Nitpick:
Do we know whether there's tiberium on Titan? For that matter, we can't really be sure there's none in the gas giants; it just seems extraordinarily unlikely given how hostile the environment is at anything recognizable as a "surface" on Jupiter and so on. Plus, even the Scrin would probably have trouble figuring out how the hell to mine the tiberium down there.
We can probably determine just from the presence/absence of suspicious green glow whether there's any significant tiberium on the Moon, Mars, or Mercury- precisely because those bodies have little or no atmosphere. It may well be that seeded tiberium fails to thrive in the absence of a reasonably dense atmosphere or magnetosphere capable of blocking cosmic ray bombardment.
That would be convenient if true, because it means that fragments of tiberium jettisoned into interplanetary space would be likely to become "sterilized" while on long, looping orbits around the sun, and would likely be incapable of spreading into dangerous tiberium patches if they ever did impact another planet, even assuming they weren't effectively destroyed on impact.
1)To the best of my recollection, SCEDQuest has answered that question by looking around at the other planets.
The only extraterrestrial deposits of Tiberium detected are on Venus.
Tiberium mediated phenomena like ion storms are the sort of thing you'd pick up on orbital scans.
2)The wildcat mining expedition that visited Earth had a mining operation that used wormholes for interstellar shipping of mined Tiberium, built phased matter structures and displayed the ability to manipulate time in field conditions.
I am reasonably certain they could mine gas giants just fine if they wanted to, just on the basis of their displayed capabilities.
I don't disagree we can't solve the problem right now, I just think dismissing the risk of it being a problem is unnecessarily dangerous.
You've got to be kidding me if you're dismissing 16% of a planet's surface area as a non factor when it could be the results of a few decades.
Likewise the absence of being seeded is not evidence they couldn't. Tiberium mutates, it has different strains. For all we know the Scrin were cultivating specific strains for specific purposes. If you've got to do the largest construction project in the history of earth for effective mining infrastructure, why wouldn't you pick the environment suited for something like Blue Tib? Earth was evidently going to be system wide mining hub, there could be a number of reasons to focus on developing that first.
Likewise, your refutations are useless. The ocean gets about as low as 1 degree Celsius, Titan sits at -179 degrees celsius. Mercury and Mars essentially don't have atmospheres. Jupiter literally lacks a rocky crust to mine. The one actually deduction we can make is that Tiberium likely requires or is deliberated seeded into pressurized environments on rocky planets. A more energetic environment is presumably ideal.
The ocean floor is certainly pressurized, and the average temperature of Earth is only 14 degrees Celsius off from the depths of the ocean. Its not actually a terribly extreme environment relatively speaking. It might spread more slowly down there, spread is one potential factor, for all we know liquid Tiberium can form more easily at those pressures, or it's found and spreading all along the geothermal vents down there. The inevitable liquid tib volcanoes that will form without the TCN could very well first emerge from the Ring of Fire for all we know. There's too much we don't know, and given Tiberium is pretty much capable of pulling off every single disaster movie Hollywood has made combined- the solution should be to investigate the damn problem, not just assume we'll probably be fine and make asses of us all.
1) We have some quest information that Venus was not seeded by the liquid Tiberium explosion in TibWar3; it was always implausible that Venus would get seeded but the moon would not, but its nice to have even semi-canon confirmation.
Since the liquid T explosion was not responsible, Occam's razor suggests it was seeded at the same time Earth was.
Earth has been the focus of sustained abatement effort by GDI for decades, and its Tib deposits have been mined by both GDI and Nod. Yet Red Zones constitute over 50% of the world's surface, and Yellow Zones another 30%. In the original timeline, we'd quite literally have Tiberium eating the Blue Zones by 2062.
By contrast, Venus has had zero abatement effort. Zero mining.
And yet it has less planetary Tiberium than Earth does, and preliminary estimates point at a rate of spread thats significantly less than terrestrial Tiberium, even after abatement.
That points to high-pressure Venus being less hospitable a planetary environment for crystalline Tiberium than Earth.
Correlate that with the terrestrial conditions that we know are bad for Tiberium spread on Earth, which include temperate/arctic climes where it gets cold and daylight hours drop compared to the tropics.
For reference,
the surface pressure of Venus is roughly the same pressure as a depth of 900m underwater on Earth.
2)Tiberium does not transmute rock alone. At least not in this quest.
3)Blue Tiberium is as far as we know, a bogstandard crystalline Tiberium variant.
One that yields more resources when mined, but why that is has never been said. It could just be that our refining methods are better at handling blue Tib. No way of knowing OOC.
Nevertheless, there is no indication at present that Tiberium strains are optimized for different planets.
4)Liquid Tiberium is explicitly characterized as an endstage form of Tiberium.
It has to be able to thrive at the pressures in the planetary crust, but the Scrin themselves who know the thing expected it to only become a significant phenomenon well after most of the planet had gone green. Hence their treating a liquid T explosion as the equivalent of a dinner bell.
To be pedantic, it was that the consequences of failing a Security Review is unlikely to be particularly significant, not the consequences for not doing one.
Fair.
Personally, I Want the Security reviews, ESpecially since we are in the middle of a war, since this would be the main time that deep sleeper Agents would be acting up. Non-wartime i wouldnt be that worried about dealying a turn or two for other needs, But since it is wartime im very worried about infiltration.
We have InOps for that. They have a routine budget.
Remember, we run the Treasury, not the entirety of GDI. The middle of a war is arguably the last time we should be spending additional effort and resources on security sweeps instead of aggressively attempting to increase the economic throughput to our combatant forces.
IMO.
I mean yeah, I'm anticipating huge Capital Goods boosts in 2060-61.
It's just that it's kind of a waste of time to do a vein mine in, say, 2061Q2 when we're only gonna get the +20 RpT income for like two turns, after which reallocation hits and we only get +7 RpT from it. When we could instead do something that provides more mitigation and is enduring.
Which do you want more, to spend -1 Capital Goods on a vein mine and get full benefit for 2-3 turns, or to spend the same -1 Capital Goods on a vein mine and get the full benefit for 14-15 turns?
Its not wasted though.
It goes out of our direct control and into the rest of the economy, from health to the military, but its not wasted.
