Jukaga's Cruiser

Sylvester

Vice Admiral
On the last mission of the losing path of Episode 5, you run into the Rigakh that Bradshaw comments isn't supposed to be there. Is that Baron Jukaga's cruiser which he was able to stop from launching its missiles at Earth?
 
Baron Jukaga's cruiser is one of the two we see launching missiles - remember, he didn't actually stop the launch, he only delayed the launching of the second wave (the anti-matter warheads launched with no problems). What Bradshaw's referring to is the fact that the briefing only mentioned two cruisers. There had been three Rigakhs in the previous mission, but apparently one of them split off from the rest and did not continue to Earth - so Bradshaw was surprised to find it.

That third Rigakh... IIRC, at one point we toyed with the idea of showing the attack on the mothballed capships. I'm not sure why and at which point we gave up on that, but looking at it now, it seems to me that it would have been a bad idea. The only way to handle that decently would be to make it a separate mission - and that would break up the momentum of the ending. There you are, rushing to save Earth, arriving just barely in time... and stopping along the way to save a bunch of crewless capships? Nah...
 
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