Freespace 2: Blue Planet - One Future

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Paladin Gaming

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Published on February 20, 2023 10:00:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgDePk0t91w

Game:

FreeSpace 2 (1999)

Duration: 21:41

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This is the seventeenth mission of Blue Planet: War in Heaven, the second campaign of the Blue Planet series. Blue Planet tells the story of the GTVA's return to Earth after constructing the Delta Serpentis portal, modeled on the Knossos devices. We occupy the character of Sublieutenant Noemi Laporte, recently inducted into the secretive Fedayeen and operating from the UEFg Masyaf. We have obtained urgent intelligence: The Kostadin Cell of the Gaian Effort is planning the destruction of Earth. They have been slowly accumulating subspace engine parts, and we have learned that they have fit these to their habitat asteroid and intend to jump to Earth and crash into the planet, in a bid to force the rest of the Sol system to acquiesce to their demand to become Cometary Man (their rhetoric about needing to do this to protect the natural order of planets apparently notwithstanding). Normally a threat of this magnitude would warrant deployment of Fleet assets, but the Kostadin habitat is an Oort cloud object, and the fading of solar gravity that far out makes subspace jumps precarious; a frigate or destroyer cannot safely make the transit. We have been given command of a heavily modified Custos class patrol cruiser, the UEC Vindicator, which is the largest ship capable of engaging the Kostadin defenses that can make the jump. We must stop their suicidal plan by any means necessary; a Marine transport is standing by to board the habitat should we make the area safe enough for approach, but if we can't do that in time, captives have told us of tunnels leading into the structure; we may have to destroy it.

Of course, this being Paladin Gaming, we're going to do our utmost not to take that drastic step, killing the hundreds of thousands of noncombatants on the habitat.

This is Freespace 2 played using the upgraded graphics courtesy of the Freespace Upgrade Project's MediaVPs, on version 4.6.7 at time of recording. Check out the project at http://hard-light.net

Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:19 - Command Briefing
0:34 - Mission Briefing
6:11 - Cruiser Setup
7:01 - Crew Selection
7:22 - Mission Start
7:32 - Dialogue
8:17 - Subspace Jump
8:33 - Kostadin Habitat
8:43 - Dialogue
9:22 - Combat
9:44 - Incoming Fighters
10:38 - Fighter Sweep
11:03 - Warship Engagement
11:45 - Engine Strike
12:40 - Armor Too Heavy...
13:03 - Weakness
13:20 - Reactor Strike
13:34 - Destroyer Kill
13:50 - Cruiser Engagement
14:32 - Cruiser Kills
14:42 - Bomber Defense
15:00 - Sergei Gwilym
15:35 - Clearing the LZ
16:24 - Area Clear
16:52 - Two Minutes
17:08 - The Tension Is Real
18:02 - Boarding Action
18:59 - Victory!
19:35 - Jump Out
19:51 - Debriefing
20:50 - Personal Log
21:26 - Outro

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