History VideoGame / NexusTheJupiterIncident

* BeamSpam: The automated flak laser grids give off this feeling, firing fast-pulsing thin cris-crossing beams if fighters, bombers, shuttles, or missiles/torpedoes are in range.

* ProudWarrioRaceGuy: The Gorg are a whole race of these with warfare between clans being their favorite pastime.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Chief Zatuk is the de facto ruler of the Gorg Empire. However, being {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s, the Gorg spend much of their time fighting amongst themselves, with the various clans vying for power, territory, and glory. Zatuk has to constantly fend off assassination attempts by both rival clans and his own dissatisfied clansmen. He does seem willing to broker a peace treaty with the Vardrags and the Noah colony in order to focus on the more pressing threat and will even personally show up in his flagship the ''Warcry'' to help you in the next-to-last mission (if you help him survive the latest assassination attempt).

* DeflectorShields: Most ships (with the exception of Earth ships) have these.

* FasterThanLightTravel: Interplanetary drives generate SubspaceOrHyperspace bubbles that allow a ship to cross interplanetary distances extremely quickly. Sol humans don't have this technology and have to take the slow path. However, even IP drives aren't fast enough for reasonable travel between stars, which is where wormholes come in.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Both played straight and averted. SubsystemDamage is possible in the game, although this is only done with lasers. Normal weapon strikes don't damage subsystems. However, a ship that has suffered more than 50% hull damage will RedAlert klaxons announcing critical damage. Suffering over 75% hull damage will result in the ship being abandoned. If at least half of the {{Escape Pod}}s are picked up by friendly ships, the crew of the identical ship given in the next mission will retain their experience. If most of the pods are destroyed or if the ship is finished off before the crew is able to escape, you will get a ship full of rookies instead.

* [[TheBattlestar]]: Most warships are able to launch at least one wing of fighters/bombers. However, their main strength still lies with their own weapons.

* [[TheEmpire]]: The Gorg Empire and the Vardrag Confederacy.

* [[TheBattlestar Battlestar, The]]: Most warships are able to launch at least one wing of fighters/bombers. However, their main strength still lies with their own weapons.

* [[TheEmpire Empire, The]]: The Gorg Empire and the Vardrag Confederacy.

** When faced with demolishing a den of rouge Raptors, 'both' of Norbank's ships are quickly demolished by untrackable, shield-piercing missiles, and his escape pod is [[spoiler: seemingly]] destroyed in the wake of their destruction.
* NighInvulnerability: Don't shoot Mechanoids. They'll absorb the energy and get stronger.

* BigDamnHeroes: Richard and Marcus Cromwell are considered to be heroes.

For a summary of the game's plot (warning: unmarked spoilers), see [[Summary/NexusTheJupiterIncident here]]. For a work-in-progress character sheet, see [[Characters/NexusTheJupiterIncident here]].

For a summary of the game's plot (warning: unmarked spoilers), see [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Summary/NexusTheJupiterIncident here]]. For a work-in-progress character sheet, see [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/NexusTheJupiterIncident here]].

The intro describes the major events that led to the current situation in the Solar System. Shortly before the 22nd century, humanity suffered several catastrophes, the major one being the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI Wars]]. As a result, all AI development has been banned by the [[OneWorldOrder ISA]] with the exception of a single AI controlling interplanetary shipping. Not long after that, a [[OurWormholesAreDifferent wormhole]] was located near UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}. Ten years later, the ISA sends a massive colony ship, the ''[[MeaningfulName Noah's Ark]]'', through the wormhole, almost immediately losing contact with the ship. The wormhole collapses, and the ''Ark'' is presumed lost with all hands. By 2080, ISA has been engaging in a constant legal battle with the [[MegaCorp megacorporations]], who seek more freedom in exploring/exploiting other planets. Realizing that the corporations are winning, ISA forms the [[SpaceNavy Confederate Fleet]] to maintain order throughout the system. A little less than a decade later, full-scale war breaks out between ISA and the megacorporations with the megacorporations emerging victorious. ISA retreats to Earth, enforcing its laws only as far as the Moon, leaving the rest to corporations.

