Screams in the distance. Gunshots that disturbed the peace of night. Automatic shots, slowing down in pace. Single shots. A return to peace. A single, solitary survivor was running away, blood flowing like a snake down his arm. She could barely see the VTOL transport past the dense darkness, her bruised mind not helping. Despite the bullet in her arm, her rapidly thinning blood, she ran as fast as she could, running out of breath fast, her heart beating twice as hard.

Screams. Screams in the darkness. Screams that no one had given before. Screams that came not from this Earth. The survivor ran, and against all odds, came within a yard of the transport. She had lost her sidearm without realising it. Her arms felt numb, her mind ready to sleep. Climbing aboard, as if climbing up a cliff, she laid on her back, finally allowing herself to rest, enjoying the safe embrace of calm... Falling asleep... Letting the troubles drift away...

Yet she stopped herself, and with great effort, stood herself up like the soldier she was. One step forward and another, she brought herself to the door leading into the VTOL craft's cockpit and knocked. No reply. She knocked again. Nothing. Finally growing impatient with the terror from beyond returning to her heart, the survivor grabbed ahold of the cockpit door's handle and pulled it open, realising vaguely through the thick fog of approaching unconsciousness that the door seemed too easy to open. It jammed halfway, broken.

And inside were two stiff men in their seats with gaping holes in their flight helmets, blood overflowing. A strange tree stood inside it, but when a lightning illuminated the cockpit briefly, the survivor saw that it was no tree, but something- someone tall, far too tall, far too wrong. Stumbling back, the survivor ran, having found renewed strength in the horror of her discovery. But she did not need to run for long, for soon a bullet had ripped through the cockpit door, the kevlar plate on her back and through her heart. Falling forward on the hard transport floor, she laid herself on her back one last time, the numbness in her arms spreading like cold fire, letting the troubles drift away.

Before she closed her eyes one last time, she was able to see her killer; a figure looming over her, the figure of the tree-like man, staring straight into her soul through his strange shades. Another lightning, and the survivor slept for the last time. A storm is coming.

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Lights in the sky. Strange markings in the ground. Before 2020, they were explained away rationally as phenomenons with terrestrial causes, often with the support of science and official sources. Anything that fell through the cracks were ignored, considered the territory of crackpots and paranoid conspiracy theorists who hung on so tightly on such 'evidences' of UFO activity.

When such occurences increased in recent years approaching the big 20, multiplying in scale and variety, humanity had thus far found it hard to shake off their previous understandings of such phenomenons, choosing instead to relegate them to the regions of entertainment, be it derived from art or the belittlement of others.

But when it became apparent to even the governments of the world and other huge organisations that something was happening, what with the reports they managed to scrounge up from scrambled aircrafts and surveillance anomalies, they were prompted to take bigger actions, actions beyond merely putting articles on the internet or holding press conferences.

Investigations involving multitudes of men and women across many organisations were begun. In the UN, as nations gathered, casting aside hostilities and paranoid suspicions of one another for the time being in the big room, they decided that the time is ideal for a new project to begin - a unified international response to the increasingly strange incidents that had gripped the world, causing panics and influencing cultures.

That project is the UNXIPU, or the United Nations Extraterrestrial Investigation and Policing Unit. Millions were spent on the project, setting up what was planned to be a sprawling complex on the northern coast of Africa, personnel from all over the world were flown in to start it from the ground up - scientists, engineers, civilians. As it was also an opportunity for multi-national military and police exercises to be conducted, security, police and military personnel were also flown in to provide protection and presence, especially in conflict zones and chaotic, lawless areas that happened to play host to extraterrestrial phenomenons.

Officially created in Q4 2019, The United Nations Extraterrestrial Investigation and Policing Unit is a new and fledging organisation founded to investigate the increasing number of incidents hinting at UFO and alien activity.

While it is largely a civilian organisation, a degree of police and military presence is also requisited by the project's director for the purpose of security and possible field investigative deployments into conflict zones and lawless areas.

