The image of what looks to be a solitary planet appears in front of you. "This is Mekaen, our home," he says. Wistfully, you notice. "Home to the most brilliant of minds, the bravest of explorers, the hardiest of pioneers. I am an officer of the ruling Council's Militia." The wistful tone then hardened. "And we have been locked in civil conflict for a long time. Your languages do not have units of measure to properly encompass it."
I think their civilization is a work-based on rather an economy-centered like ours, which makes sense when they have a matter-to-energy converter which seems very efficient, I suppose, as well as being sturdy and long-lived.
"It is more accurate to say that there is never a singular face to the uprisings. Some had legitimate grievances, ones that we were able to settle peacefully. Others were political radicals that would stop at nothing until either they or the Council were deactivated."
There are probably issues with a caste system of some sort.
"Tyrannous did not always go by that name. He was once a laborer unit in the spaceports of Mekaen's satellites
Yep, totally castes.
"In one of our engagements, we were...struck," he struggles to find the right word, "by what looked to be a rogue projectile. One large enough to destroy parts of the very satellite we fought over." For a brief moment, Galbinus looks lost. "Not a single one of us has any memory logs of what took place. And if I were to believe his claims, neither does Tyrannous or any Free Brother of his."
Third alien party confirmed. They will be the second/third season's main enemy.
"Tyrannous claims he is gathering enough energy to bring his followers home," Galbinus says. You can hear the incredulity in his voice. "If that were truly the case, he could have left a long time ago. But he continues to linger in the system." The image of the solar system appears in front of you, with a few locations marked out. "Though we know he tends to linger in the belt of asteroids between the fourth and fifth planet of your system, he possesses a ship that never remains in one place for long." His tone shifts to that of sheer disgust. "An area that has more than enough for him to gather if he were to simply leave. He is either simply greedier than even I thought, or he is looking for something specifically.
Chances are Tyrannous is smarter than everyone is giving him credit for and he's actually hoarding resources to fight the unknown enemy. We still have to see whether he'll try to "switch sides" later on, or he'll fight us to the death in order to provide us EXP. Hopefully not the latter, as that was meta as hell even in SRW games.
"Energy shards are both sustenance and currency for the Kausen,"
So, like Derp Souls.
"I always found that weird," Satsuma mutters next to you. "Currency that you eat?"
"I've heard of stranger things
Thankfully it seems that the Souls-fad died at some point during the Internet War/the conflicts before the unification.
You also speak of George Sheol, and the fearsome kaiju that he unleashes from parts unknown. That he unleashes great monsters to batter the Earth Union into subjugation, to force them to accept his rule or perish. Of how the men and women of the Earth Union, even today, throw themselves into the path of danger and death, with full knowledge that they will die and that their death buys a comrade a few more precious seconds.
I wonder what do they think about kaijus, they probably consider our organic biology to be very inneficient and gross, with a clear "obsession about fluids".
You are incredibly amused, however, when Galbinus catches on to what you're having to do. "Redundant notation?"
Paperwork is universal, sadly.
Conducting surgery blind is not something you want your people to be doing.
We still don't know how they work on the inside. Hopefully they don't freak out too much once we exchange x-ray analysis or something like that.
Construct a Legio Galbinus Enclave - Satsuma and Galbinus all but stared at you for a good minute when you brought this up. They honestly weren't sure if you were kidding, or just talking about a hypothetical scenario. You assured them both that, no, you were absolutely serious.
If that fails, it's Peter's fault.
Energy Shard Processing - Though initially skeptical of providing the design rubric to you on this, you and Satsuma brought him to your way of thinking. Even Cavalier pitched in; if they were going to at least be cooperative, they should at least know how the technology works. For your part, you're just happy you now have another means of generating universally useful resources.
What is the currently most used energy source,
@Basarin? Just to know how to compare.
Also, can you provide us examples of what the Union has as Self-Propelled Guns? Just to know.
You're not sure how to feel when Galbinus joins you in your misery at the thought. Apparently he has his own share of strangeness with some of his subordinates.
Quirky scientists are also universal.
OVerall this faction is not "alien" enough IMO, but I blame anime conventions. At least it's clearly obvious that "romance" between a Kaus and a human is impossible... Right?
You can't shake on it with Galbinus, but the sentiment is there.
You should have gone with a brofist.
After what happens a week later, you actively remind yourself to stop jinxing yourself like that.
Learn meta-awareness fast, it's for your own good.
the best part about laser and rail weapons? their sheer speed would make them *very* hard to dodge. Any misses can be presumed to be operator error
If our mechs and/or enemies cannot dodge at the speed of light halfway through the game, I'll be disappointed.
(I would honestly say that the Air Superiority Line's core unit should be some kind of AWACS unit to provide real time scouting on top of their combat abilities That way the fully combined unit has a Weapons Officer, a Pilot, and a Sensor Tech)
I would go with 4-units based transformations IMO, always including a flying vehicle whenever possible just to be sure.
Major Devin: "Captain Sasaki, gather me 5 adult soldiers with an attitude!"
Hell no, we don't want a grimdark/"deconstruction" of Power Rangers.
In-universe or with fans?
What do you mean here? Mamoto is an Angel in the sense he can feel the presence of certain machine-people and tinker with them, as well as randomly upgrading G-stone based technologies with his mere presence. He also has actual (butterfly) wings and can fly.
He's also been confirmed as a human according to the secret organization's scans, or at least humanoid enough to fool those. Hell, during the ending/outro song, he shows up dressing like an actual angel, complete with feather wings.
Again, I vote to have Sakaki interact with it. But, perhaps, after Basarin gets introduced to Nanoha franchise.
I second that. I've been pleasantly surprised. I half-expected it would turn very grim at some point, but so far it's quite positive and the protagonist is OP, if a bit too young (9 years old or so, so Sasaki won't work).
They count themselves in "mechs". I find this interesting.
Well duh, they're giant robots as we are humans.
