The visitors are living proof that the military is very very much needed for survival their power is not going to be cut down, and there is going to be no true rehabilitation of earth to much has been permanently lost and that tiberium has changed whole continents by eating whole mountains and other environmental important geography.
Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
The rehabilitation of Earth's ecosystem is a project that will last decades to centuries based on what i can see right now. I think it's possible that GDI and Nod as they are now could do it with cooperation, and that we will find ways to use Tiberium to maintain our socioeconomic systems or even improve upon them. There are barren rocks out in space we can dome and plant Tiberium inside of and slowly turn worthless rock into the usual mix of tib products.
I'd guess that'd be about as effective as trying to buy cybernetics from the Reapers.
- Pronouns
- He/It/Argh!
What does that have to do with politics?
Nothing. Politics is about ideals, not reality.
The Reclamation party has been around for ages.
Spacebound promised the Moon well before it was possible.
Even the Open Hand was active during the Regency War.
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- alphen aan den rijn
I am fairly sure if somebody found Tib too be on any planet GDI will be there to assist in any way it can.
As much as I like the "humanity, fuck ya" mentality. First X amount of years we be something of a small time player v the big 3.
Sure er got some outlandish teck but we are behind on pop and because of that likely have a lagging colony program
As much as I like the "humanity, fuck ya" mentality. First X amount of years we be something of a small time player v the big 3.
Sure er got some outlandish teck but we are behind on pop and because of that likely have a lagging colony program
grimely
Twink Death Sufferer
Yes, and that's the only reason we're even really able to compete with them in any meaningful sense. Our per capita output is absurd in comparison to theirs, but they simply have orders of magnitude more people.
Also, all this worry about Tib getting out into Citadel space is pointless. The Citadel will be freaking out massively over the AI thing long before we have to worry about Tib escaping GDI custody in any way. And I don't think GDI will be "yeah sure, let's obey Citadel treaty and attempt to wipe out all of the AI we've raised over the last century so we can be part of Citadel space!"
Let's prioritize our issues here.
Let's prioritize our issues here.
Don't forget the jealousy from the Turians due to our ships being bunkers with engines, except for our warships which are pillboxes with engines.
Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
- Location
- USG Ishimura
I don't think we have enough weird technology to really upset the Citadel races. Especially not with AI, they have plenty of AI, they're just excessively careful with them because of past incidents.
Fortunately we have a ton of strange and potentially dangerous, but also useful, technology avaliable in Services right now! I highly recommend dropping everything to focus on developing them now, so when when we run into each other in the sequel we've had enough time to develop some truly fucking bizarre stuff.
Fortunately we have a ton of strange and potentially dangerous, but also useful, technology avaliable in Services right now! I highly recommend dropping everything to focus on developing them now, so when when we run into each other in the sequel we've had enough time to develop some truly fucking bizarre stuff.
- Location
- Earth
Also, all this worry about Tib getting out into Citadel space is pointless. The Citadel will be freaking out massively over the AI thing long before we have to worry about Tib escaping GDI custody in any way. And I don't think GDI will be "yeah sure, let's obey Citadel treaty and attempt to wipe out all of the AI we've raised over the last century so we can be part of Citadel space!"
Let's prioritize our issues here.
Citadel Council: Welcome to C-Space!
GDI: Thanks. Don't touch our green rocks.
Citadel Council: Sure. Oh! Small problem. You're going to have to put down Erehwon.
GDI: As a prelude to discussing that point, here's a green rock for each of you.
The AI issues hadn't occurred to me, but yeah, protecting woobie Erehwon takes priority over protecting C-Space from their own curiosity.
GDI has had the chance to dissect, research, and reverse engineer some of the weirder and wackier drone techs in fiction with the visitors stuff. The Citadel has never seen this kind of crap before.
Our wetware and hardware cybernetics and biomedicines might be better than they've seen before. The Turians especially might be deeply interested in the possibilities our prosthetics offer their veterans, not to mention the quarians who are much poorer and stuffed into ships all the time. If we can get over the dextro-levo hump, there's plenty we can offer in barter for refined eezo tech to pull apart and put back together.
Also, in the lore, there are plenty of AI in citadel space, they're just heavily restricted and tightly regulated. I think they're more likely to make sure Erewhon can't go off the reservation than want us to put him down.
