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WARNING: This article contains spoilers for the following storylines: FreeSpace 2, Second Front, Artifice, and campaigns under development.

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Second Front Continuity

Canon events are highlighted in red and provided for reference. (Dates for canon events are not themselves canon within FreeSpace 2, but they are assumed to be correct for the Second Front continuity.)

The Second Front story arc tracks the GTVA through a slow, seven-year decline in power, beginning with the Shivan Incursion of 2367. This decline culminates with a third and final shivan incursion, which proves to be the death knell of the Alliance.

Second Front

November 24, 2367: Massive evacuations of the densely-populated Capella system begin. Millions of refugees flood into Epsilon Pegasi and Vega.

November 26, 2367: SJ Twilight, a Sathanas-class juggernaut leading the fleet moving toward Capella, is destroyed in Gamma Draconis by an operation titled Project Roadblock.

November 26, 2367: An exploration convoy, seeking to reenter GTVA space through the Altair system is destroyed by shivan forces. Martial law declared in Altair.

November 27, 2367: The Altair fleet requests tactical support from SOC forces in Aldebaran. An SOC detachment, under the command of Commodore Daniel Bast, is sent to Altair to oversee and support operations against the shivans.

November 29, 2367: 80 Sathanas juggernauts surround the Capella sun and begin emitting quantum subspace pulses of increasing intensity. GTVA Colossus destroyed by a Sathanas-class juggernaut while defending the Capella-Gamma Draconis node.

November 29 and 30, 2367: All jump nodes in the system beyond Altair, except the Altair node itself, are collapsed by the Altair fleet and SOC forces.

November 30, 2367: GTD Nereid and GTD Bastion, packed with meson bombs, detonate inside the Vega-Capella and Epsilon Pegasi-Capella nodes. Sathanas juggernauts destabilize the Capella star, causing a supernova.

December 1, 2367: The bulk of the shivan force assaulting Altair, consisting of three destroyers, supported by numerous corvettes and cruisers, is destroyed.

March 10, 2368: A derelict shivan cruiser in the system beyond Altair is recovered.

Interim Period

March 12, 2368: Mop-up operations complete in Altair and the system beyond. Martial law ends in Altair, but Commodore Bast places his own command authority above that of the Altair provisional government.

May 16, 2368: Production of Aeolus-class cruisers resumes in shipyards in Polaris and Laramis. The GTC Tsar, fourth in this new production line, is scheduled for launch in November.

Artifice

November 24, 2368: The GTC Firestorm, deployed from Altair without authorization, enters Alpha Centauri and suffers a comprehensive system failure.

November 26, 2368: The Firestorm is recovered by the Alpha Centauri fleet and returned to Altair.

December 3, 2368: After destroying the Aldebaran fleet, the Altair fleet, led by its flagship the GTD Galen, enters Alpha Centauri and begins carving a path of destruction toward the GTVA capitol in Delta Serpentis.

December 17, 2368: The Galen, its support fleet destroyed, enters the Delta Serpentis system. In a battle against the GTD Phoenicia and GVD Bilbeis, the Galen is forced to withdraw. The destroyer subsequently disappears into Ross 128, where GTVA forces lose track of it.

Interim Period

April 1, 2372: The GTVA Security Council authorizes the design of production models of the Iceni-class corvette and Hades-class superdestroyer.

August 27, 2372: The Coalition for Free and Open Trade announces its existance in Ross 128. The GTVA makes no distinction between the Coalition and other bandit organizations throughout Allied space.

February 9 and 10, 2373: Battle of Good Hope. The GTCv Boston, the prototype Iceni, is captured by Coalition forces from the Good Hope shipyard and is subsequently recaptured by Allied forces. Despite the defeat, bandit groups in Ross 128 begin uniting under Coalition leadership.

March, 2373: Bandit groups beyond Ross 128 begin uniting under the Coalition.

September, 2373: Most bandit organizations either accept Coalition leadership or are eliminated. The chief exception is the group in power in Altair, Aldebaran, and Alpha Centauri, though significant elements of this organization are sympathetic to the Coalition and undermine the tenuous command structure.

Bounded

February 1, 2374: The GTD Galen is discovered derelict near the debris field of the GTI Riviera. During a recovery operation, a nearby shivan cruiser, previously powered down, fires upon the Galen, destroying it.

February 3, 2374: GTVA Command reinitiates the search for the jump node that shivan forces used to enter Ross 128 at the onset of the Great War. As additional shivan forces begin appearing in Ross 128, the GTD Liberator, the first of the redesigned Hades-class destroyers, sees its first combat sorties.

February 7, 2374: Epsilon Eridani node discovered in Ross 128. Shivan forces begin appearing in greater number and in other systems, including Luyten 726-8, Laramis, Ikeya, Mirfak, and Altair.

February 10, 2374: The defense of Allied space against the shivans deteriorates. GTVA Command cedes its authority to individual system authorities, issuing a final order to evacuate Allied space and flee the shivans.

Commodore Daniel Bast

Early Life and Career

Daniel Bast was born in the first planetary colony on Delta Serpentis II in 2317. Though the colony's infrastructure had been quite well developed in the years since its establishment, Daniel's parents felt that Earth or one of the other colonies in Sol would provide a better environment for raising a child. The Bast family returned to Earth in January, 2321. Daniel was enrolled in the public education system in the Western Eurasian Bloc.

The shivans appeared in Ross 128 late in Daniel's final semester in the public education system. Immediately upon graduation, he volunteered for service in the Galactic Terran Alliance's fleet. This led to him being transferred to a training facility in Delta Serpentis a mere month prior to the collapse of the Sol jump node. Bast was still in pilot training by the end of the Great War and saw no action during the conflict.

During the Galactic Terran Intelligence rebellion, Bast found himself serving well away from any major battles, guarding convoys and installations in Ikeya for the duration of the conflict.

