MENACE

The content below is based on the Early Access and needs to be updated as it may not accurately represent what's currently in-game.

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.

MENACE creatures from the trailer

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Story Progession

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!

Menace Units

Name	Squad Size	Equipment	Hit Points	Armor	Armor Durability	Description
Construct Drone	6	Construct Alloys	250	30		Regular humans transformed into cybernetic monstrosities through incomprehensible technological means. Armed with almost primitive projectile weapons and mining lasers.
Construct Soldier	3	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.
Construct Floater	1	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.
Construct Shambler	2	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.
Construct Skirmisher	3	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.
Gun Crawler	1	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.

MENACE Missions (TBD)

Name	Description
MISSION NAME	Description of Mission
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Strategies

TBD

Notes/Trivia

TBD

References

Menace Official Announce Trailer