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Total Annihilation (Video Game)

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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	comment	Released in 1997, Total Annihilation is a science fiction Real-Time Strategy game created by Chris Taylor and Cavedog Entertainment. Pioneering game elements such as 3d models for units, terrain with a 3d heightmap, and strategic warfare on a scale simply not seen before, TA won dozens of awards at its release and is still considered by many critics to be one of the finest examples of the RTS genre.The war between Arm and Core began over the process known as "patterning", a technology that allowed the transfer of the human mind into machines untouched by disease or pain. The Core government, acting according to the will of the majority of its citizens, moved towards universal patterning, and backed up copies of all patterned minds into a central database on the world of Paradise.A small group of soldiers rebelled against patterning and the rejection of humanity they associated with it. They founded the Arm, a significant minority of militaristic hardliners utterly opposed to patterning. Around this time, the central pattern repository of the Core formed itself into a single vast intelligence, known as Central Consciousness, which took control of the benevolent Core government and instituted mandatory patterning for all. War became inevitable. Principles were at stake. There could be no surrender.Total Annihilation, then, is set at the very end of a vast galactic civil war that has utterly destroyed the once-great Arm and Core civilizations. Advanced resource extraction, transmutation and construction technology have allowed entire worlds to be stripped bare and turned into war machines in a matter of days, entire worlds built up and torn down again and again. The Core's mass-duplication of patterns to be downloaded into war machines was countered by a mass cloning programme by the Arm, creating endless armies of identical and utterly disposable combat units; there are no such things as civilians, there is no such thing as peace. The very reasons for the conflict have been largely forgotten over four millennia of hyper-efficient industrial warfare. Only the shattered military remnants of Core and Arm survive, still bitterly fighting over a ruined galaxy, reducing worlds to nothing but barren graveyards of broken machines.TA, despite advanced graphics (for the time), massive critical acclaim, unique gameplay and ground-breaking technical brilliance, was never hugely popular (it had the misfortune of being released around the same time as StarCraft) and is largely forgotten today. Its limited success is largely blamed on the game lacking the background material, storyline and character of its competitors. TA is often considered one of the most underrated games of all time.It is also one of the most moddable games of all time. It was designed from the beginning to have additional units available for download after release, so adding new units or altering existing ones is relatively easy. Total Annihilation fandom and player-made mods still cling to life more than a decade after the game's release, though most have migrated to its Spiritual Successor, Supreme Commander and the unofficial freeware game Spring (which can use Total Annihilation content - though the engine has since progressed so far that you need a lot of tweaking to get it working perfectly, and it'll be graphically sub-par compared to all the other games/mods on the engine - some of whom rival retail games in quality).Before Supreme Commander, there was the ill-fated follow-up Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, which used the same game engine in a magic-fantasy setting with four (then five) sides rather than two. Never as popular as the original, and the producer Cavedog went belly-up not long after the release of its Expansion Pack, The Iron Plague. However, Kingdoms enjoyed the same modding community as Total Annihilation, indeed to ludicrous levels at times.Another Spiritual Successor titled Planetary Annihilation has arisen on Kickstarter, this time upping the ante by taking the RTS genre to a galactic scale.Additionally, Chris Taylor has been reunited with Total Annihilation courtesy Wargaming.net. The possibility of a new, official Total Annihilation seems fairly likely.This game is now available digitally on Steam, being bundled with all the bonus "extra" units officially created by Cavedog, as well as more multiplayer maps that were not available on the original disc release and the Core Contingency mission pack.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_12478d23	type	Damage Discrimination
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_12478d23	comment	Damage Discrimination: Your units are generally immune to fire from friendly units, in the sense that it will pass over them, though splash damage will still take effect if the shots land close enough. Your Commander's D-Gun, however, will tear through friendly units if they get in the way.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: The Vulcan and Buzzsaw weapons are Gatling versions of the Big Bertha and Intimidator artillery superguns, whose shells are powerful enough to destroy entire buildings! Just one will almost certainly keep any forward assault from reaching your base, provided you can keep it powered. Doing that, however, is a case of Awesome, but Impractical; just one takes roughly 8000 energy to fire continuously, not to mention the energy storage necessary to make sure it can fire every shot without stopping. It also doesn't fire as far.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_143e6c8d	type	Heroic Mime
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_143e6c8d	comment	Heroic Mime: Taken to extremes; neither faction's Commander has any personality to speak of, and everything else is a plain robot.note Although technically, so is the Core Commander..
