Darkspore Re-Darked

== Slogan ==
Return to the Dark.
== About ==
Darkspore Re-Darked is a Remastered Version of 2011's Darkspore before the closure in 2016.
== Platforms ==
PC, Mac, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X & S
== Heroes ==
=== Andromeda ===
Before the fall of the Nexus, Andromeda was an elite gravitic engineer who saved the heavily populated island of Mishima. When a reactor malfunction sent a dozen islands hurtling straight at Mishima, Andromeda aimed anti-gravity pulses to repel those islands and saved countless lives.
So impressed was the hidden Crogenitor Zelem by the brilliance of his "child," that he revealed his presence in the Nexus to her with a series of cryptic communications that eventually led her to his enclave. Once she arrived, Zelem made her his protg along with the other genetic heroes he'd created, teaching her as much as she could learn about Crogenitor cosmological and gravitic theory.
When the Darkspore invaded, Zelem either died in the attack, or disappeared. Deprived of her mentor, Andromeda constructed a series of gravity weapons, fighting alongside Zelem's other genetic heroes on guerrilla strikes against the Darkspore controlling the Nexus.
=== Arakna ===
Few in the Nocturni Legion inspired the terror that Arakna did. Allies and enemies alike whispered her title, the Soul Collector.
Arakna could hurl neurodisruptive hyper-pulses, or "soul bolts," and strike with necrotic bursts. She could rip strategic secrets from even her mightiest opponents by tearing out their neuro-intellectual identities or "souls."
For the souls of her final hold-outs, Arakna reserved two terrifying fates: to be transformed into necrotic weapons against their own comrades, or fed to the throbbing thousands in her egg sack in unspeakable psychic agony.
=== Arborus ===
Every millennium, the denizens of Verdanth install their six hundred most ecologically harmonious minds as their Ikuyu, the Gods of the Infinite Green. In their divine order, the gods of Verdanth regulate their planetary biosphere and construct the next epoch of their culture.
When the Darkspore brought contamination, warfare and death to Verdanth, Crogenitor Astra was less concerned with galactic defense than with irreplaceable experimental conditions. Genetically enhancing scores of Verdanthi to find which could become the most resilient and the most hyper-kinetically powerful, he found a candidate who surpassed all others: Arborus.
Prefect Arborus had been nowhere near attaining godhood. But the Darkspore’s mass deicide meant hundreds of insufficiently-prepared Verdanthi had no choice but to stand in their planet’s defense.
Linked to all the other Gods of the Infinite Green, Arborus wielded powers he never could have wielded alone: splitting mountains, redirecting rivers and spawning volcanoes, all to rid his world of the despised Darkspore. He hoped that one day he could guide his world to even greater expressions of biological beauty and diversity, and perhaps eventually explore the stars. But with Verdanth under siege, Arborus was determined to defend his biosphere... by any means necessary.
=== Blitz ===
When Crogenitor Ptyron first assessed the fallen world of Cryos for possible revival, he dismissed it as a lost cause. Gripped by a ravaging ice-age, Cryos seemed as if it could never live again.
But when Ptyron saw a creature possessed of seemingly cosmic will-power, he became convinced that Cryos deserved a second chance. Ptyron had found a nest of twelve reptiloids so resilient that they repelled attacks by a predator ten times their size. Subjecting the entire brood to genetic modification, Ptyron turned the tiny beings into a squadron of devastating, fiercely loyal, highly intelligent bipedal warriors.
And strongest among them was Blitz.
With his devastating blade-claws, a plasmatic shield, and the ability to ride lightning itself, Blitz led his brood-mates on a vast trek across Cryos’s tragic, frigid wastelands. Losing nearly all his siblings, Blitz established an enclave in Cryos’s equatorial region that became the centre of Cryosi civilization.
Not a conqueror, but a defender of justice, Blitz accepted any into his protectorate who could feed his growing community and raise a city around them. But if anyone attacked him or those under his protection, Blitz unleashed the full strength of his electrical wrath, earning the title that has survived a thousand years: the Storm-Striker.
=== Char ===
Across the wastelands of Cryos, Char had spent his entire life as a destroyer, tracking criminals and then slaughtering his quarry.
But not even Char could catch everyone. Eventually, enough of his escaped foes banded together to trap him in an ice cage in Cryos' northern dead zone. Although he killed five of them before the surviving criminals escaped, Char would have certainly died from his terrible wounds. That is, without the intervention of a Crogenitor.
