- Episode
- Episode 1: Escape
- In-game name
- TYRIAN
- Level file
ep1_15- Difficulty
- Hard and above
- Reached from
- start of the episode
- Leads to
- Asteroid 1 — your choice in the shop's Next Level menu
Asteroid 2 — your choice in the shop's Next Level menu - Music
- Tyrian, the Level
Episode 1 level
Tyrian level: Tyrian (Hard and above)
Tyrian is a level of Tyrian Episode 1: Escape, played on Hard and above. Boss: Assassin Ship. It hides 2 secret exits.
Tyrian is entry 2 of 17 in the level list of Episode 1: Escape, after Tyrian (Easy and Normal) and before Asteroid 1. It ends with 1 boss fight tracked by a health bar. A hidden item sends you to a secret level (see below).
Boss of Tyrian
Assassin Ship
Picture: parts placed as the level spawns them.
12 parts, armor 254 each at Normal difficulty.
Parts (12)
Secret exits
Pick up this hidden item to warp to 
Pick up this hidden item to warp to After Tyrian: shop and data cubes
After Tyrian the campaign stops at a shop that sells:
- Front guns: Multi-Cannon, Protron, Missile Launcher
- Rear guns: Sonic Wave, Protron
- Ships: USP Talon Light Fighter
- Shields: Gencore Low Energy Shield, Gencore High Energy Shield, MicroCorp LXS Class A
- Generators: Standard MR-9, Advanced MR-12, Gencore Custom MR-12
- Sidekicks: Single Shot Option, Companion Ship Warfly, Post-It Mine
Its Data menu holds the data cubes you picked up in the level, taken in this order from: TYRIAN SYSTEM DATAFLUX - ASTEROID SECTOR 1, TYRIAN SYSTEM DATAFLUX - ASTEROID SECTOR 2, TRANSMISSION SOURCE: XSIV Games, Companion Ships Warfly and Gerund.
Enemies in Tyrian
81 enemy types appear in this level, plus the Assassin Ship (12 parts); named among them: Clifts, Ignatz, Morble, William. Each picture links to the enemy's card in the bestiary.
Sprite banks used: Insect boss, Lava centipede, Tech corridor.