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_14752541	comment	Colour Coded Armies: In the campaigns, your side is always blue and the enemy is always red, instead of each side having its own colour.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_14df589e	type	BonusLevelOfHell
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_14df589e	comment	Bonus Level of Hell: The Krogoth Encounter included with the expansion, an absolutely brutal fight against a massive Core Krogoth manufacturing base. For all intents and purposes, the player must ruthlessly exploit the AI’s relative lack of intelligence.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_170468a0	comment	Magic Tool: Justified by the backstory explanation of the nanolathe technology.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_17975d1b	type	Unstable Equilibrium
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_17975d1b	comment	Unstable Equilibrium: You can suffer the loss of defense towers and a factory or two without issue. If the enemy manages to take out your larger fusion reactors or Moho Mines, recovering from that is a lot harder, especially if they can press with another attack.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The glossary in the manual goes into much greater detail on the science behind many of the weapons and technologies used in the game. See Shown Their Work below.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Subverted at the end of the intro, which explains why the game is called that (because the war between the Core and the Arm is a fight to the death, it must be a war to the total annihilation of one side or the other) but uses the synonymous phrase 'complete elimination' instead.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_1e0878c2	type	Palmtree Panic
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_1e0878c2	comment	Palmtree Panic: Thalassean and Nigh Pilago.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_1fba5f9e	type	Enemy Exchange Program
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_1fba5f9e	comment	Enemy Exchange Program: Commanders have the ability to capture enemy units. Trap a single builder somewhere (or immobilise it with a spider) and cap it and you can now have a combined Arm and Core army. Core Contingency makes it even easier, at least for Core - kill a builder, then resurrect it using the Necro Kbot.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_20178bd8	type	Anti-Climax Boss
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_20178bd8	comment	Anticlimax Boss: The last missions of both campaign have you fight, at last, the enemy Commander. Expectations of epic battles against a powerful base-builder vanish as soon as you fly a scout plane above the enemy base, and see the Biggest of all Bads... just chilling on top of a hill, doing nothing. Surely there's something stopping you from just flying a squad of bombers on top of it and ending the Forever War in a matter of seconds, right? Wrong.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack Galaxy: As so efficiently conveyed by the intro.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_233c183f	comment	"Risk"-Style Map: The Boneyards ranking system meta-game, until it was taken down.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_24cdd048	type	Arcadia
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: Empyrrean.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2557e3a9	type	Palette Swap
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2557e3a9	comment	Palette Swap: In the sense of the different planets. RTS games of the time such as Warcraft II and Command & Conquer tended to have different terrain styles such as forest or winter, but this made no difference to the gameplay. By contrast, TA introduced planets with lava oceans (or mist chasms between continents) where ships cannot be built (Barathrum and Temblor), planets with acid oceans that eat away at everything except hovercraft (Kral), planets made of metal so the normally limiting resource of metal is easily obtained (Core Prime) and so forth, changing the style of gameplay required for them. Also, each planet has a different level of metal deposits, metal in the regular ground, geothermal vents, wind velocity for wind turbines and life forms that can be reclaimed for energy.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: Supreme Commander. And now Planetary Annihilation.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2a542c7d	type	Beam Spam
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2a542c7d	comment	Beam Spam: The Core's T3 Defense Structure, Doomsday Device, is equipped with a Light Laser, a Heavy Laser, and an Annihilator Cannon.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Energy Machine Gun units (like the Peewee kbot and Flash tank) and the Gatling superguns mentioned under Gatling Good. The Arm's Phalanx flak unit was formerly one of these due to a Good Bad Bug, but its rate of fire was slowed in a patch.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The Krogoth is the Core's ultimate weapon, a giant K-bot armed with AA, an Annihilator laser, weaker green laser, and cannons, with more health than anything in the game. Just one will tear through almost any defense. Two or three are basically unstoppable. The trade-off is that Krogoths need a special gantry to build them, take forever to build, and cost a massive amount of resources. They are also vulnerable to the humble ARM Spider, which will paralyze them just as easily as it would any other unit. The Vulcan and Buzzsaw are rapid-fire Gatling versions of the Bertha and Intimidator artillery guns. Fully powered, they can lay down a spray of artillery shells that nothing can stand against. They also take three times as long to build and require eight times the amount of power to keep running. The Annihilator Cannons are the best laser weapons in the game, but they are only used by advanced point defense turrets. There are three units that use them, Arm's Penetrator and Shooter and the Core Krogoth, all of which are also impractical. The city maps are absolutely gorgeous, but good luck trying to get a proper metal economy running without hordes of construction units reclaiming stuff left and right, at least until advanced Metal Makers can be set up. Such maps often require the extensive use of Metal Storage structures so that you can hold all the metal that you may be forced to reclaim just to create room to plant structures. The Core Contingency expansion introduced land mines which were dismissed by the fan community as a completely useless addition. As an immobile, expendable, static weapon that is completely reliant on the enemy to wander right into it to be of any effectiveness, it was ultimately judged in the metagame perspective that the time and resources you would spend on setting up a minefield would've been better spent on building more units, base defenses, or even walls. Walking bombs. Sure, they're devastating - if they actually hit anything. Given how slow and fragile they are, even a light laser tower can easily shred them before they get close enough to do any damage. Also, since Friendly Fireproof is averted, they're just as likely to blow you up as they are to destroy the enemies.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2dbc1855	type	Ghost City
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2dbc1855	comment	Ghost City: Urban maps, which consist of ruined cities with derelict buildings and streets clogged with wrecked cars.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: One of the most effective tactics is to use radar targeting to bring down enemy buildings with a long-range missile launcher unit. The name of the Core version of this unit? The Diplomat.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2f755152	type	Invisible Wall
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_2f755152	comment	Invisible Wall: Zig-zagged. You can't order units off the edge of the map, but air units will happily disappear off the edge for a moment while maneuvering.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_32ae9544	type	Vertical Kidnapping
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_32ae9544	comment	Vertical Kidnapping: The air transport units can grab enemy units as well as transporting your own. One quick-victory tactic used in multiplayer is to quickly build one, send it over to the enemy base, snatch their Commander before they have any anti-air defences, and self-destruct the transport, taking the Commander with it. Of course, even if the enemy DO have a formidable AA defense, as long as the transport manages to grab the commander before it's shot down, it doesn't matter how the transport it destroyed, leading to the enemy team to be defeated by their own AA shooting down the transport while it's carrying their commander. You can also use this trick to capture constructor units and get the opposing side's technology.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_33310c11	type	Under the Sea
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_33310c11	comment	Under the Sea: Hydross, which has no dry land at all (though a Commander can climb onto a coral reef to surface, he cannot build on it.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Although the game noticeably lacked much background material, what does exist is extremely dark, focusing as it does on the descent of a fundamentally idealistic civilization into a civil war of utter annihilation.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_39c10f1d	type	Yet Another Stupid Death
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_39c10f1d	comment	Yet Another Stupid Death: It's possible to wipe out your own forces and buildings with careless use of the D-Gun.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_3d4f0586	type	Units Not to Scale
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_3d4f0586	comment	Units Not to Scale: Scout boats are as long as the largest tanks, and battleships are larger than any ground unit.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_3d699462	comment	As mentioned, Arm likes energy machineguns and Core likes light lasers, but the lasers are very precise and fairly slow to fire, while the machineguns are scattershot-type weapons. This results in Arm Peewees pelting their target with as many shots as they can not caring about precise aiming, while Core AKs waste time trying to line up aimed shots with their lasers. Result: Arm basic units curb-stomp Core ones with frightening ease.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: Arm's "Flash" Light Tank is the staple unit for one of these, offering a very nice balance in cost, speed and firepower. The Samson Tank is a low cost unit with a low damage missile launcher, but its versatility between both ground units and especially air units with accompanying range makes it particularly useful in large groups.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_42632336	type	Mecha-Mooks
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_42632336	comment	Mecha-Mooks: Everyone except the Commanders.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_440d55b3	type	Expansion Pack
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_440d55b3	comment	Expansion Pack: Two: The Core Contingency and Battle Tactics. The first was a full expansion complete with campaign and dozens of new units, the second a map and mission pack that doubles as an advanced tutorial.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_4536fd29	type	Energy Weapon
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_4536fd29	comment	Arm as a whole tends to favor conventional ordnance and rapid-fire weapons while Core favors slower but more damaging weapons and Frickin' Laser Beams.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	type	Game Mod
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_45bf382b	comment	Game Mod: Many, many mods. Many even continue to this day.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_4987746e	type	Ridiculously Fast Construction
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_4987746e	comment	Ridiculously Fast Construction: Justified.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_515189ab	type	Single-Biome Planet
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_515189ab	comment	Single-Biome Planet: Mostly; occasionally several different styles would be used on one map to suggest climatic variations, e.g. ice + temperate + urban.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_533bc7ae	type	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_533bc7ae	comment	Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: An exact excerpt from the Instruction Manual of the the Core Commander's Unit Description describes it as "The Mind of a Military Genius patterned into a soulless killing machine."
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_53c74613	type	Tactical Superweapon Unit
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_53c74613	comment	Tactical Superweapon Unit: The infamous Krogoth is the single most expensive unit in the game, armed with three different weapons capable of taking on quick swarms, heavy units, and aircraft simultaneously. It is also incredibly durable and explodes on death, making it risky for the enemy Commander to simply D-Gun the Krogoth.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_57a70347	type	Homing Boulders
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_57a70347	comment	Homing Boulders: Only 'smart' guided projectiles will turn to chase their targets. Dumbfire missiles/rockets, artillery, and even beam weapons will miss if the target can get out of the way in time.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_588d766f	type	BlackAndGreyMorality
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_588d766f	comment	Black-and-Grey Morality: Depending on your viewpoint, the war began as La Résistance vs The Empire, or a band of psychotic terrorists destroying great works out of futile bigoted spite. As centuries passed whatever ideals existed in the beginning gradually degraded into mindless hatred perpetuated by identical hordes of purely destructive machines, both sides eventually losing track of their initial objectives and just wanting the other side to stop existing altogether.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_5914d5dd	type	Slippy-Slidey Ice World
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_5914d5dd	comment	Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Gelidus.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_5914d5dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_5914d5dd
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Several units' names, most often on the Core side. As usual, the Krogoth stands out.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_60fa92ac
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6114a875	type	Lost Technology
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6114a875	comment	Lost Technology: Commanders and Galactic Gates, both said to be "technology level 10" (everything else is 1, 2, or 3) are implied to be this. It would make sense, as even the opening narration states that what remains now are mere remnants of the original ARM and CORE.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6114a875	featureApplicability	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Neither side attach any importance to the lives of its individual units; the Arm clone all their pilots, the Core can simply download another copy of the pattern. Unless you count the Arm campaign mission 'Vengeance!', where the whole mission is just to take a great big bunch of premade troops and charge around obliterating all the Core units on the map for capturing and torturing some of your guys to death.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_61c683d2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25	type	Nanomachines
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25	comment	Nanomachines: Ubiquitous, used for construction, reclamation, repairing and just about everything else.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25	featureApplicability	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c	type	Critical Existence Failure
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c	comment	Critical Existence Failure: Justified in the manual by having every unit covered in heavy armor that is several times more durable, but has no middle-ground between "undamaged" and "exploded". This is only visually averted by damaged units emitting light smoke and dark smoke.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: When an entire civilization can be built from nothing as fast as you can tear it down...
