Terran Reconstruction Proceeds Apace Bringing Hope, Complications

Terran Reconstruction Proceeds Apace Bringing Hope, Complications

By Piotr Borowiec, Tayseri Times

New York City, Earth- In a press conference held this morning, the Administrator for the Atlantic North-East UNAS Region, General Armand Yazdani of the SAMC 25th Armored Brigade confirmed rumors that the political bloc as a whole has reached the projected Sixty Five Percent barrier well within scheduled time constraints. A largely unofficial policy implemented under the Hackett administration, the Sixty Five Percent barrier refers to the critical threshold of pre-War conditions at which a given Administrative region of an industrialized nation will generally be able to meet the minimal conditions for self sustainment. In the UNAS overlapping areas of infrastructural reconstruction, agricultural augmentation, and geographical pacification have created one of the largest “Reclaimed Zones” outside the Yangtze River Valley East, Ganges River Valley North-Northeast, Southern Chinese Pacific (home of the Greater Hong Kong Province), Persian Gulf North-Central, and Central-Northwest Russian.

Stretching from the Great Lakes region to encompass a vast swathe of the Eastern seaboard, the region was and remains one of the most densely populated and heavily industrialized sectors on the continent, collectively home to better than a hundred and fifty million people. As a result it was prioritized for redevelopment shortly after the Crucible Event and the military’s assumption of planetary authority.

“Truly, this represents a great step forward” stated General Yazdani, “not only for the people of the UNAS but the Reconstruction effort as a whole. With Atlantic North-East producing net gains of both finished goods and agricultural product we are better situated to aid areas in more desperate need. Both within the UNAS and abroad.”

However such actions, while unavoidable given the ratio of military to civilian on the planet, may have profound consequences for regional geopolitics in the future. Dr. Isaac Herzog, professor of Political Science at Northwestern University had this to say on the subject, “Fragmentation, either in three years or thirty, because of actions taken today, is a very real, very tangible concern. These regions are developing in tandem ahead of their fellows, forming more personalized fiscal and material bonds under the aegis of the Systems Alliance. Factor in demographic shifts to the protected areas and I, personally, would not be surprised to see some of the global megastates such as the UNAS collapse into a number of smaller, independent nations in the future.”

Would that be such a bad thing? Admittedly I've never been there but it was my understanding that the UNAS already had quite a degree of independence for its member states built into its federal structure; would it do any great harm for interregional cooperation and the benefits thereof if the Union were reformulated as more of an alliance than a single 'nation'? (Europe was already one such multinational alliance, wasn't it? Pre-SATAE, I mean.)

Mountain Shithole. Radzones to the South East and North West.

Jungle Shithole. Insurgency all over the region.


Sunken Shithole. That's good and all, but I think most people forget that 99% of Oceania was bombed to oblivion. A couple Islands don't even exist anymore. Hong Kong's halfway sunk into the sea.

Desert shithole.Tigris and Euphrates still need heavy purification. Warlords still popping up in the mountains. Ethnic troubles. But at least it ain't the Suez or Palestine.

Radiation filled, angry populace and refugee shithole. Sure, as long as you avoid the radzones and stay the hell away from Moscow if you aren't human. Not to mention the fact that Russia suffered roughly 85% casualties to its civilian population alone.

Gotta give them credit though, they still claim they were the only country not to "fall" to the fookin' Reapers. Even if the Turians decided to go play Hastatim on them during the long year.



Kinda a surprise when pretty much everything from the James to Boston had been turned to ash by the Reapers.



So we go back to a bunch of the Old Countries. Whoop de doo, as long as everyone stays on the same page. Megastate politics are a fookin' pain in the Ass anyway. Terrible on representation.




You gotta love these articles where Officers are tossing around talking points. Don't even talk about the Satters or the Rad zones at all. Let alone let anyone from the ERI talk. Nah, gotta be all "Admiralty actually knows what the fook we're doing even though honestly we ain't got a clue out here but I think I'll just yell at the people who are doing everything before I run off back to the Citadel where things aren't a total shithole."


Have I mentioned it's fookin' hot in the desert?

Yeah, Earth won't be the most profitable planet for a few more years, but atleast with the Citadel in the system humans have plenty of economic opportunities.

Just to the James river??? The Chesapeake is a slag pit now thanks to the supersquids razing everything from Norfolk to the DC/Baltimore megapolis, and that was just the first week of the fighting. The Rappahanock and Rapidan got a taste of Reaper hospitality, in addition to the Reapers turning the Shennadoah into a slaughter pen for refugees. Bear in mind, that is just Virginia, where I was for the fighting, I can't even imagine what it was like for the poor bastards in the deep south...

Wow, it must be an absolute hell on Earth right now. I mean, I was down there doing volunteer relief work and have seen plenty of the improvements this article mentioned and indeed have seen Earth on the road to recovery quite solidly these past two years. But of course our dear friend Patriot must be absolutely correct and all these efforts were pointless PR stunts.

Unless he happens to be full of shit.

But really what are the odds of that.

Also, No love for Ottawa? It kinda became the hub for reconstruction supplies heading out to Boston, NYC, Toronto and Montreal after the War.

