Line #18 Roleplay/NeuroiQuest


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Hive Berlin's Banner]]
3	->''"Humans are Bullshit!"''
4	-->-- ''Neuroi of Hive Core 206, Earth.''
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6	It is January, 1946. For six years humanity has battled against the alien invaders known as the Neuroi. Where conventional weapons fail, the greatest successes are guaranteed by the Witches, young, magic using girls in Strikers. The most famous of the witches, the members of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, have won another victory over the Neuroi in Gallia.
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8	This is not their story.
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10	'''[[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/neuroi-quest-thread-6-cont-of-royal-blood-and-magic.3412/ Neuroi Quest]]''', is a ForumQuest on the Spacebattles BROB/Sufficient Velocity Quests Forum set in the Anime/StrikeWitches universe where you are in control of one of the few remaining Neuroi hives on the planet after the destruction of the Super Hive by Yoshika Miyafuji at the end of of the Anime/StrikeWitches anime. As such, you must fight to survive in a world where you are the main antagonist against the forces of humanity.
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12	%% * ActionGirl: The Witches.
13	* AlienInvasion: Main premise that started the whole series.
14	* AliensAreBastards: General consensus among humanity [[spoiler:Though there are a few exceptions like the people the Neuroi rescued from Unit 731.]]
15	* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: [[spoiler: The Neuroi are completely shit when it comes to anything that deals with Kinetics.]]
16	* AlwaysAccurateAttack: What lasers turned into once Hive Berlin got done with them.
17	* BizarreAlienBiology: There are a lot of things different between the Neuroi and Humans.
18	** For one, Neuroi don't need to eat. This leads to a pretty big problem when Hive Berlin is in charge of caring for human captives. [[spoiler: He's come a long way from just feeding them tasteless nutrient sludge. He's even learned to cook, though this is more through [[MatterReplicator replicator technology]] than actually doing anything humans would consider cooking.]]
19	** Another, is that Neuroi don't need constant stimuli to not go insane. [[spoiler: So he's quite perplexed when the witches he puts in solitary confinement begin to get a little stir crazy.]]
20	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: The Neuroi have mined out or destroyed a Lot of planets and races either through collateral damage in their war with the Fahrong, mining worlds dry, or wiping out the planet because of Neuroi Doctrine.
21	* CameFromTheSky: How the Initial Neuroi Invasion happened.
22	* [[CrapsackWorld Crapsack Galaxy]]: The universe the quest takes place in is Not a happy place. 68% of the galaxy has either been wiped out or mined as resources in the Universal War between the Fahrong (Rock People) and the Neuroi (Robots). And there are apparently worse horrors out there.
23	* DarkerAndEdgier: This isn't anywhere close to the original happy and cheery fanservice loaded anime in tone.
24	* EpicFail: During Turn 8, a pirate fleet attempt to rob a large group of Neuroi tourists after they all gather in one location... while forgetting that the gathering was to witness an upcoming [[EarthShatteringKaboom supernova]]. The entire fleet gets incinerate when the star goes boom. [[LampshadeHanging The description for the event even refers to the trope by name]].
25	* ForeverWar: The war between the Neuroi Empire (robot people) and the Fahrong Conglomerate (rock people). The end of the first turn of the quest reveals that is has reached its ''89th year''.
26	* GameBreaker: What the Neuroi generally think magic (AE) is and the major reason why Humans have fought the Neuroi so well despite the tech disparity.
27	* {{Golem}}: The Fahrong (the {{Archenemy}} of the Neuroi Empire) are living masses of rock that WordOfGod has explicitly referred to as golems.
28	* HomingLasers: One of the first improvements Berlin works on. They are currently accurate enough that human planes have no hope and [[spoiler:the [[DodgeTheBullet stunts Witches used to pull]] are no longer enough.]]
29	%% * HumansAreBastards: [[spoiler: What Fuso did to the people in Unit 731]]
30	* HumansAreSpecial: [[spoiler:Out of all the races the Neuroi have found in the universe. Humans are the only race that can produce Ambient Energy (Magic) continually in such large amounts just by existing. It's also the reason why Earth isn't a lifeless husk yet despite all the AE the Neuroi have mined out.]]
31	* HumansAreWarriors: Humans have killed off nearly every Neuroi Hive on the planet, despite the large initial technology gap.
32	* HumanityIsInsane: General consensus among the hives is that Humanity is Crazy. And Cheaters.
33	* InsignificantLittleBluePlanet: What the Neuroi Nation thinks about Earth. [[spoiler: Of course, then the Neuroi of Earth discovered that HumansAreSpecial. Though this information hasn't been shared with the rest of the Neuroi Nation.]] just to provide the a sense of scope, the Neuroi Nation is large enough to have people flocking across star systems to witness a supernova.
34	* KillSat: [[spoiler: What the Neuroi developed once it became apparent Hive 302 was coming.]]
35	* LensmanArmsRace: The race between the Humans and the Neuroi of hive 206 to remain on top.
36	%% * MechanicalLifeforms: The Neuroi of course.
37	* MoodWhiplash: A common occurence in the "News" segments between turns, where the conflict against the humans on Earth and the Fahrong in space are contrasted with utterly banal events happening elsewhere in the Neuroi Empire. The first such segement also includes on in the Earth section, noting all major battles going on across the Earth... before noting that the Atlantic Hive is doing "fuck all".
38	* MookHorrorShow: The Neuroi are subjected to this during the Battle of Berlin where the humans turn into [[spoiler:half-undead magical berserkers.]]
39	* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: When everyone finds out exactly what Fuso Unit 731 is.]]
