What's the name of your Supersoldier project??

[Uncle Servo]

I had used Project: Gilgamesh in the past, but then I saw it used for Bane in the Batman animated series...

I've also used Project: Titan.

[BookWyrm]

The names of your SuperSoldier project can come from many sources; the names of mythological heroes, their battle-sites, or events.
I had an idea that one of the Soviet Union's supersoldier projects could be called "Project Tunguska", after the event there in 1909.

[Stone Gargoyle]

Project:Yankee for the States and Project:Rebel for the Confederacy. The government sponsored supers programs are S.T.A.R.S. and S.T.R.I.P.E.S. There is a Black Ops organization known as S.H.A.D.O.W. and a genetics and augmentation project known as Project:Blueblood as well. My Project:Titan and Project:False God and the Superiority Project are now defunct.

[Prince Cherico]

There are varous programs

Project Perfect solger

Project Archangel

Project Antiles

Project Omega

Project Alfa

[Uncle Servo]

Project Alfa

Sadly, this particular supersoldier program folded when it became apparent that all it was producing were super-powered insurance agents.




Sorry Chico, just couldn't resist that one.

[RockJock]

The last few projects that I have used are more secret and have project names meant to be well hidden. Things like Special Funding Project: F26339-R23

[sHaka]

Project Ares - Greek mythology for the win!

[Stone Gargoyle]

When I was playing HU, we had a little organization called "Project Smurf". A side effect of the Super-Soldier process kept turing 'em blue....

"Ooooh, then you could pickle a few, and boil a few, and make smurf stew. Isn't that right Azrael?"

[Stone Gargoyle]

The Purina Project. 'Nuf Sed.

[Stone Gargoyle]

Project Ares - Greek mythology for the win!

Maybe Project Apollo, with labs on the moon?

[dragon_blaze_99]

Project P.A.L.L.A.D.I.U.M but I have not decided what it stands for and in over year no player has tried to find out.

[sHaka]

Project P.A.L.L.A.D.I.U.M but I have not decided what it stands for and in over year no player has tried to find out.

Producing
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[sinestus]

the acronym thing always bugged me.... tho i loved throwing 'em out there to baffle the players...

tho, after the first encounter with it, most of the time we never bothered sorting out what it meant...

[Stone Gargoyle]

Project P.A.L.L.A.D.I.U.M but I have not decided what it stands for and in over year no player has tried to find out.

Project Alliance with Laboratories Located Along Dimensional Instabilities Undergoing Maintenance:-P

[Stone Gargoyle]

the acronym thing always bugged me.... tho i loved throwing 'em out there to baffle the players...

tho, after the first encounter with it, most of the time we never bothered sorting out what it meant...

I like taking the time to create them with defined meanings, just nobody does find out what the initials stand for, as you have said.

[dragon_blaze_99]

Stone Gargoyle & sHaka both are good but I think i'll keep trying thanks b

[elecgraystone]

Project super soldier. No one will expect it to be a REAL super soldier project .

[Snowtiger]

Of course, there might not be an actual name, maybe there's just a project code "Project XC-5043", or you could go with the old classic "the x million dollar man" that nobody knows about. You could always adjust the latter to fit your budget.

[dragon_blaze_99]

I found one from about 6 years ago. project Ishtar (after the goddess) the project created only PB 20+ female super soldier for seek and destroy missions, (basically every female baddy from a bond flick with super powers) I think in the end the player beat the group but I don't recall. the leader was called Innana I think and the top assassin was called Discord (I need to work on good villain names).

[Armorlord]

I've been kicking around a secret project to put together a team of supers, as a more public friendly front team.
Project: 'Excelsior!'
Can't decide if it'll be a government group, or a corporately funded team. I'll let you guess the company.

[BookWyrm]

Or, taking a nod from the Evil Overlord's List;

Project Fluffy Bunny
Operation Bananaphone
Project Racing Squirrel

ect., ect., ect.......

[Armorlord]

...
Operation Bananaphone
...

That one screams evil project.

[Captain Shiva]

How about Project : Gladiator ? After the original super soldier?

[LostOne]

Project Beowulf.
Project Ares.
Project Hercules.

Are a few I've tossed around.

Manticore (as seen in Dark Angel...very appropriate for gene-splicing)

[Iczer]

The Brothel.

It's an unoficial-turned-semi-official code word for the Australian Supersoldier project. Officially it's the human enhancement project, or Just HEP-077, but its unnoficial code name cae about both becuse those who entered were said to have contracted HEP. Also because anyone who entered the project was officially screwed.