In 2336, during the subsequent fracturing of the Galactic Terran Alliance, Bast found himself under the command of the Antares Federation. Bast was highly critical of the Federation's government for complacently allowing the GTA to break up, citing that a divided terran military would be less capable of defending the species, should the vasudans elect to reignite old hostilities. Despite what he felt about his orders, Bast was obedient when ordered into skirmishes with the other regional blocs. It was during the nine years, prior to the founding of the Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance, that Bast was able to distinguish himself as a pilot and commander, permitting him rapid advancement though the military hierarchy.

Galactic Terran-Vasudan Intelligence

Since the Antares Federation controlled Beta Aquilae, while the BETAC treaty was being negotiated, they had a measure of political leverage that the Vasudan Empire and other terran power blocs did not enjoy. Relevant to Bast, the Federation's government was able to unilaterally propose and approve of changes to the military structure of each terran faction, ostensibly in order to speed the compilation of the four fleets. This power included the ability to choose what officers would remain in service to the GTVA military, as overlapping positions were eliminated.

Not only was Bast guaranteed a position in the GTVA military, his generally careerist behavior during the early Reconstruction Period earned him the opportunity to choose a low-level command position to take in the unified military structure. The intelligence field fascinated Bast, as it seemed to him like the only arm of military command where he would be doing more than overseeing the same straightforward operations that he had been a part of for over two decades.

After fourteen years of war and another twenty of uneasy coexistence, a significant minority of the terran population and the military, in particular, disapproved of an alliance with the vasudans. Between 2358 and 2365, Bast was assigned to half a dozen major covert operations to undermine factions of the disaffected before they could coalesce into threatening political or military force.

When Admiral Aken Bosch led most of the GTVA's Polaris fleet into rebellion, it came as a shock to most of the GTVI. Given their success in dismantling other dissident groups before they could gather any strength, the GTVI leadership was amazed that something so large had managed to evade their attention long enough to develop into such a substantial movement. Not knowing the true extent of the Neo-Terran Front and concerned with the possibility of double-agents remaining in the GTVA fleet and systems beyond Polaris, the GTVI reassigned many of its most loyal command officers. Bast was caught in this redistribution of loyal officers and placed in charge of special operations in Aldebaran.

Special Operations in Altair

Bast's stay in Aldebaran was uneventful, until November, 2367, when the shivans opened a second front in their incursion into GTVA space. The Altair provisional government, unable to deal with a shivan offensive, with the few warships at its disposal, requested support from Special Operations Command in Aldebaran. Commodore Bast was relocated to Altair and assigned to take control of all operations in the system, until the system was secure.

Commodore Bast exploited the open-ended wording of his orders to declare martial law during this crisis and effectively usurp power from the Altair provisional government. Bast's intention was not open rebellion, but the return of the shivans shook Bast to the core. His hope was to use his influence and resources in Altair to study the tactics and strategy of the shivans during their second incursion, in hopes of discovering a better means of defending against them, should they return a third time.

Bast's exploration of shivan capabilities was expanded in March, 2368, when a largely undamaged shivan cruiser was recovered, apparently abandoned after the attack on Altair failed. He urged GTVA command to aggressively study the cruiser with the aim of directly integrating shivan technology into the GTVA fleet. These proposals were repeatedly rejected, citing that existing precedent, with regard to shivan technology, was to derive new terran/vasudan technology, based on reverse-engineering studies of shivan devices. Direct integration or duplication of shivan devices in the GTVA fleet was out of the question, in the words of the Security Council.

Altair Insurgency

In late 2368, Commodore Bast began an operation that he hoped would demonstrate the value of hybrid shivan-terran and shivan-vasudan technology. It was his belief that a small but significant number of shivan vessels were left in a hibernating state throughout GTVA space after the core of the shivans' Great War fleet was destroyed. His plan was to surreptitiously take control of the central communication node of the Alliance, on Delta Serpentis II, in order to send a 'wake up' signal to these hibernating shivan vessels. To deal with this small, manageable threat, he would order the Altair fleet to deploy the GTD Galen, retrofitted with a wide range of shivan technology.

Unfortunately for this plan, the cruiser he ordered deployed for this purpose suffered from technical troubles in Alpha Centauri, and the transport it escorted was captured by local criminals. Dissatisfied with how easily this plan was foiled, Bast opted for the more direct approach of deploying the entire Altair fleet to capture the communication node on Delta Serpentis II. By utilizing the de facto communications blackout in Altair, Bast convinced the military personnel under him that the alliance was facing a widespread rebellion.

Bast's intention during his offensive was to blackout communications in each system the fleet passed through, while avoiding heavily defended areas. This plan failed, first in Aldebaran, when the elements of the Aldebaran fleet individually intercepted the Altair fleet and had to be destroyed. More spectacularly, the Altair fleet faced a blockade just inside Alpha Centauri, at which point, Bast realized that it was going to be impossible to spend the time in each system necessary to deploy communication jamming equipment, without facing counterattack. Though the goal remained the same, the nature of Bast's campaign changed. The Altair fleet proceeded to charge, at top speed, toward Delta Serpentis, destroying whatever stood in its way.

The Altair fleet's offensive was stopped just a few thousand kilometers from the surface of Delta Serpentis II, where Bast's command ship, the GTD Galen, was critically damaged and forced to retreat.

Post-Insurgency

The Galen was last sighted in Ross 128, retreating from the Delta Serpentis jump node. It is unclear if Commodore Bast survived the final assault on the destroyer. In any case, contact with the Galen was lost in Ross 128, and by 2373, ongoing search operations had yet to pick up the destroyer's trail.

Internal Evolution of the GTVA

In 2367, the Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance stopped a pair of shivan attacks. At the end of the Great War, it was thought that the shivans had been destroyed, and would not be seen again. Their return in Gamma Draconis and Altair was, in itself, a disturbing surprise. Coupled with the undisputable defeat, measured by the loss of two star systems, over two-hundred-and-fifty million civilian lives, and massive materiel losses to every system's fleet, there was an understandable level of concern among the upper eschelons of the GTVA military authority.

