Poll: Flood (Halo), Replicators (Stargate), or the Borg (Star Trek)?
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Well... The only reason the Forerunners committed suicide was because they had no other choice. The AI or "monitor" in charge of the Shield worlds betrayed them for the Flood and kept them out of the Shield worlds. That's why they all died when they fired the Halos. And the only reason the Flood returned as quickly as they did was because the Covenant accidentally released them from their containment cells before the Battle of Installation 04. The Forerunner Monitor 343 Guilty Spark had been studying the flood by keeping them in stasis ever since the firing of the Halos. So without the Covenant, the Flood might not have come back at all. But I highly doubt either the Stargate or the Star Trek universes have the resources to build a superweapon or a series of superweapons that can wipe out all life in the galaxy, and then develop shield worlds large enough to keep large portions of all the major civilizations alive during the event.Eldritch Warlord said:
Stargate had the ancient device on Dakara (sic). Anubis himself tried to use it to destroy the galaxy, but was stopper. Then it was configured to specifically wipe out the replicators. Pretty much the power of a halo but WAY smaller. You got me on the shield world part though.Eipok Kruden said:
Exactly. They could just reconfigure it to wipe out all organic life, but then they'd have to find some way to escape the blast, which would be impossible since they wouldn't be able to use the gate system as they fire it since every gate would have to be open for it to work, which means they'd have to create some kind of new gate or something. Not only that, but they'd have to find a way to get the wave from the weapon to get through the Atlantis gate and then use the Atlantis gate to send the wave through the entire galaxy that Atlantis is in. I don't know how they'd be able to get the wave to cover every inch of both galaxies or get all the people of both galaxies (except for the Wraith, of course) to safety. Let alone both at once.-Seraph- said:
Read through these threads if you want to learn more about the Halo universe:http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.88926?page=1 & http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.87763?page=1oliveira8 said:
You just said except for the Gravemind. Remember the second to last level in Halo 3 where the Flood become your allies to help you kill the Prophet of Truth and stop him from firing the rings? The Gravemind controls the Flood. If forming a treaty is in the best interests of the Flood, he'll form a treaty.Vromnir said:
It does sound like a Star Trek ripoff, except it's in the Stargate universe so it's automatically better. It has way less soft sci-fi and it's just plain awesome.Simriel said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_UniverseSimriel said:
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It's not much of a star trek ripoff. It's very lost in spacey, but stargate can ripoff star trek and no one would care because stargate has a far more interesting and visceral universe than treks rather monotonous universe.
Granted, cellular disruption wouldn't have any effect on the flood for that reason, but the tech used to kill the replicators wasn't only designed to do that. As it was said before, the device could have been used to wipe out any particular (or all) life in the galaxy. The flood WOULD be defeated just as easily.Eldritch Warlord said:
I would also like to point out that, from my understanding, there were 3 types of replicators. Two were identical, but the ancient humanshape replicators were completely independent from the "toys" that evolved. I never finished Atlantis, but presumably, they were different.
We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.Simriel said:
Offensive Bias was actually in charge of a fleet meant to kill the Gravemind (or at least hurt him and make all the other Flood stop their expansion and go protect him). And I don't think there's any explanation ever given as to why the Forerunners didn't rebuild out of the Shield Worlds after the Halo Array was fired (maybe they were all abandoned when the Forerunners made the Maginot Line and never were used to keep attention away from the Halos, maybe the shield worlds simply didn't work). Also the Flood on 05 seem to have broken out on their own thanks to Penitent Tangent's lax containment protocols.Eipok Kruden said:
Stargate's Great Alliance might have been able to do as the Forerunners did. The Ancients did build that Dakara Superweapon.
The Flood are organic life, just like all other life in the universe. There's no way to only target the Flood. The Halos wiped out all life in the galaxy except for the Flood because their spores remained, but with just their spores, they were unable to build up sufficient biomass and eventually died off except for a few spores floating in the depths of space and the flood in stasis on the Halos.Signa said:
Countless worlds have been taken by the combined forces of the Replicator/Flood entity. Humanity lay scattered across the cosmos, finding themselves allied with Goa'uld and Covenant forces alike. They fled to a single solitary planet, the Replicator/Flood forces close on their heels. And suddenly, all was silence.
The Replicator/Flood forces searched the planet for signs of their prey, but all they found was one tiny life form. But by then, it was too late. They too, were subjugated, and all turned as one, to serve their new master.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
The Replicator/Flood forces searched the planet for signs of their prey, but all they found was one tiny life form. But by then, it was too late. They too, were subjugated, and all turned as one, to serve their new master.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD