DocTachyon

Warhammer 40k: Answering the Call - An Only War/Guard RP [Seeking cannon fodder]

Interested. That said, my only real 40k knowledge is having read a handful of articles on the wiki and reading all of The All Guardsmen Party.

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IN: MIDNIGHTER V. THE PEOPLE OF ATLANTIS

M E T R O P O L I S / U S A :

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^{June 2nd, 2019 - 12:35 | Metropolis Streets}

War was something familiar to Midnighter. He was bred for it, molded by it. In some ways, the world was only war. Wars of culture, ideas, and of personality. It never stopped, and it never would. It was all the League and all the Peace Corps of the world could do to just slow the cycle down. But goddamn it if those Atlantean sons of bitches wouldn’t try their best to cock up the process.

Midnighter would’ve liked to think he was knee deep in the dead. Instead he was knee deep in a pile of people with profound spinal cord injuries, who’d need major corrective surgery. Didn’t have the same ring to it. By now Midnighter had taken to uprooting parking meters and lobbing them like spears. Bonus points for headshots. The Atlanteans fell easier than expected. He might’ve assumed them to be stronger, for a people that survive under immense pressures day in and day out. But that didn’t change the fact that they had shit unit tactics and had to contend with every available branch of the US Military shelling the ever loving crap out of them, in the city with the greatest Superhero-Per-Capita rating in the world. Not exactly ideal invasion conditions.

There was something… Off about this invasion. The Atlanteans were a proud people, incredibly powerful and commanded with impeccable military structure. But this invasion was just… Off. Were it up to Midnighter he’d have started by takeover of small, defenseless port towns. Atlanteans were damned near indistinguishable from humans -- they could’ve set up Forward Operating Bases anywhere in America and no one would be the wiser. Instead they charged gung-ho into major population centers that had capes falling out of every orifice. Not to say Midnighter was complaining -- it made them so much easier to mop up.

In the past hour they’d made a lot of surprising progress, mostly locking down beachheads in all the ports, and dismantling whatever Navy presence there was. But by then surface resistance had gotten a little thicker and that posed problems. Turns out Atlanteans that didn’t really know what surface-land looks like were easily surprised by landmines. Midnighter had also taken the liberty of rounding up the fancy-schmancy energy weapons of any Atlanteans he dropped and mass-teleporting them to HQ for distribution. The surprise on an Atlanteans face at seeing their armor being boiled away by their own weapons brought Midnighter a special kind of satisfaction.

Still, he couldn’t help but feel almost useless up here. In between stacking up car barricades with his super strength, he was just shooting fish in a barrel that’d get taken out by another Leaguer or a lucky Cop with an Atlantis-gun. All of the cities should be more of less effectively covered -- Titans could handle SanFran, old guard Leaguers could take Coast City, current and reservist Leaguers could handle Metropolis, and hopefully the solo heroes would remove their heads from their own asses long enough to marshal a defense for Hub City.

He ripped the door off of a nearby car and wrapped it around his latest Atlantean takedown. He added him to his slowly growing pyramid of soldiers. That left Midnighter as a foot soldier, cutting down any infantry who took a wrong turn and ended up in his neighborhood. It was fun, sure, cracking skulls and making interesting pretzels out of Atlantean body parts, but it was somehow unfulfilling.

Midnighter looked into the horizon, past his latest car barricade, waiting for the next wave to roll in with the tide. He could see out into the sparkling ocean beyond. If he put the fire and the smoke and the steady rat-tat-tat of gunfire out of his mind, the water was almost beautiful… A great, blue-green jewel hiding the greatest city the world had ever known. Then, it hit him. He keyed his comms.

“League channels, this is Midnighter. I’m abandoning position -- I’m going to give those Atlantean sons-of-bitches a taste of their own medicine.”

[Multiverse Spaceship RP] Stargate: Paradigm

Hey, sorry for a late and not-that-great post. I've been rather busy this past week with finals and stuff going on, but I tried to get something out.

@Queen Raidne It's been the Janus since I submitted. If it's a hassle I can change it.

[Multiverse Spaceship RP] Stargate: Paradigm

The Battle of Earth. Archie had hoped this day would never come -- The Covenant finding their home world. With only the fleet and a handful of Spartans between a purge by almighty aliens and salvation. Archie had considered it, in his quiet moments. What he would do. What he could do. Maybe he'd pull his standard issue M6G and die gloriously repelling invaders. Maybe he'd commandeer one of the Longswords and go out in a blaze of glory. What he didn't expect was to find himself as new Captain with the old one's brains spattered over his boots.

Archie's stomach churned and hearing gave out as his brain shuddered at the sudden shift in the status quo. He didn't know if he would throw up or if he would curl into a little ball and die. The only thing he could focus on was the whir of the Shaw-Fujikawa translight engine as it came to life, and the background shouts of the ONI spook that had just killed his only mentor in the world, ordering the bridge crew to shut the jump to slipspace down.

