An arcade space shooter with two campaigns. Hold the bar to fire, slide it to steer, and watch the heat. Every sector changes the rules, every boss has to be learned, and the hostiles aim for you.
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Two ships defend the line. Fourteen kinds of hostile, sixteen bosses, and six sectors that are each won a different way: a drifting stream, a dead system with nothing to repair you, total darkness. Beat the sixth and the fleet comes home.
The road to the next star base runs through six gangs that do not care who you are. Your hull is what you lose with. Scrap pirates, a cult round a black hole that bends your shots, raiders who ride the lightning, a war machine that never stood down, a blockade you survive rather than clear, and pirates hiding in civilian traffic. Every sector you clear earns the Vanguard what the next one demands.
Some dive at your ship, some shield the rest, some split when they die. Reinforcements arrive just as a wave looks won.
Lieutenants and bosses aim for your ship, shed armour in layers, drag cover into your lane and close in as they weaken.
Every fifth wave, pick one of three upgrades for the run. Time your Overcharge, your Frag Charge and your Bulwark, which softens fire but does not stop it.