This is the current plot for Derelict ][:
Missions 1-7 (or 8)
After the Destruction of the Nylathotep, Tau Sigma has been in a state of reconstruction and is prospering thanks to the new wave of Capellan refugees settling in the outer rim of the system and other systems.
You are Alpha 1, a veteran of the 543th Harpies based in Sirius and the central GTVA systems who get transferred to Tau Sigma because of its new rebel problem: the Terran Vasudan Christian Fundamentalists (TVCF). They are radical Chrisitan cultists who pirates on GTVA convoys and engage in terrorist acts. You have been ordered to hunt them down and eradicate the group.
Missions 9-14 (or 15)
When the last TVCF station is being destroyed by Alpha wing and the GVC [Unnamed, Yet], the MTD Auriga jumps in and destroys the TVCF depot and ion-cannons your cruiser, you have been ordered to find out the motive(s) behind the Morgan Tech. Corp.
You chase the Auriga into the Tanis Australis system and tracked it down. Meanwhile, several unknown subspace disturbances has been descovered by recon units in the system. The MTD Auriga in one mission is found dead in space. When your bomber wing engages the destroyer, it mysteriously made an intersystem jump. Command Tracked down the its jump signature and later discovers an undiscovered node.
Missions 16-22
The newly-discovered node is surprisingly a node to another new system with a backdoor node to Sol. You finally discover how to manipulate this unstable node and travels to Sol after all these years. The PTMC (Original Descent Seriesis now the dominatrix in Sol. Morgan Tech. have made an alliance with the PTMC to crush the GTVA. The PTMC surprisingly have a new weapon, a Hades class destroyer. Command later found out through GTVI that the rogue GTI faction 30 years ago had known this backdoor node to Sol and sold the schematics of the Hades to the newly-born PTMC for area and mine control.
Alpha wing will now be stationed in Sol as you prepare to take down the PTMC, which you finally do. Dravis is killed in the battle but the Hades and the Auriga escapes Sol and back into the system connecting Tanis Australis and Sol. They discover another node which leads into a mysterious nebula.
More Mission Plots Later