History Quotes / FreeSpace

->"[[ApocalypticLog This is the final entry in the personal log of Admiral Aken Bosch, Supreme Commander of the Neo-Terran Front.]] Our encounter with the Shivans has vindicated all I have fought for these past thirty years. My life's work has been achieved. I have created the technology to enable communication between the Shivans and the Human Race. Although our FirstContact was rudimentary and crude, I have initiated the first phase of a new alliance with the Destroyers, an alliance upon which the fate of Humanity depends. As a young pilot, [[CallBack I battled against the rebels of the Great War,]] the Galactic Terran Intelligence whose research of Shivan technology and biology would form the cornerstone of my project. The Terran-Vasudan Alliance buried this knowledge, but I resurrected it. I, alone, realized our species had no future with the Vasudans. If we are to survive, our destiny must lie elsewhere. As I make this final entry, my crew is preparing to scuttle the NTF ''[[CoolStarship Iceni]]'' and board the Shivan transports. We embark on a miraculous journey toward a new horizon. This tragic era of hatered and misunderstanding between our races is over. On this day... For the first time in my life... ''I am filled with joy.''"

->"[[ApocalypticLog This is the final entry in the personal log of Admiral Aken Bosch, Supreme Commander of the Neo-Terran Front.]] Our encounter with the Shivans has vindicated all I have fought for these past thirty years. My life's work has been achieved. I have created the technology to enable communication between the Shivans and the Human Race. Although our FirstContact was rudimentary and crude, I have initiated the first phase of a new alliance with the Destroyers, an alliance upon which the fate of Humanity depends. As a young pilot, [[CallBack I battled against the rebels of the Great War,]] the Galactic Terran Intelligence whose research of Shivan technology and biology would form the cornerstone of my project. The Terran-Vasudan Alliance buried this knowledge, but I resurrected it. I, alone, realized our species had no future with the Vasudans. If we are to survive, our destiny must lie elsewhere. As I make this final entry, my crew is preparing to scuttle the NTF ''[[CoolStarship Iceni]]'' and board the Shivan transports. We embark on a miraculous journey toward a new horizon. This tragic era of misunderstanding between our races is over. On this day... For the first time in my life... ''I am filled with joy.''"

->"I know why The Ancient Ones were destroyed, and I know what they knew. I know that if not for the Shivans they would've perished long before. Without the Shivans, someone would've discovered The Ancient Ones in their infancy, and eliminated them; just as surely as they eliminated countless billions of others. I believe it is only the destroyers]] [[LaserGuidedKarma who are killed. The Shivans are the Great Destroyers, but they are also the Great ''Preservers.'' That is why, when we moved into space, there was no one powerful enough to kill us. [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Long had]] ''[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters we]]'' [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters been the destroyer: our turn had nearly come.]] In the [[GreatOffscreenWar Vasudan War,]] [[HumansAreSpecial we learned how to adapt.]] [[HumansAdvanceSwiftly We learned how to study our enemy.]] [[HumansAreWarriors We learned how to overcome.]] [[HumansAreSurvivors We learned how to survive.]] And so we did. All the jump points from {{Earth|ThatWas}} are gone, but the Shivans can rebuild them. [[SequelHook I'm told we can expect them again; but not in my lifetime.]] [[PyrrhicVictory Such is liberation.]]"

->"Thirty-two years ago in the Altair system, Vasudan scientists discovered the remnants of an extinct civilization we now call "[[{{Precursors}} the Ancients]]". And here we found the secret to defeating the Shivans. How close did we come to becoming a footnote in the history of a future species that would happen upon our ruins ten-thousand years from now? Would ''they'' indulge in the fiction of their own immortality until the Shivans came for them? And how long had this gone on? Did the Ancients stumble upon the monoliths and the tombs of their predecessors in this distant corner of space, dismissing the warnings carved in the walls of the sepulcher? And when the Destroyers came at last, what did the Ancients think as they sifted the cremation of dust and bones, staring into the mute remains for a key, some solution to their plight? What if there had been countless races, stretching back into infinity, and like the Nine Cities of Troy, each civilization had been built on the rubble of one that came before, each annihilated by the Shivans? The Ancients died eight-thousand years ago. As Humanity emerged from its neolithic infancy, they believed their voyage across the sea of stars woke the dragon that slept beneath the waves. That the Shivans were birthed from the flux of {{Subspace|OrHyperspace}}, and their destruction was the revenge of an angry cosmos."

