- Pronouns
- He/Him
Do not worry about it.
Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition
trooperist
Cinnamon Roll AI
Any reason for Carter quest that we don't reserve working hours on Enterprise? It looks like might open some options or make things cheaper?
- Location
- his hidden lair
This, ablative armor by it's very nature erodes under fire because its vaporizing to disperse the attack. You basically want it to always be exterior mounted and always be replaceable.
Untill enterpize stage 3 is done it allows asmbeling probes and their engines in space but we have a leopard so don't need it.
EXTINCTION INEVITABLE? (semicanon)
Excerpt from tabloid newsletter
EXTINCTION INEVITABLE?
Heroic government worker reveals existence of Extinction Timetables in the heart of the Government!
A whistleblower in the Treasury department of the World Government has made a shocking revelation. Picture evidence provided by the whistleblower who wishes to remain anonymous shows the office of the head of the Treasury, Dr James Granger, is plastered floor to ceiling with charts and speculative data indicating that the continued existence of life on Earth will end within the lifetimes of our children. When asked why they had come forward with the information, the employee revealed that they believe the general public 'doesn't understand the gravity of the situation.' They then went on to say that 'Tiberium abatement is like p*ssing in the wind. No matter how many projects are started, the Red Zones are going to engulf the world.'
This account tallies with murmured rumors that Tiberium is yet again undergoing a phase shift that will make all current efforts at fighting it futile. Sonics are currently utilized world wide to slow and halt the expansion of Tiberium by using resonant harmonies to disrupt its ability to grow. It has been in use since shortly before the second Tiberium war in the late 2030's. If Tiberium grows around this method of containment, it would make every project designed around the use of sonics in the last twenty years irrelevant. This information paints a damning picture of the future of the world when combined with GDI's most recent efforts in space, which have amounted to building an orbital factory and the rebirth of the Philadelphia space station which previously served as the head of the Government. Many have speculated that this indicates that the Global Elite are merely buying time to escape off world.
When we reached out to Dr Granger for a comment, he had the following to say. "Yes, the extinction charts are real. Information is key to effective decision making." When pressed on Tiberium and it's mutation, Dr Granger simply commented. "Almost certainly within the next 18 to 21 months, though it will likely be gradual." After his last comment he was quickly whisked away by handlers who were clearly displeased by his answers.
We have reached out to other government officials, but as of yet...
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Director Granger puts down his tablet computer, rubbing his forehead "Well Doctor. I have to say, this could have been handled better. Fortunately, despite the negative press in this one publication, we were able to get ahead of the story in most other media outlets, allowing us to cushion the blow. If anything, it seems to have galvanized support. The efforts made to stabilize the economy and living standards of the world, along with reaching out a hand to the Yellow Zones seems to have most convinced that those damning pictures of your wall were a twisted form of motivation for yourself. InOps has even informed me there are jokes floating around GDI online about how you meet other department heads while forcing them to see the charts in order to scare them into working harder. But I for one am not laughing. The whistleblower has been found and claims the tabloid twisted her words, she apparently really did want to warn people of what is at stake, but went about it in the worst possible way. Investigations into the Tabloid itself reveals that this entire debacle was simply the work of human greed. Incendiary reporting meant to drive traffic and ad revenue.
This could have went far worse Dr.
Refrain from impromptu Q&A sessions with the media from now on."
EXTINCTION INEVITABLE?
Heroic government worker reveals existence of Extinction Timetables in the heart of the Government!
A whistleblower in the Treasury department of the World Government has made a shocking revelation. Picture evidence provided by the whistleblower who wishes to remain anonymous shows the office of the head of the Treasury, Dr James Granger, is plastered floor to ceiling with charts and speculative data indicating that the continued existence of life on Earth will end within the lifetimes of our children. When asked why they had come forward with the information, the employee revealed that they believe the general public 'doesn't understand the gravity of the situation.' They then went on to say that 'Tiberium abatement is like p*ssing in the wind. No matter how many projects are started, the Red Zones are going to engulf the world.'
This account tallies with murmured rumors that Tiberium is yet again undergoing a phase shift that will make all current efforts at fighting it futile. Sonics are currently utilized world wide to slow and halt the expansion of Tiberium by using resonant harmonies to disrupt its ability to grow. It has been in use since shortly before the second Tiberium war in the late 2030's. If Tiberium grows around this method of containment, it would make every project designed around the use of sonics in the last twenty years irrelevant. This information paints a damning picture of the future of the world when combined with GDI's most recent efforts in space, which have amounted to building an orbital factory and the rebirth of the Philadelphia space station which previously served as the head of the Government. Many have speculated that this indicates that the Global Elite are merely buying time to escape off world.
When we reached out to Dr Granger for a comment, he had the following to say. "Yes, the extinction charts are real. Information is key to effective decision making." When pressed on Tiberium and it's mutation, Dr Granger simply commented. "Almost certainly within the next 18 to 21 months, though it will likely be gradual." After his last comment he was quickly whisked away by handlers who were clearly displeased by his answers.
