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The date is July 15 1969. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Special agent, Dirk Masters, guns down 20 men in a warehouse in Houston, foiling a plot that would have stolen the Saturn V and denied America its victory in the space race. His contribution to history is swiftly classified, and forgotten. The date is...

Prologue Ships arriving over Chulak was nothing unusual. As one of the great Hub-Worlds of the Star Empire of one of the greatest of System Lords Apophis himself, it possessed a population of over 3 Billion, consisting of hundreds of millions of Jaffa, Billions of Tauri serfs and even a good...

Prologue; Shape of things to come. 2015: When people think of secret underground bases buried beneath mountains hiding secret facilities, they think of facilities like Area 51, Cheyenne Mountain, Yamantau and many other publicly known facilities. I had to admit, the fact Area 51 existed was...

Aka: Aliens: Terror From The Bleep. Anyway, Aliens: Dark Descent is a real-time with pause strategy game released recently where you play as a rag tag team of marines and Weyland-Yutani employees thrown together by the whims of fate on a planet filled to the brim with Xenomorphs. The...

I've had the idea for this quest for about a year and a half now, so I better start posting it now before it digs any more grooves in my imagination. What is this quest? The Kindling We Live In is a Magic: The Gathering quest moderated by Pathfinder and the Spheres of Might / Spheres of Power...

My first breath in two years wasn't comfortable. It wasn't even really a breath, so much as a pained burbling, my eyes shooting open in the tank as I struggled. The suspension fluid might have been safe to let into my body, but there was no substitute for air. There was no substitute for...

Your name is Dr. Thomas Bartmoss, and you are having a no good very bad day. On one hand: you’ve been made the 3IC of the XCOM- the main method Earth has to fight Extraterrestrial Aliens- Engineering Department, which means your area of responsibility is the organization’s assorted automated...

A/N: I know this crossover has been done to death, but I've been playing XCOM and reading some Mass Effect fanfics recently so I figured I'd give my own take on it. This plot bunny has been floating around my head for the past week or so, and I just had to write it up. Don't expect frequent...

Something was wrong. Something was so wrong that it forced Ash awake, her breath steaming the frigid night air in front of her. Wait. Why was she asleep outside? Why was she asleep outside in the cold and dark? Adrenaline spiked through her, and she jerked awake, tossing off the layer of snow...

"Central, this is Voodoo Actual. Package is secure. Mission complete." "Central copies. Prepare to exfiltrate-" "Central, we have a complication." "What is it?" "Two civilians were caught in the crossfire. They're injured, but stable." "Copy. Why can't we flag down the authorities to care...

The world has changed. On a day like any other, a tear in the fabric of reality itself was suddenly and violently torn open. Like the claws of some terrible beast had cut and ripped a wound into the universe itself, and from that wound spilled forth creatures. Hordes of monsters charged out of...

We all know the story, aliens invade earth and humanity puts aside its differences to defeat the would-be subjugators through their ingenuity, adaptability or sheer will (or just luck and a deus ex machina). Except this time none of that happens, this time the world's top scientists aren't able...

The Year is 2029. It has been 10 years since the Etherals have established a puppet government of humanity in the form of ADVENT, and their hold shows no sign of weakening. Holding back Tiberium and offering a quality of living at the price of subservience, these aliens and traitors command the...

Prologue The Hyperion Incident (Part 1) 2300 Hours 31 December, 2054 The Hyperion, North Atlantic The sea thrashes against the hull of the ship with a satisfying smash. You take a deep breath and let the salty air fill your nostrils as you hunch over the railing out to sea. You hear the sound...

So apparently I am doing this. First of disclaimer, this is my first attempt at a quest or any fiction at all, additionally english is not my native language and I mainly write this to train my writing. Other than that, I hope you enjoy this and pls let me know when I fk up or you have any input...

It is the year of 2015 and the world has had its first contact with extraterrestrial life forms several months ago in late September 2014. Unfortunately for all, this first contact has proven to be hostile as the unexpected alien spacecraft destroyed the International Space Station in an...

1996, December 20th New York City, Headquarters of the United Nations. The tiny meeting room was dead silent as five people shuffled into their seats. A few moments passed before the young woman sighed “So are we really it? Something this serious.” “It's a joke is what it is! We are! this...

Led by Jake Solomon's team at Firaxis Games, this is basically the big project he's been working for a few years after XCOM 2 came out in 2016. It's basically a dream project for him as it's an adaptation of one of his favourite comic book storylines from the 90s involving the Midnight Sons...

The city was alive at night, with city lights and fireworks lighting up the night sky. Soldiers patrolled the streets, wearing black and red armor, sometimes stopping civilians as they walked by. But one kept walking towards a rather unassuming clinic, clad in a large, blue jacket with a simple...

Greetings to you Higher Beings of the Multiverse. You are assembled here much as always to partake in activities of Enjoyment Unique to our Kind. To Shape and Guide, Let us Partake shall we? What noble race from the Xcom Universe do we the Robs of the Multiverse find ourselves controlling? []...

Preface Dunno if there's a one-off thread for either world building sketches or for XCOM specifically but I came up with an idea of a post-XCOM 2: War of the Chosen scenario combined with Phoenix Point factions. I got caught up with the idea of exploring different resistance factions that could...

So this thread is me hoping people will come help me bounce idea around for my probably terrible idea to run a "rebel cells fighting the colonizers" game in D&D3/PF. I went with INSURRECTION because it sounds cool as a name I'm using XCOM 2 as the structural model for building this whole...

From the Journal of XCOM Commander [REDACTED] Twenty years. Twenty long years. That’s how long it took for XCOM’s war with the Elder’s to end. Contact didn’t go so well for us. We fought as hard as we could, lost a lot of good people along the way, experienced victory and defeat to protect...

From the Journal of XCOM Commander [REDACTED] Twenty years. Twenty long years. That's how long it took for XCOM's war with the Elder's to end. Contact didn't go so well for us. We fought as hard as we could, lost a lot of good people along the way, experienced victory and defeat to protect...

Waking up after a short nap is always interesting. Especially when you realize you aren’t where you went to sleep. Even more so when you’re pretty sure you got kidnapped, and that someone’s raiding the place you got kidnapped to. That or I woke up in the middle of a warzone, because all those...