grandmaster z0b wrote:masslegion wrote:I believe I've seen this suggested in the past. I'm curious what the community would expect to find in RIFT's Alaska, especially in regards to tech from the golden age of man.
My personal opinion is that we'd have some stockpiles of US Military vehicles, armor, aircraft, weapons and other equipment.
As NEMA was a peacekeeping outfit, I would think NEMA's gear would have been at least somewhat inferior to what the US Military used for themselves. The Military hardware would have heavier armor, better weaponry (either more damage, better mix of weapons, better range, better payload, or any mix), better abilities (such as faster, stronger, AI controlled weapons, personal drones, force fields?, exotic damage resistance, etc. )
As an example of more capabilities I look to how the Super SAMAS and Striker SAMAS was handled in Coalition War Campaign. The Super SAMAS flies faster, higher, has more weapon systems, and more armor.
If I did a RIFT's Alaska I'd have a under-mountain base discovered with these types of units. (I know the underground thing has been beaten to death, but it works. Also with the size and remote nature of Alaska, additional bases in Alaska could have served as a new experimental weapons staging ground in the Golden-Age.) the purpose of the base was to have assets to protect North American Soil from the threat of Soviet Union aggression and serve as a staging ground for any necessary invasion into Russia and Asia.
How would you "improve" the SAMAS and Glitterboy platforms to better fit in with a military feel and what other type of equipment should we expect to see there? What kind of massive troop transport would they have to serve their invasion parameters? ETC?
OK back to the OP.
I'm fairly sure NEMA was the pinnacle of military tech in the Golden Age. There's nothing "peace keeping" about the Glitterboy or Silver Eagle; they are clearly military grade assault weapons. Neither have any anti-riot weapons such as smoke or tear gas grenades, rubber bullets etc. or SDC capabilities making them useless for anything but taking on other MDC units unless your idea of peace keeping is to blow people into pulp. In the Golden Age only a handful of the worlds top militaries had MDC technology, so the only point in building them was war with another world power.
That being said there could be a lot of military things in the base that aren't currently in the books that could be stationed there: very long range artillery (rail guns firing guided shells), MDC surveillance drones and assault drones, MD anti-aircraft guns etc.
Personally I've seen enough world books with new military toys in them in, give me some new and interesting. Something weird and unexpected that would make Alaska stand out as an area to go adventuring in and with lots of plot hooks.
well ya know if I finish and its accepted it'll be weird.
you some might think you're a 
but you're cool in book 
There is NOT a game called that... 
Is there?
the eyes are up there people 
