The First Intersentient War

Some thoughts. 

First, I refer you to this link:
http://www.stargrunt.ca/settings_hist/gzg_timeline/gzg_timeline.htm

2186 - ESU fails to support NAC (or so history 
records it - there might be two sides to this 
story)

2187 - Everyone starts to think defensive. 
Natural as breathing, as lethal to a war winning 
strategy as arsenic.

2189 - The humans suffer a deep thrust from 
the KV and determine "hey, maybe we need to 
work together..."

2190 - signs the Kra'Vak clans are working 
together more closely to overcome the Hu'man 
challenge

2192 - Kra'Vak (or perhaps a UNSIA/UNBOSS 
operation to help get the humans to panic and 
work more closely together by faking a Kra'Vak 
raid... no.... of course they wouldn't do that.... 
would they?) raid into the Sol system. Any 
human that hasn't got the message that this is 
for keeps is out to lunch.

2193 - UNSC orders Sol protected.... only parts 
of the fleets agree. Many colonial fleets tell 
them to "Sod off!". This undoubtedly creates 
post-war problems (assuming the humans 
survive period). The UNSC is assuming an even 
larger mantle of control of joint human 
operations... this is the creeping big 
government thing that the AE and a few others 
fear....

2194 - Siege of Sol has started.... by this time, 
we're all in the same pot boiling merrily away. 

So, what can we determine from this?

1) Traditional enemies won't want to help each 
other, at least at the outset. Political games will 
continue for some time. 
2) The UNSC will become more and more 
desparate and attempt to take greater and 
greater control (this could be a version of a 
political game in a sense)
3) Colonial fleets will worry about THEIR homes 
being abandoned
4) By late in the war, anyone who hasn't figured 
out we're all fighting to survive is probably 
pushed aside and replaced. I'd figure most 
human nations would be cooperating with the 
UNSC and the Big 4 would be firmly behind the 
UNSC (sometimes with knives... but that's 
nothing new). Everyone would be frantically 
expanding their supply of attrition units to blunt 
the Kra'Vak thrusts - planetary fighter groups 
would be being cranked out rapidly and pilots 
would get WW2 style training - get your ass up 
there and fight! Ground forces would be 
expanded dramatically with a full mobilization 
and then some to counteract the expected 
invasion. It would be very problematic for the 
commanders of Earth's defence to mount deep 
strikes against the enemy (the political costs 
would be enormous for such adventurism) 
despite the fact this may be a key to blunting 
the Kra'Vak thrusts - the ships would have to 
be seen to be "defending" not "risking 
themselves foolishly". Generals and Admirals 
would be fighting a war for "All the Marbles" 
with one hand tied behind their back by the 
public's panic and fears of widescale rioting and 
worldwide revolution and unrest. As things 
worsen, Army recruits may disappear with their 
weapons to defend homes and afmilies. Whole 
units may mutiny and you may see the 
worldwide "last day on earth" syndrome kick in. 

No one has talked about this. But... WHO SAYS 
HUMANITY WINS? Jon really hasn't let on. Maybe 
Earth faces a Kra'Vak Occupation! Maybe we 
end up having to drive them from Earth via 
Guerilla war. Maybe we just lose out and our 
hope goes to off Earth colonies (somewhat like 
the theme in the RPG High Colonies). Or maybe 
we just lose and FT4 covers the timeline of the 
universe sans humanity.....

Some grist for the mill. 

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Thomas Barclay
Instructor, CST 6304 (TCP/IP programming for the Internet)
kaladorn@fox.nstn.ca 
http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/CST6304
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