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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)

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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	comment	Tachyon: The Fringe is a Space Flight Simulator made by NovaLogic in the year 2000, developed by Randy Casey (the maker of F-22 Lightning II). It follows the story of a 26th-century expert pilot Jake Logan, who lived a great contractor's career in our Solar System, flying freelance and fighting other people's fights.That was of course, until something goes horribly wrong. An emergency escort mission goes south as a hospital gets destroyed, and Jake ends up being the fall guy. He is subsequently exiled from Sol (with a very short trial) to a colonized region of space called the Fringe. Eventually, Jake gets a new life together, and the player controlling him has to pick a side, which is either the Galactic Spanning Corporation, or the Bora Mining Guilds, who are in a war of territorial claims. One does it all for the sake of money, the other does it to protect their territorial rights.Tachyon is unique, not like the other games by NovaLogic, because it takes place in space, does not have a sequel, and is the only game that does not have to do with anything by the United States Military. Not to mention a definitive storyline.There is a remake of this game in progress, based on the FreeSpace 2 Open Source Project. (Don't get your hopes up; as with most such hobby projects, it's been going on for a while and the implementers don't seem to have any time to spend on it.) Fortunately, unlike a certain other space dog-fighting game, you won't have much trouble installing the real thing anyhow.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_15d6b534	type	Standard Sci-Fi Fleet
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_15d6b534	comment	Standard Sci-Fi Fleet: Both GalSpan and Bora have those. No one else does.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: The Demon Pirates, because of the Twilight Fog.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Averted with Straw Feminist Lakita Ramos. The only reason she's available as a wingman is because her supervisor told her to be, and she never forgives you for being male or, more to the point, for showing her up.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings Whichever side you join, the opposition will end up leaving the Fringe and whichever home Jake goes to in the end is determined by his allegiance. In the GalSpan ending, the corporation "discovers" evidence that can clear Jake's name of the Halley bombing and submits it to the court of appeals for review. They also give Jake a generous retirement package for the role he played in the GalSpan/Bora war so that he no longer has to work ever again. The Bora are forced out of the Fringe and Jake returns home to Mars after his long exile. In the Bora ending, GalSpan is forced to leave the Fringe since the war has become too costly and ends up financially ruining the corporation. Many of its CEOs, especially Regional Director Gustav Atkins, are fired and rivals state their interest in buying it out. Because of this, the evidence that could have cleared Jake's name is lost forever and he will always be known in Sol for his role in the Halley bombing. However, he has found a new home among the Bora, who have secured their place in the Fringe, and wins the affections of Anna Highfall.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: Jake Logan. Depending on the player's choice, he finds a new home amongst the Bora or is allowed to return to the Sol system.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Baron Hajod.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2458ae1a	type	Shiny-Looking Spaceships
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2458ae1a	comment	Shiny-Looking Spaceships: GalSpan vessels are silver and blue and very pretty.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2536f695	type	Game-Breaker
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2536f695	comment	Much more importantly, 'slide' mode allows you to fire off-axis — that is, to rotate your ship's nose away from your line of travel so that you can fire perpendicular (or at any angle) to the direction in which you're moving. Consider this capability in the context of, say, an attack on a capital ship, and you'll begin to understand why, in spite of its actually being closer to what "real space combat" might be like than most games bother to offer, some folks consider 'slide' mode a Game-Breaker.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2804d516	type	Master of None
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2804d516	comment	Master of None: The Cutlass and the Poseidon, the two 'starter' ships that you get after picking a side in the Fringe War. Not spectacular, and neither fast enough to dodge nor powerful enough to take that many hits. The Cutlass in particular is notable for having 5's across the board in its ratings, but no way to take advantage of its balanced stats.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: One of the weapons you can get is a machine gun IN SPACE!. It's fairly good at damaging hulls, but is virtually useless against shields. It comes with 750 rounds, but you can extend that to 937 with the Ammo Pack system card, and the bonus in single player: it recharges for free between missions!
