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• Plot Development (Part Two)
  BEGINNING, MIDDLE, AND END ...tshell it comes down to this: Stories should have a beginning, middle, and end. Of course, what we create in each section, and how these pieces are used t
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• Plot Development (Part Three)
  ...temperature changes in the audience as the story progresses -- and at the end we would have a record of how the story affected the audience at any given ...beginning to rise again because the story has reached the beginning of the end.
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• Plot Development (Part Five)
  In the end, this borrowing results in a type of story -- like a western, or science fi ...rove of available ideas has grown from "Pong" and "Pac Man" to games about war, skateboarding, car racing, football, and a host of others including sneaki
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• Plot Development (Part Six)
  ...really comes to mind ... nothing written is ever perfect from beginning to end as it spews out of the writer's fingertips. ...racters ever actually bother to fight the battle --already having lost the war.
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• Plot Development (Part Seven)
  ...t, and confront the climactic conclusion and prove the premise only in the end -- just like a real story. With this I conclude my series, although I do not end the quest to answer my question. So perhaps I will say that when the day co
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• Species
  As of the end of FreeSpace 2, there are four canon '''species''' in the FreeSpace univers *[[Aesdherians]] - A species from the user-made [[Ancient-Shivan War]] campaign.
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• Terrans
  ...surviving forces of the [[GTA]] and [[PVN]] towards the end of the [[Great War]]. [[Hades Rebellion|The ill-fated rebellion]] of these engineers in their
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• Vasudans
  ...nown as "The Conversation") to trigger a war between the two species. This war dragged on for fourteen years, until the arrival of the [[Shivans]] in 2335 ...d in the [[Delta Serpentis]]-[[Sol]] jump corridor, effectively ending the war against the Shivans.
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• Shivans
  ...ra'' outpost in [[Ross 128]], initiating the conflict known as [[the Great War]]. At terrible cost and a stroke of luck, the joint Terran-Vasudan forces r ...Shivans drove them back to their homeworld, bombarding it from orbit. The war ended with the extinction of the Ancients and the withdrawal of all Shivan
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• Various Terms
  ...utely essential; decisive for the system if not the campaign or the entire war. ...lian science research vessel, but is also used by the military in times of war for weapons research. Science cruisers mount very few defenses and are ther
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• FreeSpace 2 game information
  <b>Sequel of the award-winning FreeSpace: The Great War</b> Thirty-two years have passed since the end of the Great War, we are now in the year of 2367. Ten years after the destruction of the [[S
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• Eishtmo's Terran-Vasudan War timeline
  Shortly after first contact, the '''Terran-Vasudan War''', or the '''14-Year War''', broke out. Heavy and sustained casualties were suffered on both sides, ...s FreeSpace fan fiction. This fanfic is being used by the [[Terran-Vasudan War Project]] team, although little of it is grounded in canon.'''
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• Great War
  ...ak of this war caused the [[Terrans]] and [[Vasudans]] to [[Terran-Vasudan War|set aside their differences]] and combat the mutual threat. The Shivan arma ...cked Terran and Vasudan targets during the [[Hades Rebellion]], but by the end of 2335, all Shivans in the known galaxy had been rooted out.
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• SD Lucifer
  ...uperdestroyer that led the [[Shivans|Shivan]] incursion during the [[Great War]]. Armed with two flux cannons&mdash;termed today as [[Beam weapons|beam ca Near the end of the Great War, Vasudan scientists fleeing the destruction of their homeworld discovered [
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• Aldebaran
  ...Made seat of [[Vasudans|Vasudan]] government following end of [[the Great War]].
