Story submission for the project (rough)

[Mr X]

I think the third Cthonian faction should be called the Gaians, Gaia was the Greek Goddess of the Earth and Earth is in the middle of heaven and hell. Just as the Gaians were caught in the middle of two opposite factions.

[VSMIT]

But what did you think of my backstory?  Since it's your main story, after all.

[Mr X]

Sorry, I was about to comment but then the microwave went *ding* and I went to get my dinner and just clicked post.

Its very good, I certainly liked it anyway, and your explanation of time travel has gotten me out of a very tough spot.

Also, I've posted an idea in BBB's thread about how our two stories could be linked, what does everyone else think?

[VSMIT]

I think stories should stay separate for now, at least until they get finalized.  Then once decisions start to get made, we can combine parts of stories.

Oh, and no problem about the tough spot.

[AHadley]

I think the third Cthonian faction should be called the Gaians, Gaia was the Greek Goddess of the Earth and Earth is in the middle of heaven and hell. Just as the Gaians were caught in the middle of two opposite factions.

Very clever.

[Feared_1]

I like this story (the backstory makes it even better), but I think it would get just a little repetitive: Follow, build, destroy, continue. Follow, build, destroy, continue.

Nice work.

[VSMIT]

Part of the gameplay would be fixing history discrepencies created by the mod's main enemy. Think about it this way: Imagine that the Big Bad had killed Cooke just before his mission to destroy the Scion main computer. Playing as a Scion pilot, imagine the emotion going through your character as he receives the order to correct history by destroying the computer. That would break most people.

[bb1]

Alright, so who here can sound anything like Collins?

-Keeping in mind Collins was heavily edited by voice modulation software. Be cool to open a mission with him giving orders for a BZ1 mission- but then notices a disturbance forming. He sends the grizzleys at you but you can not interact with them in any way or else time is screwed. Things could get really interesting really fast, this CP sounds as if it could go past 20 levels of considerable length.

[Nielk1]

Chthonians are the Greek gods and goddesses of Earth and the Underworld. Battlezone uses this word to describe the 'gods' as a whole. Inventing the term Hadeans for use for those from Hadese. This still leaves the Earth, and Heaven.

Olympians introduces the Greek pantheon and features the Olympian gods and goddesses. In Battlezone this is more the Mt. Olympus group.

Titans are the beings who ruled before the coming of the Olympians.

Now, using this information, what would the name of the middle ground be?
Technically they are Cthonians by the definition. Battlezone invents the term Hadeans so maybe we need to invent our own? Gaia is a Titan, or rather the mother of the Titans, so this name is not fitting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_words_with_English_derivatives

Ge = Earth
theos = a god
kruptos = hidden
kratos = power, rule
lāos = people
philia/philos = friendship/friend

Gailos?

I got nothin'

[Angstromicus]

Well, they were a secret faction.

Kruptophilia  ? kinda sounds like a disease

Or maybe Kruptophilos/Kruphilos?

[AHadley]

Philia is also a suffix meaning 'fetish for'

[Angstromicus]

Hmmmm, I don't think this is gonna work out so well with that . What would the Kruptophili- I mean Kruptophilos do   ? They wouldn't want to be known as a type of fetish. They wouldn't want to be mistaken as a fetish. Gaians sounds like a good ol' down-to-earth name to me. It would be a good code-name for a secret faction trying to establish common ground.

[Axeminister]

I truly like the story. Going from one time to the next, fixing things, hiding from Hadean patrols, hiding keys. Sounds like good ways to go from one mission to the next, with a battle on a different planet here and there in time. 
What to name them though. "scientists, philosophers and warriors" hmmmm.
A question, this seems to only introduce one new Cthonian faction as a new race for our CP. If there is room for two then definately let us meet the mongrels from General Hoohah's storyline.

[AHadley]

Oh yes. Hzarzk...

That could even be the cause of the damage in time, so it could be the Hzarzk that you are fighting through most missions... hmm...

[Angstromicus]

I was thinking of a race that used extremely robust units - but relatively few of them. Say, perhaps tanks that are at least five times tougher than an ISDF Sabre and are the same size, but are quite expensive to build. These units would be made of quite dense biometal.