Scrin vs. Rebels (part 1) -, What to do about the rebels Options

[Team Black]

One issue with the two part release of Scrin vs. Rebels, is that the Rebels will have to be ditched for the second release.
What should we do about this?

Plan A: Scrin and Rebels will be incomplete/small factions have different tech, but IN PART 2, both side's technology will be COMBINED to form a complete Scrin side, which will be balanced to fight fairly against GDI and Nod
We might have to skip multiplayer in Part 1

Plan B: Scrin and rebels will be complete & balanced sides, available in single and multiplayer.
This will be a pain and a lot of time to do, and we'll have to ditch the Rebels for the second part anyways..

Plan C: Both Scrin and Rebels will have the same technology. This would enable a decent multiplayer, but it should be good enough to make a campaign out of.
and we wouldn't have the problem of creating a whole side just to ditch it in Part 2

Or something else. What should we do with the rebels?

be sure to stay on topic ;D

This post has been edited by Team Black: May 26 2007, 05:10 AM

[Bittah Commander]

I'm going with A.

Now, aside from the Scrin and the rebels... I'm sure you've read Ishmael's post about the options they had for the origin of the Tacitus. One of them was that he Tacitus was the sole prison for the martian leader that figured out how to defeat the Scrin, but was too Late. The other was that the Tacitus was simply the Scrin's bible, which I take as some kind of database which contains all information and technology they have (which if you think about it, doesn't sound thát far fetched).

Now we're going to have the same choice for the origin of the tacitus. In the case that we'd go with the tacitus being really a prison for that martian leader, we'd also need a martian side (which in my opinion could make the first part of this mod a lot more interesting). However, just like I stated over at Petroglyph, I don't really understand that if the Tacitus would really be a prison, how Nod could've been able to extract technology from it. So if we go with this option, I think that would need to be figured out.

So to keep it simple, if we go with the "Tacitus = sole prison for martian leader" option, we'll have 3 factions for the first part of the mod (The Scrin, the Scrin rebels and the Martians) and if we go with the "Tactus = Scrin bible" option, there will only be the 2 you just mentioned.

[Lin Kuei Ominae]

So to keep it simple, if we go with the "Tacitus = sole prison for martian leader" option, we'll have 3 factions for the first part of the mod (The Scrin, the Scrin rebels and the Martians) and if we go with the "Tactus = Scrin bible" option, there will only be the 2 you just mentioned.

There is room for interpretation right?
So why isn't the Tacitus both. A sole Prison and a database. A Martian Leader, who studied the Scrin, finally decided to conserve his knowledge and transfered his soul/knowledge into the Tacitus. But after a long time, it seems for everyone to be only a prison, because the Scrin abused the Tacitus, while it was planned as being the last chance for the martians.

So the 2 factions can be, Scrin and Rebels and the Rebels are far descendants from the martians.
So Chielscapes idea, that is imo really good, works too.
First GDI/Nod think the Rebels are the Scrin, until the true Scrin finally invade.

Campaign
Scrin vs Rebels (the first mod part)
In both stories the Rebels loose, and flee to earth in the hope to find the Tacitus.
Short time after the Rebels the Scrin invade earth. (They need more time, because they had to prepare the Invasion fleet)

Something that we can put in the story too.
After recognizing that they will be defeated, the Martians send a probe with genetic material to earth. This genetic material, involved in earth evolution, finally allows earth lifeforms to mutate after Tiberium contact, instead of being eliminated.
So humans are far related to martians, making them able to be a thread for the Scrin.

This way we can also explain Kane, why he lived for so long. He could be a human with a much higher percentage of martian DNA. And the martians natural lifespan was hundred of years. Or he even is one of the last martians, becoming crazy over the hundred of years.

This post has been edited by Lin Kuei Ominae: May 25 2007, 10:38 AM