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Det är år 20110. Den tidigare splittrade mänskligheten har enats i kampen mot ett nytt hot. De utomdimensionella varelserna kända som pentagrammet. NEG the new earth government är en samling av mänsklighetens tidigare fraktioner som enats i kampen mot pentagrammet som invaderar genom tre stora interdimensionella revor, den största i Afrika och två mindre i Sydamerika och Europa. Man har använt oändlighetsdriften, en källa till oändligt med ren energi till att skapa supersoldater att försvara Jorden med.
Ni spelar dessa supersoldater som arbetar i frontlinjen för mänsklighetens överlevnad, på slagfälten i Europa. Ni slås mot Pentagram trupepr som ser ut som allt från enorma insekter till demoner och som inte verkar ha några andra mål än att döda och förstöra.
De mänskliga grupperna:
NEG-Defense force: Består till största delen av amerikansk och kinesisk personal. Använder den mest avancerade mänskliga tekniken för att skapa supersoldater som byter form mellan sitt vanliga utseende och sin maskin skapade alternativ kropp. Ser ut som en blandning mellan människor och jetplan i sin stridsform.
Takashi-coroporation: Japansk företag som ligger i framkanten när det kommer till utvecklingen av maskiner användande oändlighetsdriften. Deras supersoldater använder en formbytes teknik liknande NEG:s men med den skillnaden att medan NEG fokuserade på små rörliga flygande enheter så tänker Takashi stort. Soldater som förvandlas till enorma mechs, ofta strömlinjeformade och färgglada då en så stor enhet ändå inte går att smyga med. Alla vapen och attacker använda av dessa jättar gör skada på stora områden.
Middle eastern alliance: Forskning rörande oändlighetsdriften har alltid sett annorlunda ut i mellanöstern där biologi och inte ingenjörskonst varit i fokus. Deras enheter är därför försedda med en biologisk symbiotisk livsform som fungerar som rustning och stridsmaskin i ett. Deras enheter kan därför aktivera och avaktivera sin alternativa form. Enheterna ser uppenbart organiska ut. Ofta med långa klor, hugtänder och extra ögon. Enheterna kan inte flyga men är enormt starka.
The Southern freedom fighter: Består av flyktingar från Afrika och Sydamerika som slagit sig ihop med den Oceanska regeringen för att slå tillbaka mot pentagramtrupperna. Deras filosofi går ut på att alla har förmågan att stå uppför vad som är rätt. Detta har lett till att de istället för att designa förbättringar till individer så har byggt rustningar som kan användas av alla med träning. Deras enheter är vanliga människor i en flygande rustning. Detta har gjort att medan användande av närstridsvapen är problematiskt på grund av påfrestningar. Man kompenserar detta med att piloten tar mindre plats så fler datorer hjälpa till med att rikta avståndsvapen.
The Ganges army: Varför bygga en rustning när du kan skapa ett fält av energi runt en person och sedan pumpa in oändligt mycket energi i kraftfältet med en oändlighetsdriftgenerator? Det är precis vad Ganges regionens vetenskapsmän och militärer beslutade sig för att göra. Hjärnan på personen är modifierad med teknologi som gör personen kapabel att kontrollera fältet som skyddar och förstärker piloten på samma sätt som en fysisk rustning. På grund av den intensiva mental träning som krävs för att styra fältet är piloter från den här gruppen nästan alltid extremt vällutbildade men också sårbara för psykiska problem.
Europeiska unionen: Den minsta och mest sargade av de mänskliga grupperna. Använder stulen pentagram teknik tillsammans med oändlighetsdrift generatorer för att skapa grova men effektiva flygande supersoldater. Soldaterna är permanent förändrade med en blandning av utomjordisk och mänsklig teknologi. Stora ärr, konstiga ögon och kontroll portar stickandes ur musklerna är standard. Har extra effektiva sköldar på grund av de kraftiga modifikationerna.
Lista med citat man kan använda som inspiration för ens karaktärs personlighet eller som en stat:
1. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
2. Kill your enemies. Kill your friends enemies. Kill your friends.
3. No reward is worth this!
4. Common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.
5. A Man with principles is just another way of saying he can't be bought cheap.
6. Screw our country! I wanna live!
7. I'm not expendable, I'm not stupid, and I'm not going!
8. I didn't sign up for this shit.
9. If there is a God, he totally hates me.
10. "Go away!! I don't need pity from the enemy...!!
11. IT'S TIME FOR A MASSACRE!
12. I'm indestructible, the whole universe knows that!
13. What did I ever do to deserve this as my fate? Other than all the sinning.
14. Y'know, I think my favorite thing about being a hero of destiny is that it gives you all kinds of narrative justification to just slay any ol' jerk who gets in your way.
