Knight of Cerebus: Race X is treated as this on a factional level — unlike other factions, they are viciously aggressive, impossible to reason with/tame, and are extremely heavily armed. Encounters with them always end in casualties, and are a big part of why ADVENT starts undergoing lean times just before the beginning of Touchdown. When Christopher’s episode of fainting as a choirboy is followed by a longer faint in the bathroom as an adolescent, it seems unimportant. But slowly, realisation settles on the family. Grant, then a medical student, has the painful task of naming what has hitherto only been a fear. His mother reacts with biblical grief: “Anybody see my cross? Anybody see my cross? … Yes, Lord!” Christopher’s attitude to his condition and to the medical profession is oblique and creative, the initial anger and frustration masking itself increasingly in deadpan humour, mystification or turning inward. He says he is making a film about epilepsy, but shows Colin a blank, blinking screen: “This is not a joke, joke t’ing.”

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Next is the Phoenix Project, who are willing to cross some lines to save mankind, but are very aware of when to do so and when to toe the line. Adaptation Expansion: In Half-Life canon, it's established that antlion grubs can heal people and are the basis of Combine medical terminals. The RP expands this by making it so that adult antlion flesh has minor regenerative properties, and since antlions are biologically compatible with humans, they can be used as healing rations. ADVENT finishing their cloning facilities, as this would allow ADVENT to create a new army of soldiers without relying upon searching and rescuing humans in the wastes.

Wake Up and Smell the Ashes is a Strategy Play-by-Post Game hosted on Spacebattles Dot Com by Imperial Salesman . It is set in the Half-Life universe. Wake Up is Bogosian's meditation on making it to the top of the ladder, on falling off the ladder and on the exhilarating thrill of the ultimate crash and burn. Once again the author offers a blisteringly funny and dead-on take of the chaos and alienation of post-modern life in the U. S. of the year 2000. As Michael Feingold so ably offered in his Village Voice review—"Bogosian is there, watching out for the downtrodden, ridiculing the arrogant rich, defending battered wives and neo-hippie hitchhikers and never losing sight of his own capacity for being classed among the batters and bullies. But his 95 minutes is as fast and exciting a read as the theatre community offers. In our time, the stage has almost been what classical thinkers saw it as, a medium for criticizing life. How perfect that a solo performer should rediscover its roots, by choosing his own life as the object of his criticism."The whitest of the player factions would be Clear Skies, as while they are responsible for the creation of the Zone of Alienation, they take responsibility for their actions and seek to fix them. Author Interviews 'Flower Moon' author recounts the conspiracy to murder the Osage people Fresh Air Though long dead, the Nihilanth is responsible for invading Earth in the first place, and the creatures and soldiers it sent through are the main enemy in the zone. Shotguns Are Just Better: The Cygnus Fleet finds shotguns to be very nice weapons when they get their hands on them in California. note Shotguns were apparently banned as weapons of war in the Valkyria Chronicles universe, something that was attempted in real life but fell through. Almost half of all babies born in the U.S. in 2019 were born to unmarried mothers, a dramatic increase since 1960, when only 5% of births were to unmarried mothers.