The game's main character, Marcus Cromwell, is the son of Richard Cromwell, the first human born in space and the captain of the ill-fated ''Noah's Ark''. His ISA ship is shot down by corporate forces near Phobos and is left drifting for nearly ten years as a HumanPopsicle. After the war, he is found, revived, and hailed as a war hero, despite his side losing. He receives an offer from [=SpaceTech=] to take command of one of their corvettes, the ''Stiletto''. His first mission takes him to Jupiter, where he saves an old ISA friend from OSEC (a rival corporation) forces. Later, Cromwell is ordered to intercept a freighter belonging to Kissaki Syndicate. During the encounter, the ''Stiletto'' crew witnesses a large ship of alien design meeting with the freighter. After locating and infiltrating the major Kissaki research center, an asteroid-based station named ''Shukenja'', Cromwell finds the alien cruiser seen before inside the base. After commandeering the ''Angelwing'' (name of the cruiser), [=SpaceTech=] scientists discover the location of another base near Pluto. Since the ''Stiletto'' would take years to reach Pluto, Cromwell takes command of the ''Angelwing'' and uses its advanced interplanetary drive to reach the base in just several weeks. While scanning the base, an illegal AI uploads itself to the ''Angelwing'' and urges Cromwell to take the ship through a nearby wormhole in order to escape a malevolent alien entity attacking the ship.

On the other side of the wormhole, Cromwell discovers a thriving human colony, settled by the ''Noah's Ark''. The inhabitants of the Noah colony serve as soldiers for a highly-advanced race of [[TechnicalPacifist Technical Pacifists]] called Vardrags, who have discovered that HumansAreWarriors and are using them to fight a war against the [[TheReptilians Reptilian]] Gorgs, [[PlanetOfHats all of whom]] are [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race Guys]]. In return, the Vardrags share some of [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum their technology]]. From Angel (the AI that uploaded itself to the ''Angelwing''), the humans find out about the [[RobotWar Mechanoids]], a race of alien [=AIs=] who have [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters destroyed their creators]] and are in the process of restructuring the very fabric of reality for their own benefit (wormholes are a side effect of this). The Vardrags lock down the wormhole to the Solar System, forcing Cromwell to remain. He decides to join the fight against the Gorgs and leads several successful attacks against them. Eventually, the two sides agree to a ceasefire in order to focus their attention on the Mechanoids, who have taken over the Vardrag homeworld. Unfortunately, the Mechanoids are largely immune to traditional weapons.

After encountering a HordeOfAlienLocusts whose energy-draining weapons appear to be effective against Mechanoids, Cromwell kills the [[SpaceWhale ship-sized queen]], and the Noah researchers use her to create the Energy Skeeter, capable of disabling Mechanoids, and later, the Anti-Mechanoid Shield, which destroys them within a large radius. Armed with these weapons, Cromwell leads a fleet back to Earth to free it from Mechanoid control, leading to the most intense battle in the game against several large Mechanoid-controlled fleets. Then Angel takes the ''Angelwing'' through a wormhole to a NegativeSpaceWedgie known as the titular Nexus. In order to destroy the Nexus, Cromwell has to close all wormholes leading to it, while dodging attacks by a Mechanoid-controlled Vardrag city-ship. Angel then leaves the ship and attacks the Nexus itself, destroying all Mechanoids within. The ending cutscene shows Cromwell back on liberated Earth meeting the [[EnergyBeings godlike]] Angel at [[LandmarkOfLore Stonehenge]], who is departing to destroy all remaining Mechanoids.

* MoreDakka: Vice Admiral Norbank's strategy of choice involves this, HollywoodTactics, and BiggerIsBetter: get the biggest ships the Noah Defense Forces have, pick the biggest one as his personal flagship, outfit them with the biggest, most powerful weapons available, personally lead his ships into battle, and unleash all manner of death upon the enemy. Unfortunately for the Vice Admiral, all three tropes are often averted (see below). spoiler: Fortunately for him, though, he's an IronButtMonkey who just won't die.

