CivGeneral/DYOS 10

This article is a summary of CivGeneral's involvement in DRAW Your Own Story 10.

Avatar Wars

Main article: Avatar Wars

At the start of the Avatar Wars, Mara Jade launched a coup of Coruscant supported by Demetrius Zaarin, Angry Kid, and TIE Pilot, placing CivGeneral in cryogenic storage. A month later he was rescued by underground loyalist elements; adopting a bounty hunter persona, he teamed up with other heroes including Cosmo and Wanda, choxorn, and Stylesrj to track down his avatars. After assembling a loyalist fleet, he intercepted Zaarin over Mars, capturing the admiral and scuttling an invasion of Earth.

After apprehending the Angry Kid, he focused on subduing Mara, now second-in-command to the Avatar Supreme Commander. Lured into a trap on the Death Star II, he was captured and imprisoned along with his comrades. The party managed to escape in a stolen Venator cruiser when the Stylesrj Avatar Army revolted and assaulted the station. CG rallied allies for the next offensive, rescuing Thorvald of Lym from an ambush by Captain2, inadvertently leading lord_joakim to join kulade in the hope of saving Thunderfall.

On a return to low orbit, CG & Co. discovered Berlin ravaged by Avatar forces. The ship was ambushed by Mara, but Major Kusanagi staged a mutiny on her command ship and Mara fled to kulade's fall-back headquarters in Antarctica. CG arrived soon afterward and upon apprehending Stylesrj tried to claim his bounty with SEAL SEAL, however the deal fell through and the posse helped him escape. Infiltrating the base they re-encountered l_j who attempted to explain himself, however the party was attacked by arachnotrons and l_j fled. kulade lured the heroes back into orbit where he planned to finish them off, but the trap was thwarted by the arrival of the Loyalist fleet in force and a multi-front battle ensued during which Mara was captured. CivGeneral negotiated intervention by the Taillenian Starfleet under Rocket, however the Earth's Core obtained by GuitarHero turned out to be the Monkey Statue of Spamuzel, now possessed; after it ate taillesskangaru the heroes shipped it to Rocket, believing it would kill him.

The battle ended with the devastated Avatar fleet evacuating to Nar Kreeta and CG & Co. in hot pursuit. Thorvald and CG infiltrated the base to rescue Thunderfall, but were cut off by kulade, who attempted to duel. The fight was interrupted by Alyx Vance and kulade fled the planet, while CG and Co. rescued the sysadmin. During exfiltration, CG began using his Garry's Mod persona, his first avatar that wasn't based on a pre-existing character.

The Combine Insurgency

Main articles: Battle of Moscow and Combine Insurgency

Soon after Nar Kreeta, Admiral Piett contacted the Poker Alice with news that kulade had regrouped on Earth using the Combine Empire as a mercenary army. CG and Co. made rendez-vous with a lost Coruscanti party outside Moscow to call for reinforcements and co-ordinate strategy with Stylesrj in a final assault on kulade's Citadel. After navigating headcrab-ridden sewers, Our Heroes joined the main Coruscanti attack on Combine defences before storming the Citadel proper and confronting kulade, who had somehow recaptured Thunderfall. While Thorvald dealt with his avatars, CivGeneral engaged the ASC in a lightsaber duel as Alyx tried to prevent a reactor overload that would destroy the city. CG disarmed kulade and kicked him into Hiatus. Our Heroes managed to evacuate the Citadel before it went critical, but the ensuing Force Storm crippled CFC's firewall and the Combine were able to summon additional reinforcements before Thunderfall recovered.

CG and Co. regrouped at "Black Mesa East", only to be overrun by Taillenian forces. During evacuation, CG gave Alyx his identity card, effectively naming her successor in all his offices in the event of his death; almost immediately they were attacked by General Grievous, who derided CG's budding romance and demanded the whereabouts of Mr. Toyoda, the man that had provided Bjørn with Thunderfall's soul; CivGeneral was wounded but the party escaped in the Poker Alice II. The group returned to Moscow to seek medical treatment, where Thorvald hired CG to track down Toyoda for €200 billion. Navigating the zombie-ridden city, the group eventually reached a vast tunnel network where Rocket and taillesskangaru had found a supply cache linked to Toyoda. Rocket attempted to provoke CG's power-hungry nature but was rebuffed, and upon return to the surface he was arrested by Coruscanti forces.

