Your team are the advance scouts for the Free Space Pioneer program on a newly discovered alien world — the first wave in, before anyone knows what the planet holds. What it holds, it turns out, includes pirates, alien creatures, and the armed forces of the Imperial Consortium, all of whom have their own reasons to be here. Shock Tactics is a turn-based tactical combat game in which you fight for control of the planet's secrets, building outposts and dig sites to stay ahead of an invasion force that is already on its way.