Char knew nothing of the Crogenitors and didn’t care. All he knew was that a bizarre alien granted him a healed and amplified body, and powers he never dreamed existed. With his newfound ability to wield plasma energy and pyrokinetic ally attack anything he saw, Char incinerated any foe foolish enough not to flee.
And when the Darkspore invaded, few stood against them with as much wrath and power.
=== Goliath ===
Following the planet’s ecological doomsday, society collapsed on Infinity. Of the few who survived, criminals and those merely accused of crimes became outcasts or escapees. Bounty hunters, zealots and mobs mercilessly hunted them across the wastelands. But when those hunted were innocent, they sought a hero to defend them: Goliath, the Energy Guardian.
According to legend, Goliath rose from one of Infinity’s ancient technomartial orders. But Goliath had no lineage: no master, no elite ancestors, no one to protect him when he himself had been a fugitive fleeing across the poisoned wastelands.
No one except for Crogenitor Suzu.
Finding Goliath burned half to death in a toxic swamp, Suzu genetically altered him for resistance to his world’s lethal ecology, fusing what remained of his body with a hyperkinetic exoskeleton. But Suzu’s greatest gift was the Electro Sword, a devastating weapon capable of cutting through any substance.
Rising from Suzu’s laboratory, Goliath confronted his hunters in open combat, obliterating them all.
Thereafter, Goliath pledged to defend all fugitives and exiles, sometimes holding off or defeating hundreds of attackers without any ally but his invincible weapon.
Honorable, brave, and compassionate, Goliath is a symbol of hope for all who crave justice.
=== Jinx ===
Jinx was one of the many Nocturni gifted with Necrogenetic powers, these were "gifted" by the Crogenitor Ingot when he destroyed the web of life between the Bioforms and the Necroform spirits of Nocturna. These powers were far from a blessing, as many of the "chosen" Nocturni died in their infancy, with only the strongest surviving, Jinx was the Strongest of these.
Why Jinx joined the Nocturni Legion, the military force that conquered her people, was a mystery. Some believed she was a Traitor, some others believed that she was working as a Spy, and some thought that she had been brainwashed by one of the Nocturni Eternals. But eventually she broke with the Legion when she rose to the rank of commander and vowed to destroy its leadership, the Nocturni Eternals.
Jinx, and followers loyal to her, turned on their fellow commanders in a devastating betrayal. Employing powers she'd kept hidden from the Legion, Jinx hurled dark matter devastators—darma—like necrotic grenades at her former Legion-mates.
Taking her finest warriors with her back to their ancestral hives, Jinx sought to liberate her enslaved people. She might have succeeded, had the Darkspore invasion not forced her to change her target from worldly to interplanetary.
=== Krel ===
Before a Crogenitor found him, Krel had wandered across the frozen deathlands of Cryos. Facing death by exposure, Krel faced creatures twice his size, but he refused to die, knowing that if he did, so would the thousands of eggs he'd left back in his nest. No matter what, he would bring back food so when they hatched, his progeny would survive.
But eventually ice storms became even more powerful than predators, while Krel lay dying, a Crogenitor appeared to him in a pillar of lightning, and having been impressed by his fighting spirit, transformed him. Krel arose, no longer a being of mere fur and flesh, but possessed the power of a star. But the Crogenitor who transformed Krel had motives more than mercy for an individual-he knew the Darkspore were coming, and with them, a horror-storm of mayhem and death.
By the time Krel returned to his nest, dragging with him the charred carcass of a megabeast he'd slain, he found all of his children dead. In one mass mutation of eggs, the Darkspore wiped out the hope of a future for Krel's entire species.
Krel stalked his foes, stunning them with fiery barrages, unleashing twinblazing attacks and triads of fire arrows. And thus, Krel, The Living Firestorm had become the scourge of every monster who haunted Cryosi territory.
=== Lumin ===
Charged with rescuing his fellow Cryosi from the Darkspore, Lumin valiantly threw himself into every mission of mercy, whatever the danger, and whatever the plan. He risked himself to rescue trapped miners, lost expeditions, wounded diplomats, and imperiled larvae of the next generation.
But no matter his heroism, Lumin still lost too many innocents to the horrors of combat, and too many victims to the monstrous deformities that Darkspore mutations produced. And every time, Lumin had no choice but to terminate the genetically-doomed before they could slaughter their fellow Cryosi.
