When You Fight...
ZiGGY
Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members
Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members
<div class="IPBDescription">where are you fighting?</div> Is it a frontiersman battle simulation? A real battle? Or are you just sitting at your computer enjoying one of the best damn games in a long time? Just wondering how far the game bg is taken into consideration when playing.
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on that note: Tabris post count +1
Just a suggestion... not a commandment from god....
He is at the game developers conference...
The TSA are basically the galactic peace keeping force - a small but powerful "buttock-prodding" agency intended to keep evil corporations and tyrants in line. However, when the Kharaa were discovered in a certain arm of the galaxy, since they were infesting all kinds of corporate stuff and various governments' stuff, and since the people to whom the stuff belonged were unable to deal with the threat alone and were unwilling to let anyone else get their grubby mits on their property the task fell to the TSA. This is because the TSA are universally despised by the evil guys, and are known to have no special interest in the evil guys' stuff.
Anywho, the TSA divisioned a special section called the Frontiersmen, who's task it is is to dock with infested ships\space stations and clean out the infestation. These are the SAS of the marine world; the elite, the absolute best humanity has to offer... ("COMM! hMG now!! omg n000b!".... God help us!)
So yeah, it's not a drill. These are space stations and spacecraft belonging to various organisations which require some special attention from everyone's favourite Prodders of Buttock. As far as I know, anyway.
yeah, but im just glad to have maps lol <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
my mouse has died... the shops dont open for another 8 hours <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
ok, so caged and nothing
c:\downloads\pr0n...
no wait wrong direct
c:\games\halflife\sierra\ns\map DAZAAAAAAA!!!!!
There seemed to be only a couple of options: declare a quarantine on the whole of the Arm, destroy anything that tried to come out, and call all the ships and stations and people in it a loss; or a protracted and expensive ship-by-ship, station-by-station campaign that looked as if it could not be won. Ever cost conscious, the corporations and governments favored the former. To the TSA, with its long history of standing up against these same institutions on human rights and expansionist issues, abandoning those people and the entire sector was intolerable. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
From the <a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/world_marine1.html' target='_blank'><i>TechTrope</i> article</a>, found in the World section of the NS website.
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The Kharaa began appearing on ships and bases throughout the Ariadne Arm a decade ago, slaughtering everyone on board. In almost every case the ship then wandered off course, and either destroyed itself by slipping into some gravity well (usually a planet or sun), or was tracked down and destroyed by the owners of the craft. Life support on bases and ships usually fails soon after the Kharaa take over, so even without military response, they don't last very long. But without more detailed knowledge about them, we will never learn how to prevent them from appearing on our ships in the first place. Every successful team returns with valuable information. And our fragile economy cannot afford to loose all those ships and bases. There is also the danger that a fallen ship will automatically dock at a major city-base, or land on an Earth-compatible planet. Lord help us if this happens – we have seen what they do with the limited resources on ships … and can only imagine an entire planet of Kharaa. Thankfully, the Ariadne Arm is a frontier sector, and there are few large habitations. So far, there have been no incidents involving more than a crew of civilians.
The terminology for the aliens is still being developed. At the moment, we refer to the aliens, and their whole system of bacteria, lifeforms and growths, as the "Kharaa"; and the pre hive-stage presence as the "bacterium". The first TSA encounter with the aliens occurred aboard the Mongol's Sanjii mining facility. The tattered voice comm logs they extracted from the command network had one word that stood out, used again and again – "Kharaa!" "Kharaa!" Later, it was understood that this means "Watch out!" in Mongolian. By then, it had stuck.
The relatively obscure field of exo-biology has flourished since the beginning of the conflict, attracting many of the best and brightest from biology, chemistry and even paleontology and sociology. And while we have made huge strides (as you will read in the pages to follow), we are a long way off from a true understanding of these prolific and dangerous creatures. The information in this manual is that small amount we are confident enough in to tell you as you head in to combat. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
From the <a href='http://www.natural-selection.org/manual_launch.html' target='_blank'>TSA Frontiersmen Manual</a>.
Pot. Kettle. Black. Goodnight.