Originally posted by LoneStar1836
View Post
I still say so what? (In nice tones of course. ) What does Destiny have to do with the security of Earth? Nothing as far as I'm concerned. Dialing Destiny has absolutely nothing to do with the security of Earth or combating the LA threat in the Milky Way. I'm totally baffled as to how those two things are even remotely connected.
Screwing over an ally though does hurt ourselves in combating the LA...in the Milky Way. Their planet has naquadria which Earth highly covets.
If Homeworld had sent a contingent of military to occupy Langara because say it had actually become a base of operations for the LA, I'd have no problem with that. I don't even have any problem with the espionage of using the stones like they did. My problem lies solely with them hijacking the gate and attempting to dial Destiny with the very real possibility of killing millions.
Screwing over an ally though does hurt ourselves in combating the LA...in the Milky Way. Their planet has naquadria which Earth highly covets.
If Homeworld had sent a contingent of military to occupy Langara because say it had actually become a base of operations for the LA, I'd have no problem with that. I don't even have any problem with the espionage of using the stones like they did. My problem lies solely with them hijacking the gate and attempting to dial Destiny with the very real possibility of killing millions.
This was a case of Homeworld Command having intelligence that the Alliance had already set up shop at Langara. This intel, of course, was from Telford. The intel, as we all know, was absolutely wrong. God knows that the US military has made horrendous mistakes based on faulty intel before. I mean, I've met Marine staff sergeants who've had nothing nice to say about the intelligence community because they were constantly wondering whether or not they were going to walk into a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan despite the fact that the intel they were getting said they were supposed to be in a relatively safe area.
I think Telford saw this situation at Langara as a means to help the Destiny crew and took the risk. But the picture Homeworld Command is concerned about is the Alliance using the planets of our allies as staging areas. Given how successfully the Alliance has managed to stage its attacks against Earth and the Destiny crew, I think the top brass was looking for a way to decisively strike back and getting on Langara was, to them, the most immediate way to do that.
Originally posted by garhkal
View Post
The Ancients, the Asgard, and even the Nox weren't perfect. Now that humans have become as powerful as them, they're making the same kind of mistakes too. That's realism there.
Comment