History VideoGame / WingsOfDawn

** The Contravention is an odd case. While it is otherwise an Elephant class ship similar to the UGC ships, it has very obvious red and pink paintjob that is impossible to miss, which Dawn think that it looks horrible.

* OneWorldOrder: Averted. Unlike the original mod, the Terran race is split into four major factions, [[TheFederation the Sol Union]], [[TheKingdom New Brittania]], [[ProudMerchantRace the United Guilds of Commerce]], and the [[TheEmpire Delest Dynasty]]. The three of them have formed a military alliance against the Cyrvans, the League Star Forces, which is supposed to be a purely anti-Cyrvan task force.

* OneWorldOrder: Averted. Unlike the original mod, the Terran race is split into four major factions, [[TheFederation the Sol Union]], [[TheKingdom New Brittania]], [[ProudMerchantRace the United Guilds of Commerce]], and the Delest Dynasty. The three of them have formed a military alliance against the Cyrvans, the League Star Forces, which is supposed to be a purely anti-Cyrvan task force.

Following the success of the mod, Spoon decided to make the game a standalone title utilizing the Freespace engine, and began a massive overhaul of the setting. The new iteration of Wings of Dawn (christened "[=NuWOD=]" by Spoon) contains a rewritten story, a new control scheme, and short VN segments between missions to add to the character development and worldbuilding. It is released episodically, with Episode 1 being available now.

* TheNicknamer: Tempest, all over the place. Justice is "Ju", Dawn gets "Dawner" and other variations, and Tempest's personal fighter is named "Snarky".

The story remains lighthearted even at some of its darker moments, with a few surprising plot twists, and generally feels like something straight out of an anime space opera, not that this is a bad thing. It has been mostly well-received by the ''VideoGame/FreeSpace'' fan community, many of whom found its lightheartedness refreshing after the HopelessWar that is ''VideoGame/FreeSpace''.

Two mini-campaigns have been released: "A Nordera Day", which allows you the challenge of playing as a Nordera warrior, and "Stranded", which is a side-story focusing on two pilots who get trapped behind enemy lines and must fight their way back home.

A sequel was announced, but has been abandoned in favor of rebuilding the first game. Not much is known about this, beyond that the game will be rebalanced, rewritten, and that the story will go in a different direction. Spoon hopes to add on to the story via released "[[EpisodicGame Acts]]" rather than full releases.

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A GameMod for the ''{{Freespace}}'' series, Wings Of Dawn has a completely new setting and story, rather than being an addition to the existing canon. Boasting a heavily {{anime}}-influenced plot, a metric ton of {{Shout Out}}s, and {{Lampshade Hanging}}s galore, it is also notable in that it was completed by just one guy, known as Spoon.

The story remains lighthearted even at some of its darker moments, with a few surprising plot twists, and generally feels like something straight out of an anime space opera, not that this is a bad thing. It has been mostly well-received by the ''{{Freespace}}'' fan community, many of whom found its lightheartedness refreshing after the HopelessWar that is ''{{Freespace}}''.

* TheBattlestar: Not very common in this, unlike most FreeSpace mods. The Nordera ''Battleaxes'' do it because culturally they can't bear to leave a fight (and their fighters don't have jump drives), the Hertak ''Armageddons'' because they're [[strike:[[{{Expy}} copying the Ur-Quan]]]] just that scary. Neither the ''Guardian Angel'' itself nor the Cordi ''Mothership'', however, are any great shakes at ship-to-ship, and the ''Adasya'' doesn't appear able to deploy fighters.

* ScrewYouElves: The Cyrva thought Humanity needed guidance. Humanity did not [[ThisMeansWar take it well.]]

The year is NC 0145[[hottip:*:somewhere around AD 2375]]. The war between the Terrans and the Cyrva ended 62 years ago, and the two species are on friendly terms, though not integrated. In an effort to improve interspecies relations, a joint military academy is founded in the Abyss system, where cadets of both species would study alongside each other, and form the mixed-species Joint Guardian Angels Strike Force upon graduating. Now, the first class of the academy is graduating, and Misuzu Stella, Crystal Is'va Dertanya, and their classmates are looking forward to some routine peace-time assignments on board their new command ship, the LSF ''Guardian Angel''. However, they soon find themselves fighting on the front lines against a sudden invasion by not one but several alien species.

A sequel was announced, but has been abandoned in favor of rebuilding the first game. Not much is known about this, beyond that the game will be rebalanced, rewritten, and that the story will go in a different direction. Spoon hopes to add on to the story via released "[[EpisodicContent Acts]]" rather than full releases.

A sequel has been announced as well, titled ''Wings of Dawn 2: Into the Void''.

There is a sequel that has been announced to be in the works titled ''Wings of Dawn 2: Into the Void''.

* LesYay: Misuzu hugs Crystal during a debriefing... then goes on to comment on how the Cyrvan's breasts feel.

* LesYay: Misuzu practically molests Crystal during a debriefing, going so far as to comment on how the latter's breasts feel.

** Though we only see his back, artwork of Justice looks suspiciously like [[OutlawStar Gene Starwind]]. He shares Gene's fascination for space and spaceships, and he also shares a last name (Hawking) with Gene's partner Jim.

** One of the weapons, the HEDR-3, is given the nickname [[MahouSenseiNegima 'Spiritus Lucis']].

-->'''Scar''': "That was me, this program was so easily hackable. Figured it would be fun to add a bit of a retro feel to it."
* PurpleIsPowerful: The

* PurpleIsPowerful: The FSGF Sweeper is almost entirely purple. When it first appears, it has the most powerful shields and energy weapons of any enemy you've encountered. [[spoiler: Then you encounter the [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority FSGF Astray.]]

** Misuzu notes that the red Fura'ngle fighters [[MobileSuitGundam do not go three times faster]] than the others.

* FragileSpeedster: Cordi fighters. They go down in two or three hits, but good luck keeping them in your sights.

** The Terran "Ray" series of fighters is named for the Ray series of robos in ''CustomRobo''.

[[folder:Wow, this mod makes a lot of Shout Outs]]

* BioAugmentation: Humans resorted to this after WorldWarThree (which was nuclear). Since the overthrow of the UEU, genetic engineering has been outlawed. Still, there's no doubt that a century of tinkering with genetics has done humanity good: disease is far more uncommon, the human lifespan has been increased to 140 years, with aging delayed to around age 70, and humans in general are more intelligent and physically fit.

* [[NoTranshumanismAllowed No Transcyrvanism Allowed]]: The Cyrvans absolutely forbid genetic research of any kind, for any reason. (Strangely, [[InterspeciesRomance interbreeding with Terrans]] is permitted, though not encouraged.) Terrans aren't quite as strict about this, but do outlaw genetic engineering, since the oppressive UEU used it heavily, and often on unwilling subjects.

* GratuitousJapanese: Usually courtesy of Misuzu (she at one point claims to be of Japanese descent, but [[MultipleChoicePast nobody is sure whether or not to believe her]]).

* MildlyMilitary

Certainly not to be confused with [[WingsOfDawn the novel of the same name]].