MOD:WCU:WC0:Campaign:Master
Revision as of 01:35, 27 March 2007 by chuck_starchaser (talk | contribs)
Overview:
- 2629: Cinematics: Iaison incident + time gaps between chapters
- Each chapter would be about 10 missions, and ends with a descisive battle or flashpoint
- Flashpoints:
- Iaison Incident
(cinematic only) Timeline: 2629 Vega Sector penetration + Iason incident
- 2632: Destruction of a pre-war carrier by kat military attack (tentative, chuck_starchaser)
Preceded by: missions against kat pirates and warlords, off a pre-war carrier. During this chapter, the kat problem is one of kat pirates attacking Terran shipping. At the end of this chapter, the player's carrier is on its way to replace another, but the other carrier gets attacked by a large, military kat force, and is destroyed. The player's carrier Captain orders retreat from the system just in time. Upon return, Bossman and the rest of the crew are told to never speak to anyone about the incident. Ships flown: ??? Ships met: ??? Systems: ??? Characters met: ??? Timeline: 2630-2634 "space piracy, kidnapping and interplanetary plundering by Kilrathi" (KS Manual) 2630 Turreted Laser Cannon enters service
- 2633: Safe return of a pre-war carrier trapped behind enemy lines (tentative, Shissui)
Preceded by: running supply ship (Drayman) escort missions (which supply carriers on the front). Pre-war carriers patrol systems at the front for kat pirates and warlords. The kat pirates have figured out, by now, that going against a carrier is hard; but cutting their supplies is easier. Drayman convoys must regularly dock with pre-war carriers at the front, and Bossman flies escort. But on one of these runs, a carrier being resuplied is attacked by a kat military force, just as two Draymans are docked with it. Bossman must help repell the attack. Both Draymans are destroyed, and the carrier is battered. So, Bossman can't come back, and the carrier's captain explains that they saw a larger kat military force going past them towards Terran space. They can't afford to meet that force, so they must explore uncharted systems to get back. Bossman must go through jump points ahead of the carrier, to verify the systems are safe. Ships flown: ??? Ships met: ??? Systems: ??? Characters met: ??? Timeline: 2633 M-421A survey + Image-Recognition missile enters service
(At this stage, the kilrathi will have hacked into the TKB (terran knowledge bank) and will have learned the earth's position as well as all our system's. This is why I insisted on having the trackrha spy ship design in the plot.)
- 2634 (earlier): Destruction of the Anna Magdalena
Preceded by: missions against kat pirates and warlords, off a pre-war carrier Ships flown: ??? Ships met: ??? Systems: ??? Characters met: ??? Timeline: 2634 Terran Confederation Congress The TCC voted unanimously to enforce a non-agression policy with the Kilrathi and threaten military reprisals if it was broken. Victory Streak 2634.186 Declaration of War: The Anna Magdelena, ferrying orphans to Dieno, is attacked by a pair of Kilrathi fighters. All hands are lost. In retaliation for this and the five-year string of equally heinous abuses of all known laws of civility, the Terran Confederation officially declares war on the Empire of Kilrah for countless acts of piracy and unwarranted assault. Victory Streak
- 2634 (later): The fall of McAuliffe (preceded by patrol missions)
Base: Alexandria space station Ships flown: ??? Ships met: ??? Systems: Mcauliffe Characters met: "Spirit's father: tanaka shun called "go-devil" is the one ripper-bossman briefly meets\fights with during the mc auliffe events" ? Timeline: 2634.228 TCN cryptographer Ches M. Penney intercepts and partially decodes a stray Kilrathi cipher implying that a strike will soon be launched against the planet McAuliffe and its orbitting space station, Alexandria. Confederation High Command orders a counteroffensive twice the size of the anticipated fleet, hoping to reach McAuliffe first and ambush the attackers. Claw Marks, KS Manual 2634.235 After a tense rush to McAuliffe, the Confederation fleet establishes a formidable defensive position around the planet. When the Kilrathi fleet arrives, however, it is quadruple the expected size. The incomlete transmission of the intercepted message had underestimated the size of the Kilrathi offensive. So begins the McAuliffe Ambush engagement. In several days of bloody combat, the Terran fleet is all but obliterated, leaving a still-sizeable force of funtional Kilrathi spacecraft. But the Kilrathi, momentarily daunted by the ferocity of the Terran resistance, turn back to regroup and repair. The first large-scale Terran-Kilrathi engagement ends with the Kilrathi spearhead momentarily broken. The phase-shield piercing torpedo technology is used by Kilrathi forces during this ambush for the first time. That technology is soon to be adapted by the Terran Military. Claw Marks, KS Manual
- 2634 (next day): The retaking of Mcauliffe: Multiple missions in a single day!!!
Preceded by: (space thick with kats all the time...) Raptor minelaying mission, and others rarely encountered in previous WC games such as officer shuttle destruction, spy ship detection and destruction (the spy ship possesses a cloak rendering it invisible to radar (although NOT to human eyes like the later stakhra stealth fighter) and will be hard to spot in an asteroid belt, for instance) Base: Grey Wolf (Concordia supercruiser) Ships flown: ??? Ships met: ??? Systems: Mcauliffe Characters met: Paladin?, Iceman? Timeline: 2634.236 Battle of McAuliffe Fighters and bombers from the Concordia and the Ark Royal launch on a counter-attack against Kilrathi forces at McAuliffe. Concordia's forces feign at a carrier, then break off, loop McAuliffe and attack the Kilrathi transports and landing craft, while Ark Royal's forces engage the originally targetted Carrier. Once Ark Royal's bombers have struck the carrier, they loop around the planet and form the second wave of the attack against the Kilrathi transports and LCs. There is only time for one sweep, and the confed forces can't slow down because they need the velocity to loop back out and make it to rendezvous with the carriers. Missiles are to be under complete computer control, taking care of target acquisition and firing. Pilots are to control the guns --Action Stations 2634.236 - 2634.239 The Concordia is abandoned and explodes just before Turner jumps back to McAuliffe. --Action Stations 2634.352 The Kilrathi Emperor announces the decree to eliminate the human race. KS Calendar
- 2635/6: .... (other chapters?)
