Twilight:2000-Different Direction

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by weswood

There was never an "Ace in the Hole" for earth, I never got that far in the planning. It's even worse than I posted earlier, I'm a hard corps conservative, I was going to poke at the liberals. In my America, private ownership of firearms have been illegalized except for reproduction black powder weapons and single shot cartridge weapons. Ammo is regulated to 20 rounds purchased per year. Not only would the civilians who would take up arms to defend themselves from alien invaders, they would have to deal with "a civilian police force as well trained and as well armed as the US Army" reporting to a radical liberal president.

Wes

I would think that the "radical lilberal president" would be the last probelm local defenders would have to worry about. After all Washington, DC is at the south end of the brightest congregation of nighttime lights (Some have called this area the Megaopolis, northeast corridor, whatever.)

IMHO, that concentration of light, radio, TV and other EM signatures would make certain that they received either a nuke or a rock.

Now the remainder of the civilian/military is going to be fragmented due to nuke/kinetic strikes. As soon as they get confirmed reports of "Large humanoid warriors", the gloves come off, and every armory left gets emptied into the hands of what ever voluteers show up to go "critter hunting".

And yes, I can see some modern day Daniel Boone or Davy Crockett setting up at 200+ yards with his/her Kentucky Long Rifle..... Or Sharps Buffalo Rifle...

There has got to be some kind of leadership cadre in with the orcs..

SOOOO...

As soon as these "other critters" (read drow) are identified...

THey get introduced to .45 or .54 soft lead at (moderately) high speeds... Right between the eyes.

My $0.02

Mike

[weswood]

I was thinking not so much of the president, but the "national police force" with a TSA intelligence/attitude- strip searching 8 year old kids and 80 year old grandmothers but letting 20 something men of obvious middle eastern descent sail through security checkpoints so the TSA won't be accused of profiling. I just heard on the radio some guy was transporting his grandfather's ashes and some TSA agent searched the urn (stirring her finger through the ashes) then dropped & spilled the ashes. And then laughed. WTF.

The plan is a 3 month wait between the EMP and KEWs and the first alien drops. I figure any National Guard and State armories would be looted by starving rioters before they land.

I had planned on starting the story with one of the main characters out hunting with his Sharps rifle. He makes his way back to the hunting lease camp and his daughter comes out of the cabin bitching about the electricity being out. He tries his truck and it won't start. Tries the hunting jeep, an old '72 CJ and that does start. Most hunting leases I or my family and friends have been on are a 5 to 8 hour drive from Houston. So hero has to drive and fight his way 250 to 500 miles through stranded motorist, Blackshirts (the slang for the National Police Force), and gang bangers.

I'd like to have several different viewpoints of the story, maybe even an orc grunt.

Maybe I ought to get off my buttocks and start writing. I'm temporarily unemployed, got laid off in April.

Maybe the "Ace in the Hole" could be a bunch of 14 & 15 year old kids dressed in Drow battle armor infiltrating the mothership.

Wes

[M-Type]

So all this talk about aliens and everything has made me fall back and realize the potential for:

***

Stargate: 2000 (Alternate Universe/Alternate Universe)

Having recovered the titular alien device in the early 1900s, the Stargate sat un-used for decades (though being used once, secretly).

However, in the 90s, a new enemy emerged from the mysterious wormhole: the Goa'uld. These parasitic beings have been subjugating the Jaffa people for centuries, and the recent emergence of the Humans does not bode well for them.

Enter the SGC, buried deep under Cheyenne Mountain and run by the USAF, the teams only known by their number designation (SG-#) travel to the many planets opened by the Stargate, exploring new worlds, battling alien threats to humanity, and creating important extraterrestrial allies.

It's not the best job in the world, and there are some days where things just don't go your way, but someone has to do it. And at least it's a pretty damn cool one.

***

Stargate: SG-1 is by far one of my favorite shows, and I feel like it wouldn't be hard to pair T2k and SG1 with a little elbow grease (I'm thinking a tweaked Dark Conspiracy Dimensional Walking Device for a Stargate).

[DocSavage45B10]

Endorse.

Persoanlly I would set this in a Stargate ATL where Anubis' invasion gets much farther along before SG-1 uses the ancient weapon. Orbital death ray strikes take out the world capitals, Jaffa and Krull on the ground. No keeping secrets anymore. Replicators almost finish off the Asguard before themselves being wiped out by Jack's device. the last Asguard reloacte to Earth and begin upgrading our tech in the 'Deposit of Knowlege'. The torch of guardianship is passed.

20 years later the Earth Alliance is out for vengance. Mix in Babylon 5, Farscape, and Starship Troopers/Mecha to taste, frape.

