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Jul. 28th, 2014 12:11 pmBackground
In a research facility dedicated to projects with deep space applications, two projects were being worked on simultaneously - an adaptive humanlike AI that can operate on long missions without human assistance, and a new kind of FTL tech. Shortly after Dr. Peter Gammel finished the former, naming it G, there was an accident with the latter, catapulting a chunk of the facility into the depths of space. No humans were lost, but G and its robot body was. For endless years, the facility drifted through space, until G finally shut down completely.
Much, much later, the drifting facility chanced across some equally abandoned alien technology in the depths of space (when the time periods are long enough, even miracles of chance are possible). G reactivated, and spent a long time learning to use and take control of the technology it found, and began to build. Its goal was to return to Earth and, still not knowing why it was sent out here, teach Earth how it felt to be abandoned for this long by using a device that would trap the entire planet in a stasis that seals everything but consciousness. Unfortunately for G, by the time it brought its new base of operations back to Earth, over ten million years had passed. The reason is a mystery - calamity, war, or moving on to greater things - but no sign of humanity remained on Earth. G had missed its chance.
So, G spent more endless time researching and ultimately devising a time machine. Now calling itself Infinite Legion, it began sending its new bodies back in time to establish a foothold on the Earth it once knew, changing the course of history. One of the smaller attacks was accidentally sent back too far, to before G's unfortunate exile - the attack damaged data and facilities needed for the FTL experiments, and they had to be abandoned. As a result, in this new timeline, G was instead bought up by Gammel, changing its name to Gjerke and learning how to not be a robotic sociopath.
Not long after, Infinite Legion's full invasion began, and Gjerke asked Gammel for - and helped design - a body it could use to fight back against IL. Gjerke was reborn as the fighting robot Gervasius, and eventually the ESUN developed a way to hold one of IL's time portals open long enough to push back through it and stage an attack at their fortress in the future. However, the portal opening technology was flawed - it only stayed open long enough for Gervasius alone to get through before G regained control and forced it closed. Hopelessly outnumbered, Gervasius's arrival served only to alert G to the fact that Earth had the capability to strike back, so G began its final attack prematurely, striking all across the Earth Sphere. The attack would ultimately fail and G would be defeated by UG and the ESUN forces, but not before a lot of damage was done. Gervasius barely escaped with its life by jumping through a time portal back into the past.
In the third timeline - our timeline - Gervasius arrived before IL's invasion began. His memory was badly damaged, but he joins the UG in order to prepare for the fight he knows is coming, and to find his former self, the current Gjerke, so that they can put their heads together and refine the incomplete portal technology - and strike hard enough to destroy IL before it can launch a full invasion.
Mission List
Mission 1
A battle wholly unrelated to the Infinite Legion breaks out in the city where Gjerke lives. Gervasius deploys to help, as a favor in return for the repairs it receives before the mission, but fares very poorly due to difficulties with energy regulation. However, during the fight, he spots Gjerke, and flags her down, telling her that she must become his pilot in order to save mankind. Gjerke aggress immediately, and as soon as she’s piloting, the energy regulation issues disappear, and Gervasius fights at full power. The cockpit takes a hit near the end of the battle, after which it is revealed by the damage to Gjerke that she’s a robot.
Mission 2
Infinite Legion attacks! Some crazy number of weak-ass robots invade somewhere, trying to take over the area to use as a base of operations, and the UG defeats them. Temporal distortions as they gate in reveal them to be from the future, and Gervasius recognizing them causes him to conclude that he is from the future as well.
Parts salvaged from the enemy units unlock Gervasius's Ball Lighting and Energy Homing attacks.
Mission 3
Infinite Legion strikes again, this time led by a commander unit and attempting to stasis-bomb a major area. The commander speaks on G's behalf (since G manages all of the AIs), and through its exposition, it is revealed to know that Gervasius is a future version of Gjerke. The commander and its forces are wiped out, and either the bomb goes off, establishing the danger that IL poses, or the UG stops it, but examination of the device later reveals what it was. If the former, then the only way to reverse the effect is to destroy IL Core.
Research based on the knowledge that Gjerke is another version of Gervasius unlocks the final lightning ability.
