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[evilcherry]

So, you would want to play on one thread, but not another?

The whole point of the game is to create a PVP experience, and by making it group v group enough chaos factor is drawn in. So you should stick to one side.

[10ebbor10]

Due to that disaster, I now ask a question. Ebbor, do you want a hand in running this? Its an awesome concept and I personally dont really feel right being on either side.

The problem with cooperative work is that it gets complex quite fast. I mean, I tried it before and it wasn't very succesfull.

Anyway, the alien thread has already spawned a collaborative alien noir writing effort, which was unexpected but I'm counting that as a succes, despite having nothing to do with it.

[10ebbor10]

Introduction

News Report: Debris originating from the comet that impacted on dark side of the moon last month, continues to rain down upon planet, resulting in persistent and highly visible meteor showers, delighting millions. But the once in million year phenomenon has a dark side. Aside from being a stark reminder of the danger of an asteroid impact, the impact has severe consequences both in orbit, and on the Ground. At a conference in Stuttgard, Germany, NASA, Roscosmos, ESA and JAXA officials are currently discussing the fate of the 25 year old International Space Station. Expedition 71, the longest lasting and last mission to the ISS before it will be decommissioned next year, was evacuated shortly after the impact. ESA officials have suggested a new short-term expedition to recover research data, but as of now it is uncertain if that notion will be adopted.

More tragic news from Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos archipelago, located deep in the Indian ocean. All the infrastructure of the island, which was inhabited by about 4000 US/UK military personnel, was destroyed completely by a meteroid impact. The island's isolation results in fears that by the time rescue workers arrive, there may be no more survivors.

Battle Report:2023

China, an economic superpower, has founded the first anti-invasion defensive task force. The alien invaders meanwhile, have taken to an extremely cautious attack plan, attacking only extremely isolated locations. For the most part, this ensures that both groups do not in fact come in active conflict, given either side more time to prepare.

Analysis from the data from Diego Garcia attack gives valuable insights to both sides. The alien drop pods do not appear to be armed, or capable of significant flight. Instead, for the most part they fly ballistic, executing a suicide burn shortly before touchdown. They appear to be well armored, with CIWS defending the base being unable to destroy them. Further evidence from the debris and cause of death of onsite personnel suggest the utilization of laser weaponry, but of terrific power density compared to the large, ship mounted devices in use at some navies around the world. In addition, several vehicles appear to have been destroyed simply through the application of brute force.

The ballistic and explosive weaponry preferred by Earthern forces has proved mostly ineffective at inflicting significant damage to the alien drop pods, which are protected by thick heat shields. Though the heat shield is damaged by the attacks, it is only utilized in the descent. A probe can still make it back to space even with severe damage to the outer hull, as long as power systems and engines survive. Similarly, fatalities amongst the invading forces are rare. Facing a thick carapace and redundant organs, terran weaponry often fails to inflict lethal damage. With high efficiency, invading forces destroyed the base, before retreating back to space.

For the rest, the year is quiet. No further attacks on this large scale are noted, and the defensive task force does not see any enemies. China and the surrounding countries are secured by air defense and frequent patrols, though the effectiveness of either has not at all been tested.

Spoiler: Notes (click to show/hide)

Please bold votes in your respective threads. It is extremely hard to figure out what you want to happen otherwise.

Also, come up with some names, and please vote for them. Having no plans is as bad as 5 different plans on which no one agrees.

[10ebbor10]

The human forces contain :

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EPA Weaponry

PL-12: An active-radar guided missile with a large explosive warhead and a range of almost 100 km. Solid fueled, maximum speed of mach 4 and 21 km flight ceiling. Standard armament on the J31.

HQ-9 : A long range surface to air vehicle. First introduced in 1997, upgraded variants are still being used by Chinese forces. The basic system is designed for modularity, and can be utilized with a variety of systems and radars. The missile itself, a 2 stage design, has a maximum range of 200 km, fires at Mach 4.2, and has a 180 kg high explosive warhead. Terminal guidance utilizes active radar homing. Batch size : 3

[Organisation Name Here] Soldiers

The organisation, for now, utilizes armament present in the nations in which it operates.

