HOMEWORLD EMPIRE

Single Player Game Script

Cast of Characters
Character Actor Description
Echo of KARAN S’JET Heidi Ernest Know her, love her
Once mighty, wise and dying emperor of
The Emperor
Hiigara.
Youngest, naïve, enthusiastic son of The
Kalgai
Emperor
Middle child of The Emperor. Thoughtful,
MIRABLINE
principled, articulate.
Oldest child of The Emperor. Compassionate
Durkarian
but torn.
Grand Admiral of the fleet. Cunning, cold,
Ghiritzen
efficient.
Mirabline’s intelligence attaché. Crafty,
Cephalon Peake
subtle, sexy.
Admiral of the rimward fleet. Young, cool,
Ohtaria
confident.
Admiral of the Coreward fleet. World wise
Ceratius
and modest.
Creepy, cruel, mechanistic, voice of the
Collective Voice of the Vaygr
commanders of the Vaygr fleets.
Speaker for enclave of mystical S’Jet
Speaker of the Monks of the Core
followers.
What can I say, he’s Jar Jar the Hut in
Tobari Boss
disguise.
BRIDGE OFFICER Kalgai's Bridge Officer

COMM OFFICER

NOTE: Main Dialog is presented in Times Roman, left-justified, indented.

Misc. (allships) dialog is presented in Times Roman, right-justified.
Cinematic and directorial stuff are presented in Arial.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
GAME INSTALL....................................................................................................3

0. GAME LOADS ......................................................................................... 3

0.1. INSTALLATION CHARACTER PROFILES/BACKSTORY .......3
0.2. SIERRA STUDIOS INTRO .......................................................3
0.3. RELIC INTRO...........................................................................3
0.4. HOMEWORLD EMPIRE MAIN MENU .....................................3
LOCATION: SPACEPORT OF HIIGARA..............................................................3
0.5. ANIMATIC 01 ...........................................................................3
0.6. N01 – KALGAI ARRIVES ........................................................4

1. M01 – PARADE FOR THE EMPEROR................................................ 5

1.1. ANIMATIC02 –REUNION.........................................................7
1.2. NAV01 – K AND M GO TO KAROS .......................................10
LOCATION: KAROS CANYONLANDS...............................................................11

2. M02 – FIND MIRABLENE ................................................................... 11

2.1. NAV02 – K GOES TO MIRABLENE.......................................13

3. M03 – RESCUE MIRABLENE............................................................. 13

3.1. NAV03 – LEAVING KAROS ...................................................16

4. M04 – DEFEAT TOBARI...................................................................... 16

4.1. ANIMATIC 03 – VAYGR FLEET DETECTED ........................18
APPENDIX: MISCELLANEOUS BACKGROUND CHATTER ............................22

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GAME INSTALL

0. GAME LOADS

0.1. INSTALLATION CHARACTER PROFILES/BACKSTORY

0.2. SIERRA STUDIOS INTRO

0.3. RELIC INTRO

0.4. HOMEWORLD EMPIRE MAIN MENU

Player starts a new single player game.

LOCATION: SPACEPORT OF HIIGARA

0.5. ANIMATIC 01

Fade in — text card:

"Of course you want to know what it was like. To be a starship the size of
a city, to hold an entire race in your hands. To tear time and space apart,
to experience pain and potential beyond the grasp of any mere flesh. You
know that language can't begin to convey the feeling, but you think maybe
it was a little like being God.

"And you're right. It was like being some deformed, twisted God, trapped
in Hell."

--Karan S'jet
Codex

Fade to:

NARRATOR
Karan S'jet boarded the mothership as a human being. She left it as a
messiah.

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 Not because she returned her race to some forgotten homeland, half a
galaxy away. Not because of the technology that transformed her. Not
even because of the suffering she endured in the course of that
vivisection— the splicing of synapse to silicon, the painful grafting of
flesh with machinery.

