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Hatred
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    • Omake: Hatred



    Isaac had been taught to hate GDI.

    For GDI feasted while those in the Yellow Zones starved.
    They had arrived at the agreed point. The containers were there, filled with food, medicines, clean water. He saw the eagle emblazoned on the side of every one. They began emptying them, transferring the supplies within to the lorries they had arrived in. All GDI insignia would of course be removed before the supplies were handed out to the surrounding villages, a sign of the Warlord's generosity.

    For GDI didn't know the fear of a life spent in the Yellow, where every breath might be the one that infects your lungs.
    Isaac looked down at the new envirosuit. It was comfortable, durable. It would take some effort to properly emblazon it in the colours of the Brotherhood without effecting the seals but it would be worth it. He'd read the manual that came with them, written in dozens more languages than he knew. Easy to clean, long lasting filters, tough materials. It made the old Tib War 2 era mask he'd been using previously look painfully inadequate. They had an entire crate of the things, after it had 'fallen off a truck' while they were handed out to the refugees gathered in the makeshift shanty towns.

    For GDI lived isolated from the masses of humanity, living lives of comfort while everyone else was forced to scrabble for scraps.
    He stepped out in front of the man, arm outstretched. The family before him was exhausted, had walked for many miles with all their remaining belongings on their backs. They had hoped to flee, to find a life where they could walk out in the open without a mask, a life where they had been promised eggs and fish, a life where they didn't need to worry about petty conflicts between warlords and the ever shifting Tiberium fields. His job was to prevent that. Healthy adults of working age and children were not allowed to leave, the sick and elderly could pass. Let GDI use its resources on those with nothing to give back.

    For GDI interfered with the plans of Kane. The god amongst men, the prophet of Tiberium, whose plans would lead them to a glorious victory.
    The remnants of his squad sheltered behind a shattered Scorpion as he watched the Predator's machine gun open up again, cutting down several of the faithful as they desperately rushed forward. He saw a courageous brother leap from cover with an RPG, a prayer on his lips as he fired it directly towards the side armour. It made half the distance before the laser burned it from the sky. The orders that had made it through the jamming were confused. Attack. Retreat. Resist. The training area where they had prepared for a glorious attack on the Blue Zones was naught but a smoking wreck, littered with corpses. He gestured to his men. They would fade into the desert, survive to tomorrow, pray for a change. Their prayers were not answered.

    For GDI hated NOD, the kind of hate that must be returned in kind lest you be swept away.
    He watched the battlefield from his hiding spot, the few of his people that had survived tucked away out of sight, resting. There were still brothers and sisters crying, screaming for help but he hardened his heart to them out of need. Maybe that night he would be able to aid those that still survived, creeping out under the relative safety of the darkness. He saw GDI personnel in lighter armour than the others approach a brother and he tensed up, expecting a gunshot. Instead he watched them pull out something from a pack. A bandage? One stayed with the first brother while another approached a second, this one conscious and he swore under his breath as he knew what would come next. He could hear the cry to Kane from where he was, cut off as it was by the grenade that left parts of two corpses lying on the ground. He blinked the tears away.

    Isaac had been taught to hate GDI. He was just no longer sure why.
     
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    • I was thinking about how there are probably people in NOD who have only known the new, more wholesome(ish) Quest!GDI and an omake happened. Thanks to some of the Discord lot for helping with edits
     
    Refugee Caravan
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    • Omake: Refugee caravan.

    "Thank you." "Thank you." "Blessings of the crystal upon you." "Kane guide your path." "God bless you." "May Thor find you worthy." All manner of thanks and grattitude from a variety of cultures were murmured to Jonas softly as they stepped down from the rear steps of his truck. Elderly, sickly, dying, and here and there, those young and apparently healthy but for the green glows behind their eyes. Signs of tiberium infusion, some, granted it as a reprieve from certain doom as a result of tiberium exposure, for others, an induction into Nod given against their will, a simple part of the conscription process.

