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1* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The in-game music may get your blood pumping, but the creepy, oppressive menu theme will make it run cold.
2* CatharsisFactor: There's a lot of pleasure to be gained in laying waste to the Cybrids and entire enemy bases throughout the two ''Earthsiege'' games.
3* CompleteMonster: [[KillAllHumans Prometheus]] is a malevolent, sapient [[AIIsACrapshoot AI]] who is the leader and creator of the Cybrids. During an experiment in which IT linked with the mind of [=ITs=] own creator, Prometheus came to the conclusion that humans are mere animals deserving extermination. Prometheus pushed the Cybrids into a series of apocalyptic wars against humanity, ravaging Earth's ecosystem, in hope to replace them with [=ITs=] own "perfect" children. During an unprecedented campaign of genocide, the Cybrid army under Prometheus's command commits many atrocities, such as strapping living humans--including children--to the hulls of their war platforms, using them as {{human shield}}s; pumping them with pain-inducing drugs to make them scream; infecting small animals with nanoplagues to exploit human empathy against them; and maiming their victims in most brutal ways. When some of the Cybrids, called Metagens, defied the Core Directive for a more pragmatic solution of exploring stars instead of wasting resources in a pointless war against mankind, Prometheus declared them "bugthinkers" and ordered their elimination.
4* DemonicSpiders: Any Cybrid enemy has a chance to be this. Especially so with their heavier "warforms," to say nothing of the Platinum Guard.
5* GoodBadBugs: Invisible vehicles, rainbow colored terrain, flying tanks... Getting a bug is nothing less than a blessing!
6* MorePopularSpinoff: ''Starsiege: VideoGame/{{Tribes}}'', to the point where its sequels dropped the ''Starsiege'' part from the title entirely.
7* {{Narm}}: The little British child that narrates the game can cause some of the cutscenes to be hard to take seriously, mostly because of him.
8* NightmareFuel: The Cybrids, so much.
9** "...[[HumanShield human//animal child-forms strapped to war-form externals maximum limb-mobility, permits//enhances percentage of pilots who hesitate before firing.]]"
10** "Happiness is a buncha smokin' human steaks."
11** "...Unit displays a fascination with using intense light to destroy human//animal retinal sensors..."
12** The mugs of many Cybrid squadmates. Their names are no exception, either: Eats-Only-Heads, Plague-Dog, Bovine-Burning, Sepsis, Process-Canker...
13*** Being a tank pilot staring down the business end of a HERC. Unless of course, [[RammingAlwaysWorks the tank is approaching the HERC at speed.]]
14** Consider the schoolyard chant on the Main Page: cannibalism, human extermination, oceans of gore... Earth has gone through this twice now, and it's about to happen again, since it's attributed barely twenty years before ''Starsiege'' begins.
15--> ''Little old peter, missing his liter, while Herky plays in the red. Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.''
16* ThatOneBoss: Prometheus at the end of the human campaign. IT gets a custom and stupidly overpowered mech that has a random weaponset, which can easily be the overpowered alien tech. Winning is almost luck.

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