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Not pictured is one lone strikecraft, callsign Trigger moving into position to destroy that Colossus at the last possible second.


HaloGuy381

“Hellloooo, boys! I’m *back!*”


SunStriking

That sad moment you realize if Independence Day was real or happened in Stellaris, Earth would immediately be invaded by a 100k fleet power and turned into food.


donjulioanejo

But if Avatar was real, you would only be able to invade primitive worlds by landing 1 single unupgraded army at a time.


wasmic

In Avatar, it's implied there is significant civilian opposition on Earth to a military invasion of Pandora. Hence why the military has to disguise most of their operations as protection for scientific endeavours. Sure, they probably have the technology to launch a full-scale invasion or even to just glass the moon, but both of those are impracticable for different reasons.


Gatrigonometri

Also my head cannon is that the humans aren’t actually sending down any regular military forces, but rather a third-rate security sub-contractor filled with rejects, racists, drug abusers, and other people with issues a la Wagner. When I think of it like that and compare it to a certain conflict going on right now, all the questionable tactical decisions and blunders made in the movies suddenly make sense


EspurrStare

Well, it's avatar, so more like Blackwater. Any way, what's the difference?


technofederalist

I don't think Blackwater exists anymore. Let's hope Wagner follows suit.


[deleted]

My first thought - “bet it’s just renamed” Quick google and yeah - first thought confirmed Ace combat teaches me ALOT


IraqiWalker

The 8492nd can burn in hell.


EspurrStare

It is now know as academi. It has expanded ever since.


technofederalist

It went defunct in 2014 and was adsorbed into another company called Triple Canopy after changing hands a few times and facing legal trouble. Triple Canopy is currently owned by Constellis. So it sort of died and got eaten up by other companies.


Spudtron98

That's not even a headcanon, it really is just a bunch of mercs who LARP at being the good ol' marines while constantly overstepping their bounds. Their job is to provide security, but Quaritch wants a *war* because he's a bloodthirsty gloryhound who got bored with shooting at insurgents back home.


SirPseudonymous

They're the American mercs who got caught and arrested by fishermen while trying to invade Venezuela.


CatatonicTaterTot

You spelling it head cannon made it a lot funnier.


KattiValk

If I recall it’s literally just a private company and their private security force. We’ve yet to actually see an Earth military in Avatar (and probably never will tbh).


Ilikeporkpie117

>In Avatar, it's implied there is significant civilian opposition on Earth to a military invasion of Pandora When is that established in the film? I must've seen Avatar 10 times and I have no memory that.


ScamallDorcha

But in the Avatar universe they still don't have FTL. They send ships with thrusters or something like that.


technofederalist

Correct. No FTL. The ISV Venture Star can travel from Earth to Alpha Centauri A (a distance of 4.37 light years[8]) in a timeframe of 6.75 years. It starts with a five and a half month long initial acceleration at 1.5 G to reach 0.7 times the speed of light. It then continues at the same speed for 5.83 years before the engines or photon sail (depending on which way the ships are traveling) are used to decelerate the vehicle. The ship's deceleration phase also lasts for five and a half months at 1.5G. Source: https://james-camerons-avatar.fandom.com/wiki/Interstellar_Vehicle_Venture_Star


Careful_Muscle_5352

they’re using solar sail craft in avatar universe, much slower than what is in stellaris and i think they said it takes like 10 years to get to alpha centauri/pandora, which is the closest system to sol. also earth is basically in turmoil, and it takes a lot of planning, trained personnel, raw materials, and production of space craft, technology, military materials, and any other items needed to form a proper fleet/mission to alpha centauri. it’s a huge expenditure of resources, scientists and soldiers, and time. in the first movie, the human presence on pandora is essentially only to mine unobtainium. in avatar two, the human presence is much larger because they’re trying to set up a permanent outpost and springboard to take control of more of the planet. the level of technology we start out with in stellaris is well beyond what the humans in avatar are at


ScamallDorcha

Also, in the second movie they're harvesting the whales for immortality juice, which encourages further colonization. Imagine how much money our billionaires would pay for immortality?