UNXIPU doubles also as a testbed for experimental technology - such as the SR-73 Skyranger VTOL transport. The organisation has been afforded 4 such models for the purpose of transporting personnel to sites of investigation. UNXIPU has also been given a highly intuitive, integrated research and development system to manage its investigations.

Civilian personnel numbers about two hundred, security and police about sixty, while military is expected to be around forty. In truth, the UN sees little value in creating UNXIPU solely for the purpose of investigations into UFO and alien phenomenon. Other than functioning as a testbed for cutting edge technology, it is also envisioned as a venue for international cooperation, as it is drawing personnel from every corner of the world.

In fact, it can even be argued that UFO and alien activity has been used as an excuse for its use in anything but its main purpose. The media has took notice of it, and derision, cynism followed, and UNXIPU has been called anything between an insincere gesture by the UN to an international joke. UN representatives and PR responded the best they could, drawing attention away from the 'Extraterrestrial' bit.

Its facilities on the northern coast of Africa is still under construction and renovation. Even its most essential rooms are only partially complete, with deadlines consistently missed due to logistic difficulties. New equipment and personnel are flown in regularly, but are similarly plagued by logistic issues. Quite notably, the security, police and military personnel at base are complaining that the only up-to-date equipment they have is their pistol. Heavier weaponry at the moment consists of obsolete placeholder surplus AR-15s and Mossberg 500s donated by African nations eager to clear their dusty old equipment and gain political clout at the same time.

Perhaps inspired by their African counterparts, other members of the UN has recently decided to send their representatives in UNXIPU packed with the best of local equipment. Some, however, were slower to react to this trend, and may have neglected to do so. Regardless, the UN and the world, as well as the director of UNXIPU expects military hardware to be unnecessary.

By 2020, the world is becoming increasingly tense. In Asia, the nations of ASEAN and Indochina are becoming closely knitted, united against China, which has overtaken the US as the world's superpower nation. Territorial disputes and border incidents are both cause and sparks for a potential war. India, Nepal and Bhutan has similar quarrels with China due to territorial claims. Japan, South Korea, North Korea are at each other's throats.

Europe is continuously plagued by economic recessions. The war between Russia and Ukraine is long over, with Russia gaining the Crimea even after UN interventions and negotiations - the only comfort they could have is that Russia did not annex the entire country. The Middle-East has stabilised, but is becoming increasingly isolationist and distrustful of the west. Iraq has largely secured its independence and sovereignty against the US and insurgents alike. Israel and its enemies have declared an armistice, though it means little, as the war is expected to continue anytime.

The US continues to weaken, with the US dollar sinking so hard that it has almost lost its place as an international currency. Poverty and unemployment has been increasing there, while civil disorder is becoming increasingly rife, especially following another hurricane and tsunami from the pacific. It was widely reported thousands of US soldiers had to be deployed in such places to keep the peace alongside several thousands more UN and EU peacekeeping forces. This is not to mention that Mexico has grown distrustful of the US while Canada is generally distancing itself from the rest of the continent. Mexico has significantly reduces the influence of the drug cartels, but it has been a long war, and has suffered as a result. Politically, it has isolated itself from the rest of the continent and Europe, as it saw them as the cause of its problems in the first place, becoming ever closer to Asia.

Yet there were some good news to be had, beyond the trickles above. Africa has stabilised alongside the Middle-East, with significantly fewer warlords and criminal syndicates left to quash. With the ascension of China and some say the various united entities such as ASEAN and the African Union comes new opportunities for the world's economy and power rebalance itself - with some commentators saying for the better in the long run.

And out of all this, increasingly frequent, possibly extraterrestrial phenomenons are being witnessed around the world. Some thought that the end of the world is coming, while others see the rebirth of humanity in those lights in the sky...

