CHAPTER 16
Edited by a person of many names Blood Raven AKA TimedRaven117. Go check out his story Mass Effect: X-Com Theory!
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Terran Federation News Network
The Bug War Over!(?)
The Federation council has declared the second bug war nearly concluded. The Arachnid home world has been destroyed, and evidence is coming to light that the Bug Empire has begun feral infighting, disintegrating into wild animals. The council feels they need to focus on other more pressing threats to the Terran people, such as the Petolemaic Hegemony (otherwise known as the Skinnies), the Fourth Terrorists, and the coven puppet Terran Republic.
These threats have been deemed ever more urgent, and with the Skinnie War heating up, they need to be the focus of the Terran war machine. But the Bugs are not gone, and this must be remembered. In the west, clean up operations are underway along the new border with the arachnid quarantine zone. Even feral bugs cannot be underestimated, and fortifications are being built along these border worlds that are meant to act as both forward warning relays, and defensive strong-points, meant to hold back the possible counter attack in case they ever reorganize. With the discovery of mass relays, the Fleet of the West is sending out scientific expeditions to map and chart these relays, and to expand beyond them if possible, in search of any more lurking threats.
Would you like to learn more? Continue.
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HEGEMONY WAR!
Our brave boys and girls in green and grey are pushing into the Hegemony, and already they're meeting resistance from the locals. From Svixsula to Uredennes, our forces are blasting the Skinnie ships to atoms. Clearing the way for our troopers to deliver swift justice to the Skinnie forces on the ground. With every battle, MilInt assembles more intelligence to use against our foe, it won't be long until we come upon the Skinnie's homeworld.
Would you like to learn more? Continue.
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BREAKING NEWS
We go live to field correspondent, Private Johanson, on the planet Seeden.
"Welcome to Seeden," the flemish reporter greeted as he motioned behind him to the expansive battlefield where both the Petolemaic and Terran forces were actively fighting, the planet's thick multicolored vegetation giving the impressions of a rave party, "the new battleground for the 74th Terran Army Group, a Skinnie world on the edges of their space, we have just landed on this planet last night, and met little resistance. Most of the clans here wish to avoid conflict or are in open support of the Federation, as a result local command has decided to make only surgical strikes against hostile clans, with the option to honorably surrender or leave the system." Suddenly in the background, screaming and shouts erupted. The camera remained fixed on the reporter as he looked on in alarm,
"They've breached the lines! Fall back, fall-" The sound of thunder cracks and lightning striking cut off the voice.
"What the hell?! Enemy Psykers!" The reporter yelled, dropping his microphone and moving for his sidearm before he was struck in the side by lightning. Falling against the rock he had been standing on, to the reporter's credit, he was still moving before he was shocked again from off camera. His body charred, his suit penetrated, and smoke rising from his body.
A clawed hand grabbed the camera, one of its fingers over the lense of the tripod mounted device, lifting it, one could see two Skinnies in heavy robes, one held a Skinnie shock staff, the other had nothing. The unarmed one spoke to the camera in the Terran tongue, "The Cabal of Seeden will not cower in fear from the Terran scum." With that message, the camera was thrown to the ground and then the signal abruptly cut as it was hit by lightning.
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Decision of Ixphasetus, Tesla'Vir relay 2657 GS December /30/2329 AD
General Septimus Oraka looked over the destroyed city with disgust, he had seen many awful things in his career, but this had to be up there. The numbers were still coming in but it looked like 90% of the population was gone if not more.
People were volunteering in droves, some simply to help rebuild the colony, others directly for the military, there were even some merc bands who were offering their services pro bono fishing for favors, and several Spectres had even arrived with their entourage. Though he was trying to keep them away from the Terrans. He found the Terrans were as mean as krogan when drunk, and it would do no one good for a Spectre to kill a Terran in a bar fight. To the Terrans, the Spectres had no form of diplomatic immunity, and would be more than fair to call for the Agent's head, or in proxy, the Council's heads.
This incident had inflamed every corner of Citadel space, and even the Asari Councilor was making remarks that were in favor of conflict. Something he thought he would never live to see. It would take time to rebuild, but it would happen.
