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R E M O T E M A R A U D E R PART I: The Martian Conflict =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- INTRODUCTION ------------ After the great human war on the planet Earth in the year 2072 A.D. that nearly wiped out many of that planet's inhabitants a great surge in learning and technology sweeped the planet. A surge of exploration was started and soon the human race spread through the solar system. Probe after probe scanned every planet in the solar system, then exploration ship after exploration ship, and finally colony ship after colony ship. In the year 2107 A.D. a two discoveries was found that would shock the humans that were quickly colonizing the wide expanse of the solar system. The first was the discovery of intelligent aquatic sea life on the Jovian moon of Europa. The moon was known to harbor many different sea creatures but until large stone structures were discovered, and a race first thought to be of simple animal squidlike intelligence tried to communicate with an exploration craft, the moon was thought to be devoid of intelligence. The Uygria look like a cross between a squid and a dolphin, that change color in varying ways to communicate. They have three eyes, and their tentacles are strong and can grasp and manipulate objects like humans. The creatures, called the Uygria, were once very advanced but due to a plague that afflicted the creatures, their numbers had shrunken down to a few thousand, and their civilzation crumbled. Most of the Uygria now live in isolated tribal communities with no real civilization. The second discovery was even more astonishing, a race of creatures, calling themselves the Naxraega, were found to live in huge underground cities. At first there was great conflict, and a war began between the human colonists and the Naxraega for control of Mars. The Naxraega, who were generally peaceful, fought viciously against the humans. The Naxraega are about 5 feet tall, their bodies are barrel-like, they have two string thin arms, and large spheroid head with one large eye. They have several holes around their head to detect sounds. Thousands of both humans and Naxraega, who governed themselves in a simple democracy where they would vote for a single leader who would rule them all unconditionally for a period of 25 years. After 12 years of bitter conflict and huge loss of life and money, the two races came to a truce. The humans could trade and even set up trading areas on Mars, and mining could be set up on Mars but 30% had to be given to the Naxraega. But all ships had to be cleared by the Naxraega and they could deny any ship access to their planet. And for many years there was peace. In the hundreds of years that followed the Naxraega and the Humans developed close relations. The other planets were colonized, Venus, Mercury, the Moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and a small colony on Pluto. In the 2638 A.D. the Naxraega deep in an economic depression allowed a human colony to exist on Mars, however, the colony must exist in the skies of Mars, not on the surface to separate the underground dwelling Naxraega. The colonists that thrived on Mars were a large group of trade oriented humans. They thrived on economic competition and the strength of the individual as a financial unit. Intervention between the citizens of the trading colony and the government was extremely limited. Taxes were almost non-existent and laws were lax. Conflicts were kept between individuals, broken laws were usually dealt with by personal vengeance. The government operated an official station and when conflicts or matters which effected the entire colony were needed to be decided they were made by a council of 10 elected trading merchants, which formed the Martian Guild. Each member served for 15 years, however, they could leave the Guild at any time. Being on the council meant numerous powers and many connections in the trading community. If a council member was not rich before he or she was on the guild, they soon were afterwards. Then, in the year 2753 A.D. the economically depressed Naxraega, who year after year of built up anger after seeing their human "visitors" go rich with trade based on their planet, revolt. The revolution started at the lowest levels of the inhabitants. It quickly moved to the higher ranks, unbeknownst to the human colonists, and revolution swarmed. Violent revolutionaries in a aggressive coup murdered their peaceful and passive leader, Leqwarx, destroyed the underground capital city and quickly moved to take power. The new revolutionaries moved to take power and they formed a group of three powerful leaders and instilled a communistic type government over the Naxraega citizens. All moneys would be shared by all, work would be done by all, everyone would be equal. Two factions arose amongst the citizens, the neutrals, and the isolationists. The neutrals, who were the slight minority, felt that Naxraega and the rest of the solar system could live in harmony. The majority faction of the isolationists felt that the solar system and the human race were an infection in the solar system and that the human race was a disease that must be removed from Mars. The isolationists began spending huge amounts of resources into research to destroy the human colonists, who were technologically superior to the Naxraega. The Naxraega designed a series of cyber-organisms half organic, half machine to rid their world of humans and their sky dwellings, which would mean little loss to Naxraega life. The factory was created above ground and the creatures were sent free, there were five basic types of cyber-organisms created to wreak havoc amongst the colonists. The first was the POD or SPORE this creature floats through the sky, when it gets close to any object such as a ship or dwelling it rams into it and explodes. They are usually slow and are the least dangerous. The second was the RAMBLER this creature resembles a jellyfish, with its many tentacles it attaches itself to a ship or dwelling and tries to pull it apart. The third was the DISMANTLES, this creature was more intelligent than the other two, its basic knowledge of mechanics allowed it to find a dwelling or ship and slowly dismantle its workings. Its find appendages allow