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How do you think this will end ?

The Terminator fails miserably against Obi and Anakin.
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The Terminator succeeds in killing Padme, but is then caught and destroyed...
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The Terminator kills all the Senators on Coruscant, then is stopped by Palpy himself.
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Culture wins and take over SW Galaxy.
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There are other ways to kill a senator...

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A Culture mad GCU ( assume it uses its fields in a stealth mode to remain undetected ) warps out of Cultureverse and makes its way to Coruscant. Its intent is to take control of SW Galaxy. While it could de done by annihilating just about every SW military forces it encounters, the GCU Rabid Trekker decides to assassinate all senators in order to cause political chaos and take control of SW Galaxy !

Now , on Coruscant, on a landing platform, a nanomissile explodes within a Naboo cruiser, killing ... a decoy !!

Two Jedi are sent to protect Senator Amidala, while Rabid Trekker sends... a Culture Terminator !

Now what's a Culture Terminator ? Basically it is the name I gave to the killer nanoswarm at the end of Look to Windward.

Its mission is to kill Padme first, then all the Senators, and finally Chancelor Palpatine !

Abilities of the Terminator : sadly, it doesn't have solid holograms nor fields ( as far as we know )...
However it carries AM-powered nanomissiles ( .5 kiloton is to be considered an absolute upper limit in this thread, although it is probably much less ) which in this thread could be replicated at a rate of 50 per day, basic ammo 5000, has the ability to take any shape, can divide into e.g. swarms of insects or simple dust, resisted apparently undamaged to a probably megawatt-ranged laser in "insect swarm" mode, can synthetize complex weapons ( aka laser ), and has an... effector :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

:twisted: :twisted: Let the slaughter begin :twisted: :twisted:
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So this thread is already dead ? :(
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Oh come on! :roll:
Two Jedi versus an EDust Assassin??
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The Nomad wrote:So this thread is already dead ? :(
Well, it's virtually assured that it would kill them quickly enough. Lopsided versus generally don't get much attention.
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So who voted for the Jedi ?
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I'm pretty sure the EDust in LtW used mirrorfields to protect itself from that laser.
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Be reasonable. Pitting an EDust against SW is rather like going up against the combined might of the US armed forces while armed with nothing more than a baseball bat....
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Enlightenment wrote:Be reasonable. Pitting an EDust against SW is rather like going up against the combined might of the US armed forces while armed with nothing more than a baseball bat....
Nail clippers, not baseball bat.
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A toothpick.

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Post by SylasGaunt »

The E-Dust slaughters Padme and all the other senators in manners so varied, gruesome, and horrific that Palpy DOESN'T have to fake losing his lunch when he sees the remains.
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Enlightenment wrote:Be reasonable. Pitting an EDust against SW is rather like going up against the combined might of the US armed forces while armed with nothing more than a baseball bat....
The purpose of an assassin is to remain hidden, and strike from shadows. We're talking about letting an E-Dust terrorist entity hiding into Coruscant City and spreading fear and chaos, not making it fight against a Clone Army or Star Destroyer ( although I'm pretty sure it'd still have a slight chance, using its EM effector ).

The real question is : "How would Coruscant police forces and the Jedi find the Terminator and stop it before it spreads death among Senate and chaos in the Galaxy?", not "How would the Terminator destroy a regular SW ground army ?" ( which could be done by a Culture assault drone IMHO ).
Or "How would the Old Republic fight a Culture infiltration/manipulation", since a single LtW-era GCU could destroy, effectorise or subvert just about everything SW has to oppose to it, but this isn't the way of the Culture. Just kill some hundreds of Senators in a gruesome, spectacular way, spread chaos and fear, destroy the political structure of the Republic, and then take control without having to vaporize every major planet or to turn every major star into supernova in SW Galaxy.
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Enlightenment wrote:Be reasonable. Pitting an EDust against SW is rather like going up against the combined might of the US armed forces while armed with nothing more than a baseball bat....
No it isn't. The latter situation is possible to win. :lol:
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