Yeah but with permanent AGF..? Not going there
Thargoid invasion - Next target systems?
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I'm just praying the Guardians never come back. Specially if they have and bring their anti-Thargoid field - at which point our FSD's and SCO FSD's will start failing.
The Sol incursion definitely seems to have proven quite popular, so it would seem even more puzzling to me that it's just going to go away after a week with the Titan getting attacked (and, frankly, I expected more than a week that, despite the much higher invasion strengths, actually just turned out like more cleanup but with more known system names attached).
... though I guess I should probably wait with my final verdict until tomorrow morning/early afternoon when maintenance concludes (as it will probably take a few hours again... let me go see if there's any updates in the news section... nothing there yet). My expectations aren't high though.
... though I guess I should probably wait with my final verdict until tomorrow morning/early afternoon when maintenance concludes (as it will probably take a few hours again... let me go see if there's any updates in the news section... nothing there yet). My expectations aren't high though.
Had Cocijo not moved and followed the regular rules for Titans it would have been dead by now, so it's equally likely they don't want to drag it out longer than it would have anyway.
True enough, I suppose, but would it have hurt them to at least drop a hint to what it is the Thargoids are even doing in Sol (as they said they were). So far this has all just been gameplay and roleplay material and not much else.
... I also had this thought today that Cocijo's probably been picking up a lot of captives that are at risk of vaporization with most of the Titan (unlike the others which apparently just had a relatively/comparatively small number left on them). Even if this is not a consideration that will stop people from blowing it up.
"This first Thursday Cocijo has to become vulnerable, next Thursday boom... Happy anniversary."
It also wiped out 7 rescue ships which we must assume had some rescued abductees on them, so I think they've stopped caring about that. The Scythes are just the mechanics continuing for the last couple of weeks because it's not worth changing it now.
Yeah... maybe. But the number of them which would've been on the megaships probably pales in comparison to what they could get committing to this move, even failing to make inroads into the Bubble's core. Presuming they poke the heads of the captives for information on... something, they might not necessarily care too much for anybody that's been pulled off a Titan if they already know all they can from that person.
I feel like this was a "deadman's switch" gambit by Cocijo where it knows it's going down but can both make a play at capturing Seo or at least putting itself in a position where it can suicide bomb Earth when it goes critical. There's nothing saying that it has to stay in Earth's upper atmosphere where it's parked once it's ready to explode and I don't think Earth would like it very much to have a bomb that big and that dirty going off on the surface.
Things I am wondering
If Cocijo stays there and we blow it up will it take the Earth with it, or damage Earth in the process? The ammonia worlds didn't seem to suffer from their Titans exploding but can we say the same for the Earth?
Is this perhaps Cocijo's Gambit? Do you want to destroy me enough to kill your home world as well?
Or if we can take it out without affecting the Earth then what? Eventually the caustic dissipates and the wreckage stays there forever as a reminder of the war with the Titans? In time becoming a Point of Interest with maybe a Tourist Beacon stuck on it?
Or will Cocijo just take off again, either to attack somewhere else or retreat entirely?
Between:
- that's a problem that's only going to get worse every day it doesn't get blown up
and:
- wait, why are we bothering to rescue these people just to throw them in permanent quarantine anyway, we've already got enough back to run tests on?
I can't see that being any sort of consideration if the opportunity is there.
Because even that's better than letting them get blown up?
I imagine that if we get a normal Titan experience then Operation Thunderstruck will rescue as many as possible in the 24 hours before it blows.
Certainly - I don't mean why should anyone rescue them, I mean why should the superpower governments fund the rescues given their normal complete disregard for human life.
The superpowers in this war so far have been as useful as a waterproof teabag, so no argument there.
I think its orbit is high enough that the blast wave wouldn’t meaningfully affect the planet itself, though some debris might get knocked off its orbital trajectory.
To B, I have not much to guess. Point C, I suppose it would have a tourist beacon planted in it if it remains orbiting like the rest of the Titan wrecks (but maybe we’d like to drag it away from the planet before it loses its momentum and begins to fall).
Point D, I’ve been wondering if the Thargoids might consider Alioth or Achenar as potential targets as well - but I guess we’ll find out sooner rather than later.
I’ve also been thinking if the alert state had any impact or it was really just a “to allow stations to offer evac missions” deal which they put it there for and made it strong enough to last a week.
… and a weirder idea (maybe?) of mine was like when the Titan is about to go it releases some kind of disabling field à la 22460 and then, idk. Or maybe it will give off a unique ‘sound’ that Seo comments on following it, which would be less unordinary.
Ach, we're only a few kilometres away and survive these blasts just fine. It would be an ecological disaster, but only on a local level, we're not talking planet-cracking explosions (from what we've seen so far). In-universe we have Caustic Sink technology, so 'mopping up' the caustic should be possible to mitigate the atmospheric impact in relatively short order.
Between 150-200. In a vacuum. There's a difference to setting off that kind of thermonuclear bomb in an atmosphere where it creates a gargantuan shockwave.
Because Archer is just a few weeks old in his new position as Shadow president and getting a lot of innocent people killed in the first month or two of your tenure doesn't look good in your resume. Specially after Felicia who's supposed to be the Feds equivalent of Aisling.
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He'll blame Winters for not being there for months when she was "needed".