Greetings, Cadet. We’ve heard about your performance at the Academy of Hot Shots and Trigger-Happy Fellows, and we put in a request for your assignment here. We’ve forwarded this mission briefing to you to occupy your time while on your trip here.
We are in a hazardous situation. I’ve personally received intelligence that an unknown force is grouping at the far reaches of Territory Space. Our lunar base is stationed on a natural satellite of the closest planet to the Territory border. We used to be the second closest, by the way. We needed a new person to control our defense systems, and you are the one chosen for the job.
Now for some mission particulars…
These are the Unnamed Threat. They come in two varieties, Cruel Blue and Mean Green. They attack in several different ways. Don’t let them fly low enough to destroy the base!
If you are using SimpleText to scan this briefing, you can listen to a survivor’s recording of a successful attack, by choosing “Play” under the “Sound” menu.
These are your main line of defense. There is one on each side of the base, and each is controlled by a separate keypress on your control terminal. (The defaults are “z” and “x”.) They will fire at where the crosshairs currently are pointing. Use the pointing device attached to your terminal to aim at your targets.
This is a typical power generator. The more you have running, the faster you can fire and the more protected the cities are…
These are what you are trying to protect, the base’s cities. They are immune to damage until its neighboring power generators are destroyed…
If an enemy is destroyed, it may leave a weapon enhancement behind. DON’T SHOOT IT! They don’t seem appreciate it. Let it survive long enough to reach one of your defense stations. There are three kinds of enhancement:
- Laser: This instantly kills what’s behind the crosshairs, but it requires precise targeting…
- Rapid Fire: This allows you to fire constantly, but overuse can cause you to hit something best left alone…
- Burst Shot: This causes your shots to explode in a cloud of destruction, but, like Rapid Fire, you must be careful where you shoot…
To keep you from blanketing the sky with anti-spaceship fire, your foes will leave these nasty surprises behind. When shot, it can drop up to three bombs which can each take out a generator or city…
We’ve gotten reports that this is known as a “Bonus Point Target”…
And these are “Bonus Multipliers”…
Hmmm… I wonder what this could do for you?
Good Luck on your assignment, and may the Great Star Traveler bless us with survival.
