... suddenly there were the Outsiders. Appearing in massive fleets on
the edge of the galaxy they seemed uninterested in conquest, only
destruction. Earth's fleets decimated and the Federation lay on the
brink of collapse. In desperation Federation Command chose to strike
directly at the Outsider control centres. These immense bases were
constructed within hollowed out moons.
To destroy them required a direct hit on the base's reactor systems at
the very centre of the moon. The only access to the reactor chamber
was through two cooling ports within the base's equatorial duct. To
reach these, however, an attacker was forced to run the gauntlet of
the base's heavy ground and space defences. To penetrate these a new
generation of starfighters was created - the STARSTRIKE series...