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The Bora pulsar laser does more damage than any other Bora energy weapon, has by far the fastest rate of fire, and is just generally super nifty. It also drains weapon energy at an enormous rate, which forces a pilot who equips it to choose between starving shields and engines in order to get the most out of the weapon, or maintaining a balanced energy distribution profile and only firing in two- or three-second bursts separated by long recharge times.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2cb9b1a9	type	Cool, but Inefficient
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2cb9b1a9	comment	Cool, but Inefficient: The Rail Gun seems wonderful on paper. A ton of damage delivered via hitscan - which is a boon in the Tachyon world, where every other weapon has painfully slow projectiles that require lots of leading. But the firing rate is very slow, and most importantly every shot eats a ton of energy, so it's impossible to resort to Rail Guns as your only weapon. And even using them with other guns, it doesn't take long before you figure out you'd almost always do more damage by shooting continuously with something else instead of waiting for the Rail Gun(s) to recharge. This also falls under Crippling Overspecialization. The Rail Gun takes too many hits to go through even fighter or bomber shields to be worth it, most of the time...but it destroys capital ship powerplants with a single shot. While useless against shields, against the hull it'll only need one hit. The Bora Pulsar Laser is a lot of fun and will chew up a target with ease. Unfortunately, it drains your reactor's energy like no one's business...energy you need to share with your shields or engines. The Helios Rocket. Big boom. Nice explosive radius. Slower than molasses and expensive to boot...it is also an anti-capital-ship weapon, but there are better choices for both factions. Except for multiplayer, where it's the only weapon capable of taking out a starbase. The Corona Device that temporarily turns your ship into a Blast Torpedo and deals damage to any ship in immediate vicinity, while also draining your shields. Unfortunately, most of the time the enemy will be too far away for the device to be of much use. And if someone's firing at you, the last thing you want is to have your shields drain. The Deimos Heavy Laser is one of the biggest lasers available to a GalSpan player. It takes a chunk out of even capital ship shields (to say nothing of the far weaker fighter shields), but it takes a lot of your available energy reserve to fire just one shot, and its rate of fire is almost criminally low. If you miss, expect to wait more than a few seconds before getting off the next one. Sappers. They're devastatingly effective when they work, since they can completely drain enemy targets' engines, shields, or power reserves, or simply blow them up with remote explosives. The problem is that they're hard to aim and almost impossible to track once fired, and the most destructive variety, remote explosive sappers, are criminally under-stocked, as you can only carry two of them per launcher. Torpedo launchers. These are extremely powerful explosives that draw from your power supply rather than having limited ammo. While in theory this is great—since energy can be regenerated infinitely, this means infinite numbers of torpedoes available versus just six to eight missiles on a rack in a mission—you're drawing large amounts of energy from the same pool that powers your lasers, shields, and engines, and many torpedo launchers have very lengthy reload times. They are not particularly fast, several are also unguided, and all of them can be shot down by enemy weapons fire.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The Demon pirates.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_305bcbb9	type	Space Pirates
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_305bcbb9	comment	Space Pirates: Skavs, Void Runners, Blood Clan, Demon Pirates (only in name, as they don't care about capturing ships or cargo; they just kill all who enter the Twilight Fog), Cinder Station Mercenaries (only associated with pirates).
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_33a71ee9	type	This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_33a71ee9	comment	This Is Wrong on So Many Levels!: Jake's reaction when he's told to find a missing art piece for one of the local robber-barons... and discovering that said missing art piece is the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Being late of the Sol system, he takes umbrage with the desecration of such a famous work.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	type	Game-Breaking Bug
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_33ca811a	comment	Game-Breaking Bug: Normally, mega-gates cannot be targeted and, therefore, opened using a cheat code. There is one, however, near Neptune that is selectable (and openable) but will deposit the player in empty space without stars, planets, or a way out. The gate was used in the exile cutscene.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: Bora's hat. They started as a political group after the formation of One World Order and decided to leave the Sol sector through a one-way gate. Obviously, they didn't bother to get permission to settle a region of space far from Sol from a government they hated. Now this has come back to bite them in the ass, as this fact is used by GalSpan to lay claim to their area of space. Naturally, this doesn't endear the Sol government to the Bora, who already assume it's corrupt as hell.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Dr. Randall Cassitor, because of his acts of human experimentation (which got him banned from the League of Scientists). All because he claimed it was For Science! and the betterment of humanity.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: One of the cheat codes in the game is "BOOM STICK".
