Need A Little Help With The Regulars Here
Fire_Eel
Join Date: 2003-08-19 Member: 19950Members
Join Date: 2003-08-19 Member: 19950Members
<div class="IPBDescription">About Behemoth</div> If there is anyone here who has got a lot of ACCURATE knowledge about the past or history of Natural Selection and stuff, I need your help here.
Below is part of the prologue of Behemoth, the edited version, which hopefully can be completed by me once my O' Levels is over. Or better still, be published.
I am aware that some info below may be inaccurate, or that there is not enough about the past of NS. If possible, will a regular here give me some true and helpful info about NS's history?
With the information, I can add them into my prologue.
Thanks!
<span style='font-family:Arial'>For a long time, the race of man has always pondered over the question – Are we alone in the Universe? The question was answered, but not exactly the way anyone had wanted or even expected. Yes, the Kharaa, creatures of nightmare, aliens of terror, man’s ultimate enemy, at least that’s what man thinks.
It was not a friendly meeting, and a battle broke out between man and Kharaa at once. The Kharaa are very powerful and unnaturally smart. Eventually, countless space stations, space facilities and other important sites were taken by the Kharaa. Entire ships were lost, many were killed. The Kharaa was merciless. Trillions of dollars were lost, and no one could deal with the Kharaa. Humanity’s future expansion seemed doomed.
The Trans System Authority, better known as TSA was the only viable option capable of dealing with the Kharaa. Training new recruits into experienced marines known as the Frontiersmen. The Frontiersmen are the new force specifically to deal with the Kharaa threat. At last, the forces of humanity and Kharaa seemed even, and the war broke out.
The war between the Kharaa and Frontiersmen has went on for months, years……an eternity. Man have met his match at last, and the Kharaa are every bit as strong and as intelligent as humans are, if not better.</span>
There are other stuff in the prologue, but I feel they are irrelevent to the true history of NS.
Below is part of the prologue of Behemoth, the edited version, which hopefully can be completed by me once my O' Levels is over. Or better still, be published.
I am aware that some info below may be inaccurate, or that there is not enough about the past of NS. If possible, will a regular here give me some true and helpful info about NS's history?
With the information, I can add them into my prologue.
Thanks!
<span style='font-family:Arial'>For a long time, the race of man has always pondered over the question – Are we alone in the Universe? The question was answered, but not exactly the way anyone had wanted or even expected. Yes, the Kharaa, creatures of nightmare, aliens of terror, man’s ultimate enemy, at least that’s what man thinks.
It was not a friendly meeting, and a battle broke out between man and Kharaa at once. The Kharaa are very powerful and unnaturally smart. Eventually, countless space stations, space facilities and other important sites were taken by the Kharaa. Entire ships were lost, many were killed. The Kharaa was merciless. Trillions of dollars were lost, and no one could deal with the Kharaa. Humanity’s future expansion seemed doomed.
The Trans System Authority, better known as TSA was the only viable option capable of dealing with the Kharaa. Training new recruits into experienced marines known as the Frontiersmen. The Frontiersmen are the new force specifically to deal with the Kharaa threat. At last, the forces of humanity and Kharaa seemed even, and the war broke out.
The war between the Kharaa and Frontiersmen has went on for months, years……an eternity. Man have met his match at last, and the Kharaa are every bit as strong and as intelligent as humans are, if not better.</span>
There are other stuff in the prologue, but I feel they are irrelevent to the true history of NS.
Comments
I don’t believe that the TSA is the only viable option, because there are Trans-Gov soldiers...but I’m not too sure about it myself.
The TSA are the only viable option as they are independant of all the other authorities and have the ability to go anywhere, board any ship. This cuts down on the red-tape allowing a sufficently fast response to stand a chance. <a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/manual/general_front.html' target='_blank'>See here</a> <a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/world_marine2.html' target='_blank'>and here.</a>
The second source also mentions that the trans system goverments have tried and failed
The problem is with improving it and publishing it.
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Thats not strictly true.
Terran Federation, SST: Democratic state, with the right to vote limited to people who have done a lenght of of time in sort of public service, eg; military, labour battalions, ect.
Trans-System Authority: A regulatory body enforcing human rights, trade rules, ect, as laid out in the Trans-System Charter. The Frontiersman Charter has set them up against the Kharra in an attempt to defend mankind
However, the styles of the troops are similar;
Mobile Infantry: One of the branches of the Terran Federation military. Power armoured, jump pack equiped troops. Deployed by capsules from ships in orbit. Armed with weapons ranging from knives to 2kT nukes, well trained, well lead and all too short of officers (All MI officers are combat drop veterans and often have to take multiple roles). Analgolous to the USMC. Defends humanity from the ailen menaces.
Frontiersmen/TSA marines: The combat branch of the TSA. Troops which can have power armour or jump packs. Deployed by dropship and phase technology. Armed with weapons ranging from knives to seige cannons, well trained, well lead, with a different command structure to conventional militaries. Analgolous to the USMC. Defends humanity form the alien menace
The TSC is sorta like the UN today; basically a place for goverments and politics. The TSC and TSA were chartered in the latter days of the Phase Gate race, just before all society fell apart due to poverty and the strains of a constant "cold war."
However, no one suspected that the TSA would actually live by it's charter and -gasp- protect the innocent, leaving the fat creatons in the TSC to worry and hate the TSA. The Frontiersman are a last ditch effort to save the current TSA command as well as humanity. If they succeed, the TSA is, at least for a time, restored to prominance with adaquate funding again; if they fail, the TSA is either disbanded or the leadership replaced with pompus morons who can't command, and humanity falls into deep decay.
I wrote my NS fanfic a bit in SST style, but with NS aliens,weapons and scenarios as well.. I like that SST style a bit more than the NS. Both combat drops are even similar..they´re shippin´ in with ships, terminating everything with more than two legs (all none human..)..
Oh another good point is the standard Riffle!
The Morita in SST is even better as the standard Riffle in NS (I dunno the name of it..if there´s a name..)
cuz The morita has even more rounds to fire and a shotgun under it´s LMG. I that´s more effective than the std riffle in ns, wich "only" has 50 rounds...
I think it would be more effective, if that riffle get´s a mini grenade launcher under its lmg or a shotgun like the Morita... (did any body see SST 2? The morita looks and sounds ugly...)
The Morita in SST is even better as the standard Riffle in NS (I dunno the name of it..if there´s a name..)
cuz The morita has even more rounds to fire and a shotgun under it´s LMG. I that´s more effective than the std riffle in ns, wich "only" has 50 rounds...
I think it would be more effective, if that riffle get´s a mini grenade launcher under its lmg or a shotgun like the Morita... (did any body see SST 2? The morita looks and sounds ugly...)<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The main reason the weapons in NS are fairly contemporary is quite simple. From around 2050 to 2140 (the Expansion period), just about all government funding was directed at space colonisation and research. Military funding was slashed and development of new weapons stagnated. However some civilian technologies, such as jetpacks, phase gates and power armour had military uses as well. Hence when the Frontiersmen were set up, their equipment was a bizzare mix of modern and old.