    Red zones three and four were still growing. And the yellow growing denser. Oh the Russian juggernaut still tried to nibble at the edges of the red, harvesting the most valuable crystal and trying to hold the alien landscape back and to feed Krukovs war machine. And for that they needed harvester pilots and soldiers. With harsh working conditions, long hours, and less than stringent safety checks, exposure to tiberium was considered by many simply inevitable. And for those with no other options, or those who sought to serve in the brotherhood, they were 'gifted' the blessing of tiberium infusion to ensure they lived long enough to be of value to Nod. In theory the infusions could counteract tiberium exposure if taken quickly enough, but therin lay the problem, a rip in your suit part way into your shift and it could be hours until one had a chance to see a medic, that if the resident doctor even had any infusions to spare. Otherwise someone working in a refinery could breathe in fumes thanks to a faulty seal and days or weeks later begin coughing up green mucus with flecks of crystal, far too late for any treatment to do any good.

    And so it was, volunteers who didn't know what they were signing up for, or those conscripted against their will and who found themselves performing critical labour sought an escape. Ironically the very infusion which imposed a timer on their lives proved to be their salvation.

    To reach the far east and west of Krukovs little empire required travel papers and documents to go by road and through the major towns and cities. Heavily patrolled by soldiers and with border guards posted at the easiest routes to Europe, Tibet and Korea it became ever more difficult for 'healthy workers' to escape through the main routes, only the very elderly and ill permitted some trickle into the much vaunted blue zones.

    But for those so infused? It became as simple as walking south into the red zone. Madness some would say. And yet life clung on, pre-fabricated Forgotten barracks, townships in the ruins of old mining prospects, nomad convoys, and wanderers like him. They found those who fled into the Red, brought them to staging points and hidden bases, and when the ion storms subsided and enough refugees were gathered he began his journey. Cutting south and east from village to village until they reached the steppes, a thin strip of land that was the last remnant of an old yellow zone. A rail line ran through the yellow zone, a thin lifeliine of supplies to Blue Zone 18, his unarmed Reckoner truck kept it in view as he followed it south across the flat terrain, here and there soldiers and harvesters attempting to keep the route safe and secure. But at a distance he and his truck weren't fired upon. Courtesy of the Beacon which marked him as a courier for the Caravanserai.

    Then, approaching the invisible boundary that marked where Al-Isfahani held sway. Here Jonas swerved west back into the red zone, the patch of green crystal on his forearm warming slightly as if to welcome him home. Fortunate for him he could pass for human simply by dint of long sleeves, at least to a casual glance.

    The Holy Lands, it had once been called, the silk road, the middle-east. Some nations had survived, either as a part of nod, or part of GDI. In the third tiberium war, with the explosion at temple prime, warfare throughout Egypt and the alien invasion what had once been yellow zone had been swallowed, and far more recently than Italy. People fled, wherever they could. Either as refugees or evacuees until a containment line could be formed by the caravanserai, backed by GDI aid at the tip of the Arabian peninsula.

    It left much of the red zone desolate and barren, but here, close to the borders of the beating heart of Faith, near the centre of the world Forgotten convoys roamed. Scouts in the deep red, there to warn harvester teams of incoming Ion storms to ward away the tib mutated wildlife, and to stand guard in case of any unwise attacks from Al-Ifsahani's forces and even to gather tiberium alone or with the aid of zocom. Attempting to strike deep into the red, an advance guard deployed ahead of more conventional harvesting teams who resolutely attempted to reclaim territory more cautiously.

    It was here among these communities that Jonas was at home, those obviously mutated, those with less obvious changes, or even a few rare humans not marked by tiberium... not physically at least. Tiberium, information, and travellers, those were the lifeblood of the Forgotten clans. Both those seeking a permanent home, or simply those on a temporary pilgrimage. For some Mecca and Jeddah would be their final destinations. For others... the yellow zones border to GDI was at its weakest, setting foot in Blue Zone 4, and it was simply a matter of time and paperwork until one was a GDI citizen.

    And then, at last, in the last remnants of the Holy Land were his charges delivered unto their salvation. Days and weeks of red zone and ion storms stuck inside his Reckoner, or else inside barracks and communal buildings, now they emerged into the sunlight blinking and thanking him.

