Happy Birthday...

[uk 75]

like all good beauty contestants you have got your wish. The world will get peace.

There is one catch. All the world's armed groups from The PLA to the Grimsdyke Popular Front and every Arms manufacturer on Earth are yours to command.

Sounds easy. Just find them all something more worthwhile to do.

But there is no guarantee the peace will last or that you will be left in charge. You have no idea where and how conflict might break out (and this is not the aim of this fun thread to find out).

So your world needs armed forces, weapons and arms makers. Who do you get to do what? and what with?

 

[Archibald]

The Space Race. Arthur Clarke had a quote in 2001-the-novel I like very much.

After ten thousand years, man had at last found something as exciting as war. Unfortunately, not all nations had yet realized that fact.

With its complex of workshops, offices, storerooms, computer center,
generators, garage, kitchen, laboratories, and food-processing plant, Clavius
Base was a miniature world in itself. And, ironically, many of the skills that
had been used to build this underground empire had been developed during the
half century of the Cold War.

Any man who had ever worked in a hardened missile site would have felt at
home in Clavius. Here on the Moon were the same arts and hardware of underground
living, and of protection against a hostile environment; but here they had been
turned to the purposes of peace.

After ten thousand years, man had at last found something as exciting as
war. Unfortunately, not all nations had yet realized that fact.

Drug them with some Overview Effect

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