"The Aliens' Dark Agenda" Topic

Emperor Glog: "It is clear that the human experiment has been a failure. They held much promise at first, with great strides in the development of military weapons and, most importantly, the rise of warlike philosophies which made leaders eager to put those weapons to use. We invested much on them and they were more than ready to learn from us. However, they have become a great disappointment in the last century. Global ideals of equality, social programs to prevent the natural culling of the herd, international peace initiatives, and the general dislike of ideas like human cloning and eugenics has clearly made the cultivation of mankind a useless venture. It is time to wipe the slate clean and start all over again."

Defense Minister Maglog: "Emperor Glog, we believe the experiment can still be salvaged. In the last few decades we have been harvesting genetic material from abductees and developing the next stage in human evolution. These hybrids, with a higher percentage of our genetic material than the previous sapiens models, have the warlike disposition we so prize, plus the ability to live and thrive on the planet and the willingness to follow our mandates. We already have hundreds of thousands in stasis, simply awaiting your order to bring them to final maturation. We can wipe the slate clean but, instead of starting again from scratch, we can replace humanity with something more in our image. We can begin by weakening the population with a virus and then just mop up the survivors."

Emperor Glog: "This is acceptable. Make it happen, and soon. My patience is wearing thin. But make sure the other galactic emperors do not get wind of this, or they might try to help the humans, just to make me look the fool."

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So, based on the many ranges of figures available or in the works these days, which 15mm figures would you recommend for the following roles?

A) The alien overlords (Greys or something completely different)
B) The alien-human hybrid warriors (attributes of both)
C) The human resistance (21st century military troops and armed civilians)
D) The vehicles and machinery used by the invaders
E) The alien allies (either organic or robotic)

Thanks,

Dan
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I'd make the alien overlords completely strange. And the hybrids, while having some of their genetics (more than the humans) are humanoid because of their human half and not their alien half. So for the aliens, something odd like 15mm.co.uk's Vergan:

Given that the hybridization doesn't have to mean a 50-50 split with half the traits of one and half the traits of another, but may represent a genetic engineering approach, they don't have to resemble their progenitors.

Assuming a timely release, I like both the Brogs from Rebel and the upcoming Khurasan Earthdoom Invaders. Brogs:

Ground Zero Games Crusties would also work well.

The human resistance depends on just how post-apocalyptic the virus made the world and the general locale the aliens are attacking for your individual games. You could use 15mm Khurasan Raathists for something in the ME:

Or these guys:

Though I love their Sepulvedan resistance:

There was a TV episode (from the new version of either "The Twilight Zone" or "The Outer Limits") about aliens coming down and annoucing that they had planted us here for a specific purpose and they were very disappointed with our development. If we didn't straighten out they were just going to wipe us out and start over again.

The UN got together and hurried hammered out a global peace treaty which they proudly presented to the aliens.

The aliens took one look at it and announced they didn't spend all their time and effort to build a race of pacifists, they wanted warriors, and promptly wiped us out.

Tim

Perhaps use 20mm for the alien hybrid, with a different hue on the skin perhaps. Couple them with slightly more advanced tech than the earthlings and you might have some very interesting scenarios.

Tim,

Do you mean the Twilight Zone episode "A Small Talent For War"?

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Nathaniel, I like that "Vergan"! And the heads and shoulders on the Rebel Minis "Brogs" remind me of this sketch:

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Or even this:

Dan

Dan,

I'll check out the link when I get home, thanks.

Tim

Try looking up Micropanzer minis. They have some good stuff in that area.

I like the Brogs for the aliens' enforcers, but think the really powerful, controlling aliens, with the secret agenda should look considerably different, and quite alien, e.g. not humanoid with 2 arms, 2 legs, and one head.

Creatures very "otherworldy" looking would be best.

Greys are cute, but we need some slightly larger, imposing, scary looking grays too, with alien looking weaponry.

Mako11: "should look considerably different, and quite alien, e.g. not humanoid with 2 arms, 2 legs, and one head. Creatures very 'otherworldy' looking would be best."

Any specific ones come to mind?

Dan

A friend of mine wrote a story called "Demonize" where a nasty violent murderous race of vicious largely humanoid pirates want to steal a march on their rivals who are also humanoid and considerably more altruistic and principled. the first race has faster than light travel but it was so incredibly difficult and expensive that they only have three ships that use it and can't make any more with the resources they have. Only one of the ships is large enough to carry more than twelve of them. They notice Earth and discover that primitive humanoids are living there and slowly increasing their numbers and they get the idea that Earth would make a great base and colony world. The problem is the the big ship isn't ready yet and won't be for a very very long time.

The rivals via spies are discovered to be enroute to earth with a huge generation ship and they too have somehow discovered the humanoids there. They will be on earth before the big ship is ready and they plan to give the humans technology and "uplift" their society to a level similar to their own and teach them how cooperation is better than exploitation and teach them to greatly extend their own life spans and how to build generation ships. The rivals' generation ship is expected to arrive in four thousand years

The pirates get together and hatch a desperate plan. They decide to send a small team of confidence artists that will use technology to portray themselves to the humans as the servants of their gods. They tell the humans that their rivals are absolute evil, and that they want to enslave them, steal their souls, and utterly corrupt them and that they are the enemies of the gods. They describe the scaly, horned, fanged, red eyed, long tailed, clawed, hoof footed, fork tongued, bat-winged monsters that will one day come amongst them and deceive them and cause terrible wars and they instruct the humans that these beings must be killed at all costs in order to save mankind when they appear.

Then the pirates, hoping they've turned the humans against their kinder rivals leave to work on their big colonization ship which is expected to be ready to fly to earth in about five thousand years (the bio-safe FTL drive requires a substance to be slowly refined in a very complex process and a larger ship requires a LOT of it).

Naturally the pirates had feathery wings, were bioluminescent, had beautiful musical voices, and wore shining armor and taught humans how to make bronze and create weapons from it.

Wow, that's pretty cool!!! He should have that turned into an Outer Limits-like episode or a miniseries.

Dan

A lot of cool models and pics !!!