FreeSpace 2 Source Code Project
Some notable original mods and campaigns have been created, such as "Wings of Dawn" which takes place in an anime-style world, and "Blue Planet" which offers a continuation of "Freespace 2", telling of a civil war between Earth and the GTVA. "The FreeSpace Port", sometimes called FSPort, ports the original "Descent: FreeSpaceThe Great War" to the "FreeSpace 2" and SCP engine with many graphical enhancements, and serves as a base for many mods set in the FreeSpace: Great War era, such as "Shrouding the Light" and "Awakenings". "Silent Threat: Reborn" similarly ports the "Silent Threat" expansion for Descent: Freespace into the Freespace 2 SCP engine.
Descent: FreeSpace – The Great War
"FreeSpace" was Volition's first project after the split from Parallax Software, which also spawned Outrage Entertainment. It is not part of the canon of the "Descent" computer game series, and contained none of its ideas and only small portions of its code. It was only prefixed with "Descent" to avoid trademark issues with Mijenix Corporation's "FreeSpace", a disk compression utility. Volition also used the term "FreeSpace" in the game to initially describe what became later known as subspace. The game was conceived by Adam Pletcher, with all the features of space simulator games his team had found to be fun. The games "" and "Wing Commander" were their primary inspirations, and those influences made their way into the game's flight model, along with the influence of historical WWII dogfights. Themes from the fiction of "Star Wars", "", and "Ender's Game" form a part in shaping the background and story of the "FreeSpace" world. The chaotic battles between masses of ships commonly found in science-fiction anime became one of the features of "FreeSpace".