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: The Boron Medium Laser, the go-to weapon for Bora pilots. Its qualities are all largely endearing ones—cheap, decent rate of fire, decent damage to hulls and shields, and relatively modest energy consumption. It's also just a laser, and substantially less flashy than later offerings like the Pulsar laser or Railgun...while being boatloads more efficient than either of those guns. Similarly, the Flare Medium Laser, the GalSpan equivalent of the Boron. Simple and effective, even if it isn't as useful against hulls as the Boron, but also not as punishingly energy-intensive or slow as the Deimos heavy laser nor as expensive to keep stocked as missiles. The EMP Projector. This weapon fires fast-moving EMP bolts that don't do any damage against a ship directly, but will quickly cripple their engines and reactors. It doesn't do anything interesting beyond that, but due to the fact that it draws from your reactor rather than an ammo stock like the Tesla missile, it's possible to quickly shut down entire enemy squadrons and come back later to clean them up at your leisure. System cards. These provide simple passive boosts to your ship, but the boosts they provide are also invaluable, such as aim assisted crosshairs, target information, afterburners, or spare energy reserves. The ring training courses quickly become repetitive but completing all 20 is worth over a hundred thousand credits, and can be completed early enough that newly unlocked equipment can be purchased immediately. The only downside is that because the courses only become available after choosing between GalSpan and Bora, they have to be completed twice.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Baron Hajad. He constantly mistreats his slaves to a severe degree, whipping them for his own sick amusement. He also throws tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants, such as an alliance with Baroness Onrald, the roof of the Cistine Chapel, etc.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Baron Hajod, natch.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3d4f0586	type	Units Not to Scale
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3d4f0586	comment	Units Not to Scale: Subverted. The game is known for its more-or-less realistic scale, with capital ships being much larger than fighters and space stations being truly humongous. Since planets always stay in the background, you are never sure how close you are to them.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Anna Highfall.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: Redship Rory, the most fearsome pirate in the Fringe. He doesn't like people making fun of the name.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4276401c	type	Shoot the Messenger
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4276401c	comment	Shoot the Messenger: One mission has you deliver a message from Baroness Onrald to Baron Hajod. The message is a very thorough insult, and Hajod orders his slaves to kill you. You have to evade gunfire from his station's defense platforms (and a bunch of fighters that come from the only gate out of his sector) to escape, and it ain't easy. The easiest way out? Before you land to deliver the message, fly up to each defense platform and destroy its power generator.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_427ca0d0	type	Animal Theme Naming
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_427ca0d0	comment	Animal Theme Naming: A lot of independent ship designs use the names of predatory fish (e.g. Mako, Piranha).
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	type	No Fair Cheating
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	comment	No Fair Cheating: Entering any cheat code causes voiceovers of Bruce Campbell calling you a little bitch.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_43bda213	type	A Taste of Power
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_43bda213	comment	A Taste of Power: Act 1 in Sol, technically.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_445bc425	type	GreyAndGreyMorality
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_445bc425	comment	Grey-and-Grey Morality: On the surface this looks like a typical 'evil corporation' plot, but after playing through both sides you find that either faction has their share of evils. In one of the GalSpan escort missions you learn that the Bora commonly raid GalSpan shipping, even if it's not war-related, as well as preying on GalSpan-related civilian shipping. GalSpan destroy several non-military starbases in Bora space as well as associating with the criminal Barons and blow up the Haley medical station in Sol, causing Jake's exile. Bora actively deal with terrorists and madmen. Both sides have valid reasons for fighting; GalSpan has legitimate claim to the territory the Bora occupies, and the Bora of course are fighting for their homes. Unfortunately, it is also stated in a news broadcast that should GalSpan fall, the huge redundancies that will follow will wreck the entire Fringe economy, making you, as the destroyer of GalSpan...
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	type	Game Mod
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	comment	Game Mod: The "Bloodstar Mod" would add a bunch of 3rd party ships to multiplayer, at the cost of replacing all the Bora or Galspan ships and breaking the single-player campaign.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_47198ac4	type	You Do NOT Want to Know
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_47198ac4	comment	You Do Not Want To Know: Anna's response to Jake's question as to how exactly one of the greatest artistic pieces of the Renaissance (we reiterate, the actual ceiling of the Sistine Chapel itself) ended up in the far flung reaches of Fringe space, removed from its native Vatican City and strapped to a rocket barge. Doubly so when it ends up being stolen by Baron Hajod, a literal slave driver with a face like a bald bearded thumb.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Baron Hajod is a boorish brute who whips his slaves for personal amusement and takes adversity with all the grace of a five-year old. With the exception of a single GalsSpan mission all your dealings with him involve defeating and humiliating him in various ways, and it is delightful.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_47fea76b	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_47fea76b	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_47fea76b
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: One newscast mentions that Saturn's NovaWorld Arena is expanding. NovaWorld is the game's multiplayer hosting service.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4a3e547f
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: Baron Hajod again.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4ae690ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4ae690ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4ae690ca
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4d1905e1	type	Pass Through the Rings
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4d1905e1	comment	Pass Through the Rings: One of the mini-games. Completion of all 20 ring courses awards over 100,000 credits- enough to set you up for the rest of the game. At least if you side with Galspan.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4d1905e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4d1905e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_4d1905e1
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_53e1f74c	type	Asteroid Thicket
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_53e1f74c	comment	This plays an important role in one particular mission where you go to save a frigate which has its controls disabled and the engine is plowing it into Asteroid Thicket. After blowing up some of the asteroids in the way, Jake gets the idea to destroy the engine's power plant and that causes the frigate to slow down and stop.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_53e1f74c	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_53e1f74c	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_53e1f74c
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_589e54d3	type	Charged Attack
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_589e54d3	comment	Charged Attack: The GalSpan Solaris Torpedo is capable of this. Due to its dumbfire nature, it's best reserved for taking down capital-sized ships.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_589e54d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_589e54d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_589e54d3
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5979acea	type	Fragile Speedster
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5979acea	comment	Fragile Speedster: The Pegasus. Spectacular acceleration and speed but a small weapons array and an extremely thin hull; if its shields go down, it's done for, but while it's up, it's a lightning-fast little terror.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5979acea	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5979acea	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5979acea
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: In the Hub region at least. The local Star Patrol commander explicitly states he doesn't give a damn about the GalSpan/Bora war, only that they "keep it off my front porch". It takes quite a bit of trouble to get him off his ass, though it does happen (ignoring a "cease and desist" order is a good start). Subverted in the Sol region, though; just as a fight against heavily-armed pirates seems to go badly for you, Star Patrol Enforcers pour out of the local TCG and utterly rip the pirate Shrikes to bits. Throughout the game, if you ever see Enforcer starfighters in red (hostile), run. Divert all energy to afterburners and do not look back. (Conversely, if you get on Star Patrol's good side and see them in green (allied) in certain missions...)
