And why would anyone assume the player character's faction would win in a Freespace campaign?
FS1: The SD Lucifer jumps all over the universe with steel toed boots and Earth just barely avoids getting crisped with a giant space blowtorch.
FS2: The Shivans accidentally the whole Capellan system.
Ummm... hurrah? In fact we should be saying that the UEF being the protagonist's faction in WiH to be a pretty dire forecast for their fortunes indeed.
Yeah, dire forecast, but victory in the end.
FS1: The SD Lucifer is destroyed just before reaching Sol, saving the human race.
FS2: The Shivans are trapped in Capella, saving the human race (again, for now), and we now have the tech to go back to Earth (so long as there're no bugs in the meson reactor).
WiH (my prediction, anyway): Lots of battle and dying on both sides, UEF is about to be dealt a crippling blow, but the player manages to get them through and neutralize the GTVA threat (somehow).
Of course, the emotional impact of the destruction of the UEF by the GTVA could be a powerful device to spawn BPIII with, just like the end of AoA was. (I've worked for the GTA/GTI/GTVA for
fifty years. How could they turn evil like that?!
)
Either way, though, I can hardly wait until WiH is finished.