It’s too bad that after all the years you guys took credit for this, you forgot to add that you took the mod, renamed it, and claimed all rights to it without asking the original author of the mod if it was “cool”.

A little backstory on the Antares Mod.

Used to be called the Hunters Mk II Mod.

Originally the Hunters Mod was designed for use on the HA1 server, which was the flagship server for the HA community. The original Hunters Mod was not as extensive, but was the groundbreaking (shall we say) for the idea of what became the Mk II version of the mod. Over 500 man hours were put into the first versions of the Mk II mod by the original author (Brandon L. Stefanelli, aka Skyevallen). Eventually financial issues arose and the mod was moved over to the HA2 server, which was run by who decided it was a great idea to take a mod without permission and rename it (Edward Norton, aka Achilles of GrimAxe). The confusing point in all this modding was that, for a time, both Skyevallen and Achilles worked on parts of the mod; I guess that’s where the “It’s Okay” came into the playing field for taking the mod and doing as they pleased with it without giving credit to the original author and modder came from.

Due to personal differences that ended up becoming a major fallout between the Allies of the HA community, you ended up with Achilles of GrimAxe and a bloke over in the UK that went by Predator (Michael Aldcroft, HA3’s owner) that formed the VFF community. For several years after the fact, the HA community was bashed because people couldn’t be civil. Dischord ensued and eventually I just moved on and closed up the HA community and its servers.

So, now that that is out of the way……give credit where it is properly due…to the original owner, that god forbid if had to, has all the original modding work saved to discs, including the Mk I version of the mod. Yes there were others that were involved, as far as ship models that were allowed to be used through express written permission first obtained from those editors (and yes they were mentioned in the info logs of the mod for credit due). Yes, the VFF guys did go further into modding and eventually created newer things for the mod. This was a major idea, a major re-creation of Freelancer, at least be honest about the mod’s origins.

Yours Truly,
Skye

Original Founder of the Hunters Association Community and Author of the Hunters Mk II Mod (renamed Antares Mod).