Premise: During the humans versus Strogg war new technologies were discovered; among them was a new kind of powersource--Matrixium ore. Earth's galactic mining corporations battled against each other and against the Strogg for possession of the galaxy's Matrixium resources, most of which were located in Strogg inhabited planets and asteroids.

With financial backing for the war effort in dire need, several corporations are now sending armed mining groups to these Strogg outworlds. Unfortunately the resulting battles over Matrixium have escalated into fierce open conflict, leaving many of the earth's mining groups behind the lines as their transport vessels are shot down by Strogg warships.

Your game begins as your mining team finds itself stranded on a strange planet, the only way off being to use your collected Matrixium ore (procesed from its raw form into gems) to buy your way out in a Strogg treasury ship--of course, the other mining teams have the same idea. Only the highest paying team will escape, all other human inhabitants on these worlds will be eliminated after ore collection.

So move your ass soldier and get those gems!

Goal: Rob the Strogg of their gems and earn yourself (or your team) enough to hitchhike a ride on the Strogg treasury ship to the next habitable world. If you or your team doesn't collect enough gems, the Strogg relay their "pest" problem (that's you) and the treasury ship radiates the entire planet with gamma rays that melt human flesh (so basically, you die).

Description: Players enter the Strogg base to collect gems, which they bring back to their team's "bank" (really, just some small holding area). Players can also frag other players to get whatever gems they're carrying or rob another team's bank by nuking it, thereby exposing its contents for easy pillaging.

At the end of the time limit the treasury ship arrives; the team with the most gems lives and gets to watch as the other teams suffer a terrible demise at the hands of their enemy.

Besides the standard Teamplay mode described above, what really makes RTS fun is its ability to be played in SP, DM, or Teamplay modes. In SP, its you against the Strogg, rob them of their gems and find yourself a way home. DM mode has no Strogg and no banks, so its you against the other players to gather as many gems as you can and buy yourself a ticket off the planet before the treasury ship radiates it. Anyway, you play, its a treasure hunt and fragfest all in one!

And don't expect all this to come without a couple of new goodies added to your arsenal to help take out all your foes (can someone say proximity grenades, cloaking harnesses, electromagnetic pulse mines, and more?)

Release date: Grab that shit...it's out already!