Aug 8, 2023 7:36 pm
Cue the G.I. Joe theme music:
It is the year 2051. World War III ended only two years ago, and the world is still recovering. After discovering the war resulted from the manipulations of VENOM—a once-secret organization bent on world domination through criminal, financial, political, and military activity—the United Nations authorized the formation of Freedom Squadron. Freedom Squadron is a fully international special operations force, independent of all nations, comprised of elite soldiers and operatives of every conceivable specialty.
Freedom Squadron is tasked with finding the forces of VENOM and defeating their operations all over the globe. At the same time, Freedom Squadron acts as the world’s most important peace-keeping force in a world defined by the New Cold War.
Freedom Squadron began as a single company but is now the Freedom Squadron: Global Operations Force, an armed force of over 270,000 combat personnel and another 45,000 support and administrative staff. There are four distinct branches of the Global Operations Force, ultimately overseen by Freedom Squadron High Command. While combined operations are frequent and generally seamless, the day-to-day operations are handled within each branch independently.
Each branch is further divided into various services. These represent less a dividing factor within the branches than they establish the training regimens and mission roles of troops within the services. Cross-service training is very common.
Freedom Squadron partakes in a military action-adventure genre dating back decades to characters like DC’s Blackhawk and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. The genre exploded into public consciousness again in 1982 with the release of the live-action film Megaforce and the toy lines G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Eagle Force. Cartoon- and comic book-supported franchises such as The Centurions, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand), Rambo: The Force of Freedom, and others built on the genre’s popularity.
The military action-adventure genre shares DNA with the superhero and spy-fi genres. Masked villains, world-spanning secret organizations, and an emphasis on bleeding-edge technology unite most examples of military action-adventure. The antagonists of the genre are often outright supervillains. Dressed in distinctive costumes, they plot to take over the world with experimental technologies and weapons of mass destruction. Like the James Bond franchise’s SPECTRE or DC’s Legion of Doom, the competing agendas of the villains prevent them from forming a true united front against the heroes.
The heroes, on the other hand, belong to elite military or espionage units united by the common cause of freedom. Answering to colorful codenames, they utilize high-tech vehicles and cutting-edge weapons to tackle masked legions of enemies. Many heroes possess skills verging on the superheroic; Snake Eyes, the most popular character in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, has fought Batman to a draw.
Freedom Squadron is a setting where strong individuals team up in a unique military force to run special operations missions against a powerful, over-the-top set of foes. It’s less meant to be realistic than it is meant to reflect action movie, cartoon, and comic book tropes.
Freedom Squadron uses the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition system.
So with all of that in mind, who might be interested in this? It's going to be a little while before I kick this one off (if anyone bites) because I'm still lacking a few books that I need to get and money is tight right now, but it shouldn't be more than a month (maybe two).
It is the year 2051. World War III ended only two years ago, and the world is still recovering. After discovering the war resulted from the manipulations of VENOM—a once-secret organization bent on world domination through criminal, financial, political, and military activity—the United Nations authorized the formation of Freedom Squadron. Freedom Squadron is a fully international special operations force, independent of all nations, comprised of elite soldiers and operatives of every conceivable specialty.
Freedom Squadron is tasked with finding the forces of VENOM and defeating their operations all over the globe. At the same time, Freedom Squadron acts as the world’s most important peace-keeping force in a world defined by the New Cold War.
Freedom Squadron began as a single company but is now the Freedom Squadron: Global Operations Force, an armed force of over 270,000 combat personnel and another 45,000 support and administrative staff. There are four distinct branches of the Global Operations Force, ultimately overseen by Freedom Squadron High Command. While combined operations are frequent and generally seamless, the day-to-day operations are handled within each branch independently.
Each branch is further divided into various services. These represent less a dividing factor within the branches than they establish the training regimens and mission roles of troops within the services. Cross-service training is very common.
Freedom Squadron partakes in a military action-adventure genre dating back decades to characters like DC’s Blackhawk and Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD. The genre exploded into public consciousness again in 1982 with the release of the live-action film Megaforce and the toy lines G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Eagle Force. Cartoon- and comic book-supported franchises such as The Centurions, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand), Rambo: The Force of Freedom, and others built on the genre’s popularity.
The military action-adventure genre shares DNA with the superhero and spy-fi genres. Masked villains, world-spanning secret organizations, and an emphasis on bleeding-edge technology unite most examples of military action-adventure. The antagonists of the genre are often outright supervillains. Dressed in distinctive costumes, they plot to take over the world with experimental technologies and weapons of mass destruction. Like the James Bond franchise’s SPECTRE or DC’s Legion of Doom, the competing agendas of the villains prevent them from forming a true united front against the heroes.
The heroes, on the other hand, belong to elite military or espionage units united by the common cause of freedom. Answering to colorful codenames, they utilize high-tech vehicles and cutting-edge weapons to tackle masked legions of enemies. Many heroes possess skills verging on the superheroic; Snake Eyes, the most popular character in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, has fought Batman to a draw.
Freedom Squadron is a setting where strong individuals team up in a unique military force to run special operations missions against a powerful, over-the-top set of foes. It’s less meant to be realistic than it is meant to reflect action movie, cartoon, and comic book tropes.
Freedom Squadron uses the Savage Worlds Adventure Edition system.
So with all of that in mind, who might be interested in this? It's going to be a little while before I kick this one off (if anyone bites) because I'm still lacking a few books that I need to get and money is tight right now, but it shouldn't be more than a month (maybe two).
