10-07-2015, 02:39 PM
(10-07-2015, 02:36 PM)Surge Wrote:Sounds like us.(10-07-2015, 02:32 PM)Jim_Clonk Wrote: Also, imagine us throwing around nuclear weapons liberallyYup, in Sword of the Stars canon Humanity's first contact with aliens was when the Hiver queen Obsidian Crown, who had recently lost a bid for control over the imperium, led a colonization fleet of her remaining supporters to try and colonize Earth by force, they bombed and strafed the shit out of the planet for an (iirc) unspecified amount of time and then, like the cockroaches we are, we were still there, gone to ground but still there, then we reactivated every dormant ICBM on the planet (which by that point included a number of advanced fusion warheads) and threw it into orbit against the Hiver warships, wiping them out in a massive blaze of nuclear fire.ifwhen we get into an interstellar war.
If the Mars One volunteers get killed by possible Martians defending their home we'll probably nuke the shit out of them purely because they were there first and stopping us ruining their planet/