XCOM SitRep 00:00 14th Apr 1999 (GMT)
Trajen
9th April
2 General stores begin construction.
11th April
2 new troops Arrive
Rune Boersjoe
Andrew Gillett
12th April
2 new troops Arrive
Matthew Malloy
Robert Bohenberger
14th April
Troop Appraisal
Captain Dave Rickmann
Missions 19, Kills 46
A capable commander but is often too headstrong.
A common tactic is to charge into the ship while his troops guard the
door.
Too willing to put himself in danger and unwilling to risk troops.
Sergeant Krystal Jonlan
Missions 18, Kills 22
First Sergeant of the XCOM Squad and a real taskmaster who expects
nothing
but the best from her squad. As training master she puts all rookies
through their paces.
She goes about her job with a vengeance which has lessened her appeal
among the newer recruits.
Sergeant John Hudson
Missions 9, Kills 5
John Hudson has received a high number of battlefield commendations due
to his great skill with a rifle.
His reflexes and shooting skill have saved the necks of many XCOM
troops. Due to a bad injury he
has been out of action for a while so the newer recruits have yet to see
him fight.
Sergeant Ed "KABOOOM!" Jonson
Missions 19, Kills 13
Ed is always on the lookout for bigger and better guns. He sorely misses
his Autocannon with explosive shells and looks forward to the day the
scientists develop a way of using an Interceptor Plasma Beam as a
personal weapon. The squad have come to love Ed, or Crazy Eddie as he's
sometimes known and most have learnt to stay well back when they see him
near grenades.
Squaddie Mike Jarvis
Missions 16, kills 18
Jarvis is an all round great trooper, one of the old hands he's normally
seen right in the thick of it.
Jarvis holds the 2IC position as the highest non ranking trooper.
Squaddie Rune Boersjoe
Missions 2, Kills 1
Rune has thus far shown himself to be a capable trooper with an eye for
the enemy. At the moment he really needs to work on his aim though.
Squaddie Derek Caws
Missions 14, Kills 10
Derek Caws seems to have a personal vendetta against all cyberdisks. He
see's it as a matter of personal pride that to date he has killed 8 of
the 11 sectoid tanks that we have encountered. Although he's under
strict orders to stand a bit further back than usual.
Squaddie Mike Chandra
Missions 19, Kills 6
Another of the original squad that tends to hang back and keep under
cover. Chandra is all too willing to fight for his planet, he'd just
rather not die for it too. A cautious but effective trooper.
Squaddie Kevin King
Missions 18, Kills 2
King is a quiet kind of guy who doesn't seem to mesh well with the rest
of the team. He doesn't have much of a social life as far as we can
tell. But he performs his duty satisfactorily.
Squaddie Christine Blakemore
Missions 8, Kills 1
Christine is one of our two female troopers and as such receives a lot
of attention from the rest of the guys.
Most have at one time or other been at the receiving end of Sgt.
Jonlan's training and so leave her well alone. This means that Christine
generally gets a lot of drinks bought for her. She's a very capable
soldier and fulfils her duty well.
Squaddie David McCarty
Missions 3, Kills 2
McCarty is one of our newer troopers and so is not as well known a
quantity as the others. He seems a very capable trooper with a very
clear aim.
Rookie Andrew R Gillett
Missions 2, Kills 0
Andrew has yet to see much action on the battlefield so don't yet know
how well he performs. He seems to work well as part of a team and
fulfils his role adequately thus far.
Rookies Matthew Malloy and Robert Bohenberger have yet to see combat and
are currently undergoing basic instruction under Sargeant Jonlan.
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Research Report
4th April
UFO Navigation discovered.
The alien ships use optolinear processors arranged in a network fashion.
It provides a lot of processing power, especially in it's ability to
model three dimensional space and wavefronts. Another advantage is it
can be scaled up or down quite easily and retain it's core
functionality. The most profound discovery here though is data on the
targeting and control of the anti gravity waves produced by Elerium fuel
sources.
I believe we could construct anything from full blown UFO's to small
flying suits with this data.
We have begun research into UFO construction, in order to combine all
our knowledge and come up with a few workable designs following these
principles.
11th April
UFO Construction Research complete.
From detailed analysis of UFO's we have determined that the Hull is
specially designed to focus and emit the anti boson particles that
propel the ship. The power source is situated near these points. In fact
the ship can have anything from one to a hundred power sources, they can
work independently or complement each other making vast ship designs
possible.
We have begun work on a small test design which will function as a one
man fighter craft.
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Incident report
1st April
Small UFO 13 Detected over Turkey 0720
UFO 13 Downed at 0929 over Novosibirsk
2nd April
Skyranger lands at Crash Site 13 0533
Cpt. Rickmann Commanding.
