I'm pretty sure that underground tib survey we just completed is gonna show us that any hope of saving the earth through abatement is a pipe dream.
We've got sentient AI, gravity drives, ansible communications, a city on the moon, a satellite constellation that alters Tib growth, the ability to turn Tib into magical elements, hard light holograms, have held major congresses with Nod warlords, etc...
We do pipe dreams before breakfast.
 
Prediction of Q4 Indicators:

Political‌ ‌Support:‌ 103
+1 x 3 BZ Inhibitors, -5 Forgotten Experimentation
SCIENCE Meter: 4/4

105 points of Yellow Zone mitigation
+2 x 3 BZ Inhibitors

89 points of Red Zone mitigation
+2 DRZ Glaciers

Housing: +93 (+89 LQ, +4 HQ) (1 high-quality housing per turn)
(+1 HQ, +4 LQ Karachi)

Energy: +41 (+6 in reserve) (+5 per turn from sub-departments)
-2 Vertical Farming, + 2 DRZ Glaciers, -3 x 3 BZ Inhibitors

Logistics: <+38
(+6 Karachi, <=-1 from military b/c increased activity, -3 DRZ Glaciers)

Food: +50 (+26 backed reserve, +5 unbacked reserve)
+4 Vertical Farming

Health: +41 (+6 Emergency Health) (-8 from refugees)

Capital Goods: +45 (+449 in reserve)(+2 per turn from Distributed Industrial Authority)
+1 Spider Cotton,

Consumer Goods: +47 (+10 per turn from Private Industry) (+3 per turn from sub-departments) (-15 from realignment) (Net -2 per turn)
+4 Vertical Farming

Labor: +13 (+3 per turn from medical care) (+2 per turn from Immigrant qualifications) (-2 per turn from private industry) (-3 per turn from other government) (-1 from graying population) (Net -1)
(net -1, - 8 Karachi,

Tiberium‌ ‌Processing‌ ‌Capacity‌ ‌(2895 2955 - 2985/4800)‌ ‌(545 605 - 635/2450 HG, 1350/1350 IHG, 1000/1000 X) (HG: 1 per 95, IHG: 1 per 85, X: 1 per 45)
Tiberium Reserve (0/500)
STUs: +15 - 16
Taxation Per Turn: +245 (+20 per turn from Private Industry)
Space Mining Per Turn: +100
Maintenance Reductions: +50
Increased Refining Efficiency: +100

STU Production and Consumption
Net: +14 15 - 16 per turn
Unknown Portal usage

Production: +43 44 - 45 per turn (5.7 6.4 - 6.7 HG, 15.9 IHG, 22.2X)
Consumption: -29 per turn
22 Economy
-6 Tiberium (2 Harvesting Tendrils, 2 Sonic Weapons, 2 T-Glass)
-16 Other (8 Structural Alloys, 6 Hovercraft, 2 Gravitic Shipyard)
7 Military
-4 Aircraft (2 Tactical Lasers, 2 Plasma Munitions)
-1 Ground Vehicles (1 Mastodons [Shimmer Shields, Point Defense Lasers], 0 Havocs [Shimmer Shields])
-1 Strategic Air Defense Networks
-1 Navy (Lasers)

Plan Goals
Increase Income by 205 145 - 115
+60 - 90 from DRZ Glacier Mining

Increase population in space by 11.25k 9.25K
+1 Lunar Homesteading, +1 Aldrin Planned City

Provide 12 10 Points of Red Zone Abatement
-2 remaining RZ Abatement DRZ Glaciers

Spend at least one die on Steel Talons projects every turn

Projects
Complete Karachi Planned City by end of 2065
992 points left

Deploy Governor-A refit
194 points left

Complete at least 4 3 Ground Forces Zone Armor factories
619 points remaining.