We have reached out to other government officials, but as of yet...
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Director Granger puts down his tablet computer, rubbing his forehead "Well Doctor. I have to say, this could have been handled better. Fortunately, despite the negative press in this one publication, we were able to get ahead of the story in most other media outlets, allowing us to cushion the blow. If anything, it seems to have galvanized support. The efforts made to stabilize the economy and living standards of the world, along with reaching out a hand to the Yellow Zones seems to have most convinced that those damning pictures of your wall were a twisted form of motivation for yourself. InOps has even informed me there are jokes floating around GDI online about how you meet other department heads while forcing them to see the charts in order to scare them into working harder. But I for one am not laughing. The whistleblower has been found and claims the tabloid twisted her words, she apparently really did want to warn people of what is at stake, but went about it in the worst possible way. Investigations into the Tabloid itself reveals that this entire debacle was simply the work of human greed. Incendiary reporting meant to drive traffic and ad revenue.
This could have went far worse Dr.
Refrain from impromptu Q&A sessions with the media from now on."
- Location
- Mobile, Alabama
Dr. Granger. Literally some old scientist dude who does not into PR. You know this guy has a following online just for the memes.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
When our infiltrating paparazzi ninja asked him about the plan to evacuate the global elite into space, Dr. Granger replied:
"I have no plan to evacuate the global elite as such. I do have a plan to evacuate everyone into space who wants to come. Well, except Kane. He can get out and walk. Also, how did you get into my office?"
"I have no plan to evacuate the global elite as such. I do have a plan to evacuate everyone into space who wants to come. Well, except Kane. He can get out and walk. Also, how did you get into my office?"
I bet their a meme account for him with memes like humanity might become extinct in 5 years and you asking for a delay of the expense report ain't helping terry
- Location
- New York
Seriously speaking, evacuating the Earth would not be a popular thing. It is likely some or a lot of people will be left behind and some of the people left behind would try to sabotage the evacuation effort out of spite. The Brotherhood of Nod would certainly try to sabotage the effort and have the military strength to do so. It would be hard to build space elevators due to fear of Nod attack. There would be class conflicts and Blue Zoner vs Yellow Zoner vs Forgotten conflicts in who gets to go. Even the most objective or random selection criteria would have many people not selected crying foul. Scientists and engineers might refuse to work on the evacuation effort if they and their families are not guaranteed a spot in the evacuation effort.
The fact that young well educated blue zoners would likely go first to set up the construction effort would cause huge resentment in the Yellow Zone voting base. Some people in the inuniverse forums are strongly against the idea of bringing the Forgotten along with any possible evacuation effort. Evacuating the Earth would be a last resort for many in GDI but an successful evacuation effort would require years of effort ahead of time.
Pretty sure the forgotten need Tiberium to survive. If that's true bringing tiberium into space is politically non-viable at this time. If they are evacuated they would not be the first, they would probably be confined to spacestations long term. And yeah evacuation, barring some good pulls from the Scrin goody bag, will be slow. However we want to start on evacuation for a couple reasons:
1. It feeds into an expansion of orbital infrastructure which is useful for us since it gives us new sources of gaining resources.
2. As you said if we start it, and end up having to go that route the earlier we start making those efforts the better. If the first wave of colonists are sent before things go completely to shit on earth the popular opinion will be less troubled then if we are doing this as the last yellow becomes red.
3. Kane is likely to show up and negotiate with us for TCN. There are several things we can do to get ourselves into a better position, having a population in space is one of them.
1. It feeds into an expansion of orbital infrastructure which is useful for us since it gives us new sources of gaining resources.
2. As you said if we start it, and end up having to go that route the earlier we start making those efforts the better. If the first wave of colonists are sent before things go completely to shit on earth the popular opinion will be less troubled then if we are doing this as the last yellow becomes red.
3. Kane is likely to show up and negotiate with us for TCN. There are several things we can do to get ourselves into a better position, having a population in space is one of them.
ConfusedCanuck
Where did it all go wrong?
- Location
- Neverland
[X]Plan Carter's Terrible Comms Focus
- Location
- Earth
Some quotes from the QM on Discord:
So there we go. The major space buildings have some interesting bonuses at phases 4 and 5.
So there we go. The major space buildings have some interesting bonuses at phases 4 and 5.
I'm thinking that we might want to ramp ASAT up to Phase 3 in the same turn as (or even before) we start construction of Shala and Columbia- developing the capacity to grow food for long-term space habitation is likely to indicate to Kane that GDI is looking at options for the future of the human race which aren't dependent on large parts of Tiberium-free land for habitation, which in turn means that he's less likely to have them over a barrel when he offers them the plans for the TCN. So if he feels that there's a possibility of GDI telling him to take a long ride off a short pier when he makes his demands he might strike against the space stations in order to deny them that fallback option.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Yeah.
