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Shepard Quest Mk IV, Under New Management (ME/MCU)

Uxion said:
That is like saying that it is a good idea to discover cancer early.
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It is, then you can start treating it.

Or, in this case, get away from the body before it explodes in a system shattering ball of thermonuclear hellfire. That metaphor doesn't quite fit.
 
Tabron89 said:
Well, it could be worse. It could be a device that causes the nuclear force that keeps atoms apart to 'disappear' and causes the atoms to merge into one giant sphere of energy and heat that presumably reaches 5 billion degrees C and can damage solar systems lightyears away because it imitates the creation of the universe.

Only on a much, much smaller scale.

There was a website I read where it pretty much said that 'if there is advanced alien life out there, then it's likely that their technology has reached the point where trying to figure out the fundamental principles behind them would be considered lethal', and used the example of a victorian engineer/scientist trying to figure out how a working, active nuclear powerplant works by taking it apart, only for him to accidently cause a meltdown when he removes the cooling rods.
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And I will bet that, without a doubt, there are governments and people in the world who think that they are better than others in dissembling alien tech, that they will not take no for an answer.
 
Tabron89 said:
Well, it could be worse. It could be a device that causes the nuclear force that keeps atoms apart to 'disappear' and causes the atoms to merge into one giant sphere of energy and heat that presumably reaches 5 billion degrees C and can damage solar systems lightyears away because it imitates the creation of the universe.

Only on a much, much smaller scale.

There was a website I read where it pretty much said that 'if there is advanced alien life out there, then it's likely that their technology has reached the point where trying to figure out the fundamental principles behind them would be considered lethal', and used the example of a victorian engineer/scientist trying to figure out how a working, active nuclear powerplant works by taking it apart, only for him to accidently cause a meltdown when he removes the cooling rods.

....I sometimes wonder....exactly how are people supposed to work out the difference between 'alien moblie phone' and 'alien remote detonator' when even now we use moblie phones to trigger bombs?


Oh! New idea for a weapon that Revy can research for SCIENCE!!!

Hypernova Bomb: A device that breaks down one of the most important electromagnetic forces in the universe, causing all matter within it's radius to collapse in on itself, triggering a Hypernova (which is a large scale supernova event).

For the time when everything in a ten lightyear radius must die, burn them away in a cloud of superheated gas, rated at 5 billion degrees C at it's center.

Accept no subsitutes.

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P.S: I wrote this at 12:00 AM. I think my sense of humor has just went to a bar and got drunk...
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That bomb is something which I can imagine in the arsenal of Type III civilization.
 
Tabron89 said:
Hypernova Bomb: A device that breaks down one of the most important electromagnetic forces in the universe, causing all matter within it's radius to collapse in on itself, triggering a Hypernova (which is a large scale supernova event).

For the time when everything in a ten lightyear radius must die, burn them away in a cloud of superheated gas, rated at 5 billion degrees C at it's center.

Accept no subsitutes.

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Okay, new rule: If a prospective invention would get it's very own Arms Control Treaty, it is a bad idea.
 
Carrnage said:
Like Batarians or collectors respect treaties.
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We should probably create a Von Neuman AI whose sole purpose is to protect humanity from everything.

Watch, as everything goes hilariously wrong.
 
Van Ropen said:
Cerberus is actually useful in that regard - they probably are expending some effort by this point to make sure we aren't assassinated.
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Well that great and all, but I wouldn't trust them to guard a piggy bank from a three year old, much less groups of people who each individually have a decent chance of taking a Krogan Battlemaster in a straight fight.
 
Van Ropen said:
Yeah, that isn't really fair. Even putting aside shitty writing and Bioware not knowing what the fuck they were doing, presumably every fuckup we uncovered had many corresponding successes we just never found out about.
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You can presume all you like, but their track record speaks for itself. They're the Hammer Industries of Mass Effect.
 
Van Ropen said:
Yeah, that isn't really fair. Even putting aside shitty writing and Bioware not knowing what the fuck they were doing, presumably every fuckup we uncovered had many corresponding successes we just never found out about.

Jacob and Miranda, for example, did prevent the Council from being assassinated if I remember correctly.
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It seems more like the "You only hear of them when they fail" thing to me.
 
UberJJK said:
Like the CIA, Mossard, STG, ect. You only really hear about them when they epically screw up. After all their number 1 job is secrecy.
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As they say "Number of failure: ###. Number of Success: Unknown." Or also "If you done everything right, no one will ever know for sure if you did anything at all."

I think the last one is from Futurama.
 
UberJJK said:
Like the CIA, Mossard, STG, ect. You only really hear about them when they epically screw up. After all their number 1 job is secrecy.
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No, you hear about them when you kind in the front door of their secret research base and find that they've all been eaten by husks.
 
Uxion said:
As they say "Number of failure: ###. Number of Success: Unknown." Or also "If you done everything right, no one will ever know for sure if you did anything at all."

I think the last one is from Futurama.
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That's from god giving Bender advice on how to be a good god after all his worshiper killed each other if I remember correctly.
 
To be fair,while only four successful Cerberus projects(Lazarus, Normandy SR2, EVA, EDI) was showed in screen, it does not means that, there was no more, simply Shepard only encountered with the fucked up ones.


And ME3 they were not themselves.

Ok, I admit that playing with reaper tech was a dumb idea, but thew were grown desperate after Shepard's death.
 
Tabron89 said:
Don't forget about it taking over their base.
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And then it has a 10% chance of joining Shepard, 50% chance of being killed by shepard, and 40% chance of cerberus sending scientists into the base to record how it kills them. (This option repeats the cycle.)
 
Van Ropen said:
...and lets be honest. For a taco that good, I would sacrifice a couple research teams too. TIM has his priorities in order, xD
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I personally prefer burritos.
ShadowAngelBeta said:
And now I'm remembering a discussion on the fallout levels of having various amounts of Sidereels designing and building a taco cart would result in... :)
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Wait, what? Explain.
 
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