The scenario would be divided on arc:
- arc 1: the dark side of our world: introduction of the main character and a small introduction of the enemy
- arc 2: the "special activity brigade" (SAB) : introduction of some secondary character (mainly american but some may be african), first real battle between armies equiped with conventional weapon and an army equiped with weapon and system that could have been mounted on a spaceship.
- arc 3: the beginning of the apocalypse: introduction to other secondary character(mostly european, russian and chineese), death of all people with leading standing, the global commerce go to a full halt and pillager are roaming the land nearly unopposed.
the main character try to understand the situation and help whoever is in need of a soldier, while moving (from europa) toward the USA (where he hope that he could meet some friends).
he would encounter some psychic soldier along the way. (in my story, everyone got some psychic power within himself, but those power could easily kill the owner if badly used, so the owner "survival instinct" shut those psychical power off until you got yourself strong enough to be able to use them without harm. such constraint make it already really hard to find people that have access to their psychical power but the psychical power also varies with the character experience so even if someone got access to his psychical power they would need to find out what kind of power they have before being able to simply detect that they have such kind of power and start training themselve in using it.)
- arc 4: the second civil war (it's not north vs south this time but east vs west)
arriving in the USA, the main character found a striking difference with the rest of the world. there is a little number of pillager like the european "noländer" and they are barely organised. the government wasnt fully destroyed and the military law is enforced. is the usa really good or is the us government working with the "noländer"? is a question the main character could ask himself, especially after defeating some pillagers with the small amount of mercenaries that follow him.
the us army could have been able to defeat them easily, why didnt they? the answer is that the government must be using the situation to create a politic of terror and pass some laws against the freedom of the citizen.
therefore the main character end up being one of the main leader in a war against a corrupted US government (infiltrated by some enemies of earth).
the two main battle would be:
- battle of new york : with the use of a shield/cloaking generator to reduce the visibility on the whole battlefield. they use the cloaking capacity of the device, it apply some energy in the area that shift light toward the infrared, making it rapidly invisible with human eyes. (without infrared sensor the view range would be ranging between 75 - 25 meter depending on how far you are from the generator.when using infrared googles you can extend that view range but you would still have limited perception of the surrounding. that generator would later be mounted on the spaceship "shadow", a kind of enhanced aircraft carrier.)
- the battle of the south-west (Los Angeles and San Francisco): also called the battle of the endless night, as the battle field would be englobed in a space-time bubble (normally used for hyperspace travel but could be tweaked as a defense system), for people outside the dome, the time run normally (and they experience only one night) but for people inside it, one second outside could last 10 to 20 second inside (so that night may last several days). as there is no sun to warm things up, the temperature would rapidly fall after a few days (eventhought it's still night) giving huge advantage to thermal imagery user. In this battle the war drones "dark angels" (used by the enemy) would go preying on any heat sources, starting a huge oneside massacre (as the drone are painted black and therefore hard to see but use thermal imagery)
a side battle, that is worth mentionning is the grand canyon air battle (or battle at "Black hole" headquarter.) black Hole is an elite army working with the government and at that time the last army capable of winning the civil war for the government. it's headquarter is also an industrial complex, where they were building their last weapon (a kind of wunderwaffe) a armored airship that would be used as mobile command center, anti-air platform and bombardment platform. that airship is named "air forteress" like the project that allow it to be (because it got attacked before even recieving his proper name), it's considered as the first spaceship prototype.
that battle is worth mentionning because it would be a battle between propeler planes and early fighter jet (taken from the Seatle flight museum), the aegis (a plane equiped with the cloaking device that was used at NY but this time they manage to make it only jamm targetting system), some transport planes (to carry the infantry that shall attack the base) against a few modern fighter jet and the "air forteress" (they were unaware of it's presence; they knew that black hole got some way to turn the tide of the war because they intercepted a russian message talking about it with code name but didnt knew exactly what it is nor how effective it could be. in that battle it would appear that the russian were ready to take the airship for many days but, as the engine take time to start, they simply couldn't escape with it as the american would have all the time they need to stop them so they leaked information about the base so they can steal the airship during the battle betwen the two american side.)
