Yeah, pro-transhumanist posters, that's something else you can thank the Harmony for. This will only intensify the Federation's prejudice against such things.
I believe that only Humans have that prejudice? Not Federation as a whole.
Though there does seem to be something about Star Trek that makes augments often go wrong...
The Harmony knows where many of our most critical military component production nodes are located, and may have software or even personnel penetration of their security.
It doesn't do much good for us to have 200 berths if we can't produce 200 warp cores to put in 200 ships in a timely manner.
And they have many months in which they could exploit their intel advantage over us before our first wave of production comes out. I'm not saying they could win, but they could be far, FAR more troublesome to defeat than we'd expect given the industrial advantage. Especially given that the public relations front will be... tricky. Proving the authenticity of our claims will be rough.
Even if they know where they are and how they are secured, that still does not make sabotaging them easy. They are all over the Federation, and heavily secured.
Also, we now know that they know, and can quickly reinforce those sites and change up their security arrangements to obsolete their info.
As for them reading our mail, that has lost the majority of its impact now that we know about it. Still a great blow, but there are plenty ways to minimize that advantage in wartime, such as with physical one time pads. There are ways.
As for proving the authenticity of our claims, we are downloading evidence for everything that we find. And lots of stuff should be easy to prove now that we know what to look for and can identify that stupidly stealthy psy-nanotech bulls**t.
I still cant believe that we were incapable of noticing the stuff. Looks like our medical security checks need major updates, Federation wide.
In this instance there is considerable crossover. Your final actions here still need to keep in mind that Singers are still sentient lifeforms (much as data is) and thus are not valid extermination targets.
I disagree with this. While extermination is definitely not UFPs first choice, not even close, I do believe that we have the right to extinct the Singers
if we can not find a better way.
If its a choice between genociding them and letting them continue with their shenanigans, then regretfully, genocide away I say.
Super intelligent mind controlling super hackers with a laundry list of warcrimes can not be allowed to continue doing that stuff, and are rather difficult to contain.
If the Romulans felt like doing us a favor, they would have just told us something. Anything.
They didn't.
Perhaps they feared that we were compromised, and felt that they couldn't take the risk of potentially tipping their hand to the HoH and revealing how much they had figured out. More likely, however, is that the Romulans see the massive expansion of the Federation as an alarming development and would love to see us stumble before we eclipse the Star Empire entirely.
I suspect that they did not have a proof, and in their paranoia did not believe that we would believe their word on the matter.
They might not even know about the Singers, just that there is something shady going on with minds and nanotech.
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