Chaos157
02-03-2007, 03:29 AM
Videolink:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE9dDgweWb8
Website: http://www.clancoregames.com/s1/index.php?option=com_magazine&Itemid=120
Screen shots: http://clancoregames.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=78&g2_GALLERYSID=d81582f72b0e1e46ac5eff50a3282098
Download: http://files.filefront.com/Starsiege+2845+Alpha+Tech+Release+++FF+Exclusive/;6038678;;/fileinfo.html
(from the Alpha Tech Release link on the main website)
Storyline: In 2471 Solomon Petresun created new life in the form of Prometheus, a self aware machine that was built to govern mankind's military. When Prometheus turned ITs forces against humanity in 2602, IT met little resistance. As mankind fought extinction, a decomissioned base with a full complement of the bipedal war machines referred to as 'HERCs' became the seat of resistance.
As the daring tactics of General Ambrose Gierling yielded victory after victory, Prometheus was forced to recall ITs forces. The Dark Intellect was not to be denied, however, and its second assault pushed humanity back to the brink of extinction. When Prometheus' warform was located on Luna, General Gierling sent the best of his surviving troops on a mission to destroy the source of the cybrid onslaught.
The mission was partially successful: the Lunar base was destroyed, and Prometheus, badly damaged, barely escaped. Cut off from ITs cybrid warriors, Prometheus observed as human forces turned the tide against ITs children. Earth was freed of the Cybrid presence in 2627. The threat, however, was not over.
Before Prometheus revolted against mankind, Solomon Petresun used IT to transfer his conscious to an immortal, cybernetic brain. Pledging to prepare mankind for the next coming of Prometheus, Petresun became the emperor of the Great Human Empire in 2652. For two hundred years he devoted himself to the fortification of Earth.
His complete disregard for the colonies on Mars and Venus lead the colonists to protest, and later, rebel. When insurgents overthrew the Imperial Police on Mars, Petresun sent a fleet to restore order. Taking advantage of the vulnerability of Earth, Prometheus launched his third assault on mankind.
Petresun's soldiers scrambled to return to Earth, but the Dark Intellect had timed ITs assault to devastating effect. Now united in their battle for survival, Imperials and Colonists waged a pitched war against the Cybrid hordes. As the battle for Earth raged on to its inevitable conclusion, a reconaissance ship located Prometheus on Pluto. Recalling the battle that had nearly destroyed Prometheus on Luna, Caanon and Harabec Weathers resolved to personally lead a desperate mission to annihilate the Dark Intellect.
The elite pilots who participated in the mission fought across Pluto and into the temple from which Prometheus directed ITs children. ITs destruction led to a mass breakdown in the Cybrid hierarchy. Capitalizing on the confusion, human forces began successful counter-attack operations in all theatres of combat.
Caanon returned to Earth with the remains of Harabec, who was slain in the canyons of Pluto. Finding that Petresun had been killed in the bitter fighting for the Empire's capital of Nova Alexandria, Caanon assumed complete control of the human armies. In 2839, as the cybrid presence on Earth crumbled under human forces, Caanon, newly appointed Emperor, declared victory in the war against Prometheus.
This great war, the Starsiege, has been over for six years.
Fractured and confused after the fall of their progenitor god-tyrant, the Cybrids have fled into the darkness of the solar system’s outer rim. Throughout the colonies as well as on hallowed Earth, humanity sifts through the charred remains of the Starsiege, gives thanks for its deliverance, and begins to rebuild.
However, humanity’s third brush with near-extinction in as many centuries has left it neither complacent nor naive. This time they will not wait for the sword to fall. This time humanity will strike first.
Determined not to relent in the pursuit of mankind’s greatest enemy, Emperor Caanon dispatches an armada into the deeps beyond the ghost-orbit of broken Pluto, tasked with the mission of finding the Cybrids and destroying them once and for all.
Website: http://www.clancoregames.com/s1/index.php?option=com_magazine&Itemid=120
Screen shots: http://clancoregames.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=78&g2_GALLERYSID=d81582f72b0e1e46ac5eff50a3282098
Download: http://files.filefront.com/Starsiege+2845+Alpha+Tech+Release+++FF+Exclusive/;6038678;;/fileinfo.html
(from the Alpha Tech Release link on the main website)
Storyline: In 2471 Solomon Petresun created new life in the form of Prometheus, a self aware machine that was built to govern mankind's military. When Prometheus turned ITs forces against humanity in 2602, IT met little resistance. As mankind fought extinction, a decomissioned base with a full complement of the bipedal war machines referred to as 'HERCs' became the seat of resistance.
As the daring tactics of General Ambrose Gierling yielded victory after victory, Prometheus was forced to recall ITs forces. The Dark Intellect was not to be denied, however, and its second assault pushed humanity back to the brink of extinction. When Prometheus' warform was located on Luna, General Gierling sent the best of his surviving troops on a mission to destroy the source of the cybrid onslaught.
The mission was partially successful: the Lunar base was destroyed, and Prometheus, badly damaged, barely escaped. Cut off from ITs cybrid warriors, Prometheus observed as human forces turned the tide against ITs children. Earth was freed of the Cybrid presence in 2627. The threat, however, was not over.
Before Prometheus revolted against mankind, Solomon Petresun used IT to transfer his conscious to an immortal, cybernetic brain. Pledging to prepare mankind for the next coming of Prometheus, Petresun became the emperor of the Great Human Empire in 2652. For two hundred years he devoted himself to the fortification of Earth.
His complete disregard for the colonies on Mars and Venus lead the colonists to protest, and later, rebel. When insurgents overthrew the Imperial Police on Mars, Petresun sent a fleet to restore order. Taking advantage of the vulnerability of Earth, Prometheus launched his third assault on mankind.
Petresun's soldiers scrambled to return to Earth, but the Dark Intellect had timed ITs assault to devastating effect. Now united in their battle for survival, Imperials and Colonists waged a pitched war against the Cybrid hordes. As the battle for Earth raged on to its inevitable conclusion, a reconaissance ship located Prometheus on Pluto. Recalling the battle that had nearly destroyed Prometheus on Luna, Caanon and Harabec Weathers resolved to personally lead a desperate mission to annihilate the Dark Intellect.
The elite pilots who participated in the mission fought across Pluto and into the temple from which Prometheus directed ITs children. ITs destruction led to a mass breakdown in the Cybrid hierarchy. Capitalizing on the confusion, human forces began successful counter-attack operations in all theatres of combat.
Caanon returned to Earth with the remains of Harabec, who was slain in the canyons of Pluto. Finding that Petresun had been killed in the bitter fighting for the Empire's capital of Nova Alexandria, Caanon assumed complete control of the human armies. In 2839, as the cybrid presence on Earth crumbled under human forces, Caanon, newly appointed Emperor, declared victory in the war against Prometheus.
This great war, the Starsiege, has been over for six years.
Fractured and confused after the fall of their progenitor god-tyrant, the Cybrids have fled into the darkness of the solar system’s outer rim. Throughout the colonies as well as on hallowed Earth, humanity sifts through the charred remains of the Starsiege, gives thanks for its deliverance, and begins to rebuild.
However, humanity’s third brush with near-extinction in as many centuries has left it neither complacent nor naive. This time they will not wait for the sword to fall. This time humanity will strike first.
Determined not to relent in the pursuit of mankind’s greatest enemy, Emperor Caanon dispatches an armada into the deeps beyond the ghost-orbit of broken Pluto, tasked with the mission of finding the Cybrids and destroying them once and for all.