Sky Lords

Following the crushing defeat of the Star Lords by the Dark Lord Gargantua, the Lords have gathered in the skies above earth for the final conflict with the Dark Lord

You must recruit the Lords, absorb their power, complete a number of quests, and defeat the Dark Lord Gargantua.

The Dark Lord is also trying to recruit the Lords, absorb their power and create a Black Hole to destroy them. 

If he can convert all of the Lords before you destroy him, the black hole will be created and the earth will be lost forever.

You can only recruit a Lord if your power is greater than theirs

If Lord Gargantua has converted a Lord into a foe, you must first absorb his power, and then convert him back to your friend

You have the ability to build power plants, factories, towers and vehicles. These include;

Static Pulse towers which target enemy clones and spawns

Static Plasma towers which target enemy droids and bots

Shields which target enemy clones and converts enemy spawns into friendly spawns

Drones which target enemy droids and bots

Static Power plant gives you extra 500 power each day per plant

Static Factory builds shields and drones. One of each type per day 

Do not surround yourself with units, as you cannot move through them until they are gone

Enemy Lords can now create vehicles, which include;

Clones which target your shields, and can convert your spawns into dark spawns

Droids which target your towers

Bots which target your shields and drones

Hunters which hunt you down and take your power from a distance. Only you or a Mantis can destroy these.

All Lords have special powers which you can absorb. These include;

Ability to travel faster during storms (weather)

Ability to use a plasma burst to destroy all dark spawns in range (plasma)

Ability to shield power from being absorbed (shields)

Ability to absorb dark spawn power when you destroy them (absorb)

Ability to convert dark spawns to friendly spawns and clones to shields (convert)

Ability to teleport to quest location (quest) can only be used once until you regain that power from a lord

Upgrade to your weapon from Pulse Cannon to Plasma Burst (plasma). With this you absorb all spawn powers destroyed

Ability to teleport to a random location (teleport) . This ability uses 500 power each time it is used

A special abilities button is available if you gain the ability of teleporting or converting (below time of day indicator)

Controls:

Touch the opaque direction controls to move fwd, backward, or turn left or right

Touching inside the area not under the direction controls will move your view, but you will not turn

Moving forwards or backwards takes one hour of day time, or two hours during storms (unless you have storms ability)

Touch a Lord directly in front of you to start to talk to them

Touch the control buttons in the center to select words to say or end the current day

Touch a sky gate to explore the part of the world beneath them

Touch the World Map to display the world and provide further options

Touch the edges of the World Map to scroll around the map

Touch the build icon to enable the build feature. You can only build units on an empty space directly in front of you

Touch the Arcade button to play in arcade mode. Touch anywhere on screen to move sight. 

Touch the sight to fire on an enemy in the sight

Each shot will cost you 5 power units. Each kill will give you 50 power units, but any enemies left will take power from you

Each wave of enemies will use up two hours of the day time. At the end of the day you will exit the arcade mode

The World:

Friendly spawns are released by friendly Lords. These follow you and destroy dark spawns

Dark spawns are released by unfriendly Lords and absorb your power

A HUD warning radar will display spawns and units when they approach you. (green friendly, red unfriendly)

A pulse cannon control button can be pressed to destroy enemies from a distance

This weapon can be upgraded to a Plasma Burst to destroy all dark spawns on the HUD radar or one enemy vehicle

Both weapons use some of your power when used (pulse 50, plasma 100)

If you have the convert control active, to revert back to pulse cannon touch the convert ability button

Above the pulse cannon button is a sniper site button. Touch this to activate sniper mode to target specific enemies

To exit sniper site mode press the sniper button again

Worm holes will teleport you instantly to a random part of the world if you walk into, or back into them

Random Quasars will slip back time a few hours if they are directly in front, or behind you

Random Pulsars give extra power but bring night closer if they are directly in front, or behind you

Drain houses and Tornados absorb some of your power if they are directly in front, or behind you

Power houses can give you some power if you they are directly in front, or behind you.

But this takes time, and time is against you

Worlds have Cathedrals which can give you a random quest. The rewards for these quests include;

Gaining extra power for yourself

Reducing the Dark Lord Gargantuas power

Converting all unfriendly Lords back to neutral Lords

Destroying all dark spawns

Giving some power to all your friends

Matching Gargantuas power to your own

Worlds also have Castles which can reward you or if unlucky, absorb some of your power

Worlds also have cities on them which you can explore

But beware, cities which can give you rewards, abilities and quests, can also take power and remove abilities from you

The weather can also reduce your travel during the day, rain snow and dark matter storms will hinder your journey

Dark matter storms will drain your power as you walk through them, unless you have shields

An ion storm that only occurs in the sky, charges your power as you travel through it

At the end of the day, all Lords including yourself, receive an additional charge of power

Lord Gargantua uses this power to recruit other Lords and absorb their power

Dark Spawns and units are then released from unfriendly Lords

Friendly spawns are also released from friendly Lords

Use the World Map to search for the World gates and avoid the tornados

You have the following options on the World Map:

Play the game

Start a New Game. Gives you option for normal,random start position, or Risk style game

Change the Difficulty level during the game

(Easier gives you extra power, reduces the Dark Lords ability to recharge quicker, & reduces the number of quests required)

(Harder gives the Dark Lord a greater charge each night)

Save your progress

Load a previously saved progress

Adjust the Turn time, to enable faster or slower semi real time update of the days and minutes within the game

Quit - You can quit the game and let the Dark Lord be Victorious

Guide - displays this guide

Lord status - touch this to toggle the display the status of all the Lords (white = netral, green = friend, red = foe)

The new Risk style game, randomly pre-sets the Lords to either friend (green), foe (red) or neutral

You can then visit friendly Lords and either absorb their power and/or build units in their sky domain

You can then either return back to Play the game as normal, or return to the star map to view other friendly Lords

Additional controls include:

The build control to enable selection of units to build

Clock, which when touched will advance the time of day by 1 hour, and units will move and engage if required

If turn time is on, the game will automatically advance with all forces engaging, and spawns and hunters targeting you

+ to magnify map

- to de-magnify map

Touch an enemy unit to find out its type

The Identity of the Sky Lord is displayed, and their power which you can absorb by touching the value below the Lords name

You can enter a friendly lords skyship and talk to the Lord, get new abilities,  operate a long range radar, find your quest location, and a world map to explore and build units

You can enter a factory you have built, and build new Mantis units and upgrade your units new build hull strength and fire power, and your own pulse and plasma weapon fire power

You can enter a friendly unit and repair the unit if damaged

If the unit is not damaged you can set it to stay in position and autoguard that position

Or you can set autoguard off, so that it can move and fight to other locations automatically 

On the game screens, details of the hull strength of units are shown next to the unit, and if damaged, they display a blast icon next to them