Manual
Linkkill
Join Date: 2003-03-25 Member: 14864Members
Join Date: 2003-03-25 Member: 14864Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Here is manual!</div> Greetings Frontiersman! If you're reading this, you've just received your field uniform and posting to a TSA training facility. Congratulations! You have had the courage to take a stand and head into great danger, at what is possibly the most crucial point in human history. You are not just the elite of all the militaries of all the governments and corporations that exist; you are a rare soul, who has risen above centuries of prejudice and violence to find your destiny on the front lines of freedom and honor, putting duty to mankind ahead of all else.
This document is an overview of Frontiersmen deployment, weaponry and equipment, and a corresponding examination of the alien's deployment and armaments. Every recruit is given a copy – but not every recruit reads it. Familiarize yourself, and you'll be ahead of the curve.
This information is considered Yellow Classified – it's probably not a secret to anyone with a spy network, but some bits of this knowledge might still be unknown – and you can bet the general public is mostly clueless. So – don't discuss it outside of TSA walls. Better yet, clear all TSA related correspondence with the media office.
What are frontiersmen
With the failure of corporate and government forces to contain the spread of the Kharaa, the opinion (among those in power) was humanity should just quarantine the entire Ariadne Arm (the string of solar systems where the Kharaa were encountered). The TSA found this intolerable, both for the people trapped in the Arm, and for the future of human expansion (the economic blow of losing all those ships and bases could threaten the tenuous peace of the Charter). The TSA volunteered to mount a response to the Kharaa – effectively creating a new army, with a new mandate. The resolution passed, and the new force was called the Frontiersmen: "standing on the edge of the unknown, between all of humanity and whatever would threaten it." The Frontiersmen have clearance to travel anywhere, and board any craft. They have rapid-response outposts scattered throughout the Ariadne Arm, with teams of marines ready to deploy. The Frontiersmen initiative is a huge opportunity for the TSA. It's also a risk: if the Frontiersmen fail, on such a public and historic stage, the Ariadne Arm will be signed off as a loss and the trans-govs may have the excuse they've been looking for to "re-organize" TSA leadership – replacing the Admiral and her staff with corporate lackeys. If that happens, dark days are sure to follow.
Species
There may be individual Earth creatures that approach the Kharaa in terms of physical prowess, in a particular fashion: a bull elephant and an Onos engaged in a tug of war, a gazelle and a Skulk in a 100 meter sprint – but on the whole, the Kharaa set physical benchmarks in excess of anything we have observed in nature thus far. From the crucible of their brutal evolutionary period have emerged creatures with truly awesome capabilities.
This document is an overview of Frontiersmen deployment, weaponry and equipment, and a corresponding examination of the alien's deployment and armaments. Every recruit is given a copy – but not every recruit reads it. Familiarize yourself, and you'll be ahead of the curve.
This information is considered Yellow Classified – it's probably not a secret to anyone with a spy network, but some bits of this knowledge might still be unknown – and you can bet the general public is mostly clueless. So – don't discuss it outside of TSA walls. Better yet, clear all TSA related correspondence with the media office.
What are frontiersmen
With the failure of corporate and government forces to contain the spread of the Kharaa, the opinion (among those in power) was humanity should just quarantine the entire Ariadne Arm (the string of solar systems where the Kharaa were encountered). The TSA found this intolerable, both for the people trapped in the Arm, and for the future of human expansion (the economic blow of losing all those ships and bases could threaten the tenuous peace of the Charter). The TSA volunteered to mount a response to the Kharaa – effectively creating a new army, with a new mandate. The resolution passed, and the new force was called the Frontiersmen: "standing on the edge of the unknown, between all of humanity and whatever would threaten it." The Frontiersmen have clearance to travel anywhere, and board any craft. They have rapid-response outposts scattered throughout the Ariadne Arm, with teams of marines ready to deploy. The Frontiersmen initiative is a huge opportunity for the TSA. It's also a risk: if the Frontiersmen fail, on such a public and historic stage, the Ariadne Arm will be signed off as a loss and the trans-govs may have the excuse they've been looking for to "re-organize" TSA leadership – replacing the Admiral and her staff with corporate lackeys. If that happens, dark days are sure to follow.
Species
There may be individual Earth creatures that approach the Kharaa in terms of physical prowess, in a particular fashion: a bull elephant and an Onos engaged in a tug of war, a gazelle and a Skulk in a 100 meter sprint – but on the whole, the Kharaa set physical benchmarks in excess of anything we have observed in nature thus far. From the crucible of their brutal evolutionary period have emerged creatures with truly awesome capabilities.
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Comments
after reading that first paragraph its kinda like "hi, thanks for selling us your soul, heres how you will die"
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but keep going.....if theres more.....its interesting to read hehehe
1: ...Why? The manual is right <a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/manual/introduction.html' target='_blank'>here</a> and can easily be found on the main page. Besides that, it's outdated.
2: You typed that all out word for word? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo--> erm...
I once knew a man called Manuel.
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I once knew a man called Manuel. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I did, too. He's in Oregon. I met him the other day, because my time machine's coordinates were off--I meant to go to Las Vegas. I think he kicked me in the head when I was a baby.
Oh, why the hell would you copy the manual here? First of all, IT'S ALREADY ON THE PAGE! Second, ice cream *does* have bones, and third, I don't get it at all, if this was supposed to be some kind of joke.
omgz olo postcout ++
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