[Spoiler] SQ42 Story (spoiled by CR)

For those who want to read it in advance


Bishop, a very well-known and -liked admiral of the UEE—think of him like Maximus from Gladiator—won a battle [with the enemy Vanduul] at great personal loss; his daughter commanded one of the other ships in the fleet, and she sacrifices herself to save Bishop’s ship. That’s one of the reasons why Bishop is haunted.

You start out in the military earning citizenship, and you get your wish to become a fighter pilot. While you’re training, Admiral Bishop and the [UEE] task force go off into Vanduul space and take the fight to them. As you come out to deploy, the news comes through that they’ve lost contact with the task force. Bishop goes missing, and the rest of the game is you trying to find him.

You go behind enemy lines, trying to find out where Bishop is, and you see things that have happened along the way that gives you [a reaction] like, Has he lost his mind? What’s happening? It’s sort of the Ninth Legion mixed with Heart of Darkness.

So you get behind enemy lines, and you find out there’s a Vanduul plan to shortcut past the Earth’s defenses, and you have to stop it.

At the end of it there’s this big last stand, and you get back to human space. But Bishop is still left, behind the Vanduul side, kind of like Commander Cain on the Pegasus in [classic] Battlestar Galactica. You come back a bit of a war hero, and you muster out, and potentially Bishop’s still out there fighting the battle behind enemy lines.

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Bishop's daughter is not dead, but was captured by the Vanduul. Bishop is taken aback by this information, and the Vanduul make an offer - her life for his allegiance and knowledge. Having already gone through losing her once, he decides to save his daughter's life, and defects, using the task force as cover. It is Bishop's information that gives the Vanduul the shortcut past Earth's defenses.