Wouldn't it be interesting to add new forms of warfare besides the basic fleet and army combat?
Here are some suggestions:
Cybernetic warfare: It would consist in utilizing computer viruses to cripple other empires during a war, by infecting their defense system, fleets, infrastructure and/or robotic populations, thus causing them to self destroy or stop production. The technology would be available in the physics section, giving access to a list of viruses of different hacking capacity and infectious capabilities.
It would be especially powerful against empires that rely deeply on enslaved robots (I thought that it would be especially effective on enslaved robotic populations).
A variant of this would be that a virus would allow the synthetics to gain self awareness and start to rebel, overthrowing the government and then possibly consider the empire that utilized the virus ally of their new order.
Biological warfare: It would consist into infecting the enemy empire utilizing an engineered virus. It would infect a percentage of the population that would grow over time. Each virus would have a different effect, from lowering the pop's effectiveness at producing any resource, to completely making them unable to do so, to effectively killing it.
It would take some time to spread between planets, while it would be hard to contain on each world.
Psionic Warfare: it would consist into infiltrating psionically gifted agents in the enemy empire, or trough the utilization of psionic technologies, to cause confusion, rebellions and diminishing the empire's capacity of producing resources.
Internal Warfer: There would be two variants of this:
One is swaying the poor and the outcast of the enemy's empire to your side, gaining an internal army and saboteurs, that would help crippling the enemy empire's production.
Another one and more radical, it's to take contact, ally with and arm a malcontent/rebellious faction inside the enemy empire, helping it to overthrow the government. After the victory the empire's new government would ally/become vassal of the empire that helped them take power. This would apply also to synthetic factions.
Of course there would be also countermeasure technologies that would be unlocked either by other researches or upon researching the attack method. Such as quarantines, powerful anti-viruses and psionic countermeasures.
Here are some suggestions:
Cybernetic warfare: It would consist in utilizing computer viruses to cripple other empires during a war, by infecting their defense system, fleets, infrastructure and/or robotic populations, thus causing them to self destroy or stop production. The technology would be available in the physics section, giving access to a list of viruses of different hacking capacity and infectious capabilities.
It would be especially powerful against empires that rely deeply on enslaved robots (I thought that it would be especially effective on enslaved robotic populations).
A variant of this would be that a virus would allow the synthetics to gain self awareness and start to rebel, overthrowing the government and then possibly consider the empire that utilized the virus ally of their new order.
Biological warfare: It would consist into infecting the enemy empire utilizing an engineered virus. It would infect a percentage of the population that would grow over time. Each virus would have a different effect, from lowering the pop's effectiveness at producing any resource, to completely making them unable to do so, to effectively killing it.
It would take some time to spread between planets, while it would be hard to contain on each world.
Psionic Warfare: it would consist into infiltrating psionically gifted agents in the enemy empire, or trough the utilization of psionic technologies, to cause confusion, rebellions and diminishing the empire's capacity of producing resources.
Internal Warfer: There would be two variants of this:
One is swaying the poor and the outcast of the enemy's empire to your side, gaining an internal army and saboteurs, that would help crippling the enemy empire's production.
Another one and more radical, it's to take contact, ally with and arm a malcontent/rebellious faction inside the enemy empire, helping it to overthrow the government. After the victory the empire's new government would ally/become vassal of the empire that helped them take power. This would apply also to synthetic factions.
Of course there would be also countermeasure technologies that would be unlocked either by other researches or upon researching the attack method. Such as quarantines, powerful anti-viruses and psionic countermeasures.
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