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Blackstar

Just wondering if you guys were going to create the mission where Sheridan blows up the Blackstar during the Earth-Minbari War. That would be cool.

Yes, I thin too. Then?

I think that would be an awesome thing to re-create, but I really don't think it would be practical using the Freespace engine.
First, Sheridan was in a Hyperion class cruiser at the time, which doesn't really fit with the fighter-oriented engine. Second, though it would be really cool to watch an entire convoy of Earth Alliance ships be wiped out by an opening Jump Gate, how would the damaged cruiser go about deploying nuclear weapons in the asteroid belt?
The only way I could see it being done is by running it as a defensive mission with the lone Starfury (piloted by Cdr. Ivanova's elder brother) protecting the cruiser while it (somehow) deploys nukes in the area, but that would be historically inaccurate since that lone starfury was wasted by the bait just as the jump point opened.
Still, it's a cool idea.

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Here's an idea how about you do the mission like in the film
1.your in the asteroid field doing waypoints
2.your attacked by the black star(probably a few fighters too).
Then you go to the red alert mission status, were it says downloading new orders, or you could do like in the second to last mission of the offical freespace were it go into a short video of the Bastion but a babylon 5 cut-scene. The next mission could start just after you have placed the nukes(this next bit may be wrong i may have to check the video again) and your objective is to lure the black star in to the minefield then high tail it out of there .
What do you think

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Roy fokk3r member of [url="http://robotechlan.com/freespace2/"]Roboteh Mod[/url]
Mission designer for [url="http://www.shivancampaign.cjb.net/"] Hidden terror[/url] and [url="http://homeworld4freespace.homestead.com/"]Homeworld4Freespace[/url]



[This message has been edited by Roy fokker (edited 05-04-2001).]

I am not exaclty sure what they have planned... but I would guess that they won't add any extra ships. As we are trying to recreate all missions as they were on show or movies.

That's the most stupidest idea for campaign... The Black Star was blown up with a nuke... Everything else was blasted away (Except Sheridan's ship which was left handicapped) even the furies... So what's the point?

Or would it be just a single mission where u r supposed to die from the Drali'fi's beams

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[This message has been edited by ApaBaBooN (edited 05-04-2001).]

how do you know the furies were destroyed they could have just returned to the fighter bay, and if you've got a better idea i'd like to hear it.

Did u see any Furies after they were destroyed? But if the Earth-Minbari campaign would have other not seen in the movie missions (And they're must be some). And yes I believe that must of been furies in the hangar but if it damaged when Black Star blasted engine part...

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Suddenly he farted with a force that no one had seen... And there it was The Big Bang...

But you see only one fury destroyed and that's the one that goes after the transport vessel and only see the destroyers and cruisers getting blown apart.

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Roy fokk3r member of [url="http://robotechlan.com/freespace2/"]Roboteh Mod[/url]
Mission designer for [url="http://www.shivancampaign.cjb.net/"] Hidden terror[/url] and [url="http://homeworld4freespace.homestead.com/"]Homeworld4Freespace[/url]

It would be cool to make a mission where you are a fighter, your ship is disabled, and you just sit there and watch the scripted events of the blackstar battle. Kind of like an ingame cinematic.

Why not use a maintenence fury or suited guy put into the engine? I'd take a good bit of modding though, and I dunno how much of the limited TBL you guys have chalked up already.

Not alot really. FS2 has more ships than B5 all combined.

How a mission which is taking part during the sametime as the black star battle, then after you complete the mission you could say what has happened then import a cut-scene of the black star being destroyed or something like that, well i don't know am just thinking up ideas

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Roy fokk3r member of [url="http://robotechlan.com/freespace2/"]Roboteh Mod[/url]
Mission designer for [url="http://www.shivancampaign.cjb.net/"] Hidden terror[/url] and [url="http://homeworld4freespace.homestead.com/"]Homeworld4Freespace[/url]