Mass Effect: Factions - The Redux(OOC/Relay 314 Planning)

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

Ohh, tough choice... But I ain't really feeling the based frogmen at the moment.

Edit: any worlds with green and a breathable atmo left? I can't seem to track any down cept for maybe Vermire if its not taken.

Not too many. I haven't posted yet, so there are at least two garden worlds in the Shrike Abyssal that aren't colonized. Labeled as "post-garden" though I've been letting people colonize them as garden worlds.

Hmmm, in that case I might grab Vermire then if the Shrikes worlds do not appeal.

[Nuxipal]

Not too many. I haven't posted yet, so there are at least two garden worlds in the Shrike Abyssal that aren't colonized. Labeled as "post-garden" though I've been letting people colonize them as garden worlds.

Hmmm, in that case I might grab Vermire then if the Shrikes worlds do not appeal.

Tosal Nym and Aphras would be the worlds in the Shrike.

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

Hmmm, in that case I might grab Vermire then if the Shrikes worlds do not appeal.

Tosal Nym and Aphras would be the worlds in the Shrike.

I feel like taking Aphras, though it is a little vague on if its human life supporting still...

Edit: chosen Aphras, will throw app up shortly.

[Seno Zhou Varada]

Hey Gamilus.

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

Hey Gamilus.

Hey Seno, whats up man?

Also major change of plans, going to go super Terrorist with a hint of "I know more than you" and alot of red!

Nux I sent you a tg with my faction. I want you to read over it before I post and get everyone else's opinions on stuff, spent near three and a half hours writing it all up

[Penguindia]

umm so, what's going on???

and where's NAR

[The NAR]

Been busy. Ill get a post up soon

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

Decided to make a super experimental faction for a chance to be semi creative/ingenious as well as allow myself to catch up to everyone all these months in. Take a gander.

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Faction: The Brotherhood (Using rogue colony template)

Locations: Patsayev, Komarov and Dobrovolski (And Earth)

Leader (You decide): Khain

Citadel Council member Y/N or N/A: Hell no!

Brief description of diplomatic relations: No real relations to anyone, since the public face of the Brotherhood are a mixture of religious fanactics and terrorists.

Military state of readiness: Its there, just not seen.

History: An old Earth Order that came to be in times forgotten, the Brotherhood is a supercult that thrived long before Christianity even existed, but did not gain much technological headway till the rise of Nazi Germany where they secretly placed important members in place around the globes various science academies and professions. In the era of Mass Effect technology the Brotherhood is a large entity with cults and cells all across space, with various species involved and acting on their behalf. Technologically the Brotherhood uses a mixture of Ezo and non Ezo technology both more advanced and less advanced than those of other species, as hidden cells are equipped with old rifles undetectable to conventional military scanners that look for ezo signatures in weapons, even the high end weaponry of the brotherhood surpass that of the citadel with its only weakness being its rarity. But as widely spread as they are the wide spread galaxy barely knows anything other than their public appearances in the form of small but well funded terrorist groups.

The hidden face of the Brotherhood is a complex society of secrecy, deep trust, respect and laboratories studying all manner of sciences banned and forbidden by the Council, avenues of thought shunned by scientists everywhere. To be a member of the Brotherhood is to be a member of the most secretive family in the history of the galaxy.

The Brotherhoods main goal is to unify the galaxy under them, Peace through Power, but some other threat is also on the agenda...

However all is not exactly as it seems, for the mythical head of the brotherhood is said to be immortal, with good reason too. The man who is said to be thousands to hundreds of thousands of years old walks among mere mortals... But is he human?

Khain is not actually Human, for in the times of the last cycle the protheans scattered to their various outposts, one of such was in Sol, one prothean saw a chance to start over, fresh with Humanity. Using the prothean sciences he created a human body and transferred his mind over to it, enhanced beyond most measures to survive several hundred human lifetimes and went down to the surface after taking some technology and killing and destroying the bodies of the other protheans. Using his technology he preserved the body and went into stasis for a time until two hundred years before the rise of the Roman Empire and started from there. However over the centuries he has come to embrace his Humanity and now seeks not only vengeance but an Empire based on the religion he had created around himself, falling for his own propaganda...

.................................................................

