Transformers: Steel Reign

[LadyTevar]

[19:33] genhavoc: You have only yourselves to blame for all this
[19:36] TevarTahalshia: Yeah... should have shot him to begin wiht
[19:37] genhavoc: Oh what harm can Waspinator do, really?

No. Comment.

[General Havoc]

So let's get moving here, eh?

[rhoenix]

So let's get moving here, eh?

Excellent idea. Come on people, you can't say you lost interest already, not when we're about to Nemesis-jack the Decepticons.

[LadyTevar]

Sorry. Posted.

[Dark Silver]

Not my proudest moment in GM posting....but the best I can do under circumstances....

All of you are in the pod, which is Sky Lynx's "cat"/cargo container portion. You've a couple other Autobots, no names, do don't worry about who they are, or what they do, their just there to bolster you for this run. Their just Generic Autobots.

[Dark Silver]

For any "unnamed" Decepticons, the generic faceless hordes that don't make up the "main cast" of the Game and show (meaning those who don't get their own NPC sheet), these are their stats. The stats, aside from the Sweeps are pretty variable, thus why there's no "hard number" but a range.


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Foot Soldier
Faction: Decepticon
Function: Infantry
(Size Class: Medium)

Quote: "Autobots slag so well..."

Tech Specs:
Strength 5-6
Endurance 5
Agility 5
Intelligence 4-6
Skill 5-6
Firepower 5-6

Profile
The Blank Faces which make up the grand bulk of the Decepticon Army, for every officer, a legion of these converts exsist to swell the ranks. Many were general production models, built for a variety of purposes, each with their own personality, but nothing else to set them really apart from the grand bulk of the Decepticon forces.


Abilities / Weapons
The Decepticon Foot Soldiers are armed with a variety of weapons, all of various design. Amoungst their ranks, you will find anything from your standard photon blaster, to black light lasers and automatic ballsitic weapons. All weapons are of standard power, while not the most powerful weapons on the planet, neither are they cybertronian "pea shooters". Like all Decepticons, Infantry have the ability to fly in robot mode.

The alt-modes of these soldiers are typically vehicles with some form of weapon capabilities - from light infantry transports to medium battle tanks and artillery launchers.


Weaknesses
No real weaknesses, these Decepticons have average armor. Though years of the "Decepticon Ideal" has caused them to be oil-thirsty and prone to bicker with others. Unless a strong a strong personality is there to keep them inline, these Decepticons can become lax in their duties. Otherwise, these Decepticons usually do not "stand out" from each other in performance, are almost standard in functionality.


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Heavy Soldier
Faction: Decepticon
Function: Heavy Infantry
(Size: medium to low end large)

Quote: "For the glory of the Decepticons!"

Tech Specs:
Strength 6-8
Endurance 7
Agility 3-4
Intelligence 4-6
Skill 6-8
Firepower 7-8

Profile
Those who passed throught he rigorous tests and standards of Megatron and Shockwave, where chosen for special upgrades. Possessing greater armor, strength and firepower than the standard foot soldiers, these Decepticons lunge into battle with their weapons blasting.



Abilities / Weapons
These Decepticons are armed with the heavier weapons favoured by some of the Decepticon officers, including positron lasers, acid-beams, electron particle beams, and gamma-lasers. Due to their heavier armor, these Decepticons can take more punishment than the standard Decepticon soldier, and their strength lets them weild heavy melee weapons.

The alt-modes of these Decepticon tend to lean to heavy military vehicles, battle-tanks, missile launchers, etc. For reasons unguessed, most Triple Changer and Combiner Teams come from the ranks of these Decepticons. Like all Decepticons, the Heavy Infantry Mechanoids can fly in robot mode.


Weaknesses
Due to their enhanced strength and armor, these Decepticons are slower than their breathern, making them easier targets. Though they make up for this weakness with their heavier armor and more powerful weapons. Flight in robot mode for the Heavy Infantry is often slower due to increased power consumption due to their mass.


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Light Soldier
Faction: Decepticon
Function: Scout / Light Infantry
(Size: Small to small-medium)

Quote: "Foxtrot to Base, we got Autobots."

Tech Specs:
Strength 3-4
Endurance 6-7
Agility 6-7
Intelligence 5-7
Skill 5-7
Firepower 3-5

Profile
Made of smaller, more agile Mechanoids, the Decepticon Scouts are a valued for their ability to get ahead of a column of their fellow Decepticon foot soldiers, and scout ahead for Autobot traps and bases. They play the roles of scouts, more often than not, as well as light skirmishing infantry in the Decepticon army.


Abilities / Weapons
Due to their smaller stature, these Decepticons are exceptionally agile in their alt-modes and robot modes. Their speed and reflexes are better than their larger breathern. Though their weapons suffer from the smaller size, thus their known to carry the standard issue photon lasers and electron scramblers - more to disable and distract than to out and out kill. Some of the larger scouts tend to carry more powerful laser weaponry, through none could hope to take down a significantly larger Mechanoid on it's own.

