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'''GTVA Colossus''' is a spacecraft from the video game [[FreeSpace 2]].

== Background ==
The result of a joint Terran-Vasudan venture, the Colossus was built with the goal of protecting the GTVA from the threat of future invasion of GTVA space, especially a renewed Shivan incursion.

(contracted; show full) nebula in an effort to avert the coming invasion, but destroying the device had no effect on the jump node, which had stabilised.  The SJ Sathanas emerged in Gamma Draconis, moving on to decimate Allied forces defending the node leading to the inhabited Capella system.  In response, Allied Command deployed the Colossus to engage the Shivan juggernaut in a one-on-one showdown in Capella.

To give the Colossus an advantage in the engagement, Vasudan bombers from the [[GVD Psamtik]] and the Terran destroyer 
[[GTD Hecate|GTD Phoenicia]] attacked the Sathanas in Gamma Draconis, attempting to neutralize the 4 primary beam cannons of the Shivan vessel (Bearbaiting). Though the Phoenicia was forced to retreat (sometimes, while playing the mission, it is instead destroyed) the bombing run was successful leaving the Sathanas without its main weapons, though the Shivan vessel continued its incursion into GTVA space.  

(contracted; show full)w and twenty years of Terran-Vasudan engineering.  However, the actions of the Colossus gave enough time for the Bastion to close in on the Epilson Pegasi node.  The player is scrambled to defend the Bastion and reinforce its fighter escort on the last leg of its run toward the node.  The arrival of the Bastion at the node successfully seals off the subspace link between Capella and Epsilon Pegasi, preceding the final Shivan-induced supernova of the Capella star.

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