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* [[Not Playing Fair With Resources]]: [[The AI Is a Cheating Bastard]]. Its units don't ever need to resupply their weapons.
* [[Nuclear War]] -- [[World War III]] was fought with these, resulting in most of the nations being destroyed. Nukes also played a major part in both the war of 2140 and 2150.
* [[Nuke 'Em]] -- The premise deals with a [[Nuclear War]] as well as the nuclear strike that shifted Earth's orbit.
** This is traditionally the ED's superweapon. In ''Earth 2150'', the SDI Defense Center's only purpose is blowing up incoming nukes before they impact; the expansions add the ability to blow UCS Plasma Control Center bolts as well.
* [[Organic Technology]]: Morphidians in ''Earth 2160'', although it's a little vague: since the Creators couldn't make them fly properly, they gave them a mechanical Von Neumann fleet. Even the ground units aren't fully organic: there's cannons, metal, electronic parts, all of them [[Applied Phlebotinum|cloned]], somehow, organically.
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*** The LC have a variant of their own, but it's reserved for the artillery brigade.
*** There's an [[Area 51]] UFO that mounts a version that [[No Sell|bypasses shields]].
** [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]: The ED Laser Cannon. While [[Hollywood Science|mainstream]] counterparts burn, cut, or explode, ED lasers heat the target until its engine or ammo stores explode.
*** Oddly, the demonstration video shows the laser vaporizing an entire dummy target.
*** Oddlier still, ''Earth 2160'' turns the ED lasers into a [[Hollywood Science]] weapon.
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* [[Shout Out]]: The name of the hacker that is fighting UCS is called [[The Matrix|Neo]]. He is later captured and turned into an AI.
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Subverted initially (we ''are'' talking about Earth here) but gradually turns into a volcano planet.
* [[Slap -On the -The-Wrist Nuke]]: ED uses nuclear missiles as their superweapon. They are nowhere near as powerful as they should be, especially given that it was their nukes that managed to push an entire ''planet'' off its orbit. Also, the destruction of UCS nuclear power plants only results in a mildly annoying but not damaging nuclear explosion.
** The ''in''-game nukes are probably tactical, while the story nukes were strategic.
** More specifically, the ED has three kinds of nukes: silo-based ballistic missile, vehicle-mounted ballistic missile, ''helicopter-mounted unguided bomb'' (since nukes [[You Fail Physics Forever|apparently]] don't work against aircraft). The latter is a bit buggy in the ''Lost Souls'' campaign as it has infinite research time. It may be a bug, but missile silos also gain experience: hit a big cluster of buildings and your next nuke might very well have twice the bang.
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