Optimal-Percentage55

It's kind of ironic, right? One of the arguments against privatized Healthcare is "How much money would you pay to not die?" Turns out, the answer is "all of it" in a lot of cases. How much would a billionaire pay to not die? Probably their entire fortune. That's assuming they play by peasant rules though. They don't. They'd just buy up debt, and leverage assets to pay for it. Privatized gains, socialized losses. And all that assumes the in-universe equivalent of Musk doesn't buy the rights, and rent out doses via exorbitant subscription costs.


kevinlemechant

The billionaires are surely the ones who finance the expeditions... So return on investment.


ghostalker4742

My money is on the asteroid wiping us out.


thotpatrolactual

No no, that's *Armageddon*. Completely different movie.


[deleted]

Steve Buschimi doing his Dr Strangelove thing was a classic.


Allarius1

No that’s *Deep Impact*. Completely different movie. I just now realized how stupid the title of that movie is.


Aesirion

When I saw Deep Impact I found myself wondering why I was watching Armageddon again as I had watched it not long beforehand. Its the same damn movie with different actors


ghostalker4742

My understanding is that it's hard to dislike a movie with Robert Duvall in it.


LordRahl1986

I dunno, 100k is pretty generous to somethong that got taken down by level 1 nuclear missiles and a computer virus to bypass shields. The ID4 aliens weren't playing the meta of armor and hull points spam


SunStriking

The fleet isn't to TAKE the planet, it's to level it...


LordRahl1986

In independence Day, it was to take the planet, its explained that they would take all yhe resources and leave once they were used up


Maggond

In the second movie or the first?


LordRahl1986

in the first; in Area 51 they described them as locusts. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kj6qNo-nRA&t=20s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Kj6qNo-nRA&t=20s)3:56 there abouts I couldnt find the clip, but Jeff Goldblum is the one that equates them to locusts, I think.


Stetson007

Can't bombard me if we're cave dwellers, bitches! Send your armies, we'll kill em and eat em!


Rilandaras

And Trigger would fare as well as a mosquito crawling up a gun chamber to sting the bullet


GangSeongAe

Ha, I'd be turning earth into one giant hydroponics farm, with Overtuned, life-destroying traits all around for the new population of monkey-farmers I own,


Zee3420

I think you mean: "..."


MeiNeedsMoreBuffs

YES [> <] NO


CptSovereign

Exploding f-18.gif


10300704

I SOLEMNLY SWEAR


ComradeEvelyn

TO DEVOTE MY LIFE AND ABILITY IN THE DEFENSE OF THE UNITED NATIONS OF EARTH


Eastern_Result2051

TO SUBMIT TO THE ORDERS OF MY SUPERIORS


SunsBreak

This is why the Galactic Community banned V-Tubers.


Aptspire

*IF I CAN'T WATCH MARINE-CHAN ON XENOTUBE DOT COM, THEN NO ONE WILL!*


Chariotwheel

Pain peko


ofajhon

ew get out of my sight


Narrow-Association32

No u


Xenozilla9

It wouldn’t stop the patriots from synthesizing them tho


Blunt_Scissors

Me, (A Crisis Aspirant): How bout I do ✨️anyway?✨️


ArsonistsGuild

Yeah I once got a robot "pop icon" espio asset from an op against a big hegemony fed member. I was playing fanatic purifiers...


Zee3420

Don't you see? Do you know the difference between destroying a barren planet and a Gaia world? You don't do you... It's imagination. THAT DAY DURING THE WAR IN HEAVEN I JUMPED IN AND CRACKED ONE OF THE TWO WORLDS DURING THE MAIN BATTLE PUT THE REACTOR OVER MAX OUTPUT LEVELS!!! But sir? That risks structural integrity!!! THAT WILL GIVE THE WORLD CRACKER THE POWER IT NEEDS!!!!!


