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The Narrative.

June 23, 2018

So if you hadn’t already realized from the title, the theme to the army is ‘HALF LIFE’ based.
I loved the Marines in that game, and i especially loved the way they dropped into Gordon Freeman’s life. This of course was by rappelling out of the back of an Osprey.

It was brilliant how their gear was so obviously issued in a hurry. Yes they were wearing urban camo to run about an underground industrial facility in the Navada Desert, but all of their webbing and equipment was still Green and drab.
I think the only thing that was painted for the desert in that game was the Striker type APC that shoots at you outside.

So the basis for a background will probably be something around making planet Fall to a desert mechanicum facility that has accidentally ruptured a ‘Regia Occulta’ that they were observing or something. ( Read Dan Abnett’s Eisenhorn short story ‘Regia Occulta’, then that will make sense)

I also like the idea that they are an almost depleted regiment of Elysian Drop Troops attached to an Imperial Navy Ship of some sort. This is also somehow reminiscent of the fact that the Elysian Models are no longer available.