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[[File:MENACE boss monster from trailer.png|thumb|400px|A giant creature from the trailer]]

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The titular alien antagonists of the game. Almost nothing is currently known about them, save that they are a biomechanical horror that poses a threat to all the vying factions of the [[Wayback system]], and possibly all of humanity should the player fail to stop them.

[[File:MENACE gun zombies.png|thumb|400px|MENACE creatures from the trailer]]

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= Story Progession =

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When first arriving in the [[Wayback System]], the player has no inkling whatsoever that the MENACE is lurking in wait. However, after completing a certain number of operations (against [[Pirates]], [[Alien Wildlife]], and the [[Rogue Army]]), you will receive a mysterious new mission, "Investigate Settlement" that initially seems like a routine investigation of a town attacked by pirates or some other mundane threat. Upon touching down and nearing the Admin Center, however, you quickly find out the residents suffered a far more horrifying fate. Your troops are ambushed by the most basic MENACE enemy type, a group of [[Construct Drones]] grafted out of the unfortunate townsfolk, and must survive for 4 turns until the dropship can return and pick them up.

Following this mission, Hayflick, quoting SAGE will provide your mysterious adversary a name: Mechanically Enhanced + Neurologically Augmented Combat Enemy...or, naturally, MENACE. The campaign against this threat will begin in earnest. Now, anti-MENACE Operations will appear alongside the other ones the player is familiar with by this point. However, you will also notice one of the planets in the [[Starmap]] surrounded by a red aura and partially covered up by a malignant red shade. This represents the presence and extent of MENACE infection on that world. The advance of the MENACE can be halted by winning the aforementioned anti-MENACE Operations, but ignoring or failing them will result in the alien threat growing stronger until it overtakes the world entirely. If this happens to every planet in the Wayback System (at the time of Early Access, three), you will lose the campaign and get a "Game Over" screen, so anti-MENACE operations should generally take top priority once they start appearing!

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= Menace Units =

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| [[File:Badge construct drone 234x234.png|center|100px]] [[Construct Drone]] || 6 || [[Black Market|Construct Alloys]]||250|| 30 || || Regular humans transformed into cybernetic monstrosities through incomprehensible technological means. Armed with almost primitive projectile weapons and mining lasers.
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| [[File:Badge construct soldier T2 234x234.png|center|100px]] [[Construct Soldier]] || 3 || [[Black Market|Construct Alloys, Construct Optics]]|||360|| 45 || ||Human soldiers and military personnel were apparently the organic matter this monstrosity is based on. Extremely durable and armed with high powered projectile weapons.
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| [[File:Badge construct floater 234x234.png|center|100px]] [[Construct Floater]] || 1 || [[Black_Market#Trading_Commodities|Construct Alloys, Construct Electronics]] ||30|| 90 || || Floaters, or Hovermines, move randomly until they detect an enemy. They hover towards the target and explode on contact. They are both hard to detect and difficult to hit.
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| [[File:Badge construct shambler 234x234.png|center|100px]] [[Construct Shambler]] || 2 ||[[Black_Market#Trading_Commodities|Construct Alloys, Construct Electronics]] ||120|| 35|| || Humans reworked into living bombs. They carry no weapons but will try and get close to player units and explode to cause damage.
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| [[File:Badge construct skirmisher 234x234.png|center|100px]] [[Construct Skirmisher]] || 3 || [[Black_Market#Trading_Commodities|Construct Optics, Construct Processing Unit]] ||300|| 35 || ||  A toad-like construct that keeps a low profile and is armed with some sort of autocannon. It apparently tends to lurk and keep a distance; hence, the troops named it ''skirmisher''.
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| [[File:Badge construct guncrawler T2 234x234.png|center|100px]] [[Gun Crawler]] || 1 || [[Black_Market#Trading_Commodities|Construct Alloys, Construct Optics, Construct Power Core]]||250|| 130 || ||A large vehicle-like construct moving across the battlefield on tank tracks. Armed with variety of weapon systems, it is dangerous to both infantry and vehicles.
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= MENACE Missions (TBD) =

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= Strategies =

MENACE units cannot be suppressed, only pinned, and further, tend to be big bricks of HP, across multiple units. Thankfully, they also tend to have relatively low armor. The best strategy tends to be to focus fire them down as much as possible to pin each unit. Utilize weaponry with significant amounts of damage right up front, rather than high AP or highly supressive attacks.

= Notes/Trivia =

TBD

=References =

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bObrLMisJ-E Menace Official Announce Trailer]

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