User:Hobbes
Why Hobbes?
This question keeps popping up from time to time. And the answer is two-fold: - Hobbes, as in the stuffed tiger in the comic books Calvin and Hobbes. - And as Thomas Hobbes, an English political theory writer of the XVI century (which was the inspiration for the above mentioned tiger).
In real life my name is André, that I am from Portugal and that my age is 43.
Any questions regarding me, myself and I can be made on my talk page :)
Why do I love X-COM?
Scroll back in time to when computers had the fabulous memory of 48K, namely the ZX Spectrum. The would be creators of X-COM released a game named Rebel Star, followed by Laser Squad (the predecessor to the current Laser Squad Nemesis). I like those so much that I even used some of Rebel Star's names for my fan fictions as a nod to them. A big time afterwards I got a PC and bought X-COM:Apocalypse, followed by X-COM:UFO Defense and X-COM: Terror From The Deep. Voila, love at first sight. And this relationship has continued due to Firaxis release of XCOM: Enemy Unknown/Within and XCOM 2, and with OpenXcom, the open source remake of the original game.
Fan fictions?
I've been writing a whole series of stories concerning the X-COM universe:
X-COM: The Unknown Menace - Covers the 1st Alien War (based upon UFO Defense). Long novel (692 pages)
X-COM: Eulogy - Set between the 1st and the 2nd Alien War. Short story based upon the return of X-COM to Mars.
X-COM: Abyssal - Covers the 2nd Alien War. Unfinished.
X-COM: Destined Alliance - Pre-Apocalipse story set upon the 2nd return of X-COM to Mars. Will eventually be a part of the 3rd novel, which covers the 5th Alien War, based upon X-COM: Genesis.
All of those can be read at the fanfiction.net site
Bad Things Happen in XCOM
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UFOPaedia projects (work in progress)
The Mysteries of X-COM - published, discussion page for unexplained aspects of the whole series
X-COM History Notes - work in progress
Part VII - The X-COM Files - work in progress (fan fiction)
Murphy's Laws (X-COM) - work in progress