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"Atleast give her taste first so we can ease her into it... now to figure out how to do this..."

"Step one: Find a link to her consciousness."
Will holds up his braceleted wrist.
"Step two: Design and create a device that connects to her consciousness and transmits the sensation of taste. Where's Selina?"

Kyle smacks Will's hand away.
"What?"

"Would I be correct if I accused you of filling my room with some sort of paper, or was that someone else?"

((Um...was he?))

Nice doublepost there, GWG. Missed the Modify button?

If you'll note, the posts were identical.

I'm going by the original X-Com implication that unlike alien alloys, Elerium is impossible to replicate.

Which requires there to be some reason why this is so. Personally, I'd prefer it to be available for a few reasons:
1. It makes the XCOM project's influence on the world that much more obvious, making the player's actions in the previous game that much more clear.
2. If elerium is common, or at least available, it explains why XCOM doesn't have its vast reserves of elerium, plasma weapons, and such any more: They were cleaned out because if they ever needed them again, they could just buy some more from 115 Inc and Ares Arms.
3. You're not likely to be getting elerium from the deep horrors. Hence, you won't be able to get new titan armor or anything.
4. It's kind of pathetic if the XCOM at the beginning of the new game is so incredibly weaker than it was at the end of the old.

Plasma would not be used because by the time the terror missions happen, you would not have it.

Wait, isn't this a sequel to XCOM? Even if no new elerium and such can be made/found, what happened to the plasma weapons used in the first game?

Even farther into the future, it is not going to cost any less to make, so it's not going to be an ubiquitous weapon...

Why wouldn't it cost less? Plasma weaponry used in the first XCOM game would logically be the prototypes and whatnot, with plenty of room to expand and improve. And while it wouldn't be ubiquitous, you'd think they'd save some for the special forces team meant to fight off future alien invasions...

and since you would have been fighting on the seafloor, portable railguns scaled down from the MEC weapons using the Plasma-related technologies make more sense as the "standard" infantry weapon.

Why should we hinder our land operations, then? Especially since they're arguably more important?

Your opening is untouched by this premise, btw. The meteor swarm happens as a cutscene after the initial mission, maybe literally cutting to the scene of the meteor striking the ocean immediately after the result of the Ethereal's interrogation/confession/warning is made known to the player.

Ah. Neat.

"Will, so? She has the right to bake her own cake."

"She also has the right to have advice given as to what does or does not make a cake tastier."

"Well, we could try seeing if Shys'm Caes or Selina could give you a way to taste." Conny smiles at her happily.

"And feel. And require showers. And bear infants. Assuming you wanted to include auxiliary features."

How long do you want? 2-3 last words of rebuke, or a speech that would bring tears to Roy Batty's artificial eyes?

Get over it. Also try to explore.

Apparently the extremely skinny, tall design of the arbiter gave them a hard time working out a walking pattern that was both efficient and still threatening.
"We started with evo-programs, like usual; but they kept giving us stuff like hopping or crab walking."

((You haven't seen ludicrous yet deadly until you've seen the deleted scene of a crabwalking xenomorph.))

[int:2-1]
DEMONS FROM HELL! THEY ARE DEMONS FROM THE DARK RECESSES OF THE UNDERWORLD. YOU PUNCH THE COMPUTER SCREEN AND START SCREAMING ABOUT THE POWER OF SPACE CHRIST.

((Why is this having me...chuckling? Giggling? Chiggling or guckling? Anyways, some form of laughter was quietly being emitted from my throat from the time that I read this to the time I tried to define the laughter.))

You're on the attack course, ya widget.
All that comes out of the slot when you reach it is a flimsy replica of a Sod, brandishing a non-functional weapon in your direction. It sits there for about two seconds before sliding back in. You get a mild shock as it does so and the flashing screens display a -100 points.

((Is this our high score?))

You're not even sure where the golden thread for these patterns on the sleeve ends and collar came from, but it's pretty snazzy.

((Plot twist: It's wires. Important ones.))