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• GTVA Colossus
  ..., Deneb convention, section 21.3.5. We vanquished the Shivans in the Great War but the hard questions remained. How would we confront the threat of future ...onsu II:''' ''Together we built a civilization on the ruins of the [[Great War]], and now we stand on the threshold of a new era of prosperity and harmony
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• Official Volition Node Map
  File:Nodechart-1.jpg|Start of the Great War File:Nodechart-3.jpg|End of FreeSpace 2
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• Shield
  ...reverse-engineered shield systems, during the early stages of the [[Great War]].]] To the [[14-Year War]]-era weapons that were in use at the time, Shivan shields were almost comp
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• SJ Sathanas
  ...l devastating first-strike blows. The Sathanas best exemplifies the Shivan war machine, which is dependent on continually being on the attack to keep its ...perior in this regard.) In a way the Sathanas is a microcosm of the Shivan war machine, which is dependent on continually being on the assault to keep its
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• Beam weapon
  ...is pursuit was the invention of the deadliest and most advanced weapons of war ever created by either race, called beam weapons. The first class of ship w
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• Galactic Terran Alliance
  ...an ever-growing economic and political power. By 2335, despite an ongoing war with the [[Vasudans]], the GTA had been successful in colonizing twelve ext ...ar 2321, the [[Terran-Vasudan War]] had broken out. The exact cause of the war isn't revealed, but the FS1 techroom entry claims that one of the main fact
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• Galactic Terran Intelligence
  ...sible for many of the strategies and technologies developed in the [[Great War]]. GTI did much of the GTA's research and development and was behind severa ...was probably in this position well before then. At the end of the [[Great War]], following the [[SD Lucifer|SD ''Lucifer'']]'s destruction, the GTI rebel
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• GTF Ulysses
  ...Terrans]] and [[Vasudans]], brought into active service during the [[Great War]]. Owing to its high speed and agility, the ''Ulysses'' has enjoyed a long ...udan contractors, the Ulysses was first deployed near the end of the Great War. Its excellent maneuverability and high top speed give it an agility that p
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• GTB Ursa
  ...''' was the heaviest Terran bomber in use during the [[The Great War|Great War]]. It boasted a vast amount of armor and weaponry, but it was the slowest a The ''Ursa'' was developed shortly before the end of the Great War, but played an important part in Terran-Vasudan victory. A wing of ''Ursa''
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• GTB Zeus
  The '''GTB ''Zeus''''' is a post-Great War-era [[Terrans|Terran]] strike bomber designed by the Research & Development ...thena bombers as they were mothballed during the years following the Great War. Though slightly slower than the Athena, the Zeus's heavier armor and armam
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• Hades Rebellion
  ...ts of [[Galactic Terran Intelligence]] following the events of the [[Great War]], and was cataloged in the ''[[Silent Threat]]'' campaign. In one of his m ...GTD ''Soyakaze'' confront and, after a lengthy battle, cripple the Hades. End of the Hades Rebellion.
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• GTC Leviathan
  ...dan War till the end of the [[Second Shivan Incursion]]. After the [[Great War]]'s conclusion and the development of [[beam cannons]], ''Leviathan''s were ...roduction was discontinued when the GTA thought they would win the Vasudan war after the Battle of Gulnara, and then the production was started up again a
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• Countermeasure
  ...] fighter craft since at least the end of the [[Terran-Vasudan War|14-Year War]], probably longer. The number of countermeasures equipped on each fighter
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• Neo-Terran Front
  ...core systems had suffered political and economic chaos throughout the post-war Reconstruction, and the Vasudans' miraculous recovery under Khonsu II's lea ...forward, he saw the entire NTF Rebellion as little more than a means to an end, calling them a "herd of stupid cattle." Bosch's true intentions, while not
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• Subspace drive
  ...icant modern advance in subspace travel occurred at the end of the [[Great War]], when the technology to equip [[Intersystem jump drive|intersystem subspa ...]]'' arrived 10,000 meters short of the [[Knossos]] portal in [[The Fog of War]], although the actual design reason was to place the Vasudan destroyer in
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• Earth
  ...ifer'']] in [[subspace]]. After the [[Second Shivan Incursion|second Great War]], the [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance]] might use the data they gathere ...anon evidence of a return to Earth and the Sol system, it is stated at the end of the FreeSpace 2 cutscene that in decades, the GTVA would be able to buil
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• GTD Bastion
  | inservice = Great War ...ral Wolf that the ''Bastion'' was part of the 5th Fleet during the [[Great War]].
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• 122nd Gemini
  ...re formed during the end of the [[The Second Shivan Incursion|Second Great War]] and flew only a small number of missions.
