I assume it's a sort of final stretch thing, then. With something as granular as establishing a new world hegemony, I imagine it only comes into play when it gets to the point where the option get as simple as Glorious Victory Forever (at the cost of your life) vs Damnable Permanent Defeat (but you get to live).
oh heads up there is no united kingdom anymore, but lord protector tony blair is very displeased nonetheless
Just as a note, 'blow up most of the world's military' is... not really a second strike? Like several of the current crop of applications might regard that as an incentive to kill you, to accelerate their overthrowal of the status quo. Every character is assumed to have 'A broad immunity to anything that isn't the aggression of another Superpower, or extremely expensive strategic weapons.', so if it's not a nuke silo it kinda doesn't matter, and even forcing total nuclear disarmament is just sorta a thing you could do turn 1 insofar as it doesn't conflict with another superpower's agenda. A second strike is for the hanging threat of such indiscriminate devastation as to give potential attackers second thoughts, even if they're, say, @Havocfett 's walking Prototype reference that wants to eat multiple cities and dissolve all world governments bigger than like, the Isle of Man. There's a reason my own was "everybody gets an erupting supervolcano in their back yard."
Also like, that specific second strike is just doing havoc's work for him lol
Basically, 'enough'. This isn't a game about powerscaling, everybody's powers are more sort of... An aesthetic? What matters is your Agenda, what you want to do with that power. The important part of Gavin's second strike isn't the details of what it does or how much of the planet it would ruin, the important part is that it has a notably high effort rating for somebody who doesn't have an Agenda item higher than 'survive', suggesting a dynamic of somebody who's relatively chill but prepared to escalate wildly disproportionately if pushed on the things that do matter to him, even though 'don't hurt my friends' is weirdly innocuous and shallow in a game of,
C: Think for a moment what could happen if his friends start taking advantage of that.
If they were the sort of people to do that, they wouldn't be his friends.
L: The Generation Ship would be meant as simultaneously an ultimate insurance policy for civilization's survival - but also REALLY not something you want to rely on. It by definition would have only a tiny fraction of Earth's resources to work with, and it would be decades before it got someplace where it could build up. By which time either Sol will be a bustling hub of civilization, or a barren wasteland.
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C: Pretty sure Superpowers aren't supposed to have been a thing prior to 2001, this game.
