In our version of FreeSpace history...the Sol system is plunged into political chaos after the ties are severed with the Alliance. Chaos and confusion about loosing touch with the colonies compounded by fear created some rather complex situations. More will be revealed in the actual campaign story (when Kellan and I were writing the original story we went pretty indepth into the situation). Suffice to say that the military that Sol has is half new/half very old...allot of its banged together to make it work. Thats the feel we're going with for the Sol Military Coalition. Also the Sol government has a very tenuous tie on power when the GTVA arrives....and thats when things get interesting for both sides
oooh, i like. Given the time you guys had to work on it, i suspect that models, etc (due to SCP) weren't the only things you guys have been refining, no?
Somewhat. Kellan left the project a very long time ago now...can't even remember if he was here when we moved to HLP from Volition Watch when that was all shut down. But when we started really working on BWO...when it expanded itself greatly...we wrote out allot of backstory. I'm not even sure if all of its around somewhere but needless to say all of the plots and subplots, characters, and events...everything was completely written out and discussed between the two of us at length and then with other people later on. Everyone who was a part of the project at various times left their mark on the story was it was refined. The missions themselves are rich with this stuff too so you'll all...eventually...see what are hopefully the fruits of that labour.
In retrospect the story is probably overly complex for a FreeSpace 2 campaign. But we had fun anyways
Plus if the story is too complex it still involves blowing allot of stuff up. So can't complain too much
So will the SMC get a full HTL fleet?
Thats what we're working on right now...amongst other things. We have some really good looking stuff in the works. When we get closer...we'll start showing people allot of our stuff. But I don't want to release stuff and then go quiet for a while. It prompts people to ask if we're dead and that sort of thing.