Assault Caesar

Heroic Vehicle
Full Name	Assault Caesar
Alias	A.CAESAR
Origin	Hudson Selection Vol. 2: Star Soldier
Transportation	Starfighter
Creation	Geoscience Union
Location	Space 10 Floating bases
Users	Unnamed Pilot
Usage / Powers	Flight Space Travel Supersonic Speed Divng into Trap Zones Armaments Vulcan Cannon (Upgradable) Short Range Energy Burst Shield
Purposes	Destroy the Brain Army
Status	Determinant
Type of Heroic Vehicle	Successor Spacecraft

Assault Caesar is the protagonist starfighter in the 2003 shoot 'em up Hudson Selection Vol. 2: Star Soldier. It is the successor of Caesar from Star Soldier in an alternate retelling of the original game. As such, Assault Caesar possesses the same arsenal as its predecessor. Later in 2007 PSP adaptation of Hudson Selection Vol. 2: Star Soldier, Assault Caesar was given company of Enigma, Rijndael, and Quantum.

History

In the year XXX of the New Space-Time Century calendar, Caesar manages to destroy the Brain Army, but despite the brief period of peace, something sinister remains afoot...

The Geoscience Union, based from a space resource search shuttle, receives an urgent message, warning them that the Brain Army was not destroyed, and that it was rebuild its forces by constructing a new space station to replace those that were destroyed during the events of Star Soldier. Adhering to this warning, the union sends a reconnaissance spacecraft to investigate the matter, but it mysteriously goes missing; before so however, it sends a message showing a strange planetoid that resembled the main star of the Brain Army. Seeing this evidence confirmed the union's suspicions, so as a result, a plan was organized by its security council in order to fight back against the Brain Army's potential return. To do this a brand new state-of-the-art starfighter was to be conceived to replace the older predecessor, after building numerous functional prototypes (e.g. Enigma and Rijndael), a final product known as the "Assault Caesar" was completed. Equipped with a new "Blaster"-type smart bomb, the starfighter is subsequently launched to fend off the Brain Army.

Assault Caesar (alongside its prototypes and a captured enemy spacecraft called Quantum) infiltrate the Brain Army's defenses across 10 bases across space, decimating their forces whilst eliminating its commanders along the way. Eventually, after crippling the enemy on the final base (referred to as its "Nest Point"), they confront the army's leader (unofficially name the "Central Brain"), where after a brief but intense battle, they successfully destroy. With the Brain Army destroyed, effectively ending their threat for a second time.

Weapons

Like its predecessor, Assault Caesar is armed with only one weapon: a standard vulcan cannon that fires a single shot forwards that has enough firepower to destroy most enemies and environmental objects instantly; the weapon can be upgraded three times by obtaining "P" power-ups that are occasionally dropped by destroyed enemies. At level 2, the cannon will fire two shots forward and one shot backward; at level 3, the cannon will be fired in three directions forward whilst retaining the backwards shot; finally at max power, the weapon will be fired in five directions in a star pattern.

The craft is also equipped with a smart bomb-like weapon in the form of a short range energy burst. The special weapon is capable of doing tremendous damage to anything it hits, but it has a short range.

In addition, once the final power-up is obtained, a rotating shield will be activated around the craft, which protects it for up to five hits, however getting hit once while the shield is active will downgrade the main shot to level 3.

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