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_59907e4f	featureApplicability	-0.3
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_59907e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_59907e4f
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: In the Bora ending, GalSpan Regional Director Atkins could easily wipe the floor with the remaining Bora forces after they destroy the Hephaestus. However, Susan Bradley invited the press to witness the battle, and seeing the Director waste resources on a vendetta would only cause GalSpan stocks to plummet further. Atkins decides to leave in peace.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5ca80293	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5ca80293	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_5ca80293
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Naturally, you can collide with structures like space stations and the like, but AI-controlled craft have no such collision detection. Thus, it's possible to be chasing a ship that ends up flying inside a solid object, preventing you from following, firing on it, etc.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Ships under Baron Hajod's command tend to have unpleasant-sounding callsigns like "Punisher" and "Oppression". The actual danger they pose doesn't live up to them, though.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_61ff365d	type	Deflector Shields
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_61ff365d	comment	Deflector Shields: Nearly all ships have them. The ones you pilot have two: fore and aft. You can transfer power between then. For capital ships, critical systems that can be destroyed are not shielded.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_61ff365d	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_61ff365d	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_61ff365d
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58	type	Justified Tutorial
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58	comment	Justified Tutorial: And a pretty clever one at that. Since Jake Logan is already supposed to be an established fighter pilot, Novalogic framed the tutorial as an evaluation of a newly hired flight instructor.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_69ab6c58
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6a2d1b1a	type	Rebel Leader
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6a2d1b1a	comment	Rebel Leader: Susan Bradley is the unofficial leader of the Bora. She is more of a symbol of Bora defiance, but she also holds a lot of authority among the guilds. Naturally, GalSpan media brand her as a terrorist, especially since her squadron, Susan's Lance, are known for their daring raids deep in GalSpan territory.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6a2d1b1a	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6a2d1b1a	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6a2d1b1a
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In the Bora mission Weasel in the Coop, Gray Weasel tells Jake that GalSpan was behind the destruction of Halley Medical Station. They accidentally released a contagion on Halley, and when BioLith (a hazmat company) tries to help and finds out that GalSpan was somehow involved, they decided to replace an AGT Medical Shuttle (the real Argoso 914) with their "clean slate solution" (a shuttle with scan-proof explosives). And Jake ends up as the fall guy, naturally.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The game is full of those, especially the names of ships for GalSpan. Zeus: Director Atkins' flagship and the most powerful ship in GalSpan fleet, since it blew up Bora's latest ship with a single salvo. Olympus: Atkins' headquarters. Orpheus: "ripped apart" by Bora. Persephone: captured and held in Rory's "underworld". Hephaestus: GalSpan's enormous forge.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: There's a bunch of extra opportunities to make money that you'll only find by wandering around the regions. This FAQ lists most of them.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Bora ships and stations come in earth and rust tones, GalSpan's wear silver and light blue. Neutral factions are variants of gray, but the Demon pirates will wear red.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_740f59b4	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_740f59b4
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: Lakita Ramos, a wingman you can hire early in the GalSpan plotline, treats you like an idiot because you're a man.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_76d233f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_76d233f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_76d233f9
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want Of A Nail: Whichever side you pick wins; therefore, the entire war depends on the decision of a single fighter pilot.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_79a60aec	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_79a60aec	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_79a60aec
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7a007c83	type	Betting Mini-Game
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7a007c83	comment	Betting Mini-Game: At New Vegas Starbase, appropriately enough.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7a007c83	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7a007c83	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7a007c83
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7b3f0b81	type	Tractor Beam
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7b3f0b81	comment	Tractor Beam: The Tractor Wave is a special system that can slow down an enemy fighter to allow you to get some goods hits in. Unfortunately, the slow-down factor is fairly small, and you have to constantly hold down a button to keep it working, making it Awesome, but Impractical.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7b3f0b81	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7b3f0b81	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7b3f0b81
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7c7589af	type	Earth-Shattering Kaboom
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7c7589af	comment	Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Not quite Earth-shattering, but capital ship explosions are quite spectacular.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7c7589af	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7c7589af	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_7c7589af
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: The only clue we had for a possible sequel was in a news report later in the game that implied there was a faster-than-Tachyon travel system possible. But seeing as Nova pulled the plug on this game, well...