"Captain." Agent V's blue eyes broke his trance. Archie hadn't supposed she'd be capable of something like this. A short woman with mousy brain hair tied back into a loose ponytail, with glasses that always seemed slightly askew. She seemed more like a pissed off librarian than a murderer. But the specks of blood on her ONI uniform was helping reality to set in.

"The Shaw-Fujikawa is midcycle and doesn't seem to be stopping. You need to do something." Her fingernail stabbed into his chest.

"I... Uh..." The bridge was silent for an instant, the crew waiting to see what their new captain would do. Or maybe they were also going into shock from watching their former Captain's attempt as cowardice suddenly and brutally cut down.

"JJ... Spin us up a return vector." The sound of the world faded into background buzzing once more as Archie took measured steps to the Captain's chair. The noise of the crew became a quiet rumble, and the groans of plasma burns on the Janus's armor disappeared from his register.

Reality lurched for a moment. Whatever was happening, this wasn't a slipstream jump. There was a certain subtlety to slipstream, the gentle rend of spacetime's fabric around you as your vessel entered the space between dimensions. This was something else -- Being violently shunted from one plane to the next, everything going wrong for just a moment. The air tasted purple and everything sounded like the number six until all the five sense schlorped back to normal.

"I..." Archie pushed himself into the fabric of the Captain's chair, "What...?"

"Sir, Spartan-096 reporting. Green Team is ready to drop -- what's happening up there?" Elise's voice crackled from the dead man's comms.

Vomit dribbled from the ONI Agent's mouth. She pulled herself from the floor. Archie realized that since the jump, almost everyone had changed positions. Half the bridge crew were laid out in bizarre positions, some intertwined with one another like twenty steps into a game of Twister. Maisie ripped the comm from the body.

"Belay that drop, Spartan. Wait for additional orders." Maisie croaked into the microphone. She dropped the device and dry heaved.

JJ's voice pulsed from the center console. "Staff...," his voice and form was obscured by static for a moment, "I don't know how else to put this, but I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

[Multiverse Spaceship RP] Stargate: Paradigm

Janus

Name of Ship: UNSC Janus
Home Universe/Name of Franchise: Halo
Role: Heavy Cruiser; optimized for Command and Attack functions

The Janus is a Marathon-Class heavy cruiser, and like most human ships, has an incredibly industrial design. The Janus is a modification on the class; considered to be something of a halfway point between the usual Marathon-classes and the later Infinity-class carriers. The ship is wrapped in 304 centimeters of titanium A battle plating, and features an angular design, appearing somewhat like a tiered cake if viewed from engine housing upwards. The ship was designed for function over aesthetic -- it has multiple protruding gunports, missile silos, and a forward facing MAC cannon fused into the ship's superstructure.

Physical Size (roughly): The Janus is slightly over the typical size of a Marathon-class cruiser, coming in at 1200 meters long, 300 meters wide, and 400 meters tall.

Armament:

-x1 Mark IX Heavy Coil MAC: Serving as Janus' showstopper is the ship's heavy coil MAC cannon. The MAC, or Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, is a massive coilgun based on railgun technology. A modification of the standard MAC cannon, it fires an 800 ton projectile made from part ferrous tungsten and part depleted uranium at an astonishing 60 kilometers per hour. The Heavy Coil MAC takes a dramatic amount of time to charge, and can typically only be used once per fight, sparing only the most drawn out engagements. The Heavy Coil is powerful enough that it was fused directly into the ship's skeleton to enable its use, and can only be fired directly from the front of the ship.

-x2 MAC Cannons: Smaller, more standardized versions of the Janus' big gun, affixed to the ship's center on the top and bottom. They fire a slightly smaller 600 ton projectile at 30 kilometers per hour. These cannons can be used much more frequently during engagements compared to the Heavy Coil, but their use is relatively infrequent compared to typical ship-to-ship arms.

-x300 Oversized M58 Archer Missile Pods: Carrying 40 missiles per pod, Archer missiles are some of the most frequently used in the Janus' arsenal. Targeted by shipboard AI, missiles are typically fired in a massive burst at the target. The Archer's have typically proven ineffective over the course of Janus's tenure. They have trouble penetrating shields, are easily taken down by point defense lasers or guns, and are vulnerable to jamming to disable their guidance functions. However, the missiles have proven to be devastatingly effective against armor.

-x10 Rapier Missile Pods: A new missile variant being tested by the UNSC aboard the Janus. They are a marked improvement over the Archer in many ways, but steps backward in others. With only 15 missiles to a pod, a Captain must be much more careful about their application. The Rapiers are infused with small amounts of plasma technology appropriated from Covenant vessels, and are quite effective against shielding compared to the standard Archers -- but in gaining this strength, the Rapiers sacrifice their specific usefulness against armor. The Rapiers also share the Archer's weakness against point defense weapons and jamming.

