History VideoGame / NexusTheJupiterIncident

Weapons are divided into several groups: anti-armor ([[MagneticWeapons railgun]]s, effective at destroying the hull; largely ineffective against shields), energy shells (overload enemy DeflectorShields; no effect on armor), [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]] (anti-hardpoint weapons; damage specific devices; very little hull/shield damage), flak (automated anti-fighter and anti-missile laser grid), missiles/torpedoes (limited-supply guided area-effect weapons), and special (various unique weapons). Ships can also carry wings of fighters/bombers, although they generally prove to be nothing more than a nuisance, especially if the enemy is equipped with an advanced flak grid or has his own fighter complement. Shuttles can be used to capture ships, although the enemy flak systems need to be disabled first and fighters destroyed. Other systems include power generators (main and weapons), engines (main, secondary, and combat), sensors, [[FasterThanLightTravel interplanetary drives]] (used to exit the mission), and special devices.

* EnergyWeapon: Energy shells, lasers (offensive and flak), and energy skeeters.

* FrickinLaserBeams: Lasers are used both to disable/destroy enemy ship systems and to defend against fighters and missiles. Shown as bright beams of varying colors and thickness. Travel instantly to target. Also see WaveMotionGun.

''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' is a RTS 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.

* MegaCorps: Most of the Solar System is run by various corporations that maintain their own corporate fleets. In fact, three of them fought and won a war against the Earth government for the right to live by their own rules. The key corporations are [=SpaceTech=] (responsible for most shipbuilding), Kissaki Syndicate (youngest and most advanced), OSEC (formerly Outer Space Exploration Community), [=AeroSpace=], and Orbital Limited.

* MegaCorps: Most of the Solar System is run by various corporations that maintain their own corporate fleets. In fact, three of them fought and won a war against the Earth government for the right to live by their own rules. The key corporations are [=SpaceTech=] (responsible for most shipbuilding), Kissaki Syndicate (youngest and most advanced), [=AeroSpace=], and Orbital Limited.

* 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. On the other hand, it's never specified if IP drives really do travel faster than light or simply much faster than normal travel using conventional drives.

* OrganicTechnology: The Locust.
** The Ghost use organic ships.

* SpaceWhale: The Locust queen.

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

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}''. Compared to it letting you gather and spend resources to mass-produce a fleet, ''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' instead takes out unit production and only gives you preset units. This would, in-turn, give the various ships their own unique identities and thus reasons for you to care for them, compared to ''Homeworld'''s units just being a bunch of disposable {{Mook Mobile}}s.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}''. Compared to it letting you gather and spend resources to mass-produce a fleet, ''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' instead takes out unit production and only gives you preset units. This would, in-turn, give the various ships their own unique identities and thus reasons for you to care for them, compared to ''Homeworld'''s units just being a bunch of disposable{{Mook Mobile}}s.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}''. Compared to it letting you gather and spend resources to mass-produce a fleet, ''Nexus: The Jupiter Incident'' instead encourages you to spend resource points on repairing and upgrading the ships you're given. This gives the game a sense of [[DesignItYourselfEquipment ship customization]] that ''Homeworld'' could never provide.

* WaveMotionGun: The Siege Laser requires the combined energy of up to four ships to fire. However, it is capable of quickly taking down any known shield.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}''. Compared to it letting you gather and spend resources to mass-produce a fleet, Nexus: The Jupiter Incident instead encourages you to spend resource points on repairing and upgrading the ships you're given. This gives this game a sense of [[DesignItYourselfEquipment ship customization]] that Homeworld could never provide.

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''VideoGame/Homeworld''. Compared to it letting you gather and spend resources to mass-produce a fleet, Nexus: The Jupiter Incident instead encourages you to spend resource points on repairing and upgrading the ships you're given. This gives this game a sense of [[DesignItYourselfEquipment ship customization]] that Homeworld could never provide.

* PeaceThroughSuperiorFirepower: The Vardrag's way of life.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: Destroyed ships, mines and larger projectiles explode in a blazing flash that actually shakes the screen if the camera is close enough.

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

** 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.

* EarthShatteringKaboom: Destroyed ships explode in a blazing flash. If camera is zoomed into the explosion, the screen shakes.

* IronButtMonkey: Vice Admiral Norbank. While his tactics almost fail every time, he's seemingly able to shrug off anything. [[spoiler: Survived from being blown up by the Raptors' Cataclysm missiles while the escape pods are seemingly 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.]]

* BadassBookworm: Commander Rudolph Veltman. Originally a scientist sent with the ''Angelwing'' to investigate the ''Shukenja Beta'' SpaceStation. After the arrival to the Noah system, Veltman is given command of the scout destroyer ''Brutus'' and proves himself to be a capable ship commander (although why anyone in Noah High Command thought it'd be a great idea to hand over the command of a warship to a scientist is not explained).

* DeflectorShields: Most ships (with the exception of Earth ships) have these. Fort shields can be generated by {{Space Station}}s, Vardrag city-ships, and specially-equipped supply ships. These generate a huge bubble that keeps enemy ships out but allows friendly ships to pass in and out at will, as well as to fire at enemy ships from within the shield. On the downside, if an enemy ship is already within the fort shield, it can be very dangerous, as normal shields don't work inside the bubble. The only thing that can take down a fort shield is a [[WaveMotionGun siege laser]].

* StealthInSpace: The Ghosts are masters at this, and they later lend their cloaking device to the ''Angelwing'' along with Commander Sweetwater. It's later revealed that [[spoiler:the device is just an amplifier of the Ghosts' natural PsychicPowers; Sweetwater is able to operate it because she herself is a psychic trained by the Ghosts]].