User talk:Bryan See

2015-06-06T16:58:11Z

Apocalypse: /* Your edits regarding FS:U */

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===Your edits regarding FS:U===

It's great that you've got plans for this mod, but until you're actually ready to post more information to the various ship pages, I would ask that you stop putting placeholders with no information everywhere. If you want to have a list of assets you're going to use, use the page for your mod. [[User:The E|The E]] 13:49, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Actually, I think it's better that you not post anything on the official ship pages until the mod is released. The problem is that a lot of people start mods that never get finished. I'm not saying yours will fall into this category, but maintaining this convention means that we don't fill up mod pages with tech descriptions from mods that never eventuate. I'm reverting your changes for now, but I have a suggestion for your mod page - I'll add it and you can see if you like it. [[User:Black Wolf|Black Wolf]] 13:56, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

: Indeed, my mod is called ''[[FreeSpace: Reunited]]''. I expressed my excitement over this mod because it merges the FreeSpace Universe and the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica universe, having the latter set about more than 150,000 years ago. Originally [[User:NFSRacer|NFSRacer]] and Soren is developing it, but they did not get it started with full steam. Therefore, no updates on FS:R since then. I took my matters and take over this mod's development by developing a version that set 18 years after Capella, with references to the [[Blue Planet]] campaigns. I've started developing it a month ago, and I would like to have my mod page, and you'll add it, Black Wolf. I hereby acknowledge that, because I haven't released this mod at any time, I will not put placeholders with no information everywhere. I have a lot of assets I'm going to use in ''FreeSpace: Reunited'', namely ships from ''[[Diaspora]]'' (Colonial and Cylon ships, voice-acted personas, and other total-conversion assets), ''[[Blue Planet]]'' (GTVA vessels to reflect the next generation of technology), and ''[[Inferno]]'' (some Vasudan and Shivan vessels). -- '''''[[User:Bryan See|Bryan]] [[User talk:Bryan See|See]]'''' 15:56, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

===Your edits on http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_FreeSpace_2_Open===

It's great that you updated "Step Four: MediaVPs: Updated from MediaVPs 3.6.12 to MediaVPs 2014)", it kinda sucks that you broke the whole procedure with that, as the guide is using open free space 3.7.0, the release version, while the new mediaVP 2014 files need at least 3.7.1, so you basically broke the documentation, which I guess is even worst that it being just outdated by functional.

Special Operations Command

2007-05-11T04:16:06Z

Apocalypse: Corrected renegade Admiral's name (Ahmose, not Khafre)

'''Special Operations Command''' (abbreviated most of the time to '''SOC''') is a subsection of Galactic Terran Vasudan Intelligence, and is considered to be the heart of Terran intelligence gathering. It played a pivotal role in the defeat of the [[Neo-Terra Front]] and was likely the key player in the elimination of the [[Hammer of Light]].

During the [[NTF Rebellion|NTF Insurgency]], Special Operations Command faced large pressure from Allied Command, who encouraged them to launch as many missions as possible to learn as much as they could about the [[NTF]]. Because of this, elite pilots often volunteered and most of the time never returned to their squads.

When these dangerous operations succeeded, the [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance]] had enough information about the enemy to launch tactical strikes against any [[Neo-Terra Front|NTF]] targets. These accurate and co-ordinated strikes played important role in the Battles for [[Deneb]] and [[Regulus]]. SOC Missions were carried out deep within enemy territory, and demanded stealth and discipline. When the operative's presence was revealed, they were often recalled to avoid needless casualties. As the [[Neo-Terra Front|NTF]] grew stronger and began to win engagements in [[Deneb]], even the SOC operations were focused on making as much damage as possible with minimal casualties from [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance|GTVA]] point of view.

==Specific actions==
''Little is known about the operations of Special Operations Command, except those missions in which Alpha 1 flew during the SOC loops of the main campaign.''