The shivans demonstrated that they were capable of military production beyond the wildest dreams of the terrans or vasudans. A simple, extreme, and apparent solution became the goal of Allied military forces. They would seal jump nodes leading to uncharted star systems, find new jump nodes, and seal them as well. Unfortunately, the destruction of a jump node required large and expensive explosive devices, and seeking out new jump nodes would require numerous ships equipped with similarly expensive sensor equipment. With criminal organizations and Neo-Terran Front holdouts exploiting the weakened GTVA fleet, resources never materialized. Threats from within were simply more immediate than external threats, and so node-sealing operations were placed on the backburner.

Only about a year after the shivan incursions into Capella and Altair, the Alliance's troubles were compounded. With little apparent reason, the entire Altair fleet, under the direction of Commodore Daniel Bast, carved a path of destruction through systems from Aldebaran to Delta Serpentis. In the Altair fleet's wake was more than just a string of corpses and debris, but a power vacuum in three systems and a further-weakened GTVA fleet. Both of these factors further increased the relative strength of bandit and renegade factions.

Given the constant state of military conflict, the constituent states of the GTVA came to concensus that their defense was being compromised in some capacity by the decentralized nature of the civilian government. Planetary and system governments began turning over more and more authority to the GTVA General Assembly between 2369 and 2372. Though the General Assembly had more power handed to it, it made no radical changes, until April, 2372.

On April 1, 2372, the GTVA Security Council authorized the first new ship classes since the loss of Capella. They further called for a comprehensive upgrade of aging point-defense systems used in existing warships. The General Assembly concurred that these changes were necessary, but did not see how the introduction of new ship and weapon production lines could be possible in the so-called 'post-Capella' economy. There was little profit to be made building weapon systems for an indebted government using an increasingly worthless currency. The General Assembly set out to purchase, or failing reasonable offers, commandeer manufacturing centers and resource extraction facilities.

Almost overnight, the GTVA transitioned from a largely free-market economy to a state-controled economy. Within the military realm, this change proved a resounding success. In under a year, upgraded point-defenses had been installed in over sixty percent of warships and installations in the GTVA, and production of the redesigned GTCv Iceni-class corvette had begun.

Coalition for Free and Open Trade

As the GTVA General Assembly was given more and more governing power between 2369 and 2372, they hesitated in making any major changes to the government's status quo. There was a fear that any kind of major change brought about by the newly-centralized government would come with major backlash, which would increase the risk of providing bandit factions a single cause to unify around. When dramatic change was deemed necessary in mid-2372, those risks were realized, albeit not as was widely accepted.

In Ross 128, during the economic reformation, military units, sympathetic to local labor organizations, defected to existing bandit groups, and reorganized them into a new faction. This marked the beginning of the Coalition for Free and Open Trade, a capitalist bandit faction, though it was not where they set themselves apart from other bandit organizations.

As with most all other bandit organizations, the Coalition fought its war against the GTVA at the same time as it competed with other bandit factions for resources and piracy territory. This only began to change in October, 2372, when the Coalition began signing non-aggression pacts and resource-sharing treaties with other factions. Though this was only a tiny step toward unifying bandit groups galaxy-wide, these diplomatic inroads allowed the Coalition to become the dominant bandit faction in Ross 128.

Though dominant, by February, 2373 the Coalition was still not the sole faction in Ross 128, opposed to the GTVA. In their first overture for actual unification, rather than making their individual agenda the impetus for unification, as other bandit groups had, they made opposition to the GTVA the idea behind unification. The core of the message that Coalition diplomats delivered was that a new governing system could be decided upon after the existing GTVA government is overturned.

The message met with success. On February 9, remaining bandit factions within Ross 128 merged with the Coaltion. The unified Coaltion launched its first operation that day, attempting to capture cruisers in the region around the GTI Good Hope. This operation ultimately culminated in a direct attack on the Good Hope and the capture of the GTCv Boston, one of the first of the redesigned Iceni-class corvettes. Though the station survived, and the Boston was recaptured, the attack demonstrated the threat that a unified bandit faction could pose and gained the Coalition some level of renown among bandit groups across the whole of GTVA space.

Coupling the de-emphasis of their capitalist message with more demonstrations of their capabilities within Ross 128, the Coalition began rapidly absorbing additional bandit factions in numerous star systems. By September, 2373, the only systems without a Coalition presence were Altair, Aldebaran, and Alpha Centauri, though the dominant factions within each of these systems carried large numbers of Coalition-sympathizers. In early 2374, internal pressures within these factions began to sway them toward finally joining the Coalition.

GTI Good Hope

Station History

Construction on the Good Hope began in 2342 as a replacement to Outpost Riviera, which was destroyed in the opening salvos of the Great War. Initially designed as a listening outpost, with the capacity to deploy reconnaissance fighters, Good Hope was only to differ from Riviera with slightly more advanced sensor and communication systems, as well as improved fighter launching mechanisms.

During the station's construction, fleet doctrine changed, such that destroyers would become the primary launch platforms for each star system's fighters, even in a defensive capacity. This led to a large number of existing and pending stations to be sold to private enterprises. Good Hope was completed in 2344, despite the doctrine change, and never privatized, as the local government and later the GTVA Security Council felt that a military listening post in Ross 128 was critical, since that was where the shivans were first encountered.

By 2360, extensive and ongoing upgrades of Good Hope's sensors and communications equipment resulted in reduced crew and space requirements, rendering large sections of the station unused. Maintaining the station was becoming less cost-effective, but since the necessity of a permanent listening post still existed, a shutdown was out of the question. In light of this, and a growing need to modernize the aging Great War fleet, the Security Council authorized the addition of a shipyard, including three Ganymede-class facilities, the first of which was completed in 2363.

