With sea levels falling yet again not all flora have been negatively affected. Red Willow and other xenofungus blooms continue to spread over new lands and arid slopes which provide plenty of land devoid of competing greenery and terran plants for the red fauna to proliferate in.
2247, Advanced Ballistics tests begin in earnest. Test sites are designated all across Pangea whilst the solar flare still allows for these activities to go unnoticed by the rest of the human world.
An Earthshaker missile MKIV is launched towards ABT1, unfortunately it is then discovered that such missiles cannot detonate at sea, ending the wish that a forward base could be built from the sea to prelude an amphibious landing of Atlantis. The missile is successfully redirected towards ABT2.
A mountain is formed from a remote island from the detonation of the Earthshaker missile. The hill is named Hadrada hill (because Godwinson hill was too obvious) and the second stage of the test is conducted.
A medicine missile MKIV is detonated, forming the Hadrada Siren tower. An elite surveyor team is sent to reconnoitre the scene, seeing nothing remiss they are ordered to return home. They make it a 1/3rd of the journey back towards the roads before they are attacked.
They are almost entirely wiped out; promising details for the lethality of wild worms.
A colony pod is airdropped onto a remote island and a live earthquake missile is tested on it to test its effect on live bases.
Bloodwater base is entirely unharmed despite the large change in altitude and the violent earthquakes, presumably due to post-space age polymers and hyper-tensile superfluid semi-solid gobbledy gook. The science works in mysterious ways.
Nevertheless, it seems that land loss due to global warming can be entirely counteracted if every base has an earthquake missile on standby. Or at the very least, the important bases.
The Free Drones and the University traded bases for many years, with the majority of bases lost being on the side of the Free Drones. From 2246 to 2247 though, the Free Drones managed to amass enough mind worms and needlejets to turn back the tide and liberate their own bases. They even gained enough momentum to push into University lands and claim Gagarin Memorial.
Gagarin Memorial was for a time, an industrial Fortress for the beleaguered Drone forces.
Once Drone forces began being turned against their brothers it was too late. The University assault continued.
In order to cope with the heavy industrial damage the University's superior industry was causing Planet, the University set aside many temples and reserves to the sleeping God. This also had the result of giving the University the capabilities to unleash horrible demon boils upon the Free Drone forces; there was no surviving their onslaught.
While the Believers played their game on Atlantis the University played theirs on Pangea. With Believing defence forces denied access to Lal's coast the University were allowed once more to lay siege into the Peacekeeper heartland. The Believers prepare an invasion of Lal's heartland for 2254.
2252, the solar flair ends and communications recommence.
2252, the Believers commence a peacekeeping operation against the Peacekeepers in an effort to consolidate the southlands and end the terrible feud between the Hive and Peacekeepers. Progress is slow and brutal across the heavily fortified bases, with much of the fighting happening off the rails and often even off road. Fields of tanks became the mainstay for the southern theatre.
That's not to say that squads of assault troops and paratroopers weren't allowed to participate in the great war game.
They were also pivotal in retaking all the Western Peacekeeper bases which were lost by the Peacekeepers to the University.
An aerial campaign against the Peacekeeper's once-island predated the land invasion, striking the terrible fear of god into all who felt the roar and thunder of Believing quantum weaponry. Most air raids were successful, with the Peacekeeper's own air force exhausted in their war against the Human Hive.
Political superiority isn't a bad thing to have. Yang's votes no longer count for he is permanently excluded from the council for his crimes against humanity.
Lal was allowed half a decade of peace whilst the Believers prepared their Western and Southland fronts.
In this interim peace I purchased one of Lal's bases; isolated away from Believing bases, full of soldiers and fortifications on the frontline of a warzone - the perfect testing grounds.
It took three medicine missiles MKIV to take down the base, more than expected, even with the knowledge that the Believers were using the best psi equipment so a live deployment on the enemy would require less missiles than predicted. The reason for this is because many of the mindworms created did not target solely the experiment base, but also targeted the Hive and Peacekeeper battlefields.
When at last the final defender died, mindworms burrowing into their poor skulls, I turned the base back over to the Peacekeepers.
The base that was left when turned back over to the Peacekeepers was entirely nonfunctional and soon taken by the Hive.
The invasion was delayed for too long, Lal took the initiative and assaulted my lines. The Believing lines suffered heavy casualties but the elite soldiers held their ground, saving the defeats from turning into a full rout or total oblivion. Hovertanks and infantry transported by APC or gravstrut tore apart the Peacekeeper vanguard and quickly lay siege to each of its cities in turn, isolating them from one another with air strikes on their infrastructure and mind worms in their roads. The war was long and bloody, methodical and surgical in so far as Pangea taking a bonesaw to the cancerous peacekeepers. The only setback ever faced were University drop troopers attacking my own invading forces, but there were simply so many of my army present that the University could not kill them all before they were utterly swamped.
Ah another case of suicidal ai. Gotta love how they sneak attacked you while they had a totally empty base in full view. Granted even if it was defended, it wouldn't have mattered. Anyways, just got to bring the hive and the keepers into the fold to finally present an united pangeae. Awaiting the next update.
Aye, I reckon it's down to the AI getting jumpy at how powerful the Believers are and are becoming. The world is shaking under the power of our clones; the lesson learned is that future games should have secret projects turned off or balanced in some other way; a few are damn OP!
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