EV Nova is the third game in the Escape Velocity series, and
is by far the most ambitious installment to date. With a
completely redesigned gaming engine, EV Nova thrusts you into
a sprawling universe dominated by a myriad of warring
factions, each sharing a common bond, but so philosophically
different as to make conflict inevitable.
The remnants of the Colonial Council's utopian vision of a
united galaxy are littered about like so many discarded
dreams. The eccentric genius in Omata Kane, whose Hypergate
system brought distant stars within reach, has all but been
forgotten. Like a wave in the darkness of space, colonization
flowed outwards from Earth, until discord and dissent against
a growingly corrupt central government caused it to come
crashing down.
Open rebellion caused the destruction of critical parts of the
Hypergate system, severing entire systems from the umbilical
cord of civilization. They were left adrift in the lonely void
of space, forced to fend for themselves, truly strangers in
strange lands. The collapse of a central government caused
civilization to slide helplessly into a dark age of isolation.
The few pockets of humanity that did survive developed in near
solitude, clinging perilously to life like a tree desperately
trying to gain root on a rocky cliff.
Time marched on in its relentless journey toward the future,
and each of these civilizations slowly reconstructed their
humanity... but in their isolation, a strange thing happened.
They each followed markedly different paths in their
evolution. As rediscovered technology finally allowed contact
between these far-flung children of the Colonial Council to
tentatively resume, they found that they had little in common.
Indeed, rather than reunited brothers, they were strangers...
or worse, adversaries.
It is into this maelstrom of territorial contention that you
are thrust, like a pebble tumbling aimlessly between the
tectonic fault lines that uncomfortably separate these
divisions of humanity. Welcome to EV Nova. Will the pebble
become an avalanche?
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