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Let's say every faction/nation/race from every sci-fi fiction universe decides to declare open war against everything else in a massive free for all. Who would you join? Who would you want destroyed first? What commander would you serve under? What would you do?

There seems be to tons of doomsday weapons in the star wars universe, I mean how would a space marine fleet take on a super star destroyer plus a death star?

Terra go boom

Necrons have an extraordinary amount of Doomsday gak. If they used the celestial orrery and their usual stuff, they could cleanse all life from this dimension, and having no imprint in the warp, daemons would die too. Problem solved.

I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

I put my money on the Daaliks -- EXTERMINATE!~!~!

 pities2004 wrote:
There seems be to tons of doomsday weapons in the star wars universe, I mean how would a space marine fleet take on a super star destroyer plus a death star?

Terra go boom

There's plenty of doomsday weapons in lots of universes. Man...that's a tough choice. I guess you could either hook up with some time-traveling folks and live out your life pre-free-for-all sci-fi war, but the free-for-all sci-fi war would probably encompass the entire multiverse and be waged across both time and space. At least in the United Federation of Planets you'd be comfortable before you died horribly...so that's a big plus, though you'd have to wear the worst clothes...at least there'd be a holodeck...

 guardpiper wrote:
I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

Yes. This thread comes up now and then, and with the exception of some 40K fanboys The Culture is always the favourite.

 guardpiper wrote:
I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

Yea, I guess you'd be really comfortable in the Culture, or also in Adamist society, or Higher. I think generally it might be a good idea to just go with some sort of post-physical existence and sit the whole darn thing out.

My money is on the Borg. I don't have a great analysis of their abilities to offer up, but it just seems like they would be able to overcome some of the scarier advanced weapon systems of other IPs and really muck things up. So I guess I am joining the Collective.

Resistance is Futile and all that jazz.

 guardpiper wrote:
I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

I think Lensmen might have a leg up over the Culture. By the end of their war, you had both sides using large planets as faster than light ballistic weapons... but that's also why these kinds of threads, the whole 'who would win?' are always so dumb, You rarely even have a common frame of reference, much less an easily identifiable yardstick to measure by.

weeble1000 wrote:

 guardpiper wrote:
I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

Yea, I guess you'd be really comfortable in the Culture, or also in Adamist society, or Higher. I think generally it might be a good idea to just go with some sort of post-physical existence and sit the whole darn thing out.

Huh, turns out I misread the question(s). I though it was about who was the most likely to win, rather than who we would join. In the case of the former, Necrons, in the case of the latter, The Culture.


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 Portugal Jones wrote:

 guardpiper wrote:
I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

I think Lensmen might have a leg up over the Culture. By the end of their war, you had both sides using large planets as faster than light ballistic weapons... but that's also why these kinds of threads, the whole 'who would win?' are always so dumb, You rarely even have a common frame of reference, much less an easily identifiable yardstick to measure by.

Necron celestial orrery. By snuffing out a light on this model, you've just made a star go supernova.

 pities2004 wrote:
There seems be to tons of doomsday weapons in the star wars universe, I mean how would a space marine fleet take on a super star destroyer plus a death star?

Terra go boom

In 40k fluff, they'd finish both off with just a single previously unheard of chapter which would die in the process except for a few token marines. GW has been there and done that. Or Draigo...

Necrons Vs Borg, man that would be fantastic

 pities2004 wrote:
Necrons Vs Borg, man that would be fantastic

"We are the Borg. We will assimilate your biologi....your technological distinctiveness into our collective. Resistance is futile."

 fishy bob wrote:

 guardpiper wrote:
I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

Yes. This thread comes up now and then, and with the exception of some 40K fanboys The Culture is always the favourite.

The Culture? Never heard of that one. What's it from?

Also, this thread comes up often? Erm...oops. Sorry for being repetitive.

DALEKS ARE THE SUPREME BEINGS! DALEKS ARE THE MASTERS OF ALL! YOU WILL BE EXTERMINATED!

That is all I have to say. Any other questions, see 'Reality Bomb'.

That, or they'd just time travel back to when the most powerful civilisations were crawling from the oceans and exterminate all of them.

RESISTANCE IS USELESS! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

 guardpiper wrote:
I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

Yes definitely.. they will have seen the battle coming, predicted it, and know that the only way it could exist is if someone had suggested it on an open forum, early 21st century..

Or.. I think you could answer any other suggestion put forward with the word 'Draigo', which would instantly invalidate any other suggestion.

