Thank you for the complement Haibane.<br/><br/>As to your character, I may have just the thing:<br/><br/>A female black market operator who smuggles all sorts of things, talks to everybody, has a fairly complex network of favors and obligations she uses to keep her business running and stay alive  If it's a shady deal, she has a finger in it.  If it's happening, she knows something about it.<br/><br/>Most of the people who know her are sure she is a spook, but are evenly divided as to whether she is CIA, French intelligence, or Communist Bloc.  This is part of what keeps her in one piece.  She does little favors for everybody, major favors for nobody.  That is the public perception of her.  You can go with that, or give her firm ties to one side or the other.  As an indepenent, you would have freedom of action, but no official support from any government.<br/><br/>The amount of crap any female character has to deal with will be much less than what would have been inflicted on such a person historically.  This is a game, after all.<br/><br/>But of course, you may choose any sort of character you wish.  I will work with you, make sure your character is integral to what is going on.<br/><br/><br/>Kobrakid92,<br/><br/>An American soldier would be perfect.  Not a grunt, though.  How about a senior NCO?  A Sergeant First Class, for example, has real authority and far mor fredom of action than any junior officer.  you would be in command of a small mechanized cavalry team between Khe Sanh and the Laotian border.<br/><br/><br/>NiceTexasGuy,<br/><br/>I'd go with chopper pilot.  Once it dawns on various power elites that the impossible is indeed happening, journalists running around poking their noses into things will be subject to harassment to put things very mildly.  Good pilots - and your character will be very good - were much in demand, were shuffled all over the place as needed.<br/><br/><br/>One more thing i want to make very clear:  The aliens are doing this for their own reasons.  They are not genocidal loons, but neither are they here to save humanity from itself.