Those sacrifices only made her an icon. It was the visions that elevated
her to godhood—the waking dreams, assaulting her whenever the warp
core ascended into hyperspace. Karan S'jet had been fused to the very
soul of that half-understood machine; time and space were not the only
things it twisted. The unfolding multiverse, the infinite fractal
proliferation of possible futures—somehow, Karan S'jet saw it all.
Somehow, she survived.

Afterwards it was just a matter of choosing the right path.

Her visions founded a dynasty. Perhaps it was the weight of those same
visions that finally drove her back into space, to die. But even then S'jet
did not abandon Hiigara. The Codex she left behind spoke to each of her
successors—every passage a revelation to some intended recipient, a
murky cipher to all others.

She brought Hiigara through the Dust Wars, when even the Bentusi
abandoned them.

She was there for the founding of the Pax Hiigara. She was there through
the Long Peace.

And when, after eight hundred years, the neighboring Veygr grew
skeptical of the legends and dared to wage war—there in the Codex,
Emporer Dutreau found the wisdom to defeat them utterly.

For a thousand years Karan S'jet has protected her children in this way.
But now the Codex has fallen silent. For the first time in the history of the
Pax an emporer lies on his deathbed, his heir unnamed—and Karan S'jet
does not speak to him …

0.6. N01 – KALGAI ARRIVES

POV settles into player's-eye mode. The following dialog is heard through bridge intercom:

COMM OFFICER
Traffic Control clears us for approach, Commander.

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 KALGAI
What's the Emporer's status?

COMM OFFICER
Unchanged, sir. The deathwatch continues.

KALGAI
No excuse to avoid protocol, then.

Well, proceed with the song and dance. Standard flyby, parade formation.
At your discretion.

1. M01 – PARADE FOR THE EMPEROR

Control to Player

Objective: Put the 15th (Kalgai’s squadron) into their

place in the Parade Formation
As they pass through the scene focused on the 15th, scripted background actions take place in
the scene showing the arrival of emissaries and representatives from throughout the empire
wishing to pay their last respects to the soon to be dead Suzerain.

Partway through this mission, the following dialog occurs in the background...

BRIDGE OFFICER
Sir, we're picking up a Tobari contingent approaching at 47 relative,
declination 23. Traffic Control is hailing.

An icon flashes at the requisite coordinates-- the player can zoom in on the Tobari at his
discretion, although his own mission continues unchanged.

KALGAI
Link that channel.

TRAFFIC CONTROL
--repeat, Tobari vessel at 42/23-sunward, what are your--

TOBARI
Hiigara Traffic control, this is No Surrender out of Corona Serpens. We
are here to pay humble tribute to the Emporer in his final hours. We come
bearing gifts.

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 KALGAI
(softly, to himself)
I bet...

TRAFFIC CONTROL
No Surrender, your attendance has not been scheduled. Hold your
position. I repeat, hold your position. Acknowledge.

TOBARI
Acknowledged, and our sincere apologies. We did not know that
honouring the Core's greatest leader required the blessing of petty
bureaucrats.

BRIDGE OFFICER
Intercept, sir?

KALGAI
(a bit sardonically)
No, lieutenant. We have a parade to fly.

TRAFFIC CONTROL
No Surrender, we are launching an escort to take you to parking orbit.
Vectors are coming over your nav channel now. Do not deviate from
them. Acknowledge.

TOBARI
We acknowledge, Hiigara. We repeat, we bear a gift for the royal family.
The S'jets may not look kindly upon those who would interfere in such
matters.

Please acknowledge.

TRAFFIC CONTROL
The S'jets are aware of your presence and your stated intentions, No
Surrender. They are also well aware of Tobari intentions in general. I
repeat, do not deviate from your assigned flight plan. Out.

During all this, the player has been on parade. Should he decide to break formation, he will
receive one warning; if he doesn't heed this, he is relieved of command and fails the mission: see
Appendix, M01: Warning to Player.

BRIDGE OFFICER
Flyby complete.

