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the Icarus sustains hits,
collides with other craft or
buildings or flies too near
the sun. Fortunately it's
possible to replenish shield
energy in a variety of ways.
A very useful feature is
the five-channel
expansion bus, which
allows up to five
enhancement modules to
be bolted onto the Icarus.
These include Time-Warp
Cuboids, Fire and Flee
Missiles. Bouncing Bombs
and a Neutron Bomb,
Finally, the Icarus has a
large cargo deck which
holds three items,
Including reserve
enhancement modules.
Items may be brought
aboard using the tractor
beam, which envelopes a
selected object so that it
can be examined, and
drawn into the cargo bay if
necessary.
The Sauce System
consists of five planets,
some of which are orbited
by moons, and a
hazardous asteroid belt.
Now, incredible though it
may seem, the entire
system, asteroids and all.
has been programmed
into the game so that a
player may take off from
one planet, cross the
spaceways and land on
another planet or moon.
Each planet revolves, so
that there are days and
nights - you can actually
see the sun rise and set. The
shadows and colour of the
sky changes as the sun
moves across the sky, until
night falls. On some
planets there's even
thunder and lightning!
Every planet has its own
distinctive environment.
Dante, a small red planet
nearest the sun is inhabited
by a small Ergon task force
and a very strange
collection of animals,
grossly mutated into strage
forms by the intense
radiation_ It's on
undesirable place to land,
scattered with volcanoes
and gas eruptions.
Vista is a blue planet,
second nearest the sun,
covered in marshlands
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and populated by weird
creatures._
The grey planet of
Apogee is next. Here the
Ergons hove their base, so
military and Industrial
presence are very high.
Apogee has two moons,
Enos and Castron, both of
which are Ergondominated.
Millway is a huge. red
planet which cannot be
approached too closely
due to the very high
atmosphere pressure.
However, there is a
high-altitude presence of
both Egron military forces
and strange creatures,
including a robot duck!
Millway has seven moons,
Broadway, Apex Esprit.
Questa. Westmere,
Synapse and Wacktunk, all
heavily industrialised.
Finally there's Aldos.
another planet heavily
populated by the Egrons,
and apparently the
construction sight of a
huge space station, which
will be the flagship of the
Egron invasion fleet. Aldos'
moon, Q-Beta. has itself a
small, yellow moon,
although radio telescopes
can get no reading of its
presence. A mystery that
should no doubt be
investigated?
Travelling from planet to
planet is made possible
with the Stardrive, which
kicks in at the press of a key
and speeds up the Icarus
by a factor of eight.
Fortunately the planets are
quite close together, so a
Journey never takes more
than a couple of minutes -
anyway, there are always
pirate space ships to
watch out tor. as well as
asteroids. When the
destination is reached, the
drive is switched oft and
the ship goes into
planettall, where it can
either be guided
downwards through the
atmosphere to the surface.
or flown back up into
space again.
The mission actually
starts on the surface of
Apogee, right in the thick
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