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[Nightwriter]

You can defend five baskets or you can defend five thousand baskets. Either way you only have so many turrets. Where are you going to put them, if you have five thousand baskets and only five hundred turrets?

What if you only had five baskets to defend with those five hundred turrets?

Modifié par Nightwriter, 07 janvier 2011 - 10:12 .

[Dean_the_Young]

Nightwriter wrote...

You can defend five baskets or you can defend five thousand baskets. Either way you only have so many turrets. Where are you going to put them, if you have five thousand baskets and only five hundred turrets?

What if you only had five baskets to defend with those five hundred turrets?

There's also the matter of a less expansive network to defend. The smaller the amoung of space and systems needed to traverse, the better the Fifth Fleet or what not can respond, increasing defense efficiency.

[Dean_the_Young]

Nightwriter wrote...

I find your logic sound. Though I think countless other Terminus colonies are in need of the same tactical relocation.

Not one iota of compassion given, and a motive and intent worthy of a geneva violation (racial cleansing, technically).

Terminus colonies are depicted as not being under Alliance jurisdiction. I don't think the Alliance really gets to tell them where they can/can not be.

[Phaedon]

Nightwriter wrote...

You can defend five baskets or you can defend five thousand baskets. Either way you only have so many turrets. Where are you going to put them, if you have five thousand baskets and only five hundred turrets?

What if you only had five baskets to defend with those five hundred turrets?

In my honest opinion, resistance is mostly symbolic. Taking down a Reaper doesn't seem doable to me. Personally, I think that the best option is for everyone to get on a ship and hide behind an asteroid. They'll last longer that way.

[General User]

Dean_the_Young wrote...
Want to muse it out? Maybe the when and how it would work?

Sure, why not! I see it as both a prequel and a bridging DLC: 
 
First you “play your mission” in a flashback. You fight on Elysium, Akuze or Torfan, go through the whole battle. This also allows Bioware to sell three different versions of the same DLC. I feel no shame in admitting that I would buy all three.
 

Dean_the_Young wrote...
Not one iota of compassion given, and a motive and intent worthy of a geneva violation (racial cleansing, technically).

Terminus colonies are depicted as not being under Alliance jurisdiction. I don't think the Alliance really gets to tell them where they can/can not be.

Of course if someone voluntarily leaves Alliance space (Horizon comes to mind) they have no right to make claims of any sort on the Alliance.

I don't think Watson falls into that catagory though as it was the Alliance that set up the colony and provided for its defense.

Modifié par General User, 09 janvier 2011 - 05:46 .

[Nightwriter]

Phaedon wrote...

Nightwriter wrote...

You can defend five baskets or you can defend five thousand baskets. Either way you only have so many turrets. Where are you going to put them, if you have five thousand baskets and only five hundred turrets?

What if you only had five baskets to defend with those five hundred turrets?

In my honest opinion, resistance is mostly symbolic. Taking down a Reaper doesn't seem doable to me. Personally, I think that the best option is for everyone to get on a ship and hide behind an asteroid. They'll last longer that way.

Ah, I see. "Resistance is futile." So, in your opinion the best course of action is to burrow under the ground and wait out the winter.

Well, we can have five thousand Project Groundhogs on five thousand different worlds, or we can have five Project Groundhogs on five different worlds, each one complete with cloaking and shielding technology. Anyway, you can see how the same logic would apply. Though seeing the siege of Earth does make one go "Why do I bother"...

[Phaedon]

Well, frankly, the way I see it, soldiers have to fight because that's what they...should do. Sovereign, which so far seems to be an average reaper, wasn't destroyed by the Citadel and the Arcturus fleet until after Shepard defeated his avatar.



Yes, resistance as heroic as it is, is unfortunately, futile. Civilians should try to get away from centralized regions as soon as possible. It makes sense for the Reapers to hit centralized locations first. While staying in minor colonies doesn't make your life expectancy much longer, staying on Earth/Palaven/Thessia/Citadel/Omega etc sure makes it decrease fast.



If I am not incorrect, your basic reason for supporting centralized locations is the defence that they offer. My argument is that I believe that they offer none.

[Praetor Knight]

Well, what about the equivalent of a Coast Guard or Merchant Marines for ME3?

I would assume that such networks can help each other if they are networked with C-Sec, but its not clear what could happen in ME3 yet, so we can at least hope and brainstorm.