->"Ours was a proud people, and always the strongest. For thousands of years our empire expanded; for so long we could imagine ourselves alone in the universe, for so long [[AbsentAliens never did we encounter advanced life]]. And we traveled faster and farther, spreading in our galaxy. And before long, we could see the day when our reachable systems would have been exploited; and then there would be nowhere else to go... And we discovered {{Subspace|OrHyperspace}}. It gave us our galaxy, and it gave us the universe. And we saw other advanced life, [[AbusivePrecursors and we subdued it, or we crushed it: in months, the elimination of billions of years of evolution on a similar but slower path.]] With Subspace, [[AndManGrewProud our empire]] [[TemptingFate would surely know no boundaries.]]

->"I know why [[{{Precursors}} The Ancient Ones]] were destroyed, and I know what they knew. I know that if not for the Shivans they would've perished long before. Without the Shivans, someone would've discovered The Ancient Ones in their infancy, and eliminated them; just as surely as they eliminated countless billions of others. I believe it is only [[AliensAreBastards the]] [[HumansAreBastards destroyers]] [[LaserGuidedKarma who are killed.]] [[MeaningfulName The Shivans are the Great Destroyers, but they are also the Great]] ''[[MeaningfulName Preservers.]]'' That is why, when we moved into space, there was no one powerful enough to kill us. [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Long had]] ''[[HumansAreTheRealMonsters we]]'' [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters been the destroyer: our turn had nearly come.]] In the [[GreatOffscreenWar Vasudan War,]] [[HumansAreSpecial we learned how to adapt.]] [[HumansAdvanceSwiftly We learned how to study our enemy.]] [[HumansAreWarriors We learned how to overcome.]] [[HumansAreSurvivors We learned how to survive.]] And so we did. All the jump points from {{Earth|ThatWas}} are gone, but the Shivans can rebuild them. [[SequelHook I'm told we can expect them again; but not in my lifetime.]] [[PyrrhicVictory Such is liberation.]]"

'''Narrator:''' "The ''Colossus'' is the most powerful spacefaring warship ever constructed. [[MileLongShip Spanning six kilometers from bow to stern]], the ''Colossus'' has taken over twenty years to complete. Twelve ''Lucifer''-class Destroyers can fit within its massive hull. Its state-of-the-art weaponry includes forty-five [[FrickinLaserBeams laser turrets]], fifteen [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter flak guns]], twelve [[MacrossMissileMassacre missile batteries]], and twelve [[WaveMotionGun beam cannons]]. The ''Colossus'' wields more firepower than five ''Orion''-class Destroyers. Sixty fighter and bomber wings are housed in its vast hangar, and its crew numbers over thirty-thousand. Among its contractors are industry giants Triton Dynamics, Subach-Innes, and the Akheton Corporation. TheAlliance now wages war on multiple fronts, in Deneb, Alpha Centauri, Epsilon Pegasi, and the mysterious nebula beyond Gamma Draconis. Once deployed, the ''Colossus'' will end these conflicts swiftly and decisively. [[TemptingFate If ever the Shivans return to threaten our worlds, we will be ready to face the challenge, securing peace for today and for generations to come]]."

-->'''Obtaining Rear Admiral rank in [=FreeSpace=] 2'''

-->'''Admiral Petrarch, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21yeCnzKcw ending B]] (Player does not survive)'''

-->'''Admiral Petrarch, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21yeCnzKcw ending B]] (Player does not survive'''

->"To the Officers and Crew of the GTD ''Aquitaine'': We have halted the Shivan advance. The battle of Capella is over. We sealed off the system and our people are safe, maybe forever. No one can fathom how or why the Shivans destroyed the Capella star. Though we know our enemy better now than we did thirty-two years ago, [[InscrutableAliens their motives remain a mystery]]. Perhaps they are exiles as we are, nomads wandering the universe, searching for a way back home. The explosion of a star may be a bridge between this universe and their own. As the old poet once said, 'There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' From our odyssey in to Hell, we have returned with a gift: The Ancient technology to build a portal between Delta Serpentis and Sol. To restore the link to our [[EarthThatWas blue planet]]. [[SequelHook To return home, after all these years]]. This is Admiral Petrarch, signing off."

!!!Descent [=FreeSpace=]: The Great War {{Cutscene}}s and monologues

!!![=FreeSpace=] 2 Cutscenes and Monologues

-->'''Admiral Aken H. Bosch, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8sy1BPErro final monologue.]] Entry was made shortly before he and his senior staff ventured into the Valley of the Kings.'''

--> '''The PlayerCharacter, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXeI4EJiZh4 "The Endgame"]]'''