Though, much of the change in Algol's civilization/landscape has been due to various natural disaster and outside interference - In the aftermath of the conjunction and the loss of the ruling family, Algol's people were probably much more receptive to this Mother Brain thing that promised to take care of their problems. The Great Collapse obviously was responsible for just that - The collapse of Algol's technology and society, from which it had yet to recover even a thousand years later.
Besides, set pre-PSI, they'd have a hard time connecting it to anything casual fans would be familiar with. You'd have to assume a previous space-faring civilization in order to have Dezolis and Motavia in it, they couldn't put techs in there as they didn't exist yet. I suppose you could throw Rappies and Muskcats in there somehow. Honestly, by that time it'd have as much to do with PS as PSU does. XP And any references to the series proper would be utterly out of place.
No, better to set it in a time period with familiar elements, otherwise you just have another barely related PSU-type game, just that it's in Algol instead of Guhral. Setting it between PSI and PSII, especially shortly after PSI, would get the nostalgia thing going in a way that setting it with some forgotten civilization wouldn't. (Besides, since techs were supposedly introduced not long after PSI, you could use them then so all the PSO/PSU people would have something familiar to use and everyone and their mother wouldn't be an Esper. XP)
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