Nonetheless the project has met with limited, but reproducable success.
Samurai (limited telepaths, with a kind of group/hive mind) Diehards (enhanced skeletal implants) Scorpions ( Implant agents, soldeirs with enhanced headware and computer hacking training) Rovers (reanimated soldiers) Cords (gestating alien embryo grafted into a recipient's spine) Flashers (Soldiers exposed to TE enhanced Reptile RNA to produce rapidly regenerating soldiers that slowly devolve into reptilians)

The project has alos produced unique individuals
Sabre: able to project body hugging force fields that can be shaped into razor sharp blades and can bypass forcefields of others.
Ghillesuit: Ghillesuit bends light around his body and acts as mobile camoflage for up to 12 others in close proximity.
Jet: Jet, so nicknamed for his rocket like reflexes, feels no fatigue, nor pain. in either case he instead produces endorphins and secretes a steroid like byproduct. effectively he gets stronger and faster the more he pushes hiself. He has practical limits but these limits greatly exceed all forms of human expectation.
Bends: a human/alien hybrid, and clearly inhuman, Bends is amphibious and much stronger in watre than out of it. Unpopular Bends is a solo operatior concentrating on aquatic missions.

My US based supersoldier projects are typically stereotypical, and not nearly as unique. Typically, just your run of the mill, hush-hush, dont ask - don't tell, your clearance isn't high enough for that information, types that inevitably are evil or at least greedy or powerhungry, forcing the heroic PC to escape etcetera...

Batts

[Aramanthus]

Those are some cool Super Soldier Projects! I'll have to think about one. But these are great ones to use as a basis for one of my own! They are all very cool.

[BookWyrm]

Operation Tribble! No, wait, that sounds too much like a bad Star Trek themed board game.......

[MrMom]

For my good guys I used ATLAS and for the bad guys I used LILTH. ATLAS comes from the geek titan that holds up the mountain that holds up the sky. Lots of metaphor in my games sorry. LILTH comes from the women that god was supposed to make before eve but since she refused to bow to adams authority she was cast out and then god made eve. So Every one who works for LILTH is an assain. Everyone who works for ATLAS is a super solider.

[Aramanthus]

Those are some more interesting ideas for Super Soldier projects! Thanks for sharing them.

[DocS]

I had read "Angels and Demons" and liked the Illuminati idea (their goal was to 'enlighten and empower' humanity). But I hated the name 'Illuminati' for my super-soldier organization. I however did love the aspects of light and empowerment.

Thus my organization was called Spectrum.

[Snowtiger]

Supersoldiers Assigned to Military Units for Reinforced and Advanced Infantry

or SAMURAI for short

[Anthar]

Project Rainbow: Because you take a group of young impressionable male soldiers, give them perfect bodies and it's all supervised by a leering old man.

[BookWyrm]

Project: SpongeCake.

[Lord_Dalgard]

Chello!

Not really original I know, but I just call the US one the "Supersoldier Project" and the German one "Projeckt Ubermenschen."

I called the Soviet Response either the "Krasny Frontovik" or "Krasny Gardiya": Red GI Joe/Tommy or Red Guard; it was always sort of vague. Note that a "Frontovik" is a hardened combat soldier and is slange similiar to GI Joe/(British) Tommy.

I never have fleshed out the British or Japanese versions, although I know that they had them (in my campaign world, that is. ).

[znbrtn]

mine are the Dimensional Energy Field Equipped Neo Defensive Engagement Ranger(S), or DEFENDER(S).

i like dimensional energy field equipped, because it is so vague that you can squeeze just about anything into it.

[slade the sniper]

How about Project : Gladiator ? After the original super soldier?

Gladiators were not soldiers. For the Roman feel, go with Project Legionnaire/Legion or Centurion.

-STS

[LostOne]

Project: Colossus
Project: <insert deity name, probably deity of death, war, or defense>

For genetic engineering type projects:
Project: Chimera
Project: Gnome (play on genome)

For chemical enhancement type projects:
Project: Whiskey (or Tequila, or Moonshine, or other strong alcohol the military boys might drink on leave)

[Snake Eyes]

Project GENESIS, I use mostly the Eugenics catergory

Now i have to come up with what the name stands for

[Captain Shiva]

Project GENESIS, I use mostly the Eugenics catergory

Now i have to come up with what the name stands for

Genetic Engineering Nanite Enhanced Soldier Improvement System?

[NMI]

Project GENESIS, I use mostly the Eugenics catergory

Now i have to come up with what the name stands for

Genetic Engineering Nanite Enhanced Soldier Improvement System?

Or...
GENetically Engineered Soldier Improvement System

[Stone Gargoyle]

Project GENESIS, I use mostly the Eugenics catergory

Now i have to come up with what the name stands for

Genetic Engineering Nanite Enhanced Soldier Improvement System?

Or...
GENetically Engineered Soldier Improvement System

Genetically Engineered National Espionage Special Infiltration Squad.

[Snake Eyes]

Project GENESIS, I use mostly the Eugenics catergory

Now i have to come up with what the name stands for

Genetic Engineering Nanite Enhanced Soldier Improvement System?

Or...
GENetically Engineered Soldier Improvement System

Thats really cools guys

[Danger]

Lightly Armored Neurologically and Chemically Enhanced Response System

L.A.N.C.E.R.S.

