I'll reiterate the last post here.
1. I lost many of the levels I had been working on for this mission when my computer crashed last fall.
2. The story idea for this mission has evolved completely out of my control, and many of the levels that I already made can't be used for this new story. I also don't have time to complete it like this.
3. I'm now working on another mission which will use all of the levels I've been able to salvage from the crash (except for the ones that can still be used for the new story) and some new levels. The levels that were originally for Maximum: Vertigo are being changed to use the new features that have been added to D2X-XL since I stopped working on them. If I don't finish this either, I'll release what I have. So far I've finished one new level and finished remastering one of the old ones. I'm working on another new level now. Right now the soundtrack is getting a higher priority than the levels (the soundtrack is going to be released as a standalone album and the levels are being built around the music.) There are 4 songs that I still have to make for the soundtrack (which will have 21 songs). The only thing I can say for sure about the story for this mission (if it gets finished), is that there are going to be some extremely wierd planets (and the three star systems are taken from Descent: Equinox). I'm trying to do some creative things with effect objects and the new triggers (e.g. a static buzz sound on flickering lights, and a secret level where you have to destroy 200 drones in a time limit). Slow motion and bullet time devices will also appear (but only on one level), and there is also a background story on them.
4. I have an idea of how to use the briefing movies for Vertigo robots.
5. The new mission is already using some of Irontower's modified textures and reticle (thx Irontower

6. I will do Maximum: Vertigo eventually, but it will probably be more like a total conversion, with a completely new world and story (based on an idea I've had since 2005, adapted to be a continuation of a short story I wrote.)
7. I am going to remove all the pictures from the last page of this thread to make the posts more readable, since the level where they were taken was one of the levels that was lost in the crash. I'll only post screenshots of the new levels when I'm closer to completing the mission.