PrivateVentures

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@PrivateVentures

Tags don't work when edited man :P

Don't worry, I found out the hard way too XD

@SgtEasy

NO! NO! NO! NO! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? I LITERALLY HAD THE CHARACTER LIST IN ANOTHER TAB SO I KNEW WHAT TO TYPE

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@Mega Birb Not if those terrorist actions are directed toward the enemy. Psychological warfare affects more than just the individuals involved. Tales of the American 'Death Cards' spread throughout the Vietcong ranks, and instilled fear, particularly of the American Air Cavalry. Even Vietcong who had never seen an American plane heard about the Death Cards.

The Death Cards read: Surrender or Die like the others/ The American Army is here to kill every last one of you/ Surrender now and save your family. Fight and you will all suffer./ etc.

Britain used Psywar in WWI to affect German troops' morale, making them believe that their own government was lying to them about a number of things, as well as screwing up the numbers of casualties in battles.

Atilla the Hun catapaulted the heads of dead enemies into beseiged cities, both to terrify them to surrender, and utilize the rotting flesh as a bioweapon.

PsychWar is possibly the most effective tactic an outnumbered force can use to attain victory. That fear just encourages further victories.

Turians, I'm sure have their own history of Psywar.

Cerberus is well known for their Psychological tactics, from utilizing Thresher Maws' natural feeding instinct to destroy an Alliance base, to hiring Commander Shepherd, knowing his enemies would associate him and his reputation from then on with Cerberus, at least, to a point.

EDIT: @SgtEasy, I'm working on an Ellis mission wherein he discovers that Cerberus is under new command, and vows to find and destroy their new leader, for completely personal reasons. Alliance profit, however, would be enormous from this mission, including Cerberus hardware, information, potentially weapons and armor, though that remains to be seen. Hopefully, Big Dog over there is cool with it, or has ideas to add.

EDIT 2: @Mega Birb, totally just realized Turians have no sense whatsoever of Psychological Warfare. They're straight-up fighters, overwhelming an enemy in terrifying force. I totally get it. That having been said, maybe Sicaria will learn a little something from our resident straight-jacket.

EDIT 3: Holy shit, these edits. Turians also don't seem to like military risk. I'm betting Sicaria/Tiberius will never understand fully why Ellis does what he does in combat. I'll edit my plan for the loyalty mission to fit.

EDIT 4: Wow, honey mustard is really good when you dip pretzel sticks in it.

EDIT 5: I guess I should tag the necessary parties here: @BlackSam3091, @Arcarius, @MrDidact

EDIT 6: You know what, let's tag everyone: @Rithy, @Dervish, @MechonRaptor, @AquaAzura, @DarkFey, @Silver Fox, @The Spectre, @Poohead189,

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@SgtEasy Love the idea of loyalty missions. Working on an Ellis mission now, wherein the group will have to be just as much a terrorist as he is.

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@MrDidact It's a good point, as they are known to use aliens in a number of functions. That having been said, if anyone remembers Pragia, they did plenty of evil to fellow humans as well.

One more thing, though: Every officer on the SR-2 was specifically chosen because of their personality, to be the best possible match for the crew's captain. So, naturally, the more dangerous and prejudiced individuals would have been passed over for the job.

Cerberus has a bad rep, but their foreign policy seems to be incredible. They have a lot of alien operatives and informants, oddly enough. Plus, they let Shepherd hire an entire team of aliens. That right there was some of the best publicity Cerb could've ever gotten.

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@MechonRaptor I think it'll be cool when some of our characters are out on missions, and the rest are at base on down time. It's gonna be some really interesting interpersonal development. I am amazed at how nonchalant everyone was about the gun-swinging xenophobe.

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@Mega Birb That's a good question. Ellis has his small schooner, but it's three man vessel at best, and Ellis is the size of three men. I'm pretty sure one of the Quarians has their own ship too, as well as Sicaria, I believe.

Who knows, this could end up with everyone bringing their own ships and just forming some oddball convoy.

Oh, and @Rithy, Cerbs are always a death cult. They're crazy science freaks who are really, really racist. They're the KKK times One million. If you imagine the cops busting into a KKK weapons stronghold, it'd be very similar to to our group knocking on the door of a Cerberus Research and Development facility. Same zealotry, same ideals, same level of hate. They'd open fire on our group as soon as they noticed a non-human. To be honest, at this point, it might be wise to use our three humans to infiltrate and breach. With three humans, Anderson could keep an eye on Ellis, Salissa is there to provide good backup, and suppressive capability. And then you've got Ellis' talents, allowing you to create a large enough diversion that a Krogan in the base is the least of their worries.

That having been said, seriously, Ellis is not trustworthy. Not that he's a common traitor, but motives get skewed in his head. You gotta watch that guy.

Another cool idea would be to use the advance team as a diversion. If the advance team creates enough of a widespread chaos, the sneak team could get in easy. Right behind them, in fact. But the advance team would need to really make a huge scene. Something like... everything on fire would achieve that.

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@BlackSam3091Agreed wholeheartedly. Plus, it wouldn't make much sense for someone to be both a talented long range specialist as well as have special CQB capability.

To be honest, I'd like to see a up-close-and-personal infiltrator. We have a ton of snipers, but no assassins.

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@Silver Fox Holy crap, this group. Btw, folks, if you're trying to figure out what Ellis looks like, imagine the love child of a BioShock Big Daddy with the Batmobile from The Dark Knight. He'd be roughly the size of a Krogan, maybe a little thicker, and about the weight of several Krogans. That oughta help give you a better image of what's going on.

Oh, also, if he had all his limbs back, he'd be a shrimpy 5'4".

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Okay, so two 7 to 8 foot tall Krogans, three over 6 ft Turians, an average human female, Ellis and his Mechsuit, at about 7.5-8 ft, a 5.5 ft tall Asari, a couple average Quarians, and I'm assuming batarians are about the same height as Turians. Good god. Big group.

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I don't think Ellis would be happy about a Sicaria/Salissa coupling. At the same time, Maybe then he'd have a thing for the two of them... AT THE SAME TIME