40	* NavalBlockade: [[spoiler:Once Hive Atlantic started moving, this is basically what he started doing to Europe.]]
41	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Unfortunately for the 501st, and Yoshika Miyafuji in particular. Destroying the Super Hive actually made the remaining Neuroi More competent.
42	* NoRecycling: Averted. The Neuroi can salvage pretty much anything from battle and use it for resources.
43	* OrbitalBombardment: The Neuroi have the capacity to do this, but civilian groups (including Hive 206) are forbidden from doing so. [[spoiler:When word reaches 206 that Hive 302 is coming, though, 206 starts looking into building space weapons to defend against them]].
44	* PlanetLooters: The Neuroi (and to a slightly lesser degree, the Fahrong) do this to any planet that has Ambient Energy. Unfortunately for everyone else, Ambient Energy can only be found on planets that support life and once a planet runs out of AE, it dies. [[spoiler: Luckily for Humanity, HumansAreSpecial.]]
45	%% * PointyHairedBoss / GeneralFailure: The Super Hive, who is responsible for only single Neuroi ships being sent to fight the humans at any one time, the capture of Neruoi tech by the humans, and is ultimately responsible for the death of at least twenty hives. Which of the two tropes he is is subject to interpretation, since while he was in charge of the invasion of Earth, by Neuroi standards the "invasion" is just a civilian Mining operation. Either way, his death is generally considered to be the single best thing to happen to the Neuroi, especially since it let [[TheHero Hive Berlin]] take over.
46	* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler:Part of the reason that Berlin and the Earth Neuroi start making plans to not exterminate humanity -- as humans produce Ambient Energy by virtue of existing, killing them would destroy an irreplaceable source of potentially infinite Ambient Energy]].
47	* RandomNumberGod: As always, CriticalSuccess and CriticalFail rolls are at this God’s mercy. But the Neuroi take this to an extreme when they start to outright ''worship'' the Dice Gods, to the immense confusion of humanity. And yes, they gain tangible bonuses from doing so.
48	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The remaining Neuroi hives are pretty much this. Unexpectedly, they've done a lot better now than when they had a full mining company. Of course, a lot of this is due to not having to listen to the incompetent Super Hive anymore.
49	* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: How the Neuroi remain competitive in the war against the Humans and the Fahrong.
50	* RobotMaster: The Neuroi hives naturally, since they build numberless hordes of MechaMooks for battle.
51	* RousingSpeech: Towards the end of the Battle of Berlin one Karlsland officer starts yelling.
52	-->[[spoiler:"Soldiers of Karlsland! Look around you! Do you see what these invaders have done to your homeland? Look! Look at the glorious legacy the Fatherland has given you! All ruined, all destroyed by the Neuroi! They have slaughtered us! They have murdered your fathers, your mothers, siblings, sons, daughters, infants in the mother's womb! Ancient monuments, sacred cities, priceless memories! All of Karlsland, RUINED!"]]\
53	-->[[spoiler:"We are homeless, damned, and now doomed! But we still have one thing! YOU ARE SOLDIERS OF MANKIND, AND YOU WILL NOT LET THESE INSULTS, THESE BARBARIC CRIMES, GO UNAVENGED! FIGHT! FIGHT TO YOUR LAST BREATH! FIGHT UNTIL YOUR BODY IS A RUIN! KILL! THEM! ALL!"]]
54	* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: The original leader of the Atlantic Hive apparently used a combination of connectios and [[ScrewtheRulesIHaveMoney bribery]] to get in on the mining operation on Earth.
55	* ShipTease: [[spoiler: Between Berlin and Vladivistok. Apparently after he saved her from the Joint invasion from Orussia, Gallia, and Britannia. She repays the favor though.]]
56	* ShoutOut:
57	** The option to invade Baltland is titled "[[Music/{{Sabaton}} Swedish Pagans]]".
58	** The build option for starships is titled "[[Franchise/StarTrek To Boldly Go Where Pretty Much Every Neuroi Has Gone Before]]".
59	* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: While the humans think the Neuroi are "invading". It's actually just a small time, Civilian, mining operation to get resources for the Neuroi Nation. [[spoiler: The Neuroi military have been stated to have weapons that casually shatter planets and warp reality.]]
60	* ThoseWereOnlyTheScouts: It's made clear in the first turn that the Neuroi forces on Earth are actually a mining operation (albeit one that is fully equipped to exterminate whole sentient species). The actual Neuroi military is busy fighting a galaxy spanning war against the Fahrong.
61	%% * TheDreaded: The Fuso army has horror stories about [[spoiler: the Ghost Queens of Inchon for very good reason.]]
62	* [[spoiler:TheRightOfASuperiorSpecies: Unfortunately for humanity, and any other species not on the Fahrong and Neuroi's tech level. This is the general way they treat lesser species. Of course, there has been a growing movement in the Neuroi Nation that believe the Neuroi don't have to be Genocidal Assholes. The Hives of Earth seem to be adopting this viewpoint for both a pragmatic and ideological reason.]]
63	* VillainProtagonist: The main characters are [[AlienInvasion the Neuroi]]. This is a given. That said, they do seem to be sliding more and more towards being [[AntiHero Anti-Heroes]] as time goes on.
64	* WeaksauceWeakness: Most Neuroi can't stand H[[subscript:2]]O and refer to Earth's oceans as "The Liquid Death". Averted by Atlantic Hive and the Submarine-Bots who love being covered in the stuff.
65	* WeHaveReserves: For the Neuroi, As long as they have resources. They can rebuild their army every month regardless of how many losses they take. [[spoiler: A good thing too because the Neuroi forces get wiped out a lot trying to complete their objectives.]]

Context Roleplay / NeuroiQuest