Like why they don’t have a lot of powerful gear that could easily shred xenos to bits (like HEAP, giant tanks of doom, movie-like sentries that instantly kills xeno drones, drones (not xenos) that would have wiped the hive without needing marines, laser guns, howitzers, and more).
Apparently they just got back from a brutal battle with the CLF? Tyson Tackle or something. Explains their relatively lack of supplies. But I’d like to know the in-depth explanation.
And they are apparently a meme in the military… which makes sense, considering the amount of GOOD HITS! Explain this aspect more as well.
From what I know (wiki lore) the CLF were expecting them and it got so bad that first platoon ate through all the good gear and men in that op. The reason second platoon is woken up (us) is cause the first lost so many they became combat ineffective. As for their reputation, well they are a penal unit. Tells ya all ya need to know
As far as I understand, Tychon Tackle wasn’t just like, an operational failure. it was DEVASTATING to the Almayer. First platoon, consisting of a majority of the more seasoned and well trained marines, is wiped out or injured. EVERY vehicle the Almayer had, including tanks and Armored Personnel Carriers, was similarly damaged beyond repair. Everything that could have gone wrong with the operation did, and that’s stacked on top of the Almayer already being critically underfunded for what it was trying to do. The Almayer is a general peacekeeping vessel to be a source of galactic law waaaay out in the frontier. They handle riots, uprisings, and the like. They are NOT trained to handle threats like XX-121, which I’m decently sure falls under jurisdiction of the CBRN.
I remember something being said about a CLF suicide vessel that rammed into the Almayer, and then caused a cookoff in the ASRS which destroyed a good chunk of their equipment and all of their HEAP rounds. Since then the autolathes had been hacked to produce 10x24 soft-tip rounds instead.
The Almayer is host to a penal legion, which is definitely the biggest part of why the Falling Falcons are a “meme” and a “canon” explanation for why so many people suck at video game and shoot their friends.
There’s ancillary details on why they’re noted as a joke of a platoon though like the whole New Year’s party thing. I’m not allowed to talk about that, though. You probably shouldn’t either- it was a great night, but it went really, really off the rails, man.
Tychon Tackle was the absolute worst, like the others said, but I believe a big detail is that the other ship sent with the Almayer was all but completely disabled, leaving us the only patrol ship in the area until we are relieved. I believe we were on our way for resupply and getting on the mend at Chinook Station before the distress call had ARES wake all of us a-la original Alien.
With some maps, the lore differs, like the upcoming Rift map that has us called out to assist an ongoing Xeno conflict, but most of the time, we’re responding to calls that could be milk runs or riots. If we knew it was a Xenomorph attack ahead of time and weren’t being pulled on emergency like in Tyrargo, it’s likely the Falcons would be pulled out and substituted for another legion entirely. HEAP is littered everywhere on other ships, and on PVE, you actually get to use it! It’s devastatingly effective, but also horrific in friendly fire. I’m kind of glad we don’t get it.
USS Heyst’s Second and Third Platoons had a combined loss of 79 personnel with 51 considered wounded in action, all ground side vehicular assets were deemed salvageable, but they would be very costly to repair.
USS Heyst’s structural damage had disabled its cargo elevator and main batteries. They will not be able to conduct temporary repairs of their ship, but they have sealed all breaches. Without the cargo elevator, we were not able to retrieve additional supplies.
USS Almayer’s First Platoon suffered a loss of 59 personnel with 34 considered wounded in action, all ground side vehicular assets were deemed salvageable, but they would be very costly to repair. They will be out of any active service until we replenish our losses. Second Platoon will have to be dealing with the assignments until further notice.
USS Almayer’s supplies have been nearly exhausted or destroyed. Standard issue munitions of hand grenades, HEAP, LE ammunition, and vehicular ammunition have been either depleted or destroyed from the suicide craft alongside the point defence munitions. Our engineers had to use most the spare parts and materials we had left to repair the damages on the USS Almayer and the USS Heyst on site. From what is left of our stockpile, we have backup soft point munitions to supply the marines, enough materials to establish fortifications in the field and repair one of the vehicles.
All marines are cloned, and given intentionally shit gear on purpose Tychon’s Tackle is just the reason WY crafted for them. These marines do not think they are clones, even the AW and Synths.
WY chooses a failing colony and sends down xenos to infect the colonists, they then signal the Almayer to investigate. Thus begins every round, and regardless of the outcome, WY makes enough money to re-clone the marines, rebuild the Almayer, and make a new failing colony.
The resulting conflict is recorded and broadcasted for an upper elite who enjoy the blood sport; these individuals all bankroll WY, and they’re a mysterious shadow group.
Little is known about them, but they’re all seeing and all knowing. Even having powers to talk to the dead. They’ve been called… the observer mains
This is all true btw it came to me in a Benadryl+Alcohol induced dream
It’s my head cannon that when a marine dies they grind up his body. Then take the resulting organic matter to make an A.W. They also use any unused organic matter such as left over food or the ship sewage to do that same thing. Sometimes with advanced an decomposer they can even used the carbon from paper, plastric wrappers, and even pen ink.
In space you need to recycle everything you can. This does not happen on the ship of course but they jsut store it in a massive spetic tank that is off loaded onto the A.W factory in exchange for more soliders.
i’m not joeking this my legitamite head cannon. What you think were going to ship joe marines dead body 800 lights years back to earth so his family can bury him.
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I don’t know why everytime i do world building it always ends up as a biotech nightmare like this.
Everything about the lore aside, the main aspect that the lore addresses is explaining why the Marines of the Falling Falcons, the players, are far weaker than they realistically should be.
The lore justifies why the Marines lack more effective munitions, why specialist gear is in extremely limited supply (where each Marine squad should be carrying SADARs as standard issue), lack of common gear like night vision optics, total lack of support and combat vehicles, etc, etc, etc.
Speaking of that, I’d have to think is there a lore reason why the Xenomorphs lack their true strength? That being their supposed numerical superiority.
I always imagined the PVP xenos as like a “Prime” hive, lower in numbers, but have access to the individually stronger castes, and are much smarter. While PVE xenos are the ones we see in aliens, kinda dumb individually, and use horde tactics mostly, with only the occasional T3.
A little head cannon of mine is that different XX hives could also be the result of how they were used as a bio-weapon, with different hives being tweaked depending on what they were facing.
