There Is No Hope

So I've had this idea rattling around in my skull for a bit and while I'm not going to get started on it right away, I figured I'd throw it out there and see if anyone likes it. Anyways, onward!

Last Stand
Last stand is a loose military term used to describe a body of troops holding a defensive position in the face of overwhelming odds. The defensive force usually takes very heavy casualties or is completely destroyed, as happened in "Custer's Last Stand" at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Several hundred years in the future, mankind has reached the stars, setting up colonies and the whatnot. Out on a frontier world, a thriving colony (sort of a "new wild west" feel to it), suddenly come under attack by a mindless, beast like alien race, kinda like the Zerg from Starcraft, the Tyranids of Warhammer 40k or the Bugs from Starship Troopers. After several encounters, the local military decides it can't hold the planet and it's time to pull out. Maybe because the ground commander is a coward or the fleet commander follows cold logic, its decided to take the troops and civilians from the planets few big cities and leave the rest to die.

There is no relief from the major military bases coming to save those out in the boonies, there is no fleet rescue coming to get them, there is no hope.

The plot of the roleplay would focus on either one group of soldiers and civilians or be broken up into several shorter stories about different groups. Our characters will die at the end but the tale is about why they fought, how they fought and how many they took with them into the unknown.

Men of the 16th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment were positioned on Manchester Hill near St. Quentin, when the Germans started their Kaiserschlacht in the Western Front on the March 21st 1918.

Overwhelming German forces attacked and the battalion bitterly held their positions, eventually being annihilated. Lieutenant-Colonel Elstob performed with personal bravery in the desperate situation and at one point, sent a message to Brigade that 'The Manchester Regiment will defend Manchester Hill to the last'. To his men he had said 'Here we fight, and here we die'. Many of his men did, including himself. He won the posthumous Victoria Cross.

Long before Custer died at the Little Bighorn, the myth of the Last Stand already had a strong pull on human emotions, and on the way we like to remember history. The variations are endless ? from the three hundred Spartans at Thermopylae to Davy Crockett at the Alamo ? but they all tell the story of a brave and intractable hero leading his tiny band against a numberless foe. Even though the odds are overwhelming, the hero and his followers fight on nobly to the end and are slaughtered to a man. In defeat the hero of the Last Stand achieves the greatest of victories, since he will be remembered for all time.

So, anyone interested?

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