Starbuster demo

The Starbuster demo was an early tech-demo for Starbuster, posted to the Sonic Fan Games HQ forum on September 20, 2019. It featured an early version of Mission 0: Laboratory 19, and ended after the battle against the AVL-22 Thunderbird.

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Starbuster is set many, many thousands of years in the future. The second great galactic war is winding down, the Grey Imperium all but dominates the cosmos.

They've won the war, but they aren't going to stop yet. The empire has begun reviving the forbidden weapons from the last war, fearsome technologies deemed so unforgivable by the survivors that all knowledge was purged from the galaxy. In particular, the empire seeks to re-create starbusters, the legendary AI that planned and fought the closing battles of the first great war, ruthless machine gods who silenced countless civilisations with frightening efficiency. Starbusters were so feared, that the galaxy has used organic bio-computers for AI functions for centuries now, all to prevent their re-emergence.

It's taken the empire years of research, but they've finally produced a truly living AI. Unfortunately for them, it's not exactly obedient, and they've armed it to the teeth.

Characters

 * Alpha: Main and only playable protagonist in the demo, a sentient A.I. that escaped from captivity in Laboratory 19.