-x400 M965 50mm Point Defense Guns: Lining much of the ship's surface, the M965 Defense Array fires 50mm high explosive ammunition. The guns are not terribly effective against enemy vessels and are entirely useless against shielded opponents -- however, the guns main purpose is to shoot down missile-based assaults and enemy fighters/bombers.

-x2 HAVOK Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A devastating nuclear weapon intended only for the most dire of circumstances. Most UNSC vessels are only given one, if any at all, but HIGHCOM appropriated an additonal one for Janus for it's role in the Battle of Earth. With a thermonuclear yeild of 30 megatons, it can be activated remotely or, in desperate situations, manually.

-x5 Fusion Rockets: Relatively inefficient kinetic strikes. They've proven largely useless against shielded opponents and have no guidance system. They are largely utilized against stationary targets.

Complement:

-800 Naval Personnel: Responsible for management of the ship and repairs, as well as manning of Longswords and Pelicans.

-200 UNSC Marines: Standard greenhorn marines, typically armed with assault rifles, but also known to carry rocket launchers, rail guns, and a variety of weaponry.

-5 Orbital Drop/Shock Troopers(ODSTs): Elite troopers, outstanding from the Marines. The best of the best of regular human beings; these five are the only ones left onboard after most of Janus' complement dropped into battle.

-3 SPARTAN II Super Soldiers: Augmented super soldiers dressed in MJOLNIR powered armor. Superior to regular human beings by a long shot, SPARTANs are fast, strong, and hyperlethal.

-24 Longsword Interceptors: Standard interceptor, primarily used for combat against other fighters. The Longsword can be modified to serve in a bombing role, but it does not excel in this function.

-10 Pelican Dropships: Troop Transports that carry up to fifteen soldiers. Affixed with a nose gun used for personal defense. Pelicans can also be utilized to carry and drop in Warthog LAVs and Scorpion MBTs.

-12 Warthog LAVs: Three man light assault land vehicle with chain gun, rail gun, or missile pod attachment in the back gunner seat.

-1 Scorpion Main Battle Tank: Large, heavily armored tank with large main cannon and supporting chain gun. One driver and one turret operator -- up to four soldiers can ride on the Tank's treads.

-25 HEVs: Human Entry Vehicles, or Drop Pods, designed to be used by ODSTs -- dropped from orbit to deliver the soldiers to ground.

-6 Falcon Gunships: A tilt and reverse rotor helicopter with occupancy for up to five troops inside, excluding pilot. Two machinegun turrets are affixed to either door side. Falcons also come with a standard M638 autocannon affixed to the chin of the craft.

-1x Huragok Engineer: One from a race of biological supercomputers. Used entirely in secret, usually for repair work.

-1x "Smart" AI: Responsible for major ship duties, navigation, targeting algorithms, etc. Has been known to leave the ship inside a SPARTANs helmet.

History of the Ship:

The Janus is a relatively new ship, commissioned by ONI as a testing grounds for some of their pet projects, particularly the new Huragok acquisition. For a time it was staffed only be a skeleton crew, one captain Hurst, and a handful of ONI Operatives. After a few months of service, usually putting around Outer Colonies, Janus received notification about the Battle of Reach and was deployed to aid in the combat efforts. Though the Janus ultimately arrived too late to be of service, she was given a full crew and standing orders to stay in or near the Sol System, as HIGHCOM feared an attack on Earth. When that fateful day arrived, the Janus was able to deploy most of it's payload of ODSTs and fight valiantly against the Covenant menace. However, the Captain, Hurst, ultimately proved disloyal on the arrival of a fourth wave of the Covenant fleet, and began powering up the Translight engine in an escape attempt. He was immediately shot by the resident ONI Officer, but then things got... Weird. They were now in uncharted space, with no planet like Earth around for lightyears...

Notable Crew:

Crew Name: Archibald "Archie" Stevenson
Crew Role: Ship Captain
Crew Description: Archie hails from the planet of Carrow, where he lived for all his life until the fateful day of the Covenant's attack. He joined OCS immediately, wishing to destroy the Covenant with as much firepower as he could get his hands on -- and that happened to be aboard a Heavy Cruiser. For most of the war's duration, Archie has served on either Halcyon Class or Marathon Class vessel. During The Battle of Earth, when the former Captain expired, Archie found himself suddenly promoted.

Crew Name: Maisie Villarreal
Crew Role: ONI Agent
Crew Description: A representative from the Office of Naval Intelligence whose purpose is to keep track of all experimental tech employed by the Janus and keep an eye on the Huragok. She likes to keep out of people's way, keeping her head down and doing her job, and she rarely makes any time for small talk or pleasantries. This has earned her a reputation as a stone cold bitch. She is fiercely, relentlessly loyal to the UNSC.

Crew Name: Janus, or "JJ"
Crew Role: AI
Crew Description: Named for the ship he was ultimately placed on, JJ is a Smart AI that was designed along with and specifically for the Janus. He's a relatively new AI, and hasn't had as much experience as the now famous Cortana. Still, his processing speeds and function is incredible. He's deeply curious and has something of a minor God complex. A common adage of his is "I am the ship, and the ship is me." He has been disconnected from time to time, but he never recalls it as a pleasant experience.

