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The trouble starts when you combine 40k with another universe, and expect them to beat.. well, anything. I consider 40k armies to be roughly on par with current-day ones. More hitting power, less accuracy and range. Larger armies too, which is why they'd curbstomp Earth quite nicely.. though is it r...

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I feel compelled to mention Unreal Estate, possibly the only story I've seen where reality is prone to blue-screening.

..and yet, they let the bandits go earlier.

Under the circumstances, if they couldn't have taken them in the most ethical thing would have been to kill them.

Figures.

With any luck, Baal will at least focus on the Draka first.. I'm perfectly fine with helping those two kill each other off.

Oh, is this where it went..

I'll have you know the Macross battlefleet blew up the Drakas good, but don't worry, they're not all dead. Some of them escaped to the Cthulhu Tech universe, where I'm sure they'll be happy.

What's that quote from, Nematocyst?

It looks like something I'd see in Salvation War, except I'm quite certain it isn't from there. There was never any real question of fighting to the least, either, against an enemy that didn't even force us to use nukes..

So what about people like me then? Where we already know the effects of varying types of weaponry on the human body and your story serves as the ability to watch the plebes get sick over reality? You're a small minority. In the old days when most people had been through some form of military servic...

That's an assumption. We don't know if the energy source they're using works per-cell, per-organ or just per-person. The earlier discussion on cancer blobs suggests it's not per-cell, at least. If it's per-person, it's entirely possible that many of their organs could work just fine on Earth. For th...

It's a bit harsher on capitalism than I think it really deserves, but - that's the nature of this universe, I guess. He's wrong, there, in the end, though. You don't need to see the AIs as equals - not because they're less than you (even when they are), but because they're likely to become far more ...

So some outside force did alter the demons. Probably the angels too, way back.

I do wonder who, why.. and what they're planning now.

Ignoring the possibility of space elevators for the moment, ways to make Orion's thrust high enough to escape earth's gravity make an interesting thought experiment, but not much else. There's no way in hell anyone would ever be allowed to run such an engine close to Earth. Have a look at nuclear th...

The Aschen didn't even properly enslave them. They induced an agricultural society, yes, but all indications are that they did so relatively gently, via market forces. And sterilization, granted.

No, there's really no comparison. In this universe, the Aschen are pretty much good guys.

Or pray it fails to detonate. That should occasionally happen. It might get hit by a cosmic ray, y'know.

I don't believe in any gods, but under the circumstances I still think prayer is your best shot.

Is anyone else reminded of house elves?

Thinking it over, I've heard of the phenomenon in a different context; the cosmic microwave background started out as the heat pulse of the Big Bang, currently estimated as originating 380 thousand years after the event. Different mechanism entirely. The cosmic microwave background has not been abs...

It's probably worth noting that the reason sufficiently hot photons "fail to escape the fireball".. is because when they do, they just expand the fireball instead.

Nuclear reactions don't emit (much, relatively speaking) infrared radiation, either; their peak is.. where is their peak? I assume it follows a rough black-body curve except for the direct gamma emission, but how hot is this thing exactly? Anyway, most of the infrared you see will be from the blast ...

Current extremes aside, the Asgard generally dislike Loki's methods.

If they somehow manage to survive their current predicament, admittedly somewhat doubtful, going back and repairing the damage he's done will be a priority.

If it comes to cancer (which, as previously mentioned, I doubt), here's an uglier thought: There's nothing to stop them growing, not even the effective death of the human in question. They're not dependent on food to replicate, or apparently (given the pitch-bathers) even mass. They could very well...

Right, which was pretty much my point, back a few posts.

Given intelligent design, it's relatively simple to reduce the rate of cancer (or, in general, corrupted cells) to as close to zero as makes no difference. A bit of ECC, a bit of encryption (to make any broken DNA-equivalents turn into the equivalent of random noise), and you end up with several tri...

If it comes to cancer (which, as previously mentioned, I doubt), here's an uglier thought: There's nothing to stop them growing, not even the effective death of the human in question. They're not dependent on food to replicate, or apparently (given the pitch-bathers) even mass. They could very well ...

Second Lifers get energy for their healing from how the bubble dimension they live in gets smaller, right ? So what if there is a bubble dimension that becomes smaller very fast (compared to Hell or Heaven), would that mean the secondlifers would get superman like powers ? I suspect it would be mor...

Hold on, let's step back for a moment. I'm not at all sure that the human janissaries are actually going to die from the radiation. Remember the damage mechanism - broken DNA or, in extreme cases, broken proteins. Mostly broken DNA. They don't have DNA . Admittedly that has not been explicitly state...

I don't mind them not intending to lose. Frankly, I'd expect nothing else.

I mind them not losing. It leads to doing bad things such as writing vajra hybrids into your universe. Their stargate blew up good, by the way.