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6b510ace	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6b510ace
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name The planets' names: Aegis: Empyrrean's moon, called its 'guardian', and the Core has to fight its way through it to reach the Gate to Empyrrean - Aegis is a Greek word for a type of shield. Barathrum: Boiling lava seas and dead rocky ground - a Latin name for Hell or the Abyss. Empyrrean: The green and paradise-like Arm homeworld is a variant spelling of Empyrean, the highest heaven and abode of God in Christian theology (e.g. The Divine Comedy). Gelidus: An ice world, named after the Latin word for 'frozen'. Hydross: A totally water-covered world, named for the Greek word for water. Lusch: A jungle planet whose name is a Germanic-sounding corruption of 'lush'. Rougpelt: The 'roug-' suggests 'red', and Rougpelt is indeed a red world (early game documentation suggests it was based on Mars). The 'pelt' comes from the fact that the planet is constantly pelted by meteor showers. Which can really ruin your day. Thalassean: A sea world, named for the Greek word for sea. Tergiverse IV: Possibly an Incredibly Lame Pun. "Tergiverse" in Latin means to 'desert' in the sense of abandonment, and the planet was 'desertified' in the sense of having all its water drained and being turned into a desert world. And it's also possible that it was supposed to be drained of resources and abandoned from the very beginning, which would mark it as disposable. Temblor: An American Spanish word for 'earthquake', which Temblor is afflicted by. By contrast, the name of the Core homeworld and its moon - Core Prime and Dump - are very blunt and direct, reflecting the machine nature of their inhabitants.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_70d8269d	type	Excuse Plot
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_70d8269d	comment	Excuse Plot: Early in development, the two sides were the Rounds (who were cloned in round test tubes) versus the Squares (who were cloned in square tubes).
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_71d17dff	type	Everything Fades
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_71d17dff	comment	Everything Fades: Units leave wreckage, depending on how much base health the unit had and how powerful the weapon that finished it was. A medium tank destroyed by a rapid-fire light laser will leave a wreck resembling it with a similar metal content to the original unit; if it was killed by larger, heavier weapons, or the wreck then takes more hits, it'll turn to unrecognizable metal trash, and a unit insta-killed by a truly lethal weapon, such as the D-Gun or BLoD (Blue Laser of Death) generally leaves no remains. The wreckage can be reclaimed by construction units and, with later patch units, resurrected.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_72d2ac55	type	Clone Army
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_72d2ac55	comment	Clone Army: The Arm's troops are clones while the Core's are robots with uploaded human minds. Or at least the Commanders are, the ordinary units could be just robots.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_72d2ac55	featureConfidence	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The relative power of the different types of lasers are colour coded — the very weak 'popgun' type on scout units and A.K.s are orange, light lasers are red, heavy lasers are green, and the 'energy weapon' most powerful laser is blue.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Justified by the hyper-advanced materials and contruction technology that simplifies resources for military conflict into Energy and Metal. You still require storage structures to hold surplus resources, which will be lost if the storage is destroyed.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_765a84eb	type	Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_765a84eb	comment	Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke: In the late game, nuclear missiles are cheap, plentiful and extremely powerful. However, due to the scale, it can still be a drop in an ocean. Some community made nukes are/were several times as powerful as the original nukes, making the small ones look weak. Against lategame CPU with 10000 unit limit, you need several nuke facilities constantly making and firing nukes to see any effect.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_7706dd0f	type	Cosmetically Different Sides
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_7706dd0f	comment	Cosmetically Different Sides: For the most part. Arm units tend to be cheaper, faster and less tough than their Core counterparts, and their exact weapons differ slightly (Core likes lasers, Arm likes energy machine guns). Prior to the Core Contingency add-on including a few more, very few units were unique: Arm has the all-terrain Fido walker armed with a Gauss cannon, while Core's corresponding unit is the Mighty Glacier "The Can" Kbot. Arm has the all-terrain, stunner-armed Spider walker, while Core has the Goliath supertank (which renders the Core's Reaper heavy tank, equivalent to Arm's Bulldog, somewhat superfluous). Arm has the Annihilator defence turret, a long-range, powerful 'blue laser of death'. Core has the Doomsday Machine, which is much shorter-ranged but has all three types of lasers firing together. Later patches (that are included in the Steam release) grant Arm the Fast Assist Repair Kbot, a swift medic/engineer kbot armed with a powerful nanolathe for repairing units and assisting construction, while Core gains the 'Necro' Kbot that resurrects and repairs wreckage into whatever units or structures they were before being shot up. As mentioned, Arm likes energy machineguns and Core likes light lasers, but the lasers are very precise and fairly slow to fire, while the machineguns are scattershot-type weapons. This results in Arm Peewees pelting their target with as many shots as they can not caring about precise aiming, while Core AKs waste time trying to line up aimed shots with their lasers. Result: Arm basic units curb-stomp Core ones with frightening ease.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Chris Taylor chose a futuristic setting with robots because the game's engine wasn't yet sophisticated enough to handle realistic-looking human troops. Perfecting the engine made this possible, leading to Total Annihilation: Kingdoms.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_786bf97f	featureApplicability	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_786bf97f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Both sides' long-range artillery pieces, the Big Bertha and Intimidator. Their rapid-fire superweapon versions, the Vulcan and Buzzsaw. And then there's the Arm's Annihilator, nicknamed "The Blue Laser of Death".