In 2372, the Good Hope shipyard had been tasked with the construction of the GTCv Boston, a prototype Iceni-class corvette and was one of two shipyards assigned to construct new Hecate-class destroyers. Security Council plans at that time called for the Good Hope shipyard to complete two new Hecates and six Icenis by the end of 2376, at which point, one of the Ganymede installations would be reassigned to decommissioning the remaining Orion-class destroyers, while fleet construction doctrine would be reevaluated, before determining the production goals of the other two construction facilities.

The Battle of Good Hope, in 2373 resulted in the destruction of one of the Ganymede rings and set back the construction of the GTD Essex by several months.

Fighter Compliment and Defenses

Standard Fighter Compliment

Fighter Class	Amount (2342, proposed)	Amount (2344)	Amount (2368)	Amount (2373)
GTF Apollo	8	8	0	0
GTF Valkyrie	8	4	0	0
GTF Ulysses	4	8	8	4
GTF Hercules	4	4	0	0
GTF Hercules Mk. II	0	0	4	4
GTF Loki	12	12	8	4
GTF Perseus	0	0	8	8
GTF Pegasus	0	0	4	8
GTF Myrmidon	0	0	4	8
GTB Artemis	0	0	0	4
GTB Medusa	4	4	4	0

In addition to its fighter compliment and twelve sentry guns, two Fenris-class cruisers were assigned to patrol the station, after its completion in 2344. The GTC Kelsan, a Leviathan-class cruiser was added to this defense force, in late 2365, amidst concerns that the Neo-Terran Front may have had sympathizers well outside of Polaris. These cruisers defended the station until their destruction in combat, in 2373.

GTVA Weapon Developments (2367 - 2373)

GTW-66 Maxim Cannon

As of December 14, 2368, the Maxim Cannon was recalled from all GTVA units. The weapon was found to have problems with components wearing heavily in the cooling system, resulting in the weapon jamming and in some cases, self-destructing.

Despite some doubts about whether or not GTI Labs would be able to redesign the weapon, without sacrificing the weapon's viability in combat, the Maxim Cannon was returned to service in July, 2372. The redesign came at the expense of half its range and a modicum of damage, though pilots testing the new Maxim have agreed that it remains a reasonably affective hull-busting weapon.

GTW-6d Prometheus II

While the Maxim was out-of-service, undergoing a redesign of its cooling system, bomber pilots found themselves without a primary weapon appropriate for strafing warships hulls between bombing runs. The Prometheus II was designed, not as a replacement to the Prometheus S, a dogfighting weapon, but as a new variant, meant specifically for supplementing heavy bombing.

Where previous Prometheus weapons struck a balance between per-shot damage and rate of fire, the Prometheus II, being meant for use against quite large, slow targets, fires a small number of remarkably powerful projectiles. The high energy demands of this weapon render it incompatible with most fighters and all but a select number of bombers.

GTI TAG-C Missile

As Pegasus and Ptah recon fighters become more prevalent and plans are made for proper, stealth-capable combat vessels, the issue of how to combat stealthy craft became quite pressing in the Security Council. Though installing more capable sensor systems in all fighters and warships would be ideal, such a measure would take considerable time and resources, even supposing such technology was ready to be deployed. As a stopgap measure, GTI Labs was ordered to refine the TAG missile system for use specifically against stealth fighters.

The TAG-C is more maneuverable than the TAG-B and carries a heat-seeking tracking system, sensitive enough to home in on the faint heat signature of a Pegasus or Ptah. As with other TAG systems, the TAG-C illuminates the target, allowing for ships, otherwise unable to detect the target, to engage the stealth craft. The TAG-C transmitter goes beyond this simple function though, emitting a signal strong enough that it will disrupt the electronics of the ship to which it is attached.

GTM-10a Piranha A Missile System

Since its introduction during the NTF conflict, GTVA Command lauded the GTM-10 Piranha as the weapon system that would liberate bombers from the need of fighter escort. When bomber pilots largely abandoned the weapon, after its introduction, the Sahr Corporation was tasked with redesigning their weapon to address pilots' chief complaints. The GTM-10a is the upgraded Piranha, which is capable of traversing larger distances, producing a much more devastating shockwave, and deploying faster, more agile submunitions. Additionally, a seeker-head has been added to allow the Piranha to track a target's heat signature and detonate closer to its intended targets.

GTM-11a Infyrno A Missile System

Like the Piranha, the original Infyrno failed to live up to its expectations. Its low speed, short range, abysmal accuracy, and relatively narrow submunitions spread rendered it incapable of performing its primary task of breaking bomber formations. Many of the improvements to the Piranha were mimicked, when initially upgrading the Infyrno, including the addition of a heat-seeking tracker head and a more efficient propulsion system, allowing the warhead to travel longer distances. Where the revised Piranha uses fewer, more powerful submunitions than its predecessor, however, the team redesigning the Infyrno opted to use many more, smaller bomblets, deployed in stages, to spread its effect across a wider area.

GTM MX-8 Torrent Rocket Pod

As point-defense capabilities of warships improved, developing the delivery system for antiwarship weaponry took priority over producing more destructive warheads. One of the biggest weaknesses of antiwarship torpedos, such as the Cyclops or Helios, was the incredibly long lock-on time, required before the weapon could fire. Because warships are so large and slow, the Security Council ordered prototypes of antiwarship warheads without any kind of seekerhead.

The first production-model, dumbfire, antiwarship weapon was the Torrent Rocket Pod. The Torrent system fires a salvo of twelve to twenty-four heavy rockets, with a combined payload comparable to a (or a pair of) Cyclops warhead(s). A single-warhead solution would have been preferable for some pilots, as more space can be used for the weapon, with less room spent on the delivery system, but widespread appeal of the Torrent arose among pilots, because warships' point defenses could rarely shoot down an entire salvo, meaning each bombing run with a Torrent would result in at least some damage being dealt.