finally we are now on the part with some data that could of some use for the game, the decks of the "air forteress":
Level 2 : landing deck (for VTOL and some STOL only), missile launcher (for rear protection), upward sensors Level 1: long range artillery : 3 rail-gun for kinetic damage (30° upward angle) and 4 laser for thermal damage( 45° or 60° upward angle), some of the living quarters, front and rear thruster. Level 0 : « lifter section » + close range AA system (135° coverage) mounted around the lifter (4 around each lifter: 2 on the upper part and 2 on the lower part). Level 0 “ spinal section” : (from front to rear) Missile launcher, “air” CIC ,front ammo storage,fuel tanks, fusion reactor,fuel tanks,”ground”CIC, rear ammo storage,engine and booster.
Level -1: long range artillery on each (similar to level 1), some of the living quarters, front and rear thruster Level -2: bombardment artillery (capable of high altitude bombing) and downward sensors.
NB in the end, both side ended the war after defeating the one that tried to conquer the united state.
arc 5: two conflict at once.
even if the war ended without the defeat of one side, tension and hate was still brewing so both armie tried to find ways to avoid unnecessary tensions (the best way found was to point the attention outside the border.
as there has been no news about south america since the apocalypse, the "black hole" army pointed it attention to the south.
the main character and the soldier that are loyal to him pointed their attention toward russia as they have friend in that direction but also because the "air forteress" has been stolen by the russian.
while "black hole" end up in a long diplomatic war with the south, the main character would have to face the "western russia" 's army during the battle of the "ice bridge" (using cooling system to keep the behring pass frozen, the russian manage to allow a big army to cross it and invade Alaska, like the persian lining up their boats to build a pontoon bridge and cross the Dardanelles more efficiently.)
the "ice bridge" battle lead to the unclosure of the "leviathans" (three massive submarines with unique capabilities, each having spaceship-like hull and equipment but still inability to go to space. they dont have lifters so they can't go out of the water but they are air- and water-tight (they can be considered as the second generation of "space ship prototype", as it gives good experience in piloting spaceship.)
the leviathan: (whale, galleon and ballista)
- "whale" : landing submarine with a large "tardis-like" cargobay at his front. it got caterpillar to help him get on or out of the beach easily. (he use sound modulation to disguise his engine sound as the sound of a whale. the captain of this ship, whoever he may be, is refered with the code name Jonas.)
- "Galleon" : this submarine is equiped with a great set of lateral missile launcher. it's main armament is the "dart" (defensive array rocket-torpedoes), small rocket like torpedoes that have average penetration, short range but high maneuvrability and an engine that can be used in air or under-water giving it the capacity to be used against ship, submarine and planes. (and later on low altitude spaceship).
- "Ballista" : this submarine is an aircraft carrier. it use the "archimedes forces" to catapult it's plane out of the water. the plane themselves use small "warp 1" engine. (warp 1 engine, or first generation warp, is an extraterestrial engine that compress spacetime in front of the ship, channel it through the engine and then let it expand to it's original size. it look like a jet engine that require energy in stead of kerozen. however, the vehicle using it need to be moving to allow that engine to function so they need an auxiliary engine or a starting boost but that engine could work under-water, in air and even in space. it can go at high speed but could never go beyond light speed.)
NB: warp 2 engine, or second generation warp engine, use the same method of the warp 1 (compress spacetime ahead and expand it behind the ship) but manage to reduce the restrictions. they manage to avoid the need of chanelling the compressed space time through the engine, therefore they can compress more space time for a given instant (as they would only pass the compression by and not have it go through you) and therefore that allow them to go even faster (beyond light speed). however the collateral damages are huge so they couple it with a hyper drive (that make the ship jump in a close-by dimension, close enough to be similar to our's allowing the ship to know where he is in common space and come back to common space in safe zone, but that dimension is more chaotic than common space making the collateral damage less important as there is no living form there. the dimension used is commonly called "hyperspace" )
later on during the battle with the western russian the main character would go to japan where he would meet the "fenrir" (a robotic tank with the shape of a wolf. it's terribly underused by the japanese as most of the systems are locked, hidden or displayed in a language nobody manage to decypher or translate yet. however they are lucky enought, the basics systems are operational and some of the core systems are locked but set on automatic)
NB: some more arc would come up later on but that's how it begin.
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