AI are much easier to spark if they have their own body. There is no reason for any of them to have a wireless connection bolted to their brain.
You saying having a cellphone in your head isn't something youd want?
I am quire happy with one in my pocket. Thus giving me the option of ditching it if some evil computer fills it full of cybugs.
Y'know, I feel like that red text is warranted. A capital-E Evil Doofenshmirtz? That would be legitimately terrifying.
That is colonization. The purpose of colonies was to first and foremost acquire wealth for the motherland. England also used colonies to get rid of groups they disliked (Such as Religious Minorities, Debtors, and Second Sons) but the primary purpose of most colonization is commerce. They aquire raw materials, can perform trade with the locals, and be sold finished products if they are large enough. How exactly we do it varies. Spain enslaved much of the indigenous population and would buy african slaves to replace them as they died on plantations. France mostly relied on trading hubs and far fewer cities then England, keeping a not good but better relationship with the indigenous peoples. England would just send massive amounts of its own people to the lands (And notably was the only one to refuse to intermarry with the indigenous populations) to inhabit it. The main difference we have is that we are not Mercantilist but Capitalist.
Then we don't try to inhabit dimensions with a native, intelligent populace. The multiverse is a big place, after all.
We have to keep in mind that there are other factions presumably also colonizing so we might come across intelligent populace that isn't native.
Cool, doesn't change the fact it's still colonialism. Portugal colonized several uninhabited Islands tmk at the start of the age of exploration.
Having a big enough portal with that many people, especially the average low level employees going back and forth through it constantly is also a huge masquerade breach and in general security leak.
I mean if it gets them out of Drusselstein...
My one concern is that if we do this, the U.S. government will try to come up with taxes over those goods because it technically happened on their territory.
You have to pay Drusselstein to not have them secretly slip deeds to the land into your files.
Not sure what else we need for this one, the weapons platform perhaps?
Continuing our San Fran stuff should trigger this eventually.
Spy network in Solanacae, combos with having Alan collab with Olympia on the OS upgrades.
Sycorax, Solanacae, Baakemono, Funtelligence and ENCOM or Cloverleaf could be the 5 we do for this. Could gain a special perspective by having Tier 2 in every Zaibatsu at once.
QMS or Wasabi next turn.
Japan, or possibly Thembria to combo with the Thembria achievement.
More Grid stuff for/with Alan.
Could be good in the long run as preparation for Drusselstein once we are ready to do that eventually, making things smoother.
Cloverleaf is a must for me.
Right, thanks for the reminder.
Main reason to potentially avoid doing Cloverleaf now is that Russ might be busy these next few turns and is the best choice for it. A non-active solacenae is good enough to get us the things we need, but we shouldn't half ass Doom.
It also allows us to see what we have to do for non-active as opposed to active.