[Organisation Name Here] Vehicles

The organisation, for now, utilizes armament present in the nations in which it operates.

[Organisation Name Here] Airforce

Shenyang J31 An early fifth generation jet fighter, first flown in 2020. A midweight fighter it utilizes a a twin rudder, twin engine design and has significant stealth characteristics. It is capable of carrying 4 missiles internally, and includes 4 heavy hard points and 2 small hard points on the wings. It's quite maneuverable, but it's jet engines suffer from common problems of early Chinese jet engines, being relatively low powered and unreliable compared with current state of the art designs. Due to the utilization of additive manufacturing techniques, production cost has generally been quite low.  Batch Size : 5

[Organisation Name Here] Navy

Type 095 Submarine

A large nuclear attack submarine. More than a hundred meters long, and with a powerful nuclear reactor, this stealthy giant presents the largest concentration of force available to the organisation. It can be equipped with torpedo's and a vertical launching system for cruise missiles, though at the moment, you have neither and are thus forced to rely on weaponry provided by the PLAN. Which isn't bad, it's just not yours.Batch Size : 0 (High cost means that each vessel requires it's own factory line for support.

[Organisation Name Here] Technology

Additive Manufacturing : Reduced complexity can go a long way in reducing production cost.
Compact Nuclear Reactor technology : Specifically, a pressurized water reactor operating on highly enriched uranium
Basic Stealth Technology :


(Note: This will only be utilized to list things that are not self evident.)

The Invader's forces contain :

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[Organisation Name Here] Weaponry

Laser Weaponry : Designed, originally, for combat in space, the laser has the advantage of being minimally affected by gravity, acceleration and other such troubling things. On Earth, it has however shown a few flaws. The atmosphere tends to pollute the firing chamber, resulting in a coating of burnt material forming on the lens array, absorbing the laser and resulting in the overheating of the weapon. A second problem is more inherent in the weapon. In atmosphere, the beam has the tendency to heat up the air through which it fires, producing a decent amount of noise and a very noticeable beam of light between the weapon and it's target.

[Organisation Name Here] Soldiers

Warrior caste : Featuring redundant organs, heightened reactions, and dangerous natural weaponry as well as durable natural armor, these soldiers would be dangerous even if they were not equipped with advanced technology. Which, for the most part, they aren't. Batch size: 4


[Organisation Name Here] Ground Units

None capable of operating on Earth.

[Organisation Name Here] Flying Objects

Dropship : A simple, Space to Surface dropship. It utilizes the mass of the Earth's atmosphere to slow itself down, then fires a simple chemical rocket for terminal descent. Inefficient, certainly, but it works even in the Earth's troublesome atmosphere. The volatile atmosphere does provide a very good source of propellant, allowing the ship to refuel and take off again on a suborbital trajectory, which is however high enough to allow recovery by one of our other vessels. Batch Size: 4


[Organisation Name Here] Floating objects

For now, Marine Life is safe.

[Organisation Name Here] Technology


Simple Rocket engines
Simple Heat shielding
Laser weaponry [Minor problems]
Basic Oxygen tolerance

(Note: This list is not the list of all technology you posses. It is however, all the tech that works in Earth's atmosphere.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

Let me guess. Aliens have something like a dozen of fancy designs and none got more than one vote? 

[10ebbor10]

Let me guess. Aliens have something like a dozen of fancy designs and none got more than one vote?

Yup.

[coleslaw35]

Let me guess. Aliens have something like a dozen of fancy designs and none got more than one vote?

Yup.

Aliens confirmed for bad.

[FallacyofUrist]

As of now, one of the fancy designs has 3 votes.

[Hawk132]

Make that 4.

[Sheb]

I wonder what design will end up being the SMG of this game.

[andrea]

I don't know, but I think you should make it cheaper.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

I think lasers can take the role of SMGs. First humans will steal it then make it cheap.

[Yourmaster]

The secret is lasers are shit on Earth .

[Taricus]

To be fair, Arstotzka's initial SMG was shit too

[Aseaheru]

 You kidding?There have been only three revisions on the sodding thing. And two of those where by Moskurg retooling it and making it cheaper.

 And the final one was Arstotzka making it cheaper.