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fgalkin wrote:The Protoss get steamrolled and become just another alien world no one cares about?

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Okay here's the situation: The Protoss are messing around with some Xel naga artifact and open a wormhole (so creative) to the SW universe, somewhere in the Mid Rim. The Empire decides to be its usual self and tries to conquer the Protoss. The Protoss here are from not long after their initial conta...

So called Medusa Weapons. They emit a specific frequency etc that inhibits higher brain function or possibly induces hallucinogenic affects.

Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space books are excellent as is Peter Hamilton's Night's Dawn trilogy.

Did Duncan Idaho, in Dune 7, develop prescience as well? I'm curious as to what makes an Ultimate Kwisatz Haderach so ultimate. I think he's "ultimate" because he can foresee EVERYTHING. Remember how Paul says his prescience is limited{like sight you cannot see without light}. I'm not 100...

Yeah but the far future events are pretty out there

wow that is crappy

Every day something reminds me of how terrible the BSG ending was, sure it tyed up the loose ends but I get the feeling that the writers gave up writing the fourth season, said God did it and left. Does anyone know of an ending of a sci-fi tv series worse than BSG's?{I guess this post is a little po...

OK, time for race number two. The Annites. The name Annite comes from where they were first encountered by humans, arround the informally named "Annie's Star" (after the exploring captain's infant daughter). They are the most recent race on the scene. Annites are a feathered (I tried to t...

I wouldn't say 40 billion people is minimalist. I mean a colony in another star system starts with say 2000 people to start with I think it would take a very long time to even reach the billion mark.

It can'[t work because it relies on everyone being nice to each and not being greedy which ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN

Sarevok wrote:What ? How does a Hunter pronounce "Mgalekgolo" ? It does not even having a fucking mouth. How can it be a genuine Covenant name ?

It was probably the name given to it by the Prophets or the Elites.

Why has nobody in this thread questioned the assertions made in the OP? If two roughly equally advanced sentient species came into contact would they have anything to discuss? I would imagine quite a fucking bit. 'Hey we just discovered civilization advanced as our own... in space...enh, whatever.'...

Why has nobody in this thread questioned the assertions made in the OP? If two roughly equally advanced sentient species came into contact would they have anything to discuss? I would imagine quite a fucking bit. 'Hey we just discovered civilization advanced as our own... in space...enh, whatever.'...

Our own history and philosophy, no matter how alien it is to them. In fact, the more alien and incomprehensible the better, since that's going to be more interesting to study. Even if all we can send that they can understand at first is the naked physical facts of what happened and where. Maybe but...

True but in that circumstance what would the aliens want from us after all we would be primitive compared to them.

Slightly off-topic but this match-up seems remarkably similar to the actual war between the USNC and the Covenant. I suppose this is because the heavy influence Heinlein put upon the Halo universe. Back on topic, yes the war would be decided in space but it's difficult to determine the firepower of ...

If two roughly equally advanced sentient species came into contact would they have anything to discuss? Any species would be so different that the psychological barrier would be far to difficult to overcome, sure some basic ideas could be communicated but would there be any point?

Found some details for the confederation: 861 adamist planets, 8000+ Edenist habitats and one Edenist planet{Atlantis}, 5 independent habitats and several thousand independent asteroids. Fleet size: 9000 ZTT warships + more promised, 1000-1300 voidhawks and 1000 support craft. Added to this are the ...

Note: The galactic empire in this post is the foundation one, sorry that it isn't clear in the subject. Anyways the point that the Confederation has inferior industrial capacity to the Galactic Empire{either one} is valid. The empire has the resources of an entire galaxy while the Confederation has ...

This is cruel and unusual but truthfully I doubt the Imperium would bother.

Yeah are we taking into consideration the possibility of a Covenant civil war?

Okay well the confederation is a loose alliance made to stop the use of antimatter and to keep the peace between systems. It has roughly 9000 ftl-capable warships plus additional ones pledged in a time of crisis. The ships carry combat wasps, as their main weapons, which are basically smaller autono...

I read something about journeys in human slipstream taking months but I either imagined it or, more likely, Covenant slipstream is just a hell of a lot faster.

True but this scenario is before the creation of sun crushers and galaxy guns although yes as you said death stars would be built in alrge quantities.