Our wetware and hardware cybernetics and biomedicines might be better than they've seen before. The Turians especially might be deeply interested in the possibilities our prosthetics offer their veterans, not to mention the quarians who are much poorer and stuffed into ships all the time. If we can get over the dextro-levo hump, there's plenty we can offer in barter for refined eezo tech to pull apart and put back together.
Also, in the lore, there are plenty of AI in citadel space, they're just heavily restricted and tightly regulated. I think they're more likely to make sure Erewhon can't go off the reservation than want us to put him down.
Yeah, they're unlikely to invade us and force us to kill our AI. More likely they'll say that AI can't go into Citadel space and make shackling or otherwise restricting AI one of the things we have to do to fully join the Citadel races (which is something I don't want to do anyway for various reasons).
Also they're definitely going to be talking to each other about 'stupid humans don't know what they're doing', etc and I fully expect multiple movies to come out where the main plot is 'Human AI went rogue'
Well that kinda did happen once, but to be completely fair it was a NOD AI so it's debatable if it counts as a true human AI. Also we unlike the quarians we neither started that war or lost it.
Future plots for major movies are going to be 'asari-human romance', 'human AI went rogue', 'spectre doing shady/action movie nonsense in GDI space', 'the green rock is not that bad', 'humans are the actual pirates', 'human prosthethics eat your soul', and, of course, 'the green rock is not as bad as they say, it is worse'.
Mixups are, of course, not unusual.
And nobody will believe the 'the green rock is not as bad as they say, it is worse' are documentaries.
Mixups are, of course, not unusual.
And nobody will believe the 'the green rock is not as bad as they say, it is worse' are documentaries.
Of course they will not belive it. There is no way the green crystal has already eaten hundreds of planets! even GDI with thier fear mongering only claims that it terraforms the planet!
Personally I like 'Badass Asari Spectre reluctantly teams up with a rugged GDI commando to rescue insert important position here from a large powerful group of slavers who are definitely not just the Batarian Hegemony with the serial numbers filed off (then they kiss)'
A classic, to be sure, although the romance sub plot felt very... last minute, to say the least.
But then, it's one of those summer blockbusters that's about explosions and sexy actors, and it certainly delivered on that. Wasn't that a series where they started with a matriarch who did half the rescuing herself, and ended up with sequels where they rescued a dalatrass, a primarch, a couple of ambassadors, a secretary, and finally concluded the movie series with them trying to save a meeting where their connections to each of the previous rescue targets were leveraged to get them there for an important treaty?
The last movie was a bit overly long and indulgent on the injokes and references to previous movies, but it was still pretty good. Especially since the baddies from all the movies all teamed up too.
Honestly I thought having the Noddites team up with the batarians was an... interesting choice. It was fairly obvious the writers didn't really know anything about Nod other than 'Evil humans in black and red'
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- Philippines
I'm just curious how the volus will interact with GDI. Sure both can agree on stabilizing economies and the need for a standardized currency, but both went in different directions to go about it. I don't just mean in terms of how they do business, but also in pacifism vs militarism. Wouldn't surprise me if some military jokes include every Volus is Dr. Granger in disguise, and every Turian is General Granger with a faceplate.
KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
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- Midwest, USA
Really, I feel the most for the turian separatists, they seemed completely surprised about how everything went to hell with everybody else's sudden betrayal. Made for a very confusing climactic fight scene. And then everything ended up on fire because Nod loves flamethrowers, which is something the writers got right at least.
- Location
- USA
Speaking of fire.
Did we ever find out what we got from inferno gel?
Last I recall the open hand screwed up and made everyone else want to do it to oppose them so it was going to be automatically researched or something. That was a while ago and I don't recall anything about it after that.
Not a big deal or anything but I was very curious what researching the gel would do. New chemical and industrial stuff or just better napalm. That kind of thing.
Did we ever find out what we got from inferno gel?
Last I recall the open hand screwed up and made everyone else want to do it to oppose them so it was going to be automatically researched or something. That was a while ago and I don't recall anything about it after that.
Not a big deal or anything but I was very curious what researching the gel would do. New chemical and industrial stuff or just better napalm. That kind of thing.