Right now the Mobile Infantry Light Troopers, rear echelon soldiers essentially, were helping look through the ruins, using some modified animals called "Neo-Dogs" and plenty of normal "dogs", to help locate people trapped under buildings. Scarce as survivors were. A regiment of M8 Ape Marauders had been rerouted to the planet and were digging through the destroyed buildings and wreckage, with the occasional firefight heating everyone's blood.
The most shocking thing about the Light Troopers was they were armed and armored similar to Council soldiers, though lacking Kinetic Barriers and extensive armor, and they considered them rear echelon third rate combat troops, meant to exploit breakthroughs and hold static positions. There were several possible implications to this, none of them were exactly pleasing.
The Terrans had a very bad experience with the sudden creation of their Light Infantry, namely the biggest military defeat since they reached space, the First Battle of Klendathu. The Light Infantry were given similar levels of training as Turians soldiers, their rifles were on equal footing with the Taetrus assault rifle, and their armor was as effective as Turian light combat armor able to protect the wearer from shrapnel and minor wounds and keep them from dying if directly hit. While Kinetic Barriers were a game changer, he had seen demonstrations of the raw destructive power of the Morita rifles. And what they lacked in capacity, they more than made up for in killing power.
There could be a differing military doctrine regarding rear echelon soldiers. The Asari used them as logistics personnel only if they used them at all. Salarians rear echelon were strike teams dedicated solely to exfiltrating stuck commando teams and attack forces with overwhelming firepower. Turians's rear echelon were a mix of all of the above, with new recruits, command staff, and more all balled together.
He shook his head clear of it all, determined to ask the next Terran commander he saw the exact definition of their doctrine.
The Turian fleet was taking control of the relay on this side, and he had plans to send a probe to the other side to determine what defences, if any, were on the other side. If they had substantial defenses, they would at least have the location of the relay, which they could send to the Terran Federation who could attack from behind and allow for his fleet to catch them in a pincer. Opening up a new front against the Petolemaics.
The biggest problem on their side of the relay however was that the Skinnies fleet had not been caught here, estimations of at least a hundred ships had escaped to the wider galaxy, a lot of smaller raiding groups were showing up on the doorstep of nearby colonies and causing horrendous trouble, going so far as to orbitally bombard the colonies, wiping them out. And the worst part was they were completely independent from the relay networks and impossible to track, since they didn't use Mass Effect tech they could go far off the grid and avoid the Citadel ships, and find planets beyond known systems to establish bases, breeding grounds, factories, and more. It was a strategic nightmare of unimaginable proportions if they could not be caught, which the Terrans had assured they wouldn't be found in time, these being veteran raiders.
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Petolemaic Hegemony, Seeden 2658 GS January /10/2330 AD
Major Timothy Simpson moved silently through the sleepy Skinnie village, his zebra striped troopers securing the houses one by one. So far the operation had been clean with no fatalities on any side.
But he knew things could go bad as soon as they reached the Cabal's temple, that was why he was having the few Skinnies they came across stunned and tied up.
He thanked god that the Skinnies were more afraid of the cabal then they were of his men, otherwise he may have had to fight house by house. He still might if the one of the Skinnies got to the temple and warned them before his men had secured the village.
If FedNet had stopped the broadcast faster, they could have kept the entire issue underwraps and solved by a simple precision artillery strike. But because the reporter had used the live function, most of the southern colonies had seen his death before they could stop the transmission's broadcast. Now they had to take this planet by hand to assuage their fears, and that meant a lot of people, both Skinny and Terran, could die here.
Fighting a cabal was one of the worst jobs in the universes, thankfully most of these Cabals were peaceful monks who could see reason. But like any religion you got radicals. Cabals were groups of Skinnie psychics that linked their minds to attain greater power. It was unknown if they were the only Skinnie physics present, but what was known was they typically came from more barbaric Skinnie planets, which encouraged greater genetic diversity for some reason, and were often dominated by brutes and psychics. Combined they would control the Skinnie populations through intimidation and mind control.
