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The Monster Under the Bed
“Embrace your fear.”
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Yes, it’s one of best images of Terminus)
Sieg Zion!
Oof
They just need a little more Lebensraum.
Terminus’s plan assumes that humans will always be afraid of them. There are two problems with that proposition:
1. The more things are a known quantity, the less the fear is.
2. Quite a few people, especially adults, attack what they fear.
I’m here in Texas. We sleep with shotguns under the pillow and a rifle in the closet. There’s a pistol the cat lays on and the dog has a machete.
Translation: We have weapons and we will use them!
Do Terminus even know what is nuclear weapon? 🙂
even bigger problem, population. i mean with the way their social structure is, it looks to be kept purposely tiny, while us humans would outnumber them at least 1k to 1.
Beat me to it @etopsirhc. If competently led – which I do NOT think he is capable of doing – a Noxian OPFOR could cause a lot of pain with their unique ability to retreat out of reach before they finally got hit back.
Terminus’ leadership would get some early successes IF he hit remote, isolated areas. But if he picked somewhere with a competent civilian response force, much less a military target…it could all easily end in a single battle.
Actually, I wonder if the leadership might do this on purpose. Let ‘Mister Brilliant’ lead a pack of hotheads into a slaughter and then hold them up as an example of “this is why we have the rules we do”. Two birds with one stone.
I suspect he’s gonna find out that the monster under the bed has very good reasons to hide.
Humans? He didn’t even mention humans.
But yes, the “energy crisis” as Jarik Zekk put it, is never far. Then again, there seems to be more to it, seeing high scores of Shadow and Ruth.
Even more problems. Humans are very adaptable and they have create a lot of fiction.
If noxians make visible to people, humans will fast adapt, understand how that magic works and make it their own version to counterattack and make the invasion work the opposite way.
I think this old man won’t be long for this world.
Of course, he his successor already, and that’s not this egotistical little upstart. The worst thing to do, though, is underestimate what fanatics like said upstart are capable of.
But I am curious as to Nox’s history now. I foresee more than a few pages detailing the history of Nox, though undoubtedly through Terminus’s skewed perspective.
“restore the axis back to IT’S full working order”
Shouldn’t it be ITS?
Well spotted.
I’m sensing an usurpation coming soon.
Make Nox Great Again!
I mean, Terminus could’ve told this without mentioning the high lord is part of the problem. Ye he about to overthrow him 99% of the time.
Then when they do humans and Noxians will be able to date openly…
Classic over-confident young antagonist monologue. Terminus ego is really huge. I mean, yeah, everyone should have dreams, goals and ambitions in life, but sometimes it can be very extreme and bold.
“In order to ensure our security and continuing stability, the Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire… for a safe and secure society!”
Man. Where have I heard this shit before?
It never ends well.
Ah yes. The inevitable anime betrayal-for-the-common-good scene.
“Curse your sudden yet inevitable betrayal!”