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Buck Rogers - Countdown to Doomsday

Description

Awakened from your centuries long sleep in the 25th Century, you are Buck Rogers, ancient military hero and symbol of earlier times. As you are brought up to date, you decide to join the New Earth Organization (NEO), to fight for your home planet.Once you had fought in the cold war, a pilot sent into outer space to destroy a Russian weapons platform. You were successful, but your success destroyed the planet, as nuclear war was launched, and you went into a centuries long cryogenic sleep, abandoned by the people who could not retrieve you. In the centuries that you slept, Earth colonized the solar system. There are large groups of people on Mars, Venus and Saturn. The colonies once existed to bring resources back to an Earth that had problems sustaining itself.But the intervening centuries brought a power shift. Now Earth is at the Mercy of the interstellar alliance RAMвЂ”formerly the Russian-American Mercantile, but now the superpower, based on asteroids surrounding the planet Mercury. Mercury exploits the Earth for resources, at the expense of Earth's population. Earth has fallen into barbarism, except for one small lightвЂ”the New Earth Organization (NEO).These "rebels" consider themselves freedom-fighters, and they are fighting for Earth's freedom from the interstellar powers. Call it patriotism, if you will, but you join themвЂ”the only person alive who can remember when Earth was supreme and healthy.You assemble a team, and begin your attack...

Genre

Adventure, Role-Playing (RPG), Sci-Fi / Futuristic, Turn-based, 1st-Person Perspective

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