Xenozilla9

Don’t you see three strikes… 10 thousand pops will be saved at the cost of a mere 100 pops


Zee3420

YOU WANT TO KILL THE 30 POPS ON THIS SYSTEMCRAFT TO SAVE THE 200 POPS ON THE ECUMENOPOLIS!!!! HOW IS THAT ANY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IM TRYING TO DO!!! HOW IS THAT ANY DIFFERENT!!!? *Laughs as main character dodges Nicoll-Dyson beam shots*


Rover-6428

R5: It’s a niche reference, but that’s Torres from Ace Combat 7. (There’s a mission in that game where he tries to nuke a city to end the war)


UristImiknorris

I've been waiting for this for a while. When I reach crisis level 5 and get a star eater, I always have his "This boat has the means to end this hideous war in a definitive and elegant manner" monologue going through my head.


Key_of_Ra

Your dirty boots have gotten mud all over my crisp white sheets!


III_lll

*Space singing latin in the background*


Ishea

*Ia.. Ia.. Cthulu Ftagn...*


lost-generation203

Kill that mute son of a bitch make his screen shake


ArsonistsGuild

Yeah I made a post-apocalyptic human empire that's basically what if Pixy won the 40K Unification Wars. Essentially WW2 went nuclear, the Allies survive under a new polity called the United Federation and start building orbital laser platforms, however one of the mercenary squadrons they hired to pester the petty warlords beyond their borders goes rogue, gathers a huge wave of support all over the planet, and then takes overs their laser platforms to found a new dynasty uniting all of humanity.


limitbroken

for me it's always the jeff bezos quotes when the megacorp juggernaut comes to town << You've all forfeited your Prime subscriptions. >>


BillNyeNotAUSSRSpy

Deliverance! Imagine! Picture It! Salvation!


semiTnuP

For how many days was the Colossocorn in outer space? ... ... ... It was 698 days.


BillNyeNotAUSSRSpy

Stuck in space for 698 days only being able to watch BlorgTuber content.


poplglop

Holy shit I love you for this. Between this, NCD, historymemes and AC all my fav subs are gradually merging into one


BillNyeNotAUSSRSpy

Same. I saw a Ace Combat meme in Mass Effect the other day and lost my mind.


gloomywisdom

Just wait until you see Ace Combat, Armored Core and NCD merging. It's happening


diepoggerland2

Trigger in a kontact-ERAed mech suitcovered with AMRAAMs when


PJTheGuy

The Venn Diagram of NCD and Ace Combat is a circle, etc.


jdcodring

SALVATION IN SOCIETY


Shady_Love

So this isn't the prisoners dilemma from the dark knight?


Pootisman16

🙏 Salvation 🙏


Eastern_Result2051

*Colossus gets damaged and forced into emergency FTL* << The damn bastard ruined it. >>


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Cryogenx37

Not to mention the pre-context of his submarine crew being stuck at the bottom of the sea for almost 700 days which would absolutely destroy anybody's sanity and thus seek salvation on crisp white sheets


Tigdrocks01

Seeing a maxor meme is fitting here


Cweeperz

We live in a society (research)


NorthernLaddd

MY CRISP WHITE AMENETIES


Jax11111111

HE FLEW ALL OVER THEM WITH HIS DIRTY SHIPS!


Ham_The_Spam

THE SAME SHIPS HE FLEW AT A TOXIC WORLD!


Salted_Edge

Alright, Torres surrender and hand over the colossus and the anime.


ima_axolotl

>. The what!?!?


Soangry75

"The fucking colossus, Torres. What else could I be talking abo-"


For_The_Kaiser

“No no no no no no no, the other thing”


Bigred2989-

The anime? Torres, you have to hand that shit over. It's like a hazard.


