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Enemy forces have hijacked a space fleet by turning its robot consignment against the crew and your job is to neutralize all the robots, rescuing the humans. You control a prototype influence device that allows you to control the hostile robots.

The game is set on a spaceship viewed from a top-down perspective. The ship consists of numerous rooms and levels, each one populated by hostile robots or “droids“. The player, in control of a special droid called the “Influence Device”, must destroy all the other droids on the ship. Each droid (including the player) is represented as a circle around a three-digit number. The numbers roughly correspond to the droid’s “power” or “level”, in that higher-numbered droids are tougher to destroy.

The Influence Device is numbered “001”. The primary way in which the Influence Device destroys other droids is by “linking” with them, effectively taking them over. When the player takes over another droid, the previously-controlled droid is destroyed.

Taking over a droid is done via a mini-game involving basic circuit diagrams and logic gates.

The spaceship has several decks, and each deck can have several rooms. Doors and elevators connect the rooms and the decks. Many rooms have computer terminals that provide access to maps of the current deck and the entire ship as well as droid information. Each droid can access information about itself and all lower-numbered droids (this access is available to the player based on the droid being controlled).