Starblade is an epic space-opera, set in the vastness of the Orion Galaxy, the year 3001.

The human race has been decimated to a series of small hi-tech colonies, by the ruttless, insectile Celphahydras.

To finally wipe out humanity, Cephalhydran geneticist have produced Genolyn, a hideously mutated Queen brood-mother, who will spawn a legion of super-warriors.

Before his murder by agents of the Cephalydras Investigation Bureau Professor Julius Gordon discovered the location of Genolyn. To outwit his pursuers, he transposed the co-ordinates or her secret location onto a series of diskettes, and dispersed them on a number of planets.

Your mission, to board "Starblade", the most technically advanced starcruiser in the galaxy and to find and eliminate Genolyn before she starts to breed...