it littary says in the options from the first vote that was chosen that Humanity is made up of Several independent interstellar nations this is not the SA from Cannon and with Multiple Nations of Humans there is going to competition to get better so tech would advance faster than in Cannon anyway. Also with Several Nations the Military forces of Humanity will be way larger than in Cannon
Divergent Codex: The Revised History of the First Contact War (Mass Effect)
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Yet none of that matters if we are under teched on the tech tree which has been brought up before.
Did you not see what I said earlier about how the Batarians can't move their entiere military at us and with several nations they can't just send a small amount to occupy or raid Humanity
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Unlikely to win this point but I like your "go big or go home style"...
Because you didn't put the [X] before the vote in the first post...
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Yeah, no argument here, but advanced technology and tools aren't a silver bullet. Looking at Vietnam, despite the US military's major advantage in technology, they got clowned on by the Viet Cong. Through the use of guerrilla warfare, digging tunnels, hiding in the thick jungle, and creating primitive traps.
And in case you say "But, the mass effect sensors can see past planetary crust and count the freckles on your face." in the current world, despite major advances in radar tech, drug smugglers are digging tunnels under the USA border and these exist:
View: https://youtu.be/BR18qhnGEpM
Ok I admit I may have gotten a bit much here and there and for that, I do apologize, but I have been seeing people throughout this quest pick the options without fail that will screw over humanity in significant ways. I am not opposed to picking the fun options but then I start seeing some options that will blatantly handicap humanity in a way that will not make the quest fun in my eyes.
I personally would have picked a one hundred year start and later I would have picked a small outpost but didn't when I saw people picking the really bad starting options and jumped my voting on a more favorable contender. It isn't as though we'll be beating the batarians completely, humanity is still divided into different interstellar polities and I find it really interesting when humanity comes together to put our differences aside to fight a bigger threat.
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You mean the whole pirate navy they use for their stuff? Which isn't their official military but they always make use of?
Do you mean something that has way more context then that and has already been proved that isn't why in this thread?
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they don't have infinite resources and their pirate navy will be worse than standard military vessels and be less disciplined in general so I doubt they could beat an entire species Military especially one made up of Several Nations
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Tell that to the East India Company...
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So a whole group whose job is to get slaves will be bad at its job? I am sorry if I find that outlandish.
This is not the same situation
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They also had MASSIVE help from China and the Soviet Union who gave them weapons, equipment, and resources that put both USA and the Vietcong close enough to peer level that with their guerrilla tactic they could balance things.
If the Vietcong had had WW1 rifles and tanks there is no way they could have hold the upper hand against the USA
And how is this relevant? The reason these things work is because it is too expensive to monitor every inch of land and ocean and because with drugs if one shipment arrives at its destination the drug dealers gain enough to pay for 50 failed shipments...
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I am pretty sure the Reaper trap is the Mass Relay System, not Eezo itself, which is the thing that lets you break the laws of physics to go FTL in the first place. The Relays let civilizations colonize lots of convenient habitable worlds that are thousands of light years apart with very little cost to the people using them, unaware that if a malicious outside force with access to the shutdown codes locked them out of the Relays, all those convenient colonized worlds are now isolated by thousands of light years when without the Relays, ships can go at best 15 light years a day, while the Reapers can still use the Relays at their leisure and Mass their forces for every assault. Even going off the grid doesn't help because the Reapers have better conventional FTL so can more easily catch up, and they know the Relay system so they probably could take a shortcut using unmapped Relays to hunt down those that tried to stay off the Relays.
Also, the Reapers have had billions of years and thousands of Cycles. They have probably seen people diverge from commonplace Eezo tech plenty of times. I doubt humanity will come up with some unique ability when operating within the confines of a non-crossover universe where the laws of physics and the tech used to bypass them are not beholden to the internal logic of the setting.
Booking it to intergalactic space is probably the only way to survive a Reaper invasion.
Ah yes, because the AK 47 is on equal footing with an M16. Plus, a good chunk of those weapons was used in WW2 like the M1 Garand, Walther P38, and more. Sure the difference isn't as grand as pre-industrial vs post-industrial, but still nothing to ignore.
It's relevant in the fact that despite the US's military advantages and technological ability, random drug smugglers in Latin America can slip by and do business. Scratch built by people who have no formal education. The way you talk it sounds as if this is a pre-industrial meets post-industrial situation. That no matter what we do, we will fail because our tools are worse than at of our enemies. In Cannon, the Charon relay was activated in 2149. Meaning between then and our voted choice, 208 years have passed. Will we bet at a disadvantage, yes. But the way you are framing it is that we will be helpless against the dime-a-dozen pirate band.
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You missed that vote, we are onto a new vote.
It's so over!!! We're Bidone
Hopefully it's not as bad as I and others have predicted.View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp2r0Ykeq_4
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In what world do questers choose the most boring option? Are we this afraid of debt?
Are we this traumatized from college??