Zoombie just take what teh dominant goverment was in that area and that will give u and idea of how the faction is run.
As to connecting it more to the sides tech, the URC, with access to the advanced weapons technology, concentrates on mechs capable of traversing most battlefields with ease (with such varied terrain under their control it makes sense) along with plasma weaponry. GD follows its old world roots like Russia with a reliance on good old shells and bullets, and the standard tank chassis which handles well over the taiga climate that prevails in its dominion. The NI with access to high-end components from the Europeans and the fact that their territory is cut in half by seas, have opted for hovercraft. These units coupled with prototype paralyzing weaons allow them to easily protect their borders.
NOTE: bold items are subject to change at Fang's discretion
Here are some pics from last nights testing game:
GD tanks move into to assault a URC base.
A light gunship takes off from a URC airbase.
The GD tanks take out a factory as lvl 2 URC arty looks on.
A GD air drop over takes URC defenses.
Combined GD and URC artillery take down the final remnants of a URC base.
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Tim Blokdijk
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Was decent effort their flint, but not exactly the angle I was looking for, close but not quite it.....
I was thinking more along the lines of something loosely like this..
Beginnings:
Most of the 2nd Millennium was peaceful. Although tensions remained in volatile areas such as the Middle East and in other 3rd world countries, relations amongst the major world countries remained peaceful. In 2560 technological breakthroughs in space technology and polymers gave rise to the possibility of more reasonable space travel and permanent settlement. The major nations at, China, the US, Most of the European Union, as well as Russia, and Australia, Japan, etc... All put forth money and resources as well as personal for a global space program whose first step was the establishment of a permanent base on the moon and a small orbital city to relay materials between the earth and the moon base. The ultimate goal was eventual colonization and preliminary Terri forming of Mars. Although the program did not go without its problems and arguments amongst the participants eventually the 2 early goals were accomplished by early 2640. The primary motivator for this new space program was the final realization that new resources would have to be found as the earth would not support such a world economy indefinitely. At first cooperation amongst the participating nations was high. This of course would change with the discovery of a series of alien space ship wrecks on a, until recently unexplored portion of the moon. Although previous moon landings and probes had completely missed these wrecks the permanent base on the moon allowed more extensive exploration. The discovery of the wrecked alien space craft caused massive speculation amongst the world populous and within a few decades new breakthroughs in all fields of science were flowing from the moon down to the earth. These breakthroughs in light weight materials, magnetic repulsion, fusion, robotics, and computing allowed much for an expedition to mars to be mounted much earlier than was previously thought.
The Fall:
The technology gained from the alien wrecks had allowed the participating nations to leap ahead greatly in technology, however these advances were slow to trickle down to other 3rd world nations who had not participated in the space program. As outrage against this perceived lack of technology sharing began to mount throughout the smaller nations mounting terrorism began to ignite world wide. The new technologies rapidly shifted the economy and almost overnight began to create economic rifts between the 1st world nations and those less well off. Also as breakthroughs based on the Alien technology already brought to earth took off sharing amongst event he participating nations began to dwindle. It was not long before the alien technology was turned towards making weapons. Tensions began to rise in the face of a mounting arms race and increased global terrorism by national groups who felt as though they were being left out to dry in this new technology glut. All this was slow to trickle up to the moon base and even slower to reach the budding colony on mars. In 2780 the tensions reached a boiling point, outright war broke out across the globe as the distrust built up by an alien technology fueled arms race reached a breaking point. This conflict came to be known as the first Global War.