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8344209e
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8618825d	type	Portal Network
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8618825d	comment	Portal Network: The Galactic Gates work like this. The two campaigns see the player jumping between the different planets in sequence, the Arm starting at Empyrrean and working their way to Core Prime and the Core doing the reverse - but not necessarily by the same route as the sequence of Gates they capture is different.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8618825d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8c4461de	type	Veteran Unit
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8c4461de	comment	Veteran Unit: Units will attain veterancy upon reaching a specific number of kills and will fire more accurately than normal units.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8c4461de	featureApplicability	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8c4461de	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8c4461de
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8d25533e	type	Your Size May Vary
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8d25533e	comment	Your Size May Vary: As noted above, the only difference between the cutscenes and in-game is that the Kbots are scaled differently. The objective scale of the units is hard to define due to the absence of anything to measure it against, but the expansion pack adds urban maps with the wrecks of futuristic cars: if these are similar in size to our contemporary ones, even the smallest Kbots in the game would qualify as Humongous Mecha.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8d25533e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8ffcbb25	type	Matter Replicator
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_8ffcbb25	comment	Matter Replicator: Extract Metal, 3-D print it with Energy. And turn Energy into Metal. Somehow.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_91c651a1	type	Guilt-Free Extermination War
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_91c651a1	comment	Guilt-Free Extermination War: Both factions use this and have to be sure they've wiped the other side out or they'll just rebuild with nanotechnology. The ARM fails to do this in the Core Contingency, missing a single unit in the entire galaxy, which promptly reactivates and proceeds to tear them a new one.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Seriously. Look at the name. The war is essentially an apocalypse of Galactic scope and severity ranging from Societal Collapse to Total Extinction with some planets suffering even Physical Annihilation; The Core Contingency Expansion Pack one-ups this with the Core plan to cause a Galactic Physical Annihilation with the only survivor being a single Core Commander, who would then rebuild the entire Core civilization. Hell of a contingency plan.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: Core Cans and Sumos. Armed with heavy lasers that make them more than a match for any other unit. So slow that they cannot catch up to any other unit.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_933576c8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: The pathfinding leads a lot to be desired at times, and the "stock" AI is not very competent in sea or air arenas. The stock AI is almost comically inept at dealing with Tier 1 rushes, as a small number of light units can easily assassinate its Commander(s) in the opening minutes of a Skirmish (where all players only start with their Commanders). The stock AI is comically inept at everything. It'll build random units without keeping note of what it's making, send constructors to make resource gatherers in the middle of your base, build few defenses placed in a completely nonsensical way, and even do dumb things like construct buildings so close together that the factories can't get their units out. And when it's done all that, it'll display a complete lack of tactics by simply sending its units against your closest position - even if it happens to be on the other side of a river, and most of its units aren't amphibious. No wonder mods came out that attempted to fix the AI. A stupid AI is still a dangerous AI. If you fiddle around for TOO long and don't attack, the enemy will eventually build up to a point that it can keep sending units upon units at you non-stop, making the current mission almost impossible to win.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_98c2a8f2	type	Humans Are Cthulhu
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_98c2a8f2	comment	Humans Are Cthulhu: Both of the sides are humans are their core, and in the crossfire of their war they destroyed nearly everything else.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9a3285c	type	Invisibility
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9a3285c	comment	Invisibility: In the original game only the Commanders were capable of cloaking, and this is usually only feasible if they are standing still—the cloaking device absorbs exponentially more power if they start moving, and you need the late-game energy production buildings to supply that power. The expansion pack adds cloakable spy Kbots and a cloakable version of the Fusion Reactor (although this is fairly self-defeating, as doing so drains almost all its power).
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: Arm, well, Spiders. The fan-made Cyberoth plays the "giant" part by being among the biggest mechs in any mod or custom unit. This is to be expected, as its creation was inspired by the Monkeylord in Supreme Commander.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9be7c205	featureApplicability	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The whole thing started because the Arm considered patterning too "inhuman".
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: The Core's "The Can" and Sumo units.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9d17b859	featureConfidence	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9e8aa11e	type	Friendly Fireproof
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_9e8aa11e	comment	Walking bombs. Sure, they're devastating - if they actually hit anything. Given how slow and fragile they are, even a light laser tower can easily shred them before they get close enough to do any damage. Also, since Friendly Fireproof is averted, they're just as likely to blow you up as they are to destroy the enemies.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a08b0736	type	Nuclear Option
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a08b0736	comment	Nuclear Option: OH HELL YES. Nukes, combined with long-range radar, are a Game-Breaker if your opponent doesn't have anti-missile defense systems. And usually, in the computer's case, they won't even bother to build any missile defense systems, or even their own nukes.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a2326b6a	type	No Canon for the Wicked
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a2326b6a	comment	No Canon for the Wicked: The Arm campaign victory was confirmed as the canon one by the story in The Core Contingency.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a247c4bf	type	A Mech by Any Other Name
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a247c4bf	comment	A Mech by Any Other Name: "Kbots".
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a247c4bf	featureConfidence	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a31c7ef4	type	Cute Machines
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a31c7ef4	comment	Cute Machines: Surprisingly, being near-mindless death robots in a game about a Crapsack World of endless war doesn't make the infantry units any less adorable. Some of them look very boxy, specially the Core ones, but they look so merchandise-exploitable that some players don't care.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	type	Back from the Brink
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a37e27db	comment	Back from the Brink: Both campaigns begin with an enemy attack on your side's last planet. The Core Campaign in the expansion is even more so, since you start out with not only the last Core Commander, but the only Core left in the galaxy.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a4cb54b4	type	Shifting Sand Land
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a4cb54b4	comment	Shifting Sand Land: Tergiverse IV, though it's actually a variant on the usual desert world setup as it used to be a water world before the Core drained all the water.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a590182a	type	Disintegrator Ray
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a590182a	comment	Disintegrator Ray: The Commander's D-Gun (in fact, that's what it stands for). One absolute in the game is that the D-Gun is completely unstoppable (by units, at least) and can take out anything in one shot, even a Krogoth. Not even land can stop it, it will go through any obstacle until reaching its maximum range (which is quite short).
