NationStates Jolt Archive

To: Premier MacIntyre
From: Marshal Shinseki

You won't believe this. I just finished talking to the Chronosian Emperor. That guy gave me the best stuff, man. Seriously!

I especially loved the idea of Supersoldiers, "Space Marines," he called them, like that old Warhammer 40K game we used to play. Seriously, if you let me have an entire planet for this stuff, I could make an entire army for you. One that could win wars.

What I propose is an elite legion of troops called the "People's Guardians." Let's say, one legion per system. They'd be made from the DNA of "Primarchs," basically Superman-type guys, so they have superstrength and all kinda powers. They would act as special forces, and as a first reaction unit for any kind of emergency.

What I hope is to get, like, several hundred thou made per legion, and split them up into seperate groups from there on. The cost: probably New Dornalia's best fighters. We'd have to do some kinda Street Fighter-type competition to get those dudes, then aug them up with all kindsa goodies. They'd head each legion.

Cost is, say....USD$100,000,000 to set up the cloning facilities, and about USD$650,000,000 for the games, and a whole planet to myself. How is that?

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To: Marshal Shinseki
From: Premier

Yeah...admist that mess of a report, full of crap, I like that idea. You played Iron Warriors, didn't ya?

Anyway, I'll give you a planet. Give me, say, 8 good men we can make into Primarchs, and we can talk about a cloning facility, augs, and a planet for each system. I think that's what ya meant, right?

Anyway, good luck. I'll see if Jack will buy into this.

OOC: My push to make Space Marines, 40k style. That diatribe was all Secret IC, by the way.

And thus, the process of selecting only the best began....word of the contest spread to People's Acolyte schools, fight halls, universities, and other places, as people signed up to fight in regional competions all over.

Selection: 0/10
Augmentation: 0/10
Cloning: 0/20

The selection was moving smoothly, as a large pool of people signed up. People of all skill levels, gunmen, samurai wannabes, kung fu artists, People's Acolytes, and others competed. Some fell, others won to move on.....

Selection: 3/10
Augmentation: 0/10
Cloning: 0/20

The pool of candidates narrowed a bit further. Shinseki liked what he saw; against regs he set up a betting pool with the other officers to see who would win.....

Selection: 5/10
Augmentation: 0/10
Cloning: 0/20

The pool narrowed even slimmer now, but 1,000 persons were still left to be chosen in regional, systemwide, and national tournaments......

Selection: 8/10
Augmentation: 0/10
Cloning: 0/20

Now, 8 people had finally been selected-the competitions had been worth it, keeping the public occupied while they looked for the best. Now, the people thought that the winners were going to vacations in Luxembourgia or Mars.

A lie. They were being escorted to a site on Luxembourgia, where a series of augmentations, designed around the custom strengths of each user, accenting the people generally but enhancing their good points specifically, were being prepared....

OOC: Bios coming up.

Selection: 10/10
Augmentation: 0/10
Cloning: 0/20

OOC: Bios.....updated as I get chances to, as I am in CA right now.

IC:

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Name: Kylie Carlsson
Age: 24
Former Job: People's Navy Naval Infantry
Height: 5 ft 6 in
Weight: 110 lbs
Description: A Sergeant in the People's Navy. Generally, an all-around combat expert, fitting for a Naval Infantryperson. Did excel in marksmanship and physical endurance, though. Quite amiable, sounds like a surfer.

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Name: Donald Steiner
Age: Unknown, 35 possibly
Former Job: Independent Trader, Militiaman
Height: 6 ft 4
Weight: 150 lbs
Description: An expert navigator, trader, and sailor. Self-reliant, he has developed a piratical, guerrilla mentality that has enabled him to survive in space alone, and turn the worst of spare parts into vital tools. Has faced down pirates, and others, using inferior numbers. Cool, calm, refuses to say no.

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Name: Alfred Chiang
Age: 17
Former Job: Kung Fu Artist
Height: 5 ft 9 in
Weight: 150 lbs
Description: A Kung Fu artist, he is an expert close combat fighter. He is the stereotypical kung fu man except for one thing: he is quite impulsive, and has a hair trigger temper. Despises guns, doesn't use them unless necessary. Quite agile, and quick.

