The 'Scarecrow' Saga - Overviews of the Original Stories

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005. “THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION, STAGE 1”, Feature length story -
Based on server RP events, and written as a post-by-post by |Scarecrow|, Cerun, Pax Westfalia, Robert Merlow, and Michael Wintermute, on Freelancer Evolved (EvolvedOnes).

After earning enough money to buy their own ship and leave the planet Leeds, Marcus Scarman and Tomoko Yamaguchi are found and contacted by the Freedom Fighter known as Cerun. They are told to make for Rheinland without delay. Scarecrow obeys and meets Cerun on New Berlin, where he is then taken to rendezvous with several other members of the scattered Freedom Fighters. Scarecrow is reunited with Pax Westfalia and meets Fleet Captain Robert Merlow and Rear Admiral Michael Wintermute for the first time. He learns that until the Nomad invasion, the Freedom Fighters were a discreet special operations force within the Liberty Navy. They are the enigmatic First Fleet, mysteriously absent from any organizational listings. Marcus had previously presumed that fact to be due to a reserved status for the honour of being the ‘First’. Instead, he is honoured to learn the truth, and to be brought amongst the ranks of the Freedom Fighters.

Marcus, Tomoko, and their new vessel, a second-hand Bretonian Clydesdale-class freighter called the Town Moor, are taken aboard the 'renegade' battleship LNS Pearl Harbour. As the Town Moor is not optimised for battle, Scarecrow and Tomoko are assigned to new vessels within one of the Pearl Harbour’s starfighter wings. Scarecrow takes delight in familiarising himself with a newly designed starfighter marque: a MkII Defender, with flight group Pearl Harbour Red under the command of Rear Admiral Wintermute. Along with Pax Westfalia and the Rheinwehr, The Freedom Fighters share with Scarecrow their plans to cut back into Liberty space and reunite with discreet factions of allied Liberty Navy, for a push into Nomad controlled territory.

The execution of ‘stage one’ follows the assault on Willard Research Station in the California system, and the removal of several important military figures. It is discovered that the Nomads are once again trying to destabilise humanity by subtly taking over key players in every nation throughout Sirius. The Freedom Fighters and the Rheinwehr seem to be the only powers who have a chance of stopping them…

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