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I'm joining the Galaxy Police from the anime movie Tenchi Muyo in Love. They have a "dimensional cannon" which as the name suggests will destroy an entire dimension. In theory this would only leave species 8472 from Star Trek, only because they live in a dimension that is liquid.

The Browncoats from Firefly...
Because it's well known law of sci-fi, the cooler you are and the better your show, the more you win in the end.

And they are just too pretty to die.

Just look at that chiselled jaw..

Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat could take them all on, including Chuck Norris, and win, somehow.

Phule and his company.

Because awesome.


My personal vote has to be for the forces of the Emperor Seamus Murphy

Drop Commandos and especially Alicia DeVrais..

 Ugavine wrote:
The Doctor.

I second that thought. How about necrons vs replicator vs borg

Welsh_Furey wrote:

 Ugavine wrote:
The Doctor.

I second that thought. How about necrons vs replicator vs borg

You know, I think there's a Cybermen vs Borg comic that exists.

Edit: Scratch that, apparently it really does exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation/Doctor_Who:_Assimilation2

 Paradigm wrote:
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!

QFT

EXTERMINATE!!!

Although Daleks Vs. H.R Gigers Xenomorphs and Skynet would be a fun battle to watch...

/universe

I would put a lot of money on Star Wars just because they actually understand how to use their technology well also possessing a large scale military unlike say star trek.

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

Sorry bro, death star is old school lol, almost every race in any sci-fi movie/novel can do the same.

TheCustomLime wrote: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.

What is the flood gonna do to robot? any robotic race will just be their downfall. If you have not noticed the entire halo facility used robots to keep the flood from escaping.



My race of choice got to be necrons. The thing about then that stand out is that we know nothing about the. We know the basics, we the thing we can comprehend but they got so many toys and gadgets compared to other races .

Hmm, no MTG players in the midst?

I'd Say the Phyrexians one up literally everyone...

Immortality and eternal existence trump anything I've seen here... The ability to corrupt both flesh and machine.

All will be one.

I am going to have to go with The Great Space Coaster. Clearly culture did not prevent its existence. It is a sci fi universe of unparalleled power. They have a spaceship that is a cross between a jaloppy, santas sleigh, and a rocket, that can travel between dimensions and allows humans to survive in outer space without the aid of a space suit.

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
Hmm, no MTG players in the midst?

I'd Say the Phyrexians one up literally everyone...

Immortality and eternal existence trump anything I've seen here... The ability to corrupt both flesh and machine.

All will be one.

Ideon destroys the universe... so there's that.

 Fafnir wrote:

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
Hmm, no MTG players in the midst?

I'd Say the Phyrexians one up literally everyone...

Immortality and eternal existence trump anything I've seen here... The ability to corrupt both flesh and machine.

All will be one.

Ideon destroys the universe... so there's that.

MTG, of course! I forgot that 'Jace the Mindsculpter, better than all!'

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
Immortality and eternal existence trump anything I've seen here...

Hardly. Phyrexians are on the level of all the other generic fantasy races in MTG, which means they're ants to be stepped on by even low-end scifi civilizations. Immortality doesn't protect you from having your entire planet vaporized, and their whole corruption thing is probably a lot less effective against civilizations with medical technology beyond the 1500s. Worst-case scenario their corruption spreads a bit before anyone realizes what's happening and then the scifi civilization quarantines the area and sterilizes everything inside.


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 Inflatable love badger wrote:
MTG, of course! I forgot that 'Jace the Mindsculpter, better than all!'

Well, better than some other fantasy telepaths maybe. Not very impressive compared to anyone important.

Mr. Spoon

 Peregrine wrote:

 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.

Wow, I really need to start reading some sci fi novels. Okay, I retract my statement. My vote then goes to the culture.

It's only cheating if you get caught, and I don't think a Q would get caught if it didn't want to. And they very much a well established sci-fi faction.

I mean, the power to change the universe around you, even create new ones, would pretty much trump anything the Flood or the Mass Effect Reapers could muster. "Oh, you have a moon-sized super laser wielding space station? That's nice *snaps fingers* but it's really just a cute kitten. Actually *snaps again* I'll let it keep the world-destroying super laser, that sounds like it could be fun!"

If we're counting Comics, the The One Above All wins all prizes ever (since he created them). He is literally God in every sense, he created all known and all possible realities. Ever. He's kind of like the comic-equivalent of a children's argument: "Mxyzptlk is the mostest powerful ever!" "Nuh-UH! because The One Above All is a googleplex times infinity TIMES INFINITY more powerful!". Arguably He isn't a faction, and almost certainly wouldn't get involved with such minor things as dimensions being destroyed.

Bringing it down a notch, The Empire is hardly the most powerful faction n Star Wars. The Death Star isn't even the most powerful super weapon, that would be the Sun Crusher, and I still think those would lose to the Yuzang Vong or Revan with the Star Forge assuming neither had split up. The Flood is a good contender since they were even able to kill the Forerunners and survive the galaxy-wide purge of the Halos. The Reapers were mentioned already, and are on a similar level to flood, possibly more powerful.

But really, the correct answer is clearly that alien kid in Men in Black that was playing marbles with the galaxies.

 Peregrine wrote:

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
Immortality and eternal existence trump anything I've seen here...

