Mass Effect™ 3 Special Edition Community

ANN ReportANN_REPORT

07/24/2014 10:53 AM ·Spoilers

ALLIANCE NEWS NETWORK SPECIAL REPORT: Special Operations in the Systems Alliance.

Yeahs5

Comment13

Played

Comment

This post has no comments.

Interplanetary Combatives Training (ICT) is the Systems Alliance’s premier leadership and combat expertise course, dedicated to battling the threats of the 22nd century. The Interplanetary Combatives Academy, informally called “the villa,” recruits officers from all branches of Earth’s major military powers;

Yeahs1

Played

the finest candidates may attend the school’s primary location at Vila Militar in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The trainees undergo brutal courses, content varied depending on how many times they have trained at the school. If this is their first time at the school, trainees participate in scenarios experienced by the elite units of most land-based armies;

Yeahs1

Played

a typical candidate may be in training more than 20 hours a day, leading small units into combat over hostile terrain with little sleep or food. If the trainee does well, he is considered “ICT-qualified,” awarded the internal designation N1, and invited to return.

Yeahs1

Played

Subsequent courses (N2 through N6) are not held at the school proper, but at space stations or other planets, to put the trainee in more extreme conflict situations.

Yeahs1

Played

Some of these schools include zero-G fighting, military free-fall (parachuting), jetboot/jetpack flight, combat diver qualification, close-quarter combatives instructor courses, first responder/combat lifesaver training for human and alien biology, language instruction, and assault procedures. Soldiers with specialized duties may also attend specialized schools for training related to their field.

Yeahs1

Played

Forward observers may attend naval gunfire training and close air support courses; pilots and mechanized soldiers learn how to drive, maintain, and shoot from several types of vehicles and powered armor; communications specialists attend joint communications courses.

Yeahs1

Played

The highest grade of training, N6, concentrates on actual combat experience, and trainees join combat theater commanders in conflict zones across the galaxy. Only when a trainee has survived actual combat scenarios in an “admirable and effective fashion,” does he or she receive an N7 designation. Before the events of the Reaper War, their graduation ceremony took place at Arcturus Station;

Yeahs1

Played

now, it happens practically on the battlefield. N7 is traditionally the only school rank permitted on field or dress uniforms – the N1 through N6 are for internal use only. It should be pointed out that there is no stigma attached not to receiving an N-designation – the training is so extreme that even qualifying for an N1 course is considered above and beyond normal duty.

Yeahs1

Played

This helps cull the ranks of eager trainees who might lie about their exploits or risk themselves unnecessarily in hopes of getting the school’s highest honor. ICT qualification does not guarantee higher rank, but officers who succeed at the combatives training typically have personalities compatible with leadership positions.

Yeahs1

Played

In some cases, however, a given force will form a special operations regiment made solely of ICT-qualified soldiers to deal with a specific problem. For example, if the Alliance were to attack Reapers on a volus colony, the Alliance might form an armed forces regiment made of ICT soldiers who trained in high-air-pressure or ammonia-heavy environments, and use them to complete an objective.

Yeahs1

Played

The Alliance’s prominent role in the Reaper War means that many N7 soldiers have been called upon to train alien species in asymmetric, anti-Reaper warfare, taking advantage of their expertise in fighting on alien worlds. From a command perspective, these are designated “N7 forces” because of the status of their commanding officer;

Yeahs1

Played

it doesnt mean that all the soldiers under that CO are N7s themselves. These mixed-species teams have given the galaxy some of their most valuable victories. Conventional wisdom holds that small elite ground troops such as the N7s cannot possibly win a war against foes with space superiority such as the Reapers, but long odds do nothing to diminish the spirits of the Milky Way’s finest combatants.

Yeahs1

Played

I LOVE ME3 ITS SOOOO GOOD!!

Yeahs0

Played

Add a Comment

You must sign in to post a comment.

Sign in using a Nintendo Network ID to connect to users around the world by writing posts and comments and by giving Yeahs to other people's posts. You can create a Nintendo Network ID using your Wii U console or your system in the Nintendo 3DS family.

Use of Miiverse Details about Miiverse

Report Violation to Miiverse Administrators

You are about to report a post with content which violates the Miiverse Code of Conduct. This report will be sent to Nintendo's Miiverse administrators and not to the creator of the post.

Report Violation to Miiverse Administrators

You cannot report posts made automatically by a software title.

Edit Post

Embed this post on a website.

To embed this post on a website, copy the code below. Note that the design and content of the embedded post may change at any time.

<div class="miiverse-post" lang="en" data-miiverse-cite="https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADMUKl4_K2N-g" data-miiverse-embedded-version="1"><noscript>You must have JavaScript enabled on your device to view Miiverse posts that have been embedded in a website. <a class="miiverse-post-link" href="https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAADMUKl4_K2N-g">View post in Miiverse.</a></noscript></div><script async src="https://miiverse.nintendo.net/js/embedded.min.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Share this Post

Comment

Add a Comment

Report Violation to Miiverse Administrators

Report Violation to Miiverse Administrators

Edit Post

Embed this post on a website.