And this Will be a,new storyline to make your characters something they weren't really before. Try to be creative if you use old characters, not just rehash old ideas again cause that just isn't fun.
X-COM/XSDF RP THINK TANK (part3)
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And a great example of what I said, in the new storyline, Desmond ain't a clone, he never lost his arm, was more social in the beginning than he was in SoD. Stuff like this makes for an interesting look into what could have been.
PrismaCube
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Well I woudn't say that, after all we lost. Who said XCOM managed to defeat Exalt ^^
DarkGemini24601
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You're not familiar with it obviously, but the reason this timeline exists goes back to an event in Story of Defiance. Originally, the aliens bombarded our base and wiped most of us out, but some survived and managed to send a message back in time to change the future and allow us to win the war. This however created a splinter timeline, where certain things are different, especially closer to 2019-2039, the central point of contention. What this means is that in this alternate timeline EXALT as an organization was never created, and Lusett was either never born or did something else with her life. The point is if EXALT did exist ADVENT would have taken them over or beaten them in XCOM's stead.
PrismaCube
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You're not familiar with it obviously, but the reason this timeline exists goes back to an event in Story of Defiance. Originally, the aliens bombarded our base and wiped most of us out, but some survived and managed to send a message back in time to change the future and allow us to win the war. This however created a splinter timeline, where certain things are different, especially closer to 2019-2039, the central point of contention. What this means is that in this alternate timeline EXALT as an organization was never created, and Lusett was either never born or did something else with her life. The point is if EXALT did exist ADVENT would have taken them over or beaten them in XCOM's stead.
Dafuq is this shit?! Some Back to the future level stuff xD
So there are two timelines now?
DarkGemini24601
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Story of Defiance and Vanguard of Forseti are the canon, main, primary, whateveryouwanttocall it timeline.
Our XCOM2 RP would take place in a secondary/alternate/splinter timeline. So all the characters (or versions thereof) of the characters we know and love from season 1 and 2 fought their own battles and concluded their struggles, whereas Season 3 may have a couple of alternate versions of characters but they are indeed different people.
PrismaCube
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Ah alright I get it. Ty
DarkGemini24601
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Weird question of the day, does anyone want to play the Chief of Maintenance aboard the Avenger?
(I'd ask if anyone wants to play the pilot but this seems to imply that we won't exactly... have one. Minor XCOM2 beginning spoilers?)
(I'd ask if anyone wants to play the pilot but this seems to imply that we won't exactly... have one. Minor XCOM2 beginning spoilers?)
My engineer will be more for weapon maintenance and computer work, so I'm out.
DarkGemini24601
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Hm, the story date is March 1st/2nd today. That means several things...
BMPixy
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That the Gregorian calendar is wrong and 2044 isn't a leap year?
PrismaCube
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Frostlich1228
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Anything that would stop someone from posting something?
DarkGemini24601
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Man, no one gets my jokes...
It's Sasha/Mikhail's birthday... slash the university of the start of the Ethereal Subjucation War...
Why the fuck is everyone so paranoid lately?
Frostlich1228
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I'm just asking so I don't accidentally post something on the date of an important mission, and I'm sorry I didn't get your joke, I'm bad with dates.
I got it, don't worry.
Frostlich1228
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Well, New post with Camellia and Brigid.
Btw, here's what I think Camellia's music sounds like, if you need any help imagining.
Btw, here's what I think Camellia's music sounds like, if you need any help imagining.
DarkGemini24601
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Wait, their birthday is on the 4th? What?
DarkGemini24601
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Filing that post away for later then, hm. Oh well, I'm cooking up something with someone that should be an entertaining read for everyone after the mission.
DarkGemini24601
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More X-COM 2 Musing
We're probably only going to start off with 1-2 characters (antagonists and essential staff not included) for the average person in XCOM2. The number will rise to three later on, and you cannnn kill off someone to get a new person in, though they won't come instantly.
We'll be starting off with very much a skeleton crew. Only a handful of dedicated scientists/engineers, a small maintenance team to keep the ship running and mann any weapons, our dropship pilot and Central Officer and Commander, and 10-20 soldiers. That means a smaller starting cast, and it also means we can't kill NPC soldiers willy nilly (we won't have many to start anyway). As we encounter local resistances they might be able to spare a person or two, but each individual loss means a LOT more than it did in Story of Defiance. We don't have a hundred fighters to spare. And this also means that some (though not all) of our soldier will be assisting the labs and engineering off-duty.
We're probably only going to start off with 1-2 characters (antagonists and essential staff not included) for the average person in XCOM2. The number will rise to three later on, and you cannnn kill off someone to get a new person in, though they won't come instantly.
We'll be starting off with very much a skeleton crew. Only a handful of dedicated scientists/engineers, a small maintenance team to keep the ship running and mann any weapons, our dropship pilot and Central Officer and Commander, and 10-20 soldiers. That means a smaller starting cast, and it also means we can't kill NPC soldiers willy nilly (we won't have many to start anyway). As we encounter local resistances they might be able to spare a person or two, but each individual loss means a LOT more than it did in Story of Defiance. We don't have a hundred fighters to spare. And this also means that some (though not all) of our soldier will be assisting the labs and engineering off-duty.