Hiyo folks! Resentine here(again).

So, I've been plotting a playthrough of one of my games, XCOM 2, and I thought "Wouldn't it be fun if I made a TSP Character Pool?"
And so, here we are.

For those of you who don't know, an AAR is an After Action Report. Usually used for games like Paradox's Hearts of Iron, it allows the player to create a narrative for their story in a game for one that normally doesn't have a specific narrative. While XCOM does have a narrative, it leaves many of the RP elements, the development and bonds of your squads, for example, up to you. Which brings me to the important bit.

For this one, there will be no rolling, or any of the sort. It will simply be you guys RPing in your journals, or doing character interactions on your own in #Bantam_Harbor. You guys will be making the members of my XCOM team. This will be taking place on normal Earth, so no Theron or Stockholm.... Well, yes Stockholm but that's different one. In XCOM 2, the world was invaded by Aliens in2015/2016, and despite their best efforts, the world governments, and the XCOM Council, all surrendered to their new alien overlords, called the Elders. The Elders very quickly created a new global government named The ADVENT Coalition. We start in 2035, with the revival of XCOM after it's surviving officers finally get their Mobile Headquarters, The Avenger, up and running.

Below will be a brief on the state of the world as of March 2035 and on the factions in the spoilers. An Application for the Character pool will be below that. I'll let this sit for about a week and a half before we get started.

The year is 2035, 20 years after the Alien Invasion of Earth. We lost, badly. XCOM proved incapable of attenuating the alien threat and was quickly betrayed by the council nations, who surrendered to the aliens shortly after the invasion began. XCOM became nothing more than a resistance force, and went off the radar to avoid persecution at the hands of the aliens. Most of its members either submitted to alien rule and left behind their past or, some, like Central Officer Bradford refused the alien administration and went into hiding. Earth is now controlled by the aliens through the puppet ADVENT Administration, and XCOM has been long-forgotten, members silenced and records erased. ADVENT has done much to gradually improve public opinion of the aliens, most notably by the propagation of the belief that the aliens came in peace, and that the forces of Earth retaliated aggressively and with prejudice.

However, after almost 20 years in silence, XCOM has once again risen out of the ashes. Led by their recently rediscovered Commander, "Res" Saunders, along with Central Officer Bradford, Chief Engineer Lily Shen, and Head Researcher Dr. Richard Tygen, XCOM prepares for a renewed war against Earth's Alien Overlords. However, something much darker lies in the background of the Aliens activities. A secret project, dubbed AVATAR by ADVENT, appears to involved the abduction of thousands of civilians every month to be shipped off to mysterious blacksites around the world. Your objective, XCOM members, is to stop the AVATAR Project, and defeat the Aliens once and for all. Good luck.

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All Lore and such has been pulled from both my own in-game experience and the XCOM Wiki, which can be found here: http://xcom.wikia.com/wiki/XCOM_Wiki