The sickening things Cabal's like these did to their own subjects reminded him of the stories of WW2 Japan, too blinded by pride and arrogance to surrender unconditionally when it was their only option. But at least when the nuke was dropped the Japanese leaders were broken from their internal division, and surrendered when no negotiated peace would evidently come. But the Cabals considered their slaves like worthless meat, and would rather completely commit genocide against their own people than surrender.
"Sir we've reached the temple, there's no movement inside. What're your orders?" One of his platoon leaders asked over the radio.
Timothy sighed, thankful, and gave the best order he could, "Set every TOAD, Pee Wee Nuke, and Thermo charge you have on that building, when command gives the go word, we'll nuke it then turn the rubble to ash with artillery…."
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Petolemaic Hegemony, Republic of Ha'mon 2658 GS January /20/2330 AD
Sergeant Tereus Ursition, of the 43rd Turian Army Division looked out of the dropship bay door as it opened, expecting enemy fire the moment the doors opened, instead he saw most of the Skinnies running away or cowering in fear. A small percentage of Skinnies were coming out of elaborate homes with rifles, but they were not firing, and their lack of armor indicated they were likely militia or police.
Tereus had come to this world as part of a Federation Expedition Fleet, and for once it was not cleaning up pirate parties like his job back home at the Citadel. This world was on the other side of the relay that led directly to Citadel space, the defenses broken easily enough by the Federation. So once the relay was secured, they got fresh troops from the other side and now the Hierarchy could form their own front in Petolemaic space.
Tereus followed his orders, and deployed with his unit out of the landing craft, keeping a good formation and behind cover as they watched the Petolemaics, 'Why aren't they firing?' he wondered. Looking around at the richly decorated buildings that surrounded the park square they had landed in. If he had to guess, the wealth these people enjoyed came from the massive ship building facilities that nearly encircled the city. They had no beef with the Terrans, and likely rarely engaged in industries where slavery was useful to any degree.
As he watched the road, he saw a group of blue clad soldiers following another Skinnie with a ridiculously long cape and a funny looking hat pushing their way through the crowds. They came as close as they dared, which was pretty damn close, then the leader in the funny hat yelled from where he stood, "Greetings Aliens, I, the Grand Doge Al'Mon, of the Republic of Ha'mon, greet you and welcome you to our planet, as the great conquerors and warriors you undoubtedly are, and I would gladly speak with your leaders to negotiate a peaceful settlement with no bloodshed."
"This is well above my pay grade." Tereus muttered to himself, then yelled over to his CO, "What should we do?"
"I'm calling the Joint Commanders now, Grand Doge Al'Mon, if you would like to enter my command center I'm sure you would like to sit down while you speak with my leaders…."
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Petolemaic Hegemony, Carthago 2658 GS January /21/2330 AD
General James Projak was not a fool, he knew sooner or later the Federation would win the war with the bugs, and if the Petolemaics weren't ready, they would roll over the Hegemony like a steamroller on asphalt. He had thought he had a few more years to build up his forces, and maybe even take Lockhet from his former ruler's hand to fortify it beyond comprehension.
However time was not in his favor, the Terrans and the Turians were conquering their way across the Hegemony at alarming speed. Projak's initial estimate was at least 10 years for the Federation to put down the Hegemony as it stood when he entered the scene. It had been 8 months since the attack on Shanxi, bringing the Turians into the war, and the Hegemony was on the verge of collapse. Not to mention the unexpected and very sudden end to the Second Bug War had freed up millions of Terran soldiers to reorient to the Hegemony. It didn't help that the Hegemony was less than unified in its resolve, the outer worlds bordering the Federation would fight to the bitter end, but the worlds after that were soft, and had no real hate for the Federation, more than willing to negotiate a surrender with little bloodshed. He figured he had a month until they showed up on his doorstep, so he did the best thing for himself and his people.
"My lord, the first few ships have departed the system with your wife and servants heading for Punic." Ar'Ack said as he came into the Terran's office. The man staring at the collection of history books, tomes of poems, and novels.
"Thank you Ar'Ack, is your family off already?" Projak asked Ar'Ack, who had served him since he joined the Hegemony, and while Ar'Ack at first had been passive aggressive and secretly resentful, they had grown close over the nearly two years time.
