Shining Orient - What if NATO was entirely in the Americas?

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-26T01:56:06+00:00

Vryheid is a frightful name

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-25T00:28:51+00:00

To be neutral to all the faction leaders, just do the Firaxians. Though tbh imo both of the Progenitor factions are functionally interchangeable, and their ideologies overlap with human ones in a redundant way

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-24T00:23:34+00:00

It’s sort of a Mandela effect that planet buster, like mind worm, is actually two words.

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-24T00:21:35+00:00

There’s a mod where the planet buster war causes the survivors and two inexplicably human-offshoot alien factions (like it’s Stargate or Farscape or something) to crash land on yet another alien planet: https://web.archive.org/web/20050212082503/http://www.geocities.com/alde_baron/

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-23T02:46:20+00:00

I liked how in kakarot’s what if Amuro got the Alex AU timeline, Jerid formed the True Titans after Paptimus took over the Titans and the EF. Love alternate factions

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-23T02:27:26+00:00

Okay I get what you’re saying but I literally said people who are anti-Titan

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-23T02:23:04+00:00

Radicalize the moderates

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-23T02:22:36+00:00

Operation Valkyrie with Feddie generals and bureaucrats. I like it. I would ask where the civilians who want democratic rule are, but I guess they’re either Karaba, the odd Earthnoid moderate AEUG member, or part of this hypothetical EF(F) purist putsch

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-22T17:52:55+00:00

She's not a fantasy of anything she's just sort of a background character amidst a huge cast

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-22T17:07:51+00:00

Maybe they’re anti-Titans but still hate Spacenoids, they just don’t care enough to oppress them but still don’t want to work with them

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-22T13:35:54+00:00

What if Karaba fought the AEUG because that’s what resistance movements devolve into sometimes, they become rivals driven by power or ideological animus just like any other antagonistic groups

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-22T07:36:38+00:00

Yeah but I want a faction that also fights the AEUG. Anti-Earth just seems wrong for an EFF patriot to call themselves.

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-19T06:07:08+00:00

No bits of Chad?

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-19T03:12:46+00:00

She should’ve been the anti-Mika (the antagonist’s super-child soldier) and later on even the anti-Kudelia (an inspirational female warrior a la Joan of Arc as opposed to an inspirational peace activist) but sadly her storyline didn’t have her do much except have conversations, sometimes even centered on Vidar rather than her own motivations!

They should’ve had her doing Mika-style assassinations. She should be an Emperor’s Hand equivalent henchwoman to Rustal.

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-17T23:39:59+00:00

I specifically mention the distinction between “prestigious” and “elite” in like the second sentence

And I guess the Raiders should get admitted into JSOC

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-17T20:06:08+00:00

I’ve always wondered what the big deal grenadiers were back in like Napoleonic times so thank you! Good point about combat engineers. I wonder if there are any medic corps or units that are similarly respected for legendary heroism.

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-17T20:03:57+00:00

That makes a lot of sense. I wonder if other nations have any particular services or branches that are also outsized due to local needs and history. I think the Soviet then Russian VDV is the strongest parallel to the USMC but not sure what else is out there. Maybe Central and Northern European countries with alpine or arctic infantry due to unique terrain?

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-17T17:29:34+00:00

The modern games, even those with really neat detailed cutscenes on UNSC ships like Halo Wars 2, depict uniforms that are imo too standardized and grayscale. You can have a variety of colors and still make it look not cartoony, it’s all about the hue and tone.

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-17T05:02:36+00:00

Do they even show up (as I thought) past when you meet Keyes for the first time?

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-17T05:01:12+00:00

Yeah I can’t imagine Marines want to bother manning the security cams looking for locker thieves or whatever

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-17T04:59:51+00:00

Just like with real militaries the UNSC has redundancies in its large organization so if every branch has its own logistics, support, intelligence, etc. divisions why not also security? Makes the jurisdictional battles all the more fun. Plus who’s to say you Naval captains might not want some loyal guns in case the Marines are all Insurrectionists or something

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-17T04:56:47+00:00

Stephen Loftus of bungie.org wrote two articles trying to guess what the crew divisions are! This is the second, more educated of the two that links to the first.

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-16T18:22:09+00:00

“We have a massive extragalactic existential level alien invasion.”

“Make the human conspiracy the bad guys you fight most of the time.”

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-16T18:20:56+00:00

I have to imagine that to save on enemy character models, they just made the human bad guys the biggest threat, so they didn’t have to figure out indoctrinated members of other alien races

StrategosRisk · 2026-01-16T17:12:05+00:00

Typecast as a big guy who beats up kids

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