Crew Name: Elise-096
Crew Role: SPARTAN II Super Soldier
Crew Description: Along with Graham-024 and Thalia-133, she is the leader of Green Team, deployed on a number of ONI-assigned missions for most of the Human-Covenant War. Like most Spartans, Elise is reserved and quiet, usually only speaking when spoken to. Among her fellows she is creative and a free thinker, and probably would have been something of a flower child if she hadn't ended up in the Spartan program. She's prone to want to question orders, but has had such practices beaten out of her. Still, in her private moments, she wonders if she's doing the right thing.

Crew Name: Cain Shaw
Crew Role: ODST Commando
Crew Description: Leader of the last ODST squadron scheduled to deploy from the Janus, Cain is pissed he and his team didn't get a chance to defend Earth and her peoples. He is loud, brash, and in-charge, characteristic of most ODSTs. Shaw has spent his career as an ODST getting screwed over, not deployed to any major conflict locations, always being ferried to a new locale as back-up, and he's fed up with it.

Crew Name: Inconsistent Buoyancy
Crew Role: Huragok Engineer
Crew Description: An Engineer acquired by ONI for service on the Janus. It was a truly remarkable find, and a clandestine operation to get the damned thing on board and keep it hush hush. Inconsistent is content to float around the ship, being corralled by Maisie, fixing whatever he(if it can even be called a 'he') can find.

Unique Technology:
-Shaw/Fujikawa Translight Engine: Means of entering slipstream space for fast transit.
-MAC Cannons
Crew Size: 1008 human beings on board
Class: Marathon-Class
Faction/Operator/Owner: The United Nations Space Command

No More Heroes

I'm majorly into this idea, but I have a couple ideas and I'm not sure which would slot best into the little group that's forming. I hope you guys can help me decide:

-Alien symbiote type, ala Venom or Carnage. It comes from a species who each get to 'dominate' a planet, by subjugating as many creatures as possible with its biomass. In this culture, each symbiote is given one planet for itself and itself alone, so the creature would view the other invaders as pretenders to its new throne/homeland, and feel compelled to destroy them.

-Super Scientist type, ala Doctor Octopus or more specifically, Doc Ock's time as the Superior Spiderman. Would probably tout himself as the "Supreme Scientist" of the world, and all known worlds, and think himself perfectly suited to the task of defeat The Outsiders, which those simpleton heroes would of course be incapable of. Would probably be a gadgeteer, but have one main gimmick(like how Ock has his arms as his 'main thing'.)

-Cowboy type guy, largely based on McCree and Reaper from Overwatch, as well as Bullseye from Marvel Comics and Vigilante from DC Comics. Pistolero mercenary who was mostly in it for kicks and the cash. A little bit of a narcissist, and doesn't really think he can die. He was just doing it for the money and isn't really interested in anyone but himself, his wife, and his son. He thought he was living the good life -- plenty of money, plenty of time with his family, and he'd always gets sprung from the joint by his next employer. That is, until the Outsiders attacked.

-Someone from a future where The Outsiders won and humanity well and truly lost. To this character, that event is well in the past, and they are far descended from one of the era's Great Heroes. They figured they could travel back in time, quickly take over to better shore up the planet's defenses. They were quickly defeated by the planets heroes and sent to prison. They are now desperately trying to gather a team to put an end to the Outsiders.

I have a few more ideas rolling around in case none of these would really work, but these are the main ones I'm considering. Which would you all like to see most?

[Multiverse Spaceship RP] Stargate: Paradigm

Hope it's cool to post a WIP. This seems like a cool idea.

Janus

Name of Ship: UNSC Janus
Home Universe/Name of Franchise: Halo
Role: Heavy Cruiser; optimized for Command and Attack functions

The Janus is a Marathon-Class heavy cruiser, and like most human ships, has an incredibly industrial design. The Janus is a modification on the class; considered to be something of a halfway point between the usual Marathon-classes and the later Infinity-class carriers. The ship is wrapped in 304 centimeters of titanium A battle plating, and features an angular design, appearing somewhat like a tiered cake if viewed from engine housing upwards. The ship was designed for function over aesthetic -- it has multiple protruding gunports, missile silos, and a forward facing MAC cannon fused into the ship's superstructure.

Physical Size (roughly): The Janus is slightly over the typical size of a Marathon-class cruiser, coming in at 1200 meters long, 300 meters wide, and 400 meters tall.

Armament:

-x1 Mark IX Heavy Coil MAC: Serving as Janus' showstopper is the ship's heavy coil MAC cannon. The MAC, or Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, is a massive coilgun based on railgun technology. A modification of the standard MAC cannon, it fires an 800 ton projectile made from part ferrous tungsten and part depleted uranium at an astonishing 60 kilometers per hour. The Heavy Coil MAC takes a dramatic amount of time to charge, and can typically only be used once per fight, sparing only the most drawn out engagements. The Heavy Coil is powerful enough that it was fused directly into the ship's skeleton to enable its use, and can only be fired directly from the front of the ship.

