Unto the Breach: A Gate RP (OOC|Open|Fantasy-MT)

[Zjaum]

You guys never stop posting...

I'm going to need a day to read everything. Expect my next post on Monday. I'll respond retroactively to everything addressed to Haapsalu and Okoya.

[Nations United for Conquest]

You guys never stop posting...

I'm going to need a day to read everything. Expect my next post on Monday. I'll respond retroactively to everything addressed to Haapsalu and Okoya.

Such is the early stages of a character RP. Espically one with mutliple story lines

[Novaya Equestria]

I'm just going to point out, that the first thing tat would happen to the prince walking towards the UN base, is that at about five kilometers or so out, he'd start receiving a signal in the form of a flashing light. That light would be UN Peacekeepers using high power beams in the middle of the day to try and get him to stop. He'd be detained at that distance until the FOB could scramble a group of grunts and reps to move out towards the man. Approach wouldn't be easy either.

The next most major point to make note of is the presence of weapons. Any attempts to move closer would probably be greeted with the use of wide-flung ranging shots, smoke, or even potentially CS Gas. Fortunately, your character doesn't appear to have too many people with him, nor does he appear to be hostile, but he's not just going to be taken into the FOB to meet a Rep or Colonel. He'd still very much be treated as a definite security threat, and depending on what the UN forces have been debriefed on from the natives living within their walls... they could literally be expecting anything.

The next place he'd likely go, is into the back of a truck. He'd talk to a translator in the progress and likely be allowed to keep his guards. The truck would be open-topped, so his actions and the actions of his peers could be observed both near and far and in the event of a security threat manifesting... he'd be dealt with and suppressed immediately, most likely through lethal force. As soon as he was within the walls of the FOB, he'd become very much aware of the fact that it's not just a tent city and that many semi-permanent housing structures have been built. He'd likely see radio antennae of all sorts tied with a basic radar system for tracking any airborne threats... not that he'd know what any of it was.. he'd just see it.

Also, a UN FOB wouldn't just appear to be tents. It would have dozens of walls made of Hesco barriers. Cheap concrete barriers intended to stop the elements, mortars, and god knows what else from injuring what they protect. These can stack sometimes to over thirty feet, maybe even higher, and they definitely get stacked to at least a meter thick. The main roads would likely already be paved with asphalt while auxiliaries would have a sort of metal chain-link in place. Other more lightly trodden roadways would be host to the hundreds if not thousands of civilians and Peacekeepers and military Liaisons present. The FOB on Alnus Hill, being what it is would be significantly larger than what we saw in the original Manga or the Animated Adaptation, due to its multinational roots.

The presence of guns everywhere would be a thing, but professional soldiers on deployment are trained to keep their weapons on them at all times. They never leave their weapons and a missing weapon would lock down a FOB until it's accounted for. Attempts to steal such a weapon from a soldier would likely result in being immediately suppressed, with or without lethal force would likely be up to the situation itself.

Okay, but I'll need help in making a post. Hit me a TG if ya want.

[Vahltunskhja]

Is that what French Canadians sound like to Europeans? Like someone doing a satirical over the top French accent?

[Dayganistan]

Is that what French Canadians sound like to Europeans? Like someone doing a satirical over the top French accent?

That's what they sound like to me as an actual Canadian to be honest.

[Vahltunskhja]

That's what they sound like to me as an actual Canadian to be honest.

Huh. I can tell Euro French and French Canadians apart most of the time. Bit kookier sounding, more emphasis on certain parts of the sentence. The former calls you a stupid American, the other calls you a stupid English Canadian. That kind of thing.

[Bentus]

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Accepted, although just some clarification for the characters who claim to not be fully under UN command: officially and technically, they'd be within the UN Chain of Command. On paper, they would ultimately report to Sven and any superiors within the UN encampment; however, at the end of the day nothing is stopping them from pursuing national interests unofficially. Similarly, since the UN is ultimately at the behest of powerful member states, the CIA could apply pressure - for example - to have an agent within the mission. While technically the agent is under UN command, in reality they may have ulterior motives that they also attempt to pursue.

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I don't know if this is finished or not, but figured I may as well comment I like the idea, but as far as I know the UN doesn't train/hire its own dedicated soldiers, so he'd have to originally be a member of a member-state's military (say the US Army or the like), but could've worked closely with the UN.

Seems we've a few Character Apps today! Sorry for my absence, a few busy days of sleepless nights followed by booze and pizza doesn't do wonders for the immune system, so I'm a tad under the weather. Anyway, here's our medic.

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Accepted, looking good mate.