Weaknesses
Due to their smaller size, these Decepticons are less armored, thus able to take less damage and remain functional than their larger breathern. Also their less powerful weapons do not make them a significant threat against larger bots in single combat.


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Generic Seeker
Faction: Decepticons
Function: Aerial Support

Quote: "We go up, and take Autobots down!"

Tech Specs:
Strength 4-7
Endurance 4-7
Agility 7-9
Intelligence 6-8
Skill 6-8
Firepower 4-7

Profile:
The reason for Decepticon superiority, hands down, lie in the prowess of the Decepticon Seeker Corps. These Decepticons, capable of flight in both Robot and Alt-modes, are the terrors of the Cybertronian and Earth skies. Few are the Autobots who are capable of matching the Seekers in direct aerial combat, and remaining in the air for more than a few astroseconds. Lead by Air Commander Starscream, the Seekers are all reformatted to contain some form of Aerial alt-mode, be it rocket-coptors, Cybertronian "Pyramid" fighters, or Earthern air-craft, the Seekers represent the pinacle of Decepticon aero-space technology. Their robot forms are all similar in basic design, leading to a rumor that Megatron forcibly reformats even the Robot Mode of his Seekers to resemble the original six Seekers - Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, Dirge, Thrust or Ramjet. Though they may look similar, the Seekers have their own unique abilities and personalities, earning them their names in combat.

There has been, of recent, sighting on Cybertron of a new breed of Seeker, who go by the name of Sweeps. These robots are near clones of each other, each transforming into a advance spacecraft form, and are lead by the vicious Scourge. They were known, on Cybertron, as Shockwave's personal guards and bounty-hunters.

Abilities / Weapons
Seekers come in multiple personalities. Their robot modes are all standardized, their twin weapons mounted on their, and while removable, move in a direct line with their arms. Each seeker has a cluster of micro-missile/bomblets in twin chest cavities, usable in both robot and jet mode. Their weapons range from pulse lasers, to rapid fire ballistic cannons, to acid-pellet infused lasers. Some Seekers have unique abilities, thus causing them to be grouped in certain squadrons with other like-abled Seekers - such as the "Stormwatch Squad" composed of Acid Storm, Rain Maker and Lighting Surge, all who can seed atmospheres to create deadly storms.

Weaknesses:
While being the peak in Decepticon aerial technology, the Seekers are limited to how well they work together. Depending on how well a squadron integrates it's individual mechs, the squadron could well be torn apart by it's own internal struggle, as by Autobot Anti-air fire.


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Sub-group: Sweeps
Faction: Decepticon
Function: Hunter-Killers, Guards

Quote: "There is no escape from us."

Tech Specs:
Strength 6
Endurance 6
Agility 7
Intelligence 6
Skill 8
Firepower 6

Profile:
Created on Cybertron by Shockwave, the Sweeps are ruthless, efficient hunter-killer machines. Once given a target, they will seek it out, no matter where it hides, stopping only to refuel when nessacry. Thought to be a offshot of the Seeker Corps, each Sweep is a near exact duplicate of the progenitor model - Scourge the Hunter. The only difference in each of the Sweeps, is the dirvergence of personality after initial programming. All are insanely loyal to to the Decepticon cause, and their leader.


Abilities / Weapons:
The Sweeps are rapacious hunters, able to track a six week old exhaust trail with uncanny ability, able to track the target from one end of the galaxy to another. They carry only one weapon, a advanced heat laser capable of melting even the densest Cybertronian alloys to mere slag (given enough time).

No one is exactly sure how many Sweeps there are, or where they are manufactured, no matter how many are destroyed on the battlefield, more always seem to emerge to refill their ranks eventually....

Weaknesses:
The Sweeps are incredibly arrogant in their abilities, and thus can easily be overwhelmed by traps. Their armor in alt-mode isn't as strong as robot mode, thus allowing them to be destroyed easier. Sweeps take no names for themselves, instead referring to themselves only by number (Sweep 6, Sweep 7, for example).

[Dark Silver]

Alright...so basic specs before everyone gets lost.....




The Shipyard your attacking is one of the most heavily fortified Decepticon holdings next to New Kaon and the Arabian Gulf within Decepticon holdings, simply because of it's import.

The shipyard is massive by human standards, simply large by Transformer ones. It holds approximatly 300 different Decepticon starships, all under various states of construction. Most are within a year of completion at previously work loads. The Nemesis, Megatron's salvaged Flagship from Peru, is in the center, undergoing massive repairs, it's close to being complete, but not quiet there yet.


