![]() In X³: Reunion sectors became much more varied. In games to X²: The Threat, X-Universe sectors are of uniform size, and gates are usually centre-North, South, East and West of the ecliptic plane. Beyond the main area of a sector is mostly empty void, though official X material, as well as in-game messages and missions hint at lost ships, secret stations, and other treasures and dangers lurking in remote areas. However, each sector is unbounded, and the player may travel in any direction almost indefinitely. This compels the player to explore the sectors of the different races to discover the most useful upgrades, and most profitable trade routes.įor convenience, most stations and facilities are located in the space between the jumpgates, known as the " ecliptic plane". Such products can be imported, exported and traded by the player for profit. Boron stations sell Boron trade products, and they often want to buy the trade products of other races. ![]() Here the player can buy special Boron weaponry and equipment that is unavailable from other races. For example, Atreus ' Clouds is a Boron sector, containing only Boron stations. Most sectors are controlled by one X-Universe race, and will contain only stations economically indigenous to that race. The Xenon home-sector has never been discovered. Notable sectors include: Argon Federation home-sector, "Argon Prime" Boron Kingdom home-sector "Kingdom End", Teladi Company headquarters "Seizewell" Split Dynasty home-sector "Family Pride" and Paranid Empire home world "Paranid Prime". Each sector is named by the organisation that controls it. Each sector contains up to four jumpgates, in a North, East, South, West pattern. Most contain game resources such as asteroids of silicon or ore, and many contain inhabitable planets. Sectors typically orbit planets, within a star system. The total number of sectors is unknown, but the number of "discovered" sectors has increased in each game from 54, in X: Beyond the Frontier, to over 200 in X³: Terran Conflict, including the re-discovered Sol system. The fictional X-Universe is a collection of sectors connected by two-way jumpgates. The Terraformers are attempting to get to Earth and Kyle must stop them. ![]() Unlike before, this part of the network is inhabited by several space faring alien races and the descendants of Nathan R. In its maiden flight, the X-Shuttle, piloted by test pilot Kyle Brennan, is accidentally transported into the X Universe. A single Terraformer craft appears in the solar system using an apparently experimental gateless jumpdrive. The X-series is set more than 750 years after these events. The Earth gate was then destroyed, trapping the Terraformers in the X-Universe and cutting Earth off from the rest of the network. Gunne, lured the Terraformers through the gate into the X Universe. In a daring attempt to save the solar system, a group of ships, led by Nathan R. No colony was able to defend against the attacks, and mankind was pushed back to the Sol System where the Terraformers launched an attempt to destroy all life forms and terraform all of the inner planets. In an attempt to halt the Terraformers, the Terrans became embroiled in a war with their creations. The Terraformers replicated and attempted to re-terraform colonised planets, causing the planets to lose their ability to support human life. During a software update several flaws were introduced into the Terraformer fleet and distributed between them, causing a radical change in behaviour. The Terraformers were self-replicating spacecraft, governed by a simple artificial intelligence. Terraforming machines were created and dispatched to terraform planets into habitable worlds. Puzzled by the lack of intelligent life within this network, but driven by their curiosity and the urge to colonise the new worlds, the Terrans ventured into the X Universe, intent on expanding their territory. The Terrans had discovered the X Universe, a seemingly uninhabited collection of star systems connected by a vast network of large, bi-directional jump gates. There were alien jumpgates which the human-constructed gates could connect to. Even before the gate left the solar system, scientists discovered that many objects classified as black holes showed the characteristics of artificial wormholes. A jumpgate was shuttled to Alpha Centauri in an attempt to claim a foothold in interstellar space. Over the course of the 21st century, mankind experimented with wormhole technology and successfully built jumpgates in space between Earth and Mars paving the way for the colonization of the solar system and interstellar transport. Farnham's Legend is available in English. The fiction behind the X series is provided in the games themselves and in four novels by series fictional writer Helge Kautz: Farnham's Legend, Nopileos, Yoshiko and Hüter der Tore (" Keeper of the Gates").
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