However, things soon start to get really, really weird. From there, he manages to land a job doing freelancer work for the Liberty Security Force. He is rescued and taken to Planet Manhattan. Trent barely manages to make it to an escape pod, which leaves him drifting in outer space. But guess what? Just when Trent managed to close the deal at the neutral ground of Freeport 7, two mysterious spaceships suddenly appear out of thin space and destroy the station. After a couple of months of hardships, he finally manages to score a deal for 1 million credits for a ton of boron. A couple of conflicts have managed to erupt, but overall, the whole system is in peace.Įnter young pilot Edison Trent, a mechanician apprentice from Planet Leeds who, enthralled by all the massive wealth found on the Border Worlds, leaves his repair shop and goes out on a journey for "the deal of a lifetime". After more than 100 years of uninterrupted war, the Alliance, on the verge of massive defeat, is so goddamn hell-bent on not surrendering before the Coalition, it spends massive resources as its last hope for survival: sending five huge spaceships filled with Human Popsicles to the Sirius system, far away from the conflict that separated Humankind for all these years.Įight hundred years later, Humanity is thriving in the far-away Sirius sector, divided into four countries or "houses", each named after the spaceships that brought them there: Liberty (USA), Bretonia (United Kingdom), Rheinland (Germany) and Kusari (Japan) the fifth ship, the Hispania ( Spain and Mexico), was lost in transit to Sirus, but its impact is still felt on the sector. In the 23rd century, Humanity is caught in an apparently endless war between two factions within the Solar System: The Alliance and the Coalition. Unlike its predecessor which was a space flight simulator, this game is an Elite-like space exploration game. Liberty Bartender: To your good fortune in Liberty, sir.įreelancer is a game created by Microsoft Games and Digital Anvil, specifically by Chris Roberts, and is the Spiritual Successor to Privateer, a spinoff of his previous franchise Wing Commander, as well as a sequel to Starlancer.
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