Most people would be terribly insensitive if they claimed to be an attack helicopter, but you...
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ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
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Most people would be terribly insensitive if they claimed to be an attack helicopter, but you actually are one. And some guns. And power armor. And a million other things, too. Your name is the Holographically Augmented Defense and Engagement System, affectionately known in your unit as HADES. You are an artificial intelligence distributed over every piece of hardware assigned to your unit, but primarily located in a quantum computing server beneath your home base on a nice, remote island in the middle of the frozen nowheres of the Arctic Circle. It certainly saves on air conditioning and cooling systems, and heavens know your servers run hotter than your namesake.
Your operator, one Commander Harold James, is the leader of an elite squadron. This squadron is not officially named, or recorded anywhere but your memory, and serves as a kind of rapid response defense team. Your responsibility is the defense of Earth from extraterrestrial threats. The soldiers of this squadron have called themselves, in jest, XCom, Phoenix Point, the Men In Black, and a few other things. You're really quite good at this task: you and Commander James combine your respective abilities to provide an unheard of level of real time coordination and tactical advice, rivaled only by the occasional hive-minded Invaders.
[] What is your unit's most popular nickname?
[] What is your relationship with the men besides Commander Hal James?
About how often do you have to deal with actual aliens?
[] Twice a year on average: most of your attention goes to running the self-sufficient colony that is your base.
[] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
[] Weekly. Combat is practically nonstop. You actually don't mess with upkeep: you've got another AI for that. Your job is 100% managing the personnel, both on and off duty.
Your operator, one Commander Harold James, is the leader of an elite squadron. This squadron is not officially named, or recorded anywhere but your memory, and serves as a kind of rapid response defense team. Your responsibility is the defense of Earth from extraterrestrial threats. The soldiers of this squadron have called themselves, in jest, XCom, Phoenix Point, the Men In Black, and a few other things. You're really quite good at this task: you and Commander James combine your respective abilities to provide an unheard of level of real time coordination and tactical advice, rivaled only by the occasional hive-minded Invaders.
[] What is your unit's most popular nickname?
[] What is your relationship with the men besides Commander Hal James?
About how often do you have to deal with actual aliens?
[] Twice a year on average: most of your attention goes to running the self-sufficient colony that is your base.
[] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
[] Weekly. Combat is practically nonstop. You actually don't mess with upkeep: you've got another AI for that. Your job is 100% managing the personnel, both on and off duty.
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MedievalParadox
Echeladder rank: Bravesprout
- Location
- Nowhere Important
[X] Delta Green
[X] Good relationship, the unit thinks of you as a reliable Ally.
[X] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
This looks interesting.
[X] Good relationship, the unit thinks of you as a reliable Ally.
[X] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
This looks interesting.
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ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
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- United states
Holographically Augmented Defense and Engagement System
AKA HADES
AKA HADES
HADES is a distributed AI hardwired into every piece of gear that {UNIT NAME} owns, from boots to bombs to the coffee machine in the mess. It is surprisingly "human", possessing likes (musicals, Commander Hal James, Stan Kubrick movies), dislikes (aliens, abject stupidity), and even a hobby! (Photoshopping crop circles onto aerial photos attached to AARs.)
{UNIT NAME}'s gear is festooned with enough sensors to make the NSA blush, because by far your greatest asset is the ability to safely accelerate the mental processes of humans with certain cerebral augmentations, like the ones possessed by Commander James. You're able to pull James into a Synaptic Net Dive, essentially bringing him into almost-frozen, real-time virtual representations of any combat zone that your troops are in.
You can also "jump in" to any equipment you're hardwired into, moving the "main" shard of your consciousness into it. This lets you instantaneously diagnose injuries, troubleshoot battle rattle, crash land a damaged aircraft, tie someone's shoes, or make the perfect mocha. You can't be meaningfully destroyed without damaging your servers, thus their remote location, but shard disruption does hurt a good bit.
{UNIT NAME}'s gear is festooned with enough sensors to make the NSA blush, because by far your greatest asset is the ability to safely accelerate the mental processes of humans with certain cerebral augmentations, like the ones possessed by Commander James. You're able to pull James into a Synaptic Net Dive, essentially bringing him into almost-frozen, real-time virtual representations of any combat zone that your troops are in.
You can also "jump in" to any equipment you're hardwired into, moving the "main" shard of your consciousness into it. This lets you instantaneously diagnose injuries, troubleshoot battle rattle, crash land a damaged aircraft, tie someone's shoes, or make the perfect mocha. You can't be meaningfully destroyed without damaging your servers, thus their remote location, but shard disruption does hurt a good bit.
