We also have a truly outsize impact on the planetary environment without much in the way of natural attrition to trim our influence (at least not yet).īut the strangest thing of all is how we generate, exploit, and propagate information that is not encoded in our heritable genetic material, yet travels with us through time and space. For a global species, we’re not particularly genetically diverse, thanks in part to how our ancient roaming explorations caused “founder effects” and “bottleneck events” that restricted our ancestral gene pool. Kinetic projectiles on gravity-slingshot orbits are their specialty, and the shock of having your ship depressurized by a knife thrown from several light-seconds away is one few spacers are prepared to deal with.Something very old, very powerful and very special has been unleashed on Earth. Since then, their ballooning fleet of pirated ships has been kept in check only by internal struggles. Three local years after the disastrous First Contact with outward-expanding Earth forces, a temporary alliance of the tribes managed to build a working hyperdrive out of scrap metal bits and a stolen ray gun.
There simply isn't enough smeltable metal left to put their designs to use.
Their shamans have deduced nuclear and relativistic physics from first principles. Between clashes their bards create great sagas and carvings of incredibly advanced mathematics. Only the greatest warriors go without a shield, preferring instead to dual-wield their own weapons and those taken from the enemy.Įven in their reduced state, though, they have not lost the Martian intellect. Skirmishes between the two are a way of life since time immemorial. Here are representatives of the Skull-Fang tribe, wielders of the sacred xolchu knife-axe (similar to our huckable Earth mambele knives):Īnd here their great rivals, the spear-wielding Moonspike tribe. Still others suffered resource collapse, and the colonists relapsed into centuries of barbarism. Others saw the colonists die off, to be replaced aeons later by evolved descendants of flora and fauna brought along during the terraforming (Martiaforming?) process. A few of these, such as the ancestors of the Andromedan Dominion, flourished. They built miracles and left behind marvels. In the ancient days when the Solar System was young, the Martian Empire spread far and wide through the local outer spiral arm before the Veiled Catastrophe ended their hegemony. (I've had these finished for a while and THOUGHT I'd posted them already, but the search engine can't find them.) Next time itll be a terror mission against the rest of the mini's shown here. He plays the part so wonderfully well with the glowing eyes. The bulk of the Grey army was Gray's from Zombiesmith(cute attitude and enormous heads) but the alien overlord had to be the reaper overloard. =) Or the rookie who saved a civilian, only to be taken over and shoot the civilan in the head. I think my best compliment was the repeated comments of how some of the nastier turns in gameplay mirrored the old xcom game, such as when a gray takes over a sniper on a tower, and makes him drop a grenade wiping out him and his rocket launcher buddy cleaning off the tower.
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The UFO: Incursion response force is meant to play similar to the old X-com series and I had quite a bit of fun trying it out on new players at tacticon last week. I dont consider these competition pieces, just fun pieces for tabletop. Hello, I recently finished making a UFO invasion game using minis from around the globe, but quite a few of my terror and more powerful alien invaders came from Reaper, so I thougth I would share.
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