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Inspired somewhat by T, here's my concept for an SRW endboss faction
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Throughout the game, a mysterious army of mecha with ultra-advanced technology appear occasionally, interfering with conflicts
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sometimes helping you prevent existential threats to earth
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but sometimes aiding dictators and fascists against you
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before eventually determining that the proatgonists are their true enemy
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and their true nature
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is that they're humans from a future timeline
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where humanity became an intergalactic conquering empire thta ruled the galaxy
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but their timeline is collapsing, because
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the preconditions for that future are collapsing in the present
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humanity is on course to live peacefully with the galaxy
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so the Empire of Humanity isn't going to be created
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so they've come back into the past to wrong humanity's rights and ensure that they'll come to be
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so all the human realtype plot villains need to succeed, in order to push humanity towards tyranny and violent ambition
AzureChrysanthemum
Huh not the angle I thought you were going with initially, since you basically described the American Military Interventionist policy
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
... huh. i'm into it.
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a different kind of space fascists
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
they have to try to help all the human realtype villains
but they have to stop all the super robot alien villains trying to destroy earth
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yeah
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humanity needs to survive, and become monsters
HotXC
maybe let the aliens do a little damage though
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and they won't just kill all the aliens for you
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because humanity needs great strife to grow strong
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gotta justify heading out to space to "protect" yourselves
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then the final boss is the hot-blooded Emperor of Mankind in a heroic super robot with technology from a thousand years in the future
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just some amalgamation of a SRW hero mech and something from WH40K
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
mission concept: while trying to repel some of an alien invasion force, the aliens came at them in too strong of numbers with too big weapons, and the future fleet had no choice but to wipe out the entire alien invasion force in self-defense.
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the problem was, that fleet in the other timeline was going to do an attack on Earth that would shape the life of the First Galactic Emperor of Mankind
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and now that fleet is destroyed
meaning that, in order to protect their own timeline, the future fleet has to do that attack themselves.
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mission concept
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"Oops, looks like you guys wiped out the Invaders too early"
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"Don't worry, we'll genetically engineer some more for you"
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"You need a much more brutal fight with them"
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
yes
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just carefully altering events all over the world to ensure that humanity just barely survives years of hellish warfare
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the emperor isn't smug or dismissive of the heroes
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he's fighting the ancient precursors upon whose courage the great empire was founded
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there is no higher honor
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
the First Galactic Emperor is a character in this game
but not, like, a mecha pilot or anything.
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
he's like, five.
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
just a child seeing everything that's happening here.
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the team's plucky mascot
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who the arch-villain is weirdly kind to
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reverent, even
ғᴏxʏᴍᴏʀᴏɴ
yes.
HotXC
me, imagining one of the tagalong kids from MSG as a future emperor
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Future God-Emperor Kikka Kobayashi, age six
https://images.plurk.com/JxUpu8DjIj8R7feLn3IQ0.png
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there's also a brutally obvious point of connection with Getter Robo if you're using the later canons
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the Empire of Humanity are the ones who will eventually build the Getter Emperor
HotXC
oh that's a good connection
Princess Emily
you could even use that bit as like, a way to "extend" a canon's story segments. "whoa you killed those space aliens WAY too quick, so"
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secret bonus boss:
the first Galactic emperor from the future timeline
resurrected by DG cells
empowered by getter rays
imbued with the G-Stone
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then eventually, by the final arc
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"Humanity has failed to fall onto the right path, after defeating all their threats, so there's nothing left to pressure them"
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"So in the end, the ones who force them to evolve must be us"
BattroidBattery
really strong concept imo
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and i usually hate time travel stuff so
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the rules of it are a little handwavey but hey
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super robots
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holy shit
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oops wrong plurk
Rama
I had this exact concept
HotXC
oh you can even do Gundam 00 and Dancouga Nova and have them be like "who ELSE is fighting everyone at once?!"
Rama
I was gonna do it as an SV quest even
HotXC
when your idea has the opposite motive
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SV?
Rama
sufficient velocity, where Talia is doing her SAO But Good story in quest form
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Of course when I say "going to" there is a severe asterisk next to that
Rama
cf. my tabletop GMing habits
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