The Global War:
Unlike the previous world wars of the 21st century this war was not fought between 2 sides but between many and it truly spanned the entire globe. As third world nations fought 1st world nations using guerilla tactics and Superpowers vied with one another to gain whatever technology their opponent had. No one dared initially to use nukes however for fear of the repercussions, however as the war dragged on and economies began to buckle, governments became desperate to end the struggle. The balance however would tilt shortly, in 2845 a militant group working out of the Middle East region was able to smuggle several nukes of various types into most of the world├óÔé¼Ôäós major powers. The series of nuclear blasts rocked the world. Major cities on several continents were vaporized and the Major Powers were sent over the edge. The devastation that followed drown the world in anarchy and chaos, Governments across the globe collapsed. Modern civilization teetered on the edge for several years. It was not till 70 years after the end of the global holocaust that major nation groups began to reform in any part of the world.
Rise of the URC:
Early in 2950 parts of North America spanning into what was formerly Canada, the US, and Central America formed a unified government. The movement to unify was spurred on by a surviving labor union of robotics workers who were able to provide leadership for the region. As they reestablished contact with other groups of people a new country began to form. This country was termed the United Robotics Confederation in part as a throwback to the United States and to comorate its founders. The URC was composed of a diverse group of people, the diverse mix of the Americas as well as refugees from Japan which had been annihilated in the global war. Having the technology base of North America and Japan both who had been major participants in the coalition that discovered the Alien technology, the URC was rapidly able to reestablish its infrastructure. Although the population of North America was devastated the advanced robotics the URC was able to salvage allowed it to rebuild its economy. Soon everything that could be was automated including aspects of the government. It was thought that with computers assisting the government the chance of paranoid thinking would be reduced and possible future wars would be prevented. As time progressed, government officials became even more reliant on their computer advisors to do the brunt of the administrating process. URC soon became almost completely run by computers its citizens living in relative leisure whilst robots did most of the work. The military was no exception; the lack of population in the URC meant that development of independent fighting Robot AI's was a must. Combined with magnetic repulsion technology bipedal robot chassis were able to be designed to carry reasonable weapon systems. These robots were designed to replace infantry and tanks and maintain a high level of agility. It became URC doctrine to have well rounded units that could function in any terrain and with this in mind tracked vehicles were forgone in all aspects. To further support their robot units advanced VTOL aircraft were designed and put into production. URC also sought a way to improve its battlefield survivability and thus implemented many ways of jamming or countering enemy intelligence in the field. This means the URC makes use of many cloaked and stealth units.
The Global Dynasty:
Rest is pending..
I was thinking more along the lines of something loosely like this..
Beginnings:
Most of the 2nd Millennium was peaceful. Although tensions remained in volatile areas such as the Middle East and in other 3rd world countries, relations amongst the major world countries remained peaceful. In 2560 technological breakthroughs in space technology and polymers gave rise to the possibility of more reasonable space travel and permanent settlement. The major nations at, China, the US, Most of the European Union, as well as Russia, and Australia, Japan, etc... All put forth money and resources as well as personal for a global space program whose first step was the establishment of a permanent base on the moon and a small orbital city to relay materials between the earth and the moon base. The ultimate goal was eventual colonization and preliminary Terri forming of Mars. Although the program did not go without its problems and arguments amongst the participants eventually the 2 early goals were accomplished by early 2640. The primary motivator for this new space program was the final realization that new resources would have to be found as the earth would not support such a world economy indefinitely. At first cooperation amongst the participating nations was high. This of course would change with the discovery of a series of alien space ship wrecks on a, until recently unexplored portion of the moon. Although previous moon landings and probes had completely missed these wrecks the permanent base on the moon allowed more extensive exploration. The discovery of the wrecked alien space craft caused massive speculation amongst the world populous and within a few decades new breakthroughs in all fields of science were flowing from the moon down to the earth. These breakthroughs in light weight materials, magnetic repulsion, fusion, robotics, and computing allowed much for an expedition to mars to be mounted much earlier than was previously thought.
