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''FreeSpace 2'' takes place 32 years later. The Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance is embroiled in a civil war with Admiral Aken Bosch and his xenophobic, Vasudan-hating Neo-Terran Front. Then the Shivans return in force, effortlessly sweeping aside all opposition. The battle is on to find a way to contain them before they overrun known space once more.

 

 

The franchise ended there despite the [[Left Hanging|incomplete story]] of the second game, due to a split between the publisher and the developer. However, in 2002, Volition released the source code for the game. The result of the fandom getting their hands on it is the FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project [http://scp.indiegames.us/] [http://www.hard-light.net/] (known by the fandom as the SCP. No, not [[SCP Foundation|that]].). It is a single umbrella project dedicated to improving the original source code; the FS2_Open engine is the result of the project, and is much more powerful and flexible than the original game engine, with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhAR8rWPluQ greatly improved graphics] as well as a plethora of new features for designers to utilize in mission-building, and it is still being improved to this day. A large number of fan-made campaigns are available as well, thanks to the game coming bundled with a mission editor, the same one that Volition used to create the original game.

* [http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=70582.msg1395781#msg1395781 And many more...]

 

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* [[Ace Pilot]]: The number and size of the ships you singlehandedly destroy during the course of a campaign will put any major fleet battle group to shame.

* [[Sprint Meter]]: The afterburner.

* [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet]]: Fits almost perfectly, though the bigger ships deviate a bit.

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: The Shivans. They more closely resemble giant five-legged spiders than anything else, having apparently evolved in a zero-G environment. Among other interesting quirks about them are: nearly bulletproof exoskeletons, multiple [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red]] [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]], and the ability to survive prolonged exposure to vacuum. Don't forget the integrated laser beams.

** There were some [[Epileptic Trees]] that went along the lines that the "Shivans" we see in the games are actually robots or combat suits or something similar. [[Word of God]] says that the Shivans shown in the cutscene are the true Shivans, not suits or robots.