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[Screech9791]

In the year who the fuck knows who the fuck cares, humanity faces two great crises:
1: Despite having colonized their own solar system, they are still facing major overpopulation with around 30 to 40 billion people spread across dozens of planets, moons, and stations.
2: There is an alien invasion of the system.
Because of this, humanity has the advantage of numbers and billions of people who have decided that that living in a cramped lunar hive city isn't as great as getting to protect humanity from the alien threat.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Standard RTD rules, 1 is a critical fail and 6 is a critical success. Chunky salsa rule is in effect.

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

don't get too attached to your characters if the thread title wasn't enough

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Character name: Your character's name. With how many cultures there are after the dawn of spaceflight, there will inevitably be some unusual ones.
Background: Where did your character come from? What were they before they volunteered/conscripted/drafted/press ganged/bribed/coerced/etc?
Equipment: (by default this is the Trooper kit)
Killcount: Self explanatory. You can keep track of enemy types killed if you would like.
Credits: Currency. Passed down to your next of kin if you die. Primarily used to purchase items during character creation and bribing other players into being the pointman.
Past Characters: A list of every character you have played in this game that died, their individual killcounts, and causes of death.
Status: Any injuries you may be suffering and other health conditions.
You will also need to choose a starting kit if you'd prefer not going in unarmed. More kits will unlock as the game goes on.
Due to the vast size of the territory humanity recruits their forces from, trying to standardize everything to an individual component will be more trouble than it's worth, resulting in hundreds of patterns of weapons in active use. Mostly the higher quality ones. If you try to request some special snowflake custom-built weapon with hard to produce components and extremely specific ammo, you will be told to go fuck yourself by your commanding officer.
Rifleman:
Cost: FREE
Assault Rifle
6 rifle magazines
2 fragmentation grenades
2 flashbangs
2 smoke grenades
Helmet
Ballistic vest
Knife

Scout:
Cost: FREE
Submachine gun
4 SMG magazines
2 fragmentation grenades
2 smoke grenades
Binoculars
Helmet
Light ballistic vest
Knife

Designated Marksman:
Cost: 3c
DMR
Pistol
4 rifle magazines
2 pistol magazines
Scope
Helmet
Ballistic vest
Knife

Grenadier:
Cost: 5c
Assault Rifle w/ Underbarrel Grenade Launcher
4 launcher grenades (explosive)
2 launcher grenades (smoke)
2 launcher grenades (flashbang)
6 rifle magazines
Helmet
Ballistic vest
Blast Padding
Knife

Currently Deployed:

Spoiler: Hobo Bob (click to show/hide)

Character name: Hobo Bob
Background: He was homeless and figured being in the army was better than starving in the street.
Equipment:
 Assault Rifle (25/30)
 6 rifle magazines
 2 fragmentation grenades
 2 flashbangs
 2 smoke grenades
 Helmet
 Ballistic vest
 Knife
 Spacesuit
Killcount: 0
Credits: 0
Past Characters: None
Status: Right arm injured

Spoiler: REDACTED (click to show/hide)

Character name: [REDACTED]
Background: [REDACTED]
Equipment:
 Assault Rifle (26/30)
 6 rifle magazines
 2 fragmentation grenades
 2 flashbangs
 2 smoke grenades
 Helmet
 Ballistic vest
 Knife
 Spacesuit
Killcount: 0
Credits: 0
Past Characters: None

Reserve/waitlist:
A bunch of NPCs

[King Zultan]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Character name: Hobo Bob
Background: He was homeless and figured being in the army was better than starving in the street.
Equipment:
 Assault Rifle
 6 rifle magazines
 2 fragmentation grenades
 2 flashbangs
 2 smoke grenades
 Helmet
 Ballistic vest
 Knife

Killcount: 0
Credits: 0
Past Characters:

[BlackPaladin99]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Character name: [REDACTED]
Background: [REDACTED]
Equipment: rifleman
Killcount: 0
Credits: 0
Past Characters: none

[BlackPaladin99]

Bump

[Screech9791]

I think I may be able to start with just two people and have a theoretically endless supply of unnamed redshirts as a subsitute for other players while we wait.
You are part of a boarding party sent from the ISS Black Star, a patrol destroyer sent alongside some corvettes to intercept an alien ship. Your boarding pod has 10 other marines inside and was not the only boarding pod launched. Your pod lands in a hull breach around what appears to be a storage room, therefore leaving the start-to-crate score at an unimpressive 15. Your immediate surroundings include some crates, some aliens with guns and what seem to be their equivalent of spacesuits, and shrapnel from an anti-armor missile.

