 Upon finding and settling upon the planet Europa, the human colonists are attacked by the space military of an alien colony-people known as the Araxians.After studying downed Araxian fighter technology, the humans develop a powerful space ship capable of using great firepower to be used against the Araxia in the war for Europa.According to an IGN developer's spotlight, the game was created when Microsoft's J Allard proposed a summer internship focused on game design.