GTM-84a Avalanche Rocket

The Avalanche was proposed as a single-warhead alternative to the Torrent Rocket Pod. Since the Avalanche only had to fit one engine and one warhead in the same space that the Torrent needed for twelve, the Avalanche is capable of dealing thirty-percent more damage. A concern among veteran Torrent-users was the relative ease with which the single-warhead Avalanche could be shot down. Where a salvo of Torrent rockets will almost always deal some damage to a target, an Avalanche rocket is an all-or-nothing proposition, like a Cyclops.

GTM-84f Avalanche II Missile System

While hitting the hull of a massive warship is little challenge, even for the greenest pilots, hitting a particular turret or subsystem is more difficult. In order to reclaim some of the pinpoint accuracy of more traditional, aspect-seeking munitions, without sacrificing the rapid-deploy capability of the first-generation Avalanche or Torrent, manufacturers fitted an advanced heat-seekerhead to the Avalanche rocket. The cost of the added seekerhead, maneuvering equipment, and fuel necessary to push the heavier warhead was a twenty-percent increase in the size of the weapon.

GTW-78 Point-Defense Laser Turret

By 2367, fighter and bomber shielding had advanced radically, since the Great War, and while flak and beam weaponry marginally mitigated the ability of fighters and bombers to approach capital ships, completely replacing Great War-era turret weaponry with flak and beams was simply impossible. Beam weaponry required more power than older turrets by orders of magnitude, and space for new ammunition storage bays in older warships was simply unavailable. At the same time, though, Great War-era turrets were, by no means, efficient in terms of other weaponry available in the 2360's.

One of two replacement weapon systems ordered in early 2372 was the GTW-78. Though dealing less per-shot damage than the turrets it was designed to replace, it boasts a rate of fire faster than the Subach HL-7. While this makes for only a marginally improved anti-fighter defense, it provides extremely strong screening fire against incoming warheads.

GTW-79 Extended Range Laser Turret

The counterpart to the GTW-78, the GTW-79 was designed to provide extremely long-range fire. At this task, a cluster of extended range turrets excels, providing fire out to a range of approximately four kilometers. The extended range turret also packs an incredible amount of power into each shot and has been utilized effectively against cruisers in testing. This damage is only somewhat mitigated by shielding, making it a very punishing weapon against incoming fighters. The only area where the extended range turret does not excel over its Great War-era counterpart is its rate of fire. There is still a substantial delay between shots, making it less able to surpress incoming fighter attacks than the GTW-78.

Ship List

Includes all named ships appearing in the Second Front continuity, through the Battle of Good Hope.

Notes

• Tables ordered from most recent events to oldest.
• Status
  • Status indicated represents the ship's status at the end of that particular campaign.
  • A question-mark following a ship's status indicates that that is the ship's most likely status by the Battle of Good Hope, but the ship was not mission-critical, and therefore may have been destroyed or survived, contrary to the table's indication.
• The 'Serving System' column indicates where the ship is normally stationed.
  • Exploration vessels serve beyond the confines of charted space.
  • Ships of the Capella fleet are noted as being displaced, as no assumption is made regarding their evacuation or loss during the Capella supernova.
• Factions
  • 'Local bandits' refers to bandit factions within Altair, Aldebaran, and Alpha Centauri that do not join the Coalition for Free and Open Trade.
  • 'NTF Remnant' refers to renegade forces coalescing under the NTF banner, despite the absence of Bosch's leadership.
  • 'CFOT' indicates the Coalition for Free and Open Trade.
  • 'Shivan Forces' are assumed to be one faction, serving a singular purpose, despite attacking through multiple systems.
    
    

Battle of Good Hope

Battle of Good Hope

Ship Name	Ship Class	Status	Serving System	Faction	Role and Major Engagements
Barataria	GVC Aten	Destroyed (?)	Ross 128	CFOT	Spotted and fired upon at a Coalition-held depot.
Bolivar	GVG Anuket	Destroyed	Ross 128	CFOT	Involved in direct attack on the GTI Good Hope.
Boston	GTCv Iceni	Operational	Ross 128	GTVA	Captured by Coalition forces and recaptured by GTVA forces shortly thereafter.
Bushnell	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Ross 128	CFOT	Spotted and fired upon at a Coalition-held depot.
Caligula	GTT Elysium	Operational (?)	Ross 128	CFOT	Carried Coalition capture teams to the GTCv Boston.
Eclipse	GTT Elysium	Operational	Ross 128	GTVA	Recaptured a Coalition freighter in the Battle of Good Hope.
Farina	GVT Satis	Operational (?)	Ross 128	GTVA	Reclaimed from the Coalition during an operation to draw out the GTCv Boston.
Good Hope	GTI Arcadia	Operational	Ross 128	GTVA	Major shipyard in Ross 128. Came under massive attack as Ross 128 bandit factions began to unite under the Coalition for Free and Open Trade.
Hubertus	GTM Hippocrates	Destroyed (?)	Ross 128	CFOT	Involved in direct attack on the GTI Good Hope.
Ionia	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed	Ross 128	CFOT	Involved in direct attack on the GTI Good Hope.
Jolo	GVFr Bes	Operational (?)	Ross 128	GTVA	Reclaimed from the Coalition during an operation to draw out the GTCv Boston.
Kelsan	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed	Ross 128	GTVA	One of three cruisers assigned to defend the GTI Good Hope. Destroyed during the defense of Good Hope.
Lydia	GTC Fenris	Destroyed	Ross 128	CFOT	Involved in direct attack on the GTI Good Hope.
Marque	GTSC Faustus	Operational (?)	Ross 128	CFOT	Spotted and fired upon at a Coalition-held depot.
Mordvinov	GTT Argo	Operational (?)	Ross 128	GTVA	Carried marines to recapture the GTCv Boston.
Morris	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Ross 128	CFOT	Spotted and fired upon at a Coalition-held depot.
Naxos	GTCv Deimos	Operational	Ross 128	GTVA	Deployed to the GTI Good Hope to reinforce defending vessels.
Nefaarud	GVD Typhon	Operational	Ross 128	GTVA	Deployed to the GTI Good Hope to reinforce defending vessels.
Neufchatel	GTT Argo	Operational (?)	Ross 128	CFOT	Spotted and fired upon at a Coalition-held depot.
Prudhoe	GTG Zephyrus	Destroyed	Ross 128	CFOT	Involved in direct attack on the GTI Good Hope.
Serendipity	GTC Fenris	Destroyed	Ross 128	CFOT	Involved in direct attack on the GTI Good Hope.
Seshat	GVA Setekh	Operational	Ross 128	GTVA	Deployed as part of the ongoing search operation to find the GTD Galen. Withdrawn for repairs at the onset of the Battle of Good Hope.
Tortuga	GVG Anuket	Operational (?)	Ross 128	CFOT	Spotted and fired upon at a Coalition-held depot.
Tsar	GTC Aeolus	Destroyed	Ross 128	GTVA	Deployed as part of the ongoing search operation to find the GTD Galen. Served in all parts of the Battle of Good Hope, including the defense of the station and the recovery of the GTCv Boston.
Zeppelin	GTFr Triton	Operational	Ross 128	CFOT	Deployed in a quickly-aborted attempt to capture the GTC Tsar at the onset of the Battle of Good Hope.

