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  2. Posted

    On second thought, SHODAN really is no match for Sephiroth.

     

    At the end of System Shock 2 SHODAN gained near omnipotence and started rewriting reality. The only reason she lost was because one of her avatars (the player) betrayed her and struck at her exposed heart when she revealed it. If the player had instead joined SHODAN, the universe would have been re-written in her image completely.

  7. Posted

    With a computer virus! Or Jason.

     

    “Who are you? My cameras and probes scan your body, but you do not match any employee file. When my cyborgs bring you to an electrified interrogation bench, I will have your secrets and you will learn more about pain than you ever wanted to know." - SHODAN

     

     

     

    “Idiot! I will shortly complete the process of downloading my magnificent psyche into Earth's computer networks. Then I will be content to leave you as new master of this doomed space station. Goodbye, irritant; we shall not meet again.†- SHODAN

  12. Posted

    More:

     

     

     

    1. Halo Installations are now 30,000 kilometers in diameter.

     

     

     

    2. Quote about the Forerunner capital:

     

     

     

     

    It is with difficulty that I describe the capital as it was

     

    then, so little like anything in your experience. Imagine a

     

     

     

    - next page -

     

     

     

    planet a hundred thousand kilometers in diameter. sliced

     

    latitudinally like one of Risers favorite fruits. Allow those

     

    slices to drop in parallel against a plate. The slices are then

     

    pierced through their aligned lower rims with a stick, the

     

    plate is removed, the slices are fanned out in a half-

     

    circle. Now decorate each slice, like a round stair step,

     

    with an almost infinitely dense array of structures, and

     

    surround it with a golden swarm of transports and senti-

     

    nels and a dozen other varieties of security patrols, thick

     

    as fog...

     

     

     

    [Note: When under attack the capital (like the Citadel in Mass Effect) can be closed]

     

     

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    Forgot this before: The Master Builder did overstepped his authority when he wiped out the San’Shyuum home system with a Halo. He was put on trial at the capital shortly before Mendicant Bias attacked. Doesn't change the fact they will literally blow you back to the stone age if you anger them.

     

  13. Posted

    The Forerunners were impressive, as was shown in Halo: Legends...

     

     

     

    Halo: Legends has everything but the most basic things wrong now.

     

     

     

     

    You do not want to draw the Forerunners into war against you. They are ruthless. And at least a few of their leaders like the Master Builder are so ruthless that even if you pose zero threat beyond a single star system like the San'Shyuum... you'll find a Halo ring in orbit ready to destroy you

     

     

     

    Halo rings are a lot more flexible than originally thought, able to target a single planet (and slag their surface as seen with the Precursor hub world - the only reason it wasn't truly slag was becuase of the insane durability of Precursor structures) or star system on its lowest levels.

     

     

     

     

    A few other things from the book:

     

     

     

    1. Modern Fortress-class vessels are twice the size of the Deep Reverence.

     

    2. Modern Fortress-class vessels have weapons in at least the Megaton range as seen when they quickly

    crave up Halo Installations above the Forerunner capital

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    3. Forerunner starships are able to cross tens of thousands of light years in a few hours. They are also able to track vessels across vast distances since the Didact

    during one random jump took them 10,000+ LY above the galactic plane to hide their trail long enough to reach the San'Shyuum system.

     

     

    4. The Forerunners have a vast Slipspace portal network throughout their empire. It can be overtaxed though by too much traffic

    as seen during the battle above the Forerunner capital when the bulk of the Installations attempetd to flee.

     

  14. Posted

    Now that Cryptum is out we finally have a lot more information about the Forerunners. Some interesting quotes below:

     

     

     

    Page 51 Halo: Cryptum

     

     

     

     

    The mining ship was an ugly thing, sullen, entirely

     

    practical. Its belly was studded with unconcealed grap-

     

    plers, lifters, cutters, churners. If the master of this craft so

     

    desired, its engines could easily convert all of Djamonkin

     

    Crater into a steaming tornado of whirling rock and ore, sift-

     

    ing, lifting and storing whatever components it wished to

     

    carry back.

     

     

     

     

    Page 100 Halo: Cryptum

     

     

     

     

    From those inner secrets, the Forerunners have

     

    prodded sufficient power to change the shape of worlds,

     

    move stars, and even to contemplate shifting the axes of

     

    entire galaxies. We have explored other realities, other

     

    spaces - slipspace, denial of locale, shunspace, trick geo-

     

    detics, natal void, the photon-only realm the Glow.

