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Hades? Any missions/campaigns?

I know this ships is in the game (FRED thing anyway) and I know the ship is in the intro, but are there actually any missions or information about this ship? Official or otherwise? In the other forum someone states that the Hades on Deneb isn't canon because it didn't go anywhere near Deneb, so I assume there must be some information about its life and death.

PS - I think the Hades is a big fat piece of crap, but there may be some cool missions.

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The Hades was one of the four new ships (Hades, Loki, Zeus, Seraphim) that came from the Descent: FreeSpace expansion pack called Silent Threat.

The Hades was designed by the GTI, a rogue organization that attempted to overthrow the provisional GTA government setup in Delta Serpentis after contact with Earth was lost. Their plot to do so centered around the Hades and its Shivan technology which was supposed to make it equal to the Lucifer (although it wasn't invulerable, its armor was very tough - certain subsystems were very weak however). GTA forces struck against the GTI base in Beta Aquilae and destroyed it, the survivors, and the Hades prototype before it was unleashed against the rest of the GTA fleets.

According to the FS2 tech room, rumors that the GTVA constructed a second Hades class to examine the Shivan technology in it (as you may have read, all Shivan technology is classified level Omega available for viewing only by authorization from the security council).

Thats all canon info from Silent Threat and FreeSpace 2. Should give you a bit of an opening for doing something with that ship.

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Ah okay, I thought it might be. I have Freespace and Silent Threat but I didn't play all the way through the expansion for some reason. I assumed it wasn't from F1 just because it mounts beam weapons but I guess it just used the long-trail missile as the Lucifer did in FS1.

Speaking of which, why the hell does the Lucifer have SReds in FS2? I would think it would have LReds at minimum. Not that it's any of the missions of course.

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Silent Threat itself isn't very good which is probably why you didn't play it all the way through.

I believe that an improved version is being ported to FS2 though.

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Originally posted by AkalabethAngel
Ah okay, I thought it might be. I have Freespace and Silent Threat but I didn't play all the way through the expansion for some reason. I assumed it wasn't from F1 just because it mounts beam weapons but I guess it just used the long-trail missile as the Lucifer did in FS1.

Speaking of which, why the hell does the Lucifer have SReds in FS2? I would think it would have LReds at minimum. Not that it's any of the missions of course.

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Woulda been freaky if there wer elike 3 Lucifers in FS2, and when the Colossus showed, killed them... Started up with the "We're bad" bull, and then met up with a Sathanas...

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