ASAT Phase 2 is probably adequate to secure the space infrastructure we have now, with the control center firmly positioned in space to make it at least difficult for Nod to simply repeat the trick of blowing up the ground station and then decapitating GDI by hitting Philadelphia. We'll want the increased dispersal and survivability of the defense network, though, as we start putting prototype space colonies in orbit.
- Location
- Outside the Box
- Pronouns
- She/Her
We're apparently going to get +1 fusion dice per turn for a while until we get to the point where the discount applies to everything. So as soon as we have a 4th fusion die, we can start doing a die per turn on ASAT. (20R is much more affordable than 30R after all.)
Space Force's confidence is at "decent" and the ASAT network is a tougher nut to crack than it was the first time around, and Kane should still be fucked off to hide in his bunker playing with the Tacitus. The new planetside hub in Greenland is a lot harder to hit than the old one in Maryland (as long as we can hold air and naval supremacy around the island...), and even if they do knock over the planetside hub the partial backup in orbit will be enough to at least protect SOME of our stuff. I don't think they could get the Philly today, they could maybe MASTERSTROKE their way through Greenland and then overwhelm the partial orbital hub with sheer numbers to fuck up the commsats or something but I'm going to guess that if the operators have any choice at all they're defending the Philly above anything else and can at least save that.
Even a partial orbital MASTERSTROKE is pretty beyond any individual or handful of warlords too I think, so even a partial repeat would require Kane to come out of hiding and kick off Tib War 4. None of this is to say that the ASAT system is impenetrable and we can ignore expanding it forever, but the Space Force's confidence gauge is a good barometer for how well they think they can protect space and "decent" is enough for me while there's other branches with worse confidence that need those Military dice instead. If the Space Force starts screaming next turn and revises their confidence down to "low" then ASAT gets bumped up the priority order but assuming they stay on "decent" I don't think it's particularly pressing given all the other military crises.
Even a partial orbital MASTERSTROKE is pretty beyond any individual or handful of warlords too I think, so even a partial repeat would require Kane to come out of hiding and kick off Tib War 4. None of this is to say that the ASAT system is impenetrable and we can ignore expanding it forever, but the Space Force's confidence gauge is a good barometer for how well they think they can protect space and "decent" is enough for me while there's other branches with worse confidence that need those Military dice instead. If the Space Force starts screaming next turn and revises their confidence down to "low" then ASAT gets bumped up the priority order but assuming they stay on "decent" I don't think it's particularly pressing given all the other military crises.
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On the other hand it would be nice to dripfeed spaceforce some upgrades, to try and raise confidence and avoid any possible shock penalties. ASAT 3 is the obvious project due to what happened in C&C3 and the big alternative is also not very useful in the grand scheme of things right now, where we are mostly defending from fortified positions, and occasionally sending out very deliberate attacks.
It would be even nicer to drip feed the navy and air force some upgrades with those same dice until they're caught up is my sticking point, blowing up space stations is flashy but the vast majority of our productive assets are still on the other side of the Karman Line where we need the conventional forces to stop NOD from rolling up with a cruise missile submarine and shelling Boston or something.
True, the problem with ASAT 3 is it's completely useless until it's desperately needed. And 60 or 80R would be enough to do a deployment program and change.
On the other hand we don't know when Kane is going to get done with the Tacitus, and what he'll do then. If we build up space infrastructure, it's in his best interests to destroy it, or at least threaten it. And there is also an element of not really knowing how NOD will react to our moves in the coming years. I think people want to push into the yellow zones which will cause NOD to stiffen resistance. Presumably if Kanes inner circle decide to start up another war, they will try to take out orbital infrastructure again. I don't know if that scenario is worth spending 80 resources now, but building up orbital stuff without at least some idea of when we want to build up the ASAT network again makes me anxious.
If Kane is starting another Tiberium War then I'd rather have a Space Force on decent confidence and a navy/air force also on decent confidence rather than a Space Force on great confidence and the conventional branches on low. I don't see a scenario where we need ASAT 3 but also don't need a zillion upgrades to our planetside forces, so I'd rather get the planetside forces up to par first. I'll let Kane nuke one single factory in the Enterprise if that's what it takes to make sure he can't swarm into the Blue Zones and nuke 700 factories in there.
ASAT should get an upgrade before we start building major colony stations with tens of thousands of people in space, that makes sense to me. But I don't think that's going to happen for a while, we're still getting the Enterprise and space mining spun up plus a bunch of the smaller projects before we start real colonization.
ASAT should get an upgrade before we start building major colony stations with tens of thousands of people in space, that makes sense to me. But I don't think that's going to happen for a while, we're still getting the Enterprise and space mining spun up plus a bunch of the smaller projects before we start real colonization.
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