-x2 MAC Cannons: Smaller, more standardized versions of the Janus' big gun, affixed to the ship's center on the top and bottom. They fire a slightly smaller 600 ton projectile at 30 kilometers per hour. These cannons can be used much more frequently during engagements compared to the Heavy Coil, but their use is relatively infrequent compared to typical ship-to-ship arms.

-x300 Oversized M58 Archer Missile Pods: Carrying 40 missiles per pod, Archer missiles are some of the most frequently used in the Janus' arsenal. Targeted by shipboard AI, missiles are typically fired in a massive burst at the target. The Archer's have typically proven ineffective over the course of Janus's tenure. They have trouble penetrating shields, are easily taken down by point defense lasers or guns, and are vulnerable to jamming to disable their guidance functions. However, the missiles have proven to be devastatingly effective against armor.

-x10 Rapier Missile Pods: A new missile variant being tested by the UNSC aboard the Janus. They are a marked improvement over the Archer in many ways, but steps backward in others. With only 15 missiles to a pod, a Captain must be much more careful about their application. The Rapiers are infused with small amounts of plasma technology appropriated from Covenant vessels, and are quite effective against shielding compared to the standard Archers -- but in gaining this strength, the Rapiers sacrifice their specific usefulness against armor. The Rapiers also share the Archer's weakness against point defense weapons and jamming.

-x400 M965 50mm Point Defense Guns: Lining much of the ship's surface, the M965 Defense Array fires 50mm high explosive ammunition. The guns are not terribly effective against enemy vessels and are entirely useless against shielded opponents -- however, the guns main purpose is to shoot down missile-based assaults and enemy fighters/bombers.

-x2 HAVOK Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A devastating nuclear weapon intended only for the most dire of circumstances. Most UNSC vessels are only given one, if any at all, but HIGHCOM appropriated an additonal one for Janus for it's role in the Battle of Earth. With a thermonuclear yeild of 30 megatons, it can be activated remotely or, in desperate situations, manually.

-x5 Fusion Rockets: Relatively inefficient kinetic strikes. They've proven largely useless against shielded opponents and have no guidance system. They are largely utilized against stationary targets.

Complement:

-800 Naval Personnel: Responsible for management of the ship and repairs, as well as manning of Longswords and Pelicans.

-200 UNSC Marines: Standard greenhorn marines, typically armed with assault rifles, but also known to carry rocket launchers, rail guns, and a variety of weaponry.

-5 Orbital Drop/Shock Troopers(ODSTs): Elite troopers, outstanding from the Marines. The best of the best of regular human beings; these five are the only ones left onboard after most of Janus' complement dropped into battle.

-3 SPARTAN II Super Soldiers: Augmented super soldiers dressed in MJOLNIR powered armor. Superior to regular human beings by a long shot, SPARTANs are fast, strong, and hyperlethal.

-24 Longsword Interceptors: Standard interceptor, primarily used for combat against other fighters. The Longsword can be modified to serve in a bombing role, but it does not excel in this function.

-10 Pelican Dropships: Troop Transports that carry up to fifteen soldiers. Affixed with a nose gun used for personal defense. Pelicans can also be utilized to carry and drop in Warthog LAVs and Scorpion MBTs.

-12 Warthog LAVs: Three man light assault land vehicle with chain gun, rail gun, or missile pod attachment in the back gunner seat.

-4 Scorpion Main Battle Tanks: Large, heavily armored tanks with large main cannon and supporting chain gun. One driver and one turret operator -- up to four soldiers can ride on the Tank's treads.

-25 HEVs: Human Entry Vehicles, or Drop Pods, designed to be used by ODSTs -- dropped from orbit to deliver the soldiers to ground.

-6 Falcon Gunships: A tilt and reverse rotor helicopter with occupancy for up to five troops inside, excluding pilot. Two machinegun turrets are affixed to either door side. Falcons also come with a standard M638 autocannon affixed to the chin of the craft.

-1x Huragok Engineer: One from a race of biological supercomputers. Used entirely in secret, usually for repair work.

-1x "Smart" AI: Responsible for major ship duties, navigation, targeting algorithms, etc. Has been known to leave the ship inside a SPARTANs helmet.

History of the Ship:

The Janus is a relatively new ship, commissioned by ONI as a testing grounds for some of their pet projects, particularly the new Huragok acquisition. For a time it was staffed only be a skeleton crew, one captain Hurst, and a handful of ONI Operatives. After a few months of service, usually putting around Outer Colonies, Janus received notification about the Battle of Reach and was deployed to aid in the combat efforts. Though the Janus ultimately arrived too late to be of service, she was given a full crew and standing orders to stay in or near the Sol System, as HIGHCOM feared an attack on Earth. When that fateful day arrived, the Janus was able to deploy most of it's payload of ODSTs and fight valiantly against the Covenant menace. However, the Captain, Hurst, ultimately proved disloyal on the arrival of a fourth wave of the Covenant fleet, and began powering up the Translight engine in an escape attempt. He was immediately shot by the resident ONI Officer, but then things got... Weird. They were now in uncharted space, with no planet like Earth around for lightyears...

