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roid phrenetically blurted:
> maybe you will be FORCED to launch missions
> as well.  as in, every 12hours, you must launch some kindof mission.  you
> can launch no more and no less.
> as time goes on, the time inbetween missions gets less.   this could be
> the alien's version of the gradual increased funding of the human xcom
> project.

 Or perhaps the number of missions you can launch, or the time between them,
depends on the number of bases you have, including the one on Mars.

 Alternatively:
 I'd expect it to take a long time to get reinfocements from other star
systems, so all the resources (ships, aliens, etc.) have to be bred in
situ, with cloning vats (sectoids, mutons, etc.), hatcheries (snakemen,
etc.), breeding pens (reapers, etc.), and suchlike. This would make the
loss of a base almost as bad as it is for the humans.
 I would expect ethereals to have to be imported from out of system.

 I'd guess the Mars base would be the main/only source of alien alloys,
food, etc., so you'd have to send supply ships to Earth. :)

 - Mel C
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