Spoiler: Hobo Bob (click to show/hide)

Character name: Hobo Bob
Background: He was homeless and figured being in the army was better than starving in the street.
Equipment:
 Assault Rifle
 6 rifle magazines
 2 fragmentation grenades
 2 flashbangs
 2 smoke grenades
 Helmet
 Ballistic vest
 Knife
 Spacesuit

Killcount: 0
Credits: 0
Past Characters: None

Spoiler: REDACTED (click to show/hide)

Character name: [REDACTED]
Background: [REDACTED]
Equipment:
 Assault Rifle
 6 rifle magazines
 2 fragmentation grenades
 2 flashbangs
 2 smoke grenades
 Helmet
 Ballistic vest
 Knife
 Spacesuit
Killcount: 0
Credits: 0
Past Characters: None

[King Zultan]

Use one of the crates as cover and shoot the closest alien thing.

[BlackPaladin99]

Use one of the crates as cover and shoot the closest alien thing.

Same, but use a different crate, preferably on the opposite side of the room.  No sense in all of us getting blown up in one missile.

[BlackPaladin99]

Bump.

[Screech9791]

Use one of the crates as cover and shoot the closest alien thing.

3: You duck behind one of the crates - or at least try to since there's no gravity in here - and shoot an alien.
1v4: You realize you have XCOM Rookie accuracy, and a crate behind the alien suddenly has a few more holes. The alien returns fire with its own gun, puncturing your right arm. At least your suit wasn't decompressed.

Use one of the crates as cover and shoot the closest alien thing.

Same, but use a different crate, preferably on the opposite side of the room.  No sense in all of us getting blown up in one missile.

6: You find a crate that is actually securely attached to the cargo bay, and use it as cover and as a place to shoot from.
6v3: An alien attempts to use what seems to be one of their larger guns against you, but some ballistic rounds hit the volatile ammo inside the barrel, causing an explosion.

While you two are in a shootout, the marines try to get into cover and kill the remaining aliens in the room, but critfail (1) and 4 of them get killed by a stray rocket.

The alien ship cargo bay still has a lot of crates, at least 5 aliens remaining, and 6 marines inside.

Spoiler: Hobo Bob (click to show/hide)

Character name: Hobo Bob
Background: He was homeless and figured being in the army was better than starving in the street.
Equipment:
 Assault Rifle (25/30)
 6 rifle magazines
 2 fragmentation grenades
 2 flashbangs
 2 smoke grenades
 Helmet
 Ballistic vest
 Knife
 Spacesuit
Killcount: 0
Credits: 0
Past Characters: None
Status: Right arm injured

Spoiler: REDACTED (click to show/hide)

Character name: [REDACTED]
Background: [REDACTED]
Equipment:
 Assault Rifle (26/30)
 6 rifle magazines
 2 fragmentation grenades
 2 flashbangs
 2 smoke grenades
 Helmet
 Ballistic vest
 Knife
 Spacesuit
Killcount: 0
Credits: 0
Past Characters: None

[BlackPaladin99]

Shoot the closest alien.  Try to cause minimal damage to the hardware around it, we might want to keep some of that.

[King Zultan]

Throw a frag grenade at a group of aliens, that isn't near any of the marines.

[BlackPaladin99]

bump

[King Zultan]

This meat grinder isn't grinding fast enough!

[BlackPaladin99]

only four deaths?  im ashamed.

[King Zultan]

We need more meat for the grinder!