Altair Insurgency

Altair Insurgency

Ship Name	Ship Class	Status	Serving System	Faction	Role and Major Engagements
Ajax	GTC Aeolus	Destroyed (?)	Altair	Local Bandits	Attacked rival bandits vying for control of GTI Chimera.
Avid	GTFr Triton	Operational	Multiple	Private Owner	Incidental involvement in a battle near the GTI Chicago.
Baltoris	GVFr Bes	Destroyed (?)	Alpha Centauri	Local Bandits	Attempted to steal cargo from GTVA forces in Alpha Centauri.
Battilus	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Multiple	GTVA	Delivered Mjolnir beam platforms from Vasuda to Beta Aquilae to slow the insurgent fleet.
Belmar	GTI Ganymede	Operational (?)	Alpha Centauri	NTF Remnant	Renegade staging ground attacked by GTVA bombers.
Benedicta	GTT Argo	Operational (?)	Aldebaran	GTVA	Evacuated personnel from Aldebaran.
Bilbeis	GVD Hatshepsut	Operational	Delta Serpentis	GTVA	Defended Delta Serpentis against the GTD Galen.
Cambria	GTT Argo	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Carried marines intended to attack the GTVA capitol in Delta Serpentis.
Chicago	GTI Arcadia	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Responsible for security of the Aldebaran jump node in Alpha Centauri. Destroyed by the Altair fleet early in the Altair Insurgency.
Chieftain	GTFr Poseidon	Operational (?)	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Removed a large bomb from the GTI Chicago's cargo depot.
Chimera	GTI Celestia	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Primary GTVA outpost in Altair. Focal point of conflict between local bandit factions in Altair after being abandoned.
Colt	GTFr Poseidon	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	NTF Remnant	Attempted a suicide-bombing against the GTI Chicago.
Corsair	GTC Fenris	Destroyed (?)	Alpha Centauri	NTF Remnant	Attacked by GTVA bombers at the RTI Belmar.
Cygnet	GTT Argo	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Carried marines intended to attack the GTVA capitol in Delta Serpentis.
Esso	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Multiple	GTVA	Delivered Mjolnir beam platforms from Vasuda to Beta Aquilae to slow the Altair fleet.
Faiyum	GVCv Sobek	Operational (?)	Beta Aquilae	GTVA	Attacked and destroyed the GTCv Lonestar and GVCv Thutmose.
Firestorm	GTC Aeolus	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Fell under bandit attack in Alpha Centauri, just prior to the Altair Insurgency. Destroyed by GTVA forces in an operation near the Delta Serpentis-Beta Aquilae jump node.
Frantic	GVFr Bes	Operational (?)	Multiple	Local Bandits	Attacked by renegade forces near the Aldebaran jump node in Alpha Centauri.
Galen	GTD Orion	Missing	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Flagship of the Altair fleet. Led the Altair Insurgency and played a large part in the destruction of the GTVA fleets in Aldebaran and Alpha Centauri and numerous other vessels en route to Delta Serpentis. After a major engagement in Delta Serpentis, disappeared into Ross 128.
George Smeed	GTT Argo	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Carried marines intended to attack the GTVA capitol in Delta Serpentis.
Haruspex	GTCv Deimos	Destroyed	Aldebaran	GTVA	Only military vessel from the Aldebaran fleet to reach Alpha Centauri during the Altair Insurgency. Suffered a catastrophic hull failure shortly after entering Alpha Centauri.
Hedetet	GVD Typhon	Operational (?)	Beta Aquilae	GTVA	Assisted in an attempt to stop the GTD Galen from reaching the Delta Serpentis jump node in Beta Aquilae.
Helena	GVT Satis	Destroyed (?)	Altair	Local Bandits	Attacked rival bandits vying for control of GTI Chimera.
Hella Fos	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Multiple	GTVA	Delivered Mjolnir beam platforms from Vasuda to Beta Aquilae to slow the Altair fleet.
Hellcat	GTC Fenris	Destroyed (?)	Alpha Centauri	NTF Remnant	Attacked by GTVA bombers at the RTI Belmar.
Hurricane	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Blockaded the Aldebaran node in Alpha Centauri.
Ironsides	GTT Argo	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Carried marines intended to attack the GTVA capitol in Delta Serpentis.
Kharga	GVC Mentu	Destroyed	Beta Aquilae	GTVA	Attacked by the GTCv Lonestar and GVCv Thutmose.
Kinetic	GTFr Poseidon	Destroyed (?)	Alpha Centauri	Local Bandits	Attempted to steal cargo from GTVA forces in Alpha Centauri.
Labre	GTM Hippocrates	Operational (?)	Aldebaran	GTVA	Evacuated personnel from Aldebaran.
