Crysis

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==Overview==
Crysis is a first-person-shooter video game series developed by German video game developer Crytek GmbH and published by Electronic Arts. They are made using Crytek's in-house CryEngine and are well known for their graphical fidelity and taxing hardware requirements.
The first game in the series, 2007’s Crysis, and it’s 2008 standalone expansion Crysis Warhead, premiered running on the CryEngine 2 game engine. The games were well received and became particularly notorious for their very high hardware requirements. They were followed in 2011 by Crysis 2, and in 2013 by Crysis 3, which was stated to be the final chapter of the Crysis series by Cevat Yerli (founder and president of Crytek).
In April 2020, Crytek released a teaser for Crysis Remastered, which would be a remake of Crysis 1 running on CryEngine 5.6 and would be released for Windows PC, Xbox One, PlayStation4, and Nintendo Switch.
The story and world of Crysis are further fleshed out in a comic mini-series and novels.
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|-|Plot Summary=
In August 2020, the military of North Korea (which, in this timeline, is a wealthy and technologically advanced superpower) takes over the Lingshan Islands in the Philippine Sea. They evacuate the island’s native populace and begin excavation on an artifact believed to be from an ancient civilization from 2+ million years before humanity. The US military sends in elite teams consisting of American and British special forces soldiers donned in advanced combat exoskeletons known as “Nanosuits”, which grant the wearers superhuman combat capabilities and make each essentially a one-man-army.
The conflict between the North Korean and US forces awakens the artifact, which appears to be a sort of spaceship. Also awoken are its inhabitants, who are revealed to be aliens from the Triangulum Galaxy. They come to be known as “Ceph” and colony ships full of them are revealed to be located all over Earth, not just Lingshan, and they all start waking by 2023.
The Crysis series covers the struggles of military protagonists, who don the infamous Nanosuits and fight against both the aliens and the CELL megacorporation, which threatens to take over the world using captured Ceph technology.
|-|Power of the Verse=
Crysis isn’t an especially powerful science fiction verse, though still strong in its own right, especially when compared to where real life stands in comparison within the same time period (2020s to 2040s).
The small arms within Crysis appear to be more powerful than their real life counterparts. The verse boasts of overpowered pistols and rifles with Wall level to even Small Building level+ attack potency, capable of firing high explosive projectiles powerful enough to bring down a small building and firing high density slugs at up to Hypersonic velocities with devastating results against even superhuman enemy infantry. The US military possesses hand-held plasma weapons with up to Small Building level+ yields per shot, as well as tactical grenade launchers which fire mini-nukes with City Block level yields per shot.
As far as vehicles go, the humans possess tanks with Small Building level+ to City Block level destructive output; fighters and bombers with up to Town level destructive output with advanced non-nuclear weapons (such as the Nanofuel-air bomb) and City level with nuclear missiles; advanced stealth ships which can cloak themselves and become invisible across all spectrums; and orbital weapons platforms with Mountain level to potentially Island level yields per shot.
The human Nanosuit wearing soldiers are noted to be formidable one-man-armies. They boast of Wall level to Small Building level+ destructive capacity with physical blows alone, can run at Superhuman speeds of up to 108 km/hr, and possess reactions such that one was able to perceive .50 calibre heavy machine gun rounds as if they were travelling in slow motion. In addition to superhuman physical capabilities and reflexes, their suits also grant them Enhanced Senses, Resistance to temperatures so high or low that little life can survive, resistance to toxins and most pathogens, protection from radiation levels that would kill a normal human, Hacking capabilities, Invisibility, Regeneration (Mid-Low to High-Low, potentially Low-Mid over time), Self-Sustenance, Absorption of Energy & biological matter, and more.
The Ceph boast of advanced energy-based and freezing-based offensive & defensive technology in addition to superhuman physical capabilities which make a single ceph infantry unit a devastating foe to entire platoons of human infantry (with Wall level+ to Small Building level+ destructive power and Superhuman or higher speeds). Their lithoships can devastate entire islands or life-wipe a fairly large area in an instant. They also boast of a living battery in the Alpha Ceph, which can generate enough energy to destabilize a planet or open a wormhole connecting two points millions of lightyears apart. The dedicated warrior caste of the Stage 3 Ceph are immensely powerful; one of their living ships is apparently capable of devastating the Earth’s surface with a single Ceph energy blast (which means Multi-Continent level per shot destructive output). One CELL xenoarchaeologist has stated that the Stage 3 Ceph would be the closest thing to gods that humanity would ever be unlucky enough to encounter.