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a9c7258a	type	Absent Aliens
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_a9c7258a	comment	Absent Aliens: Justified, since the war had virtually destroyed the galaxy. The Core Contingency expansion further justifies this: non-sapient alien life-forms appear in the form of Sea Serpents (indigenous creatures to planet Hydross) and Scorpions (cybernetic constructs created by the same long-vanished aliens who built the beacon at the galaxy's edge). The first thing both the Arm and the Core do when encountering these aliens is to target them for destruction. Though the Arm consider the extermination of the Sea Serpents "regrettable", and their reason for destroying the Scorpions is because they may carry alien contaminants that could damage the galaxy (never mind the fact that they have been on Lusch for several million years with no ill effects). The Core destroy both creatures because they are in the way.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b06ff73b	type	Variable Mix
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b06ff73b	comment	Variable Mix: This was performed by switching music tracks on the CD. This resulted in a jarring transition whenever you entered or left combat. In addition, the version before any patches were applies would always select the first music track, which cut down on variety.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b116ac06	type	Weapon of Mass Destruction
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b116ac06	comment	Weapon of Mass Destruction: The nukes, obviously, but the expansion pack's plot revolves around a plot by the remnants of the Core to destroy THE ENTIRE GALAXY with their appropriately named Galactic Implosion Device, which appropriately is the biggest structure in the game by a long way.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b1619b3c	type	Omnicidal Maniac
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b1619b3c	comment	Omnicidal Maniac: In The Core Contingency, the Core remnant plans to destroy the entire galaxy, but in a way that would leave their Commander free to begin again with the resulting new, empty galaxy.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b1c4bc94	type	Arbitrary Weapon Range
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b1c4bc94	comment	Arbitrary Weapon Range: Bertha/Intimidator are super long-range guns that can be used both defensively or offensively. The catch is that they cannot depress their gun below 0 degrees, resulting in a large blind spot.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b1c7f430	type	Sea Monster
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b1c7f430	comment	Sea Monster: The fire-breathing Serpents of Hydross in the Core Contingency campaign.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b1dcd2ee	type	Flesh Versus Steel
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b1dcd2ee	comment	Flesh Versus Steel: Although the "Flesh" side is pretty metallic in and of itself.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: Justified, as transmutation and mass-replicating is commonplace. The more powerful units and structures require seriously high amounts of energy to fire their weapons. In some of these cases, merely moving a heavy unit will drain energy, though this is usually offset by the fact that the unit in question also produces enough energy to balance out the drain.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b6ae5569	type	Transforming Mecha
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_b6ae5569	comment	That unit, the Pelican, actually transforms from Kbot to boat, making it the only Transforming Mecha in the game.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ba183b0e	type	The Paralyzer
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ba183b0e	comment	The Paralyzer: The Arm Spider unit is armed with one. Somewhat a case of What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?, because the point of the Spider is that it can scale even the steepest terrain, but you need a way to get other units over it anyway if you want to do more than stun the enemy when you get there. It can, however, be effectively used to stop the slowest (and thus heaviest) reinforcements from arriving into the battle, and often that's enough to move the equilibrium. Using the Spider to stun a unit for capture is actually a great way to get the opposing side's technology! As noted elsewhere on this page, the otherwise almost unstoppable Krogoth isn't immune to this effect at all, enabling Spider to stunlock the most expensive and powerful unit in the game.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: Galactic Gates. It's implied that using them consumes huge amounts of energy, making it impossible to teleport troops en masse. Hence only the Commanders are sent to conquer the enemy worlds. The manual outright states that tremendous amounts of energy are needed merely to open a Gate: it has to be charged up for weeks before it can be activated, and considering the amount of energy that these civilizations are capable of producing, that's saying something. In addition to the energy limitation, the Gate collapses as soon as a few thousand kilos pass through it, which makes it most cost-effective to send a Commander through most of the time. The official strategy guide mentions that Galactic Gates are technology level 10, like Commanders (everything else is 1, 2 or 3) which also implies that they are a Lost Technology that can no longer be built—explaining why it's so important to capture them intact in-game.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba	type	Timed Mission
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba	comment	Timed Mission: The final Arm mission of the Core Contingency campaign gives you 90 minutes to kill the Core commander and destroy the beacon. You still have to destroy every unit to finish, but the timer is contingent on those two.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_bf67c13e	type	Opening Monologue
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_bf67c13e	comment	Opening Monologue: See page quote.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_c1105f41	comment	Hold the Line: The final Core mission of the Core Contingency campaign has you trying to survive long enough for the beacon to power up. Nothing stopping you from wiping out the Arm if you can manage it, of course.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: "Kbot" stands for "Kinetic Bio Organic Technology". Although often spelled with capitals, ARM and CORE are not examples—they refer to the fact that the two factions' power bases are in a spiral arm versus the core of the galaxy.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_c37fb907	type	Walk, Don't Swim
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_c37fb907	comment	Walk, Don't Swim: The Commanders, the Action Bomb units Invader and Roach, the Triton and Crock amphibious tanks, and Core's Gimp amphibious Kbot. The Arm's equivalent to the last does in fact 'swim' on the surface rather than walking on the seabed. That unit, the Pelican, actually transforms from Kbot to boat, making it the only Transforming Mecha in the game.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Two Core units' names were accidentally missed from the game files so they are identified in-game by their unit type description instead ("Mobile Artillery" and "Missile Frigate", the equivalent of the Arm's Lugar and Ranger respectively). Apparently the real names were supposed to be "Pillager" and "Hydra".
