Dr. Jest
18th May 2006, 18:10
Five years after the end of Earth-Minbari War, the Earthforce, barely recovering from the terrible defeat, struggled awfully against the chaos on their space lines. The raider groups were powerful, numerous, well armed and organized to even challenge the regular army.
No political or commercial interest crossed in the neutral sector 318, distant and unimportant. But many popular trade lines were coming through this sector, so the reports about raising Raider activity in the area were not surprising.
To restore order in the sector EAS Perseus, one of the newest Omega-class destroyers built after the Minbari War, has been dispatched there. Though the destroyer of such class is usually capable of carrying two full squadrons of fighters, this time there was only one squadron onboard. The Earthforce Command planned to send the second squadron to rendezvous with the destroyer just few days later. Commander Richard Kelly, 34 years old veteran of Minbari War was given a special assignment ? to lead the Alpha Squadron into battle. For all three years of war he has managed to avoid seeing the attacking Minbari warcruiser, but the instinctive horror remained somewhere in the depths of his soul forever?
What am I talking about? A new movie? a new spinoff series? Maybe a new book?
No. What I am talking about is I've found Her (http://ifh.firstones.com/), a completely fan-made space sim set in the Babylon 5 universe. 3 years in the making, a labour of love by a Russian programming team. CGW said of it,
Babylon 5: I?ve Found Her
Babylon 5 has some of the most professional graphics we?ve seen in a freeware game; it looks great, and it plays smoothly. Because they employ real-world physics, the ship controls are easy to learn. The story line is detailed without being tedious, and the enemy ship A.I. is decent enough to present an actual challenge. Even for those who don?t care about the series, this title has a lot to offer.
It's pretty, it's free, there's even a sequel.
Check it out.
No political or commercial interest crossed in the neutral sector 318, distant and unimportant. But many popular trade lines were coming through this sector, so the reports about raising Raider activity in the area were not surprising.
To restore order in the sector EAS Perseus, one of the newest Omega-class destroyers built after the Minbari War, has been dispatched there. Though the destroyer of such class is usually capable of carrying two full squadrons of fighters, this time there was only one squadron onboard. The Earthforce Command planned to send the second squadron to rendezvous with the destroyer just few days later. Commander Richard Kelly, 34 years old veteran of Minbari War was given a special assignment ? to lead the Alpha Squadron into battle. For all three years of war he has managed to avoid seeing the attacking Minbari warcruiser, but the instinctive horror remained somewhere in the depths of his soul forever?
What am I talking about? A new movie? a new spinoff series? Maybe a new book?
No. What I am talking about is I've found Her (http://ifh.firstones.com/), a completely fan-made space sim set in the Babylon 5 universe. 3 years in the making, a labour of love by a Russian programming team. CGW said of it,
Babylon 5: I?ve Found Her
Babylon 5 has some of the most professional graphics we?ve seen in a freeware game; it looks great, and it plays smoothly. Because they employ real-world physics, the ship controls are easy to learn. The story line is detailed without being tedious, and the enemy ship A.I. is decent enough to present an actual challenge. Even for those who don?t care about the series, this title has a lot to offer.
It's pretty, it's free, there's even a sequel.
Check it out.