[DavetheGrave]

Alpha 1?

[niffiwan]

Nah - it's Stephen Baldwin 



Seriously though, I thought the guy sounded more like someone in the NTF than the GTVA.

[yuezhi]

With the Colossus spaceballing in? right.

[niffiwan]

well, I thought I heard a hint of disgust in the voice when talking about "... form a new alliance / to guard the tomb of space".  Many of the "lost generation" joined the NTF (also see Bosch's monologue about giving the lost generation something to die for). And there may have been NTF saboteurs on the Colossus (see that thread that discussed the fire control failure when the Colossus had the Iceni in its sights).

(note: this is all from my memory, add a sackful of salt )

[Aardwolf]

Everyone always ignores that "embers of dieing stars" bit. Makes more sense if you read it as the new alliance being with the Shivans. Narration/video going together be damned.

Edit: there were NTF saboteurs. It said so in the debriefing.

[MatthTheGeek]

Edit: there were NTF saboteurs. It said so in the debriefing.

Which just means that's what GTVA Command wanted you to know.

Since when do you believe everything GTVA Command tells you ?

You like being a pawn, don't you.

[yuezhi]

As long as the game makes sense. Not sure which game I mean though

[Lorric]

Personally I think the NTF sabotuers thing is played straight. It's one thing to want to let Bosch go at the start of the game. You see later that Snipes is there for SpecOps, because they want to learn about the ETAC project. It's quite another to want to allow that raving madman to be humanity's first contact with the Shivans.

[Veers]

You like being a prawn, don't you.

Sure do!

Yea, I'd say Command is Sketchy at best. Even when it is so plainly obvious, they do a terrible job at trying to convince (order) you otherwise.

[CT27]

Alpha 1?

http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Stephen+Baldwin+2012+Tom+Ridge+Homeland+Security+6dUnoqWgBKml.jpg

[SypheDMar]

Also ignoring the video intro, I saw the "new alliance" as a reference to the Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance. "New" as in new to the players of FreeSpace 1 and Silent Threat, who has not seen the GTA and the PVI form into a single political entity.

But after seeing as how some thought it could have been from the NTF, I went back to re-listen to the intro. And this guy sounds like a young Alpha 1! Alpha 1 as in...


... Aken Bosch. Both he and Petrarch seems to have a thing for being poetic.

But does anyone else think that Stephen Baldwin sounded like a young Bosch?

[yuezhi]

Gotta hand it to their VAs for sounding that way.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

With the Colossus spaceballing in? right.

WE BRAKE FOR NOBODY

(not even when a Sathanas is in our path)

[yuezhi]

[Lorric]

Wrong. He's in under a month from the last post.

[Mongoose]

God I want that image removed.

[headdie]

Wrong. He's in under a month from the last post.

Its so close I swear I can see the whites of their eyes