Commander's Log
Initializing Project
So, after a good year of warnings, reports, and sightings that were turned aside, dismissed as insane, the governments of the world came together to authorize The XCOM project.
And all it took was a God damned alien attack to do it.
I've got an HQ dug into a random mountainside in the UK, and 10 soldiers to work with. I had asked for an army, not a task force.
Most of them are recruits too. Fresh out of basic. Hell, I think a few of them have to remember which end the bullets come out of!
Either way, they're all we've got, and I intend to make them the fighting force I need to fight off these... whatever the hell they are.
Besides the ground troops, I've been given an entire support staff of engineers and scientists, as well as some central command operators.
What was the guy's name? Bradshaw? Yeah... that was it. He's my second in command, in charge of keeping his eyes and ears on the operations in the field. Seems like a good guy, but he's too damn tight spun. He needs to loosen up a bit or we're gonna have a few problems.
Dr. Shen is in charge of Engineering. He's friendly enough, and extremely Technical. I'll have to remember not to talk shop with him, otherwise I'll have my ear gnawed off.
Dr. Vahlen is the real winner of the three. In charge of R'n'D, she's one of the smartest people I've met, and she knows it. It was her findings that sparked the beginnings of the XCOM project. I know she's looking forward to seeing aliens, and then immediately cutting them open to see what makes them tick. The more I think about it, the more terrifying she is. Should think about sending her in the field a few times... might scare the bastards right back to whatever black hole they crawled out of.
Jesus... aliens invading Earth...
Humans always did wonder if there was intelligent life out there. Turns out there was.
It just hates us.
This is the Commander, Signing off.