Aliens Never Invented the Wheel: Difference between revisions

* The alternate Earth that the ''[[Ace Combat]]'' franchise takes place in, dubbed "Strangereal" out of universe, has technology equal to or better than the the real Earth in the equivalent Earth year (withranging mostfrom entriesa take placeprequel in 1995 to the equivalentthen-near-future of the2020) latebut Coldnever Warinvented tothe nearICBM future).until 1995 But(where itsa people"V2" neveris inventedportrayed theas ICBMan unusual, one-off, superweapon) and only primitive nuclear weapons exist despite widespread use of advanced jet fighters. Even when the planet has space flight and designs missiles for anti-asteroid acts in 2005, the use of these missiles against Earthly targets is treated as an unusual concept. The exception is central to the world, as the series is all about modern fighter planes fighting each other, something that unlikely to happen with that pesky [[Mutually Assured Destruction]] thing we have getting in the way.