Hello and welcome to "The XCOM Files: Technical Addenda." Some of you may recognize me as one of the Beta Readers for Xabiar's XCOM series (Hades Contingency | Atlas Protocol | Advent Directive | XCOM Files). Those familiar with the work will no doubt know that there's a large amount of technical and scientific advancements in the story. What people don't realize is that many of them had long discussions about implementation, and basis in reality. Everything we've written for the XCOM-verse has at least a foot in the door of realism.

In the story, we also integrate these technologies over time and often introduce them during Research and Development chapters. However, not every technology can have whole sections devoted to it in the story. But the ideas themselves are interesting, and worth sharing.

To that end, I have started writing up these documents in order to explore some of the unexplored technology, formatted through ADVENT engineering reports. These documents will contain a fairly large amount of technical detail, as the title alludes, but not so much that they are impossible to read. Most of the terms specific to a topic should be evident from context.

As a last note, given these are extensive to write, and based on unexplored avenues, the update schedule will be irregular, and dependent on the state of the main story.

With all that said, please enjoy!

Xabiar Note: Can't do too much more but echo what Ash said, this has been something he's brought up as an idea a little while ago, but now has started writing these ideas out and publishing them. If you consider standard XCOM files and the tech brought up in the story as a general overview, these are the details we've discussed before implementation and much more grounded in comparison.

Well, grounded as much as you can in a universe with MELD and purple space magic anyway. What's been written so far has been very good, and I hope that everyone enjoys it (and his other work too, if you like his work on this series both in editing and in the addenda he is writing now).

- Xabiar