I wish I had the will to spare you, but your miserable attempt at justifying any absurd piece of fluff shall never be met with the slightest ounce of pity.
Prepare to die!
Khas wrote:The Protoss and the Zerg are still quantifiable though.
OK. But that means not using anything that's obtained by using Terran industrial might.
This kind of acrobatic cherry picking will get old before you can think about it.
And
this is Earth at night.
Still a small portion of Korhal's urban area. Also, a large part of Earth isn't covered with tall metallic structures : the levels on Korhal show that the bottom is
all hazy and not visible. Not all sections of the ecumenopolis might look like that though. But if we look at how things happen on Earth, there's a lot of time to go by before we get to the point, or the need, to build such high and cramped cities, so tight that people are actually desperate enough to actually have to spend their time on the roofs of the super city, so much that there are entire flat sections that are vast enough to be playable areas without ravines to completely isolate entire sections of the maps, so vast that they build large gardens on top of them.
Not even the densest section of Tokyo reaches that extreme state.
The point is relatively clear: if they built that section of the ecunemopolis that way, it is because they had to cram that many people in such small areas.
Which is in fact another silly aspect of new Korhal: there's no reason to cram so many people when you have an entire planet at your disposal, and when you have actually rebuilt an urban area over like a full third of the planet's surface, at the very least. Even less when you have only a few billions of people to settle.
And of course, rooftops are full of crystals and gas! But perhaps those things tend to regrow stupidly fast. Then, of course, this begs the question as to why be so concerned about exploiting them and fight for planets if such resources just happen to renew themselves naturally...
Earth, on the other hand, took us a full century of industrial process to get built up, and we worked out from the already existing even older cities in many places. And, in the end, only a few areas ever approach the kind of urbanization of Korhal. Such places would simply be any city where there's just plenty of tall skyscrappers.
It's also possible, given Mengsk's personality, that a lot of that light is for show, to make Korhal seem more inviting.
Oh come on. If by possible you mean as likely as man terraforming Venus at the end of the week.
Evidence from the game shows that it's more than a mere New Las Vegas light show.
As for the background material trying to fit game mechanics, was the only bit of SC background material you've read "Shadow of the Xel'Naga"? Beacause the other books aren't like that at all. Not to mention I don't think the manual's backstory was game-mechanic-filled.
In about every single large versus thread, those issues crop up. The most amusing being the small creatures on the ground taking down what is meant to be big ass ships.
And about New Folsom:
A: It's smaller than Mars.
B: As I've said before, there could be a metric fuckton of carbon nanotubes that make up those supports. I've seen the possibility of building a carbon nanotube space elevator seriously be considered before.
C: New Folsom was geologically unstable.
D: It gets pummelled by asteroids.
E: As to the energy used to suppport it, I'm gonna go use the same explanation that KSW used to explain how the Death Star blows up planets: Geothermal energy.
A: yes, but that doesn't change a thing. Had you said it was smaller than the Death Star, then somehow, we might have begun going somewhere. But it is not. The amount of infrastructure involved there is just silly. There's not a single ounce of logic in spending so much resources that way. When you can build that kind of structure around a small planet, you can strip mine it very easily without actually doing that kind of nonsensical crap.
B: if you're speaking of the strength, a space elevator is not the same thing, if only for a mere question of mass and gravity. Your space elevator is nothing more than a tube linking something on the ground to something in orbit. Here we're talking about lengthy structures which are like dozens of kilometers wide, and either circling the planet or connecting two side of the open ravines.
C: that changes nothing. An unstable planet will be subject to large seismic activity. It ends there. Obviously, a civilization that can do that to a planet won't be bothered by a few volcanoes and earthquakes. It will also not bother to actually keep the crust open in such a way that it miraculously prevent the hundreds of kilometers tall cliffs to collapse on themselves. Contrary to popular belief, past a certain scale, a planet is nothing more than aggregated pebbles. The only way to prevent the planet from collapsing, short of mega force fields (which we didn't see any evidence of, mere shields being quite a rare sight for Terrans), you'd have to pave the walls of those giant ravines (leading straight to the exposed core) with super materials, then build a mesh over it and a network of beams and structure to prevent all this crap from falling, up to the point where you realize that the sheer amount of artificial structures needed to maintain the nation sized walls from crumbling will actually crumble under their own weight and also add to the local gravity.
D: and? so they bother building a superstructure around and inside the planet, yet mere asteroids which they can easily intercept or even shield themselves from with those super structures, still represent an issue?
E: sure, what a wasteful project (not to say that I don't see any evidence that they're efficiently taping the geothermal energy). What kind of society would use such an advanced power and immense set of capabilities and yet still need the particular resources of a single planet? It's like being able to build a time traveling, black hole busting neutronium enriched super Death Star, yet make a fuss about exploiting a planet full of a *most important* chemical that's just as good as coal.