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a	type	Death of a Thousand Cuts
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a	comment	Death of a Thousand Cuts: particularly loved by Arm, who have several units with machine guns that fire weak pellets but spam so many of them that, given enough shooters, the receiving party will eventually succumb.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cbc54501	type	Faction Calculus
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cbc54501	comment	Faction Calculus: ARM (Subversive) vs CORE (Powerhouse), although the differences are fairly small.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cce399	type	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cce399	comment	This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: The Thalassean missions are water focus maps, making naval units essential to winning.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cce399
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cdcd7a78	type	Derelict Graveyard
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_cdcd7a78	comment	Derelict Graveyard: Turned the entire galaxy into one of these. Dump, the moon of Core Prime, was used as a landfill by the Core for thousands of years. All about the map, you'll find wrecks of everything from units to structures. Tergiverse IV is a desert world with no sea, but was formerly a water world before all the water was drained by the Core and used for industrial applications. You can still find incongruous shipwrecks in the middle of the desert.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Unless you count the Arm campaign mission 'Vengeance!', where the whole mission is just to take a great big bunch of premade troops and charge around obliterating all the Core units on the map for capturing and torturing some of your guys to death.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d0447c7b	type	Lightning Gun
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d0447c7b	comment	Lightning Gun: Used by the Arm Zeus K-Bot and Panther Tank.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d0447c7b
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d0ea147f	type	A.I. Breaker
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d0ea147f	comment	A.I. Breaker: Wall your base up using Dragon's Teeth. The AI will be incapable of dealing this, piling units at the wall in a vain attempt to reach your base.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d0ea147f
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: In both campaigns, the protagonists use the enemy's own Galactic Gates to launch a counterattack and reverse the course of the war.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d4d98674	type	We Cannot Go On Without You
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d4d98674	comment	We Cannot Go On Without You: In skirmish and multiplayer games, you have the option to set whether destroying one player's Commander takes the entire side with it, or not. The latter seems to be the 'canon' option, as destroying the enemy Commander in the last campaign mission does not take everything else with it.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d7d588c8	type	Lethal Lava Land
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d7d588c8	comment	Lethal Lava Land: Barathrum.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_d7d588c8
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_dae3999d	type	Action Bomb
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_dae3999d	comment	Action Bomb: Arm Invaders and Core Roaches.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_dae3999d
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7	type	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_df3b0af7	comment	Short-Range Long-Range Weapon: One of very, very few games then or since to feature artillery that could fire across an entire map and nukes with near-unlimited range.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e34ada78	type	Authority Equals Asskicking
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e34ada78	comment	Authority Equals Asskicking: The entire point of the Commander unit.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e34ada78
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e4e86215	type	Fake Difficulty
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e4e86215	comment	Fake Difficulty: The planet Rougpelt is periodically bombarded by meteor showers, which can destroy weaker structures/units and generally do a fair amount of damage to anything caught in them. This leads to much frustration when they destroy the base you worked so hard to build, or when they destroy a mission critical capture target that the computer isn't smart enough to repair. Temblor has a similar mechanic which has much lighter but more frequent earthquakes, while Gelidus takes it up to eleven with absolutely massive hail storms that can last minutes and vary in intensity. The above mechanic contributes in another way through the AI's scripting. There are groups of "asleep" enemy units scattered throughout a map, which ordinarily are scripted to attack at certain points, meant to give the player a buffer to build a base before any attacks come. However, these units will attack if damaged, and that includes any damage taken from the map effects. This can result in a rush of enemy units attacking before you have the means to stop them, especially if flight units are involved. On the last Rougpelt mission in the Core Campaign, an early meteor shower on Hard can see your Commander and anything you'd tried to build be wiped in 40 seconds. On planets with lots of plant life or wreckage, what would be a simple task to set up a base is made obnoxiously difficult by the fact you have to go on cleaning or destruction binges to clear enough space to build.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e63317eb	type	Green Hill Zone
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e63317eb	comment	Green Hill Zone: Empyrrean.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: Depending on your scale, either everything from the infantry Kbots on up, or just the seriously big ones like the Core Sumo and Krogoth.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ed3c6b4c	type	Sprite/Polygon Mix
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ed3c6b4c	comment	Sprite/Polygon Mix: All units are polygonal, as are some projectiles like missiles, whereas the maps and other projectiles are sprite-based. In a more literal way, the units and projectiles are not rendered onto the screen as one scene. Each unit is instead rendered separately, and drawn onto the screen as a regular sprite. It's hard to notice it because the "sprites" are re-rendered each frame, but the way adjacent units overlap instead of intersecting, and how some of the extremely large modded units run into the limits of sprite size, gives it away.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: most of your Commander's D-Gun shots won't be directed at the enemy - rather, they'll be force-fired by you at the surrounding terrain to bulldoze it clear of wreckage, plants and general annoyances that prevent you from building there.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f2877d9e	comment	Tergiverse IV: Possibly an Incredibly Lame Pun. "Tergiverse" in Latin means to 'desert' in the sense of abandonment, and the planet was 'desertified' in the sense of having all its water drained and being turned into a desert world. And it's also possible that it was supposed to be drained of resources and abandoned from the very beginning, which would mark it as disposable.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f3c2fec5	type	Jungle Japes
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f3c2fec5	comment	Jungle Japes: Lusch.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f3cf30d9	type	Arbitrary Headcount Limit
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f3cf30d9	comment	Arbitrary Headcount Limit: The game in its original state has an Arbitrary Headcount Limit of 250, even though it supports 256 different units. The game could be brought to a point where even if you made only one of every kind, you still couldnt make them all. Mods can be used to dial up the limit.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f81eef5c	type	Separate, but Identical
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f81eef5c	comment	Separate, but Identical: There are small differences when playing each side, even though the overall unit selection is largely identical. Arm focuses more on Fragile Speedster, so their units are faster with less armor, and they outright have better level 1 units (for zerging). Their level 3 superweapons are also better. The Core have better-armored but slower units, and their level 2 ones are stronger than Arm. They also have better range on their artillery. Arm as a whole tends to favor conventional ordnance and rapid-fire weapons while Core favors slower but more damaging weapons and Frickin' Laser Beams.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f81eef5c
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f9669a32	type	Useless Useful Stealth
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f9669a32	comment	Useless Useful Stealth: Stealth only blocks visual identification, not radar. This makes it pointless for attacking bases, which have radar of some sort.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_f9669a32	featureApplicability	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: Pretty much the archtypical example of the trope.