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Name: Frances Tadanobu
Age: 16
Former Job: Student, fry cook
Height: 5 ft 2 in
Weight: 102 lbs
Description: The younger sister of Junko Tadanobu of People's Acolytes fame, she is not a psyker, and she is in fact quite normal. She is an expert marksmith, and has been No. 1 on her rifle team. A bit tired of people asking her questions about Junko, who calls a lot and maintains close contact. A bit on the private side, and defensive occasionally. Okay at close combat.

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Name: Erhen MacDonald
Age: 32
Former Job: People's Acolyte Sensei
Height: 6 ft 6 in
Weight: 175 lbs
Description: An ex-People's Acolyte, he is fanatically dedicated to the Workers State, body and soul. He has extensive knowledge of both Light and Dark Force powers, and is a patient strategist and master of close and distant combat. He has a mechanical arm, owing to a sparring accident gone sour.

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Name: Jack Chapman
Age: 24
Former Job: Comedian
Height: 6 ft 2 in
Weight: 165 lbs
Description: A man who is descended from early-Apocalypse comedian Johnny Knoxville, he carries on the honorable Knoxville tradition of insane stunts, and crazed pranks with a unique sense of humor. He knows no particular martial art, and is an average marksman, but he has an amazing toughness, and a keen sense of creativity; something key to his appearance here.

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Name: Frederick Vogel
Age: 18
Former Job: Musician
Height: 5 ft 6 in
Weight: 165 lbs
Description: An insanely happy person, with a love of skating and loud music. He used to be a drummer for a band, where he would often play the drums to the point of breaking. The louder the music, the crazier he gets. He idolizes Keith Moon, who he slightly resembles.

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Name: Russell Shackelford
Age: 43
Former Job: Exterminator
Height: 5 ft 4 in
Weight: 125 lbs
Description: A person who espouses the philosophy "Love your country, fear your government," he is a paranoid freakazoid who uses a number of pseudonyms, alternate ID's, and posts in Soldier of Fortune. Chain smoker and practitioner of "monkey-style" kung-fu (with pocket sand), he is an expert at concealment, being an avid hunter and anti-government luminary. Why we hired him: well.....we needed a stealth expert. That, and he won this competition.

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Augmentation was going well.....it had been decided that the various personalities of the Primarchs to be were to be the templates of their respective faction.

One, Mr. Shackleford, kept throwing sand he had in his pocket, and was recalcitrant, but he calmed down when offered cigarettes. So far, things look good......

Selection: 10/10
Augmentation: 5/10
Cloning: 0/20

Selection: 10/10
Augmentation: 10/10
Cloning: 2/20

SIC:

Augmentation is complete. Now, the cloning begins....in this case, the best 10% soldiers and original in vitro clones will be made using the DNA of the Primarchs on secret facilities all over New Dornalia and on the Reservations.

Selection: 10/10
Augmentation: 10/10
Cloning: 6/20

SIC-New Arzamas-24 Military Reservation, New Territories, WSND-

The team of scientists minded the tanks with the various cultivated supersoldiers inside. The fruit of months of DNA extraction, augmentation, and other refinements (initially perfected by the dark graces of the Chaos Marines), they were growing nicely. Those that weren't complete were still getting their Black Carapaces and spare organs; those that were were getting indoctrinated, and trained in the arts of war.

As expected, a few did better at certain parts than others. Those cloned from Tadanobu's DNA had a higher percentage of snipers and enjoyed statistically higher accuracy, if somewhat weaker close combat skills, those cloned from Shackleford's DNA were paranoid, but they stuck together and when they could be martialed, were exceptionally good at infiltration and survivalism. This form went on for the various men and women cloned or otherwise modified using the specific parts of the Primarchs; the process had the intended effect of imprinting the skills of each one onto their particular chapter, if it did have the unintended effect of skewing their personalities towards those of the Primarchs themselves somewhat.

