The Origin of the Kharaa
CobraCommander
Join Date: 2012-07-30 Member: 154472Members
Join Date: 2012-07-30 Member: 154472Members
<div class="IPBDescription">An Ancient Ruins Map!!</div>Besides trying to save the infested planets from being nuked by the Federation, we should add more back-story to the Origin of the Kharaa. By that I mean add an Ancient Ruins map for the fans! Who doesn't love Ancient origins of alien species? It adds more mystery and info to the aliens :D Or maybe it's predictable storyline, lmao, but I still want my Ancient Ruins map!!
Mission:
Explore landing site and, if possible, gain entry to the Ancient Ruins. Mission will be successful when all threats have been eliminated. Recovery of Ancient artifacts can then be initiated. To abort the mission, return Frontiersmen Operatives to transport vehicle and click on the 'Abort Mission' icon. :D
My ideal Ancient Ruins map would be deep in the jungles where nature has already taken over the ruins. Full of wildlife around the ruins, so you'll hear the sounds of strange animals while you're outside. When you get inside, you'll have your regular rooms with decades old res nodes and lamps fixed on the ceiling with it's own power node on the wall all installed by past explorers and pirates. The map will be huge. As big as Veil or bigger, just as long as it's bigger than the current NS2 maps. The walls will be full of ancient Hieroglyphs and the deeper you go you'll find some walls filled with depictions of the Kharaa!! What a discovery :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The Kharaa could of been an ancient experiment that went badly wrong and the very advanced ancients who unleashed hell went extinct. Other less advanced and primitive civilizations nearby were wiped out by the Kharaa. Then suddenly the Kharaa disappeared from existence. Maybe the Kharaa went further into the dark reaches of Space, where only our Space explorers have begun to explore. Maybe they returned with the Kharaa.
Mission:
Explore landing site and, if possible, gain entry to the Ancient Ruins. Mission will be successful when all threats have been eliminated. Recovery of Ancient artifacts can then be initiated. To abort the mission, return Frontiersmen Operatives to transport vehicle and click on the 'Abort Mission' icon. :D
My ideal Ancient Ruins map would be deep in the jungles where nature has already taken over the ruins. Full of wildlife around the ruins, so you'll hear the sounds of strange animals while you're outside. When you get inside, you'll have your regular rooms with decades old res nodes and lamps fixed on the ceiling with it's own power node on the wall all installed by past explorers and pirates. The map will be huge. As big as Veil or bigger, just as long as it's bigger than the current NS2 maps. The walls will be full of ancient Hieroglyphs and the deeper you go you'll find some walls filled with depictions of the Kharaa!! What a discovery :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
The Kharaa could of been an ancient experiment that went badly wrong and the very advanced ancients who unleashed hell went extinct. Other less advanced and primitive civilizations nearby were wiped out by the Kharaa. Then suddenly the Kharaa disappeared from existence. Maybe the Kharaa went further into the dark reaches of Space, where only our Space explorers have begun to explore. Maybe they returned with the Kharaa.
Comments
So you mean the story of Halo and the Flood? ;)
I think the idea of the Kharra evolving naturally suits them better. Perhaps a strain of bacteria that evolved into parasites, took over the natural wildlife; the skulks, lerks, onos, gorge and possibly many others which were then deemed unsuitable for combat. And then went on to consume the planet and spread out into the stratosphere and eventually to other worlds. This would be when they first encounter humans, thus adding the Fade to their ranks.
Can you imagine what an infested planet looks like? :s ...Well, probably like the end of Dead Space 1 actually.
Now here the funny thing... Humans did the exact same thing in this universe, and yet the two species couldn't be any more different. :)
Kharaa is the name for the animals infected by "Bacterium" so I doubt an ancient race would be writing Hieroglyphs about bacteria experimentation, just saying...
I guess the Kharaa could have invaded or whatever...maybe it's me getting a bit lore-centric :(
but ruins would be nice
Kharaa is the name for the animals infected by "Bacterium" so I doubt an ancient race would be writing Hieroglyphs about bacteria experimentation, just saying...
I guess the Kharaa could have invaded or whatever...maybe it's me getting a bit lore-centric :(
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You ever hear of the protheans?? :p
Because that would be pretty boring, half map pool should be alien maps where marines are the hostiles
I don't even know what an alien map would look like. Aliens are the bacterium fundamentally. They don't have a home. They just infest places.
Though it just occurred to me that such a place would have no powernodes or techpoints XD So I think the nearest we could get is a compound which was infested long ago and the initial structure is severely disfigured by green goop.
Why would humans attack aliens ? there might be many reasons, to wipe them out from the planet. maybe there is hostages / civilians whatever.
When you are at war you cant just cover and hide to only attack then they attack you, sometimes you need to go to the source. and soldiers arent really asked, hey do you want to go there, they are told by the big fat generals who are told by the paperpushing people in goverment.
Fighting in caves, under water caves, jungles. Deserts. Ice / snow mountains. i mean come on the possibilities are endless.
Fight in Area 51. because why not :P
Hell there may even be a third race which humans actually consider a bigger threat, which is another explanation for so little resources being thrown at the Frontiersmen.
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Caverns, underground, dark, moist, damp, musty, water, organic...these are the things I think about. Also, what do you mean how would they harvest nanites? How do the aliens harvest the bacterium? Through resource nodes! There would be resource nodes on the planet, they just wouldn't be metallic. They'd be organic.
Power though. That's a big one. Not sure how to explain power nodes on an alien planet. Maybe the marines know how to interact with some form of native kharaa life in order to provide power for their structures.
Or something.
Thanks for bringing that up. I love that map!!