YM6 Manual

1.) Our Story: April 4, 2305. 8 months ago, our outposts at Proxima-4 were destroyed by small nuclear weapons launched by a then-unknown enemy. Many survived the initial attack due to the low radiation levels and lower destructive levels of the smaller nuclear weapons (resembling our current terraforming nukes) that were used. Most survivors were quickly mopped up, however, by the invader's clean-up force... a hoard of walking mechanical terrors that raged through the cities, destroying every vehicle and every person that survived the initial onslaught... the few survivors that managed to escape the attack have described two-legged walking machines that tower over 20 meters above them, armed with weapons that were clearly designed to destroy anything and anyone left alive after the initial attack. We have since learned that the tactical nukes were actually launched by the marching behemoths from a few kilometers outside the city, creating an initial destruction that it made it easy for them to clean up the survivors. Three weeks later, our starter-cities at Betelguese-3 were blown asunder by the tactical nuclear weapons of the enemy, and again the marching nightmares swept through the smoking remains, exterminating any survivors and any equipment that could be used to escape... a few managed to flee early in the attack to bring us this information. United Human Intelligence (UHI) has determined that the invader's plan is to wipe out our civilization with weapons that will leave our biospheres largely undamaged for later colonization by their (still unknown) race... this is suggested by the smaller low-radiation nukes that are used to devastate our cities and the walking nightmares that ruthlessly eliminate any survivors. To this end, the United Human Federation (UHF) has been rapidly re-designing some of our all-terrain light transport freighter-walkers to carry our few mobile defensive weapons left over from the Times of War several centuries ago. Our intention is to deploy these armed walkers in all of our worlds on the Great Line Of Expansion, and keep a fleet of them in Warped-Space to drop out at the first sign of an attack. Our new weapon has been designated the All Terrain Attack Walker, or A.T.A.W., and will hopefully give us a fighting chance in the war for survival that has been thrust upon us. 2.) Strategic Manual: ================================================================================ GETTING INSTRUCTIONS ================================================================================ In the FULL STRATEGIC game, hold the mouse over something for a second and a description will po up. When actually piloting an ATAW, hit the 'i' key to toggle piloting instructions. With these features, all the help you need is on-line, but you can print these manuals out if you like to have a reference. ================================================================================ FULL STRATEGIC GAME INSTRUCTIONS ============…