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EV Nova is the third game in the Escape Velocity series, and is by far the most ambitious installment to date.
With a completely redesigned gaming engine, EV Nova thrusts you into a sprawling universe dominated by a myriad of
warring factions, each sharing a common bond, but so philosophically different as to make conflict inevitable.
The remnants of the Colonial Council's utopian vision of a united galaxy are littered about like so many discarded
dreams. The eccentric genius in Omata Kane, whose Hypergate system brought distant stars within reach, has all
but been forgotten. Like a wave in the darkness of space, colonization flowed outwards from Earth, until discord
and dissent against a growingly corrupt central government caused it to come crashing down.
Open rebellion caused the destruction of critical parts of the Hypergate system, severing entire systems from the
umbilical cord of civilization. They were left adrift in the lonely void of space, forced to fend for themselves,
truly strangers in strange lands. The collapse of a central government caused civilization to slide helplessly
into a dark age of isolation. The few pockets of humanity that did survive developed in near solitude, clinging
perilously to life like a tree desperately trying to gain root on a rocky cliff.
Time marched on in its relentless journey toward the future, and each of these civilizations slowly reconstructed
their humanity... but in their isolation, a strange thing happened. They each followed markedly different paths
in their evolution. As rediscovered technology finally allowed contact between these far-flung children of the
Colonial Council to tentatively resume, they found that they had little in common. Indeed, rather than reunited
brothers, they were strangers... or worse, adversaries.
It is into this maelstrom of territorial contention that you are thrust, like a pebble tumbling aimlessly between
the tectonic fault lines that uncomfortably separate these divisions of humanity. Welcome to EV Nova. Will the
pebble become an avalanche?
