u/Winston_Duarte

Hello :)

I have a question that probably has already a few answers out there. I have read the intro on this wiki.

How to you plan your 2k army? Custodes is my first army and I plan to take them all the way. I am not looking for a list and follow it. I would like to know what considerations go into planning and how you proceed.

My knowledge base from the custodes are purely from the books and I have yet to play a game of tabletop myself. I have watched my friends play and they only meet twice a year for 2k army games. We just live too far apart.

A point can be made that Russia is not the big evil threat it once was. It has a significant nuclear arsenal but can not use it unless risking international consequences. Even China is very clear on not backing the usage of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

An opposing point is that the European infrastructure is required for the US to project power into the middle east. Without Europe sending forces is very costly. And Israel can not facilitate what would be required to replace the European infrastructure. At least not short term.

But the primary issue I think is that Europe needs to understand that we have to step up. The pressing problems are in the Pacific and the US has to focus there. It is no longer in a position that it can challenge China while also patrolling every shipping lane in the world.

For all its flaws, the stock market is still an entity that allows mid size businesses to prosper. But with the advent of soft AI specialized in analysis of the stock market, a few big companies will become extraordinarily powerful.

Should AI directly be allowed to participate in stock transactions? Or should there always be the requirement for a human decision?

I do not know why but the episodes about the Terran Empire are at the top 25 favourite episodes. To see characters have their personality twisted by 180° and people like Captain Archer do absolutely wicked things... It just gives me this guilty pleasure experience. Am I alone in that?

For example in Enterprise seeing Linda Park in the role of Sato - I completely admit to having a low key crush on her when I watched the series as a hound adult - in the mirror universe so utterly dishonest and calculating in contrast to the linguistics expert or Phlox being turned from the good goofy medic you just want to hug all day turned into a Sci-Fi version of Mengele inventing the Agonizer.. I think there is also the fact that these are great actors who were able to sell their alternative versions quite well.

What are your favourite or most horrified moments from the mirror universe?

I have noticed that we have been very trusting when it comes to the constitution of our nations. Thing X and Z are not possible because the constitution does not allow it. But in times of crisis even something like the constitution may be thrown out of the window entirely. It just takes one angry party-head with support from the correct institutions and a declaration of martial law to render the constitution void, to be replaced by a new one that may be not democratic anymore.

I understand that this is a worst worst case scenario, but I think we have forgotten how fiercely democracy had to be defended in the early days and it is not a law of nature that it will prevail forever.

A second question would be this: What are you prepared to do to defend democracy in your nation? Would you risk getting arrested? Getting beaten? Even getting killed?