Neo-Terran Front

Admiral Aken H. Bosch

Eighteen months before Alpha 1 (the player) is enlisted into the GTVA, Admiral Bosch launches an attack on the GTVA in the Polaris system. In weeks time it affected the neighboring systems of Regulus and Sirius to follow his cause.

The Plot

Bosch had gained access to the buried records of the Ancients records that were recovered on Altair durring The Great War and used these to locate and activate the Subspace Portal. Once he located the first Subspace Portal, he sent the NTC Trinity into the system to activate it and investigate the Nebula beyond Gamma Draconis. There, the Trinity discovers the Second Knossos device but is soon attacked and disabled by the Shivans in the nebula, and then later discovered by Alpha 1. Captain Romeg of the NTC Trinity is forced to surrender but swears his rights under BETAC when GTVA command asks why the Trinity is there.

Command learns that Admiral Bosch is constructing some sort of device labeled ETAK. However, they are clueless to what it is. The player is led to believe it is a weapon of mass destruction in the beginning phases of the campaign. Soon, the player is chosen for a special ops mission with SOC as an undercover NTF pilot. The player is ordered to scan Bosch's command ship, the Iceni, in an escort mission to the Regulus system in attempt to gain any information posible on the ETAK device.

Later on, the player is sent into the Nebula beyond Gamma Draconis to intercept a cargo transfer between the Iceni and an Azrael shivan class transport but is too late to intercept two of the three Azrael transports. Bosch escapes with the shivans and is never seen again.

Bosch's Agenda

Although Admiral Bosch's agenda was not entirely clear in the FreeSpace 2 campaign, most people come to the conclusion that he wanted an Alliance with the Shivans. However, he had much more planned then just an Alliance, he wanted to use the technology he discovered in the knossos created by the Ancients to restore the link to Earth.