"Not yet my lord-"
"Then you better see to it they are off immediately Ar'Ack." He ordered, giving him a stern glare so he would leave and attend his most important duty, "And while you are at it Ar'Ack, please try and evacuate as many of our soldiers and their families as possible. For those who cannot leave, give them the option of honorably discharging from service so they may stay behind."
Ar'Ack was speechless, he, like most, believed Projak to be little better than a tyrant, but the way he spoke of that was very touching to the Petolemaic, "Of course my lord… Thank you."
"Do not thank me Ar'Ack," Projak snapped, "a soldier cannot fight at his best if he cannot guarantee the safety of his loved ones." Ar'Ack saw sense in that, but he saw past the deflective answer, as Projak stared at his collection of books while he idly cleaned his glasses.
"Even so my lord... Thank you." Ar'Ack left the room. Once the Petolemaic was gone, Projak went back to packing his books and mementos. Running away may not be the most honorable thing to do, but it would do him the best in the long run. He was taking everything he could get his hands on, and heading for the other side of Hegemony, there he had two choices depending on how the war played out: Stay and rebuild there until he could retake the Hegemony for himself, or if the Terran Federation brought the boot down and attempted to conquer the entirety of the Hegemony, he would flee further into unexplored space.
Well unexplored by the Hegemony, he still had sources in the Federation and that they had been able to get him an updated map that included what the Citadel had given the Federation, which of course was nothing more than vague lines without detail, but it was enough to know about other empires of very disparate connected planets called the Terminus Systems and the independent Attican Traverse, not too far from where he was heading, only a thousand lightyears to the nearest active relay. He had no details about it beyond the fact it existed, however that meant he could cultivate allies if need be, or conquer those who proved weak. Either way he was going to give himself time and space to build up, and in ten years or so, who knew what he may be able to do.
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THS Kaphandaris Petolemaic Hegemony, Molchomor 2658 GS January /23/2330 AD
General Septimus Oraka watched the ship yards on the planet below burn. He wasn't sure about the deal the Citadel had made with the Petolemaics of Hammon, but he was glad the Skinnies of Molchomor had decided not to surrender. The leaders of Hammon had divulged a lot of information, telling them where some great targets were, like the shipyard below, but in exchange they wanted the shipyard destroyed. It was obvious why, Molchomor was Hammon's competition for Ship construction and personally he wasn't sure if he should have honored the deal, but the leaders of this planet had launched what fleet they had, and attacked his ships the moment they had arrived in system. Which meant a little retribution had to occur. Inadvertently fulfilling the deal...
Oraka looked away, realization dawning on him, disbelieving how he had so easily fell into the political trap.
TFS The Battles of Ypres Petolemaic Hegemony 2658 GS January /27/2330 AD
Captain Carmen Ibanez held onto her Chair as the Skinnie dreadnought fired another yellow volley of lasers at her own ship. Thankfully she had the best damn crew in the fleet and the dreadnought Ypres danced out of the way, her own crimson beams being fired from her fourteen forward facing cannons.
"Direct hit, damage negligible!" Her weapons officer called from her seat, cursing loudly into the speakers to the forward gunnery teams to work faster.
"Damn it, they must have ripped the plating from one of our ships, and back engineered it." Her sensor officer proposed. Hanging onto her seat for dear life, even though she had her seat straps tight, as the Gs of more hard turns pulled the crew throughout the ship.
"Than more reason to destroy that ship!" Carmon announced, looking at the battlefield before her. They had been hunting this ship for a week, it should have been no match for the Terran ship in a one on one, but this dreadnought was a top of the line Hegemony ship which meant that if it escaped, some day the Skinnie ships would be more of a match for the Federation. That was something no one wanted, but thankfully the shipyard this ship came from had been destroyed by the Turians, meaning the only place the Skinnies could get the tech from was the ship she was hunting.
"Ma'am! If they stay on this course they will be passing by this system's asteroid field, and will be far enough away from the system's sun to escape!" The Ship AI chimed in. "They'll be clear in 5 minutes!"
"Ypres, can you plot an in system jump to where the Skinnie ship will cross into the asteroid field?" An idea began to form in her mind. A desperate and almost insane idea, but her career was a large trail of them.