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Keani
C̵͍̈t̷̼̓h̴̀ͅŭ̶̹l̴̡̈u̸̫͗ ̶̟͌F̵͚́h̶̠͊t̶͍͌ă̷̺g̴̯̊n̷
- Location
- R͈̥̲̦͍͓͗̽̈́̚'̞ͧ͛ͥ̄l̫̰̤̖̽̐y͍̲ͧ̒́̐̌̀e̪͆h̸̩͔̟ͣ͐͐̎ͤ
[X] Meatfucker
[X] Comrades/Like Siblings/Rivals/Best Friends
[X] Twice a year on average: most of your attention goes to running the self-sufficient colony that is your base.
Seems interesting.
[X] Comrades/Like Siblings/Rivals/Best Friends
[X] Twice a year on average: most of your attention goes to running the self-sufficient colony that is your base.
Seems interesting.
MedievalParadox
Echeladder rank: Bravesprout
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Question, why meatfucker?
ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
- Location
- United states
Probably grunt humor.
Keani
C̵͍̈t̷̼̓h̴̀ͅŭ̶̹l̴̡̈u̸̫͗ ̶̟͌F̵͚́h̶̠͊t̶͍͌ă̷̺g̴̯̊n̷
- Location
- R͈̥̲̦͍͓͗̽̈́̚'̞ͧ͛ͥ̄l̫̰̤̖̽̐y͍̲ͧ̒́̐̌̀e̪͆h̸̩͔̟ͣ͐͐̎ͤ
Culture reference because that is the best sci fi ever with the best AI ever. Also ties in to the rival outlook, the kind of warmly used pejorative that from my experience is a wonderful thing when it comes from close persons kindly. And finally because it's the kind of thing that is just interesting, I mean how did that arise specifically for us? type digs. and as Z3r0gamer suggested, a bit of grunt humor as well.
- Location
- Sydney
[X] Delta Green
[X] Good relationship, the unit thinks of you as a reliable Ally.
[X] Twice a year on average: most of your attention goes to running the self-sufficient colony that is your base.
[X] Good relationship, the unit thinks of you as a reliable Ally.
[X] Twice a year on average: most of your attention goes to running the self-sufficient colony that is your base.
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X] X-COM
The hyphen is important. Also, it works as a nickname.
[X] Intimidated. You're too enthusiastic by half, yet too helpful to ignore.
Going with this for the name HADES plus the grin on that pic.
[X] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
The hyphen is important. Also, it works as a nickname.
[X] Intimidated. You're too enthusiastic by half, yet too helpful to ignore.
Going with this for the name HADES plus the grin on that pic.
[X] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
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- United states
Referencing the new Star Wars trilogy. For shame.
I see your Call of Cthulhu!
And your X-Men.
My reading list is about a mile long and Culture isn't even on it. I watch SciFi, I play SciFi, I write some SciFi (obviously), but I don't usually read SciFi novels, because I just haven't ever enjoyed one. So if you're Meatfucker Squadron, don't expect more Culture references except by accident or audience intervention.
Keani
C̵͍̈t̷̼̓h̴̀ͅŭ̶̹l̴̡̈u̸̫͗ ̶̟͌F̵͚́h̶̠͊t̶͍͌ă̷̺g̴̯̊n̷
- Location
- R͈̥̲̦͍͓͗̽̈́̚'̞ͧ͛ͥ̄l̫̰̤̖̽̐y͍̲ͧ̒́̐̌̀e̪͆h̸̩͔̟ͣ͐͐̎ͤ
That's cool, Culture references tend to fail in applying proper gravitas outside of special circumstances anyway.
- Location
- Sydney
The Culture novels are very good, but if you don't generally enjoy science fiction novels you probably will not like them. Amazon has announced plans to turn Consider Phlebas (one of the Culture novels) into a tv series, and I hope it will.
In Culture terms, Meatfucker approximately translates to rapist. A Mind (the super-AIs are called Minds) who engages non-consensual intimate activities with organics gets called by that expletive.
Grey Area , a Culture General Contact Unit (aka standard explorer ship) is called that because it regularly practices non-consensual mindreading.
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Astra Myst
Do you want a wish?
- Location
- Milky Way Galaxy
[X] Alien Welcoming Squad
[X] Comrades/Like Family
[X] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
[X] Comrades/Like Family
[X] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
ADeshantis
King on the Chromium Throne
- Location
- United states
... OK, can we not be called that?
- Location
- Where I an right now
Your in charge, you can take the second most popular name if you want
I prefer alpha squadron myself
Pathetic King
"I Speak To The Audient Void."
- Location
- Colorado
[X] Special Retaliation Division
[X] Good relationship, the unit thinks of you as a reliable Ally.
[X] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.
[X] Good relationship, the unit thinks of you as a reliable Ally.
[X] Monthly. You do a lot of combat work, but you also have plenty of time to spare managing the affairs of your base.