Infantry Portal

From NS2 community wiki

The Infantry Portal enables Marine players to respawn after they have been killed in action. Marines will respawn at the rate of 1 Marine per 7 seconds, with other Marines queued to respawn when multiple casualties occur. An Infantry Portal is already built when a round begins; additional Infantry Portals must be built near a Command Station, and a built Power Node is required to power this structure. The Marine Commander can set the rally point of an Infantry Portal to automatically issue a move order waypoint to newly respawned Marines.

The Distress Beacon ability on the Observatory is able to respawn 1 respawning Marine per Infantry Portal, in addition to teleporting Marines on the field to the nearest Command Station.

Background

The technology behind the Infantry Portal concept is based on current scientific experiments with teleportation, or, more accurately, the successful transfer and encoding of information from one atom to another. Essentially, when the photons have been triggered in just the right way their parent atoms enter a quantum state in which atom B takes on the properties of atom A, after which process atom A disappears.

So, in the case of the infantry portal, all of the physical information of marine A is imprinted onto empty-marine-blob-of-atoms B, which has been created from the similar 3d printing technology used in the armory. Then the consciousness of marine A is downloaded into marine B, all in the space of several seconds.

Stats

Infantry Portal
- Health: 2,250
- Armor: 125
- Build Cost: 10 Team Resources
- Build Time: 7 seconds

Abilities

Respawn Marine
- Respawn Time: 7 seconds
- Description: The Infantry Portal is able to materialize a combat-ready Marine dispatched from Frontiersmen headquarters, to replace fallen Marines on the battlefield.

Recycle
- Recycle Time: 12 seconds
- Description: Recycles the Infantry Portal for Team Resources, based on the health of the structure on destruction.