"Yes captain but if we do that they will most likely change course once we are no longer behind them, and start running dark to evade detection." Ypres warned, but did as told, having learned from reading Carmen's file that she was good on her word.
"They will be there, prepare the red hawk supply boats and outfit them with our spare nuclear missiles, I want them to start the minelaying protocol."
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TFS DR-243 Río de la Plata, John A. Warden class Dreadnought, orbit of Libertatem League home world 2658 GS February/20/2330 AD
Sky Marshal Riverfield looked down on the green blue ball the Libertatem called home, it had taken very little time at all to push this far into the Hegemony, and he was not sure if was just how bad the Skinnies military was, or how great the troopers of the Federation where, but either way their fleets were now in range of the Skinnie's central planets. They would soon be attacking the homeworld of the Skinnie who attacked Shanxi, and after that they were pushing for Petolemy herself.
If he had his way the Skinnies would never again be a threat to the Federation. But things weren't going his way. The Citadel had gotten fully involved with the war now, and they had acquired several planets in the Hegemony themselves, he didn't know what they would do with the planets and the Skinnie on them but he was sure they would not be as strict as he would like them to be, which meant he had to be more level handed with them or risk the Skinnie lodging complaints with the Citadel forces, which would result in the Citadel putting political pressure on the Federation council, and no matter how good a soldier he was, if he could not be a good administrator and politician he himself would be the first to turn in his rank.
The entire campaign was going better than expected despite the strategic setbacks that they had encountered, or more specifically their allies had encountered. High command, particularly the Sky Marshal Prime, was willing to experiment with faster tempoed operations, differing from her trademark "Creeping Advance" she most favored. This was a move that had many people in the Federation divided, since such reckless charges had resulted in the atrocity that was the First Battle of Klendathu, with nearly 300,000 dead in 3 hours, with the final tally being millions of dead Humans.
Richard was of the opinion that it was a good idea to start experimenting with the strategy, and they would get no better opportunity to practice in real life. With the Skinnie in full retreat, most of the Skinnies were reeling to get out of the way, and what players were still participating in the fight were staying in hopes to settle old scores like the shipyard incident the Cits got involved in last month.
If they kept up this process the war would be wrapped up in two mouths with the entire Hegemony under their boot, faster perhaps if the new strategy panned out. And then they could carve the Hegemony up with the Citadel - the similarity with the Century of Humiliation for China did not dawn on him - However, that left the Libertatem to deal with.
He had just personally returned with a meeting with the grasshoppers, and though he disliked bugs like all Fed officers, he was able to look past it to thank them for saving his life and that of the fleet at Cassandra. So far everything had gone well, they wanted out from vassalization, which was easy to do, but he needed to keep them under the nominal control of the Federation, or at least have more influence than the Citadel. That was the issue.
The Federation needed these grasshoppers to be firmly on their side, they had access to element zero and the tech base to use it, with technology even the Asari didn't have access too. Mostly in the civilian field since they had not developed their military in order to deprive the Skinnies of it. But Richard saw useful societal and military applications even in their civilian field, and he was eager to keep them on the side of the Federation for now, until he knew how far he could trust the Citadel. He had let the Libertatem know that they could easily corner the market in hovercraft and other gizmos that would help gain Terran consumer trust, get them on their feet economically, while also getting the Federation acquainted with element zero so they didn't have to depend on the Cits, something they did not need right now.
Thankfully the grasshoppers needed military support and the Feds were here first and with the most, he was sure he could convince them to ally with the Federation before the Cits got wind of the deal, and perhaps if he was lucky even induct them into the Federation as a probationary autonomous sector.
The war was all but won, but the peace was still in the air...
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Codex: Terran Federation
Military Intelligence (MilInt)
Terran Federation Military Intelligence, also known as MilInt, is the branch of SICON in charge of a variety of groups relating to special operations and strategic intelligence.
Special Services: In charge of the application of Psionic powers in the military.
General Strategic Command and Control: Responsible for the vast majority of intelligence operations. From the Skinnies to the Bugs, they ARE MilInt.
Special Operations and Forces: Internal diplomatic resources, black ops, special forces, and more, they are both the most visible and most secretive aspect of MilInt to the general public.