[Dayganistan]

I feel like we're going to maybe need some more vehicles. Because I'm assuming some of the officers and senior enlisted might be in charge of some of their own people too.

[Vahltunskhja]

I feel like we're going to maybe need some more vehicles. Because I'm assuming some of the officers and senior enlisted might be in charge of some of their own people too.

Nah we're just shoving an ass load of officers and like three enlisted guys from a bunch of different countries into a bunch of AFVs with nothing resembling a conventional chain of command and shipping them off with zero intel because that makes sense. And that's straight up what we're doing.

Because UN bureaucracy is capable of producing 40k Warp Storm-tier mindfuckery.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

I feel like we're going to maybe need some more vehicles. Because I'm assuming some of the officers and senior enlisted might be in charge of some of their own people too.

Nah we're just shoving an ass load of officers and like three enlisted guys from a bunch of different countries into a bunch of AFVs with nothing resembling a conventional chain of command and shipping them off with zero intel because that makes sense. And that's straight up what we're doing.

Because UN bureaucracy is capable of producing 40k Warp Storm-tier mindfuckery.

Yeah, but the UN never commands an army in the field. That is entirely up to the national commands. The UN has no officer core, and does nothing besides keeping an eye out for human rights, and providing the legality for wars. So, UN bureaucracy has nothing to do with this.

[Vahltunskhja]

Yeah, but the UN never commands an army in the field. That is entirely up to the national commands. The UN has no officer core, and does nothing besides keeping an eye out for human rights, and providing the legality for wars. So, UN bureaucracy has nothing to do with this.

By UN bureacracy I meant more the madness that goes on during multinational UN deployments. It's more the fault of the UN member states.

[Dayganistan]

Yeah, but the UN never commands an army in the field. That is entirely up to the national commands. The UN has no officer core, and does nothing besides keeping an eye out for human rights, and providing the legality for wars. So, UN bureaucracy has nothing to do with this.

By UN bureacracy I meant more the madness that goes on during multinational UN deployments. It's more the fault of the UN member states.

I'd imagine most countries would have, realistically, deployed enough troops to at least have a coherent platoon strength force. So, for example, you'd have a Canadian private answering to a Canadian sergeant answering to a Canadian lieutenant answering to the American captain on this specific mission.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

Yeah, but the UN never commands an army in the field. That is entirely up to the national commands. The UN has no officer core, and does nothing besides keeping an eye out for human rights, and providing the legality for wars. So, UN bureaucracy has nothing to do with this.

By UN bureacracy I meant more the madness that goes on during multinational UN deployments. It's more the fault of the UN member states.

I think we can assume that the member states have done their thing. We have NPC's to fill up the roles that aren't played, but are still necessary. Because none of us are generals in any national army irl (I think) we have to take everything with a grain of salt, and we'll have to make more assumptions to make sure everything is rolling smoothly.

[Vahltunskhja]

I'd imagine most countries would have, realistically, deployed enough troops to at least have a coherent platoon strength force. So, for example, you'd have a Canadian private answering to a Canadian sergeant answering to a Canadian lieutenant answering to the American captain on this specific mission.

This mission is weird, because we're going to have around twelve personnel lead by a Captain, who normally lead companies with close to a hundred guys.

I think we can assume that the member states have done their thing. We have NPC's to fill up the roles that aren't played, but are still necessary. Because none of us are generals in any national army irl (I think) we have to take everything with a grain of salt, and we'll have to make more assumptions to make sure everything is rolling smoothly.

UN deployments do typically go more or less smoothly in real life, I'm just jumping to some very generous conclusions to justify a recon team only now being assembled and made up of two captains, a lieutenant, three or four sergeants and a warrant officer. It doesn't really make sense unless conflicting national interests produced another snafu - that's simple how I've tried to rationalize it.

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

I'd imagine most countries would have, realistically, deployed enough troops to at least have a coherent platoon strength force. So, for example, you'd have a Canadian private answering to a Canadian sergeant answering to a Canadian lieutenant answering to the American captain on this specific mission.

This mission is weird, because we're going to have around twelve personnel lead by a Captain, who normally lead companies with close to a hundred guys.

I think we can assume that the member states have done their thing. We have NPC's to fill up the roles that aren't played, but are still necessary. Because none of us are generals in any national army irl (I think) we have to take everything with a grain of salt, and we'll have to make more assumptions to make sure everything is rolling smoothly.

UN deployments do typically go more or less smoothly in real life, I'm just jumping to some very generous conclusions to justify a recon team only now being assembled and made up of two captains, a lieutenant, three or four sergeants and a warrant officer. It doesn't really make sense unless conflicting national interests produced another snafu - that's simple how I've tried to rationalize it.