15. I know the difference between right and wrong. I just don't care.
16. I should have mentioned this at the beginning. I solve my problems through violence.
17. You... sacrificed... children. For power?
18. Some people wrestle with their personal demons. I stabbed mine in the back of the head. He was a bleeder.
19. Every day with you is an adventure I never wanted. Like swimming naked through shards of glass.
20. I can recall a time when my life was not, in fact, spiraling out of control before my eyes. We are so far beyond that now, I can't be certain that it wasn't just a dream.
21. Only a fool would engage an enemy without knowing anything about him.
22. Lies aren't true, so why would anyone tell them?
23. In the arena of logic, I fight unarmed!
24. Met our old friends, who coincidentally are also our worst enemies.
25. The line between genius and stupidity is drawn by vision.
26. It's a bad sign when your leader's whole exit strategy is to screw you.
27. If you treat them like equals, it'll only encourage them to think they are your equals.
28. We have a saying where I come from. In your boorish, lackluster tongue, it would roughly translate... "Shut up, and give me all of your monies and fineries".
29. How are we going to save the Aristocracy from the Poor?
30. Your history is a very long love poem dedicated to bloodshed. And to yourselves.
31. A meal that costs my dignity is still free.
32. NO! Poor people are crazy. I'm eccentric.
33. He defied the will of god, journeyed to the ends of the universe to escape the tyranny of the Plan. But Predestination has no limits.
34. Until the heart stops and the last breath dies in the last dry throat. It is a tragedy. All of it.
35. There isn't enough time. There was never enough time.
36. We're all puppets. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
37. You're a fool, a damn fool! You can't change your destiny, you can only choose to meet it! And you will fail.
38. Rest assured that I cannot harm women. Even those who are my mortal enemies.
39. Heartless it may be, but headless it ain't. I've never claimed to be nice, just to be sensible. No need to look like that.
40. Please stop talking like people dying is actually a good thing.
41. Someday, someone will best me. But it won't be today, and it won't be you. Last words.
42. The blood on my hands is merely proof of my ambition.
43. I have a bad feeling about this.
44. Don't mourn for me. This is my destiny
45. Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead.
46. Protect the environment, or I'll FUCKING KILL YOU!
47. Comedy works when people are miserable and for that reason alone, you are the best audiences in the world.
48. For what is done for love is beyond good and evil.
49. Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
50. The Truth is Out There. Trust No One.
51. No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.
52. We were once so close to heaven,
Peter came out and gave us medals,
Declaring us the nicest of the damned.
53. Is this what happens to us? A life of conflict with no time for friends...So that when it is done, only our enemies leave roses.
54. Ruthlessness is the Mercy of the Wise.
55. The first and most important rule of gun-running is, never get shot with your own merchandise.
56. If you look at history, the great men and women of the world have always been defined - by their enemies.
57. Everything that happens, happens for a reason.
58. Heroes always come back from the dead.
59. Good can't help but do a little evil,
Evil can't help but do a little good...
60. I just forgot what's it like to be one of the little people. It's liberating because I have no empathy for your suffering.
61. There cannot be light without darkness!
62. I'm bad luck. Good was never an option for me.
63. Beauty is truth, truth beauty— that is all.
64. Like change, we must always welcome destiny.
65. My mask is growing heavy, but I've forgotten who's beneath.
66. A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
67. In five years we'll either be working for him, or dead by his hand.
68. Two players. Two sides. One is light. One is dark.
69. I always find it's easier the see the world in black and white. Grey? I don't know what to do with grey.
70. There is no such thing as innocence — only degrees of guilt.
71. If I am occasionally a little overdressed, I make up for it by always being immensely overeducated.
72. I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.
73. It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
74. So I say live and let live. That's my motto. Live and let live. Anyone who can't go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker.
75. I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me.
76. Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.
77. I think crime pays. The hours are good, you meet a lot of interesting people, you travel a lot.
78. Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.
79. Back off, man. I'm a scientist.
80. When someone asks you if you're a god, you say "Yes!"
81. We are the wrong people in the wrong place, at the right time. Of course we are heroes.
82. Good Guys never get the girl.
83. Today is a good day to die.
84. I am the kind of monster that makes sure the world will still be here tomorrow.
85. Those who live by the sword will die by the sword.
86. If we do the greater good, we are all expendable.
87. Many will die. Maybe even some of the enemy. Is good plan.
88. Nice shop you got here. Shame if something were to happen to it...
89. The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
90. The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
91. Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.
92. Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.
93. Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
94. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
95. A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat justice by evil means.
96. I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
97. If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
98. The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
99. I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.
100. If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.