The game ends as the Mercenaries and Ex-NEVEC troops fly off in a helicopter VS and a Unidentified Flying Akrid whimsically flies pass them, seemingly ignores the human. After all this effort and sacrifitions, the Ex-NEVEC leader declares that the planet has won, or at least that's what he wants to believe. NEOS can be seen in the distance as an island on the sea, showing where the Over-G once was. After awaking in darkness, Thermal Energy on all machinery including personal accessories appears to has been drained out, but as the sun comes up a vast sea of thermal energy is seen and all the VSs activate by absorbing the T-Eng vapor from the sea. The Ex-NEVEC characters and the characters present for the final fight are rescued by the Mercenaries from the beginning of the game. As NEOS gets closer, Akrid flock to the Over-G and the units outside the core begin to retreat. Shooting frantically, the NEVEC Black Ops decide to sacrifice themselves by crashing NEOS into the Over-G. The Over-G survives and begins to regenerate itself. After fighting to the core of the Over-G, the group tags their GPS units to it with the help of the Snow Pirates and NEOS cannon is fired by the NEVEC Black Ops. The Ex-NEVEC troops descend to the planet as a call is sent out to all snow pirates, asking for assistance in destroying the Over-G Akrid. The Ex-NEVEC commander assures his troops they can trust them. After capturing NEOS, they plan to control and aim the cannon on it using VSs, but the NEVEC Black Ops appears. The plot shifts back to the Ex-NEVEC troops in the space shuttle. They see the Over-G in the distance and decide to head there. They battle NEVEC troops, eventually capturing a massive gun from NEVEC. The plot shifts quickly to the "Vagabundos," A group of sand pirates. The plan is to use its massive firepower to destroy the Over-G before it reaches its final form. The group of player troops stowaway on a shuttle headed for the space station NEOS. The base is captured and an experimental weapon created by NEVEC is destroyed. Meeting up with all the other Ex-NEVEC troops, an invasion of a NEVEC base is planned. They capture a NEVEC submarine and make their escape. Two Ex-NEVEC characters are imprisoned by Carpetbaggers, but are freed by one who "Brought your friends here." More Ex-NEVEC troops rescue them and they make their way through the underground tunnels. To prevent this genocide, most NEVEC ground troops defect. Once the thermal energy is harvested, they will abandon the planet. NEVEC plans to kill it with the satellite known as NEOS. The orb seen by the waysiders is declared "the Over G", and its increase in thermal energy use will trigger another ice age on E.D.N. The game shifts to two NEVEC people talking on a helicopter VS. The player 1 waysider notices a giant, glowing orb in the distance and declares "I'm so going to shoot the shit out of you!" and presumably fires at it. As they continue towards their home, it starts snowing heavily, burying their home. After seizing control of the gun, they are once again attacked by Red Eye, this time they are able to kill it though. After stealing a train from the sandraiders, the group is ambushed by Carpetbaggers on the railway gun. On the way back home, they are ambushed by a Category-G Akrid, dubbed "Red Eye." After loading the remaining Thermal Energy on helicopter like VSs, they make their escape, only to be shot down by sandraiders. They are returning from a raid on a carpetbagger city, apparently with heavy casualties and not much Thermal Energy. The story once again shifts, this time to Waysiders, snow pirates now living in the desert. After it is killed and the members evacuated, it is revealed they are clones of Ivan Solotov, a character from Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. After failing to succeed, a "space Akrid" appears and begins to attack the group. The game then shifts to NEVEC's Black Ops, Task Force First Descent, who fight their way through a Carpetbagger city in an effort to capture a railway gun, a train mounted with a massive cannon. After being rescued, they find out their evacuation point (Where the Category-G appeared) was a set-up and no pick up team awaited them. After destroying a mine, the Mercenaries continue on to evacuate the area, in which a Category-G Akrid appears and attacks them. The plot begins with Mercenaries fighting against Jungle Pirates. The Akrid have expanded their armies and return much more powerful in Lost Planet 2. Player(s) assume control of several different factions such as Yuri's Snow Pirates, NEVEC (NEo-VEnus Construction) and many other groups battling the Akrid, a race of large insectoid aliens native to E.D.N. The game centers on an ongoing civil war to gain T-ENG ( Thermal- ENer Gy). The snow has melted to reveal jungles and more tropical areas that have taken the place of more frozen regions. III 10 years after the events of the first game.