ANIMAC

## Description

23rd-century Earth is a good place to be: after an atypically friendly first
contact with an alien species, the planet’s ills have been cured and peace
reigns supreme. But some will always resist change, let alone utopian ideas.
One such organization was the innocently-named American Neutral Investigators,
and its leader Mapier was exiled off-planet for disturbing the peace. This
decision did not prove far-sighted however; Mapier worked diligently, pirating
and destroying, harvesting debris, alien technology and raw materials, and
gradually built up a huge armed space fortress from which the ANI continue to
terrorize known space.

This is where the player comes in, piloting an infiltrator ship into the
bowels of the ANI’s Mapierian Anti-Complex (ANIMAC) to find and destroy the
central command. The meandering tunnels burrowing through the planet-sized
base consist of hundreds of different rooms, littered with automated defenses,
mines and hostile drones, while the Infiltrator only packs a single forward-
firing photon launcher. Bridges and invisible warps complicate matters
further, as does the security system which makes backtracking a deadly risk.

ANIMAC