Here's what I was thinking about doing with Homesick Redux:
Plotwise: much the same up to the whole 'mistaken for criminals by GTVA'. Trotsky becomes a Deimos, pirate numbers become a little more realistic and most of the pirate-combat is between the Custodian and the Trotsky (corvette duels = fun). Both Trotsky and Guevera snuff it before the Custodian and Shield leave the T-V battlefield.
Custodian and Shield are happy to see the GTVI base, but they are fired upon by the Mammon, which is joined by a small fleet of GTVI warships. Surrounded, all looks grim until the Khufu jumps in, also pursued by GTVI, and they help the Custodian escape to the next system. They split up afterwards - Khufu to look for the Keops, Custodian to find another way back, and both to avoid fighting with stupid GTVA goons/treacherous mercenary-pirate types.
Cue hijinks with Custodian trying to hide from various GTVI task forces with 'brand-new' ships and weaponry. When it becomes obvious that hiding and running away doesn't work, even when you're hiding in a debris field or even the outer edges of a gas cloud, the Custodian decides to take the battle to GTVI and attacks the GTVI destroyer sent after them, sending out a call to the Khufu to consider assisting them. For a few tense moments, the Custodian is alone against the GTD Thingamajig, but the Khufu jumps in and, using clever tactical knowhow, cripple the destroyer before pulling out, guerrilla style.
Custodian and Khufu travel through the cosmos, exploring system after system, until they eventually begin to build up a picture of the way home. They enter a system to gather the final data they need... when they discover the Shivans. Fighting commences, lots of backing away from beams and getting ambushed by massive Shivan forces... they pull back through a system, edging their way towards home, when they enter a nebula and are absolutely surrounded by the bastards. They take down a Shivan destroyer... but there are more out there. They head into the final system and everything's the same from there, but with lots more Shivans.
That's as much of Homesick as I think I can change without it becoming something entirely different... sorry Goob. At least you'll have SAH, eh?
Balancing-wise, aside from rebalancing revamped missions with adoring masses, also add Ulysses and Zeus to ship selection, and a few more weapons or something. I'll probably get some weapons from the FSPort to be 'old' weaponry... hmm, some old FS1 ships would make good pirate fighters...
As for SAH... aside from rebalancing some of the trickier/suckier missions, if you'll all make a list of the odd ones, and adding a second-half to 'Sons of War' so that Deimos and Phobos are a little closer to their real life counterparts, I'll also make an extra campaign for 218-something, which will introduce the new EA ships and bring the EA a little closer to the EA in Inferno in a natural and plausible manner, as well as return to the characters in Sol: 2157 or whenever the third campaign with EAI was. And I'll retitle it 'Sol: Alternate History', because apparently the indefinite article was a little too subtle.
Though I will be doing Homesick 2 some day. But I have a FREDding commitment that must take priority over anything else, for now. Once that's good, I'll redo Homesick, and once Inferno R1 is redone, I'll redo SAH as well. And then I'll beta test them, because beta testing is FUN and GOOD and USEFUL.
And if anyone wants to voice-act Homesick, then all you have to do is say. I can't voice-act it all by myself, unfortunately.
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