Story

With the population rapidly growing too large for the limited resources of Earth, the government started shipping criminals to penal colonies on the moons of Jupiter and Neptune. This could only provide temporary relief, though. Then the government got the idea to use prisoners for the dangerous task of establishing new colonies. Seduced by the promise of freedom, many prisoners volunteered for the job. Freedom was an illusion, though. As a final step to prepare the new colonies, the government rounded up all of the prisoners and shipped them to other new planets to start again. The prisoners quickly grew tired of this treatment and revolted.

The Imperium government decided they needed a stronger way to identify and control prisoners. They had the prisoners injected with a heritable genetic key that ended their lives at the age of 25, and marked them with a completely black left eye. Not knowing the source of this curse, the “Marked” became disheartened and much easier to control. When colonization was no longer a pressing need, they were easily transitioned to the role of indentured servants. But then research into the genetic mark showed that it was manmade. The Marked and many sympathizers revolted against the Imperium. The Freedom Guard army was organized, and galactic war broke out.

A third side soon found themselves caught in this war. The Tograns, a group of scientists who’d left Earth voluntarily long before the government built off-world colonies, found themselves in the middle of the destructive war. Though the Tograns had highly advanced technology, they had not planned for war. Their leader found himself caught on a planet targeted for destruction by a horrifying Imperium super weapon. In his last moment of life he released a probe into space that held the single chance to change the Tograns’ fate.

Your Mission

You have recovered the probe that holds the key to saving the Tograns. But are you strong enough to accomplish this task?

The probe contains a series of combat simulations based off actual battles that have occurred between the Freedom Guard and the Imperium forces. Although you can play each simulation as either side regardless of who actually won that particular skirmish, the probe will detail the historical outcome of each battle upon its completion.

Succeed in all twelve simulations, and you will have proven yourself worthy to be transported to the most critical battle of them all. Just beware—this one won’t be a simulation!