Quote from: SM on Mar 25, 2021, 12:28:16 AM
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Right, 2200-2203 same era. 2215 seems a bit far afield though, what lead you to decide to place it there?
Xeno-Zip is developed in Genocide in 2212. CM has to happen after that.
Right you are about that Xeno-Zip reference in CM. But the problem becomes that it makes Carmen Vasquez old as hell for her job. Like 45 or something and she's still never seen combat, a long list of insubordination and screw-ups indeed.
And we don't exactly know when the normal Xeno-Zip was developed, just when the bad batch made it notorious, after the Goodwill Games incident when Neopharm started changing up the formula after the real Royal Jelly from the original formula started running out. The old formula may have been addicting but not necessarily lethal or a miraculous wonder drug as it suddenly became known. Also Kleist begins Rogue talking about commercially available drugs processed from the Royal Jelly and since ZCT and Grant Corporation were explicit competitors engaged in regular corporate espionage with each other, I just assumed normal Xeno-Zip had been around since at least then. So there's little bit of wiggle room for CM to predate Genocide at least, and it solves the Vasquez knowing her sister problem.
Buuuuut I've totally digressed, this is chat for a different thread. Thanks for nerding out with me, sorry for derailing the topic!