[General Battuta]

I am in touch with, and have gotten the opportunity to interview, FreeSpace 2's lead writer, Jason Scott.

Please tell me what you'd like me to ask him.

[Jeff Vader]

Why did the Command dude follow Alpha 1 even when he was an exchange student among the Vasudans?

[General Battuta]

Why did the Command dude follow Alpha 1 even when he was an exchange student among the Vasudans?

DENIED

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[Shivan Hunter]

Would the Shivans have been defeated completely in FS3 (or, the last game), or just driven off, or something else?

[Hero_Swe]

What was the larger problem that the shivans was a symptom of, a bigger "master" race for the shivans?

[peterv]

Who allowed Admiral Bosch  to escape and enter the Nebula? Was it GTVA or just some Terran officers friendly to Bosch's cause?

[Shivan Hunter]

not entirely story related but how much does [V] know at the moment, especially the writing team, about the various campaigns that have been made for FS, especially creative ones like Transcend? Would any of them influence design choices if FS3 were to be made?

[The E]

Have you looked at the stuff the community did with the universe you created?

[Jeff Vader]

Is Bosch alive, and if yes, what did the Shivans do with him and why?

[MatthTheGeek]

Did you have a completely written storyline ready for FS3 when you finished FS2, and/or do you have one today.

Has the community-made content changed the way you think FS and/or will it have any influence on FS3, story-wise and in general.

[mjn.mixael]

Have you looked at the stuff the community did with the universe you created?

Now THAT's an interesting question. +1 for that one.

[Lucika]

If there was a rough estimation, how much would have been the time gap between the events of FS2 and the following game?

[666maslo666]

How did they plan to end the FS story - the motives of shivans, the purpose of Capella destruction, what happened to Earth in isolation etc.. Thats assuming they had a specific story in mind from the start, and not just amalgamating sci-fi tropes.

[mjn.mixael]

All these "FS3" related questions are just going to get non-specific answers if any at all...

I'd be interested to know what story elements got cut from the final FS2 plot or what challenges they faced when trying to envision how FS2 would continue on from where FS1 left off.

[General Battuta]

So far I've got

FreeSpace 2 story
-What did you have to cut from FreeSpace 2, story-wise?
-What was it like working with Ronnie Cox and Robert Loggia? Were they awesome?
-How did you arrive at FreeSpace 2's story from FreeSpace 1? What were your inspirations, what did you want to fix and improve or just change?

FreeSpace 3 Story - well aware you probably can't answer many of these, but nothing ventured, nothing gained!
-Was there a plan post-FS2?
-If FS3 had ever been made, how much time would have elapsed since FreeSpace 2's cliffhanger ending?
-Why did the Shivans destroy Capella?
-What happened to Earth during its isolation? Did you have plans for it in a notional FreeSpace 3?
-What happened to Bosch? Did the Shivans kill him, or was there truth to his monologues about the future of humanity lying in an alliance with the destroyers?
-We were told the Shivans were a symptom of a 'bigger problem.' Any more light to shed on that?
-I spoke to a FreeSpace 2 modeler recently who indicated the Ancients were planned to make some form of return; what's up with that?
-Any idea of what there was past the third Knossos in the binary star system?
-Would the Shivans have ever been defeated? Would their motives have been revealed? Or were they more effective as an unknown - 'never show the monster'?
-Did you have an ending in mind?

Community
-Have you (as a group) followed the things the community has done? Both the SCP as a whole, and the user-made stories and campaigns?
-You once said that heterodoxy was good and FreeSpace could support many narratives in its mythos. What do you think of campaigns which tell very different stories from FreeSpace's cog-in-the-machine military tales? Existential horror, for example? What do you think of campaigns with speaking protagonists and more extensive characterization?

[Lucika]

Is this topic related to this one?

[/columbo]

[General Battuta]

Not in the slightest.

[Snail]

Have you looked at the stuff the community did with the universe you created?

This is a very Smart question.

I'd really like to know what thinks about the stuff that's out there.

[bigchunk1]

-Would the Shivans have ever been defeated? Would their motives have been revealed? Or were they more effective as an unknown - 'never show the monster'?

+1

-Have you looked at the stuff the community did with the universe you created?

+1

I am having a hard time coming up with questions for some reason because I want to make them good.

I stumbled on this old interview conduced before FS2 shipped. He seems like a cool guy.
http://www.volitionwatch.com/interviews/js_interview.php

Might be good to avoid questions in that interview, or perhaps ask questions that can only be asked in a current interview such as: '10 years later how do you see Fs2' or something like that. Maybe a 'what are you and other members of the Fs2 team up to nowadays' kind of question.

I would like to know where his inspiration for the NTF came from and how he got such a big character as Admiral Bosch fit into a series which previously had little character development. (Unless you see the GTD Galatea as a character)

More generally, how does one balance story with gameplay, specifically in a fs2 campaign. How do you introduce just enough story in the right way to compliment the game without interfering with it? Modders want to know!
 

[Spoon]

Why did the Command dude follow Alpha 1 even when he was an exchange student among the Vasudans?

 
I lol'd way more then I should have