By the time Crogenitor Ptyron found him, Lumin had gone mad.
Knowing that Lumin’s only hope to regain his sanity was a return to saving his people, Ptyron transformed him into a superior entity. Surging with power he’d never dreamt could exist, Lumin became lightning personified, able to command ionic death from his staff, to summon bolts of electrical punishment from the sky, and to electrocute whole squadrons of his enemies as if they were connected by a cable of destruction.
=== Magnos ===
Like all members of his clan, Magnos possessed a superior ability to manipulate mass. But Magnos' power came not simply by genetic lineage... but by genetic mutation. His body could feed directly from any source of radiation: cosmic rays, plutonium ions, or lasers. And in the ring, Magnos was invincible.
When the Darkspore conquered Zelem's Nexus, Magnos and his mightiest opponents—the few he'd left alive—formed a devastating wrecking crew.
Combining their hatred of the Darkspore, their limitless endurance and their unmatchable quantum attacks, they ripped apart a Dreadnought with nothing but their armored hands, and ripped a hole in the myth of Darkspore invincibility forever.
=== Maldri ===
When civilization flourished inside Zelem’s Nexus, Maldri was what other species would have called a burglar. Anything denied him by encryption, by a lock, by the law, was what he desired the most.
When the Darkspore invaded, most of Maldri's fellow Nexus-dwellers saw nothing but catastrophe. Maldri saw opportunity... for looting. And when he eventually stumbled upon one of the lost laboratories of an alien almost no one believed existed, Maldri knew he’d found the greatest treasure trove of his life.
Inside Crogenitor Zelem’s abandoned enclave, Maldri tried taking everything that wasn’t welded in place. And then he accidentally activated a device that shifted him dimensionally, granting him, as he soon learned, a range of quantum powers.
Emerging from Zelem’s lair, Maldri found himself surrounded by Darkspore. He quantum-jumped instantaneously to wherever his enemies were standing, attacking them physically before teleporting away. With his improbability assault, Maldri counter-inflicted any damage done to him. Some of his foes he slowed or stopped in time. Still others, he blasted back or blew up.
To the Darkspore, Maldri is an unpredictable, almost untouchable spectre... a quantum raider.
=== Meditron ===
An explorer, Meditron returned to his home enclave on Infinity to discover that the Darkspore had mutated every intelligent species into genetic slavery.
Horrified, Meditron escaped, warning every creature he'd previously encountered of the impending Darkspore Armageddon. But while fleeing through the canyons of Iktotom, Darkspore creatures shot him down, making Meditron crash inside a crevasse called Iktotom’s Skull.
And there inside the Skull lay a discovery beyond reckoning.
Iktotom’s Skull was an abandoned laboratory of what had obviously been a vast alien intelligence. The lab gleamed with indecipherable technology run by almost unfathomable science. Yet there were fragments Meditron could understand, including one word: “Crogenitor.”
Meditron calculated a plan. Knowing that his pursuers were closing in on him, he redesigned and repurposed the nanobots he had once used for detection, healing, and perception-amplification. Accelerating nanobot production from millions to billions per minute, he lay in wait for those who planned to destroy him.
And when the Darkspore attacked, Meditron penetrated their central nervous systems with nanobiotic beams that amplified their sensory perception, especially the sense of pain.
Those Darkspore experienced such agony that they ripped themselves apart.
And Meditron emerged to hunt all those who would hunt him.
=== Orion ===
Once tasked with mechano-gravitically ensuring the stability of the nexus, Orion nearly died when an equipment failure sent two Zelemi islands on a collision course. Doing everything he could to save the Nexus from destruction, Orion held to his station while everyone around him abandoned theirs. And that is why he was struck by a gravity wave, pulsed from the centre of the Nexus by Crogenitor Zelem himself.
Surging with energies activated from genetic latency, Orion reached out his four arms as if by instinct, creating an antigravitic buffer between the two islands and saving millions of lives, nearly at the cost of his own.
Orion had little time to recover from the stunning exertion, because the Darkspore invasion forced him into hiding. As a fugitive, Orion struck against the invaders with controlled bursts of his power, and in his most spectacular victory, used his dimensional shifting power to banish his targets to another cosmic realm, picking off stragglers with his hyper-kinetic projectile weapon.