    Already volunteers were drifting forwards bringing food, water, fresh clothes, or simply human contact and reassurances of safety. Some Volunteers bore the eagle upon their shoulder, others the scorpion. It mattered little here.

    Forgotten like Jonas brought people. Others in harvesters brought Tiberium, to be fed into the refineries of Nod and GDI. And a trusted few, he mused, sold information here. And in turn, the forgotten received finished goods, food, spare parts and weapons. Everything they needed to sustain their clans. Hover trucks were growing in popularity but the Forgotten didn't only gather whispers from Nod, some of the whispers from GDI spoke of a new generation of Marvs, or MCV's or Mammoth walkers. The specifics varied by the concept could be summed up easily enough, a mobile base that could operate in red zones self sufficiently, or as near to that as possible and harvest tiberium without ever stopping.

    The Forgotten of course would be among the first to test such a design so GDI risked as few lives as possible, but even with the designs finalised the physical project was, as yet, unfunded. Zocom attempting to pivot back to their intended role of deep red zone combat operations and leave mining security to mainline GDI forces, something which required massive investments in zone armour. There was further talk of course, with the ongoing spread of the red zone and Tibets always precarious supply situation, of 'Karachi', representing a major push into Iran, a coastal city with a rail line connecting the mountain region to the ocean and giving a second lifeline to the beleaguered zone.

    A pipe dream some said, there was always some lofty goal or other of reclaiming land from a red zone. Lots of talk, but action was harder, and far more expensive. Others weren't so sure, but the facts remained. Despite their largesse, GDI's coffers weren't endless and a great many issues demanded their attention.

    Speaking of issues demanding attention. "Time to leave." Jonas prompted his last passenger, an elderly man fallen into a slumber, Jonas' voice rousing him as the last left inside the vehicle One of his 'legal' passengers. The man coughed wetly and stumbled from the Reckoners ramp, catching a hold of Jonas' wrist as he did so to steady himself.

    "May the Travellers mercifully guide you to ascension." The old man muttered quietly, the prayer surprising but not shocking Jonas. There was a new cult that had been steadily growing in numbers ever since the third tiberium war and the Alien Invasion. Those who believed that the Aliens, and the Travellers in particular had seeded Tiberium on the planet as a gift and a test, and those worthy or who served the Visitors willingly would be uplifted into an alien empire. Service, in exchange for the blessings of greater beings and a rescue from a ravaged earth...

    Thinking back to wanton destruction and the psychic powers of the Aliens Jonas privately thought a better term might be 'slavery'. But Jonas simply sighed and wished the old man well. An offshoot of The Brotherhoods belief in tiberium it substituted Kane for the Aliens, and like any cult its followers were a mix of people, the cult itself yet to formally organise and spanning multiple variations. Less extreme was the belief that Alien technology should be studied which... duh actual alien science and mastery of tiberium should probably be studied, as GDI and Nod both were trying to do. You didn't have to be a Traveller to realise that the aliens had advanced technology he thought as he watched the old man be guided away, likely straight to a hospital to see how much damage tiberium had done to his body, and then straight on to a retirement home.

    "Any issues?" A business suited figure asked, approaching once the gaggle of refugees and volunteers had dispersed.

    "Standard vehicle check for deep red operations. Probably need the tires and a bunch of parts replaced. Hows things been here?"

    "Peaceful enough, the truce is holding, and the clans are delivering enough raw material to cover the costs of any replacements though..."

    "The Reckoner is old, I get it. But it's better suited to red zone conditions than standard GDI models and it's got more room. I'll take the supplies back out to the shelters and old settlements, the number three hydro cylinder at Lightning Rods agri-hab needs a new intake filter by the way. If you can't get replacement parts then just sonic scrub the undercarriage and I'll source the rest myself from the Caravanserai even if I need to get them secondhand."

    "We'll do a thorough check of course, see if we can find the parts ourselves for you. Reckoners aren't that hard to come by." The suited figure noted.

    "Alright, that saves me some running around I guess." Jonas shrugged. "Anything else?"

    "The usual offer to sell surplus vehicles to your clan, if you're interested."

