MARIANA HARVESTOR

[shit]

The 'Mariana Harvester' is a large harvesting station built similar to a NEXUS within the Mariana trench, reaching out from even the water surface. Its purpose is for the Combine to extend their harvest to the tiniest spark of energy, which in this case is to convert the earth's inner heat into a source of energy.

However, this plan didn't function as much as they wanted it to. It still converted great amounts of energy that would be beneficial, but brought massive amounts of tsunamis and floods with it, due to the continental plates changing their position. This was an expected occurrence by the researchers working on the harvesting tech', but was supposed to be less dramatic due to how the facility was stabilised. This error however lead to certain parts of Japan, New Zealand, Australia and China to be flooded temporarily and for the most part uninhabitable due to the mass amount of damage caused to the land. Some nearby islands also vanished from the map due to being submerged under the water from the facility.

Due to the catastrophic aftermath of it's first successful test, the facility has been disabled up until now, as to prevent union cities from being damaged. Its overall power output was also reduced, allowing for future safe operation within "acceptable limits". Now, if an event was ever to happen again, only the nearby lands would be affected within a radius of around 2,000 KM.

The facility may seem innocent enough, as to just gather energy, but it is speculated to be used as a possible weapon by the combine if the local land were to be conquered by resistance forces, posing a threat to the combine's operations. That is because the facility can easily mass flood the given distance above if it were it charged up higher than on it's first attempt. Although abandoned for now, the resistance sees this facility as a major threat, and would most likely act to permanently disable it if the chance was given.

If affects could easily hit a further range, but it will have a much lessened affect and any hilly and mountain areas will most likely remain safe and untouched. ​

 

[Robert]

Hmm... I am not so sure about this one, while it does sound like a nice idea, at the same time it sounds a bit over the top don't you think. It also begs the question "How much of the land did it flood on its first attempt and was it permanent?" and it also brings the question of "How much land could it flood in total if it was amped up to its highest limit?", these questions make me seem a bit sceptical of this addition due to its ability to cause mass chaos in a short amount of time. Also makes me wonder how well is such a place protected, and if it is so dangerous, why has the Combine not sought to tear it down or lower its output enough that the effects will weaken allowing for fixes and so on, or just lower its power output entirely. It could even be a case of, why not just shut down the whole thing and make sure it can't be re-activated without specific missing components, etc.

I don't know, this facility just seems a bit too much for what it is and sounds more or less like some capturable super-weapon that indiscriminately can hurt both the Combine and Resistance. I am currently heading in more of a denied route here.

 

[shit]

Hmm... I am not so sure about this one, while it does sound like a nice idea, at the same time it sounds a bit over the top don't you think. It also begs the question "How much of the land did it flood on its first attempt and was it permanent?" and it also brings the question of "How much land could it flood in total if it was amped up to its highest limit?", these questions make me seem a bit sceptical of this addition due to its ability to cause mass chaos in a short amount of time. Also makes me wonder how well is such a place protected, and if it is so dangerous, why has the Combine not sought to tear it down or lower its output enough that the effects will weaken allowing for fixes and so on, or just lower its power output entirely. It could even be a case of, why not just shut down the whole thing and make sure it can't be re-activated without specific missing components, etc.

I don't know, this facility just seems a bit too much for what it is and sounds more or less like some capturable super-weapon that indiscriminately can hurt both the Combine and Resistance. I am currently heading in more of a denied route here.

Yeah, now that you mention it it does really seem like a big fuck-up machine. Maybe we can make it less of a powerful weapon, but only reachable by air transport due to it creating constant waves that are enough to turn boats upside down.

 

[Robert]

Yeah, now that you mention it it does really seem like a big fuck-up machine. Maybe we can make it less of a powerful weapon, but only reachable by air transport due to it creating constant waves that are enough to turn boats upside down.

We can most definitely lower the power output, but that still brings up the same questions about how powerful such a weapon is still and its effective range. If it was just a good resource location that was defended by the fact air transport is required to get to it, then I am fine with it. Just as long as it does not turn out to be some big weapon of planetary or continental doom. It would be better as a good resource/strategic location more than a super-weapon of some description. I will leave it up to you to decide and make the changes on it. For now I am still not sure about this one.

 

[shit]

We can most definitely lower the power output, but that still brings up the same questions about how powerful such a weapon is still and its effective range. If it was just a good resource location that was defended by the fact air transport is required to get to it, then I am fine with it. Just as long as it does not turn out to be some big weapon of planetary or continental doom. It would be better as a good resource/strategic location more than a super-weapon of some description. I will leave it up to you to decide and make the changes on it. For now I am still not sure about this one.

Yeah, that's true. We could amp down the power of it, but it'd still be somewhat harmful for possible union operations in the water and or sorrounding the area. I think it being in position once humanity is cleared off the earth and all it's continential resources are taken, it could act as a last-man standing type of deal, but to drain the earth of it's inner power to then just abandon it.

 

[Robert]

I will add it into the map with a few edits of its description, reducing is overall power output and the effects it produces. It will be only accessible via air transport due to the waves it produces and if it does ever go unstable in any way or be used as a weapon, it will only affect any nearby naval facilities, ships and cause some damage to the local land.