Complete Reforestation Campaign Preparation Phase 2
Develop Next Generation Armored Vehicles by end of 2065

Complete Regional Hospital Expansions by end of 2065
Complete Post War Housing Refits

+Plasma + Particle Pew Pew
+Tank
+Tib Hardening
 
Fifth Generation Electronic Video Assistants 152+2+35=189+15/200 Omake...Critfail...something?
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Confirm initialization of Deva Artificial Intelligence? (y/[n]): y
Booting...........
Uh oh, the bad rolls are synergizing. That's never good.
 
anyone remember what the 3-rolls we made for Erewhon corresponded to?

Also, Kek on that fucking double-1 on the project we spent a single dice on, and the fact that we got two 50s on Aldrin that seem to have not successfully produced Crits.
 
anyone remember what the 3-rolls we made for Erewhon corresponded to?
Friendliness: 27, later upgraded to 41.
Stability: 2, later upgraded to 16.
Capability: 22, later upgraded to 30.

You may notice that after mods, I rolled the exact same friendliness total as Erewhon started with - which is as much about how human-like and human-understanding the AI is as it is about how friendly they are.

Erewhon was on the AI project. With an outcome like this, I suspect it now has someone else who understands them. Mechanically there were obviously better results, but narratively?

I look forward to the story that'll be told here.
 
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So it would appear that GDI has cracked how to make effective AI. It's just they put all their good programmers on developing the 'Human-like' AI and hired EA's development teams for work ensuring the Inhuman one was stable...
 
I am a touch scared that this new unfriendly unstable AI is so much more capable then Erewhon. I mean he was basically harmless... this new one... maybe not.
 
Guys. Again. Calm the Doomposting.

We chose Abatement as our goal way back when. It would be a MASSIVE dick move to get this far into things, just before a timeskip, right as we get the tools to see the extent of the mountain to be ground to dust by hand, and say 'lol no JK, the planets core is compromised and yer fucked, time to change your end goal because I never planned on letting you win'.

QM is not going to pull back the curtain on something like this to show actual impossibility staring us down.
 
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oh no...blue...yellow...red...

holy frak we need to get off this world immediately.

I'm betting it's red yellow blue, mostly because even the worst projections on tib spread would not have cover the entire surface by now. The interior core will take so much longer to infect with tib let along the the entire crust. Just for reference, the Earth's Crust is between 3 to 43 miles in thickness, with the next layer being the Mantle being 1800 miles thick, and that is before you reach the Outer Core. We have time.
 
I'm betting it's red yellow blue, mostly because even the worst projections on tib spread would not have cover the entire surface by now. The interior core will take so much longer to infect with tib let along the the entire crust. Just for reference, the Earth's Crust is between 3 to 43 miles in thickness, with the next layer being the Mantle being 1800 miles thick, and that is before you reach the Outer Core. We have time.

you know, the idea of pulling Tib from the crust/mantle now sounds more and more feasible...sure it makes the surface more shit, but it WOULD result in less of the planet eating material from going deeper on in...meaning that potentially we could with the tiberium spikes other stuff pull tiberium upwards enough to be in a controlled gathering/sprouting areas. Now does this mean we may one day be totally free of tiberium?

it's going to take away to make sure that crap is completely gone, and I'm pretty sure enough micro-flakes are around that can restart the entire process again if some terrorist/nod cell decides to fuck around.
 
Erewhon's (current) stats:
Friendliness: 41
Stability: 16
Capability: 30

Deva's stats:
Friendliness: 27
Stability: 23
Capability: 98

Dot's stats:
Friendliness: 75
Stability: 111
Capability: 97

Edit 2: Fixed stats and names, thanks to @Prime 2.0.
Spider Cotton Plantations (Phase 3) 95+34+17=146/165
Spider Cotton Plantations (Phase 3) 95+17+34=146/165
Spider Cotton gets +5 from Plant Genetics, putting it in range of omake completion. Edit: Spider Cotton is at 100/165, not 95/165. Same difference?
 
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