Great. Job. Team."Sir, the others. The thirteen thousand we sent through. It looks like they scattered every direction."
they were communicating and taking intelligent actions.The first mistake was responding to hostile alien contact in an extreme crisis situation where humanity itself is under threat by... talking to the trees.
one fort surrendered. we have 13k people on that rock. they're about to become slaves and that includes some of earth's best scientists. I'd hate for these barbarians to learn how to make guns. we have a cause for war and complete superiority in every way but numbers. the time to press our advantage is now. after they are conquered, we can use them as shock troops in future invasions.As for the Crom situation, the barbarians surrendered. We don't want to establish the precedent that surrender is useless, and so possibly trigger an all or nothing total war situation with the other tribes. Especially with our civvies scattered to the winds. Let's get our chickens home before we take a risk like that.
I told you we should have sent them to Land of Light. Splitting them was worst of all worlds. This was as good as murdering them and probably half the reason for the coup that just happened.
The first mistake was responding to hostile alien contact in an extreme crisis situation where humanity itself is under threat by... talking to the trees.
The first mistake was responding to hostile alien contact in an extreme crisis situation where humanity itself is under threat by... talking to the trees.
Stargate Command is not X-COM.
The fact that they're intelligent makes them all the more dangerous. The Goa'Uld are, themselves, a strong example of that. Any attempts to parlay with them could very well result in a major security breach, due to the covert nature of the parasite.they were communicating and taking intelligent actions.The first mistake was responding to hostile alien contact in an extreme crisis situation where humanity itself is under threat by... talking to the trees.
though apparently it was too savage and different a kind of intellect to reason with. We corrected this decision rapidly.
one fort surrendered. we have 13k people on that rock. they're about to become slaves and that includes some of earth's best scientists. I'd hate for these barbarians to learn how to make guns. we have a cause for war and complete superiority in every way but numbers. the time to press our advantage is now. after they are conquered, we can use them as shock troops in future invasions.As for the Crom situation, the barbarians surrendered. We don't want to establish the precedent that surrender is useless, and so possibly trigger an all or nothing total war situation with the other tribes. Especially with our civvies scattered to the winds. Let's get our chickens home before we take a risk like that.
And going to war with such an organism on its home turf where there are possibly millions of them may be even more dangerous. At least trying to work out some kind of truce at first seemed the better option.The fact that they're intelligent makes them all the more dangerous. The Goa'Uld are, themselves, a strong example of that. Any attempts to parlay with them could very well result in a major security breach, due to the covert nature of the parasite.
You've convinced me.Where Crom is concerned, by going looking for them immediately rather than start a war, we're likely to find them sooner. We can recapture or ransom anyone who have been enslaved, dealing with one tribe at a time rather than dealing with some massive military alliance. Our strength has already been demonstrated on the tribe we liberated our team from. Rumours will spread.
At the end of page one, you can see a D2 rolling option. I used this to break the tie before Lambchop changed his selection but the result was the same in either case. @The Brazilian Slaughter, you sent the last 40,000 survivors to three worlds, which is why Crom got 13,000. This time around, we're sending ten SG teams to Crom for scouting.
What's Alpha Striking gonna achieve? We'll kill a few dozen now but there is 70 000 of them, they'll just be back the day after and besiege us if they don't zerg rush us and kill us all. We COULD send them to that paradise planet, that seems like it would be tempting enough for them. That'll let us know if that planet is safe or not. Those guys aren't the smartest and brightest of humanity now, are they? I feel like sending them on Crom would just make that planet even more of a mess than it currently is...What do you guys think?
What's Alpha Striking gonna achieve? We'll kill a few dozen now but there is 70 000 of them, they'll just be back the day after and besiege us if they don't zerg rush us and kill us all.
We COULD send them to that paradise planet, that seems like it would be tempting enough for them. That'll let us know if that planet is safe or not. Those guys aren't the smartest and brightest of humanity now, are they? I feel like sending them on Crom would just make that planet even more of a mess than it currently is...
They can't sustain a siege, Wellesy says that they have less than a day of water. If they're organized enough (which is possible, see Howitzer), they could get water from elsewhere nearby, but it would be contaminated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheyenne_Mountain_Complex#Blast_doors
Blast doors
The 25-ton North blast door is the main entrance to another blast door (background) beyond which the side tunnel branches into access tunnels to the main chambers.
The bunker is built to deflect a 30 megaton nuclear explosion as close as 2 kilometers (1.2 mi).[15] Within a mountain tunnel are sets of 25-ton blast doors and another for the civil engineering department. The doors were built so that they can always be opened when needed. Should a nuclear blast hit the building, they are designed to withstand a blast wave. There is a network of blast valves with unique filters to capture airborne chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear contaminants.[13]
So yeah, without that cannon, they are not getting in, at all. I'm not even sure if their cannon can blow up one of these.
Is that a SG lore thing? Because MercantileInterest hasn't said anything about it. As far as we know nothing happened yet, it's just a planet too pretty and clean to be safe.Ins't that planet a barren moonscape with a virtual reality machine? What even happened there?
Is that a SG lore thing? Because MercantileInterest hasn't said anything about it. As far as we know nothing happened yet, it's just a planet too pretty and clean to be safe.Ins't that planet a barren moonscape with a virtual reality machine? What even happened there?