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And now I have Silksteel Armor as well.
Silksteel.
The aliens got it first somehow, which is unsettling,
but much like military technology on Earth,
we tend to put more effort into offense than defense.
The Fusion Laser isn't even my best weapon currently,
but it's level ten to their level four armor.
Yes, well, thank you, Lal.
Silly me, thinking anybody could have a technological advantage over the University.
But...
as we can tell by the incursion of Usurper needlejets,
the war is coming to me.
It's time to slow down...
and figure out what needs to be done to win this war.
For instance,
I need more bases to provide the necessary lab output to get to the more formidable technologies.
I'm thinking once I have helicopters and tanks,
invading Yang's territories ought to be a snap.
Like, over in just a couple of-
well, just a couple of turns is a bit of an exaggeration.
Ah, speaking of helicopters,
I should build the Cloudbase Academy.
It only makes sense that the University would build an institute dedicated to training pilots.
The only question is who will build it.
Zarya-Sunrise has quite the queue going here.
Oooh, the Cyborg Factory. Almost done.
Decisions, decisions. Maybe I'll just...
waste some time blowing up Usurper jets.
Incidentally, plasma shard weaponry is my current strongest,
and it will probably be so for the next half a century.
Shut up, Yang.
Do me a favor and off that son of a Yang, would you?
Uh... actually...
why don't we let the guys at the base handle it.
Okay.
Whoa! Whoa, whoa,
intercept that carrier!
See, Yang's trying to catch me off guard.
Boom goes the sensor.
Whoa whoa, what happened-
Ah- I forgot I had this little project going.
Mind worms don't make good soldiers or pets,
but they do make pretty darn good boats.
If you can wrap your MIND around that.
If you don't MIND traveling by parasite!
Well, I've MINED that vein of jokes long enough.
Yang's really putting on a parade, isn't he?
Kind of reminds me a certain atom-smashing *** regime we know.
I wonder if upgradin' to silksteel's even worth it.
It's pretty expensive,
but not very effective, as we've already seen.
Ah-HA!
Boarding time on the Isle of the Deep.
MIND your step!
Ah, if you didn't get it already,
Isles of the Deep are made up of mind worms.
I probably should have made that clear before I started
OH!
Holy cow.
I love Monopole Magnets.
You may think it strange that foot soldiers take a year to move one tile,
but imagine any land unit moving across a continent without any cost to their moves!
That's what the magtube, courtesy of Monopole Magnets, gets you.
Ah good, no mind worms.
It'd be a miserable thing for a colony pod to disembark straight into a mind worm boil.
Aw, great. I need troops too!
But, we WILL build them.
We HAVE the technology.
NA HA HA HA HA
A handsome young cyborg named Ace
wooed women at every base
But once ladies glanced at
his special enhancement
they vanished, with nary a trace
(Barracks graffiti, Sparta Command)
The Cyborg Factory: counts as a Bioenhancement Center in every base. All new units receive +2 to their starting level.
Scene 26: Missile Crisis - IN WHICH one Hagu finds he already possesses the technology to build helicopters, and Yang bares his thermonuclear fangs
Food. It makes the world get round.
It also feeds the drones behind Yang's military-industry.
Let's see how do they like their soup without konbu!
Hmm. Looks like they've still got other things to eat.
But a few bombs in the right places ought to rectify that.
Dang, look at all those garrisons.
I think I may have the technology to resolve this, however.
Yup, time to bring the Apocalypse, Now.
A fleet of clean shard choppers would mop up their defense nicely.
And I'd like to show you, but I don't have any available yet.
The nice thing about using clean reactors is that they require no maintenance.
It's not just about the environment.
With clean reactors you can churn them out one after another
without any cost to the base that makes them.
Let's find Relatively...
Relativity School some more minerals before we have them build helicopters. It might shave a turn off of the build cost.
It might shave a turn...
Yeah, it might shave a turn off of the build cost.
Ah, as for you, Sunrise,
[laughs weakly] You can continue to...
milk the Gundam franchise.
I'm kidding.
You can start building the helicopters, if you like.
It's a pity I can't just invade that base right now.
I wonder how many people they have defending the bases around them.
WHOA! Whoa whoa whoa!
Go to Defcon 1! I repeat, Yang is planning an atrocity!
Shoot... a nuclear device... those
And they've got a conventional missile over here. I can't let this happen.
WHERE is my probe team.
There they are. Full speed ahead!
Gotta put the breaks on this project.
And... oh.
The Isle of the Deep has a special delivery for that poor, pestered base.
Go go shard mari-ines!
OK! The invasion begins!
And only one credit on the local net means that uh...
means that Yang is probabl spending all of his money adding to his base security.
Which is a really bad idea, considering the fact CPU players rarely if ever use clean reactor technology.
I imagine some of his bases are using all of their minerals supporting an army what only serves to delay the inevitable.
It's... [sniffs]
Almost brings a tear to my eye.
The futile struggles of a...
a... communist... despot.
Good god of exclamations!
He's got human missiles!
We must put a stop to this missile prototype.
Lest... roughly 10,000 citizens of Oceanographic Lab die!
Destroying their garrison might make them shift priorities... BUT!
Just in case, I'll... what?
Free Captured Faction Leader?
I've never done this before.
I ought to destroy their missile prototype, but...
Now I'm curious.
Our Probe Team has penetrated the Hive Punish- oh!
It's the more peaceful alien faction!
So, what happened?
Ah-ha! I just won an ally in my war against the Usurpers...
and possibly a shield against that missile!
Two turns now? What happened?
That Needlejet happened, I see.
Mmkay, hopefully this helps Relativity School.
You guys go clean up the leftover Unity pods.
It'd be cool if there was an Alien Artifact mixed up in there, but,
I'm not going to bother save-scumming for them.
And it would be cool...
if we could rob those jets of a place to land, but...
Yeah, they've got plenty of back up in this base.
Not an interceptor.
C'mon.
Nice work, Morgan.
Freeing a faction leader is a big deal, apparently.
A lot of things are happening in the background, and that is unsettling.
I should have known they wouldn't let me keep the base.
If I can't wipe these guys out,
well, I'm going to lose this foothold.
Thank goodness I can attack with an already-moved Needlejet... if it's from a base.
Ha, they're building a probe-
Oh no.
Where is that missile?
Tell me!
And now these guys are building a nuclear missile!
Where did it go?
I mean, I know that missiles can move to different bases, but if couldn't have gone that far.
Clicking on it doesn't reveal its location.
Well, I suppose datalink infiltration has its limits.
It would seem, we have a deadline to crush Yang's opposition.
But for now...