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CryNet Systems Nanosuit: An advanced nanotech-based combat exoskeleton developed by American company CryNet Systems. The suit was designed and developed by Karl Ernst Rasch and Jacob Hargreave from Ceph technology they stole in the aftermath of the Tunguska Event of 1908. In actuality a Ceph exoskeleton, the Nanosuit bonds with the wearer’s flesh and becomes symbiotic with them, refusing to be removed, but in exchange granting the wearer superhuman abilities and even seemingly biological immortality. The suit has two iterations: The Nanosuit 1.0 (or simply N1) and the Nanosuit 2.0 (or simply N2). The N1 model made its debut in 2019 and was pressed into service in 2020 with US special forces, with one British SAS trooper also donning one as part of a special cooperation project between the US and UK. Development on the N2 started in late 2020, soon after the Lingshan fiasco of August 2020, and it proved to be a big leap from the N1; only a single N2 wearing soldier managed to turn the tide of the Human-Ceph war. The North Koreans (and likely also China) had developed their own (albeit inferior) versions of the Nanosuit. Although CIA agent Norman West suspected that Jacob Hargreave shared Nanosuit tech with the North Koreans and Chinese, they appear to have actually developed the suits independently (likely from Ceph tech they found at a Ceph Lithoship at Wuhan and other locations in Asia).
CryNet Systems: An American defence contractor whose various divisions manufacture advanced weapons and weapon systems for the US and UK militaries. CryNet Armories manufactures weapons such as the K-Volt, GK8 and M2014 Gauss rifles, and X-43 MIKE directed energy rifle. Their most famous products are the CryNet Systems Nanosuits. Although initially a subsidiary of Hargreave-Rasch Biomedical, they later became a subsidiary of the newly formed CELL Corporation in 2024-25.
CryNet Enforcement & Local Logistics (CELL Corporation): A private military company and subdivision of CryNet Systems. In the late 2010s, with Congressional approval, they began privatising police forces across the USA and even some military and intelligence divisions. CELL was initially a subsidiary of CryNet Systems. After the battle against the Ceph in New York in August 2023, for which CELL took credit, and the dissolution of Hargreave-Rasch Biomedical in 2024, a new company was formed - the CELL Corporation, which included under it both the private military CELL arm as well as CryNet Systems and all of their research. By 2025 CELL had effectively become the new owners of the US army and Marine Corps. By 2034 they had privatised the UK’s Royal Navy and many of the world’s national militaries. By 2046 they had used captured Ceph technology to dominate the global economy and rule the world.
Hargreave-Rasch Biomedical: Shortly after the Tunguska Event of 1908, Jacob Hargreave and Karl Ernst Rasch stole some Ceph technology from there and founded this company. They remained mysterious and relatively unknown, but had influence and control over many of the world’s most powerful companies and even entire governments. Alcatraz believed that many of the scientific, technological, and medical advancements made by humanity during the 20th and early 21st centuries were actually thanks to Hargreave-Rasch and their stolen Ceph tech. After co-founder Karl Ernst Rasch objected to CELL’s practices in New York and expressed his desire to work with the Nanosuit warrior Prophet to defeat the Ceph once and for all, he was ousted in a corporate coup d’etat, Hargreave-Rasch was dissolved, and a new parent company known as the CELL Corporation was formed.
Ceph: Also known as the Charybdis, they are an extragalactic alien race whose homeworld is located in the Alpha Quadrant of the Triangulum Galaxy (Messier 33). They are called Ceph due to their resemblance to Earth cephalopods such as squid and octopus. Jacob Hargreave theorizes that they likely evolved from squid/octopus like ancestors in an aquatic environment and that their home planet, where their “Overhive” is, is likely a large water world. A schematic recovered from CELL archives shows that it is also likely much larger than Earth. The Ceph are so evolved and technologically advanced that they completely blur the lines between biology and machine - they make no distinction between the two. Indeed their ships and all Ceph individuals appear to be both living organisms and machines.
