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By Danny "Ralsu" Gourley

Exteel provides players with plenty of fast-paced, exciting actions via mechanized combatants. But developer NCSoft wants players to know that there is more to the game than robot rumbles. They've developed a story they are proud of and want players to know all about it. To that end, NCSoft has released some Exteel lore. And of course Ten Ton Hammer is ready to deliver it to you.

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Divided We Stand

If you've never dreamed of battles like this, then you aren't a real gamer.

Once we were united against a common foe. Now we are bathed in the blood of our own families.

Less than thirty years ago we were comrades in arms. We fought to shrug off the yoke of the Galactic Federation and failed. We were forced to settle on the planet Natha, shaping the wild Taryn continent to make a new life for ourselves.

We struggled but persevered and bent the planet to our will. We formed nations and governments as varied as the planets we arrived from. Colonists from Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn planted flags and created borders.

Inevitably those ideals and borders created conflict. One attack on a Marston outpost, one spark of violence lit a powder keg and war exploded on Natha.

Like our fathers before us we are engaged in battle but this war is being waged by mercenaries wrapped in powerful Mechanaughts. We were not allowed armies when we came here and so now we use hired soldiers to fight for power and survival.

Four houses so alike yet so very different. Four houses at war. These are the colonies of Natha.

General Maximilian Leopoldo

Marston

Founded by refugees from Mars the nation of Marston is inhabited by a fiercely determined people. They started the Eight Years’ War so long ago and were the last bastion of independence to be defeated by the forces of the Galactic Federation. Their life on Natha has been hard. They were forced to settle on arid land, bombarded by meteor showers, and forced underground into an industrialized lifestyle.

The leaders of Marston are aristocrats and soldiers but no one embodies Marston more than their current military leader, General Maximilian Leopoldo. He is a brilliant strategist who is more than ready for a fight but there are many who question his scruples. With Leopoldo at its head, Marston is a deadly foe who many see as corrupt but will fight to the end for control of Natha and beyond.

The current conflict began when a Marston outpost was destroyed. Marston accused Palamo of an act of war but their neighboring colony has denied any such attack. Despite Palamo’s protestations General Leopoldo is driving his mercs inexorably forward, laying waste to all enemies in his path.

 
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