Description
The GTC Eden is under attack from the SC Hepitus, you must destroy the Shivan Cruiser before it destroys the Eden. Then fight off more hostiles.

Storyline:
Um... the Eden is "sure to be lost". The Hepitus is blowing it up. Blow it up instead. If you lose the Eden, you get a pair of what (in the horrible briefing) appear to be <i>Valkyries</i> to help you out. Great. Wonderful. Am I supposed to be caring? And it just gets worse in-mission...

Balance:
Not much to say here. You can take what you want in the way of fighters, but the mission itelf is a piece of cake for any player who's beaten the main FS campaign and/or Silent Threat (that is to say, all but two or three). I'll explain that in Design.

Design:
Ugh. The Eden starts at 3 percent hull, facing a Lillith (the Hepitus) at fifty or so. By the time I was even within range of the Lillith, the Eden was reduced to 1 percent, and the Cain didn't have the social politeness to stop shooting at it while I madly blasted its hull off. Oh well. I expected a shouting out by some chump in Command for losing the ship my briefing had ordered me to defend, but all that happened was that as soon as the Eden went down (and I mean the millisecond it was at 0 hull) was that Rama, Deva, and Arjuna wings jumped in at the exact same time as my friendly Leviathens entered the battlefield. Oh yeah... and Deva wing is all <b>cruisers!!</b>. The objectives? Kill the Hepitus, kill all hostiles and - separately - kill Rama wing. Um... why in the name of god is Rama separate? And while I was told in the briefing that my objective is to protect the Eden - whoops, guess that really doesn't matter at all. In fact, losing the Eden would <b>help</b> my cause since it'd provide two undamaged Levs to help me. I quickly slaughtered the bombers and cruisers, then polished off the fighters. Done. Complete. <i>Still</i> no communication? And then, when I warped out... no debriefing. <b>None at all.</b>

Gameplay:
Blech. It's just not fun! A quick sortie against a few cruisers with the help of your chums, some very simple and boring taking out of bombers before they can blow up your Leviathens (not too hard because these Nephilim seem to be pacifists). And no real story to spice things up. Yawn.

Other Thoughts:
Why do we drive on Parkways and park on Driveways? Why did I just capitalize those?