11-07-2017, 08:40 AM | #101 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
Terrorism recruits from people who lack a reasonable alternative (in effect, it is a way for most people to give some meaning to their lives and/or deaths). If people can just gain everything that they need by colonizing another world, terrorist organizations are going to find recruitment very, very difficult. In addition, Homeline benefits from memetic and surveillance technologies liberated from other timelines, so I imagine that they minimize terrorism through memetic engineering and intelligence survillence (SEAL Team 6 can also use paratronics to hit terrorist camps from parallel worlds).
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11-07-2017, 08:44 AM | #102 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
Exposure to foreign memes doesn't mean they'll necessarily all take hold. They'll have to compete in the marketplace of ideas for popularity or mindshare.
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But this isn't really a hill I'm going to die defending. It's there to serve as a justification to avoid terrorism in Homeline, but you can go with something else if you prefer. But for the sake of argument, terrorist causes might not gain as much traction in an IW setting, or they might find other ways than bombing as being more effective vehicles for their message. Out-time plague releases or downtown dinosaur rampages might be more in vogue.
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11-07-2017, 09:30 AM | #103 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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History of Terrorism (Wikipedia) I believe the claim was that maybe nobody important seriously considers using terrorism to achieve political aims on Homeline. I think that claim presupposes that terrorism wasn't really a thing until the '90s, but that's not true. It might be true that terrorism is being seen as more and more effective in the post-divergence era, but that's not to say that it wasn't a common strategy before then. |
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11-07-2017, 10:11 AM | #104 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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I seem to recall Rev PK strongly implying that he thinks gate magic, Jumper, etc., in an IW campaign should be limited by quantum levels.
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11-07-2017, 10:49 AM | #105 | ||
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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11-07-2017, 11:08 AM | #106 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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I had one GM in an infinite worlds like game who instead assigned penalties for jumping farther than normal. I think it worked out to be something like -5 to skill per quanta.
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11-07-2017, 11:28 AM | #107 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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11-07-2017, 11:59 AM | #108 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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I believe Hezbollah was also formed before the divergence point. |
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11-07-2017, 12:04 PM | #109 | |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
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The IRA would almost certainly sell it, which I suspect the PLO might as well. Alternatively either group might try to use it to leverage legitimacy but that's risky. In either case, they would be more likely to nuke Israeli or English interests outtime, than on Homeline. Edit: Either one might be willing to use it on an Echo. I could see say the IRA nuking London in 1593, 1745, 1916, or 1922 or the PLO nuking Berlin in 1938 (bonus points because it won't be hard to shift suspicion to Isreal). Last edited by sir_pudding; 11-07-2017 at 01:27 PM. |
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11-07-2017, 01:40 PM | #110 |
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Re: Centrum Light, Homeline Dark.
They could also sell the research and technology to nations in pre-1940s timelines. The technical capacity for nuclear weapons existed as early as the 1910s, it is just that no one thought of the military application of such weapons until WWII. Alternatively, they could go to post-1940s timelines and sell the technology to the equivalent of India, Pakistan, North Korea, etc. How many terrorists would really care if another Nazi Germany developed nukes as long as they got ten metric tons of gold in exchange?
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