Additionally, a limited edition of the game came packaged with a 96-page novella, The Farlander Papers by Rusel DeMaria, that provides story information. Briefings, cutscenes, and in-flight messages advance the plot. The story consists of three tours of duty of 12 to 14 operations each although the tours can be played out of order, operations within each tour are played linearly. Players take the role of a Rebel pilot fighting the Galactic Empire before and during the climactic battle of the first Star Wars film (A New Hope).
