The thing is, a lot of civilians (remember, Yellow Zone civilians are civilians) will in fact believe Kane, or will consider him to be roughly as credible as GDI. Furthermore, Kane can be very open about this machine and what it does, keeping only a few very specific secrets about his own intent to ascend along with his inner circle using the device.
That's a distinct point. He offered it when he did because GDI was desperate. He might well pursue a different strategy in this timeline.
1) As discussed we
can't be assured of making our own TCN, now or ever (at least in time to stop tiberium from overrunning the Earth).
2) Because
we want the TCN for
our own plans, and the actual nature of the device is that everyone can get what they want from it. In canon, GDI won because it got a machine that controlled and shut down tiberium expansion so that GDI could rebuild the Earth, and Kane won because he and his followers got to escape the Earth. Rejecting the TCN to deny Kane the win means denying
ourselves the win, although to be fair many GDI supporters will will (with reason) be worried that it's all a trick on Kane's part and that the machine doesn't perform as advertised but is instead some kind of Nod superweapon.
3) Well, it's conceivable that he might do that, but it's also conceivable that he just wouldn't care once he'd left Earth. Or that he doesn't actually
have a gigantic armada on speed-dial to invade us
with. Or that wherever he's going he has no realistic way of coming back. Or that he's a delusional madman and all his followers will be slaughtered whenever they get where they're going.
4) They'd want to control tiberium very much, whether the device helps Kane or not. There'd be arguments over what to do, but there'd be a
strong motivation to cooperate with Kane. The main limiting factors would be (A) those who would rather allow the whole Earth to be consumed by tiberium, with the GDI survivors taking their chances in space, than to work with Kane for even a moment, and (B) those who would work with Kane if they trusted him but are too concerned that the TCN is actually a trap designed to trick GDI into wasting time or into building Nod's superweapon for it.
Hmmm, that is a distinct point.
@Ithillid , should we expect a steady Logistics cost from housing grants? I foresee several possibilities:
1) This could be a "no comment, try it and find out" thing.
2) The answer could be "yes, because the grant recipients will build housing and building the infrastructure to support that housing is your problem."
3) The answer could be "no, because the funding that goes into the grant projects will also include subsidies to local government for infrastructure and things like that."
Um... Phantom was basically asserting that the Council was largely in the right about all the things it did, with very little criticism of its system seeming to be present.
Does that mean your earlier post about liking what he was saying was pure sarcasm?
I think I would find that kind of super-aggressive super-isolationist '''diplomacy''' to be very annoying and offputting compared to the far more interesting challenge of exploring how GDI would engage with this broad new milieu.
