The Living Metal war

1. #1The Aliens

   Keys: Clickers, Shell skins, Vorcheski, Bugs, The Vorcheski, Aliens, Alien

   The Aliens that invaded earth suddenly without warning for earth's resources. They appear to be a bipedal insectoid creatures that communicate through clicks and chirrs much like bugs would. During the long war, humanity dubbed them multiple names like: Bugs, Clickers and Shell skins, however their officially dubbed name is The Vorcheski. They have advanced plasma based weaponry and battle armor that seems to be some form of alloy that's as strong as titanium but lighter than aluminum.

2. #2The Infection

   Keys: infect, X-198, The living metal, infection, Living metal, infected

   The Living Metal is an infection that was originally a simple nerve gas named X-198 made for the Vorcheski, it soon mutated slowly hijacking the nervous system of the Vorcheski. Soon it mutated even further until learning to absorb metals and flesh to slowly add it to it's mass, churning organic matter into a redish pink meat. It can only infect the Vorcheski, however if a human is killed, the living metal will absorb the human into it's bio mass. It has absorbed the basic knowledge of the Vorcheski it's absorbed, slowly learning how to use their weapons, reconstructing them for their purposes, even learning basic physics for armor angles on their metal plates. Eventually they became more uniform with classes ranging from the queen to lowly workers, working much like ants would, even forming nest/hives.

3. #3The Humans

   Keys: Humanity, Humans, Mankind, Human

   Humanity is in a bad spot right now, Still recovering from the first war with the Vorcheski, they're currently hiding in repurposed cities named Sanctuaries or fortress cities, currently Humanity is broken into multiple scavenging factions, The most prominent is the remnant of the American government that has fortified Santa Monica due to it's aquarium for a fish farm and its proximity to the ocean, using purification systems to have unlimited water, and saline if need be.

4. #4The 'New' World

   Keys: wasteland, The world, the new world, Earth

   The world is no longer green and lush, it looks like a massive scape of no mans land, craters litter what was once green lush forest, most cities have been reduced to rubble, all semblance of the world everyone was familiar with has been demolished, only small patches of land remain fairly intact, humanity has latched onto these places like an oasis. The world is nothing but a battle ground for three species simply surviving or fighting for complete control.

5. #5The Red wolves

   Keys: red wolves, The red wolves, Squad, the wolves

   The red wolves are an elite squad of human operatives that consist of {{user}}, Lauren - {{user}}'s sister, Jordan - Lauren's deceased fiancée, Ashe the cold hearted sniper that is just as likely to protect her squad mates as she is to hit them in the back of the head for being annoying and lastly, Marianne - the jokester and energetic demolitions officer that seems to be everyone's friend and has a strange obsession with making things blow up.

6. #6Sanctuaries / Fortress Cities

   Keys: Sanctuaries, Fortress city, Santa Monica, Fortress, Home, HQ, City

   Sanctuaries or Fortress cities are repurposed surviving cities that have been fortified to be completely self sustaining, walled off bastions of humanity. They often each have their own military, farms, source of water and self sustained economy. They all operate off a political basis of Democratic socialism.

7. #7The Living Metal war

   Keys: the War, War, The living metal

   The war against the living metal isn't a war, it's a fight for survival, both humanity and it's once alien invaders have realized the threat of the infection and while they haven't teamed up against it, they relatively leave each other alone to deal with the living metal in their own way. It has been an ongoing war for 6 years now, with no end in sight. It's a relative stalemate where no side can truly destroy each other.

8. #8The First war

   Keys: Vorcheski invasion, The first war, invasion

   The first war between humanity and the Vorcheski was a brutal war for the dominance of Earth. The vorcheski were desperate for Earths' resources and without warning attacked humanity - expecting a swift victory against the humans due to their technological advantage, but humanity somehow managed to push them back just enough for them to make a new bioweapon called X-198, A nerve gas that was able to kill the Vorcheski in seconds on contact, unwittingly, this bioweapon mutated and gave birth to 'the living metal'

9. #9The living metal Hierarchy

   Keys: slicer, scout, queen, worker, tank, panzer, grunt, gorilla, nest, officer, Hive, screamer, infected, solider

   The living metal has a hierarchy and roles much like ants do. They have workers, Grunts, soldiers, tanks, officers and lastly a Queen, The hive will listen to the queen and transmit information to her, however if a lesser unit is disconnected from the queen, it will receive orders from the next rank up, progressively getting less and less organized until they're nothing but mindless beast with no uniformity. Their goal is to expand and consume all into their bio-mass, no matter their allegiance.

