[Solatar]

Kasperl and I are working on some background for a campaign set ~26 years after Cappella. It follows Derelict, and I want to know what other campaigns are following Derelict so we can plan accordingly. I don't want to contraidict anyone's campaign.

If you do have a campaign set after Capella, please PM me with the details, if it isn't out yet, give me SOME of the details (enough to get me by without spoiling it for myself when it comes out)

Thank you,

[kasperl]

speaking about the campaign, could anyone give me a quick overview of Derelict? i am still playing it, but i am not all that sure if i can finish it before i go on a holiday, so i'd like to have the story on paper so i can use it in the background.

[Woolie Wool]

My campaign, A Terror and a Traitor, takes place from 2377 to 2379, if that comes after Derelict. Inferno and The Scroll of Antankharzim after come after Derelict.

My campaign contradicts Inferno on when several borrowed ships appear, though. Here are the ship timelines for T&T (Inferno ships are marked with an asterisk):

GTDn Hades II begins development: 2368
GTD Olemus*: 2369
GTF Valkyrie D.H.* (SOF Banshee in INF): 2372
GTDn Nemesis*: 2373
GTF Hercules Mk III* (GTF Alves in INF): 2373
GTF Phaeton* (SOF Orpheus in INF): 2374
GTB Jotun *: 2375
GTDn Hades II completed (three of them enter service): 2375
GTF Vesuvius*: 2376
Shivans reappear with various INF ships*: 2377
TSF Apollo II: 2376
TSB Kahlan*: 2376
SF/TSF Hydra*: 2376
GTVJ Colossus II: 2376
GTB Jotun D.H.*: 2377
GTB Gagana*: 2377
Ancients appear*: 2377

A story will appear soon, but at the end of T&T, there will be nodes from Barnard's Star to 61 Cygni and from 61 Cygni to Sol, a faction called the Terran-Shivan Alliance (TSA) will be in control of the Barnard's Star, 61 Cygni, and Sol systems (the Sol alliance is defeated at the end of T&T), as well as numerous surrounding systems, the GTVA will be on the verge of collapse, the Ancients will have briefly appeared and then disappeared, but the TSA will be using its technology and ships as well as Shivan and Terran ships and technology, and numerous other things that probably contradict other camapaigns in the same timeframe. Expect a detailed storylne and timeline soon.

Oh wait, did he say PM? Oops. Oh well, it's not like anyone would object to learning more about a new campaign.

[Solatar]

Well, yours also doesn't come in between Capella and ~26 after...

As for the Derelict storyline

Spoiler:

The GTVA discovers a Derelict SD Lucifer class destroyer. It comes back to life and calls a fleet of Shivan ships. They make a jump node to Sirius, and since they can make jump nodes (or repair extremely damaged ones, not sure which) the GTVA is afraid they are going to open up one of the nodes to Capella. A suicide attack by a Deimos class corvette stops the destroyer before it can unleash Capella.

[kasperl]

Terran Shivan Alliance?

i thought we bashed that before......

no offence, but that is very unlikely.

[Knight Templar]

Woolie: He wants campaigns set in the Derelict Universe... meaning you follow all the stuff that happened in derelict, which by deffinition, also follows Warzone, BWO and ITHOV.

Oh, Sol, if you need anyhelp with Storyline, bug me. I beleive you have my ICQ number.

[Solatar]

I don't have ICQ. Just AIM (it sucks, but it's a fun little proggy to get under the skin of).

I'll try to get around to downloading and installing ICQ soon. I'm leaving for vacation July 14th, and I'll be back about a week later.

[kasperl]

uhm, Solotar, check your email, and get MSN or IRC while your at it, i don't have AIM or ICQ, and both messed up my system when i installed them.

[Solatar]

I'll go download Trillian...

[kasperl]

sounds more effective, but that one messed up things here even more.....

[LtNarol]

Into the Night (the 158th campaign) takes place largely after Capella, but we pretty much contradict everyone... so take that whatever way you will.  

[Solatar]

I got MSN.
[email protected]

[TopAce]

Thor would kill me for this: We are planning a campaign right after Derelict. He could give you more details.

[Knight Templar]

ITHOV, right?

[TopAce]

No, left.
Otherwise yes, it is the so-called ITHOV.

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Solatar
I got MSN.
[email protected]

then log in please, i've been on for most of the day, but i still didn't hear anything.

[Epokai]

Wait a minute here....

You mean, ALL the campaign on HLP are on a specific time line you guys set up?

So lets say that I wanted to create a campaign on HLP, I would have to make sure my story line doesn't mess with the chronological line you guys already have?!?

[Solatar]

no....There are certain campaigns that I don't want to clash with, and I'd like to know if any other campaigns take place in this era, and I can decide whether I want to include it or not.

But I've pretty much finished. I've got Derelict, Warzone, and Blackwater Ops. From playing them, and their websites, I have enough info to move forward.

[Thor]

Some campaigns are far out in scope, like Over the Top, while other are more in line with what I like to call the Big Ones (see the list Solatar put up).  Mine, comes a year after Derelict, and tries to follow along the precidents it set up.  I didn't have to do this, but I wanted to, as IMHO Derelict and BWO are the closest thing we have to a logical follow up to FS2.

[TopAce]

Setting up a timeline with all campaigns exist is impossible, each campaign works up the future of the GTVA a different way. Campaign a ends with the destruction of the NTF, but campaign b is played flying the NTF and ends with the total destruction of the GTVA. I know that there is a camp in which the player flies Shivan vessels. Or am I wrong?