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Falling Skies 2.0 OOC
« on: September 24, 2017, 05:39:36 PM »
I've been caught up watching this show on Netflix. For those that have never seen it the plot is essentially this.

Nasty aliens carry out a sudden attack on Earth where in only days, the invaders neutralized the world's power grid and technology, defeated and largely destroyed all the world's militaries, and killed over 90% of the human population by destroying all of the world's major cities and capitals. The humans who survived have been harassed and hunted down and formed bands of survivors, sadly the alien invaders are able to quickly find groups if they number high enough (more than around 300 people together and they tend to find them after a few days). The invaders however seem to not kill everyone, those under the age of 16 are kidnapped and attached to some kind of biological device on their spines called a "harness" it essentially makes them zombie slaves of the invaders. As such gangs of children are busy doing the laboring of the invaders who seem to be building large constructions out of scrap metal in major cities. The aliens instantly kill adult humans, a few groups of survivors have rescued harnessed children, however removing the harness instantly kills the child. The harnessed children aren't used in combat but occasionally have been used as human shields. The aliens can use them as conduits to speak to humans.

THE ALIEN TYPES

Spoiler: Skitters • show



The main alien seen on earth. Ultra fast and agile, able to rip apart a human and has strong jaws that can bite through light metals. Need to be shot with high calibre fire to kill instantly, probably best approach is too shoot a few legs off and run. They control harnessed children and mechs in the field. Occasionally they have spoken to humans using harnessed children as a conduit


Spoiler: Mechs • show



Like drones they seem to have basic A.I that allows them to semi follow orders of skitters. They have a mini gun style weapon on their right arm, it can be heard spinning up from a distance, the left hand fingers can fire a triangular spread of lasers or be formed into a blade style weapon. They need to be hit with RPG style weapons or repeated heavy caliber weapons to neutralize.


Spoiler: Overlords • show



The commanders of the invasion they do not often appear in the field, however it is known that one overlord controls each continent and seems to move between the various construction projects. They are able to control skitters and mechs and speak through harnessed children. They also appear to have one harnessed child who is there personal property.


Spoiler: Harnessed Children • show



Children are harnessed by the aliens to bring them under their control. It turns them into zombie like slaves, little is known about the harness, however it is part mechanical and part biological, it appears to put metal pins into the childs spine and base of their brain. They can then be controlled by the various aliens and are used as slave labour on their building project. The skitters seems to be very caring towards the children in their care, several have been seen at night sleeping with children protectively embraced by them. Those children under control respond to no stimulus other than the skitters who it is assumed telepathically communicate with the the children. Once a skitter is killed those children under their control will become like zombies until a new skitter arrives.
So far all attempts to remove a harness have resulted in instant death. Those who were harnessed immediately have begun forming scaley skin, the cause of which is unknown. The harness also seems to enhance physical ability with children seen lifting heavy objects while working.



THE RP

The year is 2026, you RP with your TIO nation, however this is clearly not canon. Your military capabilities is exactly what you have at the moment (by this it means you don't have space ships or anything like that, you don't have laser canons etc), however remember the aliens have obliterated Mundus. You're free to control the aliens etc in your nation. Even if you've seen the TV series I'll make some slight changes etc as we go, and I'll introduce changes to things like harness, new alien types, new alien technology etc as we go so please don't jump ahead.

So will you stand and fight the aliens or will you run? No need to sign up etc just join in once I begin it and feel free to use this page to ask questions etc.

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Re: Falling Skies 2.0 OOC
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2017, 02:48:38 PM »
Is this still going on?

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Re: Falling Skies 2.0 OOC
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2017, 03:30:38 AM »
Ok I will join is it the real world map or here?

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Re: Falling Skies 2.0 OOC
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2017, 10:54:11 AM »
If this is restarting expect a response. To gknight the RP is set on Mundus with your existing nations but just set about ten years in the future. Clearly its non canon and just some fun RP.

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Re: Falling Skies 2.0 OOC
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2017, 02:34:49 PM »
Ok

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Re: Falling Skies 2.0 OOC
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2017, 03:29:49 PM »
I will post in the IC soonish