[Deathsnake]

As I said Last Line of Defence is onhold until Darkest Dawn is released. Besides of the Enigma 2666 Mod I've got another project in the works

Operation Serpent is a storyline after Wing 4 and here you are a Confed Pilot and your job is to cut down the last of the Black Lance Forces. A few of them continued to fight against the Border Worlds and Confederation. After the destruction of the Axius Base another one is somewhere between the Confed and Border Worlds territory.

After the first attacks Confed send one of their newest Carrier to investigate the problem. You will be transfered to the TCS McKinley, a Vesuvius Class Supercarrier. Flying Craft will be the Hellcat, Excalibur and the Bearcat. Other ships will be the Southampton, Tallahassee, Concordia, Caernavon. The Border Worlds support with the same Capitalships, Durango Class Light Carrier, Banshee, Vindicator and Avanger. Black Lance have Dragons, Thunderbolts and Arrows (I change some textures with the ones from the Dragon). Capitalships are the Blacklance Carrier, Transport and A new destroyer ^^

I ask Czacen from the Homeworld 2 Mod for the Models of Ella, Sol Sector Base, Axius Base, the Black Lance Carrier, Transport and the Exeter II destroyer.

O.S. will have about 10 Missions so its a short campaign. I have all other models, only the one from Czacen are not done yet. The Axius Base, and Blacklance Transport and Carrier can be (if he give us not the permission) from here: http://killerwave.solsector.net/Ships.html

I hope we get soon answer from him Already startet the first missions...

[Deathsnake]

The McKinley and two escort ships. Armament are 14 AMG, 24 Laserturrets and 2 Capshiplauncher.

Other named Ships are the BWS Princeton (Concordia Class) and the BWS Dominguez (Durango Class)

Searching in the files I found a lots of voices:

Naismith as the communication Officer of the TCS McKinley
Sosa for the Princeton
Miner as a Wingman
Stingray as a Wingman (from the Enigma Files)
a few generic pilots (saga, enigma, wc4demo)
voices for black lance pilots (about 3 different)
voices for capships (about 3 different)

perhaps we can found some speechfiles for Hawk and Panther

Should we use Maniac as a pilot? *vote* ^^

Music are four tracks from the WC4 Demo and a few from Armada

[KeldorKatarn]

One suggestion: Get ONE Mod finished before you start 20 at once. THis is becoming a little implausible if you ask me...

[FekLeyrTarg]

The Story sounds good.
Btw there are also black Hellcats in the WC4 Novelisation. What do you think of giving them to the BL in Operation Serpent?

[Deathsnake]

Maybe.

The Thunderbold are done:


The most fighters are already done. Here for this mod I need only 4 capitalships and 2 stations

Edit: I change only now the Confed logos with just black color. What do you think now?

[Colonol Dekker]

Sosa? I FOOKIN LOOOOOOVVVVVVEE HEERR!!
Prettiest comms op in the universe, and on the rebound too

I look forward to this mod and enjoy the chance to fly with against my former bretheren foe

[FekLeyrTarg]

Anyone want to make a quick 20,000 credits? That’s what Confed will pay you for taking down a former Lancer...

From Pages 2 and 3 of Star*Soldier.

[Deathsnake]

And thats what I found about the Dragon:

After the Black Lance Conspiracy was ended, the Dragons were decommissioned from future service by the Terran Confederation. Their commissioning and use were never approved by Confed. Furthermore the fact that the ship was equipped with its trademark red bussards and the fact that the fighter was used in most of the Black Lance's genocidal activities made them a symbol of evil, dooming their future.

[FekLeyrTarg]

But it still seems that Confed adapted some technology from the Dragon/Lance. Prophecy's Charging Mass Driver has a similar firing principle like the Dragon's Fission Gun, although they are different weapons. (And I think that Prophecy's fighters were originally supposed to have cloaking devices.)

Talking about the Fission: I know the Engine doesn't support it yet but perhabs it can via LUA-Scripting. Perhabs some can be written like "When Fission Selected, drop the wings. When not selected, raise them. Before firing it, charge it until firing button has been released."

[Deathsnake]

I don't think it... And then we need a new Dragon model.

Starman01 has made some new models but I don't know if we can used it and if it fit into the prologue. I ask him about the models
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=71822.0

The capitalships are designed for Saga Darkest Dawn.

[Colonol Dekker]

Weapon select animations (amongst a load of animation code) are already implemented and have been since at least a few years.


See Steve-o's Federal fighter pack on FSmods / or WIH, for working examples.

[Dragon]

Perhabs some can be written like "When Fission Selected, drop the wings. When not selected, raise them. Before firing it, charge it until firing button has been released."

The first part can easily be done using normal animation code.
The second would have to be LUA (or you could get a coder to implement "charging gun" behavior into engine).

[FekLeyrTarg]

According to WCPedia this is the First model Arrow Eclipse with cloaking device, circa 2673. (It could be correct since it was stated in Star*Soldier, that "the only good thing the Black Lance ever gave to us was the Arrow Eclipse".)
The textures look like they fit with the Black Lance.

[Deathsnake]

Its not look very nice ._. The Dragon texture copy looks bad. So I just make some color textures black ._.



I hope that some help us with the textures again It don't look very nice. And we need for the Dragon and Arrow some cloaking textures. Pls ask some people too to help with this

[FekLeyrTarg]

What do you think of giving the Border Worlds a few WC1 and 2 fighters as a reference to the WC4 Novel and Unknown Enemy?

[Deathsnake]

Are an Option. I have the BWS Fleet ready. Concordia Class (Princeton) Durango, Tallahassee, Southampton, Armadeus (Confed: Clarkson) and the Caernavon done. We still need the Black Lance ships and station. On the Vesuvius and Durango we have old turret design. Need to be replaced by the prologue ones. Czacen did not respond to my request so the idea to use his Exeter II is no more. We only can use them the Secret Ops ships from here: http://killerwave.solsector.net/Ships.html

Here we need the Axius Base, Black Lance Carrier and Blacklance Transport. And the Kilrathi Base. Sol Sector Base is on disc but need textures. The BWS Station would be need too. That is all. Music and some speechfiles already on disc.

For the Black Lance I use the Thunderbold, Arrow and Hellcat with Black textures (looks a little bit ugly) For the Dragon we need the cloking EFF textures. Playerships are done: Arrow, Hellcat V, Longbow, Thunderbold (in Confedblue/gray), Excalibur and the Bearcat.

[FekLeyrTarg]

The Red Paintings look beautiful on those Capships.

[Deathsnake]

As CMDBob show his Tallahassee at the CIC I make these ones:



Confed Green ;D

[Deathsnake]

Cybot78 has send me another huge shippack with stations and capships. We now have! the Black Lance Carrier and the Black Lance Transport. He made a variant of the Vesuvius Class
Now we need help with textures and turrets on the two Black Lance ships.

[starlord]

deathsnake, I got a reply from jason regarding his models! I'm afraid he won't provide them sadly!