Ancient Space Battlecruiser Ragnarok

A vertical scrolling Shoot em Up with a Space Opera Story inspired by old SHMUPS and 80s Anime.

It is strongly advised to play the game in full screen mode due to some GUI elements not properly loading in windowed mode.

Story by: Muchael Kumpmann, Sven Kruscinsky

Programming and Graphics: Michael Kumpmann

Story:

The History of the universe is the history of myth and legends..

In the wide of the stars, everlasting war and revolution became the only constants of history. Countless times of bloodshed in the millenia spanning existence of the universe. Most participants of these wars are but long forgotten. Only ruins bear witness to their lifes, their heroics and their sufferings. But these ruins of the stars also slowly got washed away by the eternal sands of time, between the stars. And even many of the stars slowly faded away and died. It seemed that the purpose of even the bravest heroes of the universe was to someday become forgotten as their footprints slowly vanish. No one escapes the cruel winds of history, the cruel winds of decay.

In the vast wilderness of space.

Unknown to most lifeforms in the galaxies, billions of millenia ago, before humans or most other lifeforms existed, almost in the delicate time of the beginning of the milky way, there was a bloody battle shaking up the universe. 

Refugees from the 2 lost arms of the spiral of the milky way and other species formed the ADVI group in the Triangulum Supercluster... They came into a bloody conflict with the Silitheren species. These conflics spent millenia of bloodshed and terror. Peoples souls deteriorated to the worst possible forms imagineable.

After the war was finally over, the Silitheren were banished to a barren desolate remote planet on the edge of the known galaxy, with technological forces put in place to prevent them from ever leaving. The ADVI routinely decimated the population of the Silitheren to prevent them from ever becoming a threat again.

Ancient weapons of the war were hidden all over the universe. Among them the legendary giant red starship Ragnarok.

But the Silitheren gave not up. Due to interference of an unknown force, they were able to build a vast armada of starships, and they found a deadly superweapon. An unknown fungus able to consume all life of any planet which falls victims to it. With this fungus as a secret bioweapon, the Silitheren conquered countless planets to finally find the strength to overcome their ancient dreaded enemy , the ADVI.

Soon, the Milky Way and Earth were about to accidently become part in the cruel millenia spanning madness of the conflict between the 2 superpowers.

On their campaigns to conquer, they someday found the milky way.  They found the confederacy of mankinds settlements in outer space. At first, they tried to stir up minor conflicts with neighboring planets like Sendorkian. Sendorkian got the Fungus Weapon from the Silitheren and threatened to deploy it on planets inhabited by mankind via artificial wormholes. Mankind decided to order a preemptive strike on Sendorkian. Although mankind won the Sendorkian conflict, the war was far from over. More minor conflicts sprung up.

This escalated into a full scale bloody war between Mankind and the Silitheren. The so called second intergalactic war. It is a dark time.

Now. The ultimate possible catastrophe happened. The Silitheren used their superweapon on earth. 70 Percent of Earth got infected with the fungus. Only a small area spanning from asia over north america to the western parts of spain got spared due to the atlantic shield generator.

But that shield got damaged and is in dire need for repair. Earths military sent a convoy with the materials to repair it, commanded by rookie solider Sarina Tamano. But the convoy is pursued by the sinister forces of the silitheren invaders.

 Your mission is to fly a fighter jet, fight against the silitheren forces which landed on earth, and to protect the convoy. 

You are mankinds last hope in its darkest hour of despair.

AI Disclosure: 2 background photos in the ending screen are AI generated, as well as the character portraits of the communications screen and the background of the opening. Everything else is done without AI.