History of the Supreme Temple: The Brotherhoods Earth Headquarters is old beyond comparison to most still standing structures, built shortly after the first world war and expanded upon greatly since then with a mixture if both old and modern taste in the design, underground tunnels and complexes extend for kilometres, shrines and laboratories occupy the lower levels while a fully functioning underground city winds its way around, parks and shopping districts are abundant alongside businesses. But most followers of the Brotherhood often live secretive lives among the citizens of the alliance or their various species.

However extra Solar colonies exist with heavy Brotherhood influence and are waiting for the spark to light the wick, all will come in due time and process... Peace through Power!

(More to be added as it goes along)


..................................................................................................

Military:

The Brotherhoods military stretches back to the time of the Romans, when they were naught but highly skilled bodyguards to the era of plate and steel with mastery of the battlefield atop a horse. Shortly after the second world war the brotherhood revolutionized its military by taking the German Ho Horton Jet craft which kickstarted the cold war era Brotherhoods military foundations.

In the current age the Brotherhood divides its land forces into either its elite or fanatic categories, Elite units are often from well respected brotherhood families with a long linage, those with a preference and cunning for stealth, assassination and black ops sorties are given to the Shadow Corps while those more suited for frontline duty are made apart of the Black Hand. These two Elite organizations pale compared to the Cyborg Corps, of which is the newest branch of thinking, enhancing a soldier to the point where he can fight battalions on his own.

Fanatics however are usually militia rabble or terrorists, trained to be comparable to the average stance of infantry training throughout the galaxy but much more disposable, with often time suicidal tenacity of the devout believers.

The weaponry of the Brotherhood comes from its own factories, designed and made and refined over the years to be perfect in accuracy, fire rate and durability, Armour likewise is made of the toughest ceramic plastics and solid cast cuirass to the multi functional helm's employed by the specialists. Elites will make use of up to date weaponry or custom made cartridge weaponry that packs a punch. Fanatics however are trained to employ weaponry easy to smuggle in through shipping and orbital drops aka, older fully ballistic firearms using older style bullet fed magazines, often with under barrel grenade launchers.

Combat Vehicles and armour are also designed from the ground up, rarely will the brotherhood use hovering vehicles besides light scouting bikes and Skimmer Technicals, heavier Brotherhood armour comes in the form of APC's and IFV's equipped with automatic cannons as well as flamethrower subsystems and Tanks with high velocity piercing rounds and AA of some form to keep gunships off the platoon. Lately in Armoured Divisions its become common practise to field the experimental Heavy walkers, with two squads of six each packing an arm mounted light cannon and a small Laser cannon.

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Economy: 15 + 9 + 10 + 5 +45 + 5 +10 = 98 cdr a month)

leftover cash: 2.75 cdr

Patsayev:
1 Urban Area (Free
1 shipyard (50)
Cult local Headquarters (free)
1 fuel depo (15 cdr)

Komarov:
1 fuel depo (free
2 mining complex (10) (one is free)
1 major mining complex (30)


Earth:
Supreme Command (Sarajevo) (Free)

Military: (On Patsayev)
1 Light Transport with stealth (35)

1 Light Cruiser with stealth (43.75 Cdr)

1 armoured division (20cdr)

1 Corvette pack with stealth (5 Cdr)


1 Spec Ops with stealth ( 9.5)

On Earth:
Elite Specialist (8cdr): Cyborg Commando upgrades: Elites (Free), High Quality armaments, Electronic Warfare capabilities and Advanced armour
1 spec ops (6 cdr)
2 Sapper detachment (14cdr)



Pros:

Ancient Order:
-Due to the Brotherhoods ancient history and ties to Earth all cult activity on Earth is hidden from the views of all others unless it is open action against them. (Basically to ensure some safety to my High command). These ancient ties also draw in funding from the corporations that act as financial fronts for the Brotherhood (To be determined by random dice rolls by OP)


Cult Activity:

- the Brotherhood can construct the following buildings:
-Cult Local Headquarters (40 Cdr (first one is free), can be constructed on any planet provided there is at least 1 Urban area provides 5cdr a month, provides 1 free Milita every 2 months until a total of four per HQ is accumulated, from then on they cost the average pricing)

-Supreme Command (Free, there can only ever be one Supreme command, generates 10+ Cdr a month and comes with lvl 1 Defences, can be upgraded with higher level defences for appropriate pricing)

-Void Hideout: (50 cdr, able to be built on large asteroids, provide safe havens for Brotherhood forces in the Voids of space with stealthed hangers and basic living facilities)