Excerpts from Mission Report Follow.
Sgt. Jonlan exited the ranger first and took position kneeling to the
right of the ramp.
As soon as she was in position she checked the surrounding area and
reported the following
"What the Hell!! It's a Snake.. A huge Orange snakeman thing, It's ugly,
and I'm gonna kill it!!"
Mission preceded from this point to discover three other live snake
creatures and one corpse.
Scientific Report (supplemental)
We have given these creatures a brief examination and cryogenically
stored their corpses for a later more detailed analysis. Our only choice
is to believe that these creatures are connected with the Floaters and
the Sectoids as they use the same weaponry and the same ships.
4th April
UFO 14 (large) Sighted over California.
Interceptor 2 launched and gave chase but lost target over Chile.
Aliens terrorise Rio De Janeiro.
Skyranger Lands with 10 troops. 5 armed with Power suits. at 2241
Captain Rickmann Commanding
The sectoids fought very badly here and I'm not sure why?
It's possible that these guys just aren't very good soldiers or not that
warlike but with their weapons and equipment I'm not sure that's the
case. Our Power Suits took a number of shots and may well have saved
lives, but most of these sectoids were only armed with the rifle variant
of their Plasma Weaponry, which doesn't look to have the punch to stop
our Power Suits.
Cpt. Rickmann.
7th April
UFO 15 (V. Small) detected over Norway
Tracking was lost before intercept.
UFO 15 (V. Small) detected over Greenland, landed before intercept.
8th April
Skyranger landed at UFO 15 site 0356
Mission Report follows.
I ordered the troops to spread out and cover the area. Sgt. Jonlan
discovered a small craft, looked like big enough for one person. At that
point Myself and Squaddie Caws came under fire, moving around a break in
the ice we spotted a large green muscular creature. Caws opened fire
hitting it twice, but the creature kept on firing. It hit me in the
chest and knocked me down, but my Power Suit protected me. As I got up
the creature had disappeared, Caws and I advanced cautiously, with
Jonlan and Okamoto looking to flank it further up. It was nowhere to be
seen. Suddenly a plasma discharged fired across the ice lake hitting
Jonlan in the head, her suit servos kept her upright and the cooling
system engaged to radiate the heat. She was uninjured. As we advanced
Caws saw the hostile and dropped to one knee firing as quick as he
could, he got off six shots, one of which grazed the creature, I ran
forward and fired off a single shot which burned the thing's head clean
off.
Mission successful.
UFO 16 (small) detected over Birmingham
UFO 17 (Large) detected over Marseille
UFO 18 (Very Large) detected over Rome
UFO 19 (large) detected over Berlin
UFO 16 (small) landed in Paris
UFO 17 (Large) shot down over Barcelona
UFO 20 (Very Large) detected over Spain
UFO 18 (V. Large) Landed in Paris
Skyranger touch down near UFO 18 2044
Excerpt from Mission Report Follows.
This ship was big... I mean biig. From our viewpoint there were five
columns, the squad advanced through a cornfield to the nearest column,
no entry point, three others were arrayed around the edges with no way
in either, we lined up close to the central column. Maria Evans was
flanking the area through a large cornfield,
Matthias Zander was on the other side investigation the base of the ship
in more detail. I went into the grav lift in the central column, and
fired up it killing two guards. As I moved the rest of my team inside I
heard shots from behind us, it was Maria Evans aiming and firing on the
team. One shot hit Squaddie Caws, but his armour protected him, the next
hit Rookie Okomato, she was less lucky, wearing only personal armour the
shot went through her leaving a large fist sized hole in her chest. The
rest of the team got inside the ship.
Zander was still on the far side, Evans refused to answer her radio
link.
I took a four man squad up to the top deck and the rest of the team
scouted the lower deck. Suddenly Evans was back online, I ordered her to
return to the skyranger, she complied at first, then replied "God damn
it Zander cease fire, argh I'm hit... under fire, from Zander sir"
Zander refused to answer his com link either. I kept the squad moving to
get this ship cleared of hostiles and to get back home as quick as
possible when over the Com link I heard Zander yell "No more!!! Argh,
they're coming for me, get away get away!!!" Evans reported that he
threw his Plasma Weapon into the cornfield and ran for the Skyranger.
Then soon after I heard repeated firing over and over again and Evans
yelling "They won't get me here, I'll kill them, kill them all..." She
threw her empty gun away and ran for the skyranger. My squad finished
clearing the ship of hostiles and got out of there quick.
Mission Successful
One Casualty (Rookie Sata Okomato)
Squaddie's Matthias Zander and Maria Evans Dishonourably Discharged for
losing control in a battlefield situation.
