The USS Almayer acting alongside the USS Seraphina are acting in sector Echo as part of a larger grand offensive against the xenomorph threat. The remainder of the 2nd Battalion are in nearby Sectors and are thus unable to assist.
Nonetheless most of the ranking members of the 2nd Batt are onboard the USS Almayer which has taken position at the edge of the zone, with the USS Seraphine, a Bougainville Class vessel, acting as a support unit, preparing to take action over LV-624 where the incoming Xenomorph threat has already begun to assail.
im opposed to this because dead marines would have to just be cannon fodder in the next missions if they die during the campaign
many people value their PCs (but not me), and thus the infamous rp standards would probably suffer
Though from a “cm is actually TDM” perspective the idea is definetly interesting.
I’m not at all going to order people to not use a character that has been killed in action in a previous mission. That’d be unenforceable as well.
We can just handwave it that any Marines that died in a previous mission were actually someone else, or the Marines have outstanding casevac after the operation is over.
This is just a conventionality. You don’t have to empathize on the fact same characters playing different battle despite previously dying. I do think some people going to not play the same character during the campaign after dying, but I don’t think it needs to be mandatory.
I’d think that the best time to run this event would be during mid to high pop, pref towards high pop. I’d suggest trying to run at least 2 rounds back-to-back before returning to the regular game.
This would mean the first two rounds would likely be LV-624, then a fight on 1 of the 3 high-pop planets.
First two rounds would be fairly bog-standard, but things will start to get more unique after the first two rounds as the meta-rewards and defensive bonuses come online
I have no idea if CORSAT would even work properly? Let alone the fact no one has played it means the entire round would be wasted effort as both sides get lost.
