#military scifi

[voxbelicosa]

Scopedog - sketchbook

[jessfromonline]

have you been enjoying absurd Helldivers 2 nonsense?

multiple players have independently called my compared my satirical scifi skirmish storytelling TTPRG 🎲 PLANET FIST to Helldivers—so much as to call it "exactly the tone of Helldivers." the new Faithless Edition of PLANET FIST will be releasing this year, and if you buy it now, you get the new edition for free!

in PLANET FIST, SHOOTOUTS ARE STORIES, and they're goofy and over the top. you're an undying, unsleeping soldier who can get blasted to bits and thrown right back onto the battlefield next round. if you're looking to see how it hits that Helldivers tone, just check out some of the FACTION TRAITS below!

what's PLANET FIST about? what does it play like? read the PRINCIPLES OF PLAY here!

what are people saying about PLANET FIST, besides that it's like Helldivers 2?

"PLANET FIST is a quick-to-learn and quick-to-play system for characters thrown into FPS-style deathmatches on a world that knows nothing but war. It's a game of high-emotion, low-consequence combat, for when you're wondering what the infinite Master Chiefs are thinking during Halo multiplayer. PLANET FIST is 'war never changes' said with the same inflection as 'it's all made up and the points don't matter.'"

- Caleb Zane Huett, designer of Triangle Agency

"An absolute blast—and then another, and then another, and then another, each leaving remains splattered on a wall. Gleeful, and tactical, and winkingly tongue-in-cheek; a masterful game from top to bottom."

- Jeff Stormer, host of the Party of One actual play podcast

or check out some table stories:

[unsc-battlenet]

Mk IV bandwagon time \o/

[imaginal-ai]

"Nova-Class Swordsman: Yǒngyì" (0006)

(More of The Galactic Realms Series)

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[lil-tachyon]

Anti-Armor Partisan

I'm so mad I forgot to draw a bipod for the gun but I didn't realize until I was midway through coloring and it was too late. Gun guys, please forgive me

[casside-sionnach]

[neon-cold-war]

These go so hard

“Imperial Remnant concepts for the Mandalorian, a much more bandit-guerilla aesthetic with field repairs and environmental personalizations”

source: https://twitter.com/UnseenOps/status/1596518988842160128?s=20&t=vjydBEdCHTsYjvmA6RpeBA

[lewinusart]

Doing world building art this October The theme is military units of Millennium War. Week 1 one's focus is the Vitalian Empire.

[shaconage-republic]

Art by geistverrse on Tumblr, Twitter/X, and Bluesky

“It’s not killing the other guys that fucks you up. That’s the fun part, that’s what we signed up to do. It’s seeing your own guys die; it’s watching your friend die while your hands are in his chest trying to fix him as he wheezes and gurgles his last breaths while clutching your arm. That’s what fucks you up.”

War always comes at a cost. It doesn’t matter who you are. War affects everyone. Defending your home against an invader means you’re going to lose friends.

Depicted in the image is a young Sergeant in the Shaconage Republic Army Rangers looking at the makeshift headstones made from pieces of scrap metal from destroyed enemy vehicles and logs after a 3 day firefight between a Ranger platoon and a battalion of enemy forces. The Rangers won the fight, routing the enemy after inflicting devastating losses, but were themselves reduced down to 12 men.

[themtron]

Some sketches from last year, all sharing the same setting. I'm still considering writing fics for this setting. What should i redraw first? Any critique is appreciated!

[why-is-james-on-here]

Military sci Fi is a weird genre.

[biestcallisto]

Space - Above and Beyond

Is available on youtube in its entirety. And its one of the best SciFi Shows ever made.

There are so many intriguing details in it. But what gets me just now, is the Invitros.

For your Information: Its set in 2064 in a war against an advanced alien race. Its military scifi about a squadron of space marines.

Besides the humans and the aliens (They call them Chiggs) there are also the Silicates(androids that rebelled) and the Invitros.

Invitros are humans that were made in a tank. After the Silicates rebelled, humans needed more fighters, fast. So Invitros were artifically made and quickly grown in a tank. They are born as fully formed adults. They get some time in a school and then have to be adults pulling their weight. Initially used for the war against the Silicates they then were forced to work in the mines. The slur for them is also "tanks". When the show starts that indentured servitude was already outlawed.

Space above and beyond has two main characters who are Invitros.

Cooper Hawkes, a seven year old who was sentenced into military service.

T. C. McQueen, a twentysomething, so he looks like early 50s. He becomes their commanding officer.

These are people who came into the world without parents, educated only about things needed for the jobs they should perform.

But they are humans. They love. Especially Coop at the start has zero emotional maturity. And he only knew abuse when he joined them. He didnt want to be there.

Their journey in this war full of pain, hardship and loss compells me the most. They have zero reason to endanger their lifes for humanity. Except being humans. And they care. So much. They dont understand their friends. They never had parents, not good parents, not bad parents. They never were kids. They dont understand love and they know they dont understand love, but they love so much.

I love them. They never did anything wrong in their life, your honor.

There is a HD remaster on youtube. Please watch this fantastic show. It had banger CGI for 1996. But most of all, they dont write characters like that anymore.

[unsc-battlenet]

The UNSC aesthetic in Halo 2 has had a stranglehold on me recently

[imaginal-ai]

"Nova-Class Swordsman: Chenglei" (0005)

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[lil-tachyon]

Post-collapse corporate enforcer

The final (for real this time) character class for Cyberblood.

[bekah-reading]

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4/5

I was listening to this as background noise all week while I did things.

It was okay. I found the writing a bit simple. The narrators were really good and I found listening to this book very entertaining. Rocky and Lucky have such a good dynamic that makes their banter funny and engaging.

This was a military sci-fi. The action was immersive and I think that’s where the author definitely shined, because his writing style fit it very well. If you like Halo (the video games, aka my love), Mass Effect, and the Alien movies I definitely recommend giving this book and its series a shot (pun was not intended but welcome).

This was very much a book that felt like the scenes with the marines during Aliens.