The UNXIPU recruits from every member of the UN. While there may be increased UFO phenomenon throughout the world, most if not all governments represented in the UN are not entirely serious about putting in personnel in the UNXIPU for the purpose of investigating the phenomenons. First and foremost, what little media coverage and official reports that surfaced indicate that some had organised their own UFO investigative units, past efforts notwithstanding, and are investing more funds and manpower in them instead. Secondly, UNXIPU is viewed as just another avenue of politics, with whatever funds, resources and personnel invested in it seen as a way for nations to gain recognition, reputation and the upper-hand in the UN.

As such, while the UNXIPU calls for the most experienced and talented personnel available to be recruited from willing, participating UN member nations, the international organisation will likely receive personnel that are anything but the best and brightest, with only some that actually fits the vision of the organisation's recruitment program. This system, however, would at least set the bar a measure above the average person, as it will ensure that the manpower it receives would at least look like the best on paper. It certainly did not help that UNXIPU is generally not expected to enter combat in any way whatsoever, with the military division of the program projected to do little more than simple patrol and on-site security duties.

Newly-trained soldiers who topped their unit or officers with straight A results could be sent to UNXIPU even if they had little true experience in combat. Conversely, soldiers who had been on the field enough times that may or may not be considered 'the best' could easily be bolstered with exaggerated credentials given by their superiors before being shipped off to UNXIPU. But sometimes, UNXIPU would be blessed with soldiers who are actually as good as their record and recommendations claimed - after all, as the goal of most countries involved is to dominate the political frontier, it would be counterproductive to send in the inept and incompetent.

THe UNXIPU calls for not just military personnel, but police and paramilitary personnel as well, as it is an international organisation due to pursue investigations around the world, therefore requiring a diverse pool of talents.

UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 1 - Personal Particulars A

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UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 3 - Service Record

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UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 4 - Packing List

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UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 3 - Service Record

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UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 4 - Packing List

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Name: Lee Da Jun

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Appearance/Description: Lee Da Jun keeps his trimmings immaculate with his hair shaved down to just over a centimetre, his facial hair non-existent and his nails cut and filed. Being a Chinese, he sports black hair and brown eyes. Many would comment that he looked very much the part of an officer, having aristocratic looks with his small chin, high cheeks, sharp and small eyes. Having been born in an age with China on the rise, he had grown with his country, becoming taller than his forefathers at 1.85m. Despite his military training and numerous engagements along the borders, he had somehow managed to keep a relatively fair complexion, which he'd put down to genetics.

Being a Captain of the People's Liberation Army in an age in which China retakes her place as the Middle kingdom, he would often come dressed in his ceremonial uniform unless expected to mobilise at any time, in which case he'd be in red, white, gold and silver with a highly intricate officer's Jian (which replaced the more western sabre recently).

Personality: Lee Da Jun is highly patriotic and reflective of his country's attitude and politics. As China is doing extremely well, having taken over the status of World Superpower, he'd keep a tight rein on power in his own squad, unless outranked and replaced as squad leader. He is unafraid to boast of his country's position, and can be quite arrogant. Unfortunately, he has also become racist towards europeans and Americans as of late, seeing them as enemies of the state and depraved losers who had destroyed the world and their own country... even when there are no wars between the east and the west (yet).

Being a perfectionist with his every success seen as tribute to his people and the party, he demands the very best from those under his charge, but will not question the actions and authority of those above him as it is expected of him since birth. As such, he will do whatever it takes to meet the objectives given to him.

Biography: Lee Da Jun was born in Beijing to a construction worker father a receptionist mother, a single son as required by the party. His parents were unflinchingly loyal to the nation, and so they imparted their ideals to their son. However, when his mother cheated on his father and was with their second child- Da Jun's half-sister, the family did not hesitate to report on her and the father filed for a divorce (That was when Da Jun was 10). While the authorities were relatively lenient and the father eventually going back on his intentions to divorce, the family fell apart even if there was no divorce.

