FROM THE PRESS RELEASE:

Today’s launch of www.blackprophecy.com reveals a number of secrets about developer Reakktor Media’s MMO and offers some impressive images of the game. Besides fighting epic multiplayer battles and undertaking exciting single-player missions, players will experience a fascinating story from the pen of prize-winning German science fiction author Michael Marrak. In addition to many RPG elements and a comprehensive resource management system, the tactically demanding Black Prophecy also offers tremendous depth of play and spectacular deep-space action for the PC. Starting in the fall of 2008, Black Prophecy will present players with a complex online universe in which they pilot their spacecraft alone, as a clan member or as part of an armada.

By the mid-26th century, humanity has conquered the universe and colonized countless planets. Yet life in space requires a great deal of adaptation. Bred for just these conditions, the cybernetically adapted Tyi and the biogenetically optimized Geniden have outgrown their creators to become the new ruling races. Their uncompromising battle for total mastery of space leads humanity into the sphere of an ancient alien life form — a life form which tolerates no other cosmic civilizations but its own. In this battle against an overpowering enemy, players must first choose which of the two rival factions they wish to join as they try to save humanity.