Heya all,
I was wondering if there are people willing to discuss the lore in the Freelancer universe. I haven't returned to this game for a while now and at the time I didn't actually spend too much time listening to the rumors, or reading the news threads and descriptions in-game. Of course, I did, as I am sure most of you did, experience the thrill of discovery when finding the Hispania for the first time, but there are a lot of much more subtle things that I missed. For example, Sigma-17 turned out to be quite a revelation, discovering the connection between the Alien Organisms and Cardamine. There was one particular rumor which caught my attention. One of the Samura farmers on Kurile said that the corporate scientists found that the planet once had a rich and complex ecosystem, which was gradually influenced and transformed on a genetic level by the AO's. Other rumors described genetic changes in the farmers themselves which were consistent with the ones found in the Outcasts, after prolonged use of Cardamine. This led me to suspect that the AO's might not be a naturally occurring phenomenon in Sirius at all. I have a hypothesis that they might be similar to the Protomolecule from S. A. Corey's novel series. They are biological devises, made by the Dom'Kovash, for the purpose of hijacking and transforming foreign ecologies, repurposing them for yet unknown function. This is consistent with DK focus on biotechnology, as observed in the case of the Nomads in the vanilla game and in the way they are imagined in CS.
What do you think ? If you are at all interested in that sort of speculation, that is. 
By the way, does anyone know if there is a full database with the recorded rumors from the game ?
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