General John Heller
May 9th, 2012, 08:37:57 PM
It goes without saying that SHIELD normally has a Helicarrier. Every incarnation of the organisation - be it comics, cartoons, or even live action movies - has at least one; often more. The Helicarrier is as integral to SHIELD as Nick Fury's eyepatch.
However, we don't have a Nick Fury, and General Heller doesn't have an eyepatch.
The Avengers movie gave us a Helicarrier that seems plausible enough if you're wearing your superhero movie suspension of disbelief glasses. However, that's in a world where Tony Stark is kept alive by magnets and has special boots that let him fly, and where Steve Rogers was preserved for seventy years like a box of fish fingers.
Personally, I would like to see SHIELD with a Helicarrier. From a story perspective, a mobile base for SHIELD / the Avengers is a phenomenally useful plot device. Treadstone Industries (our answer to Stark Industries, who built the Helicarrier in at least some of the comic and cartoon appearences) has a particular flair for helicopter stuff in particular; and we do have some advanced technologies kicking around the place, thanks to the likes of Vanguard and Jericho. And with SHIELD being analagous to NATO, there are various projects and schemes in the real world that could justify the internationally-financed construction of a Helicarrier/s (the E-3 Sentry, Joint Strike Fighter, etc).
However, I realise that giant flying boats might be a bit much for some people to swallow, and I don't want to annoy people or break their perception of the RP universe by adding one in.
Is anyone strongly opposed to the idea of SHIELD having one? Mildly disgruntled at the prospect? Sitting on the fence until they hear more details/justification?
However, we don't have a Nick Fury, and General Heller doesn't have an eyepatch.
The Avengers movie gave us a Helicarrier that seems plausible enough if you're wearing your superhero movie suspension of disbelief glasses. However, that's in a world where Tony Stark is kept alive by magnets and has special boots that let him fly, and where Steve Rogers was preserved for seventy years like a box of fish fingers.
Personally, I would like to see SHIELD with a Helicarrier. From a story perspective, a mobile base for SHIELD / the Avengers is a phenomenally useful plot device. Treadstone Industries (our answer to Stark Industries, who built the Helicarrier in at least some of the comic and cartoon appearences) has a particular flair for helicopter stuff in particular; and we do have some advanced technologies kicking around the place, thanks to the likes of Vanguard and Jericho. And with SHIELD being analagous to NATO, there are various projects and schemes in the real world that could justify the internationally-financed construction of a Helicarrier/s (the E-3 Sentry, Joint Strike Fighter, etc).
However, I realise that giant flying boats might be a bit much for some people to swallow, and I don't want to annoy people or break their perception of the RP universe by adding one in.
Is anyone strongly opposed to the idea of SHIELD having one? Mildly disgruntled at the prospect? Sitting on the fence until they hear more details/justification?