ResearchAlienChokePoint

Research The Choke Point
Solution
Complete the "The Choke Point" project when it becomes available.
Description		Resolution
Early research isn't promising, but we've got no choice but to keep trying. Continue researching the enemy wormhole and hope for a lucky break.		Well, sending our ships through the Hydra wormhole is definitely out. Even if we could get past the whole "frontal attack on the Hydra system" problem, the mass limits are far too low. Anything we send back through there has to be extraordinarily deadly in proportion to its mass. If we want to stop the Hydra from sending an endless stream of reinforcements through an endless stream of wormholes, we're going to have to take that wormhole and send SOMETHING through it that'll finish this for good. The only weapons that have the slightest chance of doing the job are chemical, biological, or nuclear.
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The alien gate is not one-way, Colonel. We can send a weapon through.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Wormholes
Can be completed by Project:		The Choke Point
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Research The Choke Point
Solution
Complete the "The Choke Point" project when it becomes available.
Description		Resolution
Now that we know that we are dealing with an Ellis Drainhole, our physicists and naval officers can work together to develop a plan to cut off the aliens from their source of resupply. We've requisitioned a meeting room and a lot of coffee.		We have studied, discussed, and discarded over a dozen plans. Over time, however, a consensus emerged and we kept coming back to variations of the same two ideas. Seize the wormhole, or destroy it. In the end, the deciding factor was risk. Seizing the wormhole would give us the greatest potential benefit, but also carries the greatest potential danger. We still have no real grasp of how the wormhole is generated, and we have no guarantee that we will be able to understand or operate the Hydra controls. Trying to take possession of it would likely leave us holding only one end of the wormhole, struggling to figure out how to control it, while the Hydras on the other end sent a limitless stream of slave reinforcements to attack us. Besides, in the final analysis, our mission is not to seize the Hydra's means of transport; it is to protect Earth. Closing the wormhole is the most reliable way to wreck the Hydra invasion for good. Closing the wormhole, however, is easier said than done. The obvious solution is simply to bombard the alien base from range – unfortunately, our researchers believe that once the wormhole origin and destination were connected, the Hydras must have created some type of quantum "scaffolding" relying on Exotics to keep the gate open. If this is true, attacking one side of the wormhole will only cause the attack to "bounce" towards the opposite end. Even reducing the alien base and its astronomical body to space dust would not destroy the wormhole itself – it would inconvenience the Hydras, but our attack must be more than an inconvenience. We need to end this conflict in one decisive blow. The solution that our researchers have come up with is to attack both sides at once, compressing the gate and forcing it to collapse. Success in this mission will require precise cooperation between our scientific and military arms. Our astrophysicists and engineers will develop two Exotics-based payloads, one for each side of the drain hole, with the intention of detonating them simultaneously. Meanwhile, we will assemble a heavily armed assault company tasked with escorting the payload operators and seizing and maintaining control over the wormhole. The entire unit will be formed of volunteers only. Realistically, we must expect that few of its members will be coming back.
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Our mission is set, Commander. We must close the enemy's gate.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Wormholes
Can be completed by Project:		The Choke Point
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Research the Alien Choke Point
Solution
Complete the "The Choke Point" project when it becomes available.
Description		Resolution
Whoever controls the wormhole will be position to dominate both the Hydra solar system and our own for generations to come. We should continue our research.		The wormhole, or the "Ellis Drainhole" as our researchers have classified it, is an impressive feat of engineering. While we are unable to build one of our own as yet, we have come to understand its mechanics. The wormhole can only transmit a relatively small total amount of mass in any given time period – teams of personnel are possible, entire space vessels are not. This explains why the Hydras were forced to construct their ships here rather than transfer them en masse from their own home. Another curious feature is that the wormhole is asymmetrical – much more mass can be transferred from the Hydra system to ours than vice versa. The Hydras have taken advantage of this to supply their invasion, but it could also theoretically allow us to ship large quantities of high-value goods, such as Exotics, from the Hydra homeworld to Earth, assuming a colonial outpost could be set up to properly exploit the resources. Unfortunately, our intelligence sources have learned that certain human factions have quite different plans for the wormhole – the self-styled "Resistance" want it not only shut down, but destroyed. Compromise seems unlikely.
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Whoever controls this wormhole controls the future of humanity.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Wormholes
Can be completed by Project:		The Choke Point
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Research the Alien Choke Point
Solution
Complete the "The Choke Point" project when it becomes available.
Description		Resolution
The wormhole is both our way to the Hydras, and their way to supply their invasion force. To negotiate with them, we will have to use it. If that fails, we may have to destroy it.		The wormhole is a type of discontinuity that has been dubbed an Ellis Drainhole. From what we can gather, its structure is stable, but not invulnerable; destroying its support machinery at either end should cause the tunnel to collapse in upon itself. Destroying the wormhole, however, is our last resort. We intend to send a negotiating team through instead.
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We have a path to access their leadership, Chancellor.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Wormholes
Can be completed by Project:		The Choke Point
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