    "Gah. I'll ask around see if any of the harvesters need replacing or spare parts when I get back but don't get your hopes up." Jonas sighed. "What's on my list is what's on my list. And most of us being former nod that's the gear we're used to. Unless you've got a disarmed MARV I doubt the leadership will be interested."

    "Alright, normal supply run. Fair enough. As a reminder you've built up a significant amount of savings and liquid assets. We'll continue holding onto them if that's your wish but the offer of luxuries or new equipment remains an open one."

    "Actually, one last thing." Jonas mused. "That last passenger? A Traveller cultist. Might be the usual tech worshipper, might be something more, keep an eye on him. Beyond that, everyone else seemed the usual mix of sickly, elderly, draft dodgers and people seeking a better life but..."

    "You make no guarantees." The GDI official nodded. At that Jonas shrugged helplessly.

    "Occasionally patrols stop us to ask for bribes or to check people are just those the warlords want to dump on you. But they've used our routes in the past and I won't be blamed if any shadows infiltrates GDI through one of my routes." He explained.

    "Noted and understandable. Your job remains as it is, bring people to us and supplies back to your people. The background checks are on us. Though we're always grateful for any insights or suspicions you can offer. Enjoy the rest of your afternoon."



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    • General Discussion: Babies in the new 60's

    KinderCare

    I know that overall GDI Population is bearing towards aging aside from the occasional population growth from Refugees but I would like to talk about Births. More specifically births around the 2060's. While I doubt we would have lots of kids running around today, hearing a bit of good news amidst the Doom and Gloom would be welcome.

    Pursemama

    Honestly having kids is a lot of work, even with the GDI helping with daycare. But I do understand why most people would only have a few if none at all, with Tiberium and Nod being around it might be difficult for the idea of some people to have kids especially if needing to move at all to a shelter or evac site. I doubt that would be an issue for those living in arcologies but many are quite scared of their own children living in tents. I still remember sleeping in one of those after the third war and while my baby was born in 2053 I still am reluctant to add more children and my husband agreed with me.

    Blueheart

    While I cannot completely say that many will come out of it. There had been a major uptick in people asking for fertility treatments since the announcement of the completion of Columbia's first apartment bay. Probably due to the fact that apartments means comfort in space, not just those cramped bunks like in the moon mines or that Expanse TV Show.



    Schlubbs Von Spending

    Woah, okay I probably would not be having kids in my lifetime but my new neighbors from Texas are on their third kid. Well second pregnancy, the first one had twins. Both boys and quite the loud criers I gotta say. At three years old now and apparently they want a girl this time.



    ADressUpDarling

    Me and boyfriend do not have any plans and we want to focus more on our careers. But my aunt and uncle decided to have a baby last year and I kid you not, they ended up with Quintuplets on the first try. Yes you heard that right five little baby girls on a single pregnancy. Both of them are GDI Officials and apparently the authorities at our Zone is planning to give them some kind of award and free stipend for the children.



    FaithlessMind

    While I myself are no longer in the proper age to a have a child of my own. I do hope that GDI could address the new issue of births in a less cruel manner that the pre GDI Era. Unlike issues with Tiberium or Nod. Demographics is a complex issue that spans decades to be resolved and many often resort to horrifying extremes to mitigate the issue. Take Ceaușescu of Romania for example, he banned all contraceptives and birth control measures that resulted in a surplus of children that often suffered from both substandard care and malnutrition that caused such suffering and trouble after his fall that was only resolved when Tiberium devoured the country and the surviving population was taken by the Brotherhood.



    TibBiteZodelo

    @FaithlessMind     Wow, you must be the fun guy at the parties

    Now, I cannot contribute on this babies stuff. Most of us at the Tiberium Branches aren't really keen on having kids due to the sheer danger that we experience at the Red Zones and we do not want to leave any new baby or kid to be shafted to a single parent or an orphanage if we can help it.

    To be fair I would like also to have kids. Having kids in this world is the ultimate middle finger against the Emerald eating our planet but I do not want my possible son or daughter to inherit my war.



    KinderCare

    @ADressUpDarling. Wow, five children! Congratulations to your Aunt and Uncle. I do hope that GDI can help but please tell them to not get involved in the propaganda business as that might stress out the little princesses.

    @FaithlessMind. Sadly that option is also circulating amongst Parliament. Thankfully this is not a popular bill and many who attempt to file a bill are voted down, even the director said she would use a veto to cancel that kind of stupidity



    Schlubbs Von Spending

    @KinderCare     Thank heavens. Hopefully GDI isn't that Baby Crazy enough to actually do that.

    Speaking of which, stupid question. I know that our biggest population growth driver right now is Yellow Zone Refugees and aside from the couple near my arcology room, most of the ones I talked with are not interested in having kids of their own as well or just prefer taking care of little orphans

    So, I want to know, do the new arrivals are also planning to have more kids or did the Blue Zone 'I don't want any kids so I can enjoy my comfy Blue Zone Life' syndrome that most adults seems to have here also reached them.

    Not that I am criticizing. I am one of those couch bound people.



    OBGYNDI

    Regarding that. From my stint at the hospital. There are two categories of people who migrated from the Yellow Zones. The first one is the people who only wanted to have a better life, most of these people already have families of their own and are just looking for a better opportunity for their children.

    The second one is for those looking for have many children. Usually these are either young couples who just met and got pregnant inside the Blue Zones or others who want to have many children to take advantage of GDI's Pro natal benefits. While I am sad to say that many of the second categories exists as well, we do make sure that the children are at the very least taken care of and not ignored or abused and we have EVA and other psychologists working to protect children.

    MidasOffice

    Speaking of babies. Has anyone heard of TalonFull Movement? Apparently some Firster Nutjobs are becoming 'concerned' that the Yellow Zoners are outbreeding blue zoners and that 'the only way to combat the misguided addiction of the council to yellow zone trash is to breed Trueborn Sons and Daughters of the Initiative'. Yuck

    Anyway, they are pretty small in the grand scheme of things, around 500 Families only around the world but they are growing quite fast due to being one of the few demographics that are still having children. Apparently they are also preaching the same shit that @Faithlessmind spoke of

    Also there was that stupid bill proposed by IF where all Yellow Zoners who are entering the Blue Zones and seeking citizenship must have mandatory sterilization implemented before approval. Yes that includes kids and babies. Sick Fucks

    FaithlessMind

    Yes. Sadly this is all too common within many religions through the world, not even the Brotherhood was exempt from this insular breeding culture. A product of the more internal parts of Nod when we have begun recruitment amongst the Yellow Zones. Naturally they quickly fizzled out as the demands of war took their toll and were largely extinct before even the Third War began

    Speaking of which, this TalonFull Movement seems to stem from the Quiverfull of the late 20th Century. A Christian Movement which referred to children as Quivers in an arrow. A rather morbid view but one not uncommon amongst these breeding cults.

    ADressUpDarling

    Ugh! Do not get me started on those bastards. When my Aunt gave birth to the quintuplets these bastards started harassing them both and demanding them to appear in Pro Blue Commercials and other jingoistic crap. Naturally both of them declined, it got to the point they called the police on them and got them arrested.

    TopTierCitizens

    @MidasOffice and what is wrong with trying to secure the future for us Blue Zoners? It is not enough that the Yellows pour over here and take our food and medicine for themselves. Not enough that only the sickly ones are still coming in and taking in more resources to preserve their wretched lives but many of them still keep being the leeches that they are by birthing more of their spawn?

    Why the fuck should we tolerate that? The fact that one of six People on Blue Zones is a Yellow Zoner is already unacceptable, the fact that these parasites are breeding more and more and the GDI Council and Parliament is just letting this happen is utterly unfair.

    We were here first dammit! This was our Blue Zone, this was our God Given right to live and prosper here and now you and all of you are happy that we are being overrun by Godless Scum! If those damn Yellows want their damn prosperity then they will have to pay with their damn future.





