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TMW - Earth System | "Rural Reaping"

Huston

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Humanity's homeworld is under siege with its vast cities and landmarks being decimated by incoming Reapers. Overwhelmed, metropolises around the globe fall one by one and the Earth's disparate nation states fall silent. As the Reapers continue to round up civilians for processing, they begin to shift their attention away from already conquered cities and turn to sparsely populated rural regions where many lie in hiding. But will humans in rural areas remain safe and out of harm for long in a lost planet?

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Hiigarar

Thanks a lot! :D

Hazani Pratama

Thanks :D

SimCoug

Thank you! :)

IL.

1 - Indeed :)

2 - Yep, most of the worlds (at a point, 50% of all inhabited space) is in peril.

3 - No, as Konstantin sort of explained, the best explanation would be convergent evolution on a galactic scale.

Konstantin

You know, I do appreciate the suggestions, but again I'm sticking to a strict guideline and keeping the structural styles of a species from the game and refuse to use too many BATs that don't suit the situation. So again, an appreciated gesture, but it'd be nice that you cut on suggestions cause most of them don't exactly fit in with the storyline. It may make more sense if you explored Mass Effect a little.

supernicenow

Thanks a lot :) And as you can tell by this CJ and its contents, yes, favorite all time series & game!

ggamgus

Thanks a lot :D

Forthwall

Lol, Thanks Shub :P

RepublicMaster

Thanks Will :D

Geometry

I'll definitely update when I can, Thanks :D

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Note: Heeyyy.

Well, Earth is in peril cause well, the Reapers had taken over almost all of Earth

:O These series of images take you through some of Earth's rural regions as Reapers begin to deviate from the cities that have already been occupied and are in the process of harvesting. It's an interesting update, taking you from the burning towns of the Asia-Pacific shores to the scorched countryside of the American Midwest.

That's pretty much it. Update starts here.

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Earth. The Human homeworld. But not as you know it. The year 2186 has brought upon the presence of the Reapers. The sentient race of starships, invading the Milky Way every 50,000 years to harvest advanced space-faring organic civilizations to "preserve life". And now, Earth is under siege. The vast cities Humanity has built over thousands of years are now rubble, burning to the ground as Reaper capital ships decimate entire structures and destroyers with company of ground forces rounding up the civilian population. The world's nation states have now gone dark and the destruction of Sol's comm-buoys have impeded communication with the home-system.

With the cities of Earth now mere storehouse of Human DNA, the Reapers occupying these cities take in Humans to use for processing. With the main population centers mostly captured, human resistance in these cities have fled to more sparsely populated zones to slow down Reaper harvesting abilities. But even taking shelter in the countryside isn't a long-term solution to the situation, and the Reapers begin to encroach on these hiding civilians as capital ships, gunships and destroyers complemented by vast ground forces begin to scout the countrysides of rural Earth.

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In Japan's rural regions, numerous capital ships land in open farmland to monitor the countryside to search for any civilians hiding out in abandoned infrastructure and the dense reserves of forest. Entire untouched towns are set a light by the scavenging destroyers, attempting to force human resistance out of safezones in the area and into submission. Along the roads, pulverized skycars are left to burn with a downed Alliance shuttle, likely to have gone through the area to extract civilians, only to find Reapers scouting the area.

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In the Philippines, rural provincial areas are fired on to intimidate civilians and any human resistance in the region. Meanwhile, Cannibals, husks, marauders and banshees crash into the town's and round up the remaining population. Running into numerous resistance forces, they are easily wiped out as they're heavily disadvantaged by Reaper firepower. The slums along side Laguna de Bay ignite and burn in a matter of seconds as laser beams incinerate and level entire establishments. Its population begin to retreat further, and hide in dense forest mountains to escape Reaper activity and re-group in order to build up human resistance numbers.

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In South Africa's rural regions, small towns and slums are reduced to rubble and the population enslaved and rounded up by ground forces. Though resistance in the area still remains relatively strong and hold back its ground forces until destroyers sight them. They continue to hide and soon, will retreat back further to prevent any unnecessary casualties.

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In Switzerland's sparse countryside, isolated farms are immediately destroyed by the Reapers as populations are too low to harvest. Larger isolated villages however are usually preyed upon and the Reapers often trap its civilians to force them into submission. Though on most ocassions, the Reapers have found these rural communities almost left abandoned completely; its civilians fleeing to refugee zones to meet with greater human resistance to repel Reaper forces or retreat to its empty countryside to stay out of sight of Reaper activity.

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In the American Midwest, farms that dot the states are obliterated and small towns are harvested for the higher populations. The Reapers continue to round up its remaining human population and sever their human resistance. Though conflict still stands as civilians refuse to submit to Reaper occupation, persuing resistance operations against Reaper forces in vast countryside towns and rural farm areas. Advised evacuations of isolated homesteads have prevented the uncessary loss of life, and when the threat passes, these homes provide a safe haven or staging base for future resistance operations.

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In the Canadian provinces of the UNAS, the desolate northern interior of the BC remain mostly unpopulated as many have retreated either farther north or attempt to make contact with larger civilian concentrations in the Reaper occupied south. The skycar driving along the highway is unluckily underneath a landing Reaper capital ship, scowering the region for possible human presence and severing connections by melting roads. In the skies, the Reaper remains oblivious to the Alliance evacuation shuttles, heading north to avoid Reaper presences. The shuttles will need to manouver around the ship undectected, otherwise they risk detection and the loss of innocent civilians in the process.

Reapers continue to sweep across rural regions, in search of remaining human populations. The chances for any civilians in these rural areas are begining to turn against their favor.

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NOT SWITZERLAND, NOOOO!!! D:

 

Dang, this really just became Resistance... :P Great photoshoppin' work!

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Looks really cool. Some really effective picture editing put in there.

 

Looking forward to more.

 

Cheers

 

James

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Nice work! You can expect your stuff,  if you know what I mean, as soon as I get back to my own computer with 3ds. I think you'll be happy with what's happened with it!

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Earth bacterias kills the aliens. ;)

Dude they're robots bent on making sure no life form in the Milky Way Galaxy cannot harm the robot over lords. The main course of today's meal is humanity, with a side of freedom!

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This looks like a Star Wars game! Keep up the great work...

...The force will be with you...

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I'm imagining the song Arcade from the Man of Steel soundtrack with this apocalyptic vision. Great stuff.

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Oh you should have also used one of my futuristic cities :o 

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