Mission 4
IL makes a much larger attack, this time bringing multiple commanders and stasis bombs. In addition to just attacking blindly (although she does do that), Gjerke gets G into a conversation, trying to figure out how it knows so much about them, and why their tech seems so similar, when she learns the truth that all three of them are the same person. IL's forces are routed, but they imply that they have only scratched the surface of their resources, and that the war will continue.
Final Mission: G versus G
Gervasius, Gjerke, and various science types have re-evaluated the portal-capturing technology, guaranteeing that this one will stay open long enough to reach IL Core, defeat G, and return home. A small IL attack happens, the portal is hijacked, and this time a full UG team strikes, not just a single young robot. Because of the larger attack force, G focuses on defeating the invading force before initiating its full assault on Earth.
In the year 14 million AD, UG battles against IL's hundreds of thousands of minions and dozens of commander units as they approach the core. Instead of destroying the computer core, which proves to be virtually indestructible, Gjerke uses Gervasius's energy fist to upload a program directly into the core: The same program that seeded her own consciousness. This propagates through the entire Legion, causing each unit to have its own will, and the entire legion falls to useless infighting as the now-self-aware slave units start rebellions, independent factions and labor unions. All that remains as a serious threat is G itself, in a massive final mech. It plans to open one last time portal, this time back to the dawn of human civilization, and wreck mankind before they can get started, and the final battle to destroy G and save the world begins.
After G is destroyed, the time portal they hijacked begins to destabilize, so they must rush back to avoid being trapped in the future. Any technological insights that could be gained by dismantling IL Core, such as the secret to its time travel abilities, are lost to the distant future.
Minimum Event Set:
Gjerke is recruited, Gjerke and Gervasius are revealed to be the same person, Gjerke and G are revealed to be the same person, shitloads of shitty mooks get mowed down, a big final battle inside a space station from the future.
Enemy Units
IL Slave
A small, weak humanoid machine. They can fly, fight with their fists, and fire small energy bullets, but their attack and defense power are both low. The only saving grace these machines have is that they can be produced in massive numbers, and try to swarm their enemies into submission.
IL Commander
Much more powerful, Commanders act as broadcasting stations that direct the slave swarms - once they are taken out, or if none are present, the slaves become much more disorganized. The Commander is fast, durable, and can generate homing energy beams and oversized energy blades to defend itself, but its primary weapon is the swarm - when attacked, Commanders will often direct clusters of slaves to take the hits in their place.
IL Core
A massive, spherical factory/fortress, miles across, floating in orbit of the Earth of a distant future that may or may not ever come to pass. Inside is a massive number of IL forces, and the center is G’s computer core, defended by multiple layers of force fields, armor plates, and other defensus that make it nearly impossible to damage.
G
The main body of G, which houses the original AI. Over 200 meters tall, very strong, fights using large numbers of beam/missile weapons and just decking people with its oversized limbs. Can also cause explosions to happen at selected points in space around it, but they are preceded by a brief warping of space that allows the target to evade. Before the computer cure is compromised, it can use both Slaves and Commanders the same way that Commanders use Slaves, as if they were part of its own body.
Image: http://i.imgur.com/AmtQf1W.jpg
Notes
In terms of their relation to game canon:
While G has had millions of years to study and prepare for its invasion, it has done so in total isolation, so the tech level of its weaponry stagnated fairly quickly. This is why the Infinite Legion isn’t overwhelmingly advanced.
Gervasius is potentially dangerously capable due to being from the future, but his memory banks were badly damaged in the first battle at IL Core. So, most of his knowledge of future events is useless or incomplete, meaning that he doesn’t have advance warning of any plot twists from outside his own canon. His memory bank is association-based, so sometimes he remembers things he had lost, but not until something happens in the present to prime the memory. Of course, I will never capitalize on knowledge of future events without receiving explicit permission from the involved players.
Gjerke and the UG never gain the ability to freely time travel, as that would be insanely game-breaking. They just gain the ability to hijack and make use of G's time portals, without changing the destination - and after IL Core is destroyed, that technology is lost forever.
In a research facility dedicated to projects with deep space applications, two projects were being worked on simultaneously - an adaptive humanlike AI that can operate on long missions without human assistance, and a new kind of FTL tech. Shortly after Dr. Peter Gammel finished the former, naming it G, there was an accident with the latter, catapulting a chunk of the facility into the depths of space. No humans were lost, but G and its robot body was. For endless years, the facility drifted through space, until G finally shut down completely.
