Enigma

Heroic Vehicle
Full Name	Enigma
Alias	None
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 Y-axis Vulcan Cannon (Upgradable) Dual Flamethrower Shield
Purposes	Destroy the Brain Army
Status	Determinant
Type of Heroic Vehicle	Prototype Spacecraft

Enigma is one of four protagonists in the 2007 PSP shoot 'em up conversion of Hudson Selection Vol. 2: Star Soldier (alongside Assault Caesar, Rijndael, and Quantum). It is a prototype built to perfect the combat efficiency of Assault Caesar's development. It concentrates heavily on firepower over all statistics.

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.

Enigma (alongside its counterparts as well as 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

Enigma is armed with only one weapon: a frontal-oriented cannon that deals more damage than those of the other spacecrafts, however the shots are much slower and have a narrower spread as a counterbalance, leaving the Enigma vunerable to side attacks; the weapon can be upgraded three times by obtaining "P" power-ups that are occasionally dropped by destroyed enemies, doing so will increase the number of shots fired; at max power, five shots will be fired forward, whilst one additional shot will be fired behind the spacecraft.

The craft is also equipped with a smart bomb-like weapon in the form of a dual flamethrower. The special weapon covers the sides of the craft, dealing heavy damage to enemies that get too close to it, but it has a very 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.

Gallery

In-game sprite