it some commercial group that sells their military services, like mercenaries of Blackwater/Academi for an example?
If so, is there any official human army, "controlled"/funded by government?
Or is whole human society/world being commercialized left defended by themselves and commercial armies?


3) Human world and travel technology.

Started in above point, I would like to know political aspects of our species in these times.
Are we still split into countries, nations? Maybe our whole world is divided into sectors, where each sector holds some number of stars?
How advance colonization is ? Do we travel between hundreds of different stars ? Or do we just started the exploration and expansion of our worlds? What type of technology lets us travel between them? Are there any FTL engines? Or we use sub light speeds? Maybe warpgates or other bending the universe? Are we still in Milky Way or did we leave it already?


4) Conflict sitrep

What's the situation between both species, Khaara and Humans?
Is it widespread infestation/conflict on massive scale?
Maybe it's small isolated and contained problem somewhere in outer borders of humans worlds?
How civilians react to this? Are there any other military groups involved in dealing with Khaara (reference to point #2)?
Is it urgent issue for humanity? Or are there any more important things going beside this? Maybe it's just like a small epidemic of flu nowadays?


5) Earth...

I would like to know a situation about earth.
Was it hit by khaara infestation?
Is it still populated by humanity or left due to lack of resources, multiple conflicts that devastated it's surface and ability to sustain any life?
What's the actual year the game takes time in?



I think this would be it, for now... the most important questions I had :)
Thanks for anyone answering this.
I tried to search for something, didn't find anything...well I haven't tried to visit some fansites ... maybe it was my huge mistake. I will do now, but in meantime I will post it in hope someone will answer few of those.

Thanks in advance :D.

Fen

From what little i remember from the old bits of lore in the original..

1)
No idea



3)
Both countries and megacorporation seems to be around.
Expansion is based on how many phase gates one of the above can afford to build (and not have blown up by some opposing faction)
And yes,travel seems to be based on artificial gates


2)
An indipendent police force,made to be above nations and corporations armed forces
That places the TSA in the difficult spot of been founded by the same entities it must control.And at the same time,those entities now regret giving them those powers but can't take them back unless something big happens (i.e why they let the TSA take the frontline against they aliens)


4)
It's confined in a space sector composed of different solar systems but to the point where if not contested it could spread fast
Other "official" armed forces failed to fight it back

5)
No idea



Maybe someone will pop up with a link to the introduction part of the old manual (the one with the journalist visiting the TSF headquarter),atm i can find only 6 days in Sanjii ^^'

Onii-chan

<img src="http://s16.postimage.org/gum3xgy4z/NS_lore_in_a_nutshell.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

ellnic

We only have a small infomation pool on these subjects, from the <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" target="_blank">Wiki</a> and the dulux edition infomation. But the Bacterium does seem to be able to pop up in all kind of remote places. Once the Bacterium has infected somwhere it's not long till the Kharaa show up. It would be nice if the Dev's made a bigger and a much more expanded background on the NS2 universe

KuddlyKalli

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ellnic

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+9001, Yeah i went there

PureHostility

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Oh man, that would be great.
I love to read about backgrounds/lore of movies and games I do enjoy.

Imbalanxd

I ignored the whole "imprint marine consciousness" thing in the art book. In my mind that isn't true. They just die like everyone else.

PureHostility

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Before I read anything about it, I thought they are just being teleported from orbiting space ship or something.
To be honest, I wasn't really satisfied with "imprinting" last known human.
This makes them actually less humans, more of clones or just androids... :(