    Schlubbs Von Spending

    What the fuck? I know that TopTier is always been obnoxious and a fucking asshole. But that shit above is Noddie-grade Tib addict bullshit. No offense, @FaithlessMind

    TibBiteZodelo

    Looking at his posting history. Apparently he started getting to this Blue Zone Fringe Cult or something. A lot of the devout Firsters started forming these cults after the 2062 when it became clear that Initiative First was snubbed again by the Treasury. Some tried to form terrorist groups but InOps apparent caught them all so the majority started forming these smallish religious style groups when it became clear that Initiative First has no legitimacy at all and will most likely split up when Ozawa Bites it.

    EVAmod

    Warning: Off-Topic

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    So is SCED Quest next? Or are we just going into the results post?
     
    I've been rereading the quest from the beginning, well before I joined. It's strange to see how much of a struggle just getting basic tooling back up and running, or how long it to get basic education going. Reading about forests of tiberium spikes getting thrown up or looking at the first GDI artillery guns getting built. Questers didn't have any of the reverse engineering options of Nod or Scrin technology, at most they were trying to standardized the more advanced GDI technologies, like body armors or railguns.

    Really makes me appreciate how far this quest has come, what with the lasers and plasma and alien alloys and space stuff. And makes me wonder if all GDI tooling still standardizes off the Christchurch Tool and Die. Or if they're still the ones that come up the standardized jigs.
     
    Nottheunmaker said:
    Really makes me appreciate how far this quest has come, what with the lasers and plasma and alien alloys and space stuff. And makes me wonder if all GDI tooling still standardizes off the Christchurch Tool and Die. Or if they're still the ones that come up the standardized jigs.
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    Well, a big part of the point of the DHIA is to be a distributed heavy industrial authority is to start taking plants like that and setting up backups. And they've been in operation for, oh, nearly two years now, I think, about +12 to +16 Capital Goods as compared to +4 from Christchurch.

    I'm pretty sure that either now or in the next year or two, the DHIA is going to be setting up some secondary plants (with, as a benefit, updated post-TWIII tooling designs) that take some of the load off Christchurch.
     
    Simon_Jester said:
    I'm pretty sure that either now or in the next year or two, the DHIA is going to be setting up some secondary plants (with, as a benefit, updated post-TWIII tooling designs) that take some of the load off Christchurch.
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    Sure, but that's not really my point. Because the tool shops the DHIA sets up are inevitably going to base their tooling off the stuff that came out of Christchurch, because I think for over a decade Christchurch was the only large scale game in town. It's the standard. More tool and die facilities means they don't have to make nearly as much of everything, but that would also free them up to make new standard tools as we design new machines and invent/reverse engineer technologies.

    I'm sure we have backups and such, I just find it fun that an English tool maker is responsible for the design of every wrench and ratchet from there to Tibet to Vladivostok to San Francisco to Charleston to Cape Town and back. If you're an engineer or technician living in GDI territory, your tools are copys of the ones made in Christchurch, if not one made by Christchurch.


    Anyway, more rereading. I'll point out that I did read all the updates before I started voting in plans, but it's amazing how much I forgot. Like that we only have Tiberium Glacier mining and Quatar Loyalists because of Granger. Those have been shaping elements of all the Plans. GDI today would not be what it is without Glacier mining, and we wouldn't have as many mines, nor as efficient harvesting and processing, without the Loyalists. I don't think I can fairly say Granger was the best pick, who knows what we missed with the other candidates, but I think the quest definitely the most entertaining with Granger to set the tone.
     
    I wonder what would happen if we end up funding all InOps Within this year. I know that they would be able to further increase security but what if they can do more like assassinate warlords or even restart the refugee flow by attacking border guards.
     
    Nottheunmaker said:
    Sure, but that's not really my point. Because the tool shops the DHIA sets up are inevitably going to base their tooling off the stuff that came out of Christchurch, because I think for over a decade Christchurch was the only large scale game in town. It's the standard. More tool and die facilities means they don't have to make nearly as much of everything, but that would also free them up to make new standard tools as we design new machines and invent/reverse engineer technologies.
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    Oh absolutely!

    I'm sure we have backups and such, I just find it fun that an English tool maker is responsible for the design of every wrench and ratchet from there to Tibet to Vladivostok to San Francisco to Charleston to Cape Town and back. If you're an engineer or technician living in GDI territory, your tools are copys of the ones made in Christchurch, if not one made by Christchurch.
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    Nitpick, I think it's the Christchurch in New Zealand, but you're totally right to find this fun.

