PSO - PSU - PSO2

[Crazyleo]

I was just wondering if anything was mentioned story wise; that connects PSO and PSU to PSO2?

[blace]

Nothing. There's no connection in PSO2 linking itself to the last two in the series besides PSO in the name.

[yoshiblue]

Would be cool to team up with a lost HUmar in a parallel universe and work together to go back to your homes.

[eharima]

The date system in pso2 (A.P) could indicate after pioneer?

[gigawuts]

Indeed, while it's been stated in interviews PSO2 takes place a couple (or several?) hundred years after PSO1, and the ships are designed pretty similarly (some much more than others), also the date system, there is essentially zero connection. The closest you'll get is reused weapons and characters in trailers being named after NPC's from PSO1.

On that note, Lionel was apparently a FOcast, by the way. So that's neat.

[eharima]

Indeed, while it's been stated in interviews PSO2 takes place a couple (or several?) hundred years after PSO1,

The date system in pso2 (A.P) could indicate after pioneer?

also the date system, there is essentially zero connection.

seems legit, citation needed, contradictory ect ect.

[Zorafim]

There's no strong story elements connecting the series. However, there was a chapter in some PSU spinoff that said something about it being connected to PSO through... What was it, wormhole? Any connection between any of the PS series is very loose.

[Mike]

There's no strong story elements connecting the series. However, there was a chapter in some PSU spinoff that said something about it being connected to PSO through... What was it, wormhole? Any connection between any of the PS series is very loose.

In Infinity, the protagonists use subspace travel to travel to post-explosion, pre-Rico absorption Ragol, save Rico, fight Olga Flow, and save Flowen.

[Anduril]

In Infinity, the protagonists use subspace travel to travel to post-explosion, pre-Rico absorption Ragol, save Rico, fight Olga Flow, and save Flowen.

So they basically created an alternate timeline?

[Darki]

There has to be some connection, if not direct, since the series has many cliffhangers that would enable any connection if they wanted to make it explicit. Even in the classic series you have time-travelling wormholes; subspace travel from infinity and now we got plain timeline mindfucks in PSO2... Hell if I'm not mistaken in the classic series they even have earthlings as enemies, as in Falz came to Earth thanks to something that happens in one of the games (a sealed falz in a ship that goes through a wormhole and ends coming here or something like that) and took over us and made us go to the Algol system to fight against them.

To me the series seems connected kinda like Zeldas: Dark Falz (or better, the profound Darkness) is always the same exact "entity", and on each game we're told how different civilizations across time and space fight against it.