[slade the sniper]

The US National Command Authority hereby authorizes release of the following information regarding MilSpec.

MilSpec Project 2501: Artificial Intelligence Program
Consists of Project Skynet: lead developer, DARPA
Project Wintermute: lead developer, Tessier-Ashpool SA
Project 2501: lead developer, Neutron Corporation in conjunction with Section 6, Japanese Government
Project ARCHIE: lead developer, DARPA

MilSpec Project 2601: Human Potential Augmentation Program
Pittman 2 Project: lead developer, DARPA; Project Lone Star: lead developer, DARPA

Operation DELTA GREEN is managed by MilSpec.
Operation AVENGER is managed by MilSpec
Operation JUSTICE LEAGUE and YOUNGBLOOD are NOT managed by MilSpec (Department of Justice oversight)
The Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense is a joint MilSpec and Department of Justice Operation
Operation STORMWATCH is NOT managed by MilSpec (United Nations International Security Teams are overseen by the United Nations Anti-Crime Organization [UNACO]; Section 6, United Nations Rapid Deployment Forces [RDF] and the Global Military Police[GMP])

The steering commitee of the MilSpec Projects are:
General Joseph Colton
General Thaddius Ross
Admiral Ledger
General Homer Phillips
General Yeats
General Hawk
Admiral Richard Aston
Colonel Marc Slayton
Colonel Nicholas Fury
Colonel Steve Rogers
Colonel Ludmilla Leonovna
Colonel Alan "Dutch" Shaefer
Professor Charles F. Xavier
Lex Luthor
Commander John Lynch

Current executive operatives of MilSpec:
Lieutenant Colonel Morgan Stryker
Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes
Major Logan
Major Carol Danvers
Professor Charles F. Xavier
Dr. Thomas Manning
Xavier Fitch
Dr. Laura Baker
Dan Smithson
Preston Lennox

-STS

[Overlord Rikonius]

How about Project : Gladiator ? After the original super soldier?

Gladiators were not soldiers. For the Roman feel, go with Project Legionnaire/Legion or Centurion.

-STS

IIRC, there was a book called "Gladiator" about a superpowered hero, which predated Superman.
Though as a disclaimer, I should say that it's been a while since I heard of this so I may be misremembering some or all of it. Your mileage may vary, offer valid in 49 states (sorry Tennessee!)

[Stone Gargoyle]

Wow, Slade, way to rip off existing comics. Since I hope to get comics published using characters created in-game, I try to avoid copyright issues such as those your groups present. Though some NPCs have been based off comics, I try not to overload my campaign with them. And as some of my players have stated, they prefer original material to stuff rehashed from comic books. Not that I am saying what you are doing is wrong, just not my style of play.

[Captain Shiva]

How about Project : Gladiator ? After the original super soldier?

Gladiators were not soldiers. For the Roman feel, go with Project Legionnaire/Legion or Centurion.

-STS

IIRC, there was a book called "Gladiator" about a superpowered hero, which predated Superman.
Though as a disclaimer, I should say that it's been a while since I heard of this so I may be misremembering some or all of it. Your mileage may vary, offer valid in 49 states (sorry Tennessee!)

No,you remember correctly. Not only did Gladiator predate Superman, but author Philip Wylie sued DC over it.

[Aramanthus]

I like your entry Slade! It's awesome! Especially seeing "Colonel Steven Rogers".

[Ice Dragon]

Project W.A.L.K.Ü.R.E (WehrmachtsArmee Laborgenerierter Kadersoldaten Übermenschliche ReaktionsErweiterungen): an old Nazi project before and during WWII to create the perfect soldier. Many of the scientiest and soldiers involved were brought to the U.S.A. to improve the process. A few were captured by the U.S.S.R. and a large number escaped to South America starting the process again in Argentina and Chile.

[Ice Dragon]

Project W.A.L.K.Ü.R.E (WehrmachtsArmee Laborgenerierter Kadersoldaten Übermenschliche ReaktionsErweiterungen): an old Nazi project before and during WWII to create the perfect soldier. Many of the scientiest and soldiers involved were brought to the U.S.A. to improve the process. A few were captured by the U.S.S.R. and a large number escaped to South America starting the process again in Argentina and Chile.

In your HU2 gaming world, does the UK and Germany play a big part in the super powered politico in Europe, and how prevalent are powers?

In my HU2 game world the Germans are active in the part of cybernatics and robot vehicles, still the supersoldier projects are developed - it is more a political problem to improve German soldiers and many left wing organisition and politician try to sabotage these projects. The UK on the other hand are mostly in psi and magic research. The superhumans are controlled and regulated by the EC (Europan Commission) which as astablished an office under the aegis of GASP and Europeasn Security and Defence Policy. The office is called EASH (European Agency for SuperHumans). The General Director answers directly to Mr. GASP and the High Commission of Foreign Affair).

Powers are very importanted. It is all about improving the human body (better sight, faster, healing factors ,...) and not so about APS. The side effect is to support public health.