Where did Bentus say we'd only have a dozen people? He stated we'd have at least a few armoured vehicles. I'd have to look up the details, but nowhere is it implied that we're only going with twelve people.

[Vahltunskhja]

Where did Bentus say we'd only have a dozen people? He stated we'd have at least a few armoured vehicles. I'd have to look up the details, but nowhere is it implied that we're only going with twelve people.

M2 Bradely holds 3 crewmen and six soldiers, and two Iveco LMVs hold 1 driver and 3 personnel each. I wasn't counting the vehicle crews, and there are variants of the Ivecos that can hold four or six people each, so I could be off. Around twelve people, most likely more.

Edit: basically I'm jumping to a lot of conclusions.

[Nations United for Conquest]

By UN bureacracy I meant more the madness that goes on during multinational UN deployments. It's more the fault of the UN member states.

I'd imagine most countries would have, realistically, deployed enough troops to at least have a coherent platoon strength force. So, for example, you'd have a Canadian private answering to a Canadian sergeant answering to a Canadian lieutenant answering to the American captain on this specific mission.

Well that's not really what's going on. Since there's no offical "Military Force" under the UN, the whole expedition has become a logistical nightmare, with all the different uniforms, weapons, ammo, etc. And although it is true that each nation might send a decent size force, this isn't supposed to be a major operation. That's why there are so many seperate nations involved. By that logic the whole recon operation would be company size, as there are at least two Germans, a French, two Russian, and like three Americans so far on the mission.

The large amount of officers is due in part to this whole thing, as many have pointed out, being another UN cluster fuck. A majority of the nations, as it would appear, have sent special forces[the officers that is] as they are move veteran units prepared for this type of mission.

There's also the fact of organizing this whole thing. As the OP has made clear the UN forces have only been hear for about a month and are still dealing with the question of what the UN's role should be in the special region. Thus there's not a lot of ground forces as technically they're not "invading" the Special Region, and do not have a clear goal at this time. They are hungry for intel and have been pressured for a while. That's why they're losely assembling those who are the best for the mission and throwing them out into the open.

As for the question of the vehicles, the CO of the recon mission stated that there would by an LAV and two Ivecos. Captian Gardner[CO] and Captian[Fischer] would each be taking a Iveco, with the rest ending up in the LAV[I'd assume]. That places atleast 3 people, Gardner, Fischer and another player who was in command of the LAV

This is at least my rational. There's also the fact that trying to organize a company sized recon from an RP perspective would likely be a story telling nightmare

[Nations United for Conquest]

Excuse the double posting. I suggest you read the above post before this one^

Anyways, I've never personally watched all of "Gate" I have only seen a few clips while I was researching what this whole RP was about. After digging around for about an hour I finally found This video (Skip to the 4:00 minute mark)

As you can see the recon team is basically comprised as the same number of vehicles[and similar types] as our RP team. I'm not sure if this was intential or not, but that's besides the point. The recon group deployed here, from what I can tell, numbers around 8-12. Now, they're all the same nationality, so they get a little bonus if they want to send more troops. But again they're operating under pretense of not having a firm stance on the reason they are there, and not seemingly wanting to do a huge invasion atm. The UN force is under going the same thing. From what I can tell as well they have a small number of each rank as well. There appears to be at least one Captian, maybe two Lts, a sergeant or two, and a few other enlisted ranks I wasn't completely able to catch.

I realize this might not have a huge bearing on the RP, but felt it was worth to point out

[Bentus]

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Nation's has pretty much hit the nail on the head. I'm largely basing things off of what I know from the anime and trying to keep things reasonable in terms of RPing, though if the numbers are a tad high, I've got no issue with throwing in an extra Iveco. Personally, I don't know enough about military procedure or ranks to stick too close to reality (still not completely clear on the nuances of the difference between an officer and an enlisted to be frank). So it's a huge help when you guys point out when I do something wrong or otherwise a bit on the too unrealistic side and brainstorm alternatives

On a similar note, about to run out of Spring break, so will have a bit less free time on my hands. I'd be open to taking on a Co-OP or two to help ensure that things keep flowing even if I'm busy for a day or so. General responsibilities would be the usual (apps, keeping the peace, etc) as well as potentially taking over NPCs to help move plots forward and helping brainstorm new plot ideas/acting as a soundboard for ideas. Anyone down?

[New Antonalia]

I apologize for not posting recently. I've been busy with school. What did I miss?

[Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States]

I apologize for not posting recently. I've been busy with school. What did I miss?

We're about to launch a Trident warhead at the imperial capital, hoping that will make them capitulate.