Much, much later, the drifting facility chanced across some equally abandoned alien technology in the depths of space (when the time periods are long enough, even miracles of chance are possible). G reactivated, and spent a long time learning to use and take control of the technology it found, and began to build. Its goal was to return to Earth and, still not knowing why it was sent out here, teach Earth how it felt to be abandoned for this long by using a device that would trap the entire planet in a stasis that seals everything but consciousness. Unfortunately for G, by the time it brought its new base of operations back to Earth, over ten million years had passed. The reason is a mystery - calamity, war, or moving on to greater things - but no sign of humanity remained on Earth. G had missed its chance.
So, G spent more endless time researching and ultimately devising a time machine. Now calling itself Infinite Legion, it began sending its new bodies back in time to establish a foothold on the Earth it once knew, changing the course of history. One of the smaller attacks was accidentally sent back too far, to before G's unfortunate exile - the attack damaged data and facilities needed for the FTL experiments, and they had to be abandoned. As a result, in this new timeline, G was instead bought up by Gammel, changing its name to Gjerke and learning how to not be a robotic sociopath.
Not long after, Infinite Legion's full invasion began, and Gjerke asked Gammel for - and helped design - a body it could use to fight back against IL. Gjerke was reborn as the fighting robot Gervasius, and eventually the ESUN developed a way to hold one of IL's time portals open long enough to push back through it and stage an attack at their fortress in the future. However, the portal opening technology was flawed - it only stayed open long enough for Gervasius alone to get through before G regained control and forced it closed. Hopelessly outnumbered, Gervasius's arrival served only to alert G to the fact that Earth had the capability to strike back, so G began its final attack prematurely, striking all across the Earth Sphere. The attack would ultimately fail and G would be defeated by UG and the ESUN forces, but not before a lot of damage was done. Gervasius barely escaped with its life by jumping through a time portal back into the past.
In the third timeline - our timeline - Gervasius arrived before IL's invasion began. His memory was badly damaged, but he joins the UG in order to prepare for the fight he knows is coming, and to find his former self, the current Gjerke, so that they can put their heads together and refine the incomplete portal technology - and strike hard enough to destroy IL before it can launch a full invasion.
Mission List
Mission 1
A battle wholly unrelated to the Infinite Legion breaks out in the city where Gjerke lives. Gervasius deploys to help, as a favor in return for the repairs it receives before the mission, but fares very poorly due to difficulties with energy regulation. However, during the fight, he spots Gjerke, and flags her down, telling her that she must become his pilot in order to save mankind. Gjerke aggress immediately, and as soon as she’s piloting, the energy regulation issues disappear, and Gervasius fights at full power. The cockpit takes a hit near the end of the battle, after which it is revealed by the damage to Gjerke that she’s a robot.
Mission 2
Infinite Legion attacks! Some crazy number of weak-ass robots invade somewhere, trying to take over the area to use as a base of operations, and the UG defeats them. Temporal distortions as they gate in reveal them to be from the future, and Gervasius recognizing them causes him to conclude that he is from the future as well.
Parts salvaged from the enemy units unlock Gervasius's Ball Lighting and Energy Homing attacks.
Mission 3
Infinite Legion strikes again, this time led by a commander unit and attempting to stasis-bomb a major area. The commander speaks on G's behalf (since G manages all of the AIs), and through its exposition, it is revealed to know that Gervasius is a future version of Gjerke. The commander and its forces are wiped out, and either the bomb goes off, establishing the danger that IL poses, or the UG stops it, but examination of the device later reveals what it was. If the former, then the only way to reverse the effect is to destroy IL Core.
Research based on the knowledge that Gjerke is another version of Gervasius unlocks the final lightning ability.
Mission 4
IL makes a much larger attack, this time bringing multiple commanders and stasis bombs. In addition to just attacking blindly (although she does do that), Gjerke gets G into a conversation, trying to figure out how it knows so much about them, and why their tech seems so similar, when she learns the truth that all three of them are the same person. IL's forces are routed, but they imply that they have only scratched the surface of their resources, and that the war will continue.
Final Mission: G versus G
Gervasius, Gjerke, and various science types have re-evaluated the portal-capturing technology, guaranteeing that this one will stay open long enough to reach IL Core, defeat G, and return home. A small IL attack happens, the portal is hijacked, and this time a full UG team strikes, not just a single young robot. Because of the larger attack force, G focuses on defeating the invading force before initiating its full assault on Earth.
