We need to make sure that the U.N./China war adds to the world.
There seems to be a strong resistance to having the war go nuclear—with some good points. We want IST25, not Fallout IST. Nukes have been used, so there’s not much mystery in their use. But, okay, we won’t use too many nukes.
So, we keep the war conventional. Albeit non-conventionally conventional. We’re dealing with supers and superscience, so there’s no reason that this war doesn’t get strange. In my snapshots I’ve already got the Chinese using weather control devices and earthquake machines. I’ve put together a method for the Chinese to mass-produce metahumans and destabilize the catalyzed fusion reactors. I’ve brought the Kronin in as allies of the U.N.
How far does the Pacific war spread? Is it just World War II all over again? I hope not. But, really, it’ll have a lot of similarities. I don’t see Korea lasting too long, honestly. Maybe falling in 2002 at the latest. I know my snapshots have them holding out until 2004, but, that’s kinda silly, when you look at it. China’ll likely spread through the area quickly as they’ve been preparing for a war. I don’t think Hong Kong will last too long either. So, then the U.N. falls back to Japan and Australia.
How deep into Asia does China go? Do any of their neighbors ally with them (Hey, Acyl, any idea if anyone in that area, other than NK would be on that bandwagon)? Do any of them resist exceptionally violently. Are any of them likely to use nukes (keeping in mind the IST world, and not our world.)? Do any of them put up token resistance and let China roll over them?
However, the most important thing to happen in the war is that the U.N. has to come out of it stronger than it went into it. Without that, the IST world crumbles around us. Not that the world falls apart because the U.N. is all that keeps it together, but the U.N. is all that keeps the IST together, and that’s the point of the world. The U.N. is the central pillar of the world and we have to keep in mind that it needs to come out on top. If it doesn’t come out on top, then the defining focus of the world has been lost, and we’re not playing IST anymore.
There seems to be a strong resistance to having the war go nuclear—with some good points. We want IST25, not Fallout IST. Nukes have been used, so there’s not much mystery in their use. But, okay, we won’t use too many nukes.
So, we keep the war conventional. Albeit non-conventionally conventional. We’re dealing with supers and superscience, so there’s no reason that this war doesn’t get strange. In my snapshots I’ve already got the Chinese using weather control devices and earthquake machines. I’ve put together a method for the Chinese to mass-produce metahumans and destabilize the catalyzed fusion reactors. I’ve brought the Kronin in as allies of the U.N.
How far does the Pacific war spread? Is it just World War II all over again? I hope not. But, really, it’ll have a lot of similarities. I don’t see Korea lasting too long, honestly. Maybe falling in 2002 at the latest. I know my snapshots have them holding out until 2004, but, that’s kinda silly, when you look at it. China’ll likely spread through the area quickly as they’ve been preparing for a war. I don’t think Hong Kong will last too long either. So, then the U.N. falls back to Japan and Australia.
How deep into Asia does China go? Do any of their neighbors ally with them (Hey, Acyl, any idea if anyone in that area, other than NK would be on that bandwagon)? Do any of them resist exceptionally violently. Are any of them likely to use nukes (keeping in mind the IST world, and not our world.)? Do any of them put up token resistance and let China roll over them?
However, the most important thing to happen in the war is that the U.N. has to come out of it stronger than it went into it. Without that, the IST world crumbles around us. Not that the world falls apart because the U.N. is all that keeps it together, but the U.N. is all that keeps the IST together, and that’s the point of the world. The U.N. is the central pillar of the world and we have to keep in mind that it needs to come out on top. If it doesn’t come out on top, then the defining focus of the world has been lost, and we’re not playing IST anymore.