Its expansion, Silent Threat, which comprised additional missions, was also released in 1998.

The expansion Silent Threat also suffered the same fate of cuts due to budgetary and time concerns.

Unlike the expansion pack, X-Tension, which was almost entirely open-ended, X2: The Threat has a clear background story involving an aggressive alien race known as the Khaak.

If the expansion of the Universe continues to accelerate, there is a future horizon as well.

As the expansion of the universe continues, matter dilutes even further and the cosmological constant becomes dominant, leading to an acceleration in the universe's expansion.

The steam then goes back into an intermediate pressure section of the turbine and continues its expansion.

* 1271 – April 8 – Mamluk sultan Baibars continues his territorial expansion, capturing the strategically important castle Krak des Chevaliers from the Knights Hospitaller in present-day Syria.

* April 8 – Mamluk sultan Baibars continues his territorial expansion, capturing the strategically important castle Krak des Chevaliers from the Knights Hospitaller in present-day Syria.

The number of these peoples who are as yet relatively untouched by external influences continues to decline significantly, however, along with the near-exponential expansion of urbanization, roads, pastoralism and forest industries which encroach on their customary lands and environment.

Vietnam is putting considerable effort into modernization and expansion of its telecommunication system, but its performance continues to lag behind that of its more modern neighbors.

Rapid campus expansion began in the 1950s and continues to the present day.

After this, as the fluid continues its expansion, the temperature drops.

Now in its 135th year, the library building has experienced floods, fires and at least six separate renovations or expansion projects but continues to endure today as a focal point of the Hamilton community.

If the growth continues, it is possible that Atoka could begin to see the type of expansion currently underway across the Red River to the south.

Agriculture expansion of the central and southern regions of the prefecture was in contrast to the depopulation of these areas as a significant part of the population moved to the northeast of the prefecture as a result of the urbanization of Japan, a process that continues into the 21st century.

If entropy continues to increase in the contracting phase ( see Ergodic hypothesis ), the contraction would appear very different from the time reversal of the expansion.

The book made headlines around the world, and began a debate about the limits of Earth's capacity to support human economic expansion, a debate that continues to this day.

Assuming dark energy remains constant ( an unchanging cosmological constant ), so that the expansion rate of the universe continues to accelerate, there is a " future visibility limit " beyond which objects will never enter our observable universe at any time in the infinite future, because light emitted by objects outside that limit can never reach points that expand away from us at less than the speed of light.

Construction on this expansion continues to date.

There is currently a plan in place for future expansion of the airport as it continues to grow in passenger volume.

PCs continue to rely on third-party devices for in-game sound reproduction, and SoundBlaster, despite being largely the only major player in the entertainment audio expansion card business, continues to advance its product development at a significant pace.

Work continues on expansion of gas grid, heat distribution system, and water-sewage hookups.

Highway expansion continues to be an ongoing process because the roads running alongside the rivers are among the heaviest used in the country.

Birmingham continues to develop, following the removal of the Inner Ring Road, which acted as a ' concrete collar ' preventing the expansion of the city centre, a massive urban regeneration project known as the Big City Plan in progress.

Despite these setbacks Metra continues to seek expansion options and to improve passenger service.

The track continues for about a block east of the King George station ; this spur is currently used for parking unused cars, but is designed to hook up to any future eastern expansion of the Expo Line.

The story of Jonah is set against the background of Ancient Israel in the 8th-7th centuries BC but deals with the religious and social issues of the late 6th-4th centuries BC, coinciding with the views of latter chapters of the book of Isaiah ( Third Isaiah ), where Israel is given a prominent place in the expansion of God's kingdom to the Gentiles.

The story of the origination and expansion of the CODEN system provides a good case example in a recent-decades, technical-nomenclature context.

Asprin's first novel, The Cold Cash War, an expansion of an earlier short story of the same title, was published in 1977.

Bicentennial Man ( 1999 ) was the first theatrical movie adaptation of an Asimov story or novel, based on both Asimov's original short story and its novel expansion The Positronic Man.

* Anthony Berkeley's The Poisoned Chocolates Case ( 1929 ) features six different solutions to the murder ( and is an expansion of Berkeley's classic short story, " The Avenging Chance ")

An expansion was released in order to fix what much of the fanbase considered missing: apart from new battles and missions, Balance of Power features a Rebel and an Imperial campaign of 15 missions each, along with cutscenes that advance the story.

In The Battle for Middle-earth II's expansion pack The Rise of the Witch-king the campaign tells the story of the Kingdom of Angmar and the fall of Arnor.

Excursions of Giovanni da Verrazzano and Jacques Cartier in the early 16th century, as well as the frequent voyages of French boats and fishermen to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland throughout that century, were the precursors to the story of France's colonial expansion.

Horizon ( 1871 ) is an adaptation of a Bret Harte story about the westward expansion of the States ; it is an example of the popularity of western drama, coupled with Daly's interest in realism of the local color variety, although it remains melodramatic.

The book was an expansion of a story told in Danny, the Champion of the World, an earlier Dahl book.

Like many of Card's works, the novel is an expansion of a short story, his " Lost Boys ", which can be found in his short story compilation Maps in a Mirror.

This story is the basis for the Antiquities expansion and later the Urza's Saga Block.

Within each title set in the Tiberium story arc ( Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun, Renegade, Tiberium Wars, Tiberian Twilight, and their respective expansion packs ), the Tiberium crystals represent both the tools and spoils of war and are used by players to purchase new units and buildings, with each of the series ' factions either directly or indirectly battling for control over the crystals.

In 2006 the county embarked on an interim expansion program by breaking ground on a 7 story parking garage and the addition of 3 gates in Concourse C. Long range expansions include gates at Concourse B and the eventual construction of a new 14 gate Concourse D to be extended east from the present terminal.

In addition, this expansion features ships or ship-related story on nearly every card and for nearly every deck imaginable.

In a local expansion of the story, the nue's corpse floated into a certain bay, and the locals, fearing a curse, buried it.

The book series itself is an expansion of Card's earlier short story " Ender's Game.

It is an expansion to novel length of a short story that he had published four years earlier.

The quests usually form part of a longer story, especially the quests which are part of the expansion packs.

: the disinformation guide to ancient civilizations, astonishing archaeology and hidden history this story of Vamana ousting Bali Chakravarti can be understood as geological change from maritime to landward expansion, guided by rishis possessed of special knowledge.

The final expansion of that story arc saw the death of many prominent characters ( such as the leaders of the Sioux and Whateleys ), along with almost half the characters in existence until then, and the destruction of an entire faction ( The Flock ).

This expansion contains an entirely new Single Player story arc pitting the Chinese Red Army forces against both their allies, the CCA, and their enemies the " Black Dogs ".