To be continued
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REVIEW RESPONSES:
F13D chapter 1
I would just like to state that modern militaries no longer use steel as the main armor component of their vehicles. While u placed steel on a naval ship, which is different, I feel that nanocomposites would work better.
L4: I think I left that vague as steel alloy but nonetheless I'm sure they use the most advanced methods they have to produce ships.
F13D chapter 9
Shoving grenades into mouths, ahh classics.
L4: without classics what's the point?
F13D chapter 11
Funny thing is that the Alliance cannon cruisers were 707 meters while Turian cruisers were simply 500 meters.
Ironic that they didn't bother with Destroyers, at least for the Alliance, that would hunt in packs with cruisers. I know that is a frigates job, however I believe they would better used as screen defense.
L4: agreed
Blood Raven: The unfortunate nature of people who don't understand military tactics and doctrines.
F13D chapter 14 .
Bioware was indeed heavily roman inspired to the point it got annoying. I get the Turians, but then the Collectors, Cerberus, and even the Blue Suns began having Roman ranks or names (like the Collector Praetorian) and it got annoying after a while.
It's like they just recycled their old names.
L4:Note to self come up with better ranks for Collectors, Cerberus and Blue Suns.
Second note collectors still have no idea but since Cerberus with be an offshoot of the Terran military rank from them will work, and blue suns may have some relation to the Black Cross thus there rank system
Blood Raven: Blue sons likely won't exist as a merc group. Maybe an illegal criminal enterprise, but the Federation won't tolerate Humans going out of the Federation expressly for mercenary purposes both for propaganda and intelligence security among other reasons.
ark chapter 21 .
I think that if the Terran share their FTL drive with the Citadel races it could allow them freedom from the relays they would be able to colonize worlds that exist outside the relays it could also support their war effort with an influx of new materials ps also good read nice job
L4: I have some sides story coming on that concept
Blood Raven: It's' unlikely they will do it in the time frame of the first book, maybe the second (With them forced to only buy from Terran Shipyards). Don't give up a perfectly good Monopoly if you're the monopoliers.
raw666 chapter 21
Well, things just got real and they're not going to get any better. I see a future where the Citadel is building up forces for the wars currently happening.
Also curious, while I don't see ezzo going to replace the fleet, I am curious with the advantages such as making armor thicker and giving the Terrans possibly longer range weapons, will we be seeing next generation ships coming into service with Element Zero cores to replace ships lost and expand the fleet?
L4: I recently had a delicious idea on this so though my answer once was no, it has changed.
Blood Raven: Variety is the spice of life, Eezo core ships can do insystem fTL jumps more easily, but Gravity drives (Federation drives) are more simple to fuel (If it is matter it will burn in a pinch), move just as fast if not faster in some cases, not reliant on relatively scarce element zero, and the best part, no need to discharge that pesky magnetic energy built up by using Eezo drives (In fact they may specifically put those on Terran ships to help power them and extend range by converting their static build up into usable energy) and Relays are less of a problem subsequently meaning fewer strategic chokepoints! The downsides of them are if you near a gravity source like say a sun or if you're really close, a planet, you can't engage in jumps and have to get away from the source of gravity. Relatively minor inconvenience really.
Admiral Saris chapter 21
I liked the first story. The second was kind of confusing, especially since I'm not very familiar with starship troopers. If six mercenaries was too few, why didn't he just refer the company to a larger Human mercenary company? If things are so bad surely they need numbers badly enough that some mercenary companies will ignore the fact that the group is alien?
Anyway, looking forward to the next book chapter.
L4: the existence of the Black Cross is why mercenary companies are not allowed to become a larger organization like we see in Citadel space, though companies like the Morita Arms Company do hire large quantities of mercenaries they are so tied with the government (Basically a subset of it) it's allowed.
BloodRaven: Have you seen REAL mercenaries? As in real life ones that are used by governments? They lack: Heavy weapons, anti tank weapons, armored vehicles, artillery, and aircraft. Now these are CITADEL mercenaries, glorified security guards, sure they may be able to take on a warlord's cronies who lack all of the above, but they are fighting a military force that puts the Terrans to shame, let alone the Turians who would have trouble fighting the Terrans themselves. Then to add to that, they are the ONLY Citadel Merc group who came to them for work so far. They can't be grouped up because there is no others to group them with, add in Terran Xenophobia and you have them being turned away for their own good.
