Early Overwatch Forces

Overwatch Conscript Arm
With the likely inclusion of the early occupation as the lore for the server, I have a proposal for a Union faction within the server.
As the Union has yet to fully immerse Earth into their plans and are still in the setting up phase of their occupation, I would argue that there is a likelyhood that transhumans and therefore the Overwatch Transhuman Arm would not yet exist as the technology required and the study of humanity might take longer to determine how best to upgrade humans to the Union's ideal state. Therefore, in the early iteration of the server I would argue that a temporary replacement force might be interesting.

As disclosed in the lore, the purges involved huge swathes of Earth's military being executed and ranks replaced so that the Union had a ground force on the Earth. I think that in the early stages of the servers development, instead of Overwatch Transhuman Arm we could have the Overwatch Conscript Arm. This would be composed of former military individuals from a variety of countries and organisations united into a front line combat unit used by the Union on the now combine occupied Earth. This would by necessity be a new faction which would eventually form into the Overwatch Transhuman Arm.

Whether this faction exists purely as a snippet from the lore, an event / special circumstance only faction like Transhumans in other servers or if they walk the streets with other citizens is a topic for the community to discuss, but I'd say this should be a good angle for a story within the server.

Reasons it might be cool

One of the reasons this might be interesting is that we can see the process of transhumans becoming the assumed state of affairs, and have front and centre in the early stages of the server a point of conflict between City Administration. That being the politics of transhumanism and humanism, those who argue for upgrading humanity in line with the Union's vision and on the other side, a belief that humanity can prove itself more than sufficient or superior without the upgrades involved in creating transhumans.

Another reason is that, as a faction the Transhuman arm of Overwatch is fairly dull and uninteresting as each character is a mindless robot doing the bidding of the Union. Adding the human aspect means there is the potential for a fully fledged character with emotions, desires and fears to take this role instead. And then, the response to the introduced transhuman programme and their attempts to subvert or maybe even agree with these changes.

The change from conscript to transhuman could be explored politically on the server, through events and scenarios and has the potential for an interesting narrative.

What do you guys think?

 

"Conscripted Forces" sounds better imo.

But ye, that'd be neat I suppose. Depends on the timeline, really.

Though if we do decide to use it can we use these models pls


They kinda look like special forces or smth but who cares lol

 

are you serious aspect, those don't fit the aesthetic in the least

 

I like the idea, as long as you're still able to maintain the intimidating, inhuman outside appearance of the OTA. You could probably just use the default Combine Soldier model, since it doesn't have much of anything that would need to be surgically implanted or the such

 

If we're going into on duty model choices, my own personal preference would be the hazmat conscripts
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=172374701
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=524675815

They're not brazen and offensive to the eye, they keep to the 'hide your face when on duty' theme and are therefore fairly intimidating.

 

Those are nice but I thought using different ones for a change would be neat but I guess not, oof.