Time to be a shameless shill for my own project:
What is Diaspora?
After four long years in the making we are proud to release Diaspora: Shattered Armistice. Diaspora is an episodic-release single and multiplayer space fighter combat game set in the reimagined Battlestar Galactica universe. Diaspora is a standalone freeware game based on the FreeSpace Open Engine, everything needed to play is in the download. The project is not-for-profit and not associated with NBC Universal or Bigpoint's Battlestar Galactica Online.
Our team opted for episodic releases, each involving short plots surrounding different Colonial or Cylon ships and characters. The first Release, Shattered Armistice, tells the story of the Battlestar Theseus and her crew during the attack on the colonies. Many ships seen in the show are part of the first release but some such as the Viper MK2 and the Battlestar Galactica are going to be seen in later releases where they are part of the main story.
Shattered Armistice has a fully-voice acted 8 mission campaign with an original score and cinematics. Several ships never before seen in the Battlestar Galactica universe such as the Sobek class battlestar and Assault Vipers make an appearance.
If there is continued fan interest and support, future episodic releases will see ships such as Pegasus and Galactica from the show. You'll also see more ships not from the show that flesh out the Cylon and Colonial fleets.
http://www.diasporagame.com
Windows torrent:
http://diaspora.fs2downloads.com/Diaspora_R1_Windows.exe.torrent
Official release thread:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=81859.0
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One thing we really want to emphasize when people spread the word is that:
This is a standalone freeware game, everything you need to play is in the download.
We've noticed that people get confused if the word "FreeSpace" is thrown around at all.