User Guide

CONTROLLING SOCIETY
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• Salvage Unity Fusion Core. The rare elements from the Unity’s core pro-
vide 500 energy credits to each faction.
• Global Trade Pact. Increases income from inter-faction commerce.
• Launch Solar Shade. Causes temperatures to drop world wide, making sea
levels go down.
• Melt Polar Caps. Causes global warming, making sea levels go up.
• Repeal UN Charter. All atrocity prohibitions are removed.
• Reinstate UN Charter. If the council chooses to repeal the charter, it can
later vote to reinstate it.
Not all of these options are necessarily available at any given council meeting.
Many of the more radical terraforming operations have prerequisite technolo-
gies that must be discovered before they can be proposed.
In your regular communications with other council members you may request
that they vote your way in council. You can even offer them “special consid-
erations” (bribes) in exchange for their votes.
PROBE TEAMS
Somewhere between war and diplomacy is the realm of the spy. Probe Teams
combine espionage and electronic warfare, plus a fair dose of terrorism in their
capabilities. An effectively coordinated program of Probe Team operations can,
all by itself, give your faction a decisive advantage in the ongoing contest for
supremacy.
Probe teams cannot attack other units directly, but they can battle one anoth-
er to the death. Probe Team combat is based on the morale of the combat-
ants. Probe Teams can attack other teams even in squares containing other
units. Since Probe Teams have no “official” existence, destroying another fac-
tion’s Probe Teams does not violate a treaty or pact.