    Oledoms said:
    I wonder what would happen if we end up funding all InOps Within this year. I know that they would be able to further increase security but what if they can do more like assassinate warlords or even restart the refugee flow by attacking border guards.
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    I dunno, but I don't think they'd go all the way up to assassinations, among other things because those are destabilizing and most of the Nod warlords, even the ones that fight us more often, are better than the alternative of a bunch of vying factionalists within Nod, all of whom have nukes, randomly making decisions about how to do things and fighting among themselves while various hardliners roar for revenge against GDI assassins.

    Plus, of course, Nod-on-Nod violence is reasonably common and so Nod is alert for treachery at all times, and the best we can institutionally do along those lines probably isn't that impressive compared to the quality of security they need just to hold off internal enemies.
     
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    Nottheunmaker said:
    I don't think I can fairly say Granger was the best pick, who knows what we missed with the other candidates, but I think the quest definitely the most entertaining with Granger to set the tone.
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    Personally, what initially brought me into this quest was the meme of 'Number. Go. Up.' and the sheer ridiculousness of a politically inept academic having one of the most powerful jobs in the world and some how doing a solidly good job of it despite how many toes he stepped on along the way.

    Dr Granger wasn't the most politically sound choice, but he was given the job of 'Mine Tiberium' and did he deliver.

    Oledoms said:
    I wonder what would happen if we end up funding all InOps Within this year. I know that they would be able to further increase security but what if they can do more like assassinate warlords or even restart the refugee flow by attacking border guards.
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    It is possible to do, especially since we'll be having the Deep Glacier Mines delivering RpT by the end of the year. Combined with the Border Offensives the should give an average of 200 RpT and the 180 needing to go to InOps can come out of that. Especially with how the Alloy Foundries, which are the most expensive RpD thing currently available to us, might even be finished (excepting phase 6) by the end of the year with our current progress through them. So we could potentially afford it. I'd be more comfortable if we only diverted 120 RpT to InOps but we are probably going to reach the point where it makes sense to divert spending soon.
     
    So are we ever gonna build more Reclamator Hubs again? we still have some problems zones around and the MARW could help keep the NOD down in those places
     
    I'm with Doruma. I was definitely planning to give InOps their next money infusion early, but I was thinking more like 2063Q2 or 'Q3, and then maybe maybe another one right away or around 2064Q1.

    Then again, right after two big hairy Nod assassinations would be a... politic... time to quietly cut InOps a check a bit ahead of schedule.
     
    Thule said:
    So are we ever gonna build more Reclamator Hubs again? we still have some problems zones around and the MARW could help keep the NOD down in those places
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    It's definitely on the menu and there have been conversations about it several times. The catch is that they take Military dice and right now we have some pretty intense ambitions for what to do with those.

    My money's on doing them in 2063Q4-2064Q2 now that we seem to be thinking in terms of pushing Karachi back to late 2064 to give the SADN system time to come online. I'd recommend we work on either the ones in the Australian Red Zone (which we are specifically trying to eat) or the trio around RZ-1S, RZ-3S, and RZ-3N, which chain into each other with rollover and are thus a good choice for fast completion and efforts.
     
    Simon_Jester said:
    Then again, right after two big hairy Nod assassinations would be a... politic... time to quietly cut InOps a check a bit ahead of schedule.
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    Hmm.

    This is a variation of my previous plan that claws up enough R to get an investment into InOps by dropping Shuttles for Rails and Postwar housing in Infra and refocusing on Reforestation over Dairy and Lab Meat.