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_80b5924	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_80b5924	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_80b5924
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: Capital ships have destroyable subsystems. Take out the powerplant, it can't move. Destroy the weapons generator, it can't shoot. Blow up the shield generator, and its deflector shields won't regenerate. There are occasions where time constraints make this mode of attack inadvisable, but they're rare.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_82108e3d	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_82108e3d
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	comment	When isn't an arena commentator a large ham?
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	comment	EMP: Each side has an EMP weapon that does no damage to the hull (but is still capable of damaging shields) but capable of temporarily disabling an enemy without shields. The Bora have the EMP Projector, which uses normal laser energy. GalSpan has the EMP missiles, which are guided and individually more powerful but limited in supply. They are mostly useful for certain missions that require someone to be captured instead of killed. Some wingmen are equipped with EMP weapons and can be ordered to use them on a target.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_83442cc3
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: The Tachyon Coil Generator Gates, although each gate only links to one other gate. Standard gates can only move a ship (small craft) to a location within a sector (i.e. system). Mega-gates allow movement between sectors, although this is usually done by the game automatically. There are also one-way gates. Capital ships are unable to use the gates due to their size. Instead, they are equipped with portable Tachyon Coil Generators, allowing them to independently enter hyperspace. It is, however, implied that they still use gates as beacons for calculating jumps.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8618825d	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8618825d	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8618825d
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_867949e	type	Diverting Power
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_867949e	comment	Diverting Power: The player can divert power between forward and aft shields, engines, recharging shields, guns, and afterburners. Excess power to a fully charged system is automatically diverted to other systems.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_867949e	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_867949e	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_867949e
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_88b58b0b	type	Hitscan
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_88b58b0b	comment	Hitscan: The Rail Gun. Every other weapon has moving projectiles, but the railgun is instant-hit.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_88b58b0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_88b58b0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_88b58b0b
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_899bb0bf	type	Space Mines
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_899bb0bf	comment	Space Mines: During the training mission, the flight instructor didn't know they were active, thus getting the main character fired upon by these mines.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_899bb0bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_899bb0bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_899bb0bf
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8b93a168	type	Macross Missile Massacre
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8b93a168	comment	Macross Missile Massacre: The Swarm Missile Launcher, which effectively fires four cluster missiles each time you pull the trigger. Alternately, find a ship that has lots of firing ports for Spire Rockets, which come 40 to a rack and reload in a fraction of a second.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8b93a168	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8b93a168	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8b93a168
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8d4f63f0	type	Consequence Combo
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8d4f63f0	comment	Consequence Combo: During the final confrontation against GalSpan, as the battle grows more desperate on both sides, Director Atkins offers increasing cash incentives for the pilots who take down Bora fighters, and contract terminations for those who don't.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8d4f63f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8d4f63f0	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8d4f63f0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	type	Joke Character
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	comment	Joke Character: The Mako. As fragile as a Pegasus, but not nearly as fast or well armed. To add insult to injury, you're stuck with this thing for a while in Act 2. What did you expect when you were cast into exile, keeping those lovely fighters you had in Act 1?
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8f1ec2c5
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8ff843dd	type	Video Game Cruelty Punishment
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8ff843dd	comment	Videogame Cruelty Punishment: Averted. You can fire and destroy all the friendly ships you want and they never turn on you, nor does it ever affect the missions (unless you end up destroy some plot-critical element, of course).