* Ceph Stage 1: The Ceph encountered on Lingshan appear to have been only a “geek class” or “mere gardeners” according to Alcatraz and Jacob Hargreave. They had no idea how to fight and were merely a scouting party looking for planets to colonize and prepare for terraforming.
* Ceph Stage 2: The Ceph at Lingshan and the rest the world over reached this stage after the birth of the Alpha Ceph in August 2020. Being a lowly worker class, they had no idea how to fight, learning how to do so from observing human militaries and starting to merely copy them. This gave rise to the humanoid Ceph forces and human vehicle counterparts encountered from 2023 onward.
* Ceph Stage 3: If met with significant local resistance, the Stage 2 Ceph resort to opening a wormhole to their homeworld, whose overhive responds by sending in their dedicated warrior caste to quickly suppress the resistance and ready the target planet for terraforming and full Ceph colonization. The Stage 3 Ceph are nothing like those of Stage 2, who are no more than “cavemen with stone clubs” in comparison. One CELL xenoarchaeologist has stated that the Stage 3 Ceph would be the closest thing to gods that humanity would ever be unlucky enough to encounter.
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==Supporters/Opponents/Neutral==
===Supporters===
*Soldier Blue
*KLOL506
===Opponents===
===Neutral===
==Characters==
===US Military and Intelligence===
====Raptor Team====
*Laurence “Prophet” Barnes
*Jake “Nomad” Dunn
*Michael “Psycho” Sykes
*Harold “Aztec” Cortez
*Martin “Jester” Hawker
====Eagle Team====
*Daniel “Lazy Dane” Østergaard
*Stephen “Bandit” Johnson
*Phillip “Blue Dog” Taylor
*Kenny “Cupcake” Wilson
*Marcus “Bear” Hernandez
====US Marine Corps====
*James “Alcatraz” Rodriguez
*Chino
*Sherman Barclay
====CIA====
*Tara Strickland
====C.E.L.L.====
*Dominic Lockhart
*CELL Assault Operative
===Korean People’s Army===
*Ri-chan Kyong
*Lee Kim Sun
===Ceph (Stage 1)===
*Ceph Ectomorph
*Ceph Trooper
*Ceph Scout
*Ceph Hunter
*Ceph Warrior
*Ceph Lithoship
===Ceph (Stage 2)===
*Ceph Stalker
*Ceph Grunt
*Ceph Reaver
*Ceph Shadow
*Ceph Commander
*Ceph Devastator
*Ceph Pinger
*Ceph Guardian
*Ceph Mastermind
*Alpha Ceph
===Ceph (Stage 3)===
*Ceph Warship
==Weapons, Vehicles, Technology==
===Human Weapons===
*BBauer SOCOM
*M12 Nova light automatic pistol
*Hammer heavy automatic pistol
*Majestic revolver
*AY69 micro machine gun
*MPX8 submachine gun
*Feline SMG
*K-Volt
*SCAR
*FY71 assault rifle
*Grendel heavy assault rifle
*Marshall shotgun
*Jackal tactical shotgun
*Hurricane minigun
*Typhoon
*DSG-1 Precision Rifle
*Gauss Rifle
*M26A1 fragmentation grenade
*M17 fragmentation grenade
*FGL-40 Automatic Grenade Launcher
*L-TAG
*.50 HMG
*LAW
*JAW
*LAW (Crysis)
*TAC Gun
*PAX
*CELL Sentinel
===Human Vehicles===
====US Military and CELL====
*Bulldog HMLTV
*M142A1 Thor
*M5A2 Atlas
*MV-24 VTOL
*Bravo ICV
*CELL Repressor APC
*AH-50 Attack Helicopter
====Korean People’s Army====
*Type 2B Staff Car
*KPA Armored Security Vehicle
*Type 108 MBT
*Type 912 Quad 50 SPAAA
*WZ-19 Attack Helicopter
===Ceph Vehicles===
*Ceph Gunship
*Ceph Dropship
==Gallery==
Crysis 1 Intro Cinematic (1080P HD)|Nanosuit 1.0 capabilities.
Crysis 2 "Second Chance" Cinematic (1080p HD)|Nanosuit 2.0 capabilities.
Crysis 3 7 Wonders Episode 5 "The Perfect Weapon"|Evolved Nanosuit 2.0 capabilities.
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