Spaceman42 Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Ah, yes. The somewhat neglected [at least fiction-wise] sister of the classic squad-based games [to wit, UFO Defense, Terror From The Deep and Apocalypse], Interceptor *has*, nonetheless, personnel who fly out from the X-COM bases and get themselves killed by Aerons flying Spectres / Mutons flying Wraiths / whatever. It'd be interesting to see what kind of stuff goes on on the Frontier, out on those X-COM bases so far from Earth - and so distant from the action of Apocalypse, happening more-or-less simultaneously... Maybe some of the pilots even *came* from MegaPrimus, and were injured too badly in combat to continue fully *physical* ops... Any takers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zager Posted January 20, 2003 Report Share Posted January 20, 2003 Well, most soldiers tend not to be pilots, and in the Apoc world, virtually any injury can be healed by nanobots, and if it can't, it can be replaced with cybernetics. But otherwise, it sounds like a good idea. I haven't played Interceptor, though, flight sims aren't my thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 i'm sure i've read an interceptor fan fic.... can't remember where i got it from though... *shrugs* but hey, if anyone feels like writing interceptor fan fic... go for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loonie Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 It would certainly be worth further thought. Note that it wouldn't be obligatory to do just pilots. We could also invent that there were X-Com assault ships that took over alien bases and could roleplay the soldiers there,... but that's only if you don't want to go hardcore Interceptor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman42 Posted January 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 Hmm. Who picks up the ships you leave disabled at the end of a mission? Who goes out and collects all the alien parts left floating in outer space after a base raid? Who... well, you get the idea. And it's lunch, so I ought to eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 I thought several times about it but never thought it would take off as an idea... Obviously I was wrong! I'd love to write in one but I'd have to reread my Apocalypse posts... I've got an XCom family timeline throughout the ages and I would have to get it straight before I posted in an interceptor fic.I think it runs along the lines of,UFO:Trigger, civilian child TFTD:unnamed civilian child 'Ceptor:unnamed civilian child Apoc: TriggerSo you see my point... One nitpick though... Interceptor happened in 2067, Apocalypse wasn't until 2084... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman42 Posted January 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 Hmm. But *construction* of Megaprimus started during Interceptor, n'est-ce pas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 It did indeed. But this was simply for reforresting the planet. At the time of interceptor, all that was really happening was that the old capital cities, London nooo , were torn down to make way for new manmade forests to return the planet's atmosphere to it's previous state... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted February 10, 2003 Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 Cool, figured out my family timeline! So who would be interested if we started up an Interceptor fic like our UFO and Apocalypse ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman42 Posted February 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2003 Aye, ready, aye. I wanna be a pilot this time, though Of course, we'd have to rough out how things're going to work, neh? Dogfight descriptions, or just results? Base layout? Ship configurations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkfyre Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 I wouldn't mind joining both an Interceptor one and the Apocalypse one, though I'd need to think up some characters first. As for the stuff on Int, I'd say base it on what's in game to a degree, but maybe up the craft per hanger to 5 and let the pilots customise their craft from what's in stores? I think there ought to be some changes from the in game stuff to the fic stuff, but not too many more, I'll go hunt out my copy of the X-Com Interceptor Strategy Guide and scout through it, see what I think actually might work better in fic with a few tweaks tomorrow. Also, remember in the X-Com Apoc manual it mentions the 3rd Alien War taking place in outer space? That's Interceptor. It was made after Apoc, but set in that war that they hadn't accounted for as a game in Apoc's background info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Well its obviously been a while since anyone here thought about it but I've started an Interceptor fic since this thread went gold Darkfyre, join the Apoc fic! And the UFO one! We need all the writers we can get! Oh, and I'm back by the way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkfyre Posted December 12, 2005 Report Share Posted December 12, 2005 Heh, I got kinda side tracked by an online World of Darkness game since things were moving fairly slowly in here. Well that and setting up my own Fireborn game and in the process of cooking up a Dragonstar on for offline. Where is the X-Com Int story stuff anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Veteran Posted December 15, 2005 Report Share Posted December 15, 2005 the basic storyline is in an appropriately named topic here somewhere, I've just this second visited it so it'll be up as a new topic when you check here again. You should totally crack on with the apoc fic, noone else seems to be doing it atm! I haven't checked it recently but I did see a new post in the character profiles just now... If that's you bravo, and if it's not... do it now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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