=== Revenant ===
In the recorded millennia of the Nocturni Legion’s wars of enslavement, few Legionnaires have evoked as much terror as Revenant. According to legend, a neutron beam struck him during combat, and instead of killing him, filled him with energy. But those legends were wrong, hiding a far more grotesque fate.
Revenant was the victim of Crogenitor Ingot's eco-toxification program. What the Nocturni perceived as a string of natural disasters, from volcanic eruptions to plagues, was in fact Crogenitor Ingot's "evolutionary" scheme to kill off the majority in favor of the most naturally resilient. Ingot then seized the survivors, subjecting them to even more painful experiments.
Ingto took the orphan grub Revenant and altered him genetically, turning him into a living battery and radiator of neutrons--in essence, a walking death ray.
Revenant soared up the ranks of the Nocturni Legion. In combat, he released endless spheres of necrogenetic energy from his head, projectiles that came to be known as “death-head grenades.”
With his hellish ability, Revenant struck at the Legion’s enemies and his own commanders from a distance, seizing the ranks of centurion, commandant and finally Praetor.
Revenant crushed realm after realm for the Nocturni Eternals, the self-proclaimed rulers of the planet, and so with unflinching confidence they dispatched their greatest warrior and his forces to engage the invading Darkspore.
The Darkspore obliterated them, and Nocturna fell.
Facing defeat for the first time, Revenant became the galaxy’s most feared guerrilla, unleashing his death ray against the Darkspore wherever he found them, all in hope of one day slaughtering the Corruptor himself.
=== Sage ===
Once a brilliant scientist, Sage began to perceive that alien forces were at work on his world. Training his most sensitive detectors across the EM spectrum, he eventually discerned the presence of a powerful intelligence he named Entity 13.
Eventually Sage used ultraviolet wave transmission (UWT) to communicate directly with this being, who was in reality the Crogenitor Astra. He gleaned that while Entity 13 posed no threat to the safety of Verdanth, another onrushing force did: the hordes of the Darkspore.
Unable to stop the Darkspore invasion, Sage witnessed the destruction of his once-green world. He turned his vast intellect--and everything he’d learned from Entity 13--to the defense of his people. He repurposed reforestation technology as a weapon for planetary liberation.
Sage’s greatest weapons were his devastating power to spawn mobile and ultra-strong trees, and other entities called dendrones as his protection force. Sage used his metabolic disruptor to slow and damage his targets, and his Rejuvenating Blast to heal his allies.
Sage swore that one day, his world would be free again, so he could put down the weapons of war and once again pick up the tools of science.
=== Savage ===
Once a generation, a few Verdanthi are born able to understand animal communication. But Savage was unique. Orphaned followed a devastating earthquake, Savage lived in the wild among the beasts of the rainforest, and was entirely separate from intelligent life... except for the Crogenitor Astra.
Directing the lost child towards mutagenic fungi of his own design, Astra marveled at the effects on the young Verdanthi. Savage grew from being able to understand animals, to being able to speak with them pheromonally and empathically.
Gaining power over beasts and enormous heights, Savage became a legendary spectre of the rainforests. He enchanted the civilized Verdanthi who on rare occasions encountered him, as when he saved them from accidents or disasters. But following the Darkspore invasion, Savage became an avenging warrior-spirit. With his army of ferocious animals and his legendary, ruthlessly loyal fighting companion, he inflicted more damage on the Darkspore than any other fighter on the planet.
=== Seraph-X5 ===
During the violent hyper-industrialization that signaled the end of their civilization, the denizens of Infinity split into armed factions. Fighting for the few resources left to them, they fought wars of starvation. Eventually, the only factions to survive were those whose soldiers needed the least food and drink to survive: the cyborgs.
Seraph-XS combots provided the Randayn faction the deadly might they needed to protect their supplies from outsiders until they eventually turned on themselves. And the last Seraph-XS standing was Seraph-XS 919.
Taking pity on Seraph, Crogenitor Suzu granted her additional capacities. Scrubbing her algorithms clean from “master-control,” Suzu gave Seraph-XS free will. That should have guaranteed Seraph-XS a better life. But the invasion of the Darkspore turned the freedom to pursue life into the freedom to select targets for death. Possessing at that point three centuries of horrific combat experience, Seraph-XS inventively and ruthlessly slaughtered her Darkspore enemies with a combination of deadly mines, attractor bombs and auto-turrets.
Crogenitor Suzu hoped that one day, his “child” might be free of the terror that defined her existence. But Suzu knew that day could not come until the galaxy was free of the Darkspore.
