Hive IC story - Discussion

[Snowflake]

Marshal, who had you just killed? Why didn't you catch him and interrogate about who sent him?

[Rokossovky]

Oh, it was just a nobody. And I know who sent him, it was the evil Jamski, I said something to that extent when they found the bug. The post was just to make a point and reinforce the soft, yet ruthless character of the Marshal.

- Rokossovky

(oh and because killing him is much more entertaining, )

[Snowflake]

Care to show us killing whom is really the most entertaining?

[Rokossovky]

hmmm... well, there is one person in particular the Marshal would like to have meet with his little relic.... but... that will have to wait, and who knows? We could end up being friends.

- Rokossovky

[Rokossovky]

You do all know who the Spetsnaz are right (in RL)?

- Rokossovky

[Snowflake]

I don't.

[Rokossovky]

lol. Alrighty. Story Time.

Back in the 1970's the Soviet Union was lacking a specific force to fill the special operations niche in it's armed forces. They saw the US's SEALS, and I believe Delta Force was created right around then. Regardless, they had a serious case of size envy. So, the Soviet Leadership created a division called Spetsnaz. It was a very small, very elite group of soldiers. They were all veteran and trained to kill using any weapon they could find, including their hands, and take on any enemy that they would come up against. They were deployed in blocks of 15 men, but could join together for larger ops.

If my memory serves, and to illustrate their elite nature, I BELIEVE they were deployed a company (about 100 men) per Army (um... that really varies, lets say 4 divisions (40,000+ men)). There was a battlion strength per theater (800ish men, and a theater was ie eastern europe, um, middle east, siberia, the far east... and once again my memory may be off a little).

They were most recently used in the theater incident in Russia... rather unsucessfully (but NOT because of the Spetsnaz I might add). Historically, one of their shining moments came when the Soviets invaded afganistan. Immediately upon commencing hostilities a bunch of spetsnaz were dropped by helicopter onto the president of afganistans palace, and proceeded to liquidate everyone on the premisis.

Basically, they are an elite, highly trained, special operations unit from the soviety era.

- Rokossovky

[Rokossovky]

Basically they are similar to the British/Australian SAS, or the US Delta Force.

(or, if you want a REALLY high class special force, Canada's JTF2 (w00t w00t!)... well, i guess they were more like the Airborne... until that was disbanded in '95 (curses 3vil politicians) Can you believe our government disbanded THE MOST effective combat unit in the world? grr.... *bitterness*... and they think Royal Canadian Regiment would "fill the niche"... uh hugh... they drive BIG LAV's... they don't drop out of airplanes... but, the JTF2 is better, however it IS special ops, not a combat force).

- Rokossovky..... *bitter*

[Rokossovky]

That's the RCR



That's the airborne (notice the difference)



And that was the JTF 2 in Afganistan (ironically enough)

- Rokossovky

[Kody]

I wouldn't mind the IC story getting copied over.

Ask vev and rokossovky.

[Vev]

so
UK - SAS
Australia - SAS
Russia - Spetsnaz
US - Delta Force & SEAL

Israel - ?
China - ?
Al Qaeda - ?

By the way, what is so special about the gurkhas?

[Vev]

I am going to -
Include some drama inside
IC 2 story

[Snowflake]

Originally posted by Kody
I wouldn't mind the IC story getting copied over.

Ask vev and rokossovky.

Comrade Vev? Marshal? If all agree, should everybody copy their posts in the order of time? (Marshal first, I believe, followed by Kody, then Vev, then me, then Vev, then me.) Or how should we do it?

p.s. Comrade Vev, better introduce your drama soon otherwise I don't know what to expect in Drones. Guess I'll wait for a while and let you and Comrade Forlani work it out.

[Vev]

It will happen during the evening Hive reception at the town centre. Suffice to say, Foreman Gustav is mine!

[Vev]

By the way, which IC story?