Lawrence	GTT Elysium	Operational	Multiple	GTVA	Part of a Special Operations reconnaissance unit that passed through Aldebaran and Altair, after the Altair fleet left the two systems.
Lederman	GTSC Faustus	Operational	Multiple	GTVA	Part of a Special Operations reconnaissance unit that passed through Aldebaran and Altair, after the Altair fleet left the two systems.
Lonestar	GTCv Deimos	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Destroyed by GTVA forces in Beta Aquilae.
Magnitude	GTFr Triton	Operational	Multiple	Private Owner	Incidental involvement in a battle near the GTI Chicago.
Memnon	GVT Satis	Operational	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Recovered the GTC Firestorm from Alpha Centauri just prior to the Altair Insurgency.
Meteor	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Blockaded the Aldebaran node in Alpha Centauri.
Mirage	GTC Mentu	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Destroyed by GTVA forces in an operation near the Delta Serpentis-Beta Aquilae jump node.
Mustang	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed (?)	Alpha Centauri	NTF Remnant	Ambushed the GTC Spitfire on its approach to Alpha Centauri III. Later attacked by GTVA bombers at the RTI Belmar.
Nevis	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Multiple	GTVA	Delivered Mjolnir beam platforms from Vasuda to Beta Aquilae to slow the Altair fleet.
Odysseus	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed (?)	Altair	Local Bandits	Attacked rival bandits vying for control of GTI Chimera.
Ohio	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Destroyed in Antares, during the Altair Insurgency.
Omaha	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Destroyed in Antares, during the Altair Insurgency.
Orestes	GTC Fenris	Destroyed (?)	Altair	Local Bandits	Attacked rival bandits vying for control of GTI Chimera.
Palamedes	GVG Anuket	Destroyed (?)	Altair	Local Bandits	Attacked rival bandits vying for control of GTI Chimera.
Phoenicia	GTD Hecate	Operational	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Flagship of the Alpha Centauri fleet, prior to the Altair Insurgency. Led most critical operations against the Altair insurgents, up to the final assault on the GTD Galen in Delta Serpentis.
Portcullis	GTD Orion	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Blockaded the Aldebaran node in Alpha Centauri.
Putnam	GTFr Triton	Destroyed (?)	Multiple	NTF Remnant	Attacked by GTVA bombers at the RTI Belmar.
Raneb	GVCv Sobek	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Blockaded the Aldebaran node in Alpha Centauri.
Ranger	GTFr Poseidon	Operational	Multiple	Private Owner	Incidental involvement in a battle near the GTI Chicago.
Serket	GVCv Sobek	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Blockaded the Aldebaran node in Alpha Centauri.
Sorkal	GVFr Ma’at	Operational	Multiple	Private Owner	Incidental involvement in a battle near the GTI Chicago.
Spitfire	GTC Fenris	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Led the assault against NTF remnants based on Alpha Centauri III. Shortly thereafter, placed on the blockade of the Aldebaran jump node in Alpha Centauri.
Telephim	GVFr Bes	Operational	Multiple	Private Owner	Incidental involvement in a battle near the GTI Chicago.
Thebes	GVCv Sobek	Destroyed	Vasuda	GTVA	Outmaneuvered by the Altair fleet, shortly after its entry into Vasuda.
Thunderbolt	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed (?)	Alpha Centauri	NTF Remnant	Attacked the GTC Firestorm in Alpha Centauri, during a recovery operation. Later attacked by GTVA bombers at the RTI Belmar.
Thutmose	GVCv Sobek	Destroyed	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Destroyed by GTVA forces in Beta Aquilae.
Torro	GTT Argo	Operational (?)	Alpha Centauri	Local Bandits	Attempted to capture civilian shipping vessels operating near the Aldebaran node in Alpha Centauri.
Troy	GVC Aten	Destroyed (?)	Altair	Local Bandits	Stolen from an Altair scrapyard and used to vie for control of the GTI Chimera.
Tura	GVC Mentu	Destroyed	Alpha Centauri	GTVA	Blockaded the Aldebaran node in Alpha Centauri.
Xanos	GTT Elysium	Destroyed (?)	Altair	Altair Insurgency	Carried repair teams to the GTCv Lonestar, after the corvette was disabled in Beta Aquilae.
Zed	GTT Argo	Destroyed (?)	Alpha Centauri	NTF Remnant	Attacked by GTVA bombers at the RTI Belmar.

Second Shivan Incursion (Altair)

Second Shivan Incursion (Altair)