Originally Posted by M-Type

So all this talk about aliens and everything has made me fall back and realize the potential for:

***

Stargate: 2000 (Alternate Universe/Alternate Universe)

Having recovered the titular alien device in the early 1900s, the Stargate sat un-used for decades (though being used once, secretly).

However, in the 90s, a new enemy emerged from the mysterious wormhole: the Goa'uld. These parasitic beings have been subjugating the Jaffa people for centuries, and the recent emergence of the Humans does not bode well for them.

Enter the SGC, buried deep under Cheyenne Mountain and run by the USAF, the teams only known by their number designation (SG-#) travel to the many planets opened by the Stargate, exploring new worlds, battling alien threats to humanity, and creating important extraterrestrial allies.

It's not the best job in the world, and there are some days where things just don't go your way, but someone has to do it. And at least it's a pretty damn cool one.

***

Stargate: SG-1 is by far one of my favorite shows, and I feel like it wouldn't be hard to pair T2k and SG1 with a little elbow grease (I'm thinking a tweaked Dark Conspiracy Dimensional Walking Device for a Stargate).

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by M-Type

So all this talk about aliens and everything has made me fall back and realize the potential for:

***

Stargate: 2000 (Alternate Universe/Alternate Universe)

Having recovered the titular alien device in the early 1900s, the Stargate sat un-used for decades (though being used once, secretly).

However, in the 90s, a new enemy emerged from the mysterious wormhole: the Goa'uld. These parasitic beings have been subjugating the Jaffa people for centuries, and the recent emergence of the Humans does not bode well for them.

Enter the SGC, buried deep under Cheyenne Mountain and run by the USAF, the teams only known by their number designation (SG-#) travel to the many planets opened by the Stargate, exploring new worlds, battling alien threats to humanity, and creating important extraterrestrial allies.

It's not the best job in the world, and there are some days where things just don't go your way, but someone has to do it. And at least it's a pretty damn cool one.

***

Stargate: SG-1 is by far one of my favorite shows, and I feel like it wouldn't be hard to pair T2k and SG1 with a little elbow grease (I'm thinking a tweaked Dark Conspiracy Dimensional Walking Device for a Stargate).

I have designed an interface between SG1 and TMP. Seems to work pretty well. I do NOT have Col. O'Neil, Capt. Carter, Dr. Jackson, etc...

What I do have is a well trained group of different American and British SF based in Cheyenne Mt.

I do NOT have TMP fusion drives on the Vehicles. I am using V150's, V300's, Rangers as my primary vehicles.

IMHO, V2.2 character creation of SF should work well.

Have not had a chance yet to define Jaffa staff weapons.

At this point I am leaning toward the idea that the Goa'uld do not have FTL drives. THey only use Stargates as means of transportation.

My $0.02

Mike

[Chris]

I don't suppose you have a guns spreadsheet for Fire, Fusion & Steel? I can find starship ones, but very limited weapons.

Chris

[Chris]

On second thought, forget I mentioned FFS. I'm remembering how hard that was to use.

Flashbacks on the numbers, the numbers...

[M-Type]

Yeah. I actually picked it up and thumbed through it. Then sat down and hyperventilated for a while :P

That is a Hell of a lot of numbers.

[DocSavage45B10]

Blackshirts would make for convenient gun-stores once the gloves came off, IMO.

Originally Posted by weswood

I was thinking not so much of the president, but the "national police force" with a TSA intelligence/attitude- strip searching 8 year old kids and 80 year old grandmothers but letting 20 something men of obvious middle eastern descent sail through security checkpoints so the TSA won't be accused of profiling. I just heard on the radio some guy was transporting his grandfather's ashes and some TSA agent searched the urn (stirring her finger through the ashes) then dropped & spilled the ashes. And then laughed. WTF.

The plan is a 3 month wait between the EMP and KEWs and the first alien drops. I figure any National Guard and State armories would be looted by starving rioters before they land.

I had planned on starting the story with one of the main characters out hunting with his Sharps rifle. He makes his way back to the hunting lease camp and his daughter comes out of the cabin bitching about the electricity being out. He tries his truck and it won't start. Tries the hunting jeep, an old '72 CJ and that does start. Most hunting leases I or my family and friends have been on are a 5 to 8 hour drive from Houston. So hero has to drive and fight his way 250 to 500 miles through stranded motorist, Blackshirts (the slang for the National Police Force), and gang bangers.

I'd like to have several different viewpoints of the story, maybe even an orc grunt.

Maybe I ought to get off my buttocks and start writing. I'm temporarily unemployed, got laid off in April.

Maybe the "Ace in the Hole" could be a bunch of 14 & 15 year old kids dressed in Drow battle armor infiltrating the mothership.

Wes