The Fall:
The technology gained from the alien wrecks had allowed the participating nations to leap ahead greatly in technology, however these advances were slow to trickle down to other 3rd world nations who had not participated in the space program. As outrage against this perceived lack of technology sharing began to mount throughout the smaller nations mounting terrorism began to ignite world wide. The new technologies rapidly shifted the economy and almost overnight began to create economic rifts between the 1st world nations and those less well off. Also as breakthroughs based on the Alien technology already brought to earth took off sharing amongst event he participating nations began to dwindle. It was not long before the alien technology was turned towards making weapons. Tensions began to rise in the face of a mounting arms race and increased global terrorism by national groups who felt as though they were being left out to dry in this new technology glut. All this was slow to trickle up to the moon base and even slower to reach the budding colony on mars. In 2780 the tensions reached a boiling point, outright war broke out across the globe as the distrust built up by an alien technology fueled arms race reached a breaking point. This conflict came to be known as the first Global War.
The Global War:
Unlike the previous world wars of the 21st century this war was not fought between 2 sides but between many and it truly spanned the entire globe. As third world nations fought 1st world nations using guerilla tactics and Superpowers vied with one another to gain whatever technology their opponent had. No one dared initially to use nukes however for fear of the repercussions, however as the war dragged on and economies began to buckle, governments became desperate to end the struggle. The balance however would tilt shortly, in 2845 a militant group working out of the Middle East region was able to smuggle several nukes of various types into most of the world├óÔé¼Ôäós major powers. The series of nuclear blasts rocked the world. Major cities on several continents were vaporized and the Major Powers were sent over the edge. The devastation that followed drown the world in anarchy and chaos, Governments across the globe collapsed. Modern civilization teetered on the edge for several years. It was not till 70 years after the end of the global holocaust that major nation groups began to reform in any part of the world.
Rise of the URC:
Early in 2950 parts of North America spanning into what was formerly Canada, the US, and Central America formed a unified government. The movement to unify was spurred on by a surviving labor union of robotics workers who were able to provide leadership for the region. As they reestablished contact with other groups of people a new country began to form. This country was termed the United Robotics Confederation in part as a throwback to the United States and to comorate its founders. The URC was composed of a diverse group of people, the diverse mix of the Americas as well as refugees from Japan which had been annihilated in the global war. Having the technology base of North America and Japan both who had been major participants in the coalition that discovered the Alien technology, the URC was rapidly able to reestablish its infrastructure. Although the population of North America was devastated the advanced robotics the URC was able to salvage allowed it to rebuild its economy. Soon everything that could be was automated including aspects of the government. It was thought that with computers assisting the government the chance of paranoid thinking would be reduced and possible future wars would be prevented. As time progressed, government officials became even more reliant on their computer advisors to do the brunt of the administrating process. URC soon became almost completely run by computers its citizens living in relative leisure whilst robots did most of the work. The military was no exception; the lack of population in the URC meant that development of independent fighting Robot AI's was a must. Combined with magnetic repulsion technology bipedal robot chassis were able to be designed to carry reasonable weapon systems. These robots were designed to replace infantry and tanks and maintain a high level of agility. It became URC doctrine to have well rounded units that could function in any terrain and with this in mind tracked vehicles were forgone in all aspects. To further support their robot units advanced VTOL aircraft were designed and put into production. URC also sought a way to improve its battlefield survivability and thus implemented many ways of jamming or countering enemy intelligence in the field. This means the URC makes use of many cloaked and stealth units.
The Global Dynasty:
Rest is pending..
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I think prefer flints and the time scale in fangs is about 10 times too large, instead of going to live on the moon in 600 years it's more likely to be about 50, one of the main reasons i liked fangs was that it is one of the only stories for a game set in the future that had a timeline that seemed realistic.
Bah, we still don't have flying cars.Flare wrote:I think prefer flints and the time scale in fangs is about 10 times too large, instead of going to live on the moon in 600 years it's more likely to be about 50, one of the main reasons i liked fangs was that it is one of the only stories for a game set in the future that had a timeline that seemed realistic.