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 KALGAI
Proceed to Imperial Docking Bay…

Objective: Fly Kalgai past the admirals and dock with

the Space Port.

OHTARIA
Admiral Ohtaria at your command, 15th. Rimward Fleet stands ready.

CERATIUS
Admiral Ceratius at your command, 15th. Core Fleet stands ready.

GHIRITZEN
Grand Admiral Ghiritzen, 15th. At your command, and welcome. The
Pax mourns with you.

KALGAI
Acknowledged, Fleet Admirals, and thank you.

Miscellaneous background chatter comments on the squadron's progress: Appendix M01:

Docking Chatter for ambience.

TRAFFIC CONTROL
Squadron 15, you may stand down. Welcome home.

COMM OFFICER
Your siblings have already docked, Commander. They're waiting for you
in the Great Hall.

END OF MISSION 1

1.1. ANIMATIC02 –REUNION

The following Animatic is seen from the perspective of various security cameras sprinkled along
Kalgai's route from the docking bay to the Great Hall. This allows the animators maximum
leeway: the characters can be seen from long-distance (travelling away along a corridor, for
example), zoomed to extreme close-up (if you want to show facial expressions and moving lips),
or any combination in between. Regardless of the view, however, a tactical readout sits in one
corner of the screen: a combination camera-ID/timestamp, with a consistent overall header
(Palace Archives, perhaps) to indicate the source of all this footage.

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Kalgai enters the Great Hall. Mirabline comes to greet him: she and Kalgai do the embraceable
sibling thing. Durkarian is facing a window.

KALGAI
Mirabline! Great S'jet, it's good to see you. How's Nalthor?

MIRABLINE
Still in orbit, little brother.

KALGAI
And Durk! How long has it been? Twelve years?

DURKARIAN
turning from window — optional embraceable sibling thing

Seems longer.

KALGAI
I hear good things about you, brother. The Veygr aren't an easy people to
rule, and under you they haven't raised a peep in ten years.

DURKARIAN
It's hard to make trouble when you're not permitted any weapons.

We're hard on them, Kal. I know we have to keep them in line, but --I
wonder if Father knew what he was doing, when he put me in charge.

MIRABLINE
He knew. You've always been the compassionate one, Durk, but it takes
more than kindness. You needed the past ten years, to learn to be—hard,
sometimes. Or you wouldn't be ready for the Throne now.

DURKARIAN
The Throne.

You seem awfully sure.

KALGAI
Who else is it going to be, Durkarian? Me? I'm not even a real S'jet--

DURKARIAN
You are, in every way that matters.

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 KALGAI
Not missing a beat

--and Mir has has way too much fun pissing off self-important jarheads
like Ghiritzen. It's you, Durk. Has to be.

DURKARIAN
Then why hasn't he named me? What's he waiting for?

KALGAI
A sign from Karan, of course. You don't name an heir until the Great
Book speaks to you, even if there's only one choice. It'd just be bad form.

Cephalon Peake purposefully enters the hall.

CEPHALON
(Deferentially)
Lieges, my apologies for the intrusion.
To MIRABLINE:
We have a problem with the Tobari. The "gift" they're offering turns out
to be the location of one of our own message drones. They snagged it en
route from Nalthor. They're here to sell it back to us.

DURKARIAN
(appalled)
They're demanding ransom? At the emporer's deathwatch?

CEPHALON PEAKE
They're Tobari, sir. They know you wouldn't want to disrupt such a
solemn occasion by fighting over hardware. They're betting you'd rather
pay up.

KALGAI
They're not going to win that bet.

MIRABLINE
Kal. This isn't the time.

KALGAI
This is exactly the time! They're using father's death to turn a goddamn
profit!

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 MIRABLINE
One ransom isn't going to bankrupt the dynasty. I have no wish to turn my
father's deathwatch into a street fight.

KALGAI
We don't even know what the message is. We might end up ransoming
the technical specs for the Nalthoran sewer system.

