Oricium

From time to time, the interdimensional veil gets thin… so thin that some electromagnetic signals may go through… and maybe reach someone listening…

And they heard. And found us: a civilization from another dimension. They silently recorded
the signals and analyzed them. And suddenly, after more than a decade, the signals stopped.
The inter-dimensional veil had got thick again.

And they decoded the information. And learnt about our way of life, about our nature, about our fears… and planned our invasion. To be able to interact with our dimension, they had to adopt a physical shape. And they chose the form of which they considered our deepest horrors.

And they patiently waited for nearly three decades for the veil to become thin again.
And then appeared…

When the attack was detected, the Earth nations united their forces and launched all our weaponry, just to find out that the enemy ships were shielded against it.

The counter-attack was futile, but the engineers found out that they created their dreadnaughts with a weak spot: a small ship could avoid their defenses, maneuver through the surface, and de-activate their shielding.

Nobody understood the weak design, but it was an opportunity to survive. The Earth Forces designed a machine that could launch an energy beam to the enemy dreadnaughts and send them back to their dimension. But their shielding had to be neutralized first.

You are selected as volunteer to take this mission. You will have to pilot your skimmer and maneuver through the surface of the enemy dreadnaughts, facing all the perils and horrors they launch at you, with the only objective of de-activating their shielding.