History YMMV / SilentThreatReborn

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Silent Threat Reborn ends with the (initial) Shivan fleet vanquished, the GTI Rebellion defeated, the Terran and Vasudan races at peace for the first time in over 14 years, and despite the fall of the GTA, we know it comes back as the GTVA later on, and until the NTF Rebllion almost 32 years later, there's a long, basically unbroken period of peace. There's nothing bittersweet about it, unlike the endings of Freespace 1, where Earth is saved but cut off from the rest of the galaxy, or Freespace 2 where it's clear that humanity barely survived the Shivan onslaught and even then, this was only due to the Shivans not using their 80+ nearly-unstoppable juggernauts from the get-go.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Silent Threat Reborn ends with the GTI Rebellion defeated, the Terran and Vasudan races at peace for the first time in over 14 years, and despite the fall of the GTA, we know it comes back as the GTVA later on, and until the NTF Rebllion almost 32 years later, there's a long, basically unbroken period of peace.

*** Actually, the "Somebody set us up the bomb" line made to the final release.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: At least four:

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "Chasing Shadows". Shell-shocked Vasudans = HilarityEnsues, apparently:
-->'''Vasudan''': "Big. Big guns. Poum! Poum! Poum!"
** The mission originally included yet more lines, including references to all your base and a statement that "Stack overflow protection was engaged!" but these were cut in testing.
*** Actually, the "Somebody set us up the bomb" line made to the final release.
** Also, in mission 4, all of the cargo containers are marked "Weapons Research", save for one labeled "Bosch Beer"

* ThatOneLevel: "He Who Rides The Tiger." This is one of the few missions that ''requires'' you to handpick your targets to succeed, as the Lambda 1 transport is very fragile and won't survive unless you can focus on the fighters that attack it. This is easier said than done, as the Shivans are sending waves and waves of fighters and the battle becomes a complete furball in short order. Also, targeting bombers first (something you should do in almost every escort mission) will make you ''fail'' this mission because the bombers are targeting the Repulse, while you should be protecting Lambda 1. To top it off, this mission starts with about 5 minutes of tension-building while you watch all hell break loose in the science vessels. This is very scary the first time around, but on third or fourth time it becomes tedious and boring.

* PlayerPunch: The [[spoiler: destruction of the GTC Orff]] is painful, though it can be prevented.

* PlayerPunch: The [[spoiler: destruction of the GTC Orff]] is painful, though it can be prevented.

PlayerPunch: The [[spoiler: destruction of the GTC Orff]] is painful, though it can be prevented.

PlayerPunch: The [[spoiler: destruction of the GTC Orff]] is painful, although this doesn't always happen, since [[spoiler: the Orff is completely inconsequential]] to the game's storyline.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: At least four:
** [[spoiler: "He Who Rides the Tiger". The whole mission.]]
** [[spoiler: The Battle of Jotunheim, especially when the Hades makes its appearance.]]
** [[spoiler: Dashing through a Karnak-class installation to prevent an enemy fighter from destroying the reactor.]]
** [[spoiler: When the PVD Hope kamikazes the Hades.]]
** The campaign itself is a CMOA for the modding community in general: the project was in development for ''six years'', and had some of the top modders in the community working on it, in addition to full voice-acting, something that not many fan-made campaigns have access to.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: "Chasing Shadows". Shell-shocked Vasudans = HilarityEnsues, apparently:
-->'''Vasudan''': "Big. Big guns. Poum! Poum! Poum!"
** The mission originally included yet more lines, including references to all your base and a statement that "Stack overflow protection was engaged!" but these were cut in testing.
*** Actually, the "Somebody set us up the bomb" line made to the final release.
** Also, in mission 4, all of the cargo containers are marked "Weapons Research", save for one labeled "Bosch Beer"
* ThatOneLevel: "He Who Rides The Tiger." This is one of the few missions that ''requires'' you to handpick your targets to succeed, as the Lambda 1 transport is very fragile and won't survive unless you can focus on the fighters that attack it. This is easier said than done, as the Shivans are sending waves and waves of fighters and the battle becomes a complete furball in short order. Also, targeting bombers first (something you should do in almost every escort mission) will make you ''fail'' this mission because the bombers are targeting the Repulse, while you should be protecting Lambda 1. To top it off, this mission starts with about 5 minutes of tension-building while you watch all hell break loose in the science vessels. This is very scary the first time around, but on third or fourth time it becomes tedious and boring.