Still, things looked bright. Marshal Shinseki inspected a few of the new Guardians, he was amazed at their abilities. He left, pleased with the progress of the project.

Selection: 10/10
Augmentation: 10/10
Cloning: 10/20

SIC-New Arzamas-24 Military Reservation, New Territories, WSND-

Two entire legions of Marines had been cloned so far, some 200,000 were cloned, trained, and ready for battle. They had been given the best weapons; the Chronosian Emperor's gifts had included many advanced infantry weapons such as Plasma Guns, lascannons, and chainswords.

Bolters, the traditional Space Marine weapon, were not part of this mixture. Shinseki had shared the opinion of many Red Army and NDPN officers that the age of "slugthrowers" as bullet-based weapons were dubbed, was over. The standard issure weapon of the People's Guardian would be a railgun instead. They had superstrength, so they could carry it.

Of course, it would take several more months to make this railgun, so he had a nearby Military Reservation, MacAllister MR, cook something up.

Meanwhile, more men were being cloned.....the limit was 100,000 Guardians per Legion. But that was definetly more than enough.

Selection: 10/10
Augmentation: 10/10
Cloning: 15/20

SIC-New Arzamas-24 Military Reservation, New Territories, WSND-

The new railgun had been developed for the People's Guardians, it had a large binary cell (combined hydrogen power cell and tungsten-leninite-ferric materials suspended in a gel form) and internal replicator capable of 500 shots of 20mm railgun slugs.

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The new IGaG-1 Infantry Railgun being carried inside New Arzamas-24

Meanwhile, more men were being made, three more units were produced. Now, things were almost done....

Selection: 10/10
Augmentation: 10/10
Cloning: 20/20

Now, the legions were complete.....they would be shipped to their sectors.

The 1st Legion would be shipped to guard the Solar System. The 2nd, New Magnitogorsk and New Wuhan. The 3rd, Luxembourgia and the Kol'tssein Special Area. The 4th, Tau Ceti. The 5th and 6th, the New Territories. And the 7th, the other planets not on the list. However, though these were their assinged zones, the inherent qualities of each Guardian unit would ensure that frequent contact and coordination between the Legions would happen often.

The New Arzamas-24 Center would still churn out Guardians of these types....and none too soon....

OOC: Listings of personalities:

1st Legion, "Defenders of the Faith"- All around force, equivalent to the Ultramarines.

2nd Legion, "Shadow Dancers"- Guerilla style force, specializing in hit-and run attacks with lots of mixed firepower (heavy units and light infantry). The fastest moving of the Guardian factions. Specializes in using captured enemy equipment as well as their own. Deploys more Scouts than usual.

3rd Legion, "Fire Dragons"- Experts in close combat. Know kung fu to the max, fast and agile. As such, are terrible at long range, carry guns but prefer not to use them unless needed.

4th Legion, "Iron Valkyires"- Long distance combat masters, reliant on artillery and snipers to finish an objective (but also will not hesitate to use tanks and infantry as well), despise close up combat.

5th Legion, "Sons of the Acolytes"- Force sensitive, basically bulked up People's Acolytes that focus more on combat powers. Paitent and cautious, good at both long and close combat.

6th Legion, "Jackasses"- Extremely tough constitutions, with above average healing rates and dulled senses of pain. Extremely creative in tactics, very unorthodox fighters; they are demolitions nuts and pyros. Anarchaic; have been known to grind on enemy tanks in tests using skateboards.

7th Legion, "Warped Legion"- Known to carry drums and electric guitars into battle tests, which they smash on enemies. Extremely psychopathic and easily angered fighters who charge into battle and spray and pray at the slightest provocation, they seem to be driven by loud music. They love heavy firepower; in tests they were infamous for acts of overkill.

8th Legion, "Iron Monkeys"- Paranoid, they often spout crazed gibberish and have an inherent distrust of authority. However, they are also experts at gathering intellegence, sneaking into enemy territory to gain information. They are nigh near invisible, being masters at stealth. They love guns, and are second to the Valkiryes in their marksmanship, should an op go wrong.