While I was watching Drew's Lore Tour, I cracked open my old copy of Elite 2 and looked at the timeline on the Gazetteer (which is also on the wiki but is stated to be retconned).
The two relevant entries from the Gazetteer:
2100s - Discovery of fossils on Mars, "hyperspace" discovered, humans throughout solar system.
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2280s - Discovery of first non-human relic in space. Origin still unknown in 3200.
Now I'm looking at the Nonhuman relic beacon in the sol system and the text doesn't look right:
I guess they just thought that since Mars is in 'space' it seems right to state as such, but so is Earth. If they were retconning the history from Elite 2, why even mention the first sentence that is derived from the lore of Elite 2? just say it was found buried on Mars.
Using the Elite 2 timeline it appears to me that humans reverse engineered the first hyperdrive technology from the artifact found on Mars 2100s and then I'm taking a wild guess here, but I feel that the second artifact found in space in the 2280s is tied into Raxxla mystery (first mention of it is 2296 from the wiki), perhaps it could be the 'Omphalos Rift' that is described in the codex?
The two relevant entries from the Gazetteer:
2100s - Discovery of fossils on Mars, "hyperspace" discovered, humans throughout solar system.
-
2280s - Discovery of first non-human relic in space. Origin still unknown in 3200.
Now I'm looking at the Nonhuman relic beacon in the sol system and the text doesn't look right:
I guess they just thought that since Mars is in 'space' it seems right to state as such, but so is Earth. If they were retconning the history from Elite 2, why even mention the first sentence that is derived from the lore of Elite 2? just say it was found buried on Mars.
Using the Elite 2 timeline it appears to me that humans reverse engineered the first hyperdrive technology from the artifact found on Mars 2100s and then I'm taking a wild guess here, but I feel that the second artifact found in space in the 2280s is tied into Raxxla mystery (first mention of it is 2296 from the wiki), perhaps it could be the 'Omphalos Rift' that is described in the codex?