Eighteen years have passed since FreeSpace 2 and the destruction of Capella, and the shattered colonies of man are finally ready to re-open the jump node to Earth. As the Alliance teeters on the verge of total social collapse, the Security Council deploys the elite 14th Battlegroup to re-establish contact with Earth, and young pilot Samuel Bei finds himself once more under his estranged father's command.

Age of Aquarius describes the journey of the 14th Battlegroup as its mission to the Blue Planet goes shockingly wrong. (StrategyInformer has very kindly provided a mirror for us.)

War in Heaven takes place eighteen months after the events of Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius and details the final stages of the civil war between Sol and the rest of her colonies: a war without good or evil, only shades of gray.  

Built at the cutting edge of the FreeSpace Open engine, Blue Planet is a fan-made conclusion to the FreeSpace saga, a story of sacrifice, triumph, and destiny, and one of the most beloved FreeSpace mods of all time.

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9 comments by The_E on Sep 2nd, 2012

Hello there. 

First, I have to apologize for not posting updates in a while. As you may have gathered, development has slowed down a bit, as people were forced to concentrate on Real Life instead of modding. Our Glorious Leader Darius has gotten a beautiful daughter, General Battuta decided to concentrate more on his academic and writing career, and I was caught up in RL issues as well.

But fear not, dear fans. We may be going slow, but we are going forward. We are officially able to report that most of R2 is done. While I can not give you a release date, even a tentative one, rest assured that you will get to see more of the story.

Now, there isn't really a lot of other things I can show you, but here are a few things you may be interested to see:

 New pictures from development

New pictures from development

As the War moves into its final stages, the battles get bigger and bigger.

New pictures from development

Aesaar's new Chimera model, a beautiful reimagining of the original one. In this case, flying around in an old Age of Aquarius mission

New pictures from development

The SCP team continues to impress, adding new features to make the game even prettier.

Until the next time, this was The E. Hopefully I'll be able to post more news in the future, until then, have a nicely developing day.

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Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius Linux/MacOS archive

Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius Linux/MacOS archive

Dec 29, 2012 Full Version 0 comments

Blue Planet is a fan-made FreeSpace story, set 18 years after the events of FreeSpace 2. Featuring epic missions, full voice acting, in-engine cutscenes...

Blue Planet 2: War in Heaven Executable Installer

Blue Planet 2: War in Heaven Executable Installer

Aug 7, 2010 Full Version 9 comments

18 months after the 14th Battle Group's disastrous expedition to Sol, the civil war between Federation and Alliance enters its apocalyptic final phase.

Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius Windows Installer

Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius Windows Installer

Apr 16, 2010 Full Version 27 comments

Blue Planet is a fan-made FreeSpace story, set 18 years after the events of FreeSpace 2. Featuring epic missions, full voice acting, in-engine cutscenes...

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Zweistein000
Zweistein000 May 27 2013, 5:46pm says:

Question: are there any builds that will work with this game AND add text to speech. I'm finding it Very hard to follow the story and dogfight at the same time?

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srw0015
srw0015 May 22 2013, 9:17pm says:

I know this is kinda off topic, but been seeing Asus Star Trek commercials using the same song that you guys used for the opening cutscene for WiH, and I gotta say I think you guys used it better because every time I hear it I keep flashing back to that opening scene as the Atreus is closing in on Artemis Station and the Commorant takes a slash beam across the spine. Gives me chills. Thanks for all the hard work you guys have put into this game.

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Zweistein000
Zweistein000 May 10 2013, 7:45pm says:

Man I so want to play this, but I think I'm gonna wait till WiH is fully released and polished (like AoA is). Seeing what you did with AoA this truly deserves the title Freespace 3.

And I have a haunch they will return in part 3, bringing with them the lost juggernaut fleet that jumped away second before Cappella supernova, nearly 2 decades ago.

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srw0015
srw0015 Mar 21 2013, 7:22pm says:

Gotta say, just finished my first play through (had to fight with Antipodes and finally figured it out), and I have so much to say I can't really begin. It was fantastic! Exceptionally impressive gameplay that was challenging, one of the missions even rivaled the infamous AoA mission Forced Entry, and the story told was just incredible, didn't see that ending coming. You guys are fantastic and thanks for all the hard work you guys have put into this mod series. You really are taking the FreeSpace universe to new heights.

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Ignatz
Ignatz Jan 10 2013, 4:06pm says:

Ekhem...
WiH part 2 is already out...
I'm just saying.

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Piemanlives
Piemanlives Jan 16 2013, 12:04am replied:

I think most of us were in to much shock to actually believe that such an awesome things has happened, have fun everyone, time to continue the saga

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Cybertrance
Cybertrance Jan 27 2013, 2:20am replied:

Here: Hard-light.net

enjoy!

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Jerry00
Jerry00 Jan 29 2013, 5:59am replied:

Thank you very much. I don`t know where my head was, but I was more than sure that this was still the 1st release... Dumb me ^^

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