Alien Xenocide

[Ashbery76]

Supremacy is the one that would little for carbon life.

 

[Browd]

Pretty darn close for something done from memory.

From http://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom2t045.htm: "To me, at least, the presence — not of human life only — but of life in any other form than that of the green things which grow upon the soil and are voiceless — is a stain upon the landscape — is at war with the genius of the scene."

 

[Elz Majesto]

I'd be surprised if the quest path to harmony required to "kill" native life. That doesn't sound very "harmonious".



This thread is called "alien xenocide". But who are the aliens?

Good catch. I just want to live out my Ender's Game/ Starship Troopers fantasy lol

 

[Ryoga]

Harmony=/= peace with aliens

I think the Harmony versions of That quest do actually involve building alien preserves instead of clearing nests.

However, there are a number of Generic quests that involve killing aliens (Harmony would be collecting specimens)

And Harmony has the biggest reason to clear nests... nests have Xenomass

So it turns out that not only you don't need to kill aliens to remove nests (at least not the alien units), you also don't need to remove nests at all to get xenomass (in fact nests work as free xenomass improvements)

So far all the affinity quests that I have seen seem to suggest that Harmony does in fact equal to peace with aliens and that Purity does in fact equal to eradicate the aliens in spite of their potential usefulness.

There is one specifically (shown in the latest MadDjinn playthrough) where you are asked how to deal with native life and it goes like this:

Purity = kill
Supremacy = exploit
Harmony = adopt as pets

 

[Browd]

Moderator Action: Moved to CivBE - Ideas & Suggestions.

 

[HandyVac]

I think this would work better as a victory condition in and of itself, perhaps coupled with building Terrascapes on all the xenomass resources to make a "Terraformation Victory".

My reasoning being that exterminating the aliens is about making the planet more like Earth, which doesn't neccesarily mean you want people from Earth to come live there. Wheras the Promised Land victory is about finding a safe environment where refugees from Earth can live, which doesn't neccesarily mean that safe place needs to be like Earth.

 

[edingess]

On a similar subject, has anyone seen AI praise you for killing aliens or is everyone pro-alien at the start?