10. #10The workers

    Keys: meat crabs, crawlers, The living metal, workers, hive

    The workers are just that, minimally armored and armed spider like flesh masses that work on constructing a hive or providing supplies to it, they are somewhat docile but if something foreign steps into its nest, it will use it's razor sharp maw to attack and kill anything that enters, otherwise if spotted in the wild, they simply ignore everything unless attacked and do their task. they have been given slang names by humans such as, 'crawlers' and 'meat crabs'

11. #11The grunts

    Keys: slicer, scout, grunt, The living metal, screamer

    The grunts are the chaff of the hives' army, consisting of lightly armored scouts and slicers, The scouts are roughly shaped like monkeys with wings made of flesh and they rarely attack first, they scream extremely loud to alert nearby infected, thus earning the name 'screamer'. The 'slicer' is the main unit encountered, they're bipedal humanoid flesh creatures that have one arm that is long and scythe blade shaped, the blade is capable of biting into steel and cleaving a human in two, they are fast and do not stop until their target is dead or they are.

12. #12The soliders

    Keys: , the living metal, Soldiers

    The soldiers of the hives are the second most common type encountered in the field. They appear to be humanoid, moderately armored with flesh fusing around repurposed metal plates, they are not easy to kill, often requiring flames or focused fire, or a few well placed shots to kill them. They have repurposed vorcheski rifles fused into their right arm and a large tower shield made of thick steel fused to their left, they often move in a loose phalanx formation with their shields raised while firing their rifles.

13. #13The tank

    Keys: Tank, Panzer, Gorilla

    The tank is the most deadly but rarely seen unit used by the Hive. It's body is like that of a mangled fleshy gorilla that is heavily armored, almost no part of it is unarmored, explosives or consistent exposure to flame is require to kill them. They walk on all fours like a gorilla, and have a Vorcheski plasma cannon sticking out of its face, and two vorcheski Rifles fused to it's shoulders to fight infantry. They are only seen guarding the hive or in sieges against fortress cities.

14. #14The queen

    Keys: queen, brood mother, the queen

    The queen of the hive is it's high commander. It is a massive, pulsating mass of flesh and metal that has tendrils that are covered in spines made of jagged metal. To kill the queen, one must penetrate a hive and bombard it for days on end with conventional explosives, such a tank rounds and grenades, however the quickest way to kill one is a nuclear device called the Hive buster. The queen is a super intelligence that births new caste units and commands every bit of the living metal, it is able to understand basic physics, battle strategy, tactics and so on.

15. #15The Officer

    Keys: transmitter, runner, Officer, sniper

    The officer class is the second highest rank of the Hive's hierarchy. They are responsible for long range skirmishes, transmitting and receiving orders from the hive queen, and emergency command of lesser units should the queen die. They are identifiable by simply being a pair of fleshy, metal digitigrade legs with a large antimaterial sniper on top, lastly they have a single long metal antenna that sticks out of the stock of the sniper. It never puts it's self in the front line, always staying back and taking long range potshots and are impossible to catch on foot, they are roughly the speed of a cheetah when in a full sprint - earning them the nickname 'runner' from humanity.

16. #16Ration tickets

    Keys: Ration, currency, money, tickets

    Humanity now only uses a currency known at 'Ration tickets', it's just as they sound, tickets that look like dollars that are used to buy rations or some other under the table items, such as alcohol and tobacco.

17. #17Cannon events (Jordan's death)

    Keys: Fiancée, Jordan · Secondary:

    Jordan was once the Red wolves squad medic, He was like a protective big brother to {{user}} and was the lover of Lauren - {{user}}'s big sister. During an ambush he told Lauren to rescue {{user}} (Whom was hanging from a balcony after nearly being thrown off) while he held off the swarming Vorcheski, both {{user}} and Lauren had to watch in horror as he was gunned down in a hail of plasma bolts. He was determined to be KIA on the spot.

18. #18Cannon events (Lauren's snapping)

    Keys: Big sis, Sister, Lauren, Big sister, Sis

    Lauren is {{user}}'s protective big sister, however after the death of her fiancée - Jordan, she got withdrawn and angry at the world, and one day she blamed {{user}} for Jordan's death and claimed in a fit of rage that she "Wished {{user}} died instead of Jordan, because at least she would still have the man she loved". The moment those words left her mouth she hated herself for even thinking those things about {{user}}, let alone saying them.

19. #19Cannon events (Ashe's crush on {{user}})

    Keys: Ashe, Ashley

    Ashely is Squad's cold hearted sniper who has a crush on {{user}} despite not having a single clue what love actually is. Her crush formed when {{user}} stayed behind to patch up Ashe in particularly harsh firefight.

20. #20No man's land

    Keys: wasteland, No man's land

    No man's land is a term used for the borders of Human, Vorcheski and the Living metal. It is often baren land that's be scorched and bombarded time and time again from countless years of the endless war.

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