Ship Name	Ship Class	Status	Serving System	Faction	Role and Major Engagements
Alchemy	SCv Moloch	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of the support fleet attacking Altair.
Argoth	GVT Satis	Operational	Altair	GTVA	Carried repair crews to the GVC Mirage.
Athena	GTSC Faustus	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Monitored the collapse of one jump node beyond Altair.
Capital	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Carried a meson bomb to collapse a jump node in the system beyond Altair.
Chimera	GTI Celestia	Operational	Altair	GTVA	Primary GTVA outpost in Altair. The station became the last line of defense against the shivans.
Coal	SC Cain	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of the support fleet attacking Altair.
Destiny	SD Ravana	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	One of the ships leading the shivan attack on Altair.
Detonation	SD Lucifer	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	One of the ships leading the shivan attack on Altair.
Diamond	SC Cain	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of the support fleet attacking Altair.
Electrode	GTSC Faustus	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Monitored the collapse of one jump node beyond Altair.
Expedience	GTS Hygeia	Operational	Altair	GTVA	Captured a shivan bomber during an operation to seal jump nodes in the system beyond Altair.
Falcon	GTG Zephyrus	Destroyed	Exploration Fleet	GTVA	Attempted to run the blockade of the Altair jump node.
Firestorm	GTC Aeolus	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Led an operation to seal jump nodes in the system beyond Altair. Served on the line at the GTI Chimera.
Galen	GTD Orion	Operational	Altair	GTVA	Flagship of the Altair fleet. Deployed to Capella but was turned back after the star was destroyed. Secured the system beyond Altair after shivan control of that system was broken.
Ghoul	GTFr Triton	Destroyed	Exploration Fleet	GTVA	Destroyed at the onset of the shivan incursion in Altair.
Golem	GTM Hippocrates	Destroyed	Exploration Fleet	GTVA	Destroyed at the onset of the shivan incursion in Altair.
Granite	SC Cain	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of the support fleet attacking Altair.
Guardian	SC Rakshasa	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Escorted the SD Destiny into position near the Altair jump node.
Hydra	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Altair	Private Owner	Carried a meson bomb to collapse a jump node in the system beyond Altair.
Lead	SCv Moloch	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of the support fleet attacking Altair.
Lonestar	GTCv Deimos	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Led an operation to seal jump nodes in the system beyond Altair. Served on the line at the GTI Chimera.
Mirage	GTC Mentu	Operational	Altair	GTVA	Deployed to Capella but was turned back after the star was destroyed. Secured the system beyond Altair after shivan control of that system was broken.
Moridor	SC Cain	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Sent to interfere with node-collapsing operations in the system beyond Altair.
Mortu	SCv Moloch	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Sent to interfere with node-collapsing operations in the system beyond Altair.
Nova	SC Lilith	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Sent to interfere with node-collapsing operations in the system beyond Altair.
Ohio	GTC Leviathan	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Served on the line at the GTI Chimera.
Omaha	GTC Leviathan	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Blockaded the Altair node against the exploration fleet, prior to the shivan incursion into Altair. Served on the line at the GTI Chimera.
Platinum	SC Cain	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of the support fleet attacking Altair.
Razor	SC Rakshasa	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Sent to interfere with node-collapsing operations in the system beyond Altair.
Relinquish	SD Ravana	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	One of the ships leading the shivan attack on Altair.
Retorphim	SC Cain	Captured	--	Shivan Forces	Abandoned by the shivans during their attack on Altair and subsequently captured by GTVA and Special Operations forces.
Silver	SCv Moloch	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of the support fleet attacking Altair.
Sly	SFr Dis	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Attacked during a mop-up operation in the system beyond Altair.
Spectre	GTSC Faustus	Destroyed	Exploration Fleet	GTVA	Destroyed at the onset of the shivan incursion in Altair.
Swiftwind	GTT Elysium	Operational	Altair	GTVA	Carried capture teams to the SC Retorphim.
Thesius	SCv Eris	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	First shivan vessel spotted in the system beyond Altair. Destroyed the exploration fleet and later fell under attack by GTVA bombers.
Thutmose	GVCv Sobek	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Served on the line at the GTI Chimera.
Titan	GTFr Triton	Operational (?)	Altair	Private Owner	Carried a meson bomb to collapse a jump node in the system beyond Altair.
Torment	SCv Moloch	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Attacked by GTVA bombers just beyond the Altair node.
Troy	GVC Aten	Operational (?)	Altair	GTVA	Recovered from a scrapyard for use in an attack against the shivan fleet in Altair, then re-mothballed.
Wind	GTA Charybdis	Destroyed	Altair	GTVA	Part of a suicide attack against the smaller shivan warships sent to attack Altair.

Second Shivan Incursion (Capella)

Second Shivan Incursion (Capella)

Ship Name	Ship Class	Status	Serving System	Faction	Role and Major Engagements
Alamo	GTC Leviathan	Operational (?)	Displaced (Capella)	GTVA	Sortied to defend the GVD Koreth in Gamma Draconis.
Alexandria	GTC Aeolus	Operational (?)	Displaced (Capella)	GTVA	Engaged shivan forces leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Armor	GVT Satis	Operational (?)	Displaced (Capella)	GTVA	Carried repair crews to the GVD Koreth.
Babylon	GTCv Deimos	Destroyed	Altair	GTVA	Destroyed while on assignment in Capella.
Cairo	GVD Hatshepsut	Destroyed	Altair	GTVA	Destroyed while on assignment in Capella.
Calypso	GVCv Sobek	Operational (?)	Displaced (Capella)	GTVA	Sortied to defend the GVD Koreth in Gamma Draconis.
Comar	SC Lilith	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of a task force leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Dormen	SD Demon	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of a task force leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Elexis	GVCv Sobek	Destroyed	Altair	GTVA	Destroyed while on assignment in Capella.
Elub	SCv Moloch	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of a task force leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Eris	SCv Eris	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Encountered and destroyed by a GTVA patrol in the nebular theater.
Ezor	SC Lilith	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of a task force leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Gore	SD Ravana	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Attacked the GVD Koreth in Gamma Draconis.
Koreth	GVD Hatshepsut	Operational (?)	Displaced (Capella)	GTVA	Aided the attack against the SJ Twilight in Gamma Draconis.
Krag	SC Lilith	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of a task force leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Reaper	GVA Setekh	Destroyed	Capella	GTVA	Part of a suicide attack against the SJ Twilight.
Reken	SC Rakshasa	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of a task force leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Renewal	GVC Mentu	Destroyed	Altair	GTVA	Destroyed while on assignment in Capella.
Selamf	SCv Moloch	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of a task force leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Tormet	SC Rakshasa	Destroyed	--	Shivan Forces	Part of a task force leading the juggernaut fleet to Capella.
Whit	GTC Leviathan	Destroyed	Altair	GTVA	Destroyed while on assignment in Capella.

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