Sometime before year 2178

Earth now has an orbiting artificial habitat called “The Nightstar” which harbors a part of the Earth population. The humans living there, more technological advanced than on Earth, are called the Ivonix.

With Earth's resources such as food, minerals, water, dwindling rapidly, humanity sought to inhabit other worlds for survival. Research into quantum drive tunneling was conducted and the science was nearly perfected until emissions from drive testing attracted virulent alien lifeforms from a galaxy billions of miles away. These alien lifeforms were called Xeno-Atrial Diatridic Automaton (XADA) and are self living single cell-sized organisms able to infect other organisms and control them. Unlike viruses, they do not need a host to survive independently. In addition to organic/living organisms, XADA are also able to control and "infect" machines.

Year 2178

XADA came to Earth with a floating spherical "mothership" (aka an AZA, also referred to as a “second moon” by some characters in the game). The AZA acts as a mothership in the sense that XADA are born from it. Eventually the AZA fell towards Earth in such a powerful manner that it even affected the gravity on the planet. It hit Earth "as hard as a falling meteroite" causing huge damage to the surface of the planet and causing the XADA to spread. The XADA then started to invade Earth and started to infect and control humans, animals and even machines. The "hosts" of the XADA eventually mutated into so called XADA mutaforms (i.e. soldier puppets, zombie-like) and started to roam on Earth. The human race tried to counter attack with the use of militarized technology, such as the Warmech (WM) program, produced by Ivonix Industries, which encased soldiers in heavy robotized armor (suits WM-1 and WM-2 were developed during this time). However, these suits could not stop the person inside to be infected by the XADA. After one year of war, two nations remained on Earth, Thandeous and Adrillia. During this time Adrillia successfully developed quantum drives enabling interstellar travel and the humans in the nation fled to a new planet in the Tau Ceti group (Tau system), 12 light years away from Earth. This planet is today named Gaia. Eventually the Thandeous nation on Earth also fled to the Tau Ceti group and settled on one of the moons orbiting the planet Gaia. This moon has rather harsh environment compared to Gaia, this moon was named Thandeous based on the name of the settlers.

Eventually a space colony was built nearby Gaia called Cetos.

The Ivonix residing in the orbiting artificial habitat, The Nightstar, migrated last from Earth to the Tau system (by moving the whole habitat with the use of quantum drives). Before migration, they left Stealth-X buoys close to Earth which would pick up any XADA activity.

The war between Earth and XADA lasted for a total of two years and the humans remaining on Earth were controlled and transformed into XADA mutaforms.

Year 2201

The Stealth-X buoys nearby Earth picked up XADA activity and with in-built Quantum-leap technology informed the artificial habitat, The Nightstar, in the Tau system. Around this time, an interstellar gateway termed “rift” appeared in space nearby Earth and Gaia. This rift makes it possible to directly send attacking XADA forces from Earth to Gaia in the Tau system. The XADA is about to send a large spherical mothership through the rift, it is referred to as AZA/super-AZA by the main characters in the game.

To counter this threat, the Ivanox people on The Nightstar sent its habitats Jakob Carloway (called Jake) and Diana May. They were sent to Earth on an attack-shuttle named The Nightwing, and with them they have remote controlled WM-3 armored battle suits. The mind is actually "transferred" to the WM-3 suit and if it is destroyed, the person in remote control also dies. Jake remotely controls the WM-3 Avalon, and Diana the WM-3 Crimson. Because these suits are remotely controlled the user cannot be infected by the XADA virus.

CHARACTERS

Throughout the game, the main characters Jake Carloway and Diana May keep in contact, via remote transmission, with other characters located on the artificial habitat the Nightstar.

Clement is a minor character in the game. He is located on The Nightstar as a standby pilot for the spaceship Shadow-wing. Clement has a WM-3 suit called Gauntlet. The ship Shadow-wing is installed with a quantum drive and can assist The Nightwing if anything would happen to the crew. His main mission is to defend Gaia if XADA would successfully go through the rift.

Napoleon is the force commander of the Ivonix military on The Nightstar.

Zoe is an old friend of Diana, and now part of the Warmech division of the Ivonix military, she is located on The Nightstar. She gives information and advice during missions.

Jonathan Carloway was left on Earth during the migration to the Tau system. He was there in a research facility on Antarctica (likely there as a solider and was fighting in the war). He is Jake’s uncle and Napoleon’s friend. He controls the WM-2 suit Retrofit, which is a non-remotely controlled suit and therefore requires Jonathan to be inside. He has a dog-like AI battle companion named K-10, which has been his companion since childhood.

Raymond Millar is from the Thandeous nation on Earth and is the main antagonist in the game. He and his wife (Goldie Millar) worked in the Silent Chamber research facility located on Antarctica. There he developed a masking agent so humans could successfully prevent to be infected by the XADA (i.e. undetected/hiding from the XADA and thus unaffected). He also developed a technological system to control the XADA (and now he uses the attack beacons to cause an attack signal to control the XADA for the invasion of the Tau system).