"We were out on a search and clear of an alien scout ship, fairly routine because the UFO had come down pretty hard and the power source went blooey on impact. We knew some of the crew had survived thanks to our motion scanners, but it was all easy and routine until we heard the scream. Remembering that sound still freezes my blood because it was nothing like the sound an alien makes when you kill'em clean, no way, this was totally different, totally alien. It was so full of pain and hatred at the same time but with a touch of sadness, like whatever made it had resigned itself to fate. We found the body later, a wounded Sectoid had crawled its way into a barn off of the field the ship crashed in and had tripped and impaled itself right in the gut on a pitch fork. That was the only time I can remember ever feeling sorry for one of the s.o.b's!"
-Colonel David Bryant, " XCOM and the First Alien War: A Soldier's Perspective", Millenium Books, 2024. reprinted by permission.
Phrackwulf's XCOM Literature (Note, this doesn't agree with the MPS official XCOM timeline by Dave Ellis, if you want you can just explain this as an alternate timeline.)
Apocalypse Stories:
"Temple" Reformatted and ready
Red November series:
"Red November" old short teaser
"Red November" Chapter 1
"Red November" Chapter 2, slight format problem?
"Red November" Chapter 3
First Alien War Saga's:
"Counter-Strike Chapter 1" Not one of my better ones
Skonar's Apocalypse Stories:
Chapter 3
Chapter 2
Chapter 1
For more literature about XCOM:
Skonar's Apocalypse Saga
Simon Turnbull's Apocalypse Literature
Fernando's XCOM Literature
Kansai Base, Home of Edwin Fisher's Saga's, Dead Link
Moloch's literature page
Rakki's Apocalypse Saga's
Larry Mann's XCOM Apocalypse Saga homepage, Dead Link
Avatar Base, Another XCOM Apocalypse series homepage
A single short story by Dwayne Mills (e-mail if this is wrong), Dead Link
Another short story by a guy with a sense of humor as weird as mine, "A Bad Day in Hell"
"A Chryssallid is the ultimate in bad juju, no lie. Seven feet of really pissed off hard black exo-skeleton with razor sharp pincers, ready and waiting to ruin your day! In a civilian zone they'll impregnate every live body with their young in a matter of minutes and killing zombies is the only thing worse than killing a Chryss. If they had the brains to use guns they would be unstoppable and we still come out second best two times out of five at close range. About fifty percent of the rookies who make it through a couple of fights go to pieces the first time they see these things close-up. That's why the techs came up with our "splat packs" which are now standard issue. If you're disabled or the aliens have you dead to rights, you just slap the panic button and a half-pint of cyanide gets shot into your blood stream, quick and clean. That's more than what you'll get from the bugs, plain and simple.
-Sergeant Carlos "Jefe" Keyes, 3rd Strike and Recon Platoon, XCOM.
XCOM Crossover Literature
Gargoyle's/XCOM Crossover Series, dead-link, anyone know if it is still out there?
"I don't care how many alien doodads the techs and mechs rebuild for us or turn into wiz bang flying saucers for the fighter jocks. There is no more reliable transport on the roster than the Skyranger. Sure an Avenger will carry twice as much and fly twice as fast but the damn thing is so expensive in terms of elerium and maintenance time that your lucky to keep one out of three of em ready to fly. The Ranger on the other hand is a dirt simple transport platform that'll circle the world without refueling, take sixty percent damage from alien interceptors or ground fire and still make it home nine out of ten times. A Lightning would fall right apart in mid-air if it took that kind of punishment, let alone make it back to base. The Ranger might manuever like a rheumatic cow but she's one tough lady, nuff said!"
-Chief Air/Space Maintenance Technician Holly Jonlan, 5th Military Transport Wing, 1st XCOM Air Assault Squadron.
Summary of my total series outline:
New series teasers:
"Red November" chapter 2 teaser
Battleship Cydonia Saga's: Final War
Apocalypse Saga's:
"Temple" Reformatted and ready
"Stopover"
"Loner"
"Solo"
"Fair"
Interim Years: Holocaust Earth and the Frontier Wars
"Tokyo Sunrise"
"Jungle"
"Ruins"
TFTD Saga's:
"Retrieval"
"Re-awakenings"
"Deep Encounter"
Interim Years: New World Order
"Police Action"
First Alien War Saga's:
"Counter-Strike Chapter 1"
"Eyes in the Dark: Chapter 1"
"XCOM: Final Battle":
Chapter 1: Counsel
Chapter 2:
"This is strictly off the record, but you should know that the whole alien war really gave a new lease on life to a bunch of real baddass special ops boys and girls. What I mean is that a whole lot of people who would normally be total section eight cases or doing time in the brig, got to play ball for one reason or another. In my old unit, we had two klepto's who specialized in stealing artifacts from alien ships and at least three other people who were real hot shit but had three or more major psyche eval's on record, really scary man. And then there are the legendary maniacs like Greg Illych, and Moose Mulroy and that other guy they arrested right after the Cydonia mission, Paul Derringer! Man, I actually saw that guy in action once and its an experience I never want to repeat, true story.
-unnamed XCOM soldier.
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