ResearchTheirWeakness

Learn Their Weakness
Solution
Complete the "Their Weakness" project when it becomes available.
Description		Resolution
Second interrogation session. This time, our focus will be on angles of attack. We need something we can use against them.		It's hard to conduct an interrogation when you don't know what you're looking for. How do you stop an alien species that can enslave anything it comes into contact with? Several of our scientists have suggested closing the wormhole, and under pressure, the Hydra admitted that this might be possible. But it would just be a temporary solution to a permanent problem. There'd be nothing stopping the Hydras from creating another wormhole and trying all over again, and maybe doing something even worse. In the end, it was a chance remark that set us onto the path. Under pressure, the Hydra admitted that the second enslaved species, the "griffins," had presented no military threat. However, the Hydras viewed them with special concern due to their propensity for biological warfare. Upon persistent questioning the subject became agitated and implied that even humanity's (relatively limited) use of biological weapons in the past had further reinforced their decision to invade. Once we were done, and before coming here, I had a quiet word with some of our virologists. It's possible that the Hydra reliance on pherocytes might make them specially vulnerable to biological attacks. I think it's worth investigating.
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The aliens' best weapon may also be their Achilles' heel, Colonel.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Interrogate the Captive Hydra
Can be completed by Project:		Their Weakness
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Learn Their Weakness
Solution
Complete the "Their Weakness" project when it becomes available.
Description		Resolution
Our negotiations with the Hydras have hit a brick wall. The aliens apparently have neither motivation nor desire to compromise. Diplomacy historically has been less a matter of enlightened reason and more a matter of compromise made under the threat of mutual destruction. It seems we will need some leverage.		This has been one of our more uncomfortable projects. Trying to figure out some way to force the Hydras to the negotiating table has led us down dark paths. In the end, the solution came, once again, from our expatriates. Some of the more anti-alien members that left our faction have migrated to a faction known as Humanity First, led by a figure known as Colonel Castillo. Humanity First are not satisfied with merely defeating the Hydras. They want to kill them – all of them – and have conceived of biological weapons with which they hope to wipe out the Hydra race entirely. Humanity First believes that the Hydra pherocytes can be used as a point of vulnerability, allowing direct access into the Hydra brain and immune system. Our researchers have looked at the HF data, and, though they lack sufficient expertise to say for sure, they believe that HF's designs have the potential to work. Obviously, we do not wish for this plan to proceed. Even apart from the ethical concerns, the deployment of this kind of bioweapon would represent a further escalation in the human-Hydra war that would in all probability end with the extinction of our species, their species, or both of us. The threat of such an attack, however, might be the leverage we have lacked and needed. This kind of brinkmanship is an extremely dangerous game, but we are at this point out of options. We will set our researchers to work on developing a proof-of-concept bioweapon. I hope we are not making a terrible mistake.
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This may enable us to negotiate from a position of strength, Chancellor, and that may be the only position they understand.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Question the captive Hydra
Can be completed by Project:		Their Weakness
Notes

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