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fbb54ba6	featureApplicability	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fbb54ba6	featureConfidence	1.0
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fbb54ba6
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fc52510	type	Brain Uploading
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: The whole war started over the Core government instituting mandatory "patterning" and the Arm faction refusing to do so.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fc52510	featureConfidence	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fd2086a9	type	You Require More Vespene Gas
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fd2086a9	comment	You Require More Vespene Gas: The game had an original Resource-Gathering system where players had both an income and expenditure flow of metal and energy. Thankfully, both resources are infinite. The only annoying problem is when usage outstrips production and you run out of one resource during construction.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fd80c079	type	Super-Persistent Missile
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fd80c079	comment	Super-Persistent Missile: More so than in most RTSes, anyway. Particularly noticeable if you fly a super-fast Peeper or Fink spy plane over the top of a load of enemy missile units.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fd80c079	featureConfidence	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fe262584	type	Cutscene Power to the Max
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fe262584	comment	Cutscene Power to the Max: The (few) cutscenes unusually depict units looking and acting exactly as they do in game. The only exception is that Kbots and tanks are scaled like real infantry and tanks in the cutscenes, but like large mecha and tanks (similar in size) in the gameplay.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_fe262584	featureConfidence	1.0
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The manual's glossary explains much of the technology in TA as according to real-life science. One example: the Moho Mine, which is an advanced metal extractor, is short for Mohorovicic Discontinuity, which is the distance between a planet's crust and its mantle. As the manual says, the Moho Mine drills for metal at distances anywhere between 10 to 50 kilometers deep, depending on the planet. The glossary also goes into ridiculously detailed science as to how the Commander's Disintegrator Gun works and why nothing can defend against it.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ffd816e7	type	Everything Trying to Kill You
Total Annihilation (Video Game) / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: Some worlds are subject to earthquakes (Temblor particularly) and meteor or ice showers (Rougpelt, Gelidus) which hamper your ability to build bases even without enemy action. The Core Contingency missions add hostile alien life forms to this such as the Scorpions on Lusch.
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Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	A Mech by Any Other Name / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Absent Aliens / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	And Now for Someone Completely Different / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Anti-Air / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arbitrary Headcount Limit / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Arbitrary Mission Restriction / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Back from the Brink / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Big Badass Battle Sequence / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Bottomless Magazines / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Brain Uploading / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Capital Offensive / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Clone Army / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Clown-Car Base / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Command & Conquer Economy / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Construct Additional Pylons / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cosmetically Different Sides / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Cutscene Power to the Max / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Damage Discrimination / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Decapitated Army / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Defog of War / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Derelict Graveyard / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Desert Warfare / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Disadvantageous Disintegration / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Disappointing Last Level / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Disintegrator Ray / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Easy Communication / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Easy Logistics / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Enemy-Detecting Radar / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Enemy Exchange Program / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Everything Fades / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Everything Is 3D-Printed in the Future / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Expansion Pack / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Faction Calculus / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fan Sequel / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Flesh Versus Steel / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Fog of War / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Forever War / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Game Mod / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Geo Effects / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Grimy Water / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Guilt-Free Extermination War / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hero Unit / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hitscan / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hold the Line / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Homing Boulders / int_daeb5683
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hopeless War / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Hover Tank / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Invisible Wall / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Jungle Warfare / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Keystone Army / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Landfill Beyond the Stars / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Lethal Lava Land / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Machine Worship / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Macross Missile Massacre / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Magic Tool / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Matter Replicator / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Military Mashup Machine / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Misaimed "Realism" / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Mordor / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Canon for the Wicked / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	No One Could Survive That! / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	No Recycling / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Non-Entity General / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	One-Hit Wonder / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Opening Monologue / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Person of Mass Construction / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Plasma Cannon / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Play the Game, Skip the Story / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Point Defenseless / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Portal Network / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Protection Mission / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Rate-Limited Perpetual Resource / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Ridiculously Fast Construction / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	/ int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Robot War / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Schizophrenic Difficulty / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sensor Suspense / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sequence Breaking / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Slap-on-the-Wrist Nuke / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Songs in the Key of Panic / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a "The" / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sphere of Destruction / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Spider Tank / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Splash Damage Abuse / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Sprite/Polygon Mix / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Standard Sci-Fi Army / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stress-Relieving Gameplay / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Stun Guns / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Suicidal Overconfidence / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Super-Persistent Missile / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tactical Superweapon Unit / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	The All-Seeing A.I. / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	The Paralyzer / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Tin-Can Robot / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unstable Equilibrium / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Useless Useful Stealth / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Variable Mix / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Vertical Kidnapping / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Veteran Unit / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Video Game Caring Potential / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weapon of Mass Destruction / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Weather of War / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Winter Warfare / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Worker Unit / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Wreaking Havok / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	Yet Another Stupid Death / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Nuke 'Em / int_a3402a3
Total Annihilation (Video Game)	hasFeature	You Require More Vespene Gas / int_a3402a3
Spring (Video Game)	seeAlso	Total Annihilation (Video Game)
TotalAnnihilation	sameAs	Total Annihilation (Video Game)

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