SJD Sathanas

SJD Sathanas

The SJD Sathanas was a decoy version of the SJ Sathanas used in the FreeSpace 2 mission, Into the Lion's Den. Up close, it is a simple textured tetrahed'ron (a polyhedron with four faces), but in the target view, it appears to be a Sathanas-class ship. The reason this was used was to save memory on the older machines, and in Into the Lion's Den, there are seven Sathanas-class juggernauts that jump in.

Because of the amount of distance between the player and the ships in the aforementioned mission, and the fact that the player only has 15 minutes to complete the mission, the player never actually gets to see the tetrahedronal shape of this ship.

Many user-made mods have deleted the SJD from the list of available ships to save room, since the ship's only use was fulfilled in the official FreeSpace 2 campaign.

On a related note, there was a low-poly Sathanas model found in the retail VP files. This may have been an earlier attempt by Volition to create a similar illusion.

Not to be confused with the actual SJ Sathanas.