Please, tell us more about how Ottowa is the centre of the known universe. Fuck all these other places hit harder we're just dying to hear about it.

A busted nuclear reactor isn't mutually exclusive with being able to be minimally self-sufficient, genius.

When most of that jungle was dying by the time people could do anything about it, that the jungle is fucking thriving is a miracle.

Why the hell would anyone bomb ninety nine percent of a continent when a large majority of the only actual people lived on a sliver of it? No, when you look up pictures of the Australian outback, that's not the devastated aftermath of a horrendous Reaper bombardment, that's just what it is.

And almost all of Hong Kong is above water and doing pretty well for itself especially considering the shape of most of the mainland. I'd know, since I was kind of there.

And the hysteria over a few islands not 'existing' anymore is pretty ridiculous when you consider that whether they're below the ocean or not, their existence was and is the farthest thing from the area's secret to being 'self sufficient'.

Are we just supposed to pretend that warlords (read: a deserter who brought a few guys and a technical with them) never existed before the war? And are you actually bringing up ethnic issues?

This paragraph, in its' entirety, is literally nonsense.

I don't know what the hell you have against Moscow, unless you're not saying those guys are human or something. Moscow is doing so well that flocks of songbirds are thriving there, I don't think people are having much trouble there.

In fact, I don't even know what the fuck you're even talking about. You're telling me 85% of the hundreds of millions of Russian civilians alone were killed? Uh, we have numbers for Earth, and it rang in at a little under two million per day. It's a morbid number, sure, but unless all of that came from Russia alone, you wouldn't get a statistic even close to that number. Given that it's enormously obvious that the Reapers didn't absolutely hate Russia, we can assume that you... are not very bright.

I mean, this isn't even acknowledging the fact that the Reaper's modus operandi meant they didn't even try to kill people where they could avoid it. Hence harvesting. Hence why most city infrastructure was left standing. Hence why the Reapers began attempting to indoctrinate world leaders. It's why Earth is in far better shape than something like Palaven.

I don't even know what this means.

'Ash' is a pretty strong word for it. And by 'strong', I mean, hilariously unrepresentative of what 'pretty much everything' from James to Boston looks like. I hate to repeat myself, but the Reapers weren't so much fond of turning cities to dust. Probably saw it as, I dunno, a waste of good Husks.

Jesus, I don't even like SATAE and I can tell the postcard you're trying to hock of Earth is a pretty shit one.

Yeah, sure, 'round the cities and the "reclaimed" zones and everything are A-okay. But you start getting away from where the cameras are, where the big population centers are and you start rolling into lots of fookin' issues.



Now for the shitwad.


1) Yer one of those fookhead shitwads who run around parroting Illusive bullshit er whatever, and I honestly shouldn't be payin' any attention to someone lacking that much in either respect or grey matter. Because of all the fookin' things in the world to be jokin' about after the war ain't shit like that. Lost too many good friends over the years to Cerberus. On both sides of the ball.

2) You don't know shit about Earth right now by the looks sea.

3) Points one and two, re-iterated.


Nooo, but having areas of radiation which are more often than not either populated by criminals, slavers, or other undesirables with a side damaged tectonic plating are pretty exclusive to self-sustainment.


Quite the fookin' enviromentalist, aren't you. Show me some evidence to say that there's any real change between pre-war and post war in the jungles. Because statistics pointed at pollution going down, lul.


Still don't counter the fact that the northern and western parts of the region have people bombing the hell out of anything to do with SATAE or the Citadel council when they can. Or the drugs. Or the anything else.




Not the brightest, are ye? Most of the islands (and pretty much all of the cities from Australia barrin' Sydney and Canberra and three others) got the Bekenstein treatment, lady.


I was kinda there too. And it had taken some pretty bad licks.

And the point's not about self-suficiency. The points about some Moron Admiral trying to make his dick look bigger than everybody else, and that the policy is working perfectly and without flaw.



No, but these guys are running around with military grade equipment, salvaged warship parts, and reaper technology. That's a pretty big fookin' problem. Not to mention we ain't got the resources to naturally knock these guys over. And they probe pretty popular to the idiots livin' in refugee camps because they say they're better than the Alliance.

And ethnic issues are still a problem. Refugees get mad, people exchange words, throw some aliens into the mix and you got lynchings and gang fights. Couple that with SATTERS and everything else, and it makes one wonderful little melting pot of violence.


And yer response, in its' entirety, is literally nonsense.


I ain't got shit against Moscow. And that's nice and all that there are some fookin' birds there but that doesn't make up for the fact it went flatter than a pancake during the war. And that wasn't the Reapers. That was pretty much the resistance before Anderson managed to get in charge. That being said, central part of the city's mostly standing, it's the suburbs which look like several nukes went off in them. Or dreadnought tier accelerator rounds.

Because, you see, contrary to what the galaxy seems to believe we on Earth didn't just turn into cattle once the fleet ran like a bunch of cowards. Those old countries? Just because some politicians just Indo'ed doesn't mean their officers or troops did. Or did you not hear about the fact that soldiers from the EU and Russia somehow managed to cover for people fleeing to Siberia for the first month or so of the occupation?