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GrOuNd_ZeRo
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Flint's story is completely unrealistic in the timeframe sense, the technology is nothing like technology today or technology predicted, infact in 2030 there will be many military units we know today that are still in use, including the F-22, B-52 and probably some other well known types of equipment, robots, esspecially in the united states will not be a very likely thing to happen ANYTIME soon.
Only Japan has ambitions for mech like robots but in countries like the US it will not be accepted and definitly will be no use for it.
2500 is also VERY unrealistic, we will no longer use hovercraft, tracked vehicles or any conventional aircraft, super-advanced technology so many centuries ahead will make this planet unrecognizable and we can't even remotely can imagine what the world will be like.
A more realistic time frame would be in the 2100's, we will more than likely acheive FTL (fast than light) travel, we will still use some common military vehicle configurations but they will be mainly comprised of hover/anti-gravity technology, this would be a superior alternative to giant robots and most countries will probably adapt this principle.
Aircraft will be largely VTOL space capable vehicles, weapons will comprise largely out of railguns/coilguns/gauss guns, EMP weapons, lasers will likely be exclusively for anti-missile defense, anti-infantry and anti-aircraft type weapons, a laser simply can't penetrate armor, esspecially not if it's comprised of advanced nano-tube technology.
Infantry units will likely have full body armor suits or powered exo-skelletons so in this extend mechs will have some future but nothing like gigantic robots.
Firearms will likely still be around and still very much in the same capabilities of the current firearms, the only forseeable changes will be in the the way ammunition is ignited (likely electronically like metal-storm) the type of powder (likely a nano-primer/proppellant that requirs smaller or no cases).
Missile technology will take large strides forward, advanced AI technology will likely control small compact and very very manauverable missiles that likely can adjust their speed and heading at will.
Aircraft will likely be piloted by AI technology and/or remote pilots, but some piloted aircraft should still be around when manned missions are desired.
I'm sorry for the criticism, but I personally am very obsessed with realism, and the future of warfare and be quite accurately be predicted until 2050, this is when Future Combat Systems, the B-52 and some other things will be phased out for something unforseen, quite likely revolutionary technology.
I hope this helps...
Only Japan has ambitions for mech like robots but in countries like the US it will not be accepted and definitly will be no use for it.
2500 is also VERY unrealistic, we will no longer use hovercraft, tracked vehicles or any conventional aircraft, super-advanced technology so many centuries ahead will make this planet unrecognizable and we can't even remotely can imagine what the world will be like.
A more realistic time frame would be in the 2100's, we will more than likely acheive FTL (fast than light) travel, we will still use some common military vehicle configurations but they will be mainly comprised of hover/anti-gravity technology, this would be a superior alternative to giant robots and most countries will probably adapt this principle.
Aircraft will be largely VTOL space capable vehicles, weapons will comprise largely out of railguns/coilguns/gauss guns, EMP weapons, lasers will likely be exclusively for anti-missile defense, anti-infantry and anti-aircraft type weapons, a laser simply can't penetrate armor, esspecially not if it's comprised of advanced nano-tube technology.
Infantry units will likely have full body armor suits or powered exo-skelletons so in this extend mechs will have some future but nothing like gigantic robots.
Firearms will likely still be around and still very much in the same capabilities of the current firearms, the only forseeable changes will be in the the way ammunition is ignited (likely electronically like metal-storm) the type of powder (likely a nano-primer/proppellant that requirs smaller or no cases).
Missile technology will take large strides forward, advanced AI technology will likely control small compact and very very manauverable missiles that likely can adjust their speed and heading at will.
Aircraft will likely be piloted by AI technology and/or remote pilots, but some piloted aircraft should still be around when manned missions are desired.
I'm sorry for the criticism, but I personally am very obsessed with realism, and the future of warfare and be quite accurately be predicted until 2050, this is when Future Combat Systems, the B-52 and some other things will be phased out for something unforseen, quite likely revolutionary technology.
I hope this helps...
