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To safely travel through time and space back to your home-world of PurPeL.

In order to travel the immense distances necessary to make it back to your native planet, you must collect THC crystals trapped within asteroids. Your base is located within close proximity to numerous asteroid fields (large clusters of brown dots on your radar screen). You must fly your ship (small, white dot in the center of your radar screen) into these asteroid fields and blast them in order to release the hidden crystals (green dots on your radar screen). There is a higher concentration of THC at the center of an asteroid field than there is on the perimeter. When you release a crystal, maneuver your ship over the crystal to pick it up. Keep your eyes on the THC meter on your dashboard to be aware of how many crystals you've collected. You're limited in the amount of THC you can carry with you. You want to try to only release and collect as many crystals as you can carry (more on that later).

Once you've reached your ship's full THC capacity, you must then travel back to your base (large, blue dot on your radar screen) and dock. Docking converts your collected THC into credits (1 THC crystal = 100 credits) which you can then use to...

* Repair your damaged ship.
* Add shields to protect your ship.
* Buy booster-fuel to increase your speed.
* Buy rockets and/or smart-bombs to maximize damage on your Orringian enemies.

However, you also want to be sure to save some of your credits. It will cost you 300 multiplied by your current level in credits in order to make the jump to light-speed to travel to the next round. The number that follows the slash on your credits indicator on your dashboard will let you know how many credits you will need to make the jump for the level you're currently playing. When you've saved up enough credits to make the jump, fly into the center of the spinning, purple jump-gate (purple dot on your radar screen) and if you have the necessary credit total for your level, you will successfully travel at light-speed to the next round.

If you wander too far away from your base in search of THC and can no longer see it on your radar screen, use the co-ordinates located directly above the radar screen to find your way back. Your base's position is located at (0.0, 0.0).

ENEMIES:

You'll soon notice you're not alone in the asteroid fields. Your enemy race, the Orringians (small, red dots on your radar screen), are in the asteroid fields with you. They have two goals to accomplish:

* Steal your THC crystals.
* Destroy you.

You'll soon notice whenever you release a THC crystal from an asteroid, a small, Orringian cheeba-hawk will cruise in and attempt to pick up your crystal before you do. It's in your best interests to prevent these ships from grabbing your THC and escaping with it. If an Orringian successfully grabs your THC (blinking, green dot on your radar screen) and escapes with it, the stolen crystal will be used as a piece in a new SATAN Bomb, which is being constructed at an undisclosed area in space. If you lose enough THC crystals to Orringian cheeba-hawks, the SATAN Bomb will eventually be completed (large, orange dot on your radar screen) and it will chase you down and attack you until you are destroyed. SATAN Bombs can be destroyed, but it will require excellent flying skills and a lot of rockets and smart bombs to successfully do so; all of which will cost you a lot of credits.

Cheeba-hawks are the only type of enemy that will steal your THC, but the aren't the only Orringians in the fields with you. There are also...

* Tiny cruisers that fire single shots.
* Larger fighters which fire dual shots.
* Mammoth destroyers which release a non-stop barrage of shots and require numerous rockets to be destroyed.
* Skinny rocket-launchers which fire guided missiles that will chase you down.

These ships are not after your THC like the cheeba-hawks are, they're after you. As you travel from level to level, the numbers of Orringians will increase, making your objective of collecting THC a more dangerous one. You can use smart-bombs to enact maximum damage to all object on the screen at the time of detonation, but be aware that doing so in a full asteroid field could possibly release more THC than you can carry and/or pick up before cheeba-hawks sweep in and grab your stash.

Minimum requirements: Windows 98 or later required. optimized for Windows 2000 or better. (Kind'a buggy on some NT OS'.)

Company/Program URL: http://www.purpeloid.com/ content_stop

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