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• Famous persons
  ...at the [[Eve_of_Destruction|beginning]] of [[Portal:FreeSpace_1|the Great War]]. According to Command, Lt. Harbison is a "brave and skillful pilot". Acco A veteran of the Terran-Vasudan War who evacuated Tombaugh Station after the Lucifer attacked. The GTFr ''Halki
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• Into the Halls of Valhalla
  Commander McCrae is a veteran of the [[Second Shivan Incursion|Second Great War]], pulling through the worst of the Shivan invasion. He barely witnessed th After the war, McCrae was granted the rank of commander, and retained his position as lea
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• Briefing texts (FS2)
  The 53rd Hammerheads were formed during the Great War. At the time, we served on board the GTD Bastion, the finest ship in the hi ...as become the most significant threat to regional security since the Great War ended 32 years ago.
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• Cutscenes (FS2)
  ''Thirty-two years have passed since the [[Great War]]. The Shivans vanished half a lifetime ago, and now we live in the mausole ...eb Convention, Section 21.3.5. <br> We vanquished the Shivans in the Great War, but the hard questions remained. How would we confront the threat of futur
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• Cutscenes (FS1)
  ==Campaign End== In the Vasudan war, we learned how to adapt. We learned how to study our enemy. We learned how
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• Shattered Stars
  ...the appearance of the Shivans at Ross 128 and the beginning of the [[Great War]], and 651 years following the Capella supernova and conclusion of the [[Se ...events of FreeSpace. The Vasudans are the sole galactic power, and are at war with the invaders. When the prophesied cosmic destroyers appear, one Vasuda
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• GTM Hornet
  The '''GTM-4 Hornet''' is a Great War-era early swarming missile. This missile rack launches four warheads per vo ...an full-tilt at factories in eight star systems right up to the end of the war. After hostilities ceased, the GTVA found itself with an inventory of 2.6 m
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• GTM Cyclops
  ...the [[GTVA]]. Despite being developed shortly after the end of [[The Great War]], the Cyclops has been a mainstay in the GTVA's arsenal since its initial ...eapon in the fleet. Although its development began shortly after the Great War ended, its excellent performance has kept it firmly entrenched in the role
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• GTCv Deimos
  ...other allied ship class. As the Leviathan and Fenris cruisers of the Great War are gradually phased out, these corvettes will become the foundation of tom ...le leaves you at the mercy of a storm of flak or staring down the business end of two possibly firing TerSlashes. Depending on the angle at which it engag
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• Operations inside the Shivan Nebula
  ..."the most significant victory over the Shivans since the end of the Great War". After the mission the operations in the nebula were halted when word was ...om destroying the ''Aquitaine'' which successfully escaped the nebula. The war continued outside the nebula.
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• Rebel
  ...a group of Vasudans who refused to ally with the Terrans during the Great War *[[Neo-Terran Front]], Terran renegades who fought the GTVA up until the end of the Second Shivan Incursion
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• Hammer of Light Rebellion
  ...Terran fighters refused to help and the freighters were destroyed. At the end of the escort, a group of Hammer of Light fighters warped in, claiming to b During the [[Destruction of Vasuda Prime|war for the Vasuda system]], the Hammer could not afford to entangle.
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• GTI Rebellion (campaign)
  <b><u>The End of the Great War</u></b> ...thousands of homesick Terran colonists committed suicide. The GTA, in the end, found itself pressed to try to handle the enormous amounts of political in
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• GTSC Faustus
  ...The ''Faustus'' served the GTA until 2345, and the GTVA from 2345 till the end of the [[Second Shivan Incursion]] in 2367. ...ll is, a civilian craft. However, in the 14 years since the Terran-Vasudan war began, more and more of these were commissioned by the GTA in order to purs
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• GVD Typhon
  ...''Typhon'''''-class of destroyers was deployed during the [[Terran-Vasudan War]], it devastated the [[Terrans|Terran]] 4th Fleet during its first engageme ...f Vasudan rebels, the [[Hammer of Light]], until it was destroyed near the end of the conflict.
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• GVFr Bes
  ...'' being a ship that was brought into service after the end of the [[Great War]], it is never encountered in the single player FreeSpace 2 campaign. ...Vasudan shipping fleets. While some Terran systems languished in the post-war era, the Vasudans experienced an economic recovery that was miraculous, giv
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• GTSG Mjolnir
  ...[[Terrans|Terran-designed]] gun emplacement. Brought into service near the end of the [[NTF Rebellion]], the ''Mjolnir'' sports a single destroyer-grade b ...minology, it roughly means "to pulverize". Mjolnir refers to the legendary war hammer of Thor, made for him by the twin dwarves Sindri and Brokkr.
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