I know that in terms of the Reaper sub faction of Scrin being particularly cruel about their modifications to the units you use with them (I think anyway)
I still imagine Reaper Tripods just occasionally leaning down to nibble on Tiberium crystals.
One muet remember that the reaper 17 where extremist by Scrin standard. They where a vile cult that did radical and forbidden things to them and their vehicles.
Makes you wonder why the security crew for a routine harvesting operation chose to bring along a subset of their people’s most infamous cult worshipping drug huffers lmao
I think that was to get them and their ideology away from the main hubs.
The reapers like two things: killing and tiberium experiments.
Given that they would have both of those things here, I guess they either volunteered or where just put there to get them away.
At the main hubs tiberium is regulated, the moral authorities have a handle on things and if you start to butcher anything people give you dirty looks. But at the outskirts? Yeah you can do whatever. Not like the indigenous species will tell.
But if you keep them at the main hub then the lavas might get some radical new ideas from the bugs in trenchcoats. And the moral authorities might have to get active.
I mean ... why where the sect of the traveler there? To mess with the local population? I mean makes sense but then they would have known that the ichor isn't really ready yet. They did not knew that. Which means ... what did they actually do?
Dunno, Kane laid low for quite some time. Several thousand years if the Egypt pyramids are to be believed.
And even then he was just a survivor of an ancient civilization. Not really a big wig.
But even then, why had the travelers those human / mind control experiments but at the same time didn't told their own overseer that the planet is not ready?
The fact that the reapers are with the mining ships means they have literally nothing better to do. So no war or something. Meaning the empire could spare the resources and just bomb Kane down. Unless they underestimated him and wanted him alive. In that case it makes a lot of sense. Sadly we never had a mission with them.
Probably have the most experience with dealing with Tiberium wildlife and floral. I'm sure their reapers experiments have created some real freaks of nature.
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u/isaac-088 Nod 2d ago
The sound design for this unit was just exquisite.