Damocles 2017

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by Ieqo

Before you go wild giving Damocles new toys to play with, just remember that canonically he wasn't finished yet. He was hooked up to NORAD and SAC traffic nets in "listen-only" mode. The war occurred before testing was complete, so he hadn't yet been as fully plugged-in as his designers intended (it also explains why there were a bunch of civilians in the complex when he had his little..."episode"). So if you stick to that limitation there's no reason to worry about him going "Skynet" on you, and you have a good justification for keeping his arsenal small.

The point of the Mission is to "Reset" Damocles out of that operational wargaming mode. Then Damocles can run with full capabilities, not the scenario driven limitations or responses. Most of this talk governs the "After the Module" scenarios.

Damocles without the limits imposed by the wargame mode it has been locked into for 150 years.

Originally Posted by Ieqo

Things like this are one of the reasons I tend to stick with the "retro" EotW scenario: it allows me to spend more time on the "forward story" rather than trying to update backstory.

This isn't incompatible with the discussion so far.

Would you care to add your "forward story" to the discussion so far?