


After the Solar Navy had surrendered to the Imperium, the planet was firebombed back into a giant scrapheap, forcing humanity to scatter to other worlds. It had served as the Solars' capital and was (in)famous for its casinos, restaurants, amusement parks, and strip clubs, drawing the ire of the Imperium. Originally a galactic trash heap where the Imperium dumped the newly-arrived humans, a bustling City Planet quickly arose around the reactor core of the Gulag IV. Doomed Hometown: Nü Vegas in the Griffin Nebula was this for the entire Solar species.Searching for them comprises the bulk of Act I, as recovering his treasure is one of two conditions set by Killi before she joins the Mary Celeste crew. Dismantled MacGuffin: Gornogoth, the previous commander of the pirate Dread Fleet (and Killi's mentor), had split up his Treasure Map into six parts and hid them in encrypted data capsules across the Dragon Nebula.Level up bonuses alternate between base stat (HP, attack, defense) increases and special ability upgrades. Character Level: Each waifu (except DEMI) and each Mantic has an Experience Meter which fills up as they complete ground and space combat missions (though only ground combat for Mantics).Furthermore, hitting Armor with physical attacks and Shield, with energy halves the damage (using opposite damage type, e.g. Body Armor as Hit Points: Some units in ground combat have Armor or Shield, which layer on top of their Hit Points and absorb all incoming damage before any of it is applied to the HP.Binary Suns: The Viducia system in the Dragon Nebula features two stars at its center.This being FOW, they also get their own explicit scenes with the girls. During the Turn-Based Combat missions, you can deploy up to three Mantics as expendable shock troops commanded by the waifu of your choice. Lily while in the Requital's captivity, specifically so that they could challenge the Imperium once more, after losing most of their personnel at Nü Vegas. Bioweapon Beast: The Mantics (short for "Manticores") are bio-engineered monsters created by Dr.Naturally, the Imperium couldn't stand their existence and doomed them to slow extinction. While not particularly violent (Killi being a major outlier in this regard), their combination of dashing good looks (Dallick is an exception in this one) and Extreme Libido also makes them examples of both Horny Devils and Green-Skinned Space Babe. Big Red Devil: The Vanerrans are a species of tall humanoids with crimson skin, a pair of large black horns on their heads, glowing yellow eyes, and prehensile tails.DEMI is, in fact, one of the last true AIs built before the Purge. Ban on A.I.: Among other laws Empress Kasidora enacted during her reign was the Great AI Purge across the Imperium and the rest of Prodigium.Ancient Conspiracy: The Coven of Nine is a group of nine influential Senu, including both the former and the current Empress, as well as Lord Azzorion, who have been effectively ruling the Imperium in secret for tens of thousands of years.The third content update, focusing on Sovalin Maliana, was dropped in two chunks on May 30 and July 25. The second content update, focusing on Tharon Kraask, followed on March 11, 2022. The first major content update, containing a new waifu named Elaisha and the Kloi faction, came out on October 20, 2021. Funded on Kickstarter in May 2019, the game was released to Early Access on March 26, 2021, initially containing Act I of the story, one out of five sectors of the galaxy, and three "waifus" ( DEMI, Dr. Specifically, it is a Space Opera H-Game with Visual Novel dialogue and 3D cutscenes (both explicit and SFW), interspersed with Turn-Based Combat and Shoot 'Em Up missions and spiced with RPG Elements like Character Levels, Relationship Values, and ship upgrades. Subverse is a Genre Mashup indie video game from Studio FOW, who are best known for their adult 3D animation. and since said plan also requires the Captain to headhunt the hottest Action Girls in the Prodigium Galaxy while causing as much trouble for the Imperium as possible, he is more than happy to play along. Lily and her Mantics, he completes the assignment, only to discover it to be the first step in his old friend Senator Erark's master plan to overthrow the repressive Imperium. After a routine skirmish with some Space Pirates, The Captain of the Cool Starship Mary Celeste is contracted by the feisty hacker Fortune to retrieve an encrypted data capsule from the pirates' crippled flagship.
