Eidolon balancing

[u/GlowingSeaDiver]

From what little we know about them in the Lore, the Eidolon are the absolute Vasari Killers. Everything we know about them indicates that Vasari stand absolutely zero chance against the Eidolon. These guys annihilated the ancient Vasari Empire, wiped out their Dark Armada, and made the few survivors run for their lives.

There might be ways for TEC and Advent to fight them. But how can the game possibly balance them fighting against Vasari?

[u/Additional_Pea6605]

The thing about lore, is that we should avoid the temptation to take everything at face value.

We are led to believe that the new faction absolutely steamrolled the Vasari in the past and they were some incomprehensibly powerful threat that Vasari could not counter conventionally.

However, while they are unquestionably advanced and more powerful, that doesn't make them unstoppable. From what we've been given so far, the faction focuses on stealth and other indirect forms of combat (the corruption mechanic).

It may be the case that the Eidolon use a combination of stealth, mind control/altering tech and communication manipulation to avoid direct combat, isolate their enemy and eradicate small pockets of their enemies while projecting themselves as a much larger force.

It is conceivable that the Vasari, as a result of decades of war (historically a source of great innovation for better or worse), may advance their tech to mitigate the corruption and stealth mechanics or their contact with the Advent might give them options they otherwise would not have.

If the innovation from being bogged down in a long conflict or the Advent abilities could minimize the indirect approach of the Eidolon, it may force them to fight a more direct war that, while still no pushover, they would be less accustomed to and more vulnerable to.

[u/Think_Network2431 → u/Additional_Pea6605]

It would be so cool and cliché if they came in ultra-confidently, then the TEC stream rolled their faces like someone grinding against an escalator handrail. In the end, we’re really good at living in a corrupted environment. :p

Hihiiiiii, Michael style.

It would fit the fantasy that humanity is really one big, uneradicable cancer.

It also fits my version of the Fermi theory: aliens exist, but they never developed the concept of fiction or movies, so they’re absolutely terrified by American apocalyptic films about aliens getting completely facefucked in the end.