Notable Crew:

Crew Name: Archibald "Archie" Stevenson
Crew Role: Ship Captain
Crew Description: Archie hails from the planet of Carrow, where he lived for all his life until the fateful day of the Covenant's attack. He joined OCS immediately, wishing to destroy the Covenant with as much firepower as he could get his hands on -- and that happened to be aboard a Heavy Cruiser. For most of the war's duration, Archie has served on either Halcyon Class or Marathon Class vessel. During The Battle of Earth, when the former Captain expired, Archie found himself suddenly promoted.

Crew Name: Maisie Villarreal
Crew Role: ONI Agent
Crew Description: A representative from the Office of Naval Intelligence whose purpose is to keep track of all experimental tech employed by the Janus and keep an eye on the Huragok. She likes to keep out of people's way, keeping her head down and doing her job, and she rarely makes any time for small talk or pleasantries. This has earned her a reputation as a stone cold bitch. She is fiercely, relentlessly loyal to the UNSC.

Crew Name: Janus, or "JJ"
Crew Role: AI
Crew Description: Named for the ship he was ultimately placed on, JJ is a Smart AI that was designed along with and specifically for the Janus. He's a relatively new AI, and hasn't had as much experience as the now famous Cortana. Still, his processing speeds and function is incredible. He's deeply curious and has something of a minor God complex. A common adage of his is "I am the ship, and the ship is me." He has been disconnected from time to time, but he never recalls it as a pleasant experience.

Crew Name: Elise-096
Crew Role: SPARTAN II Super Soldier
Crew Description: Along with Graham-024 and Thalia-133, she is the leader of Green Team, deployed on a number of ONI-assigned missions for most of the Human-Covenant War. Like most Spartans, Elise is reserved and quiet, usually only speaking when spoken to. Among her fellows she is creative and a free thinker, and probably would have been something of a flower child if she hadn't ended up in the Spartan program. She's prone to want to question orders, but has had such practices beaten out of her. Still, in her private moments, she wonders if she's doing the right thing.

Crew Name: Cain Shaw
Crew Role: ODST Commando
Crew Description: Leader of the last ODST squadron scheduled to deploy from the Janus, Cain is pissed he and his team didn't get a chance to defend Earth and her peoples. He is loud, brash, and in-charge, characteristic of most ODSTs. Shaw has spent his career as an ODST getting screwed over, not deployed to any major conflict locations, always being ferried to a new locale as back-up, and he's fed up with it.

Crew Name: Inconsistent Buoyancy
Crew Role: Huragok Engineer
Crew Description: An Engineer acquired by ONI for service on the Janus. It was a truly remarkable find, and a clandestine operation to get the damned thing on board and keep it hush hush. Inconsistent is content to float around the ship, being corralled by Maisie, fixing whatever he(if it can even be called a 'he') can find.

Unique Technology:
-Shaw/Fujikawa Translight Engine: Means of entering slipstream space for fast transit.
-MAC Cannons
Crew Size: 1008 human beings on board
Class: Marathon-Class
Faction/Operator/Owner: The United Nations Space Command

@DocTachyon

@Queen RaidneFinished up my sheet. I get that it probably reads a bit powerful, but Halo's weapons are quite weak for most Sci-Fi settings.

[Multiverse Spaceship RP] Stargate: Paradigm

Hope it's cool to post a WIP. This seems like a cool idea.

Janus

Name of Ship: UNSC Janus
Home Universe/Name of Franchise: Halo
Role: Heavy Cruiser; optimized for Command and Attack functions

The Janus is a Marathon-Class heavy cruiser, and like most human ships, has an incredibly industrial design. The Janus is a modification on the class; considered to be something of a halfway point between the usual Marathon-classes and the later Infinity-class carriers. The ship is wrapped in 304 centimeters of titanium A battle plating, and features an angular design, appearing somewhat like a tiered cake if viewed from engine housing upwards. The ship was designed for function over aesthetic -- it has multiple protruding gunports, missile silos, and a forward facing MAC cannon fused into the ship's superstructure.

Physical Size (roughly): The Janus is slightly over the typical size of a Marathon-class cruiser, coming in at 1200 meters long, 300 meters wide, and 400 meters tall.