The mysterious [[ETAK]] device, believed for some time to be a weapon, was the impetus for Allied Command to infiltrate the NTF via SOC operatives. Alpha 1 of the [[242nd Suicide Kings]] was one of these spies. Once inserted into the NTF, Alpha 1 made contact with Lieutenant Commander Christopher [[Snipes]], the SOC's undercover mission coordinator within the NTF. Once they were established within one of the NTF's fighter squadrons, the first mission undertaken by the pair was to scan the [[NTF Iceni|NTF ''Iceni'']] and acquire any additional data possible, especially about ETAK.

This mission was complicated by the actions of Admiral Ahmose, who, despite knowing the operation being carried out near the ''Iceni'', ordered his Vasudan battle group to launch an assault on the NTF convoy against the orders of Allied Command. His choice threatened the safety of the operation and the lives of the volunteers, and the SOC operatives had no choice but to fire on the [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance|GTVA]] forces, not wanting the ''Iceni'' destroyed. The ''Iceni'' successfully reached the jump node to [[Epsilon Pegasi]] and Admiral Ahmose was branded a traitor and court-martialled.

The next operation did not go as planned, either. The NTF squadron the SOC pilots had infiltrated was ordered to defend an Argo-class transport, the NTT ''Sunder''. The cargo and destination of this transport was highly classified, which led to the suspicion it had something to do with the [[ETAK]] project. Snipes, with the help of the crew chief of the squadron (also a SOC operative), installed overload devices to destroy the remainder of the squadron. Alpha 1 and Snipes then attempted to hijack the ''Sunder'' with the help of a [[Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance|GTVA]] agent piloting the transport. At this point, secrecy was paramount, and the alliance deployed their new AWACS, the [[GTA Charybdis]], to jam communications in the area, allowing the operation to remain covert.

NTF fighters responded to a partial message warning of a reactor core breach, and raced to aid the NTT ''Sunder''. Alpha 1 and Snipes, aided by the pilots of an SOC unit, the [[99th Skulls]], successfully hijacked the NTT ''Sunder'', repelling NTF forces sent to aid in the recovery operation. Blowing up a decoy ''Argo''-class transport, Snipes managed to successfully pin the blame on another NTF commander, who was court-martialled and executed. The NTT ''Sunder'' successfully reached the [[Regulus]] system and was recovered by GTVA Intelligence.

Snipes was reassigned, and the NTF began to suspect Alpha 1 of being a GTVA operative. Sending Alpha 1 on a suicide mission, they ambushed the fighter pilot and attempted to have him executed in the field. Once again, the 99th Skulls saved the day, and recovered the pilot, as well as sensitive data that had been stashed in the fighter's computers.

Shortly before [[Capella]] went supernova, the SOC launched another dangerous mission - using Alpha 1 and three additional pilots to rescue the NTT ''Grall'' and Commander Snipes, who had ended up stranded deep in the [[Nebula System|nebula]]. He was rescued from a highly electrically-active, Shivan-infested area, along with the crew of his ship.

Alpha 1, Snipes, and two others then volunteered to take part in a mission to infiltrate the area behind the Second [[Knossos]] subspace portal, which had been discovered by a Vasudan patrol. They flew specially-modified ''Mara''-class fighters, captured earlier by SOC, and modified for Terran use. Behind the portal, they found numerous [[SJ Sathanas|''Sathanas'']] juggernauts, heading towards the portal to the nebula, as well as a large fleet of Shivan cruisers and warships. This expedition's main goal was only to gather intelligence and this succeeded as soon as they gathered information about the true strength of the Shivan fleet. During the mission, the SOC volunteers inspected and destroyed three shivan devices of a type never before encountered by the GTVA. Game documentation refers to these devices as [[Shivan communication device]], or Shivan Comm Nodes, but it is not known if the had GTVA determined this to be their function by the end of FS2.

After the destruction of these devices, they rushed back to the jump node back to the [[Nebula System|nebula]] and escaped.

<i>After this mission, there is no canonical information about the SOC and its operations</i>

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