UFO 20 (V. Large) landed in London
UFO 19 (Large) Landed in London
Skyranger landed at UFO 20 2331
Mission Report Excerpt follows
..As we lined up near the central pillar ready for the breach Squaddie
Jane Hill screamed at clutched her head, as we turned she raised her
Plasma Gun and fired into the bunched up squad. Three shots rang out,
the first hit Rookie Rachel "Newt" Jordan and killed her, the next shot
flew on striking Squaddie Mike Jarvis, wounding him while the third hit
me, but caused me no damage, we moved quickly into the ship, while Hill
dropped her gun and ran off screaming.
Mission was successful
1 casualty (Rookie Rachel "Newt" Jordan)
1 Injury (Squaddie Mike Jarvis, 8 days recovery to heal a burnt leg)
Jane Hill Dishonourably Discharged for losing control in a battlefield
situation.
9th April
UFO 16 took off and escaped.
Alien Base 1 detected in Prague
Skyranger touch down near UFO 19 at 0345
Mission successful
No casualties
12th April
Skyranger invades Alien Base 1 0257
The alien base was a series of grid corridors and rooms, all seemed to
focus on one point, a large chamber packed with computer hardware. This
looks to be the control room of the base. The base was well defended
with 17 troops. But the open design of the base gives our troops the
advantage here I believe. We can learn something here about our own
bases and how the design could well be improved to increase security.
Mission successful
17 aliens killed
No casualties.
UFO 21 (small) detected over Russia
Interceptor 1 downed craft on Russia China Border
Skyranger intercept at 1215
Mission successful
No casualties
Rune Boersjoe
>Rune Boersjoe
>Andrew Gillett
<snicker>
>Squaddie Rune Boersjoe
>Missions 2, Kills 1
>Rune has thus far shown himself to be a capable trooper with an eye for
>the enemy. At the moment he really needs to work on his aim though.
Woohoo! Give me a new pair of glasses and I'll bag whatever you want
:-)
>UFO 15 (V. Small) detected over Norway
>Tracking was lost before intercept.
Oh shh!! :-)
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Robert Bohnenberger DMD
>
> Admin report
>
> 9th April
> 2 General stores begin construction.
Do they sell beer there?
> 11th April
>
> 2 new troops Arrive
> Rune Boersjoe
> Andrew Gillett
There goes the neighborhood.
> 12th April
>
> 2 new troops Arrive
> Matthew Malloy
> Robert BohNenberger
OOPS! Guess the college deferment didn't take. Better get out the ol'
potatoe <sic> peeler!
>
> Squaddie Rune Boersjoe
> Missions 2, Kills 1
> Rune has thus far shown himself to be a capable trooper with an eye for
> the enemy. At the moment he really needs to work on his aim though.
And keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't forget the beer.
> Rookie Andrew R Gillett
> Missions 2, Kills 0
> Andrew has yet to see much action on the battlefield so don't yet know
> how well he performs. He seems to work well as part of a team and
> fulfils his role adequately thus far.
>
> Rookies Matthew Malloy and Robert BohNenberger have yet to see combat and
> are currently undergoing basic instruction under Sargeant Jonlan.
Gentlemen! This is the X-com mark 9 plasma potatoe <sic> peeler!
Your potatoe <sic> peeler is you best friend!...
Trajen
>OOPS! Guess the college deferment didn't take. Better get out the ol'
>potatoe <sic> peeler!
Oops, didn't know how to spell your name cos I didn't have any messages
from you in my newsgroup archive.
>And keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't forget the beer.
He always just sits back in the ranger and drinks it himself.
>Gentlemen! This is the X-com mark 9 plasma potatoe <sic> peeler!
>Your potatoe <sic> peeler is you best friend!...
Nope, training in the battlefield manufacture of cheese toasties.
Slice that cheese!!!
Keep your head down!! You are under fire....
Now toast toast toast toast.
gnohm...@my-dejanews.com
lo...@my.sig (Rune Boersjoe) wrote:
> Woohoo! Give me a new pair of glasses and I'll bag whatever you want
Gnohmon wants a rocket launcher, loaded with large rockets.
Boom!
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Rune Boersjoe
>
>Boom!
Heavy Explosive Autocanon for me please... and yes being an
ex-linebacker I can wield it alright :-)
gnohm...@my-dejanews.com
lo...@my.sig (Rune Boersjoe) wrote:
> >Gnohmon wants a rocket launcher, loaded with large rockets.
> >
> >Boom!
>
> Heavy Explosive Autocanon for me please... and yes being an
> ex-linebacker I can wield it alright :-)
I wouldn't, but my xcom character would. Rocketeer gets lots of kills and
stats go up fast.
