The world in which our sci-fi nerdiness takes place has many threats to it, discovered all over space, and coming from multiple sources. Let us meet some of our factions...
Let us start with the only allied alien race to humanity, the Spirins. Energy beings with great abilities, that require carbon based life to form a symbiotic relationship with to more fully exist in our world.
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| (A spirin in it's more 'natural' state.) |
Each player will have an allied spirin with them, which they will make at character creation. Spirins can augment a players stats in all kinds of combat, if they get face hugged they can keep the parasite from killing the host for a period of time, they can merge into massive creatures and fight Kaiju, and they can inhabit more mundane life on earth and alter it into combat ready forms to help out with the alien invasion. The spirins will get their own post, as they are one of the more complex parts of this game, having many different abilities, combat options, and an evolution system that is based off of what the players allow the spirins to absorb or eat.
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| (A spirin in a dragonfly.) |
As far as a bit of world history goes, we initially discovered the first Spirins on Saturn's moon Titan, which is the location of humanities 2nd colony. On Titan, humanity also discovered something else alien, and not nearly as nice as the spirins...
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| (The most frightening thing out of the 70's and 80's) |
On Titan we found a ruined base complex underneath the ice mountains. These creatures have proven to be absolutely horrifying to our civilian population. The early colonist brought several eggs back for study, and several of the colonists themselves were infected, though the spirins they had found were slowing the process of the parasite. We studied and attempted to save the colonists that returned from Titan, but in the end humanity failed, and a queen was born in the Andes. Now, decades later, many population centers in South America have been completely taken over, and the continent is in a perpetual fight with the xenomorphs specifically. If it weren't for the fact that the spirins and pretty much all other alien life forms despise xenomorphs, we would have most likely been overrun. In fact, a few of the aliens seem to prioritize killing xenomorphs over even our most elite soldiers. The most obvious of those is what we have dubbed 'Predator Class' aliens, though the Spirins call them 'Predatons.'
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| (Armored, deadly, and apparently not waterproof.) |
The predatons are the elite of the elite as far as ground invasion forces go. These creatures seem to be given assassination missions that are very high risk, elite Jaeger pilots, world leaders, the best soldiers we have. There is more to this faction of the invaders however, as we have recorded footage of them killing xenomorphs, On one occasion protecting a school room of children from many xenomorphs. These creatures have incredibly deadly weaponry, and apparently no love for their fellow invaders. Predatons also hunt openly another horrible, and recent, addition to our planet, a horrible creature called a necromorph.
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| (Zombies... forget zombies....) |
The necromorphs have only been on our planet for a short amount of time, having arrived from a crashed human ship in Africa. These creatures absorb absolutely everything they can, and Africa is now mostly taken over by this plague. Only a few scattered countries still stand against the onslaught, and council resources are constantly getting sent to this region to handle necromorph related threats. Sometimes we must deploy Jaeger based weaponry, as the necromorphs grow to that size sometimes. Just how big is that anyway?
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| (Kaiju were the first way the overseers tried to conquer us.) |
Kaiju are giant monsters, what we built giant robots to punch in the face with. 'Kaiju' class sized monsters are anywhere from 40 meters on the smaller side to over 100 meters on the big side. (Think 100ft to 400ft. Massive) These creatures were originally defeated many many years ago now, but the overseers have opened up multiple rifts since then, and still send these genetically engineered monstrosities through at somewhat regular intervals. (Not as regular as they used to however, since they've begun an actual ground invasion.) The delivery methods have changed though, as have the types of kaiju. After the initial rift was closed, the kaiju arrived encased on comets, and they, unfortunately for us, were far stronger than the rift kaiju that were being warped in. Thankfully this woke up what appears to be some sort of ancient creature that was asleep in Antarctica, something we've called Godzilla.
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| (We must flee!) |
When the new kaiju arrived, we had dismantled nearly all our remaining jaegers, we were horribly outclassed. The Godzilla creature then emerged, and killed the kaiju, then helped himself to half of New York before retreating back to the ocean. Godzilla tends to appear every so often, often times when a creature seems 'worthy' of a fight, which have been our absolute most powerful jaegers or the most deadly kaiju, and he wins. He also tends to go after all manner of larger life as a food source. A truly chaotic force on this world, that we don't know as much about as we'd like. We do know that he has 'claimed' Japan as his home 'territory.' For this reason we have established the councils main base of military operations in an underwater base off the coast of Japan. We only have a few Jaegers stationed there though, as to not entice an aggressive response from Godzilla. Godzilla only seems interested in large scale threats though, ground invasion forces from all other factions seem to be beneath his notice.
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| (The dominant ground invasion forces.) |
Armed with advanced plasma weaponry, with the elites having shield and cloaking technology making them comparable to predatons. These creatures have no apparent love for the other factions in the invasion forces, especially necromorphs and xenomorphs, and seemed to be tasked with the bulk of invasions on a large scale city level. They tend to take prisoners, are obviously intelligent, and from what we can tell live in some sort of regimented religious society. There is another invasion force though, which we call the overseer race, which appears to be in charge.
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| (Those in charge... we think.) |
With all these problems all over our planet, you'd think humanity would be united, but that is not the case, the final, and possibly most deadly, opponent is the various alien cults. We have 3 that are the most deadly to us, the Kaiju cult, which is led by a former Jaeger pilot, this cult has actively tried to sabotage our Jaeger program, and at one point was out top priority, but they are no longer. There is a cult dedicated to the Xenomorph, which is unfortunately also led by a former X-com soldier, who kidnaps people to be host for the parasitic life form. The most recent cult however, and our top priority among the human cultists, the necromorph cult. They have been trying to spread the necromorph plague, and convince willing people to undergo the horrifying
transformation. (You're gonna want to click that...)
Humanity, despite our technological advances and the spirin allies, are fighting a losing battle... We are in a very real danger of losing our homeworld.
