X-COM: Lunar Defense

There’s not that much X-COM content by the Walfas community, so I made some featuring Rei’sen, Nue (She’s kinda an alien, I guess? Walfas doesn’t have that much X-COM content in the first place, so no Sectoids or Chryssalids), and that one adorable, nameless moon rabbit with glasses from Silent Sinner in Blue.

The Lunar Defense Corps from SSiB kinda reminds me of a typical X-COM rookie, since both X-COM rookies and the rabbits serving in the LDC are prone to panicking. X-COM rookies actually try to do some fighting though and only panic once people start dying, while the LDC doesn’t do any fighting at all (except for one badass little rabbit) and panics at the mere sight of the enemy.

Just like X-COM rookies, I’d imagine the LDC being unable to hit the broadside of a planet, constantly missing an alien 5 feet in front of them, occasionally hitting a comrade on the other side of the battlefield with perfect accuracy by accident whenever they miss a shot, and having an insanely high casualty rate if they had to defend the moon against a bunch of invading aliens that didn’t use the spellcard system. Speaking of aliens, I wonder if Martians exist in the Touhou universe. They could be even more overpowered than the Lunarians, which is saying something.

Fun fact: The Arisaka rifle with a bayonet seems to be the closest real-world equivalent to the guns used by the LDC in SSiB, while the FN FAL seems to be  a reasonable real-world equivalent to the starting rifle in the original X-COM: UFO Defense.

Walfas Prop: Self Defend Plasma Pistol by Koopashellmeem
FN FAL by Theoneharris
TERA Online Arisaka w/ Bayonet by Myonnyanmukyuu