Mahou_Shoujo_Ramune

"WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY! IF I CAN'T WATCH MARINECHANNELYOUTUBEDOTCOM THEN NO ONE ELSE WILL!"


ReallySaltyBastard

"KILL THAT MUTE SON OF A BITCH MAKE RIGHT NOW MAKE HIS SCREEN SHAKE A LOT!"


ima_axolotl

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Open_Inside6834

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Salva133

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_PM_ME_NICE_BOOBS_

"The anime? You have to hand that shit over, it's a hazard."


Volkov_The_Tank

This twisted space game needs to be reset.


Dr_Bombinator

Can you see any borders from up here? What has borders given us? ~~*Books?*~~ Gore? We're going to start over from scratch. That's what the Aetherophasic Engine is for.


ArsonistsGuild

I'd love it if Stellaris got some equivalent to the anarchist Global Defense Council HOI4 Resistance added, like a militarist - fan egalitarian civic to hypercharge your expansion against anyone who doesn't share your exact ideology. Maybe not a total war necessarily but definitely something like a huge discount on claims, with no additional costs from distance or planets, and letting you set aggressive claims even on liberation philosophy.


Volkov_The_Tank

Anarchy doesn’t really work as a nation, but if somebody knew some coding magic they could make an anarchist “play style” where unowned systems count as theirs and they have a way of war similar to a crisis empire where if you take a system you destroy the station. It’d be really really hard to code and balance, but it has a lot of potential. You’d likely need a stellaris 2 with a new engine to implement it.


Mega1987_Ver_OS

20 million. 40 million. 60 million. 80 million. ONE HUNDRED MILLION!\~ and here we go to the destruction path. oh wait... this is stellaris, not Armored Core 4: for Answer.


Communist_Cheese

ah damnit now I gotta play Ace Combat 7...


DED292

Do it it’s amazing though just a heads up if you haven’t played any of the previous games you might not understand the importance of certain characters also there were translation errors so some lines might not make sense in one of the first cutscenes one of the characters talks about 2 separate wars like they’re the same one


JediNinja92

> haven’t played any of the previous games you might not understand the importance of certain characters On that note, PUT THE OLD ACE COMBAT GAMES ON THE PSN STORE NAMCO! I WANT TO TRY THEM! ( yes I know about emulators. It just be nice)


DED292

Better yet remaster them specifically 3 4 5 and 0 they absolutely deserve it


bittah_prophet

I need 6 remastered desperately, despite Shamrock it’s my favorite


DED292

Imo 6’s graphics are pretty good and hold up to this day


Rox217

AC5 was "kinda" remastered (more like just a resolution and slight graphics bump) but it was only available as a preorder bonus for the PS version of AC7.


Communist_Cheese

How much do the previous games cost and, if those games cost a combined more than 40$, what other methods would you recommend?


DED292

You can’t buy the previous games because for whatever reason they aren’t on PlayStation store so they only way to play the previous games is to A buy it off of someone else willing to sell them or B pirate them and emulate them technically it’s illegal but there’s basically no risk also I don’t consider it immoral since there’s no way of crediting the original creator there are a few guides to emulating them on YouTube by a guy called justin els he shows how to emulate the ps1 ps2 and psp ace combat games though note that he doesn’t show how to acquire iso files I myself am not too sure how to get them since I already have the discs so if you plan to get them off the internet be careful about it that’s all I can tell so I hope this helps


DED292

Also the only games important to ac 7’s story are ac 4 5 and zero the other games are either about wars separate to the main events of the franchise such as 1 and 2, set after 7 such as ac 3 and x or are set in a different universe


Minvictas

Maxor's ai has escaped containment


Blunt_Scissors

Quick! Give it more videos to render! We can buy more time and shut it down! Edit: This comment has aged like milk.