Specialist Forces:
Due to being a mixture of low and high tech the Brotherhood makes use of custom made light vehicles to replace Armoured Divisions whenever they can: Light Vehicle Division (300 Vehicles + 250 mechanized troops) cost 10 cdr, take 2 months

The Brotherhood can train special Terrorist forces: Terrorist Cell (100 Terrorists) cost: 6, take 1 month training and can take either suicide tactics for an additional 3 cdr or Stealth for 4 cdr. (note the upgrades each add 1 month to the training time if taken)

The Brotherhood land units can take stealth for 50% of their price instead of the usual 75% (note this does not apply to starting units)

Cons:

Stealth is Key:
Cannot Build dreadnoughts or Fleet Carrier due to the lack of facilities and unneeded addition to the tactical doctrine, cannot build any orbital defences above lvl 2, all non mainline land forces must take stealth (Spec Ops, anti orbital forces, air mobile and Marine)

Non standard doctrine: Brotherhood forces require a Cult Local Headquarters to field LOKI and YMIR battalions or lvl 3 and above defences. (A Supreme command is an acceptable sub) as well as field half the amount of Infantry and Marines in a battalion (While decreasing the price of upgrades down by half %)

Cult Oversight: Shipyards must be built on or around planet with a Cult HQ as oversight is critical to calming the paranoia of the Cult

Rannadril - Do not remove.

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

I take it this is deader than a Asari in a chainsaw orgy?

[Segmentia]

I don't think so, just a bit of a lull. I know around here classes have started up again, and that usually means a lot more work then usual.

[Greater Istanistan]

Damn right.

But I'm going to deal with the Hand now, and from there proceed with some serious irredentism.

[Segmentia]

Very nice post, Istan. I can almost see the new galactic order already.

[Seno Zhou Varada]

Very nice post, Istan. I can almost see the new galactic order already.

I for one welcome our new Asari overlords (Trying not to get conquered).

[Greater Istanistan]

Next month oh lawl

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

I need to be accepted...

Well what does everyone think of my faction?

[Segmentia]

I need to be accepted...

Well what does everyone think of my faction?

I think the GDI should have killed it

[Nuxipal]

Decided to make a super experimental faction for a chance to be semi creative/ingenious as well as allow myself to catch up to everyone all these months in. Take a gander.

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Faction: The Brotherhood (Using rogue colony template)

Locations: Patsayev, Komarov and Dobrovolski (And Earth)

Leader (You decide): Khain

Citadel Council member Y/N or N/A: Hell no!

Brief description of diplomatic relations: No real relations to anyone, since the public face of the Brotherhood are a mixture of religious fanactics and terrorists.

Military state of readiness: Its there, just not seen.

History: An old Earth Order that came to be in times forgotten, the Brotherhood is a supercult that thrived long before Christianity even existed, but did not gain much technological headway till the rise of Nazi Germany where they secretly placed important members in place around the globes various science academies and professions. In the era of Mass Effect technology the Brotherhood is a large entity with cults and cells all across space, with various species involved and acting on their behalf. Technologically the Brotherhood uses a mixture of Ezo and non Ezo technology both more advanced and less advanced than those of other species, as hidden cells are equipped with old rifles undetectable to conventional military scanners that look for ezo signatures in weapons, even the high end weaponry of the brotherhood surpass that of the citadel with its only weakness being its rarity. But as widely spread as they are the wide spread galaxy barely knows anything other than their public appearances in the form of small but well funded terrorist groups.

The hidden face of the Brotherhood is a complex society of secrecy, deep trust, respect and laboratories studying all manner of sciences banned and forbidden by the Council, avenues of thought shunned by scientists everywhere. To be a member of the Brotherhood is to be a member of the most secretive family in the history of the galaxy.

The Brotherhoods main goal is to unify the galaxy under them, Peace through Power, but some other threat is also on the agenda...

However all is not exactly as it seems, for the mythical head of the brotherhood is said to be immortal, with good reason too. The man who is said to be thousands to hundreds of thousands of years old walks among mere mortals... But is he human?

Khain is not actually Human, for in the times of the last cycle the protheans scattered to their various outposts, one of such was in Sol, one prothean saw a chance to start over, fresh with Humanity. Using the prothean sciences he created a human body and transferred his mind over to it, enhanced beyond most measures to survive several hundred human lifetimes and went down to the surface after taking some technology and killing and destroying the bodies of the other protheans. Using his technology he preserved the body and went into stasis for a time until two hundred years before the rise of the Roman Empire and started from there. However over the centuries he has come to embrace his Humanity and now seeks not only vengeance but an Empire based on the religion he had created around himself, falling for his own propaganda...

.................................................................

History of the Supreme Temple: The Brotherhoods Earth Headquarters is old beyond comparison to most still standing structures, built shortly after the first world war and expanded upon greatly since then with a mixture if both old and modern taste in the design, underground tunnels and complexes extend for kilometres, shrines and laboratories occupy the lower levels while a fully functioning underground city winds its way around, parks and shopping districts are abundant alongside businesses. But most followers of the Brotherhood often live secretive lives among the citizens of the alliance or their various species.

However extra Solar colonies exist with heavy Brotherhood influence and are waiting for the spark to light the wick, all will come in due time and process... Peace through Power!

(More to be added as it goes along)


..................................................................................................

Military:

The Brotherhoods military stretches back to the time of the Romans, when they were naught but highly skilled bodyguards to the era of plate and steel with mastery of the battlefield atop a horse. Shortly after the second world war the brotherhood revolutionized its military by taking the German Ho Horton Jet craft which kickstarted the cold war era Brotherhoods military foundations.

In the current age the Brotherhood divides its land forces into either its elite or fanatic categories, Elite units are often from well respected brotherhood families with a long linage, those with a preference and cunning for stealth, assassination and black ops sorties are given to the Shadow Corps while those more suited for frontline duty are made apart of the Black Hand. These two Elite organizations pale compared to the Cyborg Corps, of which is the newest branch of thinking, enhancing a soldier to the point where he can fight battalions on his own.

Fanatics however are usually militia rabble or terrorists, trained to be comparable to the average stance of infantry training throughout the galaxy but much more disposable, with often time suicidal tenacity of the devout believers.

The weaponry of the Brotherhood comes from its own factories, designed and made and refined over the years to be perfect in accuracy, fire rate and durability, Armour likewise is made of the toughest ceramic plastics and solid cast cuirass to the multi functional helm's employed by the specialists. Elites will make use of up to date weaponry or custom made cartridge weaponry that packs a punch. Fanatics however are trained to employ weaponry easy to smuggle in through shipping and orbital drops aka, older fully ballistic firearms using older style bullet fed magazines, often with under barrel grenade launchers.

Combat Vehicles and armour are also designed from the ground up, rarely will the brotherhood use hovering vehicles besides light scouting bikes and Skimmer Technicals, heavier Brotherhood armour comes in the form of APC's and IFV's equipped with automatic cannons as well as flamethrower subsystems and Tanks with high velocity piercing rounds and AA of some form to keep gunships off the platoon. Lately in Armoured Divisions its become common practise to field the experimental Heavy walkers, with two squads of six each packing an arm mounted light cannon and a small Laser cannon.

............................................................................

Economy: 15 + 9 + 10 + 5 +45 + 5 +10 = 98 cdr a month)

leftover cash: 2.75 cdr

Patsayev:
1 Urban Area (Free
1 shipyard (50)
Cult local Headquarters (free)
1 fuel depo (15 cdr)

Komarov:
1 fuel depo (free
2 mining complex (10) (one is free)
1 major mining complex (30)


Earth:
Supreme Command (Sarajevo) (Free)

Military: (On Patsayev)
1 Light Transport with stealth (35)

1 Light Cruiser with stealth (43.75 Cdr)

1 armoured division (20cdr)

1 Corvette pack with stealth (5 Cdr)


1 Spec Ops with stealth ( 9.5)

On Earth:
Elite Specialist (8cdr): Cyborg Commando upgrades: Elites (Free), High Quality armaments, Electronic Warfare capabilities and Advanced armour
1 spec ops (6 cdr)
2 Sapper detachment (14cdr)



Pros:

Ancient Order:
-Due to the Brotherhoods ancient history and ties to Earth all cult activity on Earth is hidden from the views of all others unless it is open action against them. (Basically to ensure some safety to my High command). These ancient ties also draw in funding from the corporations that act as financial fronts for the Brotherhood (To be determined by random dice rolls by OP)


Cult Activity:

- the Brotherhood can construct the following buildings:
-Cult Local Headquarters (40 Cdr (first one is free), can be constructed on any planet provided there is at least 1 Urban area provides 5cdr a month, provides 1 free Milita every 2 months until a total of four per HQ is accumulated, from then on they cost the average pricing)

-Supreme Command (Free, there can only ever be one Supreme command, generates 10+ Cdr a month and comes with lvl 1 Defences, can be upgraded with higher level defences for appropriate pricing)

-Void Hideout: (50 cdr, able to be built on large asteroids, provide safe havens for Brotherhood forces in the Voids of space with stealthed hangers and basic living facilities)

Specialist Forces:
Due to being a mixture of low and high tech the Brotherhood makes use of custom made light vehicles to replace Armoured Divisions whenever they can: Light Vehicle Division (300 Vehicles + 250 mechanized troops) cost 10 cdr, take 2 months

The Brotherhood can train special Terrorist forces: Terrorist Cell (100 Terrorists) cost: 6, take 1 month training and can take either suicide tactics for an additional 3 cdr or Stealth for 4 cdr. (note the upgrades each add 1 month to the training time if taken)

The Brotherhood land units can take stealth for 50% of their price instead of the usual 75% (note this does not apply to starting units)

Cons:

Stealth is Key:
Cannot Build dreadnoughts or Fleet Carrier due to the lack of facilities and unneeded addition to the tactical doctrine, cannot build any orbital defences above lvl 2, all non mainline land forces must take stealth (Spec Ops, anti orbital forces, air mobile and Marine)

Non standard doctrine: Brotherhood forces require a Cult Local Headquarters to field LOKI and YMIR battalions or lvl 3 and above defences. (A Supreme command is an acceptable sub) as well as field half the amount of Infantry and Marines in a battalion (While decreasing the price of upgrades down by half %)

Cult Oversight: Shipyards must be built on or around planet with a Cult HQ as oversight is critical to calming the paranoia of the Cult

Rannadril - Do not remove.

Myself or a Co-OP will do the assigning of Pros/Cons. Aside from the cult headquarters and the supreme command buildings the numbers look fine. I know you are wanting it based off of NOD, but to paraphrase one of my predecessors: "We aren't writing a crossover fanfiction." As such, I'd like to try and keep it somewhat more grounded in the ME universe instead of some kind of NOD-Cerberus Love Child. If you want to do something similar to this, I'd suggest Cerberus. The last two players have sorta just left cerberus sitting there with its thumb up its butt. One of them never made it to an IC post while the other delighted in terrorist attacks instead of special operations missions to gain something instead of destroy something.

Because of this, until the app feels more like a Mass Effect Faction, I cannot accept it. It feels so grounded in the Command and Conquer universe I feel as if Tiberium will start spawning and the Scrin will invade by mistake.

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

Decided to make a super experimental faction for a chance to be semi creative/ingenious as well as allow myself to catch up to everyone all these months in. Take a gander.

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Faction: The Brotherhood (Using rogue colony template)

Locations: Patsayev, Komarov and Dobrovolski (And Earth)

Leader (You decide): Khain

Citadel Council member Y/N or N/A: Hell no!

Brief description of diplomatic relations: No real relations to anyone, since the public face of the Brotherhood are a mixture of religious fanactics and terrorists.

Military state of readiness: Its there, just not seen.

History: An old Earth Order that came to be in times forgotten, the Brotherhood is a supercult that thrived long before Christianity even existed, but did not gain much technological headway till the rise of Nazi Germany where they secretly placed important members in place around the globes various science academies and professions. In the era of Mass Effect technology the Brotherhood is a large entity with cults and cells all across space, with various species involved and acting on their behalf. Technologically the Brotherhood uses a mixture of Ezo and non Ezo technology both more advanced and less advanced than those of other species, as hidden cells are equipped with old rifles undetectable to conventional military scanners that look for ezo signatures in weapons, even the high end weaponry of the brotherhood surpass that of the citadel with its only weakness being its rarity. But as widely spread as they are the wide spread galaxy barely knows anything other than their public appearances in the form of small but well funded terrorist groups.

The hidden face of the Brotherhood is a complex society of secrecy, deep trust, respect and laboratories studying all manner of sciences banned and forbidden by the Council, avenues of thought shunned by scientists everywhere. To be a member of the Brotherhood is to be a member of the most secretive family in the history of the galaxy.

The Brotherhoods main goal is to unify the galaxy under them, Peace through Power, but some other threat is also on the agenda...

However all is not exactly as it seems, for the mythical head of the brotherhood is said to be immortal, with good reason too. The man who is said to be thousands to hundreds of thousands of years old walks among mere mortals... But is he human?

Khain is not actually Human, for in the times of the last cycle the protheans scattered to their various outposts, one of such was in Sol, one prothean saw a chance to start over, fresh with Humanity. Using the prothean sciences he created a human body and transferred his mind over to it, enhanced beyond most measures to survive several hundred human lifetimes and went down to the surface after taking some technology and killing and destroying the bodies of the other protheans. Using his technology he preserved the body and went into stasis for a time until two hundred years before the rise of the Roman Empire and started from there. However over the centuries he has come to embrace his Humanity and now seeks not only vengeance but an Empire based on the religion he had created around himself, falling for his own propaganda...

.................................................................

History of the Supreme Temple: The Brotherhoods Earth Headquarters is old beyond comparison to most still standing structures, built shortly after the first world war and expanded upon greatly since then with a mixture if both old and modern taste in the design, underground tunnels and complexes extend for kilometres, shrines and laboratories occupy the lower levels while a fully functioning underground city winds its way around, parks and shopping districts are abundant alongside businesses. But most followers of the Brotherhood often live secretive lives among the citizens of the alliance or their various species.

However extra Solar colonies exist with heavy Brotherhood influence and are waiting for the spark to light the wick, all will come in due time and process... Peace through Power!

(More to be added as it goes along)


..................................................................................................

Military:

The Brotherhoods military stretches back to the time of the Romans, when they were naught but highly skilled bodyguards to the era of plate and steel with mastery of the battlefield atop a horse. Shortly after the second world war the brotherhood revolutionized its military by taking the German Ho Horton Jet craft which kickstarted the cold war era Brotherhoods military foundations.

In the current age the Brotherhood divides its land forces into either its elite or fanatic categories, Elite units are often from well respected brotherhood families with a long linage, those with a preference and cunning for stealth, assassination and black ops sorties are given to the Shadow Corps while those more suited for frontline duty are made apart of the Black Hand. These two Elite organizations pale compared to the Cyborg Corps, of which is the newest branch of thinking, enhancing a soldier to the point where he can fight battalions on his own.

Fanatics however are usually militia rabble or terrorists, trained to be comparable to the average stance of infantry training throughout the galaxy but much more disposable, with often time suicidal tenacity of the devout believers.

The weaponry of the Brotherhood comes from its own factories, designed and made and refined over the years to be perfect in accuracy, fire rate and durability, Armour likewise is made of the toughest ceramic plastics and solid cast cuirass to the multi functional helm's employed by the specialists. Elites will make use of up to date weaponry or custom made cartridge weaponry that packs a punch. Fanatics however are trained to employ weaponry easy to smuggle in through shipping and orbital drops aka, older fully ballistic firearms using older style bullet fed magazines, often with under barrel grenade launchers.

Combat Vehicles and armour are also designed from the ground up, rarely will the brotherhood use hovering vehicles besides light scouting bikes and Skimmer Technicals, heavier Brotherhood armour comes in the form of APC's and IFV's equipped with automatic cannons as well as flamethrower subsystems and Tanks with high velocity piercing rounds and AA of some form to keep gunships off the platoon. Lately in Armoured Divisions its become common practise to field the experimental Heavy walkers, with two squads of six each packing an arm mounted light cannon and a small Laser cannon.

............................................................................

Economy: 15 + 9 + 10 + 5 +45 + 5 +10 = 98 cdr a month)

leftover cash: 2.75 cdr

Patsayev:
1 Urban Area (Free
1 shipyard (50)
Cult local Headquarters (free)
1 fuel depo (15 cdr)

Komarov:
1 fuel depo (free
2 mining complex (10) (one is free)
1 major mining complex (30)


Earth:
Supreme Command (Sarajevo) (Free)

Military: (On Patsayev)
1 Light Transport with stealth (35)

1 Light Cruiser with stealth (43.75 Cdr)

1 armoured division (20cdr)

