![]() ![]() There are three main governments: Federation, Auroran, and Polaris, and several smaller factions. The game takes place in the Milky Way in 1177 NC of several human civilizations broken away from the Colonial Council and developed independent of each other. Each storyline is a long and involved set of plot-filled missions which are like "playing" a short story written in second person. The main story-lines are the bulk of the game. Throughout the course of the game, the player can choose to pilot bigger and better ships - ultimately leading to powerful capital ships with alien technology - that can also carry more cargo, and can also obtain controllable escort ships. Starting with a simple shuttlecraft, the player obtains new ships, weapons, and other technology, such as cloaking devices, beam weapons, and fighter bays, by purchase or as the result of completing certain missions. There are many ways to play Nova for example, a starting player seeking funds can become a trader or courier, delivering cargo between worlds become a pirate or bounty hunter, attacking and disabling ships to steal their money, cargo, or the ships themselves become involved in one of the main story-lines or even conquer the galaxy by subjugating worlds. The player starts as a freelance space pilot in a shuttlecraft, out to make a penny in the vast and unforgiving galaxy. The player can move between the systems by hyper-jumping through a web-like star map. These locations are aligned with factions and react differently based on the player's actions. Nova takes place around star systems in the Milky Way viewed from a top-down two dimensional view, many of the systems have planets or space stations that the player can land on. ![]() You play the captain of a spaceship, who flies from planet to planet and star system to star system, trading goods, completing missions, and fighting other spaceships. Escape Velocity Nova is the third game in the Escape Velocity franchise. ![]()
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