Athena: Fall of Europe (OOC | Closed-ish)
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:27 pmDisclaimer: This RP is Closed-ish, so you'll have to convince me that your char would really help augment the RP as a whole to be accepted (but you can still be accepted).
IC
The Athena Program
Advanced Tactical HAZOPS and Extraterrestrial Neutralization Agency
Inspired by Vancon's Athena RP and Unified Free Lands' TITAN.
1st January 2025:
An alien invasion force makes landfall in Copenhagen, Denmark. The local military is quickly overwhelmed and the invasion pours over the border into Germany.
3rd January 2025:
The German government declares that it is calling upon Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, brining NATO into official open conflict with the aliens for the first time.
Like hell we can keep this a secret now.
As you probably now know, first contact with an intelligent alien race was made on January 1st, 2020 during the Moscow incident. First on the scene were law enforcement, poor bastards never even stood a chance. Up against technology that dwarfed ours by comparison and capabilities that we could only begin to understand at the time, pardon my French, but things were looking pretty shit. Fortunately for all of us, the world had an answer to extra-terrestrial aggression: Athena.
Now, the media’s done a proper circus since Copenhagen, so I know you’ve heard the stories – and trust me when I say that they’re true. These guys and gals are some mean sons-of-bitches who got real good and killing aliens and splattering their brains across the dirt at the start of the decade. While the rest of us wooed over the newest IPhone or celebrity heartthrob, they were out there fighting and dying in the mud. And you know what? They bloody won.
Probably would have been better if they hadn’t.
Once a problem goes away, it’s all too easy for those in power to forget about it – especially when it’s as well covered up as this. Athena was a nuisance, a reminder that politicians had to think about something bigger than their next Goddamned election or opinion poll, so they got axed pretty quick. Hell of a thanks for their efforts.
As usually happens with such things though, karma came around and bit us. Copenhagen went down pretty fast: half a million butchered in the first day alone and an entire country lost. It wasn’t until they’d carved their way through half of Germany that we managed to stop them, and even then we didn’t have the numbers to hold if the Yanks hadn’t come over when they did. With the good ol’ US of A starting to fly in reinforcements and a couple of weeks of quiet, a couple of us started thinking about taking the fight over no-man’s land, but we never got the chance.
They hit us hard, like nothing that we’d been expecting. Chains of command were tossed aside as the line fell in a dozen places at once – it was hard to tell if ET was in front of you, behind you, or both. All of our defences, our fortifications, collapsed overnight. Athena got hit soon after that, gunned down in their homes when an alien force struck the Netherlands.
It wasn’t pretty, the days and weeks that came after that. Most of us forgot about putting up a fight when we started to only get static on the radio, it was all about surviving.
And running. We did an awful lot of running.
Hey guys, a new alien invasion RP inspired by Vancon’s Athena. After beating back the first wave, Athena is wound down by the governments of the world until a full-blown alien invasion lands in Denmark. Over the course of the next few weeks, defensive lines crumble as all of Europe becomes overrun by the invaders.
This RP will follow a group of survivors, based originally in the Netherlands, as they try to make their way westwards towards what they hope will eventually be friendly territory – all the while looking for some way to delay the enemy advance. The characters are more likely to be involved with the military, although I’m not going to explicitly say that they all have to be professional soldiers. You could have your character be a surviving Athena operative (I’m allowing apps of chars from earlier RPs), a member of a national army taking part in the defence, or someone with a more civil role who survived the initial attack (base psychiatrist, Athena scientist, police officer, etc). Enjoy!
Major Enemies
Significant Allies
Armory
Classes
Standard Classes
Special Classes
Application Department:
Player Character Applications:
Extraterrestrial Species Application
Rules:
- You know the drill, standard NS rules apply.
- Your character CAN die, although I will make it a policy not to kill off anyone without having an OOC discussion via TG first - unless you do something really stupid on multiple occasions without running it by me first
- On the note of PC death, if you are willing to have you character die, or want to have some suitably dramatic build-up, pop off a TG.
- Multiple characters are allowed.
- Have fun, and of course, don't be a dick.
