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Attempting to Fulfill the Plan: GDI Edition

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Hazard said:
Knowing Ithillid, while knowledge of the setting will be helpful for context, it will be well written enough that you do not need to do deep dives into the lore of Mass Effect.
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Largely, if you have heard of Mass Effect you should be able to play just fine. Especially because massive portions of it are going to have to be original. Mostly because you are looking at the setting from a very different perspective than Lt. Cmdr triggerpuller.
 
[X] Tiberium Control Network Effect
[X] Technology Exchange
[X] Truth and Reconciliation

I can't believe I nearly missed the vote.

Edit: From my perspective Subordination seems like forcing a move that was already slowly happening over time. Will it take time, yes, but unless NOD can get off Earth, they aren't going anywhere. The ways they could get off Earth are: GDI ships (either stolen or purchased), Kane's ship, or make their own with sufficient stealth to make it past the ASAT network. All of those have the issue that they'd need to leave most of their population behind (or have to go through the GDI). Kane's blather about evacuation being "a lofty dream. One that will abandon tens (of) millions" cuts both ways in this. But for NOD, it cuts even harder cause they don't have the industrial capacity the GDI does. Chances are we'll end up with a couple minor warlords in the terminus regions cause to do that you need an industry. Which leads us to the issue of NOD fanatics smuggling tib off Earth (or Venus) and spreading it across the galaxy (though I think that will happen no matter what we do).

Honestly if it wasn't for our economy being so reliant on the stuff that if we went with the basic TCN we'd be in a worse economic situation then we were at the start of the campaign I'd seriously consider dropping the advanced TCN just to end the problem.
 
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I would find it endlessly amusing that on the path of Truth and Reconciliation we get to Mass Effect time and both GDI and Nod are present. Two sides of the same coin, both public and know, but GDI becomes the face of humanity while NOD fades to the background. Then when ever covert-ops is traced back to humanity people refuse to believe it because GDI is seen as to much of a blunt instrument.

Really looking forward to how this all turns out!
 
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    • Scheduled vote count started by Ithillid on Nov 14, 2024 at 4:51 PM, finished with 234 posts and 152 votes.
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    Alright, Tech it is

    Tacitus Tech Results

    Low Precision Fabricators
    Drone Swarm Intelligence
    High Precision Fabricators

    Edit: and the tech tables
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    Tacitus

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    Ithillid threw 3 50-faced dice. Reason: Tacitus Tech Rolls Total: 66
    19 19 46 46 1 1
    Ithillid threw 1 9-faced dice. Reason: Scrintech roll 1 Total: 2
    2 2
    Ithillid threw 1 9-faced dice. Reason: Scrintech roll 1 (reroll) Total: 4
    4 4
    Ithillid threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Scrintech roll 1 (results) Total: 12
    12 12
    Ithillid threw 1 9-faced dice. Reason: Scrintech roll 2 Total: 7
    7 7
    Ithillid threw 3 100-faced dice. Reason: Scrintech roll 2 Total: 121
    33 33 19 19 69 69
    Ithillid threw 1 9-faced dice. Reason: Scrintech roll 3 Total: 7
    7 7
    Ithillid threw 2 100-faced dice. Reason: Scrintech roll 3 Total: 96
    31 31 65 65
    Ithillid threw 1 9-faced dice. Reason: Scrintech roll 4 Total: 1
    1 1
     
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    • Going by the linked spreadsheet, the Visitortechs acquired appear to be:
    - 17: Freestanding Holograms
    - 24: Endo Steel
    - 36 > 37: Refraction Field (36 was previously rolled so promotes up)
    - 38: Networked Computers
    - 70: Comprehensive Tiberium Mining Techniques
    - 74: Attenuated Particle Shield
     
    Bentusari fabricators are also a thing it would be very in-character logical for Kane to give us. It's the fabricator technology Kane is personally familiar with, probably more so than he is with the comparable Scrin technology. He would also very much want us using it to make the parts of his new ship-friend, and it would also be useful to make the parts of the TCN itself.
     
    I'm a little disappointed that we didn't get any transhuman or stealth tech but those are still some nice techs.
     
    We've probably got as much transhumanism as we can handle in the medium term. There's a practical limit on how fast you want to radically alter your species in one or two generations, because knowing what NOT to do is kind of important.
     
    We just went from a spiky hedgehog to an extra spikey hedgehog that can bum rush you if we feel it's really necessary. We'll be an industrial titan for our size and the Citadel won't be able to ignore us but remember their societies are still massively bigger than ours will be when the time comes.
     
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