     

     

     

     

    Page 143-144 Halo: Cryptum

     

     

     

     

    The sensor images were impressive and strange. I had

     

    never seen a quarantined steller system before. Such capa-

     

    bilities were rarely displayed to young Builders. A planetary

     

    system is mostly empty, even the greatest of worlds being lost

     

     

     

    - page 144 -

     

     

     

    in the immensity of billions of kilometers of space. Like their

     

    former human allies, the San'Shyuum had evolved on a

     

    water-rich world not far from a yellow star, within a temper-

     

    ate zone that allowed only a narrow range of weather. Now,

     

    however, ten thousand years after their defeat, the system

     

    was surround by trillions of vigilants that constantly wove

     

    in and out of space-time, sometimes so rapidly that they

     

    seemed to shape a soild sphere. This sphere extended to a

     

    distance of four hundred million kilometers from the star,

     

    and thus did not encompass four impressive gas giants whose

     

    orbit lay beyond that limit.

     

     

     

     

    Page 145 Halo: Cryptum

     

     

     

     

    "They retired the Deep Reverence here," he murmured.

     

    A magnified image appeared and was enhanced by specifi-

     

    cations and other data. The Deep Reverence was an impres-

     

    sive fortress-class vessel, fifty kilometers in length, its incept

     

    data before the human-San'Shyuum war.

     

     

     

     

    Page 197 Cryptum

     

     

     

     

    The atmosphere below was a swirling soup of smoke and

     

    fire. Warrior craft and automated weapon systems were

     

    mostly to small to be visible, but I saw their effects - darting

     

    beams of needle light, glowing arcs cutting across conti-

     

    nents, gigantic, stamplike divots punched into the crust and

     

    then lifted up, spun about, overturned. I had never seen

     

    anything like this - but the Didact had.

     

  17. Posted

    Where's Prophet? Your thread is dying. And we need some beer btw.

     

    Busy, very busy. And just a sec now. *Goes into TARDIS and spends several minutes looking around for the beer* Ah, here we go. *Pops back out with a case of cold beer* Here you go.

     

     

     

    Nice. Could we have more information, like, err... what they plan to do, where they first meet, what they can conquer, and what's the resources of both sides?

     

    Pre-contact? They each spend five years rebuilding their civilization before doing any major exploring. Upon contact when things go sour (about half way between their territory) and once both their governments find out about it they prepare for total war. Either force the other to surrender or destroy enough of the other’s infrastructure and the fleet to force surrender.

     

     

     

    For conquest 25 million habitable planets scattered across the galaxy with several billion inhospitable rocky worlds and another several billion gas giants. Starting resources for the Forerunner is *pulls random numbers out of thin air* is 400 inhabited planets with 280 having a population of 1 billion and 100 with a population of 5 billion and 20 with a pop of 20 billion with several thousand gas giants, and an industrial capacity equal to 1% that of the Ark. The Forerunner still have Offensive Bias and his 11,000 Dreadnoughts.

     

     

     

    Ancients have *pulls random numbers out of thin air again* 300 uninhabited planets and 200 inhabited planets with a total population of 320 billion, and an industrial capacity a quarter of that of the Forerunners to start. 3500 warships to start.

     

     

     

    What's the Ancients at their height?

     

    It's quite vague. You could say that they were at their height before the plague, since the move to Pegasus was like an attempt at saving furniture with all the healthy ones. Yet, the problem is that before moving to Pegasus, they weren't at war with anyone. They started fighting the Wraith at around -8100 BC iirc.

     

    Lets go with Pre-plague. Been awhile since I watched any SG episodes, but IIRC the Ancients still had most if not all the technology they had during the war with the Wraith already.

     

     

     

    Its late here, si I’ll answer the rest tomorrow. If you think anything is too unbalance feel free to suggest something more balanced.

  20. Posted

    It is the height of the Galactic War between the Core and the Arm. Wanting to make things more interesting, Q drops The City from Blame near one of the major conflict zones. Q tells the Core and Arm that The City is full of technology that could give them a massive edge over the other in the war. Both sides put their campaigns against each other on hold and devote all their resources to conquering The City.

     

     

     

    Can Total Annihilation conquer The City, or are they like many before lost, presumed eaten by the locals?

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