"This is a story of heroes, of men and women fighting against the odds for something bigger than themselves. But it’s not a story of victory. This is a story of how we lost.
This is how Europe fell."
This is how Europe fell."
IC
The Athena Program
Advanced Tactical HAZOPS and Extraterrestrial Neutralization Agency
Inspired by Vancon's Athena RP and Unified Free Lands' TITAN.
We know of our fate,
from the very beginning...
from the very beginning...
1st January 2025:
An alien invasion force makes landfall in Copenhagen, Denmark. The local military is quickly overwhelmed and the invasion pours over the border into Germany.
3rd January 2025:
The German government declares that it is calling upon Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, brining NATO into official open conflict with the aliens for the first time.
Like hell we can keep this a secret now.
As you probably now know, first contact with an intelligent alien race was made on January 1st, 2020 during the Moscow incident. First on the scene were law enforcement, poor bastards never even stood a chance. Up against technology that dwarfed ours by comparison and capabilities that we could only begin to understand at the time, pardon my French, but things were looking pretty shit. Fortunately for all of us, the world had an answer to extra-terrestrial aggression: Athena.
Now, the media’s done a proper circus since Copenhagen, so I know you’ve heard the stories – and trust me when I say that they’re true. These guys and gals are some mean sons-of-bitches who got real good and killing aliens and splattering their brains across the dirt at the start of the decade. While the rest of us wooed over the newest IPhone or celebrity heartthrob, they were out there fighting and dying in the mud. And you know what? They bloody won.
Probably would have been better if they hadn’t.
Once a problem goes away, it’s all too easy for those in power to forget about it – especially when it’s as well covered up as this. Athena was a nuisance, a reminder that politicians had to think about something bigger than their next Goddamned election or opinion poll, so they got axed pretty quick. Hell of a thanks for their efforts.
As usually happens with such things though, karma came around and bit us. Copenhagen went down pretty fast: half a million butchered in the first day alone and an entire country lost. It wasn’t until they’d carved their way through half of Germany that we managed to stop them, and even then we didn’t have the numbers to hold if the Yanks hadn’t come over when they did. With the good ol’ US of A starting to fly in reinforcements and a couple of weeks of quiet, a couple of us started thinking about taking the fight over no-man’s land, but we never got the chance.
They hit us hard, like nothing that we’d been expecting. Chains of command were tossed aside as the line fell in a dozen places at once – it was hard to tell if ET was in front of you, behind you, or both. All of our defences, our fortifications, collapsed overnight. Athena got hit soon after that, gunned down in their homes when an alien force struck the Netherlands.
It wasn’t pretty, the days and weeks that came after that. Most of us forgot about putting up a fight when we started to only get static on the radio, it was all about surviving.
And running. We did an awful lot of running.
Hey guys, a new alien invasion RP inspired by Vancon’s Athena. After beating back the first wave, Athena is wound down by the governments of the world until a full-blown alien invasion lands in Denmark. Over the course of the next few weeks, defensive lines crumble as all of Europe becomes overrun by the invaders.
This RP will follow a group of survivors, based originally in the Netherlands, as they try to make their way westwards towards what they hope will eventually be friendly territory – all the while looking for some way to delay the enemy advance. The characters are more likely to be involved with the military, although I’m not going to explicitly say that they all have to be professional soldiers. You could have your character be a surviving Athena operative (I’m allowing apps of chars from earlier RPs), a member of a national army taking part in the defence, or someone with a more civil role who survived the initial attack (base psychiatrist, Athena scientist, police officer, etc). Enjoy!
Major Enemies
Significant Allies
Armory
Classes
Standard Classes
Special Classes
Application Department:
Player Character Applications:
Extraterrestrial Species Application
Rules:
- You know the drill, standard NS rules apply.
- Your character CAN die, although I will make it a policy not to kill off anyone without having an OOC discussion via TG first - unless you do something really stupid on multiple occasions without running it by me first
- On the note of PC death, if you are willing to have you character die, or want to have some suitably dramatic build-up, pop off a TG.
- Multiple characters are allowed.
- Have fun, and of course, don't be a dick.