MIRABLINE
I know the Nalthorans, Kal. They don't trust Hiigaran tech. They
wouldn't use a drone unless it was vitally important.

CEPHALON PEAKE
Mir, Kalgai's right. Give in now and in six months the Tobies will be
assassinating royals just to boost the number of state funerals they can
exploit. My advice is, hit them hard and leave them bloody.

MIRABLINE
And if father dies while we're out bloodying Tobari noses?

KALGAI
I'll take care of it; you truebloods stay here.

MIRABLINE
If you go, I go.

KALGAI
That's not—

MIRABLINE
My territory, Kal. My responsibility. Ceph, apprehend No Surrender.
Quietly. And—

CEPHALON PEAKE
It's done, Mir. Interrogation chambers are already online.

Zoom out to:

1.2. NAV01 – K AND M GO TO KAROS

Shows Karos Canyonlands, and Kalgai thread traveling there.

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 NARRATOR
The Tobari refused to cooperate at first. Then they spent ten minutes
alone with Cephalon Peake.

The Nalthoran message drone has been hidden near the edge of the Karos
Canyonlands (flashing icon), a known haunt of Tobari bandits. It is
guarded, but only against the predators and scavengers that usually prowl
these parts. The Tobari will not be expecting an encounter with two fully-
armed squadrons.

Zoom in to:

LOCATION: KAROS CANYONLANDS

2. M02 – FIND MIRABLENE

The 15th Squadron drops into the Karos Canyonlands.

BRIDGE OFFICER
Normal space, people. We've been snagged. Hyperspace net.

COMM OFFICER
Scanning transponder frequencies…No contact with the 2nd; repeat, no
contact. We are being jammed—

BRIDGE OFFICER
Damping signatures at these locations.

Icons blossom across the display.

Hyperdrive disabled. We're deaf to long-range transmissions.

KALGAI
Take out those inhibitors.

Objective: Destroy emplacements.

Control to player. Appendix M02: Attacking inhibitors for background chatter. Once
emplacements are neutralised…

COMM OFFICER
We've got a fix on Delphoenix's transponder.

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Icon flashes in tactical display.

She's deep in the canyonlands. Still unable to establish voice

communications.

KALGAI
All possible speed, helm.

Objective: Home in on the Delphoenix

En route, encounter emplacements:

ALL SHIPS
Whoa! Fleet Command, we're taking fire.

Something's shooting at us, Command—ordinance looks Tobari…

No surprise there…

Not ships, Commmand. Repeat, these are not ships. We're taking ground
fire.

Can't see anything against that terrain…

They're well dug in, Command. Armoured like an asteroid…

Game takes control: tactical view

BRIDGE OFFICER
Triangulating—gun emplacements detected at these locations.
Icons bloom. Release control to player

Objective: Destroy gun emplacements.

Appendix General combat chatter and M02: Attacking Tobari Gun Emplacements for
ambience.

Once emplacements have been destroyed…

BRIDGE OFFICER
That's the last of them. We've got a clear path to the 2nd.

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 COMM OFFICER
Still unable to establish voicelink, sir.

KALGAI
Helm: flank speed.

END OF MISSION TWO

Zoom out to:

2.1. NAV02 – K GOES TO MIRABLENE

NARRATOR
The Karos Canyonlands. A galactic boneyard, a sluggish vortex of
wreckage and dead machinery, as old as Balcorra. It took ten billion years
for gravity to pull these ruins together; some have drifted from the Rim
itself. Whatever built them was extinct long before the Hiigaran sun
ignited.

Which, all things considered, is probably just as well…

Starnav thread shows progress through the canyonlands.

Zoom in to:

3. M03 – RESCUE MIRABLENE

Default to Tactical View

COMM OFFICER
We have located the 2nd.
Tactical display shows location and intercept vectors.

Comm's still being jammed, but we should be close enough to override in

a few moments.

Buzz and cackle of static.

Working…

Objective: Reunite with Mirabline.

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The following voiceovers occur in the background, as the 15th moves into communications range:

COMM OFFICER
Voice link established.

KALGAI
Delphoenix, this is Spinward Reach. What's your status?

MIRABLINE
(fuzzed by static and breakup)
We're fine, little brother. Ceph's on recon. We've found the probe, but it's
too well-defended for my guard to take out by themselves.

KALGAI
Good thing we happened to be in the neighborhood.

MIRABLINE
We may not have much time. The Tobari got out a call before the
jamming started.

COMM OFFICER
Just a moment, please—linking with Del's array...

Game takes control: tactical view

BRIDGE OFFICER
Tobari defences are positioned here (tactical icons). There's the probe
(another icon): we should be able to take it back with… acceptable losses,
sir.

KALGAI
Do it.

Release control to player

Objective: Retrieve probe.

Appendix General combat chatter and M03: Retrieving the Probe for ambience.

Player fights to retrieve the Probe. Once he gets too close too succeeding, the Tobari prove to
be sore losers…

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 SHIP VOICE 1
What the—people, we're trying to rescue that probe, not—

SHIP VOICE 2
That's not us, Command. That's—

KALGAI
All ships, the Tobari are attempting to destroy the probe. Anyone who lets
them succeed answers to me.

Revised Objective: guard probe, then retrieve it

Appendix General combat chatter and M03: Tobari, burning bridges for ambience.
Once the objective has been realised, Beholder cruises into view.

CEPHALON PEAKE
I'm back. Took you long enough, Spinward.

KALGAI
What have you got for us, Ceph?

CEPHALON PEAKE
Bad news. A lot of hyperspace inhibitors out there.

MIRABLINE
Can't we blast them?

CEPHALON PEAKE
Not before all these long-range blips show up and start shooting at us.

KALGAI
There's nothing on my—
Go to tactical: an armada of contacts creeps in from long-range.

Oh, great.

CEPHALON PEAKE
The dampers don't seem to extend past the Canyonlands. And we've got a
head start. We're home free if we make it to the edge of the Canyon.

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Flank speed.

END OF MISSION THREE

Zoom out to:

3.1. NAV03 – LEAVING KAROS

Starnav shows the combined 2nd and 15th squadrons moving towards edge of the Canyonlands,
pursued by enemy blips.

NARRATOR
They are not called canyonlands without a reason.

There are cliffs, promontories, places to hide. There are high grounds
from which to launch an attack, cul-de-sacs to trap the unwary.

A sprinkling of enemy contacts appears at the edge of the Canyonlands. The Hiigaran forces are
now sandwiched between a stationary perimeter blockade and forces advancing from the rear.

And whatever else one may say of the Tobari, they know their own
hunting grounds…

Zoom in to:

4. M04 – DEFEAT TOBARI

Release control to player

BRIDGE OFFICER
The Tobari have blockaded our exit route. We may be able to break
through, but not before being overtaken by pursuing forces.

KALGAI
All ships, kill your drives. Repeat, kill your drives.

MIRABLINE
Kal, what—

KALGAI
Look at the numbers. We take on both those forces at once, we're dead.
So we let one group catch up—

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 MIRABLINE
—and take them on one at a time. Couldn't hurt to increase our current
strength, either.

KALGAI
My thoughts exactly.

BRIDGE OFFICER
Resourcing and construction systems are now on priority standing: fortify
flagships and begin immediate construction of new ships. Redeploy fleet
throughout local terrain. Defensive positioning.

Now, people. The Tobari will overtake us in 9.5 minutes.

Objective: Resource Gathering and ship construction

Objective: Prepare for Tobari attacks.

Appendix M04: Digging in for Tobari Assault for ambience.

Player has a time limit to get ready before the wave coming from the rear engages them. Players
who don’t fortify in a strategically advantageous place will have a rough time of it.

Objective: repel Tobari attack

Appendix General combat chatter for ambience.

First wave is defeated by the player.

Game takes control: tactical view, showing relative Hiigaran and Tobari positions.

BRIDGE OFFICER
The assault force has been defeated. The blockade is remaining
stationary.

Game releases control.

KALGAI
By the book. Choose the battleground, wear your enemy down, then make
them come to you.

CEPHALON PEAKE
A word of advice: look for the boss rocket. A big ship painted up like a
fish. It's not vital tactically, but morale-wise the boss is their best fighter.
Take her out and you'll shake the others up, but good.

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 Objective: Break through Tobari blockade.

Appendix General Combat Chatter and M04: Breaking Tobari Blockade for ambience.

Cephalon's ship—which is presumably not under player control at this point—comports itself very
well in the struggle. Once the blockade has been penetrated…

TOBARI BOSS
Run away, then. Run back to Hiigara and lick your sores, yes? We will
finish you off some other day.

And you: the Nalthoran who fights like a Tobari. Beholder, yes? I will
remember that name…
Boss ship escapes, other surviving Tobari flee as well.

Game takes control: tactical view

BRIDGE OFFICER
We have broken the Tobari blockade. The remaining hyperspace
inhibitors appear to be undefended.

Icons show location of inhibitors.

KALGAI
15th, stand ready: we're going to take out those inhibitors. Mir, now's
your chance to take a look at that probe.

MIRABLINE
Not exactly the quick strike we were hoping for, little brother. Hope it
was worth it.

Game releases control.

Objective: Deactivate Inhibitor emplacements.

END OF MISSION FOUR

Game takes control

4.1. ANIMATIC 03 – VAYGR FLEET DETECTED

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 BRIDGE OFFICER
Inhibitors neutralised. Broadband communications restored.
Three windows open on-screen, showing the bridges of Spinward Reach, Beholder, and
Delphoenix. Kalgai, Mirabline, and Cephalon are visible on their respective screens—views are
presented at distance or in close-up, at the animator's discretion.

KALGAI
We're free to jump, Mir.

Mir?

Mirabline touches a control. A fourth window opens on the screen; during the following
voiceover, it displays a series of tactical contacts, positions, and surveillance shots of a large and
ominous battle fleet.

NALTHORAN MESSAGE
We are the voice of the Nalthoran Directorate. We have discovered a fleet
of Veygr warships gathering within striking distance of the
Nalthoran/Veygr frontier. It is nearly large enough to overwhelm the
combined defences of the Nalthoran regime. It continues to grow. We
appeal to our governer Mirabline S'jet and to the rulers of the Pax Hiigara
itself. We believe that a Veygr attack is imminent.

Help us.

The Message ends. The window closes.

CEPHALON PEAKE
(incredulous)
The Veygr? Where'd they get the resources to build a fleet that size?
How could they pull it off without being discovered?

KALGAI
We've got to tell Durkaran. Damn. How could his intel people have
missed this?

Mir—how long ago was this sent?

MIRABLINE
(quietly)
Two standard weeks.

KALGAI
And the Tobari tried to ransom it—

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 MIRABLINE
Eight days ago, Kal. We've lost eight days.

KALGAI
Oh, God…

MIRABLINE
I'm going to Nalthor. Ceph, you're with me.

KALGAI
Mir. They'll slaughter you.

MIRABLINE
I should've been there. Eight days ago, I could've been th—

KALGAI
You’re a diplomat, sister. I'm a soldier, and I'm backed up by the 15th
squadron. Which one of us stands better odds against a fleet that size?

MIRABLINE
Of course you'll come with me—

KALGAI
No. I'm going to Nalthor. You get to Hiigara and bring back everything
that flies. We'll hold out until you arrive with reinforcements. It's the
only way.

MIRABLINE
Reluctantly, after a moment
Very well.

KALGAI
And, Mirabline…

MIRABLINE
Yes?

KALGAI
I'm sorry…

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Mirabline touches a control; her window goes dark.

END OF ACT 1

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APPENDIX: MISCELLANEOUS BACKGROUND CHATTER

(In addition to that from the original Homeworld, which I assume can be ported over
pretty much as is.)

