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{{quote|''"[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|The road to hell is paved with good intentions.]] [[An Adventurer Is You|What road will you take?]]"''}}

 

 

[[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|In 2030]], alien craft drop [[Terraforming|terraformation pods]] on Earth, unleashing [[The Corruption|horrific contamination]] that kills untold millions, [[Mutants|but changes a rare few.]]

[[Fantastic Racism|The Mutants are regarded as a plague]] [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|and herded into internment camps.]] Scientists harness some of the technology behind the alien pods, creating [[Deflector Shields]] and other devices. In the face of expanding mutant populations and widespread breakdown in law and order, [[One World Order|the world's governments combine in order to preserve their power and society,]] eventually becoming a massive corporate entity called [[Mega Corp|Hestia Corp.]] They create [[Cyborg|biomechanical armies]], immune to contamination, to combat the growing Mutant threat. The "Biomeks" are effective against the Mutants, now united under a single banner, in the short term, but Hestia ultimately deems them a failure and enacts a final solution. They put a select few scientists, military officials and other VIPs in [[The Ark|underground arks]] and seal themselves underground, [[Moral Event Horizon|while simultaneously unleashing every]] [[Nuke'Em|nuclear,]] [[Apocalypse How|biological and chemical weapon they have on the surface]] [[Reset Button|in the hopes of totally sterilizing it.]]

 

 

Player characters took the role of a freelance operative from one of these three factions, fighting against the other two and the various hostile elements inhabiting the "Central Wasteland", as it was called. As the player progressed through the game and moved closer towards Ground Zero, more of the [[Backstory]] was revealed, along with the truth behind the aliens and their arrival on earth.

 

Due to "insufficient numbers of subscribers" (Rumor had it that less then a hundred people were playing at the time), [[Cancellation|the game shut down in 2007.]] [[Executive Meddling|Attempts by various parties to pick up the slack were denied, as were NetDevil's attempts to buy the rights back from NCSoft.]] Efforts by some players to revive the game on a private basis continue.

 

* [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels]]: The Riders of the Apocalypse gang, albeit with much more advanced bikes.

* [[BFG]]

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: The head of INC.

* [[Limit Break]]: "Hazard Mode", obtained at level 40. After dishing out or taking a sufficient level of damage, Biomek vehicles could transform into a [[Humongous Mecha]], Mutant vehicles could project a contaminated "[[Our Ghosts Are Different|Phase Ghost]]", and Human vehicles could [[Reverse Polarity]] on their shields and [[Kill Sat|call down an ion blast]] on their position. Originally only the Biomeks had a Hazard Mode, but response from testers was so postitive that an equivalent ability was given to the other two factions.

* [[Mega Corp]]: Hestia Corp, which as of the game's setting represents what's left of the old order. Also INC, a neutral group that provides transportation and rescue services to all three factions via their ubiquitous yellow VTOL aircraft in exchange for being left alone.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: The tank classes, namely the Human Commando, Mutant Champion and Biomek [[Terminator]]. They usually drove heavy vehicles, such as Hummer-like trucks or [[Tank Goodness|tanks.]]

* [[The Minion Master]]: The "officer" classes, being the Human Lieutenant, Mutant Archon and Biomek Mastermind. Archons could summon a variety of mutant beasts while Masterminds and Lieutenants used [[Attack Drone|Attack Drones.]]

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