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8ff843dd	featureApplicability	-1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8ff843dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_8ff843dd
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: The Claymore, the Warhammer, and the Phoenix. Not particularly fast or agile, but don't get in front of any of them. A single ship of any of these classes can turn a lesser vessel into dust with one or two salvos. The Claymore in particular is an enormous fist-shaped slab of missile launchers and lasers with armor so thick that its rating literally goes up to eleven for hull durability—the HUD only has enough spaces to count to 10, which incidentally is the hull rating of the Warhammer.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_933576c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_933576c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_933576c8
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: Friendly AI has no reservations about trying to shoot an enemy through the player's ship.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_940a5958	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_940a5958	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_940a5958
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Director Atkins has a gradual one over the course of the final mission in the Bora storyline, when the Bora go after one of Hephaestus' modules. His initial orders to attack the Bora are irritated, but as damage on the module increases he resorts to desperately trying to offer bonuses, then not only increases the bonuses but flat out threatening to fire any GalSpan pilots who miss a shot. When the module is finally destroyed, he tries to act like a Graceful Loser, though it's likely an act for the news cameras the Bora invited to watch.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_98f4e67f	type	Space Clouds
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_98f4e67f	comment	Space Clouds: The Twilight Region, which is a giant nebula that obscures most sensors. In fact, you need special sensors and radiation screens just to survive there. The "fog" is even seeping inside the Deep Fringe Array station. It also drives people insane after prolonged exposure, although the radiation may have something to do with it. Scientists in the game agree that the fog is unnatural and try to study it.
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_98f4e67f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_992aa05b	type	Space Friction
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_992aa05b	comment	Space Friction: Mostly played straight, sometimes to ridiculous extent with disabled vessels coasting to a stop. Slightly averted with the use of the "Slide" maneuver, whose activation cuts your engines and lets your ship coast at its current velocity for as long as you hold down the 'slide' mode switch. Can be used to go beyond normal "top speed", if you activate 'slide' mode while at afterburner; this is extremely useful in some missions where one objective is to get to such-and-so point before someone else does. Much more importantly, 'slide' mode allows you to fire off-axis — that is, to rotate your ship's nose away from your line of travel so that you can fire perpendicular (or at any angle) to the direction in which you're moving. Consider this capability in the context of, say, an attack on a capital ship, and you'll begin to understand why, in spite of its actually being closer to what "real space combat" might be like than most games bother to offer, some folks consider 'slide' mode a Game-Breaker. This plays an important role in one particular mission where you go to save a frigate which has its controls disabled and the engine is plowing it into Asteroid Thicket. After blowing up some of the asteroids in the way, Jake gets the idea to destroy the engine's power plant and that causes the frigate to slow down and stop.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9a2d764d	type	Arms and Armor Theme Naming
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9a2d764d	comment	Arms and Armor Theme Naming: Bora fighters are named for weapons (e.g. Cutlass, Battleaxe).
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9aaf8eca	comment	This also falls under Crippling Overspecialization. The Rail Gun takes too many hits to go through even fighter or bomber shields to be worth it, most of the time...but it destroys capital ship powerplants with a single shot. While useless against shields, against the hull it'll only need one hit.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9bea8bd1	type	Space Western
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9bea8bd1	comment	Space Western: Eventually a mission called 'The Posse' will become available at New Vegas starbase in the Frontier region, featuring lots of dialogue alluding to this ("Let me just strap on my old six-shooter!").
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: What Jake says before being thrown past the gate to the Hub: The Fringe is a lawless region, controlled by corrupt corporations, fanatical colonials, pirates... and well, madmen. Corresponds to GalSpan, Bora, any of the Frontier pirate groups, and take any insane person, such as Baron Hajod, Randall Cassitor or the Demon Pirates.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9f4a47f2	type	Competitive Balance
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9f4a47f2	comment	Competitive Balance: Fragile Speedster: The Pegasus. Spectacular acceleration and speed but a small weapons array and an extremely thin hull; if its shields go down, it's done for, but while it's up, it's a lightning-fast little terror. Jack of All Stats: The Mace and the Orion. Good do-anything ships that have decent speed and shields, but also some weapons to their names. Can pick their battles with other single-crew craft, but while not stellar they are definitely good all-rounders. The Mace is supposed to be a Fragile Speedster and the Bora answer to the Pegasus, but it is actually as tough as an Orion. Joke Character: The Mako. As fragile as a Pegasus, but not nearly as fast or well armed. To add insult to injury, you're stuck with this thing for a while in Act 2. What did you expect when you were cast into exile, keeping those lovely fighters you had in Act 1? Lightning Bruiser: The Battleaxe and the Archangel. Tough, well armed, and still agile, making them excellent fighters, good anti-capital-ship bombers, and generally the pick of the litter if you have the money. To sweeten the deal, the Battleaxe has the best reactor and the Archangel the best shields of all the playable ships in the game. Master of None: The Cutlass and the Poseidon, the two 'starter' ships that you get after picking a side in the Fringe War. Not spectacular, and neither fast enough to dodge nor powerful enough to take that many hits. The Cutlass in particular is notable for having 5's across the board in its ratings, but no way to take advantage of its balanced stats. Mighty Glacier: The Claymore, the Warhammer, and the Phoenix. Not particularly fast or agile, but don't get in front of any of them. A single ship of any of these classes can turn a lesser vessel into dust with one or two salvos. The Claymore in particular is an enormous fist-shaped slab of missile launchers and lasers with armor so thick that its rating literally goes up to eleven for hull durability—the HUD only has enough spaces to count to 10, which incidentally is the hull rating of the Warhammer.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9f619ad6	type	Corporate Warfare
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_9f619ad6	comment	Corporate Warfare: Each Mega-Corp maintains a private Navy, ostensibly to protect their supply chains from piracy. They're also sometimes put to use in inter-company squabbles, which generally isn't a good idea because it makes Star Patrol grumpy.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_a1d927ea	type	Wingman
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_a1d927ea	comment	Wingman: You can hire these for an initial cost as well as a cut of the payment for each completed mission. In-flight, you can give them commands using the Communications menu. Those with EMP weapons can be ordered to disable an enemy. When hiring one, Jake has a brief conversation with him/her/it, ranging from friendly to professional to downright hostile. Wingmen can be let go, or they can be killed in battle. Most of them are Killed Off for Real in this case. Only JASPers are replaceable, since they are serialized models, although it's still pricey, since you have to pay the initial costs again.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: In the Bora mission The Attack, the lead technician from the New Dawn EW Station ends up with this.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_a371a459	type	Fighting for a Homeland
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_a371a459	comment	Fighting for a Homeland: The Bora's motivation.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The five core components for the Hephaestus Module or Project Deliverance.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_aa8dcc21	comment	Mega-Corp: GalSpan is the biggest example, but pretty much every company in the game.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9	type	Jack of All Stats
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ac9f78d9	comment	Jack of All Stats: The Mace and the Orion. Good do-anything ships that have decent speed and shields, but also some weapons to their names. Can pick their battles with other single-crew craft, but while not stellar they are definitely good all-rounders. The Mace is supposed to be a Fragile Speedster and the Bora answer to the Pegasus, but it is actually as tough as an Orion.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Jake Logan on a number of occasions, particularly when things explode that generally shouldn't.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: If Jake sides with the Bora, he decides to settle down with Anna after the war (whereas he returns to Sol in the Galspan ending).
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Logan gets a lot of this, but the queen of snark in this game is Baroness Onrald. One of her voice-overs layers the sarcasm on so thickly that Baron Hajod doesn't realize that he's been insulted until she lets the other shoe drop.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: GalSpan fighters' names come from Greek mythology, as do the names of their bases and capital ships. Usually paired with Meaningful Name in the last case.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_af4ca2bf	type	Space Police
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_af4ca2bf	comment	Space Police: Star Patrol.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_afd181c7	type	Xtreme Kool Letterz
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_afd181c7	comment	Xtreme Kool Letterz: The cover art swaps the 'o' in 'Tachyon' with the Greek letter omega.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: AGT, after you hear of their poor five-year safety record late in the game.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: The Deliverance. Too bad it gets blown away by a single volley from the Zeus.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted in the Sol region, though; just as a fight against heavily-armed pirates seems to go badly for you, Star Patrol Enforcers pour out of the local TCG and utterly rip the pirate Shrikes to bits. Throughout the game, if you ever see Enforcer starfighters in red (hostile), run. Divert all energy to afterburners and do not look back. (Conversely, if you get on Star Patrol's good side and see them in green (allied) in certain missions...)
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	type	Mission Control
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_bebf0356	comment	Mission Control: Anna Highfall (Bora) and Tricia Bales (GalSpan). If you take the Bora path, Jake and Anna will eventually become an item. If you take the GalSpan path, Jake will attempt to flirt with Tricia (including calling her "Trish"), but she will shut him down and demand that their relationship be strictly professional.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Dr. Randall Cassitor in Final Retribution, when Demon Pirates start to destroy his station, thanks to Jake and a pilot that was recovered from the Twilight by the League of Scientists.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	comment	Slow Laser: It gets to the point that laser bolts travel slower than Rail Gun shots. Some of the smaller missiles will also outrun lasers!
