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I ran down the corridor with the BFG cradled in my arms, my high-tops (inspired by the ones Ellen Ripley wore in Aliens, a highly influential sci-fi action film directed by James Cameron) squeaked against the smooth plasteel flooring of The Deathstar. The Deathstar was the flagship weapon of The Empire, the evil antagonists of the hit Star Wars franchise. It was capable of destroying entire planets. I couldn't believe it, here I was carrying one of the greatest weapons ever known while running around inside one of the greatest weapons ever known.

Just as I was about to round the corridor, a Gremlin shot out of a maintenance hatch and lunged toward me, his Crysknife at the ready. I snapped my vision toward him and leveled my gun with perfect accuracy, what the little creature from Gremlins didn't know was that I had Atr3mis augment my reflexes using a hack inspired by the augmentation system from Deus Ex, a respected PC game that came out at the end of The Golden Years. Deus Ex took place in a cyberpunk universe where players could use high-tech augmentations to modify their characters abilities; vision, strength, dexterity, and intelligence could all be enhanced. Players had what felt like boundless freedom at the time, and although the low-poly sandbox environments pale in comparison to the life-like realism of The Oasis I couldn't resist having some part of that old game in my code.

With the Gremlin now a smoking crater, I resumed my approach toward the real threat, the Raptors who had taken over the control room. Ruthless and efficient, they had been sent here by the man who tried to kill Atre3mis, but why? Steven Speilberg introduced the world to Raptors with his smash-hit film Jurassic Park. Clearly, someone had managed to replicate the dinosaur cloning technology theorized in the film, all I had to do was follow the screams.