Preceded by: Base: Ships flown: Ships met: Systems: Characters met:
Timeline: 2637 Chen Kien graduates ************************* Ouch! *****************************
- 2638: .... (another chapter?)
Preceded by: Base: Ships flown: Ships met: Systems: Characters met: Timeline: 2638 Flak Cannon enters service
- 2639: The retaking of Enyo
Preceded by missions to cut Kilrathi resupplies and reinforcements Base: Grey Wolf (Concordia supercruiser) Ships flown: ??? Ships met: ??? Systems: Enyo Characters met: Hunter, Knight (and La Doña, saved by Knight), Spirit's dad Timeline: 2639 Kilrathi forces occupy Enyo 2639.033 Kilrathi occupation forces land on the human-occupied world McAulifee, put a quarter of a million human prisoners under orbital guns, and await Terran reprisals. So begins the McAulifee Engagement, a tactical situation made difficult by the presence of so many hostages. Phase One of the McAulifee engagement involves bringing in an attack force against the Kilrathi fleet at McAuliffe/Enyo. The attack force under command of Captain Geoffrey Tolwyn consists principally of Raptor-Class heavy fighters reconfigured to carry extra Porcupine Space Mines and practically no missiles. The force is small enough that Kilrathi forces at McAulifee are certain of victory. The Phase One forces drop their Space Mines in one region of space near McAulifee and engage the enemy. Kilrathi ships maneuver to get out of the mined region and turn their attention to destroying the invaders. By the time the Kilrathi navigators realize that the mined region corresponds to McAulifee's principal jump point, it is too late: Phase Two has begun. A single radio signal detonates all the specially- -modified Porcupine mines, and moments later the remainder of the Terran fleet appears at the jump point, in the middle of the engagement. The Terran fleet strikes first against the gunships threatening the human colonies. The enemy ships are destroyed with minimal loss of life among the colonists. Then the two fleets settle in for a pounding match. The McAulifee engagement ends with the Kilrathi in retreat. Losses have been nearly identical between the two fleets, but the Kilrathi have been forced to abandon a strategic position. Claw Marks, KS Manual
- 2640: .... (another chapter?)
Preceded by: Base: Ships flown: Ships met: Systems: Characters met: Timeline: 2640 Neutron Gun enters service (I suppose the "movie Rapier" doesn't exist before this, since it has a neutron gun.)
- 2641/2/3: .... (other chapters?)
Preceded by: Base: Ships flown: Ships met: Systems: Characters met:
- 2644: Assisting the Tiger's Claw in repelling invading kilrathi fleet
Preceded by missions off the Grey Wolf Base: Grey Wolf (Concordia supercruiser) Ships flown: ??? Ships met: ??? Systems: ??? Characters met: ??? Timeline: 2644 Trojan Four Spaceyards builds the first Bengal: Tiger's Claw Daymon Karnes, at this time considered being a war hero, is MIA when he doesn't return from a standard patrol in system M-421A. Confederation HQ finds out later that Karnes has turned renegade and begun to establish a pirate base on Tortuga, a planet in M-421A. Confed declares this fact Top Secret fearing it might have negative effects on morale. WC Academy Series The newly-launched TCS Tiger's Claw, on its shakedown cruise, carrying a minimal spacecrew and an under-experienced command, finds itself in the path of a surprise Kilrathi invasion force. The ship's unexpected presence along the Kilrathi flight plan, clever tactics on the part of the command crew, and performance above and beyond the call of duty by the spacecrews rout the superior Kilrathi force. Shortly thereafter, Tiger's Claw is given permanent assignment in Vega Sector. Claw Marks
- 2645: .... (another chapter?)
Preceded by: Base: Ships flown: Ships met: Systems: Characters met: Timeline: 2645 Second Bengal class, TCS Kipling, launched
- 2647: .... (another chapter?)
Preceded by: Base: Ships flown: Ships met: Systems: Characters met: Timeline: 2647 The Battle of the Landreich
- 2648: .... (another chapter?)
Preceded by: Base: Ships flown: Ships met: Systems: Characters met:
- 2649: Custer's Carnival
Preceded by: Base: Tiger's Claw Ships flown: ??? Ships met: ??? Systems: ??? Characters met: The newbies: Maniac, Spirit and Angel. Timeline: 2649 Terran ground forces launch an attack on a fortified Kilrathi colony, only to be routed by unexpected Kilrathi fighter support. The Terrans quickly reform and advance back into Terran space, their lightly-armed transports pursued by Kilrathi warships. The TCS Tiger's Claw is detached from its previous station and assigned to intercept the pursuing fighters in a delaying action evantually known as Custer's Carnival. Swarmed and badly damaged by Kilrathi fighters, the carrier distracts Kilrathi forces long enough for the Terran fleet to reach safety. Despite the fact that three-fourths of its engines are destroyed and half its pilots are listed as casualties, the heroic efforts of the Claw's crew allows the carrier to make it back into Terran space. Two Gold Stars and numerous other medals - many of them posthumous - are awarded to the ship's personnel. The carrier itself spends six months in spacedock for repairs and refitting. Claw Marks, KS Manual
"The plot will end with a vid sequence in witch the pilots discuss the near arrival of a new recruit: a certain christopher blair..."
