Project Alaska Prototype
The Independents Mod is a partial conversion of Freelancer. If there is one aspect that best describes the goals of the mod as a whole it would be the contrasts. Vanilla Freelancer offered fairly small differences in the ships, equipments, and systems. The biggest differences where ones of scale, high end equipment viruses low end.
This mod aims for a little more variation, from the way ships handle and what types of weapons they can carry to how the frontier systems compare with the civilized core. Even the various factions will have noticeable different preferences as to their ships and weapons.
The first released version of the mod, the Alaska Prototype Project is a testbed for the ships and basic equipment in the Independents mod without the new universe. The focus is on testing the combat systems, so that the basic models of the equipment can be refined before faction specific equipment is placed into the mod.
The Prototype takes place in the Alaska system in which three of the four main factions are present and hostile to each other. Generic prototype weapons are shared by all factions for testing.