The 01st Strike Recon Black Talons squad is being formed of the world's best Gear pilots to conduct covert operations and insurrectionist missions deep behind enemy lines on a hostile planet. The recent atrocities committed on Terra Nova indicate that Earth is returning to try and claim its lost colony once again. Your squad's mission is to slow them down, disrupt their plans, and otherwise buy time for your planet of Terra Nova to prepare for the coming war with its old nemesis, Earth.

To do this, you'll engage hostiles in the vacuum of outer space, the polar ice caps of a thin atmosphere world, sprawling mining complexes, dense urban jungles and asteroid belts. Your Gears are some of the best ever produced, but you'll be cut off behind enemy lines, with no means of resupply and no reinforcements. You must fend for yourself, achieve your objectives, forage for ammunition, and live by your wits in order to survive this assignment.