    Budget:
    1260/1260 R
    7/7 Free Dice
    1/1 Erewhon Dice

    Projected Q3 Budget: 1235 (Current Income) + 15 (Private Industry) + 25 (Border Offensives Phase 4) + 25 * 0.54 (Border Offensives Phase 5) + 15 * 0.81 (Containment Lines Stage 6) = 1300.7 R

    ENERGY BALANCE:
    28 (Current) + 4 (DAE) - 4 (Alloy Foundries) - 1 (Agri Mech) - 2 (SADN Phase 2 and 3) - 2 (GFZA) = 24

    27 (Current) + 2 (DIA) - 1 (Agri Mech) - 1 (Gravitic Bay) - 1 (GFZA) - 10 (Predictive Modeling) = 16

    Note that all dice percentages are calculated before factoring in the cost reductions from Alloys Phase 3, those percentages will increase, some dramatically.

    [] 2063Q2 Draft Plan The Name's Ops, In-Ops

    -[] Infrastructure (5/5 Dice, +27 bonus, 60 R)
    --[] Rail Network Construction Campaigns (Phase 5) 39/295 (2 dice, 30 R) (1%+ chance)
    --[] Postwar Housing Refits (Phase 1) 0/180 (3 dice, 30 R) (91%+ chance)

    -[] Heavy Industry (5/5 Dice + 3 Free Dice, +34 bonus, 280 R)
    --[] U Series Alloy Foundries (Phase 4) 32/550 (6 dice, 240 R) (52%+ chance)
    --[] 2nd Gen. CC Fusion Plants (Phase 2) 75/325 (2 dice, 40 R) (6%+ chance)

    -[] Light Industry (5/5 Dice, +24 bonus, 100 R)
    --[] Reykjavik Myomer Macrospinner (Phase 5) 553/1155 (5 dice, 100 R) (5/8 median)

    -[] Agriculture (6/6 dice, +29 bonus, 50 R)
    --[] Reforestation Campaign Preparations (Phase 1) 0/855 (4 dice, 20 R) (4/11 median)
    --[] Agriculture Mechanization Projects (Phase 2) 83/240 (2 dice, 30 R) (66%+ chance)

    -[] Tiberium (7/7 dice + 2 Free Dice, +39 bonus, 240 R)
    --[] Red Zone Border Offensives (Stage 4) 93/235 (4 dice, 100 R) (99%+ chance, 54%+ chance Stage 5)
    --[] Red Zone Containment Lines (Stage 6) 54/210 (2 dice, 50 R) (81%+ chance)
    --[] Tiberium Inhibitor Deployment (BZ-2) 49/90 (1 die, 30 R) (100% chance)
    --[] Tiberium Inhibitor Deployment (BZ-4) 0/90 (1 die, 30 R) (65%+ chance)
    --[] Tiberium Inhibitor Deployment (BZ-8) 0/90 (1 die, 30 R) (65%+ chance)

    -[] Orbital (7/7 Dice + Erewhon, +34 bonus, 170 R)
    --[] GDSS Columbia (Phase 5) 324/1065 (2 dice + Erewhon, 40 R) (2.66/8 median)
    --[] Gravitic Shipyard 392/430 (1 die, 30 R) (100% chance)
    --[] Fusion Shipyard 446/475 (1 die, 20 R) (100% chance)
    --[] GDSS Shala (Phase 4) 92/530 (3 dice, 60 R) (27%+ chance)

    -[] Services (4/4 Dice, +35 bonus, 95 R)
    --[] Regional Hospital Expansions (Phase 2) 85/285 (2 dice 50 R) (37%+ chance)
    --[] Autodoc Systems Development 52/120 (1 die, 25 R) (83%+ chance)
    --[] Random new project from Kamisuwa (1 die, 25 R reserved)

    -[] Military (7/7 Dice + 2 Free die + 1 AA die, +31 bonus, 205 R)
    --[] SADN (Phase 2) 149/295 (7 dice + 1 AA die, 60 R) (100% chance, 97%+ chance Phase 3)
    --[] Ground Forces Zone Armor (Set 1) (Phase 6) 127/165 (1 dice, 40 R) (100% chance)
    --[] Combat Laser Development 0/80 (1 die, 25 R) (72% chance)

    -[] Bureaucracy (4/4 Dice, +29 bonus, 60 R)
    --[] Administrative Assistance 2 dice (SADN)
    --[] Predictive Modeling Management 1 die auto
    --[] Transfer Funding to InOps 1 die -60 RpT auto
     
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