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Message: <blockquote data-quote="marcoasalazarm" data-source="post: 7023595" data-attributes="member: 26698">Well, here was a thought...Inspiration for these guys (in my head) was the Colonial Marines from "Aliens" (having the "Technical Manual" by Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, I can tell you with certainty that the only reason the setting loves making them Xenomorph chow with ease is because the fact they *can* become Xenomorph chow with ease is supposed to be a terror booster), the Imperial Guard (talking combined arms here. The group has superhumans, mecha, aliens, vehicles, whatever--they do the whole 'fight shoulder to shoulder' thing) and the Mobile Infantry (the Heinlein version, the guys that get trained like crazy. Also has the 'fight shoulder to shoulder' thing).I guess something that is exclusive to them is the fact that they are combined-tactics monsters or something... dunno, really. They have a superhuman division that had been getting quite a lot of focus on fanfics so far, and I had this flash of thought that, to differentiate them from something like the Avengers and SHIELD or JLA and any random cop that pops up, the division was "one of the guys" in many ways--so rather than one bunch of cannon fodder guys waiting for Supergirl to save them, they do stuff like flanking while the bad guy is distracted by the person with spandex and counter-sniping the guys with the Kryptonite lasers (or something like that).There is also the Hellsoldier Project--people who are, well, anti-superhuman Terminators. These guys have Pariah Genes (power-nullifiers, pretty strong ones), modified so much that you need seriously big guns to kill 'em off (and magic and superpowers and magi-tek don't work around 'em, so if you don't know how to use a gun or a grenade or even how to throw a punch, you're screwed).To make a long story short, I didn't wrote about these guys extensively when I had the chance, and the check has been put on the table: they have been getting some pretty hefty humiliation on the fanfics that have been written for this setting (even a moment that was supposed to be, y'know, Guard-style "we, the normal guys, had some real bad odds coming at us--and we are still standing!" in message, some author took in context to be "oh, the bad guys were holding back!" Although in the author's defense, the whole situation has been a bit of a flame war).Which, again, comes to what I was saying. If I write that (say for example) the Services use .50 Beowulf rounds on their assault rifles, with some kind of super-tech binary-propellant action that allows the bullet to be shot with the potency of a full-blown .50 BMG round (although, yeah, there's probably some issues with firing something THAT powerful from an M-14-sized gun)... the possible response is that it's still not enough gun to take down, say, Kid Goku (let alone the grown-up version with the "Super Saiyan God" crap) and who the heck are you kidding, sending men out to fight Fiction threats with that gun? Too 'awesome but impractical'--it's either overkill or nowhere near enough kill, every single time.The Champions have been put on a pedestal by the other authors, and the one that wrote the 'holding back' thing makes it a big deal that Hellsoldiers block all powers around them in a radius--by having it that they also block the powers of allies, so they get in the allies' way.</blockquote>

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