After naming my mod New Universe I realized that Frost-Works had a mod by the same name. My Freelancer: New Universe mod has been renamed to 'Coalition Encounter'.

Here is the complete storyline.

It has been 3 years since the brief war started by the Nomads. After radical changes in its government, Rhineland was allowed to have a military. It quickly built up and has the second largest fleet, behind Bretonia. Kusari was rebuilt and also has a large fleet. Liberty's fleet is smallest, however, with recent upgrades, is hard-striking and very efficient.

The new house of Hispania has been formed from the unification of the Corsairs and Outcasts. The new government faces tough problems, such as violence between former Corsairs and former Outcasts, the newly banned Cardamine, and Nomads.

Nomad lands have been found to be smaller than originally thought. Nomads only live to the northeast of Omicron Gamma. With the joint-funded Sirius Wall, a string of defenses, the Nomads are at bay for now.

There have been new advancements. A new capital ship, the Carrier, has dethroned the Battleship as the biggest asset of a navy. Interceptor ships, fast, sleek, and designed for the confines of a carrier, exist as a nice alternative to a light fighter. Swarms of Light Bombers, cousin of the Heavy Fighter, are the capital ship's worst nightmare. And the Heavy Bomber, a Gunship coverted to fire torpedoes, can be devastating to a naval fleet.

But all is not well.

First of all, the anti-matter bomb is deadlier than ever. Small anti-matter bombs, capable of destroying a space station, have existed for a while. Slightly bigger anti-matter releases have been caused by accidents. But for the first time, anti-matter weapons capable of destroying an entire sector, such as Manhattan or New Tokyo, were developed by two Kusari physicists. These weapons have not even been tested, and to ensure that no House can dominate all the others, an order to fire an anti-matter weapon must be authorized by two other houses.

Secondly, and worse, joint-House expedition was led that went east of Omicron Gamma and out of the Sirius sector. Led by the RNC Bismarck, the largest Battleship in Rhineland's fleet, the expedition was nearly destroyed by the natives. The natives that they found shocked every person in Sirius.

The Coalition was there.
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France and Italy were the biggest losers in the Alliance-Coalition war. They chose not to leave Sol, and paid dearly. They both had to surrender to the winning powers. They were not annexed, but lived on as prisoner states. The French were under the control of Russia, the Italians were under the control of China.

Then aliens came. The Coalition was almost defeated when it copied the Alliance and launched Sleeper Ships. Moskva had the Russians. Beijing had the Chinese. Mecca-Jerusalem had the Middle Eastern people. Italy and France were granted a Sleeper Ship each, which they named Paris and Roma.

They landed just outside the Sirius sector. Without making contact with the Alliance Houses, they, too, grew and prospered, except for Paris and Roma.

Once they made contact for the first time in centuries, war broke out again, deadlier than ever.