Fission Intercept

Fission Intercept is a hard sci-fi love letter to the late Cold War, nuclear powered technology, atomic starships, and space exploration. Set in an expansive gas giant system, two planet-spanning factions face off on the land, sea, air, and above it all on the high frontier.

Why do the stars hide from us? Is it out of fear for our creations, our machines? Or is it because, 500 years ago, we struck the Stranger Endless out of heaven for its sins? At least we have our own dancing little lights now, endlessly pirouetting in the night sky. Contrails and power lines both streak across it, while enemy moons hang suspended in the darkness.

The thermonuclear missiles were launched already, but we shot them all down. They did too. Now we're fighting this war of annihilation between one another, as hostile forces array themselves against us in the interstellar void. They must think we shot first, that they're only retaliating for the Stranger Endless. We don't even know if we can kill them.

It isn't all so bleak: we're discovering new things everyday, plus food, water, power, and housing are all free. Technology is advancing at a staggeringly high rate, partly because of the war. The environment is happy, people are as well. If only it could stay that way.