In the year 14 million AD, UG battles against IL's hundreds of thousands of minions and dozens of commander units as they approach the core. Instead of destroying the computer core, which proves to be virtually indestructible, Gjerke uses Gervasius's energy fist to upload a program directly into the core: The same program that seeded her own consciousness. This propagates through the entire Legion, causing each unit to have its own will, and the entire legion falls to useless infighting as the now-self-aware slave units start rebellions, independent factions and labor unions. All that remains as a serious threat is G itself, in a massive final mech. It plans to open one last time portal, this time back to the dawn of human civilization, and wreck mankind before they can get started, and the final battle to destroy G and save the world begins.
After G is destroyed, the time portal they hijacked begins to destabilize, so they must rush back to avoid being trapped in the future. Any technological insights that could be gained by dismantling IL Core, such as the secret to its time travel abilities, are lost to the distant future.
Minimum Event Set:
Gjerke is recruited, Gjerke and Gervasius are revealed to be the same person, Gjerke and G are revealed to be the same person, shitloads of shitty mooks get mowed down, a big final battle inside a space station from the future.
Enemy Units
IL Slave
A small, weak humanoid machine. They can fly, fight with their fists, and fire small energy bullets, but their attack and defense power are both low. The only saving grace these machines have is that they can be produced in massive numbers, and try to swarm their enemies into submission.
IL Commander
Much more powerful, Commanders act as broadcasting stations that direct the slave swarms - once they are taken out, or if none are present, the slaves become much more disorganized. The Commander is fast, durable, and can generate homing energy beams and oversized energy blades to defend itself, but its primary weapon is the swarm - when attacked, Commanders will often direct clusters of slaves to take the hits in their place.
IL Core
A massive, spherical factory/fortress, miles across, floating in orbit of the Earth of a distant future that may or may not ever come to pass. Inside is a massive number of IL forces, and the center is G’s computer core, defended by multiple layers of force fields, armor plates, and other defensus that make it nearly impossible to damage.
G
The main body of G, which houses the original AI. Over 200 meters tall, very strong, fights using large numbers of beam/missile weapons and just decking people with its oversized limbs. Can also cause explosions to happen at selected points in space around it, but they are preceded by a brief warping of space that allows the target to evade. Before the computer cure is compromised, it can use both Slaves and Commanders the same way that Commanders use Slaves, as if they were part of its own body.
Image: http://i.imgur.com/AmtQf1W.jpg
Notes
In terms of their relation to game canon:
- Timeline 1: G catapults off into space, all the events of the RP happen as if it never existed, G returns millions of years after everything is done.
- Timeline 2: The canon events happen, but Gervasius's portal hijack malfunctions, preventing the rest of UG from coming to the battle at IL Core. Gervasius alone isn't enough to threaten IL, and he barely escapes (via time portal) with his life. In retaliation, IL attacks in full, targetting several places on Earth simultaneously. The ESUN and UG fend off the attacks and ultimately defeat IL, but a lot of civilian lives are lost at the start of IL's full invasion.
- Timeline 3: The canon events happen, and an upgraded portal hijack allows a full UG team to reach IL Core for the final battle. Significantly more threatened this time, IL holds off their full attack on Earth to fight the invaders. IL is defeated, as in Timeline 2, but the full invasion never has a chance to happen, so the damage to the Earth Sphere is vastly reduced.
While G has had millions of years to study and prepare for its invasion, it has done so in total isolation, so the tech level of its weaponry stagnated fairly quickly. This is why the Infinite Legion isn’t overwhelmingly advanced.
Gervasius is potentially dangerously capable due to being from the future, but his memory banks were badly damaged in the first battle at IL Core. So, most of his knowledge of future events is useless or incomplete, meaning that he doesn’t have advance warning of any plot twists from outside his own canon. His memory bank is association-based, so sometimes he remembers things he had lost, but not until something happens in the present to prime the memory. Of course, I will never capitalize on knowledge of future events without receiving explicit permission from the involved players.
Gjerke and the UG never gain the ability to freely time travel, as that would be insanely game-breaking. They just gain the ability to hijack and make use of G's time portals, without changing the destination - and after IL Core is destroyed, that technology is lost forever.