Or how about when armor from the Eurasian countries created the largest armored assault in human history to try and beat back the Reapers?

Or how about the fact that once we got news about Palaven, some people tried to make their own version of it. Who pulled it off? A bunch of crazy fucks from Eastern Europe did. Shit doesn't fit the narrative their already tryin' to force. They make Palaven to be the glorious last stand meatgrinder because all people did was keep throwing wave after wave after fookin' wave in there without anything other than good old Turian/Krogan tactical mass assaults. No, that's the heroic fight where people were just led to their death.

We played cat and mouse, we waited. We didn't get a millionth of what got sent to Palaven got, because we fought smart. And we didn't quit either, not like those Turian legions that mutinied. We didn't have that choice.


That two million? I don't know if you know but there ain't any exact numbers from the war. Not one. Hell, 85 is exagerration because I don't know shit about anything. Only what I've seen and I know. Only fookin' estimates. Everything I heard was 2 million killed by the Reapers. But then you got medical problems, starvation, and everythign else that cropped up. 2 million might be right for where the people went chickenshit and surrendered, but where they fought things weren't so pretty.



Doesn't excuse the fact that during the initial invasion they would level cities with populations in the low millions. Or did you forget about Ft. Worth, Adelaide, Al Jubail, Hamburg, Tel Aviv, Barcelona, or any number of those?

They only preserved the big cities, the population centers. Everything else got torched. Plus the roads, and communications, and any other infrastructure. Smart tactic, but yer probably too busy circle-jerkin' to know that.



Long story short is the three guys who claimed to still be Russia's government and the army wasn't to keen on the Turians who got placed there during the long year. This was before SATAE too, so there was still lots of "Shit, what do we do now?" goin. Anyways, things got a little pushy with the populace and somebody fired something and all hell broke loose. Two Turian legions did their usual thing and overwhelminged forced the locals. They call it the Night of Ten Thousand Betrayals or something like that. Government survived the Reapers but no the Hierarchy. Some say Hackett ordered it. Others say the Turians just had a nasty case of PTSD. It's one of the reasons why SATAE's been a lot tighter to the chest on where we let our occupying allies stay anymore. There were a couple of similar incidents like it.



You get away from the stock photos and Earth is still pretty shit. I'm supportin' the Alliance till the day Old Dano dies, but the people in charge right now are more interested in playing the career game than the get shit done game.



But whatever, I got to get to my job of fixin' this mess. Toodles, bitches.

First of all - type normally you fucking ape. There is literally no need for you to transcribe your accent, all it does is make you look mentally damaged.


The fact that Earth was generally shown to be a polluted shithole considering humans didn't really get their shit together re: expansion apart from a lot of really, really awful colonial practices? So the fact that the jungle is thriving is actually really, really good? And that a working biosphere is fucking important to living somewhere? And that continuing problems don't invalidate triumphs in other areas?


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are you real

seriously are you real

I find myself hoping you're some kind of racist political caricature in a viral marketing stunt. Because otherwise you must be too stupid to function.

Those islands. Australia. They're... do you have any idea what the fucking population density of Oceania is? I'll give you a hint. A lot lower than anywhere else ever. If you are seriously telling me that the Reapers bothered to stop by and blow up every single individual island, racking up a body count of about three people each, you can only be suggesting that they had some kind of massive mecha-OCD.


Fuck off. Seriously. Just because you don't like some admiral doesn't mean you get to blatantly make shit up to try and convince uninformed people that somehow every story of reconstruction going well is a bare-faced lie to win support. What is going on in your head? Is there some kind of planet-wide conspiracy to make a blasted hellscape seem livable to the galactic population? Are you seriously trying to tell us that Earth secretly turned into Tuchanka while our backs were turned?


Just... stop talking. I can literally feel my braincells dying with every solitary fucking syllable you vomit onto the extranet at large.

THE BIRDS ARE REPRESSING US WE WERE ALL HEROES

And you also further proved that you cannot into statistics.


Are you fucking...

You're telling me that two turian legions just up and slaughtered Russia's government

You...

It's space madness getting to me. It has to be. I'll refresh this page and you'll just be a bad dream

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fuck


I hope an elcor sits on your head.

You do realize you are arguing with someone who makes me at my worst look sane?

Rad zones, Patriot? What's with these? The reports I've gotten don't talk about a radioactive wasteland everywhere. Just in the immediate vicinity and downwind of old fission models and where the ships fell to ground.

USIN' DA "TOO WACKY FOR ME" LINE WITHOUT BEIN' WACKY

10K PENALTY

LOSE ALL GUNS

NO USE OF FUNNY HATS

what the fuck are you even talking about you fat fuck

YOU HEARD HIM.

NO FUNNY HATS.

DON'T MAKE US GET THE RULE BOOK.

IT IS LARGE AND WEIGHTY AND YOU'RE TOO STUPID TO READ ANYWAYS.

no really i do not understand what the fuck you are talking about

what fucking funny hats?

it joke for make funny!

stupid whelp.

shut the fuck up

your drumming is shittier than dwick's posts