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An [[Opening Scroll]] (briefly) establishes the background: Earth's outcasts have returned with a vengeance and attacked the planet in a vicious assault. The Earth Defense League tries its best to hold, but later levels reveal that Earth has been at least partially overrun. The end of the intro and the beginning of the game focus on Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons.
 
[[The Hero|Rex]] suits up in his special Assault Suit just as the base comes under attack, and so begins a brutal campaign to defend Earth from her assailants. [[One -Man Army|Rex]] faces down hordes of [[Mecha Mooks]], [[Heavily Armored Mook|Heavily Armored Mecha-Mooks]], [[Elite Mooks|Elite Mecha-Mooks]], and enemy warships, backed only by his [[Redshirt Army]] of bronze-colored Mechs and the far more useful officers and allies who provide intel via comm transmissions. Through the course of his battles, Rex learns more about the enemy that has attacked them seemingly without provocation, and begins to doubt the righteousness of the war.
 
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* [[Informed Equipment]]: The only addition that actually appears on the player's mech is the shield--weapons all look the same and extra armor makes no changes to appearance.
* [[Last Chance Hit Point]]: The player character's health.
* [[Killed Mid -Sentence]]: {{spoiler|Rance, as he is defiantly telling you that [[I Can Still Fight|he can still fight]]}}.
* [[Man in The Machine]] / [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: The survivors of the OSE program became part machine in order to survive by constructing and utilizing the Chron Cyborg Creation system. What exactly that is and what it involves isn't very well explained; Rance, for instance, appears human until ''after'' his battle at one of the Chron systems, and then is sporting noticeable cybernetics--however, he says that they used the Chron to survive 100 years ago and that "now the Chron keeps us alive". It's possible that they all became cyborgs in order to survive the length of time needed to get revenge, but if they are injured in battle then they have to have even more implants added. Since the Chron isn't clarified, the reason the cyborgs are so vindictive could be part of [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]].
* [[Mini -Mook]]: Almost every enemy you face is either a [[Humongous Mecha]] or some sort of oddly shaped vehicle. Towards the end of the game (or right at the beginning, depending on what difficulty you're on), dropships sometimes fly by and deploy actual footsoldiers. They're full sized humans, but to you, they may as well be ants.
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: With a vengeance. Your health respawns on its own, so long as you aren't constantly being damaged. Guess what? ''The enemies never stop coming.''
* [[No Campaign for The Wicked]]: Somewhat subverted. You start off as "the good guys", but it slowly becomes apparent that there's more to this conflict than first appeared.
* [[One -Hit Polykill]]: Only one weapon: the laser.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: The reason for the entire war.
{{quote| {{spoiler|Rance: We are the survivors of the Outer Space Expeditionary program. We left the Earth 100 years ago with all of man's hope. But we had trouble at the edge of the solar system. We radioed Earth for help but there was silence. We have been forsaken and are here to take our revenge!}}<br />
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* [[The Dragon]]: Rance Culzus.
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Literally. The enemy bombers are incapable of adjusting their altitude, leading to a great deal of laughter when they plow into the sides of mountains.
* [[VideogameVideo Game Caring Potential]]: It's hard ''not'' to feel [[Papa Wolf]]-y towards your allies, especially the mechs that are half your size.
** Particularly in the second mission, where you have to board a shuttle evacuating the base. As soon as you do, it closes its hatch and takes off, but the longer you stay, the more [[Red Shirt|redshirts]] can make it aboard.
* [[What a Senseless Waste of Human Life]]: Rex laments Rance's death, and the entire, unnecessary war.
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