(And let's try to get a few female voices in the chorus this time around, hmmm?)

Acknowledgment chatter

• Acknowledged. • Oh! Oh! Pick me, pick me!

• Yo • Still here.
• Right here • Standing by
• Ready

General Combat Chatter…

• Ouch! • They don't look so tough now, do

• Bastard almost got me! they?
• Auuuugh! Tell my wife I lo— • Are we retreating or charging?
• They're not paying us enough for • Run away!
this. • That'll teach 'em…
• I've got 'em, I've got 'em… • He's on your tail—watch it…
• Hey, this is easy! • These guys are tougher than I
• That's for Aeon, you scum-sucking thought…
haploid! • Oops. Sorry.
• We've lost half our wing, Control. • Pulling a lot of gees here.
• Anybody giving orders back there? • Now, this is what I signed up for!
• I think we're on our own… • Where did they come from?
• Hey, watch it! That's me! • I'm hit!
• Great S'jet but they're fast. • Help us out here
• We're getting slaughtered out here! • Requesting backup
• Nice shot…

M01: Warning to player…

• Fifteenth, stay in formation. Do not break ranks, repeat, do not break ranks.
• Fifteenth, stand down immediately. Helm and nav are relieved of command.

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M01: Docking chatter…

• Watch your flank, you're drifting... • Waxy discharge noted—see medical

• Declination's a bit low—planar about that…
bearing's good… • Unlock grapples
• Looking good, 15th... • Confirmed…grapples unlocked
• You're off-center, 15--realign... • Umbilicals extending...
• Begin decelleration... • Delta-v is minus 3...2.5...2...1.5...
• Great S'jet, are you trying to kill us • Safe-docking inertia, now.
all?
• Fuel, O2, scrubbers all primed.

M02: Attacking inhibitors…

• Hard to believe they can drop a whole fleet out of hyperspace.

• Feel it? Get this close, your hair stands on end. Something about the inhibitor field
• I'm getting a static discharge on my leading edge—
• It's harmless. Side-effect of the field.
• Keep your distance—when they blow, they blow.
• Good. Maybe they'll take some Tobies with them.

M02: Attacking Tobari gun Emplacements…

• Not like the old days…give me ship-to-ship any day

• Hey, they may be armoured but at least they don't move…
• Careful, people…they're hidden in the shadows…
• Use thermal, visual's next to useless out here…
• Close one. Those really pack a punch.

M03: Retrieving the Probe

• Not bad for a bunch of bandits...

• I've seen tighter formations in a whorehouse.
• This probe better be important, whatever it is…
• Bloody fixed emplacements again!

M03: Tobari, burning bridges…

• These guys are really sore losers.

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• Bloody Tobies.
• Watch it—they're shooting at the probe, they're shooting at—
• Protect that drone, people—otherwise we came all this way for the scenery…

M04: Digging in for Tobari Assault…

• Nine minutes to contact • At least there's a lot of raw material in

the neighborhood
• Eight minutes to contact • Assembly in progress…
• Seven minutes to contact • Your flank's exposed, seven—
reposition…
• The Tobari will overtake us in six • Be nice if we could wake up some of
minutes these Prodgy machines, eh?
• Five minutes to contact • This terrain's wreaking havoc with my
sensors…
• Four minutes to contact • We're running out of time here.
• Three minutes to contact • Could always use a few more
dreadnaughts…
• Two minutes to contact • Wonder what the Codex had to say about
this…
• One minute, people. • I'm getting their vector—we can catch
them in the crossfire…
• Thirty seconds to Tobari contact • Okay, we're in position
• Here they come, people. Look sharp. • For the Pax and the Prophecies…engage.

M04: Breaking Tobari Blockade…

• Careful—this is their back yard, not ours.

• Just them between us and home, now…
• Remember, target the fish.
• Easy for you to say—the fish is targetting me.
• Here, Tobie Tobie Tobie…

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