The game itself takes place in the far future, and all of the characters are “Lancers” — giant-robot-piloting aces engaged in campaigns between different states that make up the Union, a laissez-faire interstellar state that claims to represent all of humanity in the vastness of space. Aliens are notably absent, but that is not to say that there is nothing inhuman about the setting: a rogue machine intelligence, RA has stolen Mars’s moon Deimos, and it is sometimes seen floating strangely near significant events in the history of the galaxy.

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