1 Corvette pack with stealth (5 Cdr)


1 Spec Ops with stealth ( 9.5)

On Earth:
Elite Specialist (8cdr): Cyborg Commando upgrades: Elites (Free), High Quality armaments, Electronic Warfare capabilities and Advanced armour
1 spec ops (6 cdr)
2 Sapper detachment (14cdr)



Pros:

Ancient Order:
-Due to the Brotherhoods ancient history and ties to Earth all cult activity on Earth is hidden from the views of all others unless it is open action against them. (Basically to ensure some safety to my High command). These ancient ties also draw in funding from the corporations that act as financial fronts for the Brotherhood (To be determined by random dice rolls by OP)


Cult Activity:

- the Brotherhood can construct the following buildings:
-Cult Local Headquarters (40 Cdr (first one is free), can be constructed on any planet provided there is at least 1 Urban area provides 5cdr a month, provides 1 free Milita every 2 months until a total of four per HQ is accumulated, from then on they cost the average pricing)

-Supreme Command (Free, there can only ever be one Supreme command, generates 10+ Cdr a month and comes with lvl 1 Defences, can be upgraded with higher level defences for appropriate pricing)

-Void Hideout: (50 cdr, able to be built on large asteroids, provide safe havens for Brotherhood forces in the Voids of space with stealthed hangers and basic living facilities)

Specialist Forces:
Due to being a mixture of low and high tech the Brotherhood makes use of custom made light vehicles to replace Armoured Divisions whenever they can: Light Vehicle Division (300 Vehicles + 250 mechanized troops) cost 10 cdr, take 2 months

The Brotherhood can train special Terrorist forces: Terrorist Cell (100 Terrorists) cost: 6, take 1 month training and can take either suicide tactics for an additional 3 cdr or Stealth for 4 cdr. (note the upgrades each add 1 month to the training time if taken)

The Brotherhood land units can take stealth for 50% of their price instead of the usual 75% (note this does not apply to starting units)

Cons:

Stealth is Key:
Cannot Build dreadnoughts or Fleet Carrier due to the lack of facilities and unneeded addition to the tactical doctrine, cannot build any orbital defences above lvl 2, all non mainline land forces must take stealth (Spec Ops, anti orbital forces, air mobile and Marine)

Non standard doctrine: Brotherhood forces require a Cult Local Headquarters to field LOKI and YMIR battalions or lvl 3 and above defences. (A Supreme command is an acceptable sub) as well as field half the amount of Infantry and Marines in a battalion (While decreasing the price of upgrades down by half %)

Cult Oversight: Shipyards must be built on or around planet with a Cult HQ as oversight is critical to calming the paranoia of the Cult

Rannadril - Do not remove.

Myself or a Co-OP will do the assigning of Pros/Cons. Aside from the cult headquarters and the supreme command buildings the numbers look fine. I know you are wanting it based off of NOD, but to paraphrase one of my predecessors: "We aren't writing a crossover fanfiction." As such, I'd like to try and keep it somewhat more grounded in the ME universe instead of some kind of NOD-Cerberus Love Child. If you want to do something similar to this, I'd suggest Cerberus. The last two players have sorta just left cerberus sitting there with its thumb up its butt. One of them never made it to an IC post while the other delighted in terrorist attacks instead of special operations missions to gain something instead of destroy something.

Because of this, until the app feels more like a Mass Effect Faction, I cannot accept it. It feels so grounded in the Command and Conquer universe I feel as if Tiberium will start spawning and the Scrin will invade by mistake.

Rightio, go back and edit it to be a bit more 'Mass Effecty" although there is only so much before it looks like nothing but a carbon copy of another with a new coat of paint slapped on.

edit: also any suggestions to make it more "ME"?

[Greater Istanistan]

Make it not NOD.

[The Volus]

Hi guys

[Versail]

I unfortunatly must request to be removed from the list as I have finals and eocs soon.

[The Volus]

I got finals too but I can post at least once a week hopefully

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

Make it not NOD.

But where's the fun without the Nod flavour? After all Cerberus is too... splintered for my likes.

Also people... I have just found out how to make stealth tanks in Mass Effect, this will be beautiful....

[Segmentia]

Stealth isn't a land unit upgrade

[Great Empire of Gamilus]

Stealth isn't a land unit upgrade

Actually it could be considering Infiltraitors get a personalized tactical cloaking device, scale it up for a tank and bingo bango baby.