=== Skar ===
Until the devastation wrought by the Darkspore, no force was more feared on Nocturna than the Nocturni Legion, largely due to creatures such as Skar. And such fear was the result of genetic manipulation by the horrific Crogenitor Ingto, who loved nothing more than inspiring terror in his subjects, and sometimes in their prey.
Amplifying Skar’s naturally-occurring necrotic powers, Ingto gave Skar the ability to storm through waves of enemies with blitzkrieg intensity. Skar smashed foes with dual strikes and shadow stings, and in rare moments of vulnerability, he retreated behind a cloak of invisibility. Even greater than his powers was his acumen which enabled Skar to take advantage of any opportunity or weakness.
Only the Darkspore’s conquest of his species prevented Skar from attaining ultimate power on Nocturna. With the power of death in his tendrils, Skar aimed to stop at nothing until the Darkspore was eradicated and he could reclaim Nocturna for himself.
=== SRS-42 ===
Once, SRS-42 was a humble mechanical engineer on the planet Infinity. But as he lay dying on a factory floor from the toxins that had already killed 99% of his people, SRS-42 received an alien visitation: the Crogenitor Suzu.
Bowing to heal him, Suzu fused SRS-42’s dying body with the very machines he’d spent a lifetime constructing and repairing. He became, as a cyborg, a mobile combat rocket launcher.
Leaving the factory that would have been his grave, SRS-42 was confronted by waves of creatures he’d never seen before: the invading Darkspore.
Reacting with astonishing speed, SRS-42 obliterated phalanx after phalanx of Darkspore ground forces before turning his remaining rockets onto a Darkspore troop carrier and a Darkspore destroyer. Their hulls ripped apart like the flesh of great beasts, they crashed into the toxic sludge of a poisoned ocean where they ignited like miniature suns.
Reborn from death, SRS-42 possessed no fear. Any who dared his challenge had a simple choice: immediately overpower him, or face total annihilation.
=== Titan ===
One of the last of his kind, Titan was an engineer on the super-polluted corpse-world called Infinity. Building soaring towers and vast bridges, delighting in the power of his mind to connect and create, Titan dreamed of resurrecting the ancient factory-cities to make his world live again.
But working alone for decades took its toll on Titan’s body, until the day he fell to his death.
Only to be resurrected by the Crogenitor Suzu.
For Titan, it seemed like a nightmare transformed into a dream. He remembered plummeting horribly, his body battered against steel and rock before crashing into a toxic tailings pond. And then blackness, and agony... and finally, a symphony of electrical sensation. His body surged with the energy and power of his rebuilt, cybernetically-infused body.
Reborn by forces he did not understand, he emerged from Suzu’s enclave to continue his vast project of rebuilding his world. But the Darkspore descended to incinerate those dreams.
Repurposing whatever repair-bots he could find into his own personal legion, Titan shifted from resurrector to destroyer, specializing in guerrilla raids that taunted his enemies. Defended by his personally-designed energy shield and inflicting concussive blasts at will against ensnared enemies, Titan vowed to wipe out the Darkspore on his world, so he could live long enough to put aside his weapons of chaos for his beloved tools of order.
=== Tork ===
On Verdanth before the Darkspore, most creatures sought harmony with all living things. And then there was Tork.
An outcast and a scoundrel, Tork took whatever nutrients and psychoactive bioceuticals he desired from whomever was nearest, as long as he was strong enough to dominate them.
And then he fell victim to someone whose power he could not hope to match: Crogenitor Astra.
Made a test subject for a decade, Tork lived in constant terror. Although Astra never tortured him, subjecting him only to repeated anatomical and endurance examinations, Tork came to see Astra’s other specimens as being just like him: powerless and terrified. He swore that if given the chance, he’d free every living being in the laboratory from the bizarre, giant alien who’d captured them all.
And one morning, Astra gave him that chance. On purpose. When Astra allowed Tork to think he could overpower the Crogenitor during an examination, Tork fought him with everything he had, including abilities he’d had no idea he possessed: a somno-cloud of sleep-inducing spores, and a blast of thano-pollen which would have poisoned any creature other than a Crogenitor.
Escaping with his fellow Verdanthi back into the wild, Tork used the rejuvenating spores that his body has always possessed, but which were now much stronger, to heal his newfound friends. And when the Darkspore conquered his world, he used his abilities no more to take advantage... but to liberate.
=== Vex ===
Hailing from Zelem’s Nexus, Vex grew into his full teleportational strength because of Crogenitor Zelem himself.
As one of thousands of technicians assigned to maintain the Nexus teleportation network, Vex knew the grid completely. He did not know that constant exposure to the network’s quantum-gravitic, temporal and wormhole distortions were poisoning him. Nor did he or Zelem know that those quantum-gravitic energies were mutagenic ally unlocking Vex’s latent ability: individual, self-directed teleportation.
When Vex first accidentally teleported from inside the Nexus out to the vacuum of space, he reacted instinctively, teleporting towards what he energetically sensed was the safest zone: Zelem’s enclave. Alarmed by the grotesque alien in front of him in a region he didn’t know existed, Vex immediately attempted teleporting away.
Quantum-jumping around the enclave again and again, Vex destroyed whatever he could to escape the strange alien he perceived as a captor. Growing more powerful with each ’port, Vex gained the power of temporal sabotage--the gravitic warping of time-flow. He slowed Zelem himself with that power, and would have destroyed him if not for Zelem’s wiser defenses.
’Porting away, Vex realized the strength at his command. When the Darkspore invaded soon after, he deployed his powers against them as what he’d become: an unstoppable, unpredictable teleportational warrior.
=== Viper ===
When the Corruptor’s horde ravaged and genetically enslaved Verdanth, Viper was one of the scattered survivors. Before the fall, he’d manufactured tools. He turned his prowess to crafting weapons of wood and stone, but saw the guerrilla forces he armed repeatedly fall beneath the power of the Darkspore.
And then one night, while Viper was desperately assembling weapons inside his workshop, an alien intelligence captured him.
As prisoner of Crogenitor Astra, Viper was genetically and somatically altered so that his muscles would possess ten times his species’ normal concentration of fast-twitch fibers. When Viper awoke, his reflexes and strength had increased so much that he nearly destroyed his own weaponry workshop. But after mastering his new physical might, and creating new weapons suited to his superior abilities, Viper became a resistance leader.
In combat against the Darkspore, Viper fought at blinding speed in terrifying attacks. Over years of the war, he developed his biogenetic prowess to generate an armor of poisonous defensive thorns that, at close range, could be launched with devastating results.
Leading fighters armed with his toxic and invincible weapons, Viper inflicted vast losses on the Darkspore, provoking the Corruptor to initiate an epidemic that devastated intelligent life on Verdanth.
=== Wraith ===
Before the Nocturni Legion attacked and enslaved his clan, Wraith was a necro-guardian, an energy-wielder who kept the balance between the biotic and necrotic energies of Nocturna.
For a century, Wraith had toiled in Nocturna’s eternal night, tending to the membrane that separated the realms of the living and the dead, a membrane ravaged into dangerous instability by the manipulations of Crogenitor Ingto.
But when the Nocturni Legion hauled away all his fellow energy-wielders and exterminated the spectres who dwelled beyond the membrane, Wraith fled deep into Nocturna's mines, surviving despite the intense necrotic forces that enveloped him. Mutated, Wraith became huge, immensely strong and seemingly invincible.
Emerging from the bowels of the mines, and at war with the Nocturni Legion, Wraith discovered and unleashed necrotic powers against his foes. He could become incorporeal, allowing projectiles to pass through him harmlessly. He could psychically project terror that weakened his enemies. And when the Darkspore toppled the Legion, Wraith fell upon them with even greater fury.
=== Zrin ===
Criminal. Scoundrel. Gangster. Outcast. By the time the Corruptor’s hordes conquered Cryos, the jailers of prisoner Zrin were either corpses or mutated creatures who’d left their prisoners to die in their cages.
While he lay dying in his cell from silicon poisoning, Zrin received a visitation he did not understand and never would. A towering creature unlike any he’d ever seen appeared inside his cell and touched his head. Zrin writhed in agony, feeling his body surge with unbearable heat, as if from the skin of a star. And then the super-being--Crogenitor Ptyron--vanished as if he’d never appeared.
But when Zrin awoke, he stood, energized. And as if by instinct, he released plasma from one fist and lightning from the other to blast apart his jail cell.
Slaughtering a raging mass of Darkspore, Zrin escaped his gulag and ran for the nearest city he could find. Zrin’s aims were simple: pure survival. Had the Corruptor’s forces offered those to him without stealing his mind, he would have joined them in a heart-beat.
