Wayback System
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The Wayback System is the setting of the game. Composed of a number of planets, its Warp Gate has not functioned for some time, cutting it off from the Core Worlds. As a result, it has long been lawless and chaotic, so the Terran Congressional Republic's Navy has dispatched the TCRN Impetus under the player's command to bring order to this anarchic frontier, repair its warp gate, and bring it back into the fold.
The game revolves around traveling from planet to planet in the Wayback System, receiving missions from the various factions to engage in tactical battles on those worlds, all to build up your strength (whether by building alliances with the factions or otherwise) in order to defeat the titular MENACE, a horrific biomechanical alien threat encroaching into the Wayback.