[The Knockout Gun Gals]

Looks awesome, still accepting players?

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Name|Rank|Role: Rashid Daud Hendrawan | Chief Warrant Officer | CQB, underwater demolition, amphibious warfare, marksman

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D.O.B|Birthplace|Nationality 17th August, 1980 | Surabaya, Indonesia | Indonesian


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Born in Surabaya, Rashid's family was a clerical and religious one, his grandfather was a former high-ranked official within Muhammadiyah, one of the two largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, with NU as the other one. Thus, his childhood was a deeply religious one and Rashid has a deep background rooted from his childhood, thus making him a very religious person with tolerance on other religions. His father is a Muhammadiyah official as well, but joined when he was retired following an injury in the military operation in East Timor. His father's relatively moderation soon also connected to his son and Rashid balancing his conservatism and moderation on his faith and adjusted it to his own personality as well.

As he grew older and graduated from university with a degree in Economics, two years after the new government was founded, he joined the military as well accordingly to his father's previous career choice and eventually joined Marine Corps in the Indonesian Navy. Two years into service, Bali Bombing changed everything as radicalism rose to the surface. He struggled to maintained his faith in the meantime, and it took him 3 years before he was able to found the balance, at the same time he transferred to Kopaska, Navy's special forces.

Years passed, and promotions, he was eventually assigned on the UN Peacekeepers and from 2014, served in various country that needed UN Peacekeepers. Of course, the appearances of GATE in Stockholm changed everything, and he was chosen as his background in underwater and amphibious warfare could proved to be an essential skills, chosen as part of UN Recon Force.

Personality: Most will be established ICly, but he is a religious man with strong balance of moderation and tolerance.

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[Kassaran]

Nuances on Enlisted and Officer ranks are similar to management positions.

An officer acts more in a supervisory capacity than anything. If this was to be a realistic team, ultimately wed never even send in anyone of the officer rank. We'd do as western militaries do and send in the enlisted who are direct operations with maybe a warrant officer or twould as field specialists... even then that's a stretch.

When you picture deskwork, you picture some white collar guy typing away behind a keyboard with maybe a secretary to set up meetings between himself and other white collars. That secretary is pretty much an en listed person in the military while the white collar is an officer. Warrants are a completely different animal altogether.

In reality though, we also dont have gates to other worlds showing up in the middle of Stockholm and we most certainly wouldn't have sent in a UN expeditionary force. Instead we likely would have made 8t a NATO exclusive special forces group operating with a small easily resupplied FOB on Alnus Hill with a high rate of troop rotation.

We'd be using Helicopter recon almost exclusively and within three months would likely have begun major operations in bringing the empire to heel or if the Americans had their way... destabilized their entire government through a bullet to the emperor and then propped up the faction we preferred to be in power with equipment and support from us.

That's realism, but it's also no fun.

EDIT: Alright, and there's been no sightings of dragons yet by the by. The first dragon was a surprise to everyone including the empire.

[Second Helghan Empire]

Nuances on Enlisted and Officer ranks are similar to management positions.

An officer acts more in a supervisory capacity than anything. If this was to be a realistic team, ultimately wed never even send in anyone of the officer rank. We'd do as western militaries do and send in the enlisted who are direct operations with maybe a warrant officer or twould as field specialists... even then that's a stretch.

When you picture deskwork, you picture some white collar guy typing away behind a keyboard with maybe a secretary to set up meetings between himself and other white collars. That secretary is pretty much an en listed person in the military while the white collar is an officer. Warrants are a completely different animal altogether.

In reality though, we also dont have gates to other worlds showing up in the middle of Stockholm and we most certainly wouldn't have sent in a UN expeditionary force. Instead we likely would have made 8t a NATO exclusive special forces group operating with a small easily resupplied FOB on Alnus Hill with a high rate of troop rotation.

We'd be using Helicopter recon almost exclusively and within three months would likely have begun major operations in bringing the empire to heel or if the Americans had their way... destabilized their entire government through a bullet to the emperor and then propped up the faction we preferred to be in power with equipment and support from us.

That's realism, but it's also no fun.

EDIT: Alright, and there's been no sightings of dragons yet by the by. The first dragon was a surprise to everyone including the empire.

Yeah I know, Martin just had the romantic idea of slaying a dragon with modern firepower.

[Kassaran]

No sightings of dragons yet by the by. The first dragon was a surprise to everyone including the empire.

Yeah I know, Martin just had the romantic idea of slaying a dragon with modern firepower.

Moreover talking to the Brit speaking about dragons... also, personal drones aren't a thing in the military... yet.