Halae wrote:

First off, if they're something we don't have information on, an autopsy reveals less information than studying a living specimen. Second, interrogations, whether psychic or physical tend to give us a lot more information about what they're planning, which'd give us a stronger ability to deal with them in future situations, possibly even allow us to reverse engineer some of the tech we wouldn't have been able to replicate without the creature's 'help'.

I think in this case, a capture would be valid if that was a mission objective from Earth's defense (whoever that would be in Titan City). That would also require a selective capture, ie either the commander or lead technician, and not common foot soldiers.

As for the common foot soldiers. It depends on the type of hero that's being played, but most of them would kill the alien invaders with few qualms. The more virtuous ones might not be happy with it, but this is a war. It shows what principles that the hero values more: the sanctity of all life vs. the safety of planet earth.

Redlynne wrote:

Redlynne's weapon of choice was ... sneakers. She'd just kick the snot out of anything and everything she came across.

What if the alien doesn't have snot?

Cyclops got there before I could.

Then there was my Warshade ... Ms Terry. Her battlecry?

[b][i]Your soul is my chewtoy![/i][/b]

I swear, getting Stygian Circle made me feel like I was playing a Necromancer. Needless to say, Dechs Kaison "approved" of my "MFing Warshade indeed!"

It depends on the character and the ingame scenario.

I played through Invasion and then the return of the invasions, ran every Rikti mission in the game. I kind of liked that the game itself always called it a "defeat", leaving the player to decide whether the defeated enemy was dead or unconscious and waiting for pick up. At least on my heroes.

But then...I mostly played Villains. Killing Rikti instead of capturing them was a given because Arachnos had zero use for captured aliens. Also, many of the higher level missions were specifically assassinations of the warmongering faction leadership.

There wasn't much room for moral ambiguity on the Red Side.

Redlynne wrote:

Cyclops got there before I could.
Then there was my Warshade ... Ms Terry. Her battlecry?
Your soul is my chewtoy!
I swear, getting Stygian Circle made me feel like I was playing a Necromancer. Needless to say, Dechs Kaison "approved" of my "MFing Warshade indeed!"

With that battlecry...your Warshade and my Roomate would get along smashingly...

Given they cannot kill you, you should tie pillows to your hands and not fight hard, lest you kill them.

In this way, you can trade off not killing them for licking their boots for all eternity. What a deal! (runs away)

Ahh, it makes no difference. I tried to lead the defense of Cap Au Diablo during a Rikti invasion, and we got our butts handed to us. They left anyway, just as they might have had we won. Why did thy even bother if they didn't establish a beachhead after whooping us?

HINT HINT HINT GAME DESIGNERS. Gimme the wild server where we lose control of the zone. Let the care bears hang on their own server.

First of all I wouldn't see a martian invasion as different from any other war, but war is definitely different from what superheroes normally do (which for lack of a better term I'd call law enforcement, with a snicker). Even Captain America didn't hesitate to use deadly force during WWII.

I'd be less reluctant to kill but still not willing, I'd do things that might kill (like crashing vehicles or blowing up bunkers etc...) but wouldn't be trying to kill, and I definitely wouldn't kill anyone who surrendered unless I had clear reason to be suspicious (and therefore afraid). If we need to fight the martians, it's possible that some of the martians aren't really into whatever their government is forcing them to do, and if they surrender they might be helpful to us.

Non-Lethal? What kind of a villain do you take me for?

in the case of an invasion....the heroes that I have that would take part in the fighting would treat the situation as war. if the target soldier surrendered, his life would be spared, but in all out firefights/battles there is very little "wiggle room" when it's your life or theirs.

for the few heroes I have who are completely committed to not killing, they would mainly be on the sidelines assisting civilians in getting clear of the battle zones. defending them as needed, but only to the point of knocking out the attacker and then getting the civilians out of the area.

it is an extreme case though...interplanetary war. it is not the same as fighting criminals as we are talking about invading armies, and these invading armies are intent on exterminating the entire population and not just those defending the planet. as such, Codes vs Killing would, imo, be suspended, to a degree, given the extreme circumstance.

I have a preference to know any who dare stand against the Nightmare will be smite into the ground.

Nonsense! Even mindless cretins have a use as cannon fodder. Or genetic experiments. Or a living trophy.. certain I can get enough carbonite for a few organic statues.

Okay so to further expand on my previous post. This if if the aliens were hostile and had no qualms in killing civilians and superhumans alike

- Crow would try to reason with them, if they don't take it then he will not hold back
- Gepetto would make traps that are capable of incapacitating the hostile aliens, would kill in self-defense or in defense of an innocent
- Dread would scare the fuck out of the hostile aliens before attacking them (he's half-alien himself and some might recognize were his powers came from), would definitely not hold back in killing them.
- Harlequin would go for non-lethal takedowns mostly unless one was threatening an innocent. Unfortunately that might happen pretty often...
- White Rabbit would frolic in the chaos and would be doing all kinds of wacky hi-jinks to the aliens
- Sanguine would lock them down in various ways with his own blood and wouldn't hesitate to interrogate them
- Datamine would look for anything to hack with his powers
- Phage would stakeout in his own place. If any alien wandered in he would have his plants and fungi attack them
- Monochrome would snipe them