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**What Has Gone Before...** | **What Has Gone Before...** | ||
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They were the last survivors of a dead Earth, castaways in an ocean of stars with not one they could call home. For nearly a century they drifted, suspended in cold sleep, while computer intelligence guided their hastily-built starship and searched, unsuccessfully, | They were the last survivors of a dead Earth, castaways in an ocean of stars with not one they could call home. For nearly a century they drifted, suspended in cold sleep, while computer intelligence guided their hastily-built starship and searched, unsuccessfully, | ||
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Their voyage ended on a world they named New Terra, in the same spirit that desert dwellers once named their towns after sources of water. In truth, it was nothing like Earth; stark, hostile, forbidding, and in its own way, beautiful. There the last few hundred surviving humans cobbled together a town from their meager supplies and what they could salvage from their starship and landers. At first the colony was known only as " | Their voyage ended on a world they named New Terra, in the same spirit that desert dwellers once named their towns after sources of water. In truth, it was nothing like Earth; stark, hostile, forbidding, and in its own way, beautiful. There the last few hundred surviving humans cobbled together a town from their meager supplies and what they could salvage from their starship and landers. At first the colony was known only as " | ||
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For years, the two colonies turned their backs on one another, each growing and advancing in technology, never understanding the hidden forces that had torn them apart, never suspecting that disaster would soon bring them back together in fire and conflict. | For years, the two colonies turned their backs on one another, each growing and advancing in technology, never understanding the hidden forces that had torn them apart, never suspecting that disaster would soon bring them back together in fire and conflict. | ||
- | In Eden, behind locked doors and shuttered windows, intense and secretive research begins to bear ruit. Not only will they terraform the planet, but they have taken steps to see that no one will stop them. No one. Then, even as the leaders announce their impending triumph, things begin to go horribly, horribly wrong. | + | In Eden, behind locked doors and shuttered windows, intense and secretive research begins to bear fruit. Not only will they terraform the planet, but they have taken steps to see that no one will stop them. No one. Then, even as the leaders announce their impending triumph, things begin to go horribly, horribly wrong. |
Meanwhile in Plymouth, the long-dead rocks beneath their colony' | Meanwhile in Plymouth, the long-dead rocks beneath their colony' | ||
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//Excerpt from the Outpost 2 game manual.// | //Excerpt from the Outpost 2 game manual.// | ||
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- | J. Steven York authored a novella that supplements gameplay and establishes a rich plot surrounding campaign missions. Each campaign mission has a dedicated chapter of the Novella that can be read in game. The novella is split into 2 parts, which cover the story of New Terra and the colonists from the perspective of either Eden or Plymouth. | + | |
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- | === Plymouth Novella Chapters === | ||
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===== Mission Briefings ===== | ===== Mission Briefings ===== | ||
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===== Tales From New Terra ===== | ===== Tales From New Terra ===== | ||
- | Some Outpost 2 units and vehicles have associated vignettes to supplement the in game theme developed by gameplay and the novella. | + | |
+ | Outpost 2 units and vehicles have associated vignettes to supplement the in game theme developed by the novella, mission briefings, and gameplay. | ||
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+ | **Tales From New Terra can be found here: ** [[outpost_2: | ||
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+ | ===== Research Teasers ===== | ||
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+ | Research in Outpost 2 is based on current feasible technology. Each research topic includes a brief teaser | ||
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+ | **Research teasers can read from the research page: **[[outpost_2: | ||
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===== Original Game Manual and Artwork ===== | ===== Original Game Manual and Artwork ===== | ||
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- | - //Go Back to [[outpost_2]]//\\ | + | - //Go Back to [[Outpost 2]]//\\ |
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