RP AREAS
Laser Station: This is a research facility designed for various purposes. Everywhere you look there are lasers of all sizes and colors shooting from the large walls that make up each corridor-like area of the place. The paths here consist of large tube-like walkways that snake throughout the station. There are also laser defenses here that may hinder your progress. Upon reaching a platform lift, you can head into the inner structure of the station, which contains of 4 large mazes. Maze 1 consists of square rooms with rainbow colored laser walls and switches. Maze 2 is laser posts that frequently switch laser barriers. Maze 3 is a pinball course that uses rainbow lasers instead of pinballs and rainbow mirrors to reflect the lasers throughout the table, which must be moved around in order for the lasers to hit same-colored switches behind glass walls. Maze 4 is a wall maze with energy panels from which large lasers shoot upward. Reaching a mini-space station in Cosmic Gadget in the only way to make it to the Laser Station.
Space Deck: The Space Deck consists of five large deck platforms each located above the other. Each deck has a different set of puzzles needed to reach the next deck. Deck 1 is a maze of electrical barriers that switch on and off by switch pads located throughout the platform. Deck 2 is a maze of metallic panels and switches that flip the panels allowing progress through the maze. Deck 3 is a glass wall maze, which is divided up into several parts, which can move up, down, switch places with other maze pieces, and even flip upside down. Deck 4 is a 3-dimensional maze of fences and solar panels, which go out in all directions. The only way to reach the Space Deck is to hitch a ride on a shuttle from the Space Plant.
Star Maze: The Star Maze is a complex assortment of mazes and puzzles that consist of almost every gadget and hazard found within or around Star City and can only be reached from the Astro Platform. There are paneled walkways and platforms that make up the means of making it through the maze. There are metal platforms which large electromagnets can pull or repel across large expanses of space, laser shields that reflect any attack used against them, large solar panels that sit flat or on the side, speed tubes that allow quick travel through the area, mazes of laser fences, electric barriers that can be turned on and off, metal panels that can be flipped, moving and flipping maze pieces, climbable fences that sprawl out in all directions, and Gravity Capsules that allow you to go across sideways and upside down paths. There are also floating, diamond-shaped generators in which energy and circuitry can be seen flowing throughout. By using an attack on a generator, the polarity of magnets can be reversed, laser shields can rise or fall, solar panels can have their orientation changed, the direction of transport tubes can be changed, electrical barriers can be switched on or off, and metal panels can be flipped. In the center of the maze is a small station containing a transport pod that can be used to reach the transport station leading to the highest dome of Star City.
POCE ROBOTS AND CRAFTS
POCE Blader: The POCE Blader is a manned hovercraft that is blue in color. This is equipped with dual machine guns and is protected by a large, circular blade ring that spins around the mech. The blade ring can even flip constantly around the mech, deflecting most attacks, and can be shot towards a foe and then return to the craft. To make visualizing these easier, POCE Bladers resemble crafts of the same design used by Syndrome's minions in the movie The Incredibles. Only four of these are issued for this mission.
STAR CITY ROBOTS
Laser Block: Laser Blocks make up the defenses in or around the Laser Station. They are square and have a laser emitter on each side. They roll through the air ahead of you and line up to create laser barriers, traps, and even mazes. Laser Blocks are indestructible.
Laser Disc: These are relatively small circular U.F.O. shaped devices found within the Laser Station and fire lasers from three levels. The bottom lasers shoot blue laser beams from four sides and spin around. The middle lasers shoot green laser bursts in sixteen directions. The top laser locks-on to the target, then fires a red laser charge that explodes upon impact. Destroying the middle of the drone destroys it altogether.
Hover Launcher: Hover Launchers are large drones that hover high in the air throughout the Space Deck and Star Maze. They have two sets of triple cannons. The top cannons fire missiles that lock-on to their targets, the middle cannons fire laser beams that have a massive range, and the bottom cannons fire meteors and explode upon impact.
Meteor Bomb: Meteor Bombs are large robots that resemble meteorites. Each of their sides open up to reveal a robotic panel from which automatic guns fire rapid streams of small meteors from. Meteor Bombs move around by rolling and their space rock shell is thick and makes destroying them difficult… if it weren't for the fact that Meteor Bombs can also make themselves self-destruct. The resulting explosion has a massive range and spreads meteor shrapnel over a large distance. These hazards are found in the Space Deck and Star Maze.
Wire Satellite: These are semi-small satellite-shaped robots that fire strings of energy wires from each of their six panel wings. They can create electrical webs that shock to the touch and can hinder your progress. The wires draw and absorb any kind of electrical attack and thus require other means of disabling them. Wire Satellites are found within the Star Maze.
Surveillance Drone: These are similar to Wire Satellites, except they have six powerful light sensors that are used to detect intruders. If someone is caught within a one of the light beams, the light paralyzes them and makes them unable to move. Not only that, the sensor lights alerts several various robots to your presence, which teleport in right away. Also, the Surveillance Drone can deploy small computer chips that create an "invisible" fence from which you cannot escape. To make matters worse, these robots are equipped with a cube-shaped shield that deflects all attacks. The only thing you can do is avoid these drones altogether, which are found within the Star Maze.