Hardly. Phyrexians are on the level of all the other generic fantasy races in MTG, which means they're ants to be stepped on by even low-end scifi civilizations. Immortality doesn't protect you from having your entire planet vaporized, and their whole corruption thing is probably a lot less effective against civilizations with medical technology beyond the 1500s. Worst-case scenario their corruption spreads a bit before anyone realizes what's happening and then the scifi civilization quarantines the area and sterilizes everything inside.


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 Inflatable love badger wrote:
MTG, of course! I forgot that 'Jace the Mindsculpter, better than all!'

Well, better than some other fantasy telepaths maybe. Not very impressive compared to anyone important.

Seems to me you're not familiar with the Phyrexian Oil... The oil that contains the very knowledge of Phyrexia.

It doesn't really corrupt in the way you'd think, there's no nanites, etc that can be stopped, it transforms genetic material, mutates it. There's only ONE person in the known Multiverse who managed to find out how to reverse phyresis, but honestly, even for the entire plane, having the knowledge and learning to implement it, two very different things. Only Melira learned how to reverse phyresis, but apparently it's not something easy to teach, I.E you have to have access to certain kinds of magic and mana to do it.

Nid's win in my book. Endless hordes... They never get wited out, they go away, evolve and come back stronger, so eventually all is lost to them.

 PlaguelordHobbyServices wrote:
Seems to me you're not familiar with the Phyrexian Oil... The oil that contains the very knowledge of Phyrexia.

No, I am. I just don't buy the argument that a faction that has trouble dealing with your average sword and bow fantasy armies is going to last more than a few seconds against scifi civilizations that consider destroying planets effortlessly simple.

It doesn't really corrupt in the way you'd think, there's no nanites, etc that can be stopped, it transforms genetic material, mutates it. There's only ONE person in the known Multiverse who managed to find out how to reverse phyresis, but honestly, even for the entire plane, having the knowledge and learning to implement it, two very different things. Only Melira learned how to reverse phyresis, but apparently it's not something easy to teach, I.E you have to have access to certain kinds of magic and mana to do it.

You mean it attempts to transform it. Let's say a Culture human gets infected. They get aboard a ship, the ship detects the infection, removes the infected material, and drops it into the core of the nearest star where it is instantly reduced to its component atoms. That kind of plague only works when you're limited to 1500s medical technology, high-end scifi civilizations just don't care about things like that.


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 Kelly502 wrote:
Nid's win in my book. Endless hordes... They never get wited out, they go away, evolve and come back stronger, so eventually all is lost to them.

They never get stopped by 40k armies. 40k is on the low end of scifi power, there are plenty of civilizations that would laugh at the Tyranids and delegate the extermination process to a minor combat drone.

I see your culture and raise you John De lanice better known as Q


And to the person who said the flood... the flood are one of the weakest sci-fi races out there (as most factions in halo are terrible). Any competent Scifi faction can deal with them rather quickly.


I could also vote for Futurama, probably one of the strongest sci-fi verses out there.

 Ninjacommando wrote:
I see your culture and raise you John De lanice better known as Q

The unwritten rule in this kind of discussion is that you aren't allowed to use literal gods since it kills all discussion and replaces it with "my god is better than your god" with no hope of resolution.

I'd put my lot in with the Wing Commander universe. Best fighter craft of any universe, near perfect cloaking technology, fighters craft that can deliver planet busting weapons, skipper missiles that not only are cloaked but can use jump points to strike their foes. The Terran Confederation and Kilrathi waged over a 35 year war against one another, and yet beat a teched up Nid like race in the Nephilim in just over a year with help from Kilrathi defense force elements.

A fighter like the Dragon with a flash pack, could easily take out many other sci-fi universe's best capital ships without support.

 Peregrine wrote:


The unwritten rule in this kind of discussion is that you aren't allowed to use literal gods since it kills all discussion and replaces it with "my god is better than your god" with no hope of resolution.

But the Q aren't gods, they are just insanely powerful, the reason they watch humans is because the know that humanity has the potential to one day evolve beyond the Q and They wanted to understand how

 Peregrine wrote:

 Ninjacommando wrote:
I see your culture and raise you John De lanice better known as Q

The unwritten rule in this kind of discussion is that you aren't allowed to use literal gods since it kills all discussion and replaces it with "my god is better than your god" with no hope of resolution.

That's a shame, but probably saved me a lynching, as I was going to mention one the oldest fantacy universes of all time, immortals, tragedies, infinite power, omnipresence, etc. all from a book over 2000 years old! Give or take a few years.

Cthuhlu.

The Culture is one of the most advanced societies described by any (established) Sci-fi author or cannon, and in pure power could probably whip most other, non-godlike, Species or Factions. As long as we assume that hyper-evolved and godlike beings such as Q's and the various Ascendant Species that crop up are not getting involved.

However, the Culture Minds would not undertake any such action, in many of the books they quite deliberately fail to get involved with situations and seem to respect the requirement for a bio-diverse Universe of different cultures and that sort of thing. In some cases acting to preserve warlike Races, rather than smash them.

Therefore, I would go with (as my sensible, well, arguable) the Polity, from the Neal Asher books, very similar to the Culture but far more Human centric and Warlike. All the massive weapons of destruction and suchlike possessed by any self respecting Mega-Super Galactic power, with the ruthlessness of Us and Guiding Machine Minds.

There's already a game about this called Smash Up.