* IronButtMonkey: Vice Admiral Norbank. While his tactics almost fail every time, he seemingly able to shrug off anything. Survived from being blown up by the Raptors' Cataclysm missiles while seemingly the escape pods are caught in the blast, took a hit from a Gorg Siege Laser in the face, and even survived after the mechanoids taken over his ship.

* MoreDakka: Vice Admiral Norbank's strategy of choice involves this, HollywoodTactics, and BiggerIsBetter: get the biggest ships the Noah Defense Forces have, pick the biggest one as his personal flagship, outfit them with the biggest, most powerful weapons available, personally lead his ships into battle, and unleash all manner of death upon the enemy. Unfortunately for the Vice Admiral, all three tropes are often averted (see below). [[spoiler: Fortunately for him, though, he's an IronButtMonkey who just won't die.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: AI Wars are the reason [=AIs=] are outlawed in the Solar System. Also, the Mechanoids are [=AIs=] created by an alien race who have gone rogue.

* [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt End of the World as We Know It, The]]: Earth is taken over by the Mechanoids and remade to suit their needs.

* {{Precursors}}: The Creators made the Mechanoids and were all but wiped out. Several made it to the Solar System and set up a base near Pluto. They carefully guided human development to allow the creation of [=AIs=] compatible with their own.

The intro describes the major events that led to the current situation in the Solar System. Shortly before the 22nd century, humanity suffered several catastrophes, the major one being the [[AIIsACrapshoot AI Wars]]. As a result, all AI development has been banned by the [[OneWorldOrder ISA]] with the exception of a single AI controlling interplanetary shipping. Not long after that, a [[OurWormholesAreDifferent wormhole]] was located near [[TheRedPlanet Mars]]. Ten years later, the ISA sends a massive colony ship, the ''[[MeaningfulName Noah's Ark]]'', through the wormhole, almost immediately losing contact with the ship. The wormhole collapses, and the ''Ark'' is presumed lost with all hands. By 2080, ISA has been engaging in a constant legal battle with the [[MegaCorp megacorporations]], who seek more freedom in exploring/exploiting other planets. Realizing that the corporations are winning, ISA forms the [[SpaceNavy Confederate Fleet]] to maintain order throughout the system. A little less than a decade later, full-scale war breaks out between ISA and the megacorporations with the megacorporations emerging victorious. ISA retreats to Earth, enforcing its laws only as far as the Moon, leaving the rest to corporations.

''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' is a RealTimeTactics, developed in 2004 by the Hungary-based Mithis Entertainment. The game spent most of its life in DevelopmentHell. It started as ''VideoGame/ImperiumGalactica III: Genesis'', being developed by Digital Reality. However, the publisher GT Interactive went bankrupt, and the title was "borrowed" by Philos Laboratories. When their lease expired, the project was renamed to ''Galaxy Andromeda''. Then Philos Laboratories went bankrupt, and Mithis Entertainment picked up the development, resulting in ''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident''. While the game in its current state has nothing to do with the ''Imperium Galactica'' series, its storyline remained largely unchanged from the original project, becoming the [[SpiritualSuccessor unofficial prequel]] to the series.

''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' is a RealTimeTactics, developed in 2004 by the Hungary-based Mithis Entertainment. The game spent most of its life in DevelopmentHell. It started as ''ImperiumGalactica III: Genesis'', being developed by Digital Reality. However, the publisher GT Interactive went bankrupt, and the title was "borrowed" by Philos Laboratories. When their lease expired, the project was renamed to ''Galaxy Andromeda''. Then Philos Laboratories went bankrupt, and Mithis Entertainment picked up the development, resulting in ''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident''. While the game in its current state has nothing to do with the ''Imperium Galactica'' series, its storyline remained largely unchanged from the original project, becoming the [[SpiritualSuccessor unofficial prequel]] to the series.

* ThatOneLevel: The stealth mission, and the mission after it which also requires some stealth.