In the beginning you are an ordinary - if not genius - university student, working on your big project you've been keeping a secret from everyone except your professor. In the future robotics technology has greatly advanced, which is how the fall of the human race has come about under the accidental invention of the brutish armoured robots who have become sentient, power-thirsty monsters.
It all happened quite quickly. Within weeks, armed forces were struggling to hold back the robots which had realised their own strength. They were continually pushing back the boundaries, taking over and destroying defences; and human "safezones" were slowly shrinking. It was about this time you realised you would never finish your university course.
About five months later the AI have completely taken over, defences are diminishing and your project is almost finished. Luckily, your university is in the centre of one the remaining safezones. However, danger shows itself sooner than you'd expected and you're forced to flee early. You make your way towards the university, you know your best chance of escape comes from there.
There is a huge crash as the roof of the laboratory shatters. A huge, metal beast surges through the roof and into the air, propelled by huge wings and jets on back feet and spines. It's not quite finished, there's some maintenance you still have to tend to, but it will have to do. As you turn to look back from atop the shoulders of the beast, you see AI droids burst through the door into your laboratory. You got away just in time.
At first it's only about survival; you can only think about getting away from the AI that are ravaging the world. They don't care for remote areas so you make your way towards the mountains. When you get there - it's not that far away - you realise that you're going to need fuel. You never topped up back at the lab.
It's too far to the nearest safezone; you won't last that far without running out. You'll have to find a refuelling station outside the safezones: in AI territory.
You fly to find the station just in time, and you set the dragon up with fuel. As it's filling up, you bust your way into the old shop attached to the station, where there is a little bit of provisions to keep you going. You're on guard at all times as you hear distant booms and crashes in the distance.
You explore the place while your dragon is still refuelling, and you find something familiar discarded on the ground. It's a holographic watch, just like the one your professor owns. The AI are smart, but not smart enough to know the use of some advanced technology, so to them it's junk. You grab it, and punch in your professor's contact details.
Before you can hit ring to talk to your professor, there's a massive explosion and the building you were in just a moment ago erupts in a blast of rubble, flames and smoke. You rush to your dragon and unplug it from the fuel. As you're climbing up the side to sit atop it, you're already taking to the air. Again, you turn to look behind you to see a huge AI drone stood where you just were, filling up on fuel. Suddenly, instead of turning away, your beast whirs around against command and at first you think it's turned on you. But then, it opens its huge jaws and a long stream of fire explodes from the dragon's mouth. It catches the fuel that was left dribbling from the spout when you fled. As the dragon pulls up in a last minute dive, there is the biggest explosion yet and the droid is destroyed.
When you finally get in contact with your professor, he tells you that there is a lab very far north that contains the code the AI survive from, and are programmed by. If you can reach it and destroy it, you can shut them all down forever.
From then on, that is the goal of the game, and you must face many challenges that stand in your way in the process. The challenges get harder as you progress, the AI are sentient enough to realise that the code programmes them and do all they can to protect it.
When you have destroyed the code that the AI run on, they all shut down immediately.
You have won.
It all happened quite quickly. Within weeks, armed forces were struggling to hold back the robots which had realised their own strength. They were continually pushing back the boundaries, taking over and destroying defences; and human "safezones" were slowly shrinking. It was about this time you realised you would never finish your university course.
About five months later the AI have completely taken over, defences are diminishing and your project is almost finished. Luckily, your university is in the centre of one the remaining safezones. However, danger shows itself sooner than you'd expected and you're forced to flee early. You make your way towards the university, you know your best chance of escape comes from there.
There is a huge crash as the roof of the laboratory shatters. A huge, metal beast surges through the roof and into the air, propelled by huge wings and jets on back feet and spines. It's not quite finished, there's some maintenance you still have to tend to, but it will have to do. As you turn to look back from atop the shoulders of the beast, you see AI droids burst through the door into your laboratory. You got away just in time.
At first it's only about survival; you can only think about getting away from the AI that are ravaging the world. They don't care for remote areas so you make your way towards the mountains. When you get there - it's not that far away - you realise that you're going to need fuel. You never topped up back at the lab.
It's too far to the nearest safezone; you won't last that far without running out. You'll have to find a refuelling station outside the safezones: in AI territory.
You fly to find the station just in time, and you set the dragon up with fuel. As it's filling up, you bust your way into the old shop attached to the station, where there is a little bit of provisions to keep you going. You're on guard at all times as you hear distant booms and crashes in the distance.
You explore the place while your dragon is still refuelling, and you find something familiar discarded on the ground. It's a holographic watch, just like the one your professor owns. The AI are smart, but not smart enough to know the use of some advanced technology, so to them it's junk. You grab it, and punch in your professor's contact details.
Before you can hit ring to talk to your professor, there's a massive explosion and the building you were in just a moment ago erupts in a blast of rubble, flames and smoke. You rush to your dragon and unplug it from the fuel. As you're climbing up the side to sit atop it, you're already taking to the air. Again, you turn to look behind you to see a huge AI drone stood where you just were, filling up on fuel. Suddenly, instead of turning away, your beast whirs around against command and at first you think it's turned on you. But then, it opens its huge jaws and a long stream of fire explodes from the dragon's mouth. It catches the fuel that was left dribbling from the spout when you fled. As the dragon pulls up in a last minute dive, there is the biggest explosion yet and the droid is destroyed.
When you finally get in contact with your professor, he tells you that there is a lab very far north that contains the code the AI survive from, and are programmed by. If you can reach it and destroy it, you can shut them all down forever.
From then on, that is the goal of the game, and you must face many challenges that stand in your way in the process. The challenges get harder as you progress, the AI are sentient enough to realise that the code programmes them and do all they can to protect it.
When you have destroyed the code that the AI run on, they all shut down immediately.
You have won.
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