I was thinking about this after talking about things like super structures and mega structures with family. Now we was talking about real life super structures as long with things are still trying to work on now, like orbital elevators, space colonies, and floating cities on the water. But this also made me think about giant super structures in games movies and games. With some of the most famous ones that everyone knows of the Deathstar from Star Wars and the massive ships from Macross what was just as much a flying city as they was flying weapons. And I was thinking about other massive bases / cities in movies and games that are also basically giant vehicles, and/or weapons, and/or mecha.
And then I thought about this game and about the CAT5 weapons/monsters beyond the portals. Something like that will not and can not be ignored by the ruling pollical parties in the game. Even if they all hated each other they would all still agree on and work together on ways of countering or stopping the threat of the CAT5's. But it would be a project that is to big for any one group of people to do alone and so everyone would have to pull together to build it and make it happen. Just the number of resources and man power alone would be massive and might take generations to fully build going by the scale of things. And than I remembered the events in games like FireFall and Warframe where the players was tasked to build things like the battleship from FireFall and the Relaies in Warframe. I also remember other things where players would pay taxes to the faction they was on to help pay for buffs as will as to build a massive flag ship / mothership in the faction vs faction battles every few weeks (this only really worked in games where there was player governments where every week or two players would vote for other players to be things like the president and other government workers. Giving them the power to do things like set taxes for things and using they tax money to pay for events and faction buffs on top of other things.).
And so I was thinking could we do something like that in this game? And how many super structures would we need to fight off all the different CAT5's? What are some ideas for a super structure would you like to see if the Humans made one?
I for one always loved the idea of Alexander from the Final Fantasy games. A massive city turned into a defensive weapon. It's main goal is to protect the people but it can also do massive damage if needed. This why in a lot of the game Alexander looks like a living building (namely a castle or fort). So what if we had a city like Alexander on Em-8er?
For the people who don't know what Alexander is.
I also think we need to have at least one massive weapon in orbit around Em-8er too. Although I have not put much thought in to what kind weapon it would be or what it would look like. Funny thing is there also a few orbital weapons within some of the Final Fantasy games. Like Ultima.
And then I thought about this game and about the CAT5 weapons/monsters beyond the portals. Something like that will not and can not be ignored by the ruling pollical parties in the game. Even if they all hated each other they would all still agree on and work together on ways of countering or stopping the threat of the CAT5's. But it would be a project that is to big for any one group of people to do alone and so everyone would have to pull together to build it and make it happen. Just the number of resources and man power alone would be massive and might take generations to fully build going by the scale of things. And than I remembered the events in games like FireFall and Warframe where the players was tasked to build things like the battleship from FireFall and the Relaies in Warframe. I also remember other things where players would pay taxes to the faction they was on to help pay for buffs as will as to build a massive flag ship / mothership in the faction vs faction battles every few weeks (this only really worked in games where there was player governments where every week or two players would vote for other players to be things like the president and other government workers. Giving them the power to do things like set taxes for things and using they tax money to pay for events and faction buffs on top of other things.).
And so I was thinking could we do something like that in this game? And how many super structures would we need to fight off all the different CAT5's? What are some ideas for a super structure would you like to see if the Humans made one?
I for one always loved the idea of Alexander from the Final Fantasy games. A massive city turned into a defensive weapon. It's main goal is to protect the people but it can also do massive damage if needed. This why in a lot of the game Alexander looks like a living building (namely a castle or fort). So what if we had a city like Alexander on Em-8er?
For the people who don't know what Alexander is.
I also think we need to have at least one massive weapon in orbit around Em-8er too. Although I have not put much thought in to what kind weapon it would be or what it would look like. Funny thing is there also a few orbital weapons within some of the Final Fantasy games. Like Ultima.
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