Okay, I'm working on a sci-fi sorta thing. Here's all the stuff I've thought up so far. Tell me what you think. All the stuff is copied from nathan8472's blog, where I was discussing it with him.

Intro:

It is the year 2300. Twenty years ago, a team of explorers discovered the "Cache" a repository of advanced weapons technology hidden nearly two miles below the surface of Antarctica. Its origins unknown, it was the subject of wild speculation. For a simple reason. It was not alien. And no-one knew where it came from, other than that it was manufactured on Earth. A war erupted, each side attempting to take as much as they could from the Cache. Within 3 years, Antarctica was devastated, a massive group of islands instead of a continent. But the war moved on, soon encompassing the entire globe, the factions replicating what weapons they had, and finding new ways to harness their power.

A list of stuff found in the Cache:

Railguns: Snipers, shotguns, and railcannons(tank gun and naval turret sized).

Plasmaguns: Pistols and artillery(both are trajectory weapons).

Lasers: Assault rifles, snipers, and anti-missile turrets.

Armor: Exoskeletons, bendsuits, and reflective(anti-laser).

Tanks: Hovertanks.

Walkers: Infantry(AT-RT sized), walkertanks(AT-AT sized), artillery, spiderwalkers(can move on ceilings and walls).

Aircraft: Plasma-fueled flyers that move via antigravity, VTOL planes(nuclear fusion powered), hypersonic bombers. totally silent helicopters, phaseplanes(sorta like a vehicle with a bendsuit).

WMDs: Implosion bombs(vaporize large areas without a trace), plasma missiles(literally burn several square miles), 1200 megaton nuclear warheads.

Phantom equipment: Silence field generators(fit on belt), stunbeams(mounted on side of head), limited-area nullgrav fields(allow Phantoms to jump three time as high as they normally would with an exoskeleton).

And then there's all the other weapons, which we have today.

World control:

There are three factions. Coalition, Quadrant, and Draconis.

The Coalition controls Japan, Korea, Vietnam, part of Siberia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia most of those little islands in the pacific between Australia and Japan.

The Quadrant controls North and South America.

Draconis controls Europe, Russia, Africa, India, most of China, and Greenland.

Quadrant and the Coalition are allied, but they still control less of the world than Draconis.

Here's a simple estimate of how much of the world's landmasses each faction controls(the oceans are pretty much open territory).

Phantoms:

Wars are not fought with huge armies, even though the sides do have huge armies. Wars are fought via misinformation, sabotage, assassinations and the like.

The only reason all sides have armies is because otherwise the other side would attack them directly. The war has been going on for almost twenty years, and if it was a normal war, earth would be a wasteland by now.

And therefore there are operatives, who are sorta like Splinter Cells. Sneaky people.

Basically, a Phantom(like Ca'gerrin) can specialize in one of the following styles:

Stealth(infiltration)

Assassination(like Ca'gerrin)

Sabotage(like the "Missile Battery" level from SC:CT)

Phantoms always work alone, and do not know of the existence of any of the other Phantoms, for deniability reasons. If one is caught(which is very rare), they make the enemy think that they are the only Phantom in existence.

Even with the exoskeletons on, they are surprisingly stealthy. Infiltration Phantoms don't have exoskeletons, and instead have raybender suits which bend light around them and make them very hard to see.

Think about it this way: The suit is laced with fiber-optics. Which, while thin, are not thin enough. When the light gets shunted through the fiberoptics, it produces a sort of grainy image of whatever is on the far side of you. It's worse when moving, too, because the nanocomputer than aligns the ends of the fiber optics tubes can't move them fast enough to change background when moving. You'd be very close to invisible when standing still, though.

I'll try it visually:

= Wall

~ What the enemy sees.

* A Phantom

^ An enemy.

And that's all the stuff I've thought up so far. More stuff will be added when I think of it. Suggestions are welcome, but I reserve the right to not use them unless I think they fit.

By sharp and fame,

=Cortana=