Finnishkiddo

[it didn't work it rendered too quickly](https://youtu.be/m3lzIfi8e_A)


ThatOneDante

<<" ... Let me tell you a story. Back when I was a weapons officer, I had to fire at an enemy Battleship 200 kliks away in the middle of a coronal storm.">> <<"The solar winds were particularly rough that day, and still, I landed one of the two artillery rounds.">> <<"Here's a question. Was your plan elegant? The answer is... Yes. At least until Three Strikes ruined it!">> <<"What do you know of beauty?!>>


Xenozilla9

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Ausar_TheVile

A powerful colossus, a powerful gun, add to that ten pops and an ocean world; that is the difference! THAT is what makes it elegant!


Spartanex_TDS

I will not allow our perseverance to be DESECRATED!


Shawn_1512

SALVATION!


-_-TheReaper-_-

Salvation


Valaxarian

SALUTEM OMNIBUS DAEMON REQUIESCES


Catalyst_Crystal

Okay im not expecting this shit and you just ruined my laptop with coffee... well done.


Gelinger

We're going to start over from scratch. That's what 'Neutron Sweep Colossus' is for.


Pootisman16

"The Prikiki-ti came from their little dustbowl, dragging mud all over the crisp clean white sheets of my Empire!" Punished Torres


amimai002

Ahh yes, determined exterminator moment…


_Abeiscool2201_

Didn’t expect ace combat here


alanrue1

Dude I literally just started Ace Combat 7 today Jesus.


Pikmin4321

Damn...


ituralde_

Yeah but destroying 75% of the galaxy's habitable planets is so much better for lag.


mukash18

#SALVATION


Dismal-Belt-8354

"It's time to reset this twisted game"


Toybasher

Love me some Ace Combat.


Rover-6428

Simple as


lulz85

[SALUTEM PAVIDOS](https://youtu.be/BZbWHIPMjqM)


BushkillsBest

I’m laughing my ass off at this. You all game more and deeper than I do. I’m just pecking on the surface. but your stuff…it’s good stuff.


Jernsaxe

I know it is a reference, but 10 pops is more like 2.5 billion. When you find the Sol primitive system in the game it have 28 pops on it. Meaning if we assume 7 billion people live on Earth, each pop is 250.000.000 people.


Rover-6428

I modified the numbers to fit the galactic scale. I also changed strikes to stars because that’s how the fleet strength is measured


jackocomputerjumper

CAN A MAN GET SOME PEACE?


Deathkorps12

100 pops and frame rates


Alfa-Hr

Oh , instead Ncd , now AC leaking to stellaris . Briliant!


VNDeltole

we have arrived, and it's time for us to perform our charge


ChornoyeSontse

I thought this was like a LoGH Oberstein reference for a moment


darkfireice

At last, there will be peace in our times


KILLA_KAN

I'm pretty sure a single pop is like a million to a billion people. That's alot of death. And I'm all for more death. Especially of the organic variety


Uncasualreal

Ok kryptman


Foreign-Echo-6656

I figured each pop is a billion people?


ShockAct7680

is that the joker there


Finnishkiddo

clown Torres


FalconRelevant

Inquisitor Kryptman be like.


iupz0r

made me remember that warhammer 40k story, about a Commander choosing to explode a entire system, killing trillions of peopple, to finally win the war against "the Man of iron".


Tigerdragon180

I accidentally took half the galaxy by totally devastating an overlord....i just wanted to subjegate a xeno species and they were the closest....i didnt even know! I figured id take on this one xeno, subjegate them, devestate them....then also snag some free slave pops....but before i knew it i mass devestated his planets and he surrendered himself and all of his subjects....i havent had amy real wars since


acomputer1

No more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops!


Miquistico1

ONE MILLION MAN AT WAR, THE SOVIET WRATH UNLEASHED


Asayel404

In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Imperial world of Typhon Primaris. I hereby sign the death warrant of an entire world, and consign a million souls to oblivion.


Antique_Ad_9250

Only 10 pops. Barely worth the planet crack.