I can assume whatever time frame I want.. for several reasons.. 1 this is fiction... 2 you are assuming a constant increase in technology where it currently is... 3. I think assuming we will have FTL travel in the next 90 some years as being ludicrous... 4. If youll note there is a massive world war thus causing a set back in technology and infrastructure...
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ITS MY MOD I CAN DO WHAT I WANT!!!
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1 and 3 are very strong points. 2 is a little feeble, and for 4 I must remind you that war causes increased advancement in military technology at the cost of the private sector.Fanger wrote:I can assume whatever time frame I want.. for several reasons.. 1 this is fiction... 2 you are assuming a constant increase in technology where it currently is... 3. I think assuming we will have FTL travel in the next 90 some years as being ludicrous... 4. If youll note there is a massive world war thus causing a set back in technology and infrastructure...
However, it is your mod, so it is your story.
ground zero, it is a game.
faster then light travel by 2100 is unlikely. speed to mass changes exponentially.
obsessed over realism my ass. Dude, E&E can have ray guns that can go- wah-wah-wah like an old sci-fi film..
if you were really obsessed with reality then do not even begin to specify crap. Also if we had nano-tech.... we can could make a disintegration spray gun.... stupidity argh. it'd be like super napalm.
Look I don't care about disk looking aircraft... look don't argue realism in futuristic crap.
faster then light travel by 2100 is unlikely. speed to mass changes exponentially.
obsessed over realism my ass. Dude, E&E can have ray guns that can go- wah-wah-wah like an old sci-fi film..if you were really obsessed with reality then do not even begin to specify crap. Also if we had nano-tech.... we can could make a disintegration spray gun.... stupidity argh. it'd be like super napalm.
Look I don't care about disk looking aircraft... look don't argue realism in futuristic crap.
REAL BACKSTORY
gd commander
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, before the dawn of man as we knew him, there was Sir Santa of Claus, an ape-like creature making crude and pointless toys out of dinobones and his own waste, hurling them at chimp-like creatures with crinkled hands regardless of how they behaved the previous year. These so-called "toys" were buried as witches, and defecated upon, and hurled at predators when wakened by the searing grunts of children. It wasn't a holly jolly Christmas that year. For many were killed.
santa clause
A war-like race of elves from the Red Planet landed on the ice-encased Earth, and they were immediately enslaved by the unevolved Santa Ape to make his confused toys using galactic elfin technology. Toys were made into recognizable shapes and given names like "train," but these toys were also thrown at predators and defecated upon because they were so stupid. Christmas still sucked, in a big way.
THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO the ice had made the globe invariable. Santa Ape did not know where the North Pole was. How could he? He was born before science existed. So he arbitrarily placed his workshop RIGHT HERE, long before they unionized, and Christmas was celebrated at each full Moon in front of a great red ape--
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Trust me, I know my stuff, one of my past times is MILITARY ANALYSIS.
Anyway, THESE WERE JUST SUGGESTIONS, you can flame me all you want, I don't care, I was just giving my 2 cents and aparently that's not good enough? the hell...
Anyway, you can do what you want, I don't deal with people that power trip, my feedback aparently isn't welcome here...
Oh and:
ITS MY MOD I CAN DO WHAT I WANT!!!
Priceless
And...And...better yet, I said sorry in advance, AND I STILL GET FLAMED!
Another edit here, would you like me to come with supporting links to what I base my assumptions on? don't make me...
Anyway, THESE WERE JUST SUGGESTIONS, you can flame me all you want, I don't care, I was just giving my 2 cents and aparently that's not good enough? the hell...
Anyway, you can do what you want, I don't deal with people that power trip, my feedback aparently isn't welcome here...
Oh and:
ITS MY MOD I CAN DO WHAT I WANT!!!
Priceless
And...And...better yet, I said sorry in advance, AND I STILL GET FLAMED!
Another edit here, would you like me to come with supporting links to what I base my assumptions on? don't make me...