Not impossible that the nanites went grey goo on Taranis and are now assembling a crapton of Guardian AI war machines...
Taranis Destroyed!
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I was more thinking along the lines of "Something inside it remains functional and is using them itself to do whatever", but I guess that's also an option.
That's a good one, would be spiffy with another set of aliens we could shoot at!
Now trying to remember more about Fred Saberhagen's Berserker books.
To minimise server issues and the effects on FC jump timings the formula should pick the times when game activity is at its lowest.
Or just randomise the timer to make things more exciting when the 10 minute warning comes in.
She might be asking for migraine medicine at this point.
I imagine all of the rambling and ranting of the Thargoids in her head is being quite annoying to her. Last I heard she was not personally that interested in the war.
More than just the Powers, imo. If it were just a governmental issue we could potentially cooperate to limit it, like nuclear disarmament treaties. But virtually anyone can fly in with any old sidewinder and chop a couple dozen meta alloys off the side. It's like if you could make a tactical nuke with a microwave and a popcorn bucket, it doesn't matter how much the governments cooperate, everyone who wants one is gonna have one. Especially considering the critical tactical advantage they afford; without them, we couldn't have protected stations from UA bombing, which means any Power that doesn't exploit them is opening themselves up to crippling attack at almost any time.
Quite frankly, imagine if this were a human government. Imagine the US randomly scattered around, with no rhyme or reason, devices which can dehydrate thousands of people nearby, with no effort. It just happens, the device is tiny and can't be detected, there's no way to stop it. Then, the US digs a bunch of wells with unlimited water, and also leave those around, with no defense, no walls or even a fence around them. And then, whenever one of these dehydrated people steals some water, they come around and bomb their entire village, in 'self defense'.
That's what the goids are doing. They create an issue by leaving their devices lying around, then create the solution for the issue, and punish people for using it, and use it as a justification for war.
No, not in the war as such. But the destruction of a whole Titan must have had some big impact on the voices in her head.
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That is what I was referring to. It’s probably got them going in some way, but until anything is mentioned… well, we’re left to speculate. (And I’ve put at least a little thought into the subject thanks to the RP of my character, but no satisfactory ideas have come up yet.)
Something else I would like to see is some acknowledgment in GalNet over the fact that this turns out to still be quite a dirty weapon to kill the Titans with. It might not be on the level of mycoid or Proteus Wave in either aspect(likely very painful for anyone affected for the former, and large-scale destruction for the other), but it’s not exactly ‘clean’ either.
Then again, apparently it hasn’t concerned anybody from Aegis so far that sabotaging the heat vents and (destroying the) emergency venting core will cook the Titan and remaining occupants (prior to evacuation) alive. Instead it feels more like AXI’s gone and taken leadership.
(No personal offense meant, and it’s a little exaggerated, but I couldn’t help take a light jab.)
I have a feeling that this is how real wars often go.
Well you can pass along my congrats to the programming/graphics teams for a very impressive event, from the titan's surface explosions etc etc to its final death scream and boom.
Never thought you could get something like that from the COBRA engine... but what do I know (and thats not including doing attack runs in my AX mamba before the titan blew.. skimming the surface through a hail of triple A with a glaive on my tail)
Bill
<<Currently resting up at the bar at Fisher's terminal (and regaling the patrons with war stories) before heading out again.......
...are those "Kumo Franchises" freighters lining up next to the maelstrom..?
That’s a question for Rubbernuke, but I’m not sure they serve contaminated meat or Thargoid. (Or for Thargoids.)
I bet it tastes like chicken...
FTFY
I have some issues with the metaphor here (I highly doubt random individuals nicking meta-alloys would trigger the same response as coordinated mass-harvesting from all three superpowers, for example), but I suppose the core question I have is: if this were the case, wouldn't it be better for the powers to try and solve this issue, rather than just shrugging their shoulders and continuing as they were, even if that means war? We already solved UA disruption years ago. What's the current motivation for continuing to invade Thargoid territory and do silly stuff like the Proteus Wave past that point?
Also, the Thargoids do try and stop us stealing their stuff. That's the entire point of the nebula hyperdictions, to scan our cargo for alien stuff. Hell, they don't even attack for meta-alloys, and give a grace period for Thargoid tech (the actually dangerous stuff). So I don't think the metaphor works, and certainly don't agree that we're justified in continuing to occupy and loot Thargoid territory just because...it's possible?