I have to bring up the Reapers from Mass Effect.

Assuming it's not the cycle period that Shephard's anomaly exists in, yeah... nuh night universe and everything in it. Reapers are the cosmic recyclers at it's finest.

The death star, sure it could give one a run for its money and vaporize it, but with the amount of time it takes to align for another shot, they'd get one, and then it'd be ripped apart by the others. The reapers are also fairly nimble for something so large, so even hitting one isn't a guarantee.

SkavenLord wrote:

 fishy bob wrote:

 guardpiper wrote:
I would think the Culture would stand a good chance being the last civilization standing.

Yes. This thread comes up now and then, and with the exception of some 40K fanboys The Culture is always the favourite.

The Culture? Never heard of that one. What's it from?

Also, this thread comes up often? Erm...oops. Sorry for being repetitive.

A series of novels by (recently deceased) British sci-fi writer Iain M. Banks. Start with The Player of Games - absolutely worth it!

The Culture, of course. They may not win (there's a few other universes that make them look pathetic), but it will be one hell of a party before the end.

In the end it would be The Necrons. The Celestial Orrery could be used as a weapon, they have the C'Tan shards on the battlefield, untold billions of durable troops, the best tacticians at their disposal, and combine all of that with chronomancers, future-seers, and crypteks - game over, Necrons win.

Why do people keep mentioning the lame-ass Death Star? Some donut pilots destroyed it because hmmm, they keep designing it with massive flaws. Send one Necron Cryptek in a tiny shuttle to infiltrate its computer systems, and he'd do it in five minutes and just self-destruct it. It would literally be a footnote task on his agenda for the day.

I'm having to go with necrons.

Minmei.

I am going to have to go on a limb here but, if given the right circumstances, the flood of Halo fame. Now, I know what you may be thinking. "But CustomLime, the flood was killed by the UNSC and by even modern standards they suck!". This maybe but I posit that the Flood is only ever as dangerous as the people they face.

The flood has this ability that, when the infect someone, every organism now has their skills and knowledge. So while a flood that had infected some Halo marines would be as easy to deal with as crappy guardsman flood that managed to get their hands on some Orks or even Space Marines would be far more lethal. I wonder what would happen should they infect a Psyker.. would the Gravemind learn to use warp powers or would he be possessed by a daemon?

And as the flood threat grows they only become more powerful and more capable of infection since they learn more and more about their enemy. This is why a super advanced civilization like the Forerunners had such trouble with them. So, to sum things up, the Flood can reasonably threaten any sci fi faction that has a central nervous system and penetrable armor.

HOWEVER. This assumes that the Flood isn't destroyed when it's still in it's feral stages which is pitifully easy to do. It's possible for any universe for the flood to become a threat but they'd have to be very unlucky.

Culture or Necrons? Is no one a Trekkie anymore? Join the Q continuum and just be a god, smash smash smash.

Or join forces with Chuck Norris

Qs are cheating.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
So while a flood that had infected some Halo marines would be as easy to deal with as crappy guardsman flood that managed to get their hands on some Orks or even Space Marines would be far more lethal.

Not really. Remember, you're talking about universes like the Culture, where a disarmed ex-warship considers "able to destroy a planet" an insultingly low estimate of its firepower. Dealing with guardsmen vs. space marines matters about as much as whether you're fighting your nuclear war against ancient Romans or medieval knights.

So, to sum things up, the Flood can reasonably threaten any sci fi faction that has a central nervous system and penetrable armor.

IOW, none of the high-end universes. Well, they might manage to infect the humans in the Culture, but that just interrupts the civilization-wide party. The Minds that control the warships and infrastructure don't care about trivial details like "central nervous systems". And it's a safe bet most other high-end factions are the same.

The Doctor.

I have no idea who the Culture is, so I'm gonna go with Star Wars. Space Marines might be able to leave a planet as a dead wasteland, but Vader can blow it into smithereens. No other universes are allowed to convert young, blonde haired farm boys with daddy's old laser sword or wavy haired sarcastic smugglers. Those are ours!!!


You can have our Gungans though. Free of charge.

40k.
Imperium:What's your death star going to do when executor turns out to be the entire imperial navy?(Taktikal jenius)Also STEEHL RHAIN.And spess muhrines!
Necrons:Trayzn the infinity troll would probably wipe out a galaxy just for the heck of it.
Tau:they all die.
Orkzey stompz everfing unda da inspirashun of warlord gorgutz!