Manning this installation, is a battalion of nearly 1000 Decepticons, along with approximately 50 Seekers. Of those Seekers, approximately 20 are Sweeps. Of the ground troops, you have 25% Light Infantry/Scouts, 20% Heavy Infantry, and the rest being standard Decepticons. All of these Decepticons are generic.....

Of named Decepticons, there are only seven here, Lugnut - who is in charge of this shipyard, and the Constructicons, in charge of all repair and construction activities.

It is doubtful the players will run into either Lugnut or the Constructicons within this fight, you'll be going against mostly "generic" Decepticons and combat drones, but watch be on the look out because the place is also teeming with human slaves!

That's right, the Decepticons are using human slave labor even in their shipyard. There's probably a couple thousand humans in the shipyard, with about one thousand being near or on board the Nemesis doing repair work.

Since your attacking the Nemesis, and Sky Lynx dropped you off there...your at the heart of the complex. Around you is a multitude of defensive weapons, anti-air missiles, autocannons, Decepticons, etc etc. It's doubtful you'll be able to fight your way out alive, so your only safe ticket, is into the Nemesis, and out.

Your mission is simple, steal the Nemesis (if possible), if not, scuttle it.

Hard.

[LadyTevar]

Secondary mission: Once Nemesis is acquired, use weapons to destroy Shipyard and all ships therein.

[Dark Silver]

Of course, your assuming the Nemesis' weapons are online, or capable of being brought online in the short term.


Or the fact that you would have enough weapons capable of killing the shipyard...and your willing to sacrifice the lives of the rest of your Autobot and Human allies, not to mention the several thousand human slaves still in the shipyard who manage to not die in the battle erupting around them..........

[LadyTevar]

See... this is why they don't give ME command.

[Charon]

This is why my secondary plan is after leaving use the sensors to see that the fight against Trypticon isn't going so well, and with the time to get the weapons working we go over there and maybe put a few holes through the huge bastard.

Sorry for not posting all week, been kinda in a slump. Getting out of it though.

[rhoenix]

This is why my secondary plan is after leaving use the sensors to see that the fight against Trypticon isn't going so well, and with the time to get the weapons working we go over there and maybe put a few holes through the huge bastard.

This also brings up a rather disquieting scenario.

Let's assume for the moment that this audacious plan to Nemesis-jack the Decepticons works, and we manage to get away. Let's even further assume that we perform a fly-by on Trypticon and even destroy him using the guns of the Nemesis. Even with all of that, assuming the best-case scenario for each - the Autobots have no spaceport, and only one Nemesis. Repairing or upgrading it will be problematic at best.

Worse yet, the Decepticons will still have their spaceport intact, and all those other spaceships they were working on. The Nemesis may be a big, badass ship, but best-case scenario, the Autobots will only have one.

I do hope Wheeljack, Perceptor and the rest have some plans on that count...

[General Havoc]

I have every faith that Wheeljack has many plans that will save the Autobots with their stunning brilliance once he gets his hands on the Nemesis. After all, Wheeljack is a master engineer who has crafted such irreplaceable weapons as the Dinobots and Hornet...

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... you know what... nevermind. We're screwed.

[rhoenix]

Yes, this is shades of the old Firetrack, and I know this could end up badly. Every other thing I can think of won't work, so the direct route is the best way I can think of.

EDIT: Holy shit, it worked.

[General Havoc]

*whistles*

Shall we move on?

[LadyTevar]

OMG YOU LIVE!!!

[General Havoc]

I had to make an emergency trip to Los Angeles and back this weekend. It involved the Mojave Desert, a fight with ATVers, the California Highway Patrol, Graduate-level bio-chemistry seminars, and a memorial service.

And so I'm back, and posting in the places that need posting. Yes, HMD is foremost there. So is this.

[LadyTevar]

You need to post the story now. A fight with ATVers?

[Dark Silver]

why do i have the sneaking sensation that the story involved Havoc having blundgeoned some ATVer's to death with a ATV./....thus requiring the involvement of the CHIPs and a memorial service for the most recently departed...

[rhoenix]

...So...any life to be found in this game yet?

Are we waiting on any players before you post, DS?

[Dark Silver]

my foot up your waste disposal port..

[rhoenix]

You know what, I take that back completely. That scene that was just posted was awesome.

...And yeah, I know Firetrack likely won't pull that off more than once. Without grievous injury and consequences anyway.

[Dark Silver]

it's not fair you know.....

editing a post so I cannot see it.....

what did I tell you about editing what you posted in the threads....

[rhoenix]

it's not fair you know.....

editing a post so I cannot see it.....

what did I tell you about editing what you posted in the threads....

...What're you talking about?

I deleted my OOC post in this thread since I didn't want it to have been edited 5 times, but I didn't touch my post in the In-Game thread.

[Dark Silver]

that's what I meant rheonix...

the post in the OOC...