Prologue

The Lylat System. A large collection of planets, sectors and asteroids. For years, the population spread across the system. Peace and prosperity ruled. Until he came along, Andross Ferrel was a genius in a variety of subjects. But he majored in genetics and chemistry. After creating new types of medicine and weaponry for the military, they gave him a grant and a very advanced laboratory. For a year, Andross worked and labored over various inventions. He kept the military happy, providing them with new medical and weapon technology. But after hours, when no one was looking, Andross did horrible experimentation, genetic mutation with live subjects.

He continued with this for six months, until the media found out. They showed everything that Andross had done, and when the military found out, they put Andross on trail. Not even a day later, for his crimes, he was banished to the fringe, poisonous world of Venom. Venom was a massive planet, bigger then any others, it had no native life, just a criminal population of around ten thousand. The air was yellow and haze and carried an unknown but not deadly, poison. Small colonies were set up on Venom for the prisoners and supplies were dropped off weekly.

Six massive starships guarded the planet from orbit. Within a month, Andross took over the populace of Venom. Andross began plotting his revenge, he had done some earlier research on the planet in case he was ever sent there and he had found a vast amount of resources deep underground, with the products collected from the colonies, they could mine the minerals. For six months, Andross secretly constructed a massive base underground. When he finished, he spent the next six months building a huge cannon, capable of penetrating the atmosphere and crippling the starships.

Powered by Solar and various minerals, the cannon worked. Three of the ships crash-landed on Venom, two were crippled and made it away with the other surviving ship. Andross moved quickly to collect up whatever minerals and resources he could from the ships and build a fleet. The surviving crews were either killed, if they resisted, or forced to work, if they didn't. Within another year, Andross had six bases across the planet and a massive fleet capable of space travel. Attempts were made to do damage to Andross's base, but all ships were taken down by either the cannon or Andross's armies.

At this time, the Starfox team was called in. It consisted of James McCloud, a great pilot and captain. Peppy Hare, a wise, aged pilot. And Pigma Dengor, a shifty eyed glutton who happened to be a good pilot. During a scouting mission over Venom, Andross attacked. Pigma betrayed the team and James was shot down and captured. Peppy barely made it away. James was tortured for two weeks until he died. During this time, Andross began construction on a very large defense satellite, which he dubbed Boles, within three months he finished. That's when he launched his strike, the first attack was on Macbeth.

Macbeth was a large mining planet from where Lylat drew their resources. The planet fell after a week, next came Titania, a large desert planet which was also mainly mining. Slowly, one by one, all the planets and inhabited regions of space fell into Andross's grasp until only one remained, Corneria. The homeplanet, where everyone important resided, the President, the Senate, generals, admirals, everyone. That is when, out of desperation, a new Starfox team was put together. The commander of the team was Fox McCloud, an amazing young pilot and the son of James. Falco Lombardi, another young, cocky pilot from the streets but also a friend of Fox's. Peppy Hare, from the original team. And Slippy Toad, a mechanical genius who helped design Starfox's new ships, the Arwings. With a new massive starship christened the Greatfox, an Artificial Intelligence named ROB and four amazing ships, Starfox was put to the test.

They fought Andross's invading forces and thoroughly crushed them. Seeing that Starfox was a great success, the military set up a person who would guide them through the war, an old friend of Peppy, General Alexander Pepper. Starfox was next unleashed on the Metro Asteroid Field, a large part of trade routes throughout Lylat. With the help of the military, Andross's grip on the Field was taken away. Slowly but surely, the planets were regained. Katina, Aquas, Fortuna, and Sectors X and Y. Seeing this, Andross put together his own team of elite pilots.

The leader was a mercenary, Wolf O'Donnel who had dropped out in high school because of personal problems. Leon Poswalski was an expert torturer who had killed James McCloud. Pigma Dengor was the other surviving member from the original team. And Andrew Onikley was Andross's nephew. They raced across Lylat and confronted Starfox on Zoness, where a long battle took place. During the battle, an old friend of Falco's, Kat Monroe, joined in. Eventually, Starwolf, as it was called, was defeated. Andrew was killed, but among the dead was also Peppy. With a teammate missing, Fox and Pepper attempted for find a new one.

Kat declined the offer, as she would be needed to help defend her homeplanet, Zoness. Bill Grey, an old friend of Fox, now commander of two teams, the Bulldog Squadron and the Husky Unit, was also asked. But he declined as well, dedicated to his work. Pepper turned to one last person, Fara Phoenix. She was an amazing pilot and the only daughter of her two rich parents, who had great disregard for Fox. Now with a complete team, Starfox progressed on.

They took back Zoness, Titania, Macbeth and Sector Z. Finally, Andross's armies were forced back to Venom, Boles and Area 6. While the military dispatched with Area 6, Starfox took on Boles. After a lengthy battle, Boles was destroyed and the army at Area 6 was demolished. The final battle was days away, only Andross's cannon was still operation. Fortunately, Corneria had sent in a few spies into the Venomian army at Andross's main base.

They sabotaged the cannon, but got killed in the process. With the cannon down, the armies of the Lylatian Alliance did a full-scale assault on the various bases across the planet. Starfox took on the main base, Starwolf attacked Starfox, but they were crushed. Pigma and Leon were killed, along with Slippy, and Wolf fled. After destroying Andross's defense force, Fox went into the base and killed Andross himself. And the war was over, or so they thought.