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''Hostile Waters'', released as ''Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising'' in America, is a hybrid vehicle and strategy game released on the PC in 2001 by the British company Rage Games Limited. It was inspired by an earlier game known as ''Carrier Command'' (Realtime Games, 1988). ==Plot== ''Hostile Waters'' takes place in a utopian future where war has been abolished. A group of former dictators have come up with a plan to reclaim their lost power. They plan to scare the world into asking for their protection by engineering an artificial alien threat. The last war machine ever used is reactivated and deployed to stop them. This machine is an aircraft carrier-like ship called Antaeus Prototype 00. Classed as an "Adaptive Cruiser" it houses a series of massive nanorobot assembly units called Creation Engines. In the year 2012, a battle takes place between what is described as the "Old Guard", and the people. The Old Guard were defeated, with only a few of their leaders escaping. And then, in 2032, the world has been rebuilt as a utopia, with the help of nano-technological assemblers, which are used in "creation engines" used to create matter from energy and waste. The newly united world is governed from a capital city known as Central. Missile attacks are suddenly launched against major cities all over the world from unknown locations. The location is eventually discovered to be an island chain in the South Pacific. A response to the missile attacks was a special-ops team sent in to investigate the area for preliminary investigations. The Ministry of Intelligence (MinIntel) loses contact with it shortly thereafter. The global government authorises a reactivation of the Antaeus program, a series of warships able to create any weapon of their choosing using their on-board nano-technological creation engine. Two of these were left on the seabed in the case of an emergency, capable of being re-activated and refloating itself. On-board are a series of "soulcatcher" chips, a classified 1990s military program researched into for the storage of human brain functions on a silicon chip. The soulcatcher technology was used to store the minds of every crew member ever assigned to an Antaeus vessel. It is soon discovered that one of the cruisers does not respond to the awakening signal. The other cruiser, however, is refloated and re-activated, with heavy damage to vital ship components. A course is plotted for a nearby, disused wet-dock. As the Antaeus progresses from the wet-dock, unusual biological life-forms are discovered amongst the enemy bases on the islands. The identity of the aggressor firing the missiles is confirmed as the leftovers of the old, pre-Central forces, known as the Cabal. Outnumbering Central's army a thousand to one, they are fighting with thousands of troops and weapons that they hid away when it was apparent that the war was lost. Along with their superior numbers, it is discovered that they have also biologically engineered a species of organic machines, designed in the popular likeness of extraterrestrials, which they intend to use to create the fear of an alien invasion, to facilitate their taking over the world and the removal of the public use of creation engines. The Cabal later lose control of the species, which eventually turn on their masters, destroying them, and start spreading, modifying the planetary climate geographical features in an attempt to exterminate humanity and make the planet more hospitable to themselves. The Antaeus is deployed into the chicane to stop the Cabal's operations there. Having exterminated its creators, the species resolves to cleanse humanity as a whole from the planet using a massive 'disassembler cannon', only to be stopped by the Antaeus. The species subsequently attempts to flee into the cosmos and colonise the surrounding planets and stars, by launching a massive number of 'culture stones', information devices that also double as creation engines, into space, from an enormous, artificially-grown organic "island", their final staging point. Central's only option is to bind the Antaeus' creation engine and the disassembler cannon stolen from the aliens together to create a makeshift bomb, and detonate it at the central "column" containing the culture stones. The plan succeeds, and the Antaeus is sacrificed to save the world. The final cinematic show the organic disassembler cannon and the Antaus creation engine moving closer together and fusing, creating something new. A post-credits scene also shows that two of the Species' culture stones have managed to get into space. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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