Da Jun eventually joined the PLA when he was eighteen, going on to distinguish himself quickly as he excelled in whatever training he was given and had shown his loyalty time and time again. He was deployed in numerous border skirmishes and to assist in border patrols, and did well, climbing the ranks, quickly becoming sergeant and staff sergeant before being selected to become an officer by age 26. Upon graduation, he was Captain by age 28, but had not been promoted since. His successes had attracted displeasure from some of his peers and he had made enemies. When his sister joined the PLA recently, word quickly spread.

Da Jun had been estranged from his sister since then, as he believed that she was partly to blame for the sudden halt in his career and service to the nation, casting aside his sympathies for her (which he freely gave anyway as he wasn't that heartless in his youth) and refusing to even acknowledge her during the days of Lunar New Year. This is despite his sister joining the army for him, and doing well enough on her own, being due to become a sergeant in her three short years of military service.

Service Record: Upon the completion of his training as an infantry soldier with the PLC, he was immediately shipped to the distance province of Xinjiang to assist the local law enforcement and military authorities against Uyghur seperatists. He was consistently involved in every type of operations possible, from simple patrol duties (some of which became skirmishes) to raids and counter-terrorist operations. Quick to volunteer himself when others would back away, he rose through the ranks quickly, becoming Sergeant by the time he was 21 and Staff Sergeant by 22.

As he was recognised as a modern hero of sorts, an unflinchingly loyal servant of the Middle Kingdom, Da Jun was deployed in places other than Xinjiang wherever there was a need for a person of his skills. He became Sergeant First Class by 23 as he was assisting in border patrols and the Spratly Island Conflicts and eventually one of the youngest Sergeant Major at 26 while he was on peacekeeping operations with the UN.

Within the same year at the age of 26, he was taken out of the UN and back home, but first in an officer's academy before graduating as an officer with a lofty rank of Second Lieutenant. He was promptly returned to Xinjiang when the Uyghur insurgencies there still refused to die down. As an officer with many friends and colleagues who knew him, he was able to take the reins of operations which he formerly served in simpler tasks, leading to the death or arrests of hundreds of terrorists, becoming a First Lieutenant by 27 and Captain by 28, which saw him taking larger and larger responsibilities - first leading squads into operations before overseeing entire operations in practice.

Then things began to flatline for Da Jun, coinciding with his sister following in his footsteps. A promotion was due for him in 2017 to Major as well as an equally important appointment, but it was retracted and followed by his reassignment to a counter-terrorism training institute, which, compared to his fast-tracked climb up the ranks was largely a dead-end appointment.

Which was when a pair of high-ranking officers and a letter came into his office, asking for volunteers for the UNXIPU. Starved for change, he took it without knowing much about the details.

Skills: Lee Da Jun is trained as an infantryman, which means basic disciplines such as force-marching, basic and parade commands, survival be it in a jungle or urban battlefield, basic marksmanship, radio discipline and protocol, etc. While he may not have achieved perfect marksmanship, he is highly adept in unarmed combat, swordsmanship and close-quarters modern warfare. Due to his long experience with counter-terrorism, he knows how to deal with insurgency, be they plain-clothed or fighting conventionally. Off the battlefield, he is quite handy in interrogations and prisoner management. With his promotion as an officer, he became quite familiar with strategic planning, logistics management and the organisation of operations. Quite unfortunately, he is also (reluctantly) a certified military instructor.

Weapons: Lee Da Jun was shipped to UNXIPU with the 5.8x42mm QBZ-95-1 (with flashlight attachment) as his main weapon and a silenced 5.8x21mm QSW-06 with an LAD attachment as his side weapon. He carries 2 smoke grenades and 2 flashbangs but no HE grenades as it was understood that he will be doing mainly patrol and guard duties, albeit in certain hotzones. In recent years, the PLA has been issuing swords to its NCOs and commissioned officers. Lee Da Jun has an officer's field Jian in addition to the ceremonial version - the difference being that the field Jian has a dark grey blade and camouflaged handle and guard for field use. Its sheathe was similarly camouflaged, and has a built in compartment around the top to house a maintenance kit for cleaning and sharpening the blade.