Armament:

-x1 Mark IX Heavy Coil MAC: Serving as Janus' showstopper is the ship's heavy coil MAC cannon. The MAC, or Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, is a massive coilgun based on railgun technology. A modification of the standard MAC cannon, it fires an 800 ton projectile made from part ferrous tungsten and part depleted uranium at an astonishing 60 kilometers per hour. The Heavy Coil MAC takes a dramatic amount of time to charge, and can typically only be used once per fight, sparing only the most drawn out engagements. The Heavy Coil is powerful enough that it was fused directly into the ship's skeleton to enable its use, and can only be fired directly from the front of the ship.

-x2 MAC Cannons: Smaller, more standardized versions of the Janus' big gun, affixed to the ship's center on the top and bottom. They fire a slightly smaller 600 ton projectile at 30 kilometers per hour. These cannons can be used much more frequently during engagements compared to the Heavy Coil, but their use is relatively infrequent compared to typical ship-to-ship arms.

-x300 Oversized M58 Archer Missile Pods: Carrying 40 missiles per pod, Archer missiles are some of the most frequently used in the Janus' arsenal. Targeted by shipboard AI, missiles are typically fired in a massive burst at the target. The Archer's have typically proven ineffective over the course of Janus's tenure. They have trouble penetrating shields, are easily taken down by point defense lasers or guns, and are vulnerable to jamming to disable their guidance functions. However, the missiles have proven to be devastatingly effective against armor.

-x10 Rapier Missile Pods: A new missile variant being tested by the UNSC aboard the Janus. They are a marked improvement over the Archer in many ways, but steps backward in others. With only 15 missiles to a pod, a Captain must be much more careful about their application. The Rapiers are infused with small amounts of plasma technology appropriated from Covenant vessels, and are quite effective against shielding compared to the standard Archers -- but in gaining this strength, the Rapiers sacrifice their specific usefulness against armor. The Rapiers also share the Archer's weakness against point defense weapons and jamming.

-x400 M965 50mm Point Defense Guns: Lining much of the ship's surface, the M965 Defense Array fires 50mm high explosive ammunition. The guns are not terribly effective against enemy vessels and are entirely useless against shielded opponents -- however, the guns main purpose is to shoot down missile-based assaults and enemy fighters/bombers.

-x2 HAVOK Tactical Nuclear Weapons: A devastating nuclear weapon intended only for the most dire of circumstances. Most UNSC vessels are only given one, if any at all, but HIGHCOM appropriated an additonal one for Janus for it's role in the Battle of Earth. With a thermonuclear yeild of 30 megatons, it can be activated remotely or, in desperate situations, manually.

-x5 Fusion Rockets: Relatively inefficient kinetic strikes. They've proven largely useless against shielded opponents and have no guidance system. They are largely utilized against stationary targets.

Complement:

-800 Naval Personnel: Responsible for management of the ship and repairs, as well as manning of Longswords and Pelicans.

-200 UNSC Marines: Standard greenhorn marines, typically armed with assault rifles, but also known to carry rocket launchers, rail guns, and a variety of weaponry.

-5 Orbital Drop/Shock Troopers(ODSTs): Elite troopers, outstanding from the Marines. The best of the best of regular human beings; these five are the only ones left onboard after most of Janus' complement dropped into battle.

-3 SPARTAN II Super Soldiers: Augmented super soldiers dressed in MJOLNIR powered armor. Superior to regular human beings by a long shot, SPARTANs are fast, strong, and hyperlethal.

-24 Longsword Interceptors: Standard interceptor, primarily used for combat against other fighters. The Longsword can be modified to serve in a bombing role, but it does not excel in this function.

-10 Pelican Dropships: Troop Transports that carry up to fifteen soldiers. Affixed with a nose gun used for personal defense. Pelicans can also be utilized to carry and drop in Warthog LAVs and Scorpion MBTs.

-12 Warthog LAVs: Three man light assault land vehicle with chain gun, rail gun, or missile pod attachment in the back gunner seat.

-4 Scorpion Main Battle Tanks: Large, heavily armored tanks with large main cannon and supporting chain gun. One driver and one turret operator -- up to four soldiers can ride on the Tank's treads.

-25 HEVs: Human Entry Vehicles, or Drop Pods, designed to be used by ODSTs -- dropped from orbit to deliver the soldiers to ground.

-6 Falcon Gunships: A tilt and reverse rotor helicopter with occupancy for up to five troops inside, excluding pilot. Two machinegun turrets are affixed to either door side. Falcons also come with a standard M638 autocannon affixed to the chin of the craft.

-1x Huragok Engineer: One from a race of biological supercomputers. Used entirely in secret, usually for repair work.

-1x "Smart" AI: Responsible for major ship duties, navigation, targeting algorithms, etc. Has been known to leave the ship inside a SPARTANs helmet.

