Lylat's Last Stand mod for Alien Swarm

Disclaimer:
This mod isn't in any ways endorsed, funded, licensed, authorized, or related to/by Nintendo.  All characters and elements of the StarFox franchise belong to Nintendo. No assets from Nintendo games have been used, all content is fan made. This mod is not made for profit, or to profit from Nintendo's properties, or to interfere with Nintendo's business.
It is a work of fan fiction,  in which Nintendo's characters are put in situations/described or represented  in a way, not necessarily intended by the author / owners. 
It is made simply to share products of fan imagination, for the educative experimentation of game development, and to pay homage to this Nintendo franchise.

Description:
The goals of this mod is to recreate the style, and the feel of the first Starfox games on a more modern platform to make it accessible for newer fans of the series, and for old school StarFox fans like me.
I plan to take the best of StarFox 1(snes), 2(snes), and to a certain extent StarFox 64, and tape it all together to create an interesting continuity.

The Concept:
However, I'm not planning to do a complete rip-off the first game. That's why the mod is based on the 1993 StarFox Nintendo Powers Comics. But even then, It's not a total rip-off of the comics either!
The story and game will revolve around 2 parallel stories StarFox's, and a group of Cornerian soldiers.

Now some of you might say, isn't this a StarFox mod, why not make it StarFox only ? Or for the more "direct", "Oh no not some fanon/fanfic crap..."
My point here, is since StarFox fly ships most of the comics, there's not much room for on-foot combat, natively. That's where the soldiers come in. On foot mission will be mostly with the soldiers, while flying missions mostly with StarFox. Of course I'll try to let both share either types of missions. I find it to be an acceptable trade-off between coherence and gameplay, isn't it?

The levels:
While I'm probably being overoptimistic, I plan to feature most of the Lylat system in some way or another. Here's a list :

• Aquas
• Asteroid Belt
• Black Hole
• Corneria
• Eladard
• Fishina
• Fortuna
• Katina
• Lylat (Star) : The system's star, since systems are named after the star at their center.
• MacBeth
• Meteor
• Sector X
• Sector Y
• Sector Z
• Solar
• Titania
• Papetoon
• Venom
• Zoness

The always awesome black hole will also be featured in the mod. I didn't put Out of this dimension here since, that's not in Lylat...

The Characters:
While this may change as eventually I'll find a writer, you should expect the following StarFox characters :
- Fox
- Falco
- Peppy
- Slippy
- Gen. Pepper
- Fara
- Fay
- Miyu
- Bill
- Katt

- Andross
- Herbert the Pig Android :)
- Professor Hangar( or Hanger? )
- Wolf
- Leon
- Pigma
- Algy

Though, you shouldn't expect Rob64, Tricky, Krystal, Panther, or sf command characters. But it may change in the future.

As for the original characters, lets just say that I've tried to keep them on the level, and not make them a bunch of unkillable superheros, with messed up personalities, and funky hairs and clothes wielding giant swords. The goal here isn't to overshadow StarFox!

The Multiplayer:
Since multiplayer and singleplayer are pretty close in the source engine, this will probably happen. I have a few ideas, but it will require some research. But I'd like to do deathmatches, vehicular combat, and shooter game modes.
 
The Engine:
We're currently experimenting with the Orange Box and Alien Swarm version of the engine to find the best code base for our mod. We will probably opt for the Alien Swarm base, since it's free.

The Gameplay:
The mod should feature both vehicular on-rail and all-range combat, along with on-foot action.
The on-foot part will be slightly less arcarde-ish than StarFox Assault, and will borrow mechanics from Metal Gear Solid 2-3, Mass Effect 1-2, Freedom Fighter, and similar third person shooters.
Stealth, firefights, sniping, and puzzles, are some of the planned features, but it may change later on.

The Releases:
While this is far from being final, I was thinking of releasing small batches of missions and content over a few years. You could call that episodic content.

More details to come as development progresses!