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This especially makes sense when you remember that, unlike a field of wheat or a garden of potatoes, herds of livestock and various other agricultural animals like chickens can be moved, making them more practical for a Resistance cell that needs to relocate from time to time than gardens or fields.

Killing off livestock does make some sense, since it removes a source of food outside of ADVENT's control, making humanity more reliant on them and making it harder for the Resistance to survive.

Their status as pampered pets that have no agency of their own (or even livestock) might draw some uncomfortable comparisons between their own treatment of humanity, and of course chose to sweep it under the rug.

Evil Is Petty: The 'Stray Dogs' scan event confirms that ADVENT has banned all domestic and agricultural animals, euthanizing everything from from dogs to cows.

This is essentially the main goals of the Elders as well, who've been testing on abducted humans in a bid to design bodies strong enough to withstand their massive psionic powers without decaying.

It also appears to be a front for an abduction operation, and so it is a frequent target of attacks by the resistance.

The ADVENT gene clinics are capable of eradicating any human disease via gene therapy.

The Conspiracy: The Elders present themselves as a friendly group of aliens who want to help mankind, while secretly harboring darker designs for humanity.

Les Collaborateurs: Plenty of humans are willing to work with ADVENT, either because they believe their propaganda, or simply for better living conditions.

Part of XCOM's mission is to show humanity the truth about ADVENT's intentions for the planet.

Benevolent Alien Invasion: ADVENT presents the invasion twenty years ago as such, where the benevolent Elders ended the 'chaos of the Old World' and gave humanity technologies such as clean energy and the Cure for Cancer.

Given all of the horrific things they have done, however, it's impossible to feel sorry for them, as lampshaded by Bradford and Shen.

Asshole Victim: The entire Ethereal race is slowly dying off, their physical bodies having been pushed to the absolute limit of what even their great power can sustain, and will most likely soon go extinct if the Avatar Project fails.

Other, less regimented environments, much less so.

This is because the aliens want to attract humanity to the cities for some purpose, so the beautiful cities are used as a pulling factor.

Ascetic Aesthetic: The ADVENT-administered city centres use this, with everything being squeaky clean alongside solid colours and simple geometry being used pretty much everywhere.

Aliens Are Bastards: Though the aliens present themselves as benevolent and gave humanity new technology, they also turned Earth into a Police State and plan to commit genocide on humanity to create life-prolonging Avatars for the alien leaders.

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