Futuristic The Re-taking of Earth

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The year is 3297, the turn of the century is nearly upon us. We left Earth in the year 2525 due to contacts from extraterrestrial life forms threatening to destroy us, so to avoid any wars, we evacuated Earth and moved to a secluded location several galaxies over where we re-colonized and began to expand from there. After building up our society again, we sent a recon ship to Earth to figure out the current state of our planet and discover it's been over-taken by nature. But within the many forests that have developed were strange structures which weren't made by humans, it appears as if aliens had taken what we left.


After being informed of what Earth has become, the president began making plans for taking Earth back by forming plans for a special team a that will take the planet back. The team is known as "Team Strangelove" As a reference to a ; they are a group of specialists that are extraordinary in one asset or another and will play a role in building a mean, green, fighting machine. After many years, a team has finally been developed and has been transported to the U.S.S "Ulysses" orbiting just at the edge of Earth's orbit. It is time to reclaim what was taken.


You will take part as a soldier or mission operative in charge of helping us get Earth back, starting with getting suited up and hopping into a dropship. I am looking for 5 or more people to take interest before I put a thread up. This RP will be rather casual, only require 1 paragraph per post, let me know if you're interested.
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[Penelope Burns]

What will the first task be? Will we start just before a mission or in the drop ship about to begin?


Also, what roles are you looking for?

 

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

All the questions that Homage had, plus some more. What nationalities are around? What tech is there?


Also, you may want to change it a little. We went galaxies, so why do we still give half a shit about Earth? At least some reasoning, so my head doesn't overwork itself and blow up.

 

[amended]

What will the first task be? Will we start just before a mission or in the drop ship about to begin?
Also, what roles are you looking for?

We would start just before the mission, like when you're gearing up and such and then you get on the drop-ship and the mission starts, that's about it, but we should use that time for character development. I'm going to have your basic roles such as regular infantry, support, etc. But the Air-Force will play a large part in this so you can also take your pick from a couple of other aircraft such as a fighter, a recon plane, and a drop-ship pilot/gunner; the only reason why there isn't a bomber/heavy fighter is because the drop-ship took that role along with several others when they made it. There are multiple variants of it depending on the mission, the one we'll be flying in the first wave is specifically designed for carrying troops.

All the questions that Homage had, plus some more. What nationalities are around? What tech is there?
Also, you may want to change it a little. We went galaxies, so why do we still give half a shit about Earth? At least some reasoning, so my head doesn't overwork itself and blow up.

All nationalities would still be around, they left Earth before any attacks were made on them so go ahead and take your pick. As I explained to Homage, there will be drop-ships, scouts/recon planes, and fighters, I may end up adding a couple which the drop-ship didn't cover. There won't be as many lasers, lasers were only weaponized for ships and not for troops since, even at this point, lasers could not be perfected for small-arms usage, or at least one powerful enough to do any damage to the enemy. So bullets are still being used, however gun technology has been forwarded greatly meaning higher capacity, better velocity, etc. No mech-suits, I know people like mechs, but I was just wanting to play it a little different.


Well as I mentioned in the pitch, we were starting to expand again meaning that we were growing outwards, like colonizing other planets and such. But why not try to re-colonize our own previous planet? It'd be pretty easy, all we would need to do is just clean it up again and it's like it's brand-new. Besides, those aliens probably went off somewhere else, they wouldn't check an empty house twice, would they? Then the recon ship goes back and sees the aliens have already claimed it as their own, and then we circle back into the present.


If you have anymore questions, let me know.

 

[amb3rlin]

I'd be interested in this!


However, I don't know how to be casual about anything I'm excited about. I'm really an all or nothing kind of person with RPs.


I have a pilot character I'd love to tweak and throw into this world.

 

[amended]

Alright, I'll put up a tech demo to further interest anybody else who comes by.

 

[ARSENIC]

What Amber said, more or less. Though, a recommendation, if I may:


Earth, while being our homeworld, has been, even during our lifetime, abused to the ground. A lot of spacefaring games make it out to be only barely above-average on a cosmic scale of capacity to support life, with GalCiv (a starfaring game I've recently got into) ranking it as a class 10 planet naturally (the highest a planet can naturally go in that game is class 26, a true paradise). What I'm getting at is that, especially with how badly man has been treating it, Earth's probably a pretty shitty planet for life, way in 3297.


What it is, though, is a symbol of our roots. A cultural triumph rather than a strategic one. As a result, the forces they'd send would be oddballs - out-of-place agents, weirdos, people who don't really fit, sent as a sort of "what the heck" by the higher-ups, preferring not to waste their most prized agents. Gives the whole setting a far more relatable, human vibe to it.


Just my 2 pennies.

 

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

What Amber said, more or less. Though, a recommendation, if I may:
Earth, while being our homeworld, has been, even during our lifetime, abused to the ground. A lot of spacefaring games make it out to be only barely above-average on a cosmic scale of capacity to support life, with GalCiv (a starfaring game I've recently got into) ranking it as a class 10 planet naturally (the highest a planet can naturally go in that game is class 26, a true paradise). What I'm getting at is that, especially with how badly man has been treating it, Earth's probably a pretty shitty planet for life, way in 3297.


What it is, though, is a symbol of our roots. A cultural triumph rather than a strategic one. As a result, the forces they'd send would be oddballs - out-of-place agents, weirdos, people who don't really fit, sent as a sort of "what the heck" by the higher-ups, preferring not to waste their most prized agents. Gives the whole setting a far more relatable, human vibe to it.


Just my 2 pennies.

That makes good sense.

 

[amended]

Alright, well I guess I'll change it, it'll take a little bit, though.

 

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Sorry, I promise I'm actually interested and not just trying to make this difficult. That's an actual promise.

 

[amended]

It's fine, I'm just trying to make whatever people are interested in, I usually don't delve into Futuristic that much so I'm trying to come up with some coherent story.

 

[amb3rlin]

I think the idea of sending the B team to re-take earth is a good one. It allows for a lot of fun character ideas.

 

[LeSoraAmari]

I'll be interested in taking part in this, if you are still looking ^-^

 

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Spoiler

(Credit to Quesocito on Deviantart for art of drop-ship, recon plane, and personnel transport.)

Armament:


2X 15 MM Vulcan "Mini-Gun"


(5000 Ammo)


6X 120 MM Ground-Purpose Missiles


12X 60 MM Air-Purpose Missiles, Heat-Seeking

Armament:


6X 60 MM Cannons


(1200 Ammo)


4x 95 MM All-Purpose Missiles, Heat-Seeking

Armament:


1X 15 MM Vulcan "Mini-Gun"


32X 80 MM All-Purpose Missiles, Unguided

Armament:


5X 15 MM Vulcan "Mini-Gun"











S-22 "Maginot" Standard Assault Rifle

MP-76 Sub-machine Gun

SU-5 "Big Bro" Standard Shotgun

P-29 "Stinger" Sniper Rifle

HE-9000 "Bubba" Support Machine Gun

I-21 "Popper" Standard Pistol

Feel free to message me if you want me to add anything else.



 
Alright, thread's up, get your characters in ASAP.


https://www.rpnation.com/threads/the-re-taking-of-earth.137476/