History of the Ship:

The Janus is a relatively new ship, commissioned by ONI as a testing grounds for some of their pet projects, particularly the new Huragok acquisition. For a time it was staffed only be a skeleton crew, one captain Hurst, and a handful of ONI Operatives. After a few months of service, usually putting around Outer Colonies, Janus received notification about the Battle of Reach and was deployed to aid in the combat efforts. Though the Janus ultimately arrived too late to be of service, she was given a full crew and standing orders to stay in or near the Sol System, as HIGHCOM feared an attack on Earth. When that fateful day arrived, the Janus was able to deploy most of it's payload of ODSTs and fight valiantly against the Covenant menace. However, the Captain, Hurst, ultimately proved disloyal on the arrival of a fourth wave of the Covenant fleet, and began powering up the Translight engine in an escape attempt. He was immediately shot by the resident ONI Officer, but then things got... Weird. They were now in uncharted space, with no planet like Earth around for lightyears...

Notable Crew:

Crew Name: Archibald "Archie" Stevenson
Crew Role: Ship Captain
Crew Description: Archie hails from the planet of Carrow, where he lived for all his life until the fateful day of the Covenant's attack. He joined OCS immediately, wishing to destroy the Covenant with as much firepower as he could get his hands on -- and that happened to be aboard a Heavy Cruiser. For most of the war's duration, Archie has served on either Halcyon Class or Marathon Class vessel. During The Battle of Earth, when the former Captain expired, Archie found himself suddenly promoted.

Crew Name: Maisie Villarreal
Crew Role: ONI Agent
Crew Description: A representative from the Office of Naval Intelligence whose purpose is to keep track of all experimental tech employed by the Janus and keep an eye on the Huragok. She likes to keep out of people's way, keeping her head down and doing her job, and she rarely makes any time for small talk or pleasantries. This has earned her a reputation as a stone cold bitch. She is fiercely, relentlessly loyal to the UNSC.

Crew Name: Janus, or "JJ"
Crew Role: AI
Crew Description: Named for the ship he was ultimately placed on, JJ is a Smart AI that was designed along with and specifically for the Janus. He's a relatively new AI, and hasn't had as much experience as the now famous Cortana. Still, his processing speeds and function is incredible. He's deeply curious and has something of a minor God complex. A common adage of his is "I am the ship, and the ship is me." He has been disconnected from time to time, but he never recalls it as a pleasant experience.

Crew Name: Elise-096
Crew Role: SPARTAN II Super Soldier
Crew Description: Along with Graham-024 and Thalia-133, she is the leader of Green Team, deployed on a number of ONI-assigned missions for most of the Human-Covenant War. Like most Spartans, Elise is reserved and quiet, usually only speaking when spoken to. Among her fellows she is creative and a free thinker, and probably would have been something of a flower child if she hadn't ended up in the Spartan program. She's prone to want to question orders, but has had such practices beaten out of her. Still, in her private moments, she wonders if she's doing the right thing.

Crew Name: Cain Shaw
Crew Role: ODST Commando
Crew Description: Leader of the last ODST squadron scheduled to deploy from the Janus, Cain is pissed he and his team didn't get a chance to defend Earth and her peoples. He is loud, brash, and in-charge, characteristic of most ODSTs. Shaw has spent his career as an ODST getting screwed over, not deployed to any major conflict locations, always being ferried to a new locale as back-up, and he's fed up with it.

Crew Name: Inconsistent Buoyancy
Crew Role: Huragok Engineer
Crew Description: An Engineer acquired by ONI for service on the Janus. It was a truly remarkable find, and a clandestine operation to get the damned thing on board and keep it hush hush. Inconsistent is content to float around the ship, being corralled by Maisie, fixing whatever he(if it can even be called a 'he') can find.

Unique Technology:
-Shaw/Fujikawa Translight Engine: Means of entering slipstream space for fast transit.
-MAC Cannons
Crew Size: 1008 human beings on board
Class: Marathon-Class
Faction/Operator/Owner: The United Nations Space Command

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Would anyone be willing to do a collab post with me? Because right now Midnighter is quite stuck in Vlatava. I was thinking that perhaps the League had sent someone in to keep an eye on him(despite the fact that it was supposed to be his "solo" mission), that ends up saving him from Vertigo. Worse comes to worse I can find some way to pull him out of there, but I think it'd feel a little contrived.

Fallout: The Unstoppables!

@Raddum Yeah, that’s totally fair. To be honest with you, half the reason I cancelled it was because my vision for this was a little... Unclear. I figured I should step back and reevaluate what I’d want out of an Unstoppables series. I’m certainly not going for an Avengers type thing — the closest stylistic contemporary I can think of is Kickass. When I mentioned “random raiders” originally, I really meant just random raiders NPCs basically. I totally imagine our characters getting killed by Raider Bosses or even particularlly large dogs. Like getting killed by Cook Cook instead of Raider Fiend #27. That said, we’d probably end up knee deep in enough raiders that someone would die that way eventually.

@AngelofOctober Fair, but that’s just not really the sort of character I’m looking for in this ensemble. I guess the sort of vibe I’m going for is to have a cast that looks like they could leap off the Wasteland-tinged Unstoppables pages. You could certainly strike this kind of vibe by writing a character like the Antagonizer, or someone whose Hubris Comics backstory is of a villain.