jasonh23761
Not too sore, are you?
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I'd love to see a scene where either SGC is reacting to this team's report or meeting Paul in person and getting some uncomfortable suggestions like the justice league.
In retrospect, it's odd the USG wasn't using a setup like the ODA's, where you've got a team of 6-12 with a Captain as a team lead, a Warrant Officer as a team second and then a mix of guys with 5-10 years of experience at least for the most part. You'd figure they'd pull something experience heavy for something like this, the idea of the other branches letting AFSOC, let alone Air Force regulars, mostly monopolize something like this is kind of silly.
Honestly, those sorts of treaties aren't worth the paper they're written on without some sort of monitoring and enforcement mechanism, something no major sovereign nation will consent to without some sort of proven external threat of near existential level.
IIRC, SG1 was what, early 2000s? Would any member of the P5 allow one of the other members to gain influence over them like that in that timeframe, let alone 20 years before or after?
The possibility of an organization like XCOM existing at the supranational level (that wasn't just something like CTRG from Arma 3) was always one of those things I had to suspend my disbelief over just to be able to play.
Although honestly, the idea of XCOM as a sort of UN Security Council backed hit squad that was hurriedly re-tasked to fight aliens would be pretty funny.
That's not a sargeant. SG squad leaders are majors at the minimum. That sort of work requires too much mental flexibility to be left to noncoms.
In retrospect, it's odd the USG wasn't using a setup like the ODA's, where you've got a team of 6-12 with a Captain as a team lead, a Warrant Officer as a team second and then a mix of guys with 5-10 years of experience at least for the most part. You'd figure they'd pull something experience heavy for something like this, the idea of the other branches letting AFSOC, let alone Air Force regulars, mostly monopolize something like this is kind of silly.
Ah, yes, one of the more awkward parts of the Stargate program : the US military monopolizing it in order to get a leg up on the other countries, even though it should by all rights be a joint effort involving the entire UN. Aren't there a bunch of treaties stating that the universe beyond Earth belongs to all of mankind, not to any one nation, and didn't the US and USSR once sign a pact saying that they would fight side by side in the event of an alien invasion ?
Honestly, those sorts of treaties aren't worth the paper they're written on without some sort of monitoring and enforcement mechanism, something no major sovereign nation will consent to without some sort of proven external threat of near existential level.
IIRC, SG1 was what, early 2000s? Would any member of the P5 allow one of the other members to gain influence over them like that in that timeframe, let alone 20 years before or after?
The possibility of an organization like XCOM existing at the supranational level (that wasn't just something like CTRG from Arma 3) was always one of those things I had to suspend my disbelief over just to be able to play.
Although honestly, the idea of XCOM as a sort of UN Security Council backed hit squad that was hurriedly re-tasked to fight aliens would be pretty funny.
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