The Game
Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs – A Final Unity is a fan-game based on the popular anime series that was produced by WEP in the 1980’s. It’s an intense 2D scrolling shooter with a high diversity of missions and stages, rail-shooting parts, a soundtrack in mp3-quality and over 20 minutes of anime style sequences that tell the story of mankind’s greatest battle.
| Important note! In order to avoid copyright infringements I've decided to take out all the MP3s of the Saber Rider soundtrack CDs. In order to gain the full atmosphere in the game, you should rip the following tracks of the soundtrack CDs (that you hopefully own) to MP3 format using a free ripping software like FreeRIP and use them to replace the placeholder MP3s in the "soundtrack" directory of the game.
Step 1: Rip the cd-track to MP3 Step 2: Rename the ripped MP3 so it matches the name of the placeholder you want to replace Step 3: Copy the ripped and renamed MP3 into the "soundtrack" directory of the game and replace the placeholder-MP3 Step 4: repeat steps 1 to 3 for all placeholders you want to replace |
Introduction:
Nineteen years ago a fleet of warships entered our space and started an invasion.
They belonged to an alien race of vapor beings who call themselves Outriders.
We barely fended them off. Three years ago they tried again. Once again we
taught them a lesson. We thought we had destroyed them. We were wrong.
To prevent the enemy from ravaging our lands again we are taking initiative
now – a pre-emptive strike against the enemy’s home world. And you are fighting
at the head of our armada!
Know yourself:
The Star Sheriffs, a military elite unit, are the first line of defense of
the New Frontier, that is home to all human beings. The most famous group
of Star Sheriffs won the final battle against the alien invaders. Their names
are Saber Rider, Fireball, Colt and April. They are in control of mankind’s
most sophisticated spaceship: Ramrod. A battleship that has the ability to
transform into a giant robot.
Know your allies:
At the turning point of the last war the souvereign states and kingdoms of
the New Frontier, that are spread throughout the solar system, formed an alliance.
Since then all the petty conflicts that had put the New Frontier into disarray
for so many years have vanished. At least from the battlefields. Thus for
the past three years the only enemy the New Frontier had to conquer was bureaucracy.
Know your foes:
The Outriders are in fact no real aliens, but human descendants.
Their story begins a few hundred years ago when our common ancestors left
their home planet, which they had destroyed through terrible warfare. Searching
for a new planet the fleet of refugees got caught in a magnetic storm. Some
ships could escape, but the others were hurled into another dimension, the
Vaporzone. There they found a habitable planet and evolved into vapor beings,
while the human race settled in the solar system and founded the New Frontier.
In the Vaporzone, after years of peaceful settlement, a man we only know as
Nemesis took control over the people, instituted himself as supreme leader
and founded his private army, the Outriders, to defend his power.
Nemesis was probably once an ordinary vapor being. But during
the first invasion nineteen years ago, he was hurt so badly that he had his
conscience transferred into a super computer, the Triton Matter. Even though
it increased his power dramatically, his new state of being a computer is
not only boring him but is also increasingly driving him mad.
In the final days of the last conflict between the Outriders and the New Frontier,
a human traitor of the name Jesse Blue almost ensured Nemesis's
victory. But then he betrayed his omnipresent master and presumably died in
the final battle.
After the end of the last war the military personal had to surrender more
and more of their political influence and power to the politicians and, most
of all, representatives of the economy. They have but one goal:
to increase their wealth. The new conflict means that war material has to
be produced, destroyed cities will have to be rebuilt and the losing party
can be exploited. Thus they endorse the war. But what they endorse even more
is the prolonging of the war. And it is save to say that there are no means
unethical enough that they wouldn’t take them into consideration.
Game created by Robert Meyer, page hosted by Yuma-City.de