A.V.E.N.A.

HUMANITY WANTS YOU

The Corporate Consulate has opened recruitment of pilots for the Exploration Corps: a multicorporate program tasked with researching the world beyond the Primal Portal.

Through a neural interface, you do not cross the gate in person. You pilot disposable drone frames from the safety of the research facility on Earth and send them into a hostile world on the other side. Your body stays home. Your drone does not.

   This is science.
   This is duty.
   This is a training program.

In practice, it is a live-fire research operation run by corporations that measure heroism in compliance reports, casualty rates, and quarterly output.

Beyond the portal lies the battlefield with entities that ended the old world: hostile machine forces, lost technology, and the long shadow of EVE, the planetary AI humanity remembers as a martyr. The public story is simple. The truth is not.

Every deployment is another controlled descent into the unknown. Fight through enemy territory, retrieve research, secure valuable technology, and bring back the data needed to improve the next run. The farther you push, the more the official narrative begins to crack.

   You are not the first pilot.
   You are not expected to be the last.

Note from a program Director:

At this stage of the program, all deployments are conducted in sanctioned combat simulations built from real portal-side data. Officially, no pilot is exposed to unnecessary risk before full operational rollout. Unofficially, the program is already collecting everything that matters: performance, obedience, and survivability.

Key Features

• Pilot disposable combat frames
  Deploy remote drone bodies through a one-way portal while your operator remains on the human side.

• Build drones to match your playstyle

  Choose your weapons, hull, chassis, and components to create a drone setup that fits the way you fight.

• Roguelike core loop
  Drones cannot come back, each run is randomized sequence of encounters with one-run upgrades.

• Fight for research, not just survival
  Recover field data, technology, and other strategic assets that expand what future deployments can do.

• Push deeper with each run
  Use what you bring back to improve your loadout, your capabilities, and your odds on the next deployment.

• Enter a world built on propaganda and buried history
  Explore a sci-fi setting shaped by corporate control, engineered patriotism, and the unresolved truth behind EVE, the Hivemind, and the Primal Portal.

• Serve the program
  Take part in an “exploration initiative” where every briefing sounds inspirational, every poster demands alignment, and every loss is already inside acceptable parameters.