Who knows, with all the agencies using their funding and the private market gathering steam, we may run out of labor by the end of this 4 year plan.
A fair point; the private service sector is likely to start hoovering up the available workforce.
Tiberium evolving to fight against harvesting. Yeek. I think the only guns that Granger would whole heartedly fund are ones that kill Tib if fired upon.
You're not wrong. ZOCOM is the only branch of the military that's entirely happy with us (well mostly happy)... and ZOCOM are the ones with the most tib-killing guns.
Red zone mit is still under 50 so on average the RZ expands each quarter, BZ has been bad rolls since we are over 50.
Yeah, but red zones
should be expanding at an average rate of more like 0.1% of planetary surface area per quarter and occasionally receding to leave yellow zone territory in their wake. Blue zones should
also be expanding thusly, but are instead shrinking due to the aforesaid string of 60+ rolls.
But we've reached the point where if tiberium ever rolled a 5 on the "turn blue yellow" die, the ensuing Blue Zone expansion we'd have Dr. Granger excitedly getting on the microphone to announce that GDI has been rolling back tiberium from something like eight thousand square kilometers of the Earth's surface a day, every day, for three months.
To do the math, the Earth has a total land area of roughly 150 million square kilometers or 15 billion hectares. One percent of that is 1.5 million square kilometers, and the 'delta' between rolling one more or less on the tiberium spread dice is one percent of
that, or 15000 square kilometers.
So to be clear, rolling one point higher on the tiberium spread dice means a land area roughly the size of... Well, there are inconveniently not many 15000 square kilometer countries and Kuwait and East Timor and Montenegro aren't exactly famously easy to visualize the land area of, so let's say
three quarters the size of Israel, or
half the size of Belgium. For Americans in the audience, that's an area of "Connecticut plus Rhode Island" that gets turned blue-to-yellow or yellow-to-red on the dice roll,
for every extra point of zone expansion.
Conversely, we save an area
that size, kept from tiberium degradation or reclaimed from it, every three months, for every extra point of mitigation.