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_cbe687ab	comment	In the Bora ending, GalSpan is forced to leave the Fringe since the war has become too costly and ends up financially ruining the corporation. Many of its CEOs, especially Regional Director Gustav Atkins, are fired and rivals state their interest in buying it out. Because of this, the evidence that could have cleared Jake's name is lost forever and he will always be known in Sol for his role in the Halley bombing. However, he has found a new home among the Bora, who have secured their place in the Fringe, and wins the affections of Anna Highfall.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_cd3527d9	type	Negative Space Wedgie
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_cd3527d9	comment	Negative Space Wedgie: The Twilight Fog. The Ripstars, as well. Ripstars are important to humanity, as they are harvested to produce the materials that allow Tachyon Coil Generators to function. Without ripstars, no FTL travel would be possible.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	type	Escort Mission
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_cfda0ecb	comment	Escort Mission: Boy oh boy, there are a LOT of these. It's hard enough to get some of the escortees alive in one piece.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_cfe72499	type	Shoot the Bullet
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_cfe72499	comment	Shoot the Bullet: A lucky laser hit can destroy an incoming missile or rocket. For the most part, though, you're probably better off using countermeasures or dodging, respectively.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_d0b95b85	type	Used Future
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_d0b95b85	comment	Used Future: Bora ships look like they're made of rust. Justified since they're converted mining ships according to the manual.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_d0f63e83	type	Magnetic Hero
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_d0f63e83	comment	Magnetic Hero: Susan Bradley.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_d2f577a1	type	Lead the Target
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_d2f577a1	comment	Lead the Target: A must for most weapons, even lasers, which should realistically be hitting nearly instantly. Luckily, one of the earliest systems you can buy and install on your ship adds a targeting reticle that aids in this regard.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Several instances of this trope occur. Especially on your first mission in the Hub (well duh, you blew up a hospital, framed or not, they still call you out on that). A mild example if you start shooting at freighters near a base. The freighter crew will yell at station control, who in return will yell at you.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_db6230b7	type	Lightning Bruiser
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_db6230b7	comment	Lightning Bruiser: The Battleaxe and the Archangel. Tough, well armed, and still agile, making them excellent fighters, good anti-capital-ship bombers, and generally the pick of the litter if you have the money. To sweeten the deal, the Battleaxe has the best reactor and the Archangel the best shields of all the playable ships in the game.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_e44a1a70	type	Bounty Hunter
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_e44a1a70	comment	Bounty Hunter: Jake in the mission to capture Redship Rory. Although, to be fair, Jake is working with Star Patrol on this one. It doesn't help when Rory's crew jams Jake's transmissions to Star Patrol, forcing him to go alone.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: The Bora are portrayed as this in both timelines, best summed up in the final battle when the frigate Courageous is going to explode.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474	type	Hub Level
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474	comment	Hub Level: Not exactly, but after Jake gets banished from Sol, this is where he can access multiple regions via megagates after choosing a career.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_e8a6e896	comment	The Battlestar: Star Patrol cruisers are a combination of frigate, cruiser, and carrier. Too bad we never see them in action. GalSpan and Bora carriers can also count, since they have a decent turret armament besides their ability to launch waves of fighters (which they almost never do in-game, since most fighters travel through TCG gates). Notably, the Zeus, Director Atkins's flagship, is a carrier but manager to blow away an advanced Bora warship with a single volley.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_e90a93b2	comment	Creepy Monotone: The Demon Pirates do this.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_ecb70eb4	comment	Videogame Cruelty Potential: In one early mission, Jake runs into an old friend from Mars (Samantha Crawley, after you finish your contract in Investigate Minefield) who is on routine patrol with no enemies around. It would be a shame if something happened to her...
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_f2c895f	comment	Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters: GalSpan likes calling the Bora "terrorists". Of course from their own perspective they are anything but.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Pretty much the whole point of the GalSpan-Bora conflict in the Fringe. Two examples to be more specific... Withdraw From or Taking Away Independence. GalSpan initiates the takeover. One pilot said that "The Independence Base is now the legal property of the Galactic Spanning Corporation. You will surrender your ships immediately." Which side Jake flies for in this mission decides his allegiance for the rest of the game. In the Bora mission The Attack, GalSpan launches an onslaught on Bora space, and manages to destroy an EW Station and take over some shipyards. Jake is immediately sent to prevent any further damage.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_fbb934	comment	Do a Barrel Roll: Jake does a totally gratuitous barrel roll upon leaving New Vegas station.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_fdeed2aa	comment	Old-School Dogfight: Let's face it: the game lives by this trope (and its unique twists on it, like the "slide" function).
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: Baron Hajod and Doctor Randall Cassitor are by far the two most vile individuals you encounter, and both are very hammy. Hajod shouts out threats, makes bellowing Evil Laughs and descends to tantrums when things do not go his way. Cassitor meanwhile oozes arrogance and contempt from his every pore.
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Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke / Inverted Chekhov's News: During the Justified Tutorial (see below), a group of target drones go haywire and attack you. After your exile, the news reports that the flight instructor you evaluated saves her students from a similar encounter.
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