Data from a floppy disk recovered from a Coruscanti checkpoint led CivGeneral and Co. to Kitami, Hokkaidō in search of Toyoda. They found the city under martial law after a breakdown in the chain of command placed the paranoid Captain Tōjō in charge of the private security garrison while his superior was battling the zombie invasion of Honshu. The group was arrested on trumped-up charges but released by the station sergeant, who further explained the situation and provided information to help infiltrate the main headquarters. Linking up with a sympathetic officer and Stylesrj's team fleeing choxorn's Zombies, Our Heroes penetrated the inner perimeter but were discovered at the main entrance, and a bloody firefight ensued. Overwhelmed, Tōjō promptly surrendered, disclosing that Toyoda was in Germany. choxorn arrived and, after Stylesrj fled, offered a truce with CivGeneral in exchange for a joint manhunt, joining the group as it set out for Europe.

Fort Schmerzen

Main articles: Fort Schmerzen and Combine–Coruscant War

Unknown to the adventurers, Grievous had been tailing them since Moscow, and soon after arrival in Germany a Combine squad attacked. The group finally found Toyoda at a café, only for Grievous to resurface and kidnap him. Regrouping on the city outskirts, CivGeneral learned the Combine had launched a full-scale invasion of Coruscant while Grievous attempted to debrief Toyoda at Fort Schmerzen. After capturing and interrogating an enemy officer, CivGeneral led a strike force to storm the bunker in conjunction with Toyoda's troops under command of Ishikawa. Our Heroes cornered Grievous in the main chamber where he bluffed a successful interrogation; unleashing a Witch zombie to distract them, he attempted to kill Toyoda, prompting a lightsaber duel. Though Grievous was defeated, Toyoda spared his life; humiliated, Grievous committed suicide.

Race for the Gem

Main article: Gem arc

During exfiltration, the group encountered Mara Jade, freed from prison and refitted as a Combine Assassin, but quick thinking by Thorvald side-stepped a fight. Regrouping at makeshift headquarters near Berlin, CivGeneral gave Toyoda a radio linked to his secure commlink to keep in future contact. Toyoda hired CG to recover "The Gem", an artifact previously sought out by lord_joakim on behalf of kulade, providing a down payment of €200 billion and one.

CG and Co. travelled to New Port City, linking up with Coruscanti forces preparing for a final assault on the Combine occupation. Concurrent with the main thrust, CG led an assault to secure the spaceport before assuming command of an expeditionary force to Arrakis. Our Heroes were ambushed by the Combine during a space station pit-stop and narrowly avoided capture through the intervention of Major Kusanagi, who helped them back onto the ship and out of the system; unknown to her, the Combine had implanted a tracking device, allowing Mara Jade to track them to Dune.

Making planetfall near a small town, the party encountered J.C. Reitan, the sole survivor of an advance Coruscanti expedition, driven insane by trauma. Not long after, the town came under attack as the Combine began the wholesale invasion of the planet. After fending off the Combine, the expedition proceeded to an outpost near an entrance to the "Dead Sietches". While Coruscanti forces feigned co-operation with Imperial authorities, CG and Co. infiltrated the cave system. No sooner had the group found the Gem than Mara Jade and Dr. Breen burst in, quickly followed by just about everyone that had appeared in the story. CivGeneral pursued Mara for a duel deeper into the catacombs; when Samus Aran arrived to warn him that Breen intended to use the protagonists as test subjects for the Gem's power, Mara Force-pushed her off a ledge, but CG saved her from the fall, and working together they defeated Mara.

Samus and CivGeneral returned to the main chamber as Breen was preparing to activate the Gem. Ignoring all warnings and his own common sense, Breen ordered a subordinate officer to lay hands on it, triggering a power surge that vaporized most of the Combine on-site. CivGeneral promptly arrested Breen, forcing him to sign a peace treaty ending hostilities against Coruscant. Shortly before departing Dune, Samus and CivGeneral were visited by the G-man, who forewarned of the Troubles and Third Nazi War, and revealed he had placed Alyx in stasis.

See also

• CivGeneral's service history in DYOS 10.5
• CivGeneral's service history in DYOS 11
• CivGeneral's service history in At Plot's End