Just remember that the last time Kane tried something like that, the end result was the Soviet Union, and Kane being unable to get Trofim Fucking LYSENKO purged.
I think Kane's problem there was that he didn't have an independent power base and so could be removed from power, or the USSR, or for that matter from life barring wonky resurrection chambers, by Stalin.
I think his best bet in the '90s would be to consolidate power in a single region and industry- more or less what he already did, just with less of a martial focus-
and then come forward a few years later without as many crazy warlords forcing his hand by drawing him into a conflict with GDI. Do the same thing, but with less shadiness and world domination.
It could have gone badly, I admit- but the core point is that Kane has done the "work in secret, form conspiracy, try to manipulate or take over the world" gambit
over and over and had it fail or only half work on him so many times that it starts to look a little like Einstein's definition of insanity, when you think about it. It's a grand form of insanity- we're talking about a "great" man by the standards history often uses to judge greatness.
But it ain't good, and it's done the world a lot of harm.
On the positive side he has gotten an absolutely kickass leather jacket out of it!
On the more practical side:
Grav bay/ fusion bay/ advanced materials bay is probably the best possibility for us to go forward with building best ship we can, if we want to negotiate with Kane, and we probably want to.
Hm. Now that you mention it, that's a tempting argument.
On the other hand, station bay also helps us build the infrastructure to build a megaship, and I'm pretty sure what Kane would actually
want is a megaship.
The thing is, the kind of ships we can manufacture aboard
Enterprise won't be to the scale he has in mind, I think, either way.
But it does promote "Advanced Materials," yeah. Knowing we have a plausible incentive to just build a fucking starship to an alien's blueprints some time in the next 10-20-30 years changes the game up a little.
Also does anyone realize the ramifications of the line here.
We have a gigantic problem beyond just the local tiberium problem. Alpha Centauri is 4.367 light years away from Earth, it is literally the closest solar system in Earth in our galaxy and it has Visitor presence for over 3,500 years.
Well, good thing we're working on a gigantic telescope that lets us take a pretty detailed look at the Alpha Centauri system!
SCEDQuest, don't forget to vote to install a tiberium detector in the Craterscope, okay?
At best if we visit there we would simply see no planets remaining in the solar system due to the actions of the Visitors which while horrifying in the cataclysmic potential of tiberium and the immense resources drained there at least would be safer than the other outcome. At every other case, if there are still Scrin threshold towers within the Solar system even in the smallest degree, we have a gigantic problem as they have a near direct connection towards Earth even if the Earth connection does not function. Potential ETA to them coming to Earth is unknown but since the Visitors also have a ftl drive as well since they caught up with Able and Kane, it is limited to when they decide to address the situation. This Info has potentially currently shown another countdown we are all under and also why he Kane is focused on leaving the planet as soon as possible. Any ideas?
Realistically, this is actually
negative evidence.
The Visitors have FTL. If the Visitors had a gigantic industrial complex in the Alpha Centauri system, then they would have reacted to their failure (and the known presence of Kane) in the adjacent Sol system by building a battlegroup and sending it here. They have, so far as we can tell, not done that.
It seems likely that the Visitors have long since abandoned Alpha Centauri. After all, it takes no more than a few centuries to seed a world with tiberium, let the tiberium grow out of control, and turn that world into an uninhabitable exploding mass.
@Ithillid what would happen if we leaked Kane's secret history along with what ever accompanying evidence it came with that convinced the GDI's leadership to believe it to the other Nod warlords ?
Not a Treasury decision.
Also, the obvious consideration you should bear in mind is "could all of this just be an elaborate GDI fakejob?" GDI has plenty of access to sophisticated computers and media experts; if we wanted to create deepfakes of Kane and even falsified documents with Nod authentication seals, we probably could, given enough time.
Also note that if the bulk of Nod
really believed Kane was an unkillable god, then we wouldn't see most of Nod flying into despair and trying to move on every time Kane seems to be dead.
