Locust (Sci-Fi RP Interest Thread)
 

Giants bugs from space.

It’s so clichéd you would of thought that mankind would have been prepared for it.

But we weren’t.

The scientists messed up, and it fell to us grunts that have to clean up the mess.

And we’ve been cleaning it for the better part of a decade.

Mars is completely overrun. What took mankind a century to develop and cultivate was destroyed in the first battle of the war. At the time, the four rocks, big enough to be small moons, were classified as “stray asteroids” or some-such. They would pass close to Earth to be sure, but not impact it, or any of the colonies. So it was marked up as a scientific interest, and soon forgotten, save for a few astronomers who took pictures as they passed the colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, and the mines in the asteroid belt.

After a few days, the asteroids were regulated to the back page of the daily paper.

Until they entered Mars orbit, and disgorged the Locust. The rocks weren’t “rogue comets” or whatever…they were freakin’ Hives. The Fleet flotilla was dead even before the bugs hit the ground, and the Mobile Infantry(MI), Armored Cav(AC), and Colonial Militia(CM) units groundside on Mars didn’t fare much better. Within a week, the Locust were scourging all organic material on the planet unopposed.

The Locust are, for all intents and purposes, a biologically evolved army. They have everything any army worth it’s salt has: grunts, tanks, transports, support, the whole gig. The difference is that the Locust have an evolved sub-species for each niche in their army. You see a Artillery Bug, and laugh at first because it basically looks like a giant stink beetle…until it unloads with a plasma blast the size of truck. Even their missiles are a subspecies.

I decided a long time ago that I never want to see what kind of environment made them evolve like this.

Within six months, they were back on the Hives and headed towards Earth. This time, however, the United System League (USL) had finally gotten it’s act together, and Fleet was there waiting for them, and mankind fought the largest space battle in it’s history.

Shame at most we could only call it a draw.

In exchange for one-third of all available Fleet ships, one Hive was destroyed. Not bad considering Fleet was outnumbered somewhere in the neighborhood of 450,000 to one.

Still, that left three Hives to reach Earth. 30 billion bugs…roughly. It’s hard to keep track. The Hives spew out thousands of new Locust every so often.
I will say this: we’ve held Earth a heck of a lot longer than we held Mars. Eight years later, and the bugs still don’t have it all. Most of it, to be sure, but not all. Still, it’s only a matter of time. The only humans left on Earth are MI and AC units in heavily fortified positions, and the poor dogs in the Fields. All civvies were moved to the Outer Colonies years ago. We keep breaking out new technology, and every so often, a new strain of Locust will emerge from their hives. The soldier Locust we face now are in a whole other league compared to the warriors that landed with the first wave. We’ve been a virtual stalemate for two freakin’ years.

However, the brass back at Titan seem to think they have a plan that will wipe out the bugs once and for all. They make it sound so simple: prepare the asteroid belt by building fortress all over the place, rig smaller ones to be missiles, and lure the Hives in. Sounds good, in theory. I’m not in Fleet, so I really don’t know.

However, the first step of the plan I really don’t like.

They want to abandon Earth.

This RP was inspired from several sources, most notably StarCraft, the remake of the game Defender, and Starship Troopers (the book and the cartoon, not that horrible movie).

In this, players will be members Mobile Infantry, decked out in top-of-the-line powered armor. Players will start out on Earth, but, if things go according to plan, will face off against the Locust on various locations throughout the Solar System.

The Locust themselves are basically an organic army. Think something along the lines of the Zerg: for every role in the army, there is a species bred to cover that role. From soldier to fighter to missile, there is a bug for every role.

As of right now, I have the plot layed out. I wanted to see if there was enough interest to move forward before I start laying out the details on power armor creation and such.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

What type of vehicles can we expect? Besides the basic weapons (Rifles, snipers, machine guns) what type of guns will be at our disposal?

I suppose a strange hybrid soldier, the result of a twisted attempt to infuse Human DNA with Locust qualities, would be unallowed? And what of aliens (if I remember the cartoon correctly, there were non-humans)?

I would be very interested in this, as before what technological advances has their been?

I'm in whenever it starts. As far as a good futuristic foot soldier weapon, how about the currently experimental all-purpose rifle. As in it works like a regular assault rifle, a shortburst gun and a shotgun at once. It is still in experimental phases currently, but this is the future.

I'd also greatly enjoy this.

However: What's the power ratio? Like 1:1 (one human to one bug) or 1:100, or what?

Well Darth I would think that would depend on your position. Say you were nuking an infestation of them. That's a ratio of about 1:a few thousand.
But for a regular foot soldier, I guess it depends on luck. "Hey I didn't get stabbed. Sweet, ten more kills for me." As I doubt TB would really kill any of us off early on I can assume that we will be gifted soldiers who make it through a few battles before any of us die. Thus making our ratio very high. And if we're all gifted and we work in a squad and back each other up the our kills would be nigh-unlimitless. But it's up to TB so this is all just suggestion.

"Somebody call for an exterminator?"

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I'm in.

Well, from what I can assume, we won't be normal foot soldiers. I think the whole "Power Armor Creation" thing gives that away.

Though I doubt we'll be killing tons of them, unless the Locust are the kind where the enemies don't necessarily need to be strong, since there are so damn many of them.

But yeah, I'm interested.

Also interested. And, as far as I'm concerned, I couldn't care if bugs take three people to kill, it'll still be fun killing them.