Joe Fenton chapter 21
The biggest difference between the book and the (first) movie was not plot or equipment or anything similar, it was tone. They gave the movie to the guy who did Robocop, and while Robocop did excellent as a parody of a dystopian corporate-run future, that was almost the opposite of the tone of the book. The movie would have been far better if they had done it like "The Big Red One". The tone of that movie was almost perfect for Starship Troopers.
As it is, the movie is an abortion to (almost) everyone who likes the book.
L4: I understand but you can't deny the movie allowed people to find the book, and it also helped get the CGI show going which until that reboot or TV show appears is still the best interpretation of the book.
BloodRaven: The Movie was actually a really good subtle parody, and in that job it was good. But after that they should have licensed it as a war movie like Big Red One, since as a parody it did well, but as a series it was a bad idea to do.
erdervv chapter 21
There is more 40K than starship troopers here, one moment you are reading the fanfic and the next the Q&A starts and you find yourself in a /tg/ thread with Fabius Bile and Boreale dropping STEEL RHEN everywhere: now I know you guys are trustworthy people.
L4: haha I have no idea if that good but it sounds good
Blood Raven: Thank you, as Starship Troopers being the progenitor for 40k, we felt that a good fanfiction of this story will suit the world well.
The Darkness Writhes chapter 21
The planet they fought over was Dis I need to pay attention better that's gonna play a role later on unless I'm mistaken can't wait for more warhammer references and for the council to get a bug asteroid... that would be terrifying for them they have absolutely no defence for that. Dawn of war soulstorm was a good game (RANDOM). But back to starship troopers will the Human controlled bugs make an appearance. Another thing will the warrior bug on earth make an appearance, because at the end of starship troopers invasion a warrior bug apparently escaped the explosion and started to lay eggs? I read that on the wiki when I started browsing bug types.
L4: Everyone assumes it's Dis frankly I don't know I just wrote a story about a planet with two colonising power nearly coming to blows, never gave it a name, so it may be Dis it may not, depends how I feel. Your refering to the fourth movie, well I do say those event happen it in the same way I say the event of the homefront campaign from the CGI happen it happen just not earth. At this point in Starship troopers history, earth has never been invaded.
Blood Raven: Its not Dis. Dis was an airless rock, they fought over a garden world.
Wanderer101 chapter 21
Janane doesn't get out much does she? That kind of attitude will get her killed…
L4: *nods*
Blood Raven: She's an Asari with krogan muscle, that opens up a lot of doors in Citadel space, unfortunately she didn't realize that the Humans were paranoid bastards to put Batarians to shame, who would laugh at the power a Krogan can put out compared to one of their power suits, and have seen more war than the Turians.
Guest chapter 21
do you plan to add codex parts to this story almost all the mass effect crossovers have codex's
in them also very good story
L4: it an ongoing discussion, I used to put codex in my Starship troopers X stargate story, but I feel they made the chapter to long and people would not leave reviews and started to drop out of reading, this why that story currently dead in the water, so I now go by the school of thought that if you have something you want the reader to know make it a story that why the short story fleet numbers exist. (by the way if anyone want to request a short story on a subject, go right ahead, no guarantee I will do it but it does tell me what people want to know)
Blood Raven: Well this chapter had a codex entry, a very short one since we'll never be able to fit in what MilInt stands for otherwise.
Poliamida chapter 21
Very fun chapter, the scene with the Asari made me laugh, but damn that felt short.
Keep it up!
L4: sometimes it's better to be too short and read, than to long and not, though if you're putting 200 word chapters out you're doing writing wrong.
Blob chapter 20
40k reference Blood Ravens Librarian Isador Akios to Alpha Legion sorcerer SSSSSIIIINNNDDRRRIIIII Myr
Blood Raven: FINALLY! Yes, you get a whole tray of cookies!
L4:... warhammer 40k fans *sigh*... at least they're not telling my to genocide the Turians and harem the Asari anymore.