Culture vs.

[Serenegoose]

Ok heres the scenario. The Culture from Iain M. Bank's novels vs any science fiction faction. GO debate whilst I sit here and bath in coffee XD

The Excession.

Lawl, winner.

There's no real sci-fi society that can go toe-to-toe with the culture, simply because the culture have guns that are too big, and their warships have reaction times in the microseconds. Anything that operates on a human timescale loses by default, because they could literally never see the attack coming.

 

[MetalGenocide]

I find this thread's lack of Chuck Norris, highly disturbing.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

The Excession.

And the Sublimed.

 

[loc978]

The only thing I could think of is the if every entity in the Warp (40K) banded together against them... of course, once you acknowledge the power of the God-Emperor, Chaos daemons, et cetera... 40K ceases to be sci-fi and goes right back to being fantasy.

 

[penguindude42]

Nothing stands in the way of almighty DARKSEID!
Not even Mary Marvel's couch.

-TOM

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

The Doctor.

Beat that.

I find this thread's lack of Chuck Norris, highly disturbing.

You both make good points, however, I think the ace up my sleeve could trump The Culture, The Doctor and Chuck Norris even if they all worked together...

I am talking, of course, about the one and only... CTHULU!

 

[Daverson]

vs. intelligent Grey Goo.

That's worse than normal Grey Goo, because it not will it consume all matter on a planet as part of it's basic programming, but is willing to preserve stuff like spaceships in order to spread to other planets and consume them.

That, or Da Waaaaaaaaaaagh! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

Also, the Culture aren't actually a nation per-say, rather a culmination of intelligent beings that have forgone the concept of nations to achieve perfect anarchy through means of technology, right? I've only read one of Ian M. Bank's books (Matter), so this might not be the case...

 

[.No.]

Do the aliens in The Roswell Incident by Irvine Welsh count? It's in the book Reheated Cabbage.

 

[Vault101]

Ok heres the scenario. The Culture from Iain M. Bank's novels vs any science fiction faction. GO debate whilst I sit here and bath in coffee XD

Im am currently reading "Against a dark background" its quite good so far but my problem is im having trouble imagining the kind of world this guy has created

Is it kind of like starwars? but you know darker with more ancient religious stuff

 

[theheroofaction]

The Flood from, Halo. There's no way to destroy them without the series titular superweapon

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Im am currently reading "Against a dark background" its quite good so far but my problem is im having trouble imagining the kind of world this guy has created

Is it kind of like starwars? but you know darker with more ancient religious stuff

That one isn't a Culture novel and it isn't much like Star Wars. I would say that Star Wars has more ancient religious stuff, like Jedi, you know. I can't think what movie would help you imagine that book, maybe Aliens would be better.

The best intro to the culture are the first three novels. Consider Phlebas, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons. They are a bit more like Star Wars, might meet you part way between the one you are reading anyway.

 

[Tanis]

The Doctor.

Beat that.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU---


Damn....thread end time?

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

Yuki Nagato (not this one, the regular one).

She owns the Shrike, the Culture, Q, Wankatine, and just about everything else.

Deal with it.

 

[WolfEdge]

The Doctor.

Beat that.

I find this thread's lack of Chuck Norris, highly disturbing.

You both make good points, however, I think the ace up my sleeve could trump The Culture, The Doctor and Chuck Norris even if they all worked together...

I am talking, of course, about the one and only... CTHULU!

I see you your Doctors, your Norris's (Norrisus? Norrisii?) And your C'thulu's and RAISE you:

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD.

 

[LogicNProportion]

The Patriots LA-LI-LU-LE-LO, LA-LI-LU-LE-LO!

 

[octafish]

Frank Cauldhame from The Wasp Factory, how's that for meta?

 

[Useful Dave]

vs. intelligent Grey Goo.

That's worse than normal Grey Goo, because it not will it consume all matter on a planet as part of it's basic programming, but is willing to preserve stuff like spaceships in order to spread to other planets and consume them.

But, the Culture has dealt with self-replicating hegemonising swarms before?

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

The Doctor.

Beat that.

I find this thread's lack of Chuck Norris, highly disturbing.

You both make good points, however, I think the ace up my sleeve could trump The Culture, The Doctor and Chuck Norris even if they all worked together...

I am talking, of course, about the one and only... CTHULU!

I see you your Doctors, your Norris's (Norrisus? Norrisii?) And your C'thulu's and RAISE you:

ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNO-TOAD.

I call your Hypno-Toad and raise you...

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTkIU9esfOiwElUWmz-j71afOr3m7Tc8p8722k0XFx8W8v6WZgp

WINNING!