for intricate tinkering. The fourth was the LEECH, or sky leech, it quickly moves through the skies looking for moving objects. It leeches itself to a ship and then drills into the vehicle destroying its insides. The final kind was known as the TERMINATOR, the final and most advanced type of creature, it searches both dwellings and ships and wreaks terrible damage. The government and the colonists were in chaos after the first wave of attacks began, confusion spread as well as fear. The government had no military not even a police force to destroy the Naxraega menace. So the citizens, those who were not rich enough to take their belongings and leave, took things into their own hands. However, desputes arose, who should kill the creatures, who protected whom, and why should one fight for another. The government in an effort to keep its population on Mars, and to end disputes as well as to encourage fighting the Naxraega proclaimed that those killing the Naxraega would recieve a specified number of credits depending on the creature they killed. Each ship would get a free counter that detect when a creature was killed, this would be scanned at the government station and credits would be distributed their. With the economy in a slump and the ever increasing production of the Naxraega cyber organisms the government, desparate to end the scurge, proclaimed that anyone destroying the factory would receive 100,000 credits as well as a seat on the Martian Guild. You had been sitting in your dwelling when you noticed a strange sound. An odd drilling noise followed by machinery being moved. Interested you explored your dwelling looking for the noise. To your horror you see that an odd creature trying to drill into the energy core, the damage appears to be permanent and you have but seconds before the creature reaches the core. You gather up the last of your credits and leave your dwelling, the energy core blowing up destroying your abode just as you leave. Seeking revenge, angered at the Naxraega, you spend your last credits on a ship with a laser and seek to destroy all Naxraega. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Start Up -------- The game gives you three options at the start up of the game, if you recieved the game off of a disk you need to decompress the file into a directory on to your hard drive. You may select to have sound and music or no sound and music, you many also specify how you want to control your craft, either by Joystick or Keyboard. When you have correctly specified the options you wish then press 3 to continue on the game. Three title screens will appear, the Northstar Solutions title screen, the Midlothian Software screen, and then finally the Remote Marauder Start Up screen. Press spacebar to continue through these screens. A menu screen will appear allowing you to 1 - See the Introduction 2 - Start The Game 3 - How to Play the Game 4 - Load Previous Game 5 - Registration Information 6 - Quit the game Press Number 2 to start the game, the other options are available as well. PLAYING THE GAME ---------------- If you selected JOYSTICK as your control option Move the joystick to the direction you wish to go, UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT allow you to control your ships actions. The Main Fire button fires your most powerful laser that you have. The other mouse button gives you the menu. The ENTER KEY needs to be used to ENTER dwellings or stores. Other options such as Y for Yes or N for No or 1 for load 2 for save and 3 for quit in the menu screen need to be pressed on the keyboard. If you selected KEYBOARD as your control option Your direction, UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT are controlled by using the CURSOR keys specifying which direction you want to go. The SPACE BAR gives you the MENU screen, and moves back to the main scree. The ENTER KEY (or return key) enters buildings such as dwellings and stores. Y for Yes or N for No are available when requested. In the Menu screen 1 for load 2 for save and 3 for quit are available. The MENU screen by pressing the second joystick button or the SPACEBAR shows your inventory as well as a map of all the buildings (except for the factory) on Mars. It also shows you the power you have and how many credits you have earned so far. From the menu you many save your game, load your game, or Quit the game. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- HINTS ----- The game's adventure is to find and build a weapon that will destroy the Naxraega factory. You must get credits and increase your ships power and strength. Here are some hints for success... - Save your game frequently - Concentrate on improving your ship at first - Talk to all occupants of the planet - Visit every store There is a secret cheat available, contact midlthsoft@aol.com to find out what it is. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Credits ------- This game was created by J. Kintz Copyright (C) March 1, 1998. The author assumes no responsibility for damage this game may cause, as unlikely as that may happen. The following people made The Remote Marauder Part I and Part II a reality by helping me: Heather K. Fleming (playtesting), Joey Andwell (design), Doug Sampson (music). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- REGISTRATION ------------ Remote Marauder Part I: The Martian Conflict is distributed as shareware the user may distribute and give it to anyone at his or her will. If the user likes the game he or she may register the game and thus recieve the sequel: Remote Marauder Part II: The Saturn Rebellion. Part II takes place in the orbit of saturn, the player explores the many sphere cities and fight a tyrannically oppressive empire that seeks to dominate its members. You must fight the government and free its people. To register see the file ORDER.FRM to either send or call to register. Registration costs $10.00 plus $2.50 for shipping and handling. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- WEB PAGE -------- Remote Marauder is a product of Midlothian Software, to visit Midlothian a web page is available at http://members.aol.com/midlthsoft other products created by Midlothian are available there. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This page was created by and copyright J. Kintz (C) 1998