Chris Paterson
Shaun Green
--
Shaun Green/Greenish9
"Deep in the human unconsciousness is a pervasive need for a logical
universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond
logic."
Frank Herbert's Dune
Trajen wrote in message <7f4m0b$dlm$1...@newnews.global.net.uk>...
>Admin report
<snip something that must have taken HOURS to write ;-) >
Trajen
Chris Paterson wrote in message
<9YLR2.11489$uU2.1...@mors.clara.net>...
>OK!!! Someone mind telling me what on earth (or mars) this is about?
After realising that the XCOM timeline started on 1st Jan 1999 I decided
to run a game of Xcom in real time just so that the conspiracy of
silence wasn't perpetuated.
When new troops are hired I thought that regulars from the newsgroup
would make excellent troopers.
I have yet to see. Although Derek has aquitted himself quite well, and
Shaun got shot very early on.
Trajen
Trajen
Shaun Green wrote in message <7f85g5$7en$1...@newnews.global.net.uk>...
>Hey... is this the same game in which I was cruelly murdered? <sob>
Fraid so.
Well more acuratly you died bravely defending your planet, and Derek
avanged your death.
That's sectoids for you. Don't worry, we froze your head, in the far
future we might be able to revive you and get you a new body. Hmm, just
imagine, your head on a cloned sectoid. Sure you'll be short, but you'll
be alive, and maybe we can get you some platform shoes.
Trajen
Robert Bohnenberger DMD
snip
> That's sectoids for you. Don't worry, we froze your head, in the far
Hey, that's not his head! Oh well, no one will ever know the difference.
:) He'll just look kind of like those musicians from star wars!
Sam
>
> Shaun Green wrote in message <7f85g5$7en$1...@newnews.global.net.uk>...
> >Hey... is this the same game in which I was cruelly murdered? <sob>
>
> Fraid so.
> Well more acuratly you died bravely defending your planet, and Derek
> avanged your death.
> imagine, your head on a cloned sectoid. Sure you'll be short, but you'll
> be alive, and maybe we can get you some platform shoes.
LOL! :)
-Sam
Shaun Green
a piece of fan fiction in which Corporal Green (the rank I hold at ATC,
interestingly) peered quizically up a shaft and got gunned down by a hiding
soldier. <sigh>
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Shaun Green
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Trajen wrote in message <7f8dv0$gcq$1...@newnews.global.net.uk>...
>Trajen
>
>
Shaun Green
Okay, Rookie Bohnenberger, go check out that alien mothership...
SINGLE-HANDEDLY!
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Robert Bohnenberger DMD wrote in message <3717FB...@erols.com>...
>Trajen wrote:
>snip
>> That's sectoids for you. Don't worry, we froze your head, in the far
Matthew Molloy
thats a fact )
Shaun Green <gree...@gamestats.com> wrote in message
news:7f9q0t$hjp$1...@newnews.global.net.uk...
> Aia! A fate worse than death! ;-)
>
> --
>
> ---
> Shaun Green/Greenish9
> ICQ: 33026312
> ---
> The Star Control Writer's Collective
> http://www.star-control.com/maelnum/
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> Trajen wrote in message <7f8dv0$gcq$1...@newnews.global.net.uk>...
> >
> >Shaun Green wrote in message <7f85g5$7en$1...@newnews.global.net.uk>...
> >>Hey... is this the same game in which I was cruelly murdered? <sob>
> >
> >
> >Fraid so.
> >Well more acuratly you died bravely defending your planet, and Derek
> >avanged your death.
> >That's sectoids for you. Don't worry, we froze your head, in the far
Elmar Bijlsma
<Ca...@Ricknn.Globalnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>Chris Paterson wrote in message
><9YLR2.11489$uU2.1...@mors.clara.net>...
>>OK!!! Someone mind telling me what on earth (or mars) this is about?
>
>
>After realising that the XCOM timeline started on 1st Jan 1999 I decided
>to run a game of Xcom in real time just so that the conspiracy of
>silence wasn't perpetuated.
>When new troops are hired I thought that regulars from the newsgroup
>would make excellent troopers.
>I have yet to see. Although Derek has aquitted himself quite well, and
>Shaun got shot very early on.
>
Hmmm, we can only hope that the new installment (Genisis) is set in
the near future, otherwise it will be a long wait unil I can read
about the highly amusing underwater escapades of you guys. :)
When was the TFTD start date, btw?
Greetz!
-
Elmar Bijlsma 'I can only please one person a day, today is
El...@xs4all.nl not your day and tomorrow isn't looking good either'