Goal

You are the newest cadet assigned to sheriff station alpha 12. This sector is full of criminals! Destroy their ships and bring the criminals in for prosecution. Earn promotions and secure the eight crime bosses to earn your way back home.

Controls

• Joystick
  • X - Fire
  • O - Thrust
  • Left / Right - Rotate Ship
• Keyboard
  • X - Fire
  • Z - Thrust 
  • Left / Right arrows - Rotate Ship

Gameplay

Capturing Criminals

Launch from the Sheriff Station which is located in the center of the sector.  Destroy criminal ships with your guns. All of the ships are piloted by criminals! The criminals will always flee and shoot at you. Once a criminal ship is destroyed, fly by to pick up their escape pods. Criminals will be stored in your hold. Return to your base anytime to offload the criminals. A compass in the lower right side of the HUD will point you back to base. Also, look out for planets, hitting one will damage the ship.

Sheriff Station

Prosecution

When you arrive at the sheriff station, the station will dock you and immediately begin offloading and prosecuting criminals. You receive money based on the severity of the captured criminals' offenses. 

Briefing

You will receive a briefing by the sector chief who will remind you of your objective or give you a new one.  The upper right HUD provides your rank and a counter that will indicate how many more criminals you need to capture to receive a promotion. If you capture enough criminals, the sector chief will direct you to capture a crime boss. 

Store

Select from the available items to purchase an upgrade. When you are done at the store you select the launch option to leave the station.

Upgrades:

Burst Rounds	Adds in some spicy exploding rounds as you shoot. The higher the level the more often a burst round will fire.
Port Gun	Adds an additional gun pointing slightly to the left.
Starboard Gun	Adds an additional gun pointing slightly to the right.
Cargo Hold	Each level holds more criminals.
Upgrade Armor	Each level adds more hit points. As a bonus any damaged armor will be repaired with the upgrade!
Repairs	Repairs a single point of armor.
Long Grappler	The grappler grabs criminal escape pods for you. Each level is able to reach further away so you can focus on destroying the criminal ships.
Extra Ship	Never hurts to have another backup.

Crime Boss

If the sector chief has given you a mission to capture a crime boss then when you leave the station you will turn on your lights and sirens. You will not be able to pick up any criminals until you destroy the crime boss ship. The compass in the lower right will have a blue arrow pointing you toward the crime boss. Once destroyed you can pick you criminals and head back to the station where you are sure to get a promotion.