I kind of go with the premise that it was used not just as a placebo bit a loyalty teat that if they spread fear they wanted to know how many people would jump if they told them too.
I'd say it was a failure in that respect not because it didn't scare a lot of people to get it, it did but all the medical problems are on the ones that took it, they found all the loyal ones but effectively poisoned them all making them useless as anything but commercial drones. You can argue that's what they wanted but then that plan is idiotic considering that historically, causing food shortages and increasing living costs can cause violence to raise extremely high and they just neutered their 'loyal army'
They out here sending basic grunts and zombies whereas we have XCOM elite Templars, Skirmishers and Reapers that can devastate them if they got hot.
I think you're right just due to history, A LOT of empires fell because of insular information, nepotism and believing what was built before is enough to sustain them forever. Then they always get trashed by a smaller, more disciplined group that was forced to constantly adapt and innovate that is able to hit their weak spot so decisively they buckle.
I kind of go with the premise that it was used not just as a placebo bit a loyalty teat that if they spread fear they wanted to know how many people would jump if they told them too.
I'd say it was a failure in that respect not because it didn't scare a lot of people to get it, it did but all the medical problems are on the ones that took it, they found all the loyal ones but effectively poisoned them all making them useless as anything but commercial drones. You can argue that's what they wanted but then that plan is idiotic considering that historically, causing food shortages and increasing living costs can cause violence to raise extremely high and they just neutered their 'loyal army'
They out here sending basic grunts and zombies whereas we have XCOM elite Templars, Skirmishers and Reapers that can devastate them if they got hot.
I think you're right just due to history, A LOT of empires fell because of insular information, nepotism and believing what was built before is enough to sustain them forever. Then they always get trashed by a smaller, more disciplined group that was forced to constantly adapt and innovate that is able to hit their weak spot so decisively they buckle.