== Planets ==
=== Cryos ===
Arriving after Cryos experienced mass exterminations from a millennial ice age, the Crogenitors opened a "white hole," a practically limitless supply of heat, to reheat Cryos's core. But their results were unstable.
Now volcanoes erupt through ice-crusted deserts and oceans while plasma bolts rip from surface to sky like rivers of reverse lightning.
Most bizarre of all are the Hyro and Helo "oceans," two plasma storms held in place via gigantic manipulation fields. Each supports an array of sunspot-like floating "islands" swarming with mutant life forms that savagely compete for life.
Despite the duration of their occupation of Cryos, the Darkspore have not yet discovered the hidden troves of ancient Crogenitor technology that remain buried there. Should the Darkspore unlock those secrets before the Neo-Crogenitor resistance can recover them, the mutants will exterminate any chance the galaxy has... for freedom.
=== Infinity ===
=== Nocturna ===
Nocturna, The Dark planet was the first to succumb to the Darkspore Infection, with the Viral Darkspore Pods crashing on it's surface and infecting the local, Curious Fauna, who were the First to become Darkspore Operatives.
The Nocturni and the other Sentient Species of Nocturna were aware of this,but they spent so long fighting amongst each other that they were easily divided and conquered by the Darkspore Hordes.Meanwhile the Crogenitor Ingot began to experiment in Necrogenetics and shredded the fragile balance between Bioforms and necroforms that the Energy Guardians, The order that Wraith belonged to worked so hard to maintain.
With the Barrier shred the full power of Necrogenetics was released prompting many Genetic warriors to arrive from Nocturna's warring Species, whilst some Chose to defend their tribes, others joined the ever growing Nocturni Legion and helped Conquer the said Tribes.
The Wars continued, eventually the Sapient species had either eradicated each other, or if they were unlucky, succumbing to the Darkspore Infection, with a Life turned or simply gone, The Dark planet fell darker...
=== Scaldron ===
For centuries before the fall of Crogenitor civilization, Scaldron was called Perceptum, the capital Crogenitor planet of cultural and scientific knowledge. Because life never evolved on Perceptum, the Crogenitors built an ecosystem there from the cellular level up, transforming its atmosphere, water systems and soils to support all the genetic types they transplanted there.
Perceptum shone for eons as a beacon of all that the Crogenitors could accomplish: transforming life forms and entire worlds. And in the end, Perceptum became a symbol of another type of Crogenitor accomplishment, when the Corruptor brought his war to its inescapable climax there.
When the Darkspore blasted Perceptum's surface into ashes from orbit, Crogenitor escape ships fled, preserving their civilization's records inside their interlinked HELIX AI. HELIX also protected the cryo-sleeping Crogenitors onboard, preserving them for the day they might seek victory.
Now Scaldron is the central world of the Corruptor's galactic horde, a nightmarish desert planet swarming with every Darkspore genetic type.
=== Verdanth ===
=== Zelem's Nexus ===
Once the gentle planet Nakto, Zelem's Nexus is a freakish array of orbiting islands held together by Crogenitor technology.
The Crogenitor Zelem gave birth to his Nexus by opening a dimensional portal at the core of planet Nakto, shattering it. Zelem spent the rest of his life operating his gravity tethers to keep the islands from crashing into each other, or the orbital centre.
When the Darkspore conquered the Nexus, they perfected Zelem's gravity-wheel, stabilizing the Nexus as a staging area for galactic conquest.
Their plan succeeded.
The Crogenitor Insurgency must retake the Nexus to recover Zelem's advanced technology. If purged of Darkspore control, Zelem's Nexus could become the first monumental step... towards freeing the galaxy.
== Darkspore Bestiary ==
== Soundtrack ==
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# Darkspore Theme - Junkie XL
# Login - Junkie XL
# Prologue - Junkie XL
# Elemental Planes - Junkie XL
# Spatial Reasoning - Junkie XL
# The Poison Forest - Junkie XL
# Mutation Agent - Junkie XL
# Verdanth - Junkie XL
# The Destructors - Junkie XL
# Magnetic Master - Junkie XL
# Epilogue - Junkie XL
Category:Electronic Arts
Category:Maxis
Category:BioWare
Category:DBR
Category:Remastered Games
Category:PC Games
Category:Mac games
Category:PlayStation 5 games
Category:Xbox One Games
Category:Xbox Series X and S games