Sci-Fi Franchises

Iv121 wrote:

Hey it will never be adequate , even if the respective creators create those ships. It's much better than the theoretical discussions you have here, and more interesting .
If you find another vid post it here.

Seconded. I think the way it played out was pretty accurate though

I think I'll try and make one.

Advent Unity vs Reaper Indoctrination theory confirmation!!!

Back in ME1, you have the chance to save the colony on Zhu's Hope, and in the process also freeing an Asari Commando, Shiala, who is prisoner to some mind controlling plant alien. Shiala then decides to redeem herself by aiding the colonists get back on their feet.

In Mass Effect 3, during the Reaper invasion, you receive an e-mail from Shiala. In this note, she explains that the long-term effects of the mind controlling plant alien has caused the colonists to be able to join their minds, to act as one and share knowledge, not only allowing Shiala to give her combat knowledge as a commando to all colonists, turning them into highly skilled soldiers, but also allowing them to resist indoctrination.
So if a handful of mind-linked colonists can resist indoctrination, it is safe to say that the combined might of the entire Unity can downright crush indoctrination, if not even make it backfire.

Assuming the unity can crash all possible indoctrinated life forms in the universe ... There is a reason why the reapers destroy one civilization after another...

Last note - the fact they can link their minds together and that they resist indoctrination may be not related , or the sort of link is different from what the unity does. I believe you wouldn't want to step on the battlefield armed with only this knowledge ...

Iv121 wrote:

Assuming the unity can crash all possible indoctrinated life forms in the universe ... There is a reason why the reapers destroy one civilization after another...

Last note - the fact they can link their minds together and that they resist indoctrination may be not related , or the sort of link is different from what the unity does. I believe you wouldn't want to step on the battlefield armed with only this knowledge ...

It is, Shiala says she can hear the Reaper's whispers in her head, but the other colonists' presence is much more powerful and is keeping her on track. So the simple telepathic link which binds the colonists to one another strengthens them against the influence of indoctrination. This goes even more for the Unity, who are billions upon billions to be linked in harmony.

Nice so the unity won't be indoctrinated ? Too bad it will eaten by husks (Oh w8 they don't eat ppl right ? )

Iv121 wrote:

Nice so the unity won't be indoctrinated ? Too bad it will eaten by husks (Oh w8 they don't eat ppl right ? )

Right, the race of angry psionic warriors who's only purpose in the last 1000 years has been to destroy anything that is not them in the universe is going to get eaten by husks.

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to them.

Pat Best wrote:

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to them.

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to everybody. They're the zerglings of mass effect.

Which reminds me: what do you guys think is the most valuable specific piece of technology in any franchise?

For me, it's a tie between Protoss Hard Shields (reduce damage against them to essentially nothing) and Asgard Ion Canons (ignore shields).

Avenger_7 wrote:

Pat Best wrote:

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to them.

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to everybody. They're the zerglings of mass effect.

Which reminds me: what do you guys think is the most valuable specific piece of technology in any franchise?

For me, it's a tie between Protoss Hard Shields (reduce damage against them to essentially nothing) and Asgard Ion Canons (ignore shields).

The Molecular Disruption Device (AKA M.D. Device, AKA The Little Doctor) from Ender's Game. As it masses through molecules of any type, it expands in size, growing larger and larger. It was crucial in the victory agains the Buggers.

To show just how important it is, the M.D> Device is what one the war against the buggers when Ender decided to "cheat" and fire it into the entire Home PLanet of the Buggers, engulfing it and killing the hive's queen, effectively cutting off the snake's head. Without the empathically-linked queen, all the drones died.

scout37 wrote:

Avenger_7 wrote:

Pat Best wrote:

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to them.

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to everybody. They're the zerglings of mass effect.

Which reminds me: what do you guys think is the most valuable specific piece of technology in any franchise?

For me, it's a tie between Protoss Hard Shields (reduce damage against them to essentially nothing) and Asgard Ion Canons (ignore shields).

The Molecular Disruption Device (AKA M.D. Device, AKA The Little Doctor) from Ender's Game. As it masses through molecules of any type, it expands in size, growing larger and larger. It was crucial in the victory agains the Buggers.

To show just how important it is, the M.D> Device is what one the war against the buggers when Ender decided to "cheat" and fire it into the entire Home PLanet of the Buggers, engulfing it and killing the hive's queen, effectively cutting off the snake's head. Without the empathically-linked queen, all the drones died.

I'm of a mind to say for Halo, the the Halo Rings, but I suppose that isn't specific technology...

Manspider. My point has been made and this doesn't seem interesting...

Arial Ponder wrote:

THE BEST franchise is the one you can find right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DkqMjfqqPc
Watch the video to the end, then you will understand how awesome said franchise is. Trust me.

