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For some reason, I missed this post for months. I think this post is kind of genius. It would make sense for the aliens to try and terraform the Earth if they wish to conquer it, and they could do that via the climate weapon you just described. This would also somewhat fix the way that the orbital laser is implemented now, which is by causing continuous panic after a certain date of the campaign and forcing the player to do operation endgame or risk a game over. By replacing the lasers with a climate weapon, it would instead cause missions to become more and more difficult everytime and would make the player complete operation endgame out of the realization that they are struggling more and more to win battles and will have to complete operation endgame quickly or risk casualties and losses. This shifts from a hard doom timer that forces the player to do operation endgame or risk a guaranteed game over to having the player learn the alien's superiority and eventual victory from experience rather than from an arbitrary doom timer. Although, this idea might have some balancing issues that might be somewhat difficult to address, but I feel it is definitely worth exploring.