Timeline for What would make planet very hard to pacify?
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| Jan 26, 2018 at 17:45 | answer | added | Git | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 15:51 | answer | added | Adtopkek | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 15:35 | comment | added | Paul Johnson | @Clearer: in The Uplift War by David Brin the conquerors used "hostage gas": slow acting poison with an antidote available in cities. Either die from the gas, or come and get your security implant. | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 15:26 | comment | added | Len | I would look at situations in reality where a smaller or less well equipped army had advantages that helped them win their conflict, or at least made them undefeatable. Vietnam? | |
| Jan 26, 2018 at 13:35 | comment | added | Clearer | Any civilization with the ability to do space travel could pacify the population rather quicky; engineer a virus that will wipe out the population or dump massive amounts of nervegas in the atmosphere and the population would be gone in a fairly short amount of time. | |
| S Jan 26, 2018 at 13:01 | history | suggested | Rdster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 26, 2018 at 0:34 | answer | added | Todd | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 23:10 | answer | added | ACatInLove | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 23:05 | comment | added | cybernard | If I was an alien and wanted your planet I would simple take a rock 20 miles or so in diameter smash it into your planet. The dust cloud in the atmosphere darkens the skys kills all the food. All living things starved to death, and I can come back in about 5 years when most of it has fallen to the ground. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 22:04 | comment | added | Justin Thyme | @JBH Hence the application to this question. All bets are off if the planet becomes of strategic or economic importance. I am thinking of Saudi Arabia also as an example - ignored until it became strategic in the war, and then more so after oil was discovered. I don't see why this planet would be any different. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 21:51 | answer | added | user42551 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 21:12 | comment | added | JBH | @JustinThyme, that's a fascinating point, though it only requires holding on to the lithium deposits, not the nation. The Chinese, themselves, are proof that it's much more difficult to hold on to a nation. After all these millennia, no one succeeded in subduing China. I'll be interested to see how the Chinese deal with their national interests in that matter. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 20:27 | comment | added | Justin Thyme | @JBH Except that it has the world's largest deposits of lithium. It is now worth the effort. China has taken notice, and an interest. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 19:58 | answer | added | Jason K | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 18:53 | comment | added | JBH | It's prophetic that you bring up Afghanistan. That country has defied the technological advantages of both Russia and the United States for years and decades. Look also at how much trouble the world is having with Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. A gueurilla force can hold off a large mechanized force, especially in mountainous terrain, so long as they're using equivalent small arms and shoulder-fired weapons. Not to say there won't be a lot of casualties, but your elf/orc/klingons appear not to mind that. Q'apla! | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 18:06 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 16:43 | vote | accept | Jiguna | ||
| Jan 25, 2018 at 16:38 | answer | added | Justin Thyme | timeline score: 18 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 16:22 | answer | added | Tridam | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:48 | answer | added | kingledion | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:39 | history | edited | kingledion | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:38 | answer | added | Fattie | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:19 | answer | added | AndreiROM | timeline score: 16 | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:11 | comment | added | Jiguna | @Secespitus Yeah, it's a space opera, beside hand-waving interstellar travel and I want rest of the technology to not to be much different then ours. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:09 | comment | added | Secespitus | Just to make this clear: while you are asking about civilizations that are capable of occupying other civilized planets, which is quite some time in the future, you still want to look at current-day technology and weaponry, right? | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:05 | history | asked | Jiguna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |