HARM
Visualizing intense mech vs. mech combat with near future and alien technology!In HARM, mankind is fighting a desperate action to keep the invading aliens at bay and to keep from being exterminated. HARM is set in the future world of Exocrisis Blue where the Alien War is well underway. The nations of Earth have been ravaged by unrelenting combat with the Blue Newts.
This stand-alone story (approximately 9400 words or 30+ pages) is all about future robotic warfare with intense mech verses mech battles. The story introduces several continuing characters and the background for Exocrisis Blue during the Alien War. All the weapons of the near future battlefield are utilized from autonomous battlefield robots, main battle tanks, powered infantry in exoskeleton battlesuits to unmanned drones. HARM is about the first combat use of a giant, humanoid robot, fighting machines against the invaders. Can these new humanoid weapons turn the tide of the war?
HARM = Humanoid Assault Reconnaissance Machine
Exocrisis Blue occurs sixteen years after the end of the Alien War. By the end of the year long Alien War, many of the old governments of Earth had collapsed and a radically new set of nations had emerged. In this new world man shares the Earth with the alien Blue Newts in an uneasy truce. Nations, cities, and people have rebuilt their infrastructure and lives. For a new generation, the Alien War is no longer immediate, it is something in the past.
At the General Automata Corporation Development Institute a new generation of HARMs has been created. To pilot these more advanced machines, youthful HARM pilots are needed to maximize the potential between the new neural interfaces. The military training facilities at the institute selects and trains the best of the best with experienced instructors and training techniques. However, deep inside the institute is the much more secretive “AO Sensor
Facility." Events are in motion and the fate of the world hinges on the actions of a few.