Equipment: Other than some high quality protective gear and helmet, Lee Da Jun was outfitted with the latest of PLA technology, including an integrated computer system for him to communicate with team-mates, scour the battlefield on a GPS and send messages to anyone with similar systems. Additionally, he has a pair of nightvision goggles mounted on his helmet, if his flares weren't enough.

Name: Bertram Bradford

Age: 35

Gender: Male

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Personality: Officer Bradford is highly professional on the job, partly due to his past, which lead him to care a lot about the troops put under his care, perhaps sometimes a bit too much to the point of obsession. It was only by virtue of his previous successful psychiatric consultations and his own coming to terms with his past that he was able to step back a little.

Biography/Service Record: Born in 1985, Bertram enjoyed a middle-class lifestyle with a father who works as an executive for an oil company and a stay-home mom. Due to the frequent absence of his dad, Bertram learnt little from him beyond some lessons from work and business. Overall, he was a lazy and selfish kid in his youth, attaining mediocre to average grades and frequently found gallivanting in malls and entertainment venues. While he'd made a lot of friends, he was also alienating and bullying others.

After failing to enter any universities, Bertram joined the British Armed Forces the moment he left secondary school in 2001. While he showed little promise in basic military training and once he was given his first posting in an artillery unit, he did what he did best: making friends and alienating others. It was just unfortunate that most of his friends tend to be his fellow privates while his enemies tend to be the NCOs and COs.

As a result of his tactless behavior coupled with his (general) lack of regard for his job, his military career was at a standstill right from the beginning. For the first three years of his life, he remained a Private and was transferred from unit to unit as no CO in his right mind would want the military delinquent. Artillery, Infantry, Armour, Light... He'd been through all of them, but had learnt little even if he had seen alot. He was only promoted to Lance Corporal following a recommendation by a particularly patient NCO.

That same NCO recommended Lance Corporal Bertram Bradford for service in Afghanistan, and so in the same year he was Lance Corporal, he joined the war in 2005. Needless to say, the experience woke him up. Especially when he was partly responsible for the death of his buddy. Beyond that, he learnt a little more about making friends and avoiding confrontations, as it got through to his then thick skull that it wouldn't be a good idea to peeve the very same people who was in charge of his life.

It was as if the experience had woken up the potential that was in him all along. Motivated by the traumatic loss of his close friend (who had followed him from his previous unit), and a few others, he would obsess over everything, be it his kit, his weapon, his gear, all in the name of preventing another death. By 2006, he was Corporal and involved in the Iraq War, bouncing between the two middle-eastern theatres of war, not because of his incompetence this time but because of his vastly increased performance resulting from what was almost an OCD.

His OCD, which was almost short of a clinical diagnosis, reached a peak when he would barge into his officers' tent and try to contribute ideas to the arrangements of the operations involving his squad. While he was forcibly removed sometimes, there were some who saw a commander in him due to his meticulousness, care for his fellow men and immaculate battlefield habits. He was shipped off to officer's academy in 2007 and returned to the Middle-East a 2nd Lieutenant in 2008.

In the years that followed he had become one of the most effective commanders in the British forces of the middle-east before finally retiring back to a less stressful duty as a logistics commander on recommendation by a board of medical officers back home. Before joining UNXIPU, his last action-filled role was 3 years in Northern Ireland fighting against a fledging resurgence of an unpopular movement against a British Northern Ireland, which saw his promotion from Major to Lieutenant Colonel as he was instrumental in cornering and destroying the largest terrorist cells there, leading to their disbandment.

Weapons: While he was not expected to enter the frontlines, he was shipped into UNXIPU's headquarters with an L131A1 (Glock) Pistol and a fully and heavily modified L85A2 just in case he needed to defend himself.

Equipment: His role as a Central Officer leaves him with little in the way of protective and tactical gear. He was brought in with a ballistic vest, which he would not even wear unless the base is expected to be attacked, which was deemed highly unlikely if not impossible.

UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 1 - Personal Particulars A

First Name/Given Name
Shaozu

Surname/Family Name/Last Name
Jiang

Age
26

Birthdate
19/03/1994

Gender
Male

Sexual Orientation
Heterosexual

Blood-Type
B

Race
Han Chinese

Height
5"9"

Weight
89kg

Appearance/Description

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UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 2 - Personal Particulars B

Nationality
Chinese

City/Town/Village of Origin
Dongfang, Hainan Island

Educational Background
No Further or Higher level education

Political Background
Registered member of the Communist Party of China

Interests/Hobbies
Sea fishing
Mountain climbing
Denouncing capitalism

Personality
Shaozu is a walking contradiction. While he is a most ardent believer in the tenants of communism and has a fierce love for his country, he is also deeply cynical and doesn't really believe that humanity is capable achieving the utopia promised by Maoism. Being both a cynic and an idealist isn't easy on him and the internal conflict takes its toll; Shaozu is a heavy smoker and drinker, and is possessed of a dark, sarcastic sense of humour. He takes his work damn seriously and will obsess over the small details until everything is 100% in line with the orders he is given.

Biography
Jiang Shaozu is a fairly ordinary young Chinese man, both fanatically loyal to his country and deeply suspicious of those who run it. His early life is nothing much to speak of; he grew up as a fisherman's mate and enlisted in the People's Armed Police as soon as he was able. During the course of his service, Shaozu earned a reputation for being thorough and officious, almost to the point of pigheadedness. As the only officer in the department with the thick skin required to do the job, he spent years as a Traffic Warden, where he was notorious for his merciless parking tickets. It took years and thousands of disgruntled drivers for him to be promoted off the streets, finally landing a job in Armed Response; ironically the least busy and therefore laziest section of the force. Sufficed to say, Shaozu's officiousness earned him no friends and when the Department saw an opportunity to ship him off someplace far away, they jumped at it. Jiang Shaozu's transfer to UNXIPU cut through Beijing's wall of red tape suspiciously fast and before he even knew what the organisation did, he found himself on a plane to Africa.

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UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 3 - Service Record

Previous Service Affiliation/s
People's Armed Police

Previous Unit/s
Hainan Island Department

Current Vocation/Specialisation
Armed Response Officer

Previous Vocation/s/Specialisation/s
Patrol Officer
Traffic Warden

Formal Training & Skills Attained
People's Armed Police Basic and Advanced Guardsman Course (equivalent to regular infantry training of conventional military forces)
PAP Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Military Policing Course (equivalent to training received by the Military Police of conventional military forces)
PAP Basic Small Arms Marksmanship and Field Craft
PAP Basic and Advanced Light Armoured Vehicle Course (knowledge of the operation and field maintenance of Light Armoured Vehicles, including jeeps, trucks and the ZBD-09 IFV)

Informally Recognised Skills Attained:
Bushcraft
Urban survival (aka scrounging food and shelter in urban areas)
Understanding of basic vehicle mechanics/electrics (aka hot-wiring cars)

Current Native Rank
Xia Shi / Corporal

Previous Native Rank/s
Shang Deng Bing / Private First Class

Years of Security/Police/Military Service
7

History of Active Combat Deployments
None

Awards/Medals/Certificates/Citations Achieved
1x Most Prestigious Certificate for Gallantry in the Service of the People's Armed Police, awarded for breaking the Hainan Island Department's record on the number of parking tickets issued in one day

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UNXIPU Enlistment Form Section 4 - Packing List

Uniforms/Clothing Manifest
1x People's Armed Police dress uniform
Various civilian clothes

Protective Gear Manifest
1x Little Red Book, kept in a breast pocket in the hopes that the Great Helmsman will protect one's heart from enemy fire

Field Equipment Manifest
Basic PAP-issue webbing and field gear

Weapons/Ammunitions Manifest
1x QBZ-95B Carbine
A large supply of 5.8×42mm DBP87 rounds