And that sends a very particular message of what "solutions" to climate change look like: technological innovation, conquest of new places and planets, white saviourism, lower "consumption" rates.
Research is important in 4X games because technological progress is an engine for conquest.
A lightweight, air-cooled engine, Dr. Pisano and Dr. van der Linden said, "was the most significant technological breakthrough that would ensure the eventual conquest of the Atlantic Ocean by air".
And within another scientific and technological frame of reference we are treated to loud boasts about man's conquest of nature, a special case of which is that conquest of space with which we are presently concerned.
That could have helped fuel Genghis Khan's conquest of much of Asia rain meant bumper crops and ideal conditions for breeding horses, which were the technological juggernaut of his military.
That could have helped fuel Genghis Khan's conquest of much of Asia — rain meant bumper crops and ideal conditions for breeding horses, which were the technological juggernaut of his military.
Although Andromeda Conquest was only a simple game of empire expansion, Reach for the Stars introduced the relationship between economic growth, technological progress, and conquest.
Technological breakthrough?
"They are symbols of conquest.