Just because you seem not to have onderstood thar right:
We are talking about sci-fi- franchises here. Neither an almost 10h conversation between mudkips nor a short word by a slowpoke has anything to do with sci-fi.

ACH0225 wrote:

scout37 wrote:

Avenger_7 wrote:

Pat Best wrote:

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to them.

Husks are about as dangerous as ants to everybody. They're the zerglings of mass effect.

Which reminds me: what do you guys think is the most valuable specific piece of technology in any franchise?

For me, it's a tie between Protoss Hard Shields (reduce damage against them to essentially nothing) and Asgard Ion Canons (ignore shields).

The Molecular Disruption Device (AKA M.D. Device, AKA The Little Doctor) from Ender's Game. As it masses through molecules of any type, it expands in size, growing larger and larger. It was crucial in the victory agains the Buggers.

To show just how important it is, the M.D> Device is what one the war against the buggers when Ender decided to "cheat" and fire it into the entire Home PLanet of the Buggers, engulfing it and killing the hive's queen, effectively cutting off the snake's head. Without the empathically-linked queen, all the drones died.

I'm of a mind to say for Halo, the the Halo Rings, but I suppose that isn't specific technology...

No, they count. Did you know that they were used by the Forerunners to wipe out the pre-historic Humans?

I read Cryptum, nothing about that in der. Is that info in the next book?

I think the first reference to it is in Cryptum, just not the specifics. The first firing of a Halo was on the Human capital world (I think it was tarn-vedra?) during the human-forerunner war.

Don't quote me on this, it's been a long time.

I rather like Daala's Metal-Crystal Phase Shifter. It's not as dramatic as the Doctor or the Halo rings, but it does pretty nasty things to ships that get in front of it.

If it counts, and I don't think it does, I call the Star Forge.

Last_Jedi_Standing wrote:

I rather like Daala's Metal-Crystal Phase Shifter. It's not as dramatic as the Doctor or the Halo rings, but it does pretty nasty things to ships that get in front of it.

If it counts, and I don't think it does, I call the Star Forge.

Hmmmm...star forge, nope. That's not a piece of tech, it's just a factory placed really close to its supply source. That makes its owners go insane.

IMO, star wars is way too much Rule of Cool :l

Avenger_7 wrote:

Last_Jedi_Standing wrote:

I rather like Daala's Metal-Crystal Phase Shifter. It's not as dramatic as the Doctor or the Halo rings, but it does pretty nasty things to ships that get in front of it.

If it counts, and I don't think it does, I call the Star Forge.

Hmmmm...star forge, nope. That's not a piece of tech, it's just a factory placed really close to its supply source. That makes its owners go insane.

IMO, star wars is way too much Rule of Cool :l

Factory=piece of technology

A crucible is a very important piece of technology.

Mackeroth? wrote:

Avenger_7 wrote:

Last_Jedi_Standing wrote:

I rather like Daala's Metal-Crystal Phase Shifter. It's not as dramatic as the Doctor or the Halo rings, but it does pretty nasty things to ships that get in front of it.

If it counts, and I don't think it does, I call the Star Forge.

Hmmmm...star forge, nope. That's not a piece of tech, it's just a factory placed really close to its supply source. That makes its owners go insane.

IMO, star wars is way too much Rule of Cool :l

Factory=piece of technology

Maybe that didn't get communicated properly, I don't count it as a specific technology because it's almost generic to all sci fi series. If LJS had said world devastators, I would have been fine with them since they are unique to their franchise, even though they work on a similar principle to the star forge.

The Krenim temporal ship weapon.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Krenim_weapon_ship
It's invincible, and can erease pretty much anything from history.

Brz99 wrote:

The Krenim temporal ship weapon.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Krenim_weapon_ship
It's invincible, and can erease pretty much anything from history.

Isn't the whole storyline of that episode that this weapon keeps backfiring and never has the correct effect?

Pat Best wrote:

Brz99 wrote:

The Krenim temporal ship weapon.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Krenim_weapon_ship
It's invincible, and can erease pretty much anything from history.

Isn't the whole storyline of that episode that this weapon keeps backfiring and never has the correct effect?

It's been a while, but as I remember it, that was a pretty good episode.

Anyway, I still think that this proves that this is a sci-fi franchiese with epic awesomeness!

Tiel wrote:

I read Cryptum, nothing about that in der. Is that info in the next book?

yeah it is in cryptum but not much time is spent on it. Charum Hakkor was the first place a halo was fired, where the prisoner was released, and that was a few thousand years after the human-forerunner war if i recall correctly (the halos were built when the Didact was in exile). I'm reading Primordium now and it does explain it (kind of) further.