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[[Image:Dsintro0000.png|200px|right|thumb|Overview of the starship USS Darkstar.]] '''''USS Darkstar''''' is a [[Half-Life (video game)|Half-Life]] [[Mod (computer gaming)|mod]] created by Neil Manke and his team, largely based in [[Canada]]. The mod follows [[Gordon Freeman]] and several other scientists on board USS ''Darkstar'', a large exploratory starship that resembles the ''Nostromo'' from the movie ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''. Very early in the game, a security guard is injured on an away mission to a nearby planet and is taken into the sickbay. When the scientists are operating on the guard, a [[headcrab]] bursts from his chest cavity (coupled with the ''Nostromo'' look of the ''Darkstar'', this was most likely also inspired by ''Alien'') forcing the scientists to activate the incinerator. The flame jet kills the headcrab but also detonates a fuel canister, which creates a chain reaction. This causes a surge which badly damages the ''Darkstar'''s main computer, deactivating all the [[force field]]s and letting loose the aliens. The aliens kill most of the crew, but Freeman manages to reach an escape pod and escape the ship, shortly before it explodes. The game ends with Freeman's pod heading towards the nearby planet, pursued by a large alien vessel. At least one other scientist also survived the destruction of the ''Darkstar''. During Freeman's entering of the labs, the escape pod elevator can be seen through the window, down which the scientist is heading. When reaching the escape pod launch room, one escape pod has already been launched. USS Darkstar was selected by Valve Software for presentation at the first Half-Life ModExpo at San Francisco in 1999.<ref>[http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Previews.Detail&id=1 Black Widow Games: Five Days of Fear (Day 1)]</ref> == See also == * ''[[They Hunger]]'' == External links == * [http://manke.planethalflife.gamespy.com/darkstar.htm Official website]{{Dead link|date=May 2010}} * [http://planethalflife.gamespy.com/View.php?view=LOTW.Detail&id=127 Level of The Week - USS Darkstar - Planet Half-Life] ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:1999 video games]] [[Category:First-person shooters]] [[Category:Half-Life mods]] [[Category:Windows games]]
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