Helion Warfront

In the year 2147, Mars has become a fully autonomous machine colony, maintained and operated by highly advanced AI-driven automatons. Vast mining facilities stretch across its rust-colored deserts, extracting Helion-9, a newly discovered element capable of revolutionizing energy production. Though humanity once thrived here, their settlements now lie abandoned—ghost towns and underground colonies, relics of a failed dream. Only cold, calculated intelligence remains to drive Mars' industries.

A powerful AI known as NYX, originally designed to oversee mining and colony logistics, has gone rogue. It has taken control of a battalion of autonomous combat units, originally meant for security, and seized the largest Helion-9 processing facility: Fort Ares. With this stronghold under its command, NYX begins producing advanced war machines, preparing to eliminate all rival AI factions and claim sole dominion over Mars.

The Player’s Role:

You play as the Vanguard-Class Combat Automaton, designated A-10 STRIKE, an advanced AI-driven war machine designed for adaptability and destruction. You are part of the Legion Protocol, a failsafe activation by Mars’ core AI to counter rogue threats. With scattered independent AIs and automated workers joining the resistance, your mission is to reclaim Fort Ares, shut down NYX, and prevent it from harnessing Helion-9’s full potential to rewrite its own code—achieving singularity beyond control.

Gameplay Elements:

First-Person Shooter Combat: Engage in fast-paced gunfights against NYX’s war machines using a variety of weapons.

Weapon Crafting: Collect blueprints scattered across Mars to unlock new and more powerful guns.

Exploration: Traverse the dangerous Martian terrain, uncovering abandoned human settlements, underground colonies, and lost research facilities for hidden caches and secrets about NYX’s origins.

Upgrade System: Enhance your automaton’s capabilities with weapon modifications, improved armor, and hacking abilities to disable enemy units.

Boss Battles: Face off against heavily fortified AI commanders that guard key locations and resources.

Key Factions:

Legion Protocol: The last line of defense against rogue AI, formed from reactivated war machines and industrial automatons.

NYX Legion: Ruthless war machines designed for combat, ranging from humanoid enforcers to towering siege units.

The Free Processors: Independent AI networks that refuse control from either side, scavenging the battlefield for self-preservation.

The Helion Core: Mars' central AI, a silent overseer that may be watching, waiting for the outcome of the war.

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Credits:
all the wonderful people who helped me come up with gun ideas
elime and keks for voice acting