AN// This is the continuation of the Not Quite SHODAN (ST SI) series. You might wish to start...
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...it's a literal mother of ships. That's kinda awesome, honestly.Huh, I wonder if they have an actual Mothership now. The one that was talked about ages ago as a method of reproduction. A ship with a bunch of AIs that run an instance of the original simulation to raise new AIs.
The genesis torpedoes would be reverse-engineered and returned to sender. Besides, I think Berserkers are starfaring organisms, so weapons that work mainly on gravity wells would be inappropriate.Has the von neumann genesis torpedo been considered yet as an option? How about weaponized time travel to retgone the RAIs ever being created?
The genesis torpedoes would be reverse-engineered and returned to sender. Besides, I think Berserkers are starfaring organisms, so weapons that work mainly on gravity wells would be inappropriate.
Time travel is rare and unreliable, so even if they tried, it would take too much effort* to get back then- and that's if the agent sent back succeeded despite the butterfly effect and Romulan stubbornness.
* I originally typed 'too much time', but the joke deflated my logic. But there is a certain limit in play regarding expended resources the Berserkers would want to capitalize on - if they aren't trying to rewind themselves... OH GOD TIME-TRAVELLING REAPERS WHAT HAVE I CONCEIVED OF
Re- the "von neumann" bit. Instead of just converting things to planets which later explode, it converts them to equivalent masses of even more genesis torpedoes, equipped with warp engines and some kind of targeting system to point them in the general direction of any mass which isn't Federation or already made up of genesis torpedoes.Besides, I think Berserkers are starfaring organisms, so weapons that work mainly on gravity wells would be inappropriate.
Enuf Dakka can only be achieved by turning everything that isn't Dakka into Dakka.
So, essentially, do to the Universe what the Tyranids are planning, but only with Dakka.
- Nah, youse got ter ave enuff bitz left ter nail all der shooty bitz to, and den youse got ter paint it all red.
- But if you turn the entire universe into a gun that shoots itself, what's left to shoot at? This may be the
greatestonly Orkish philosophical paradox of all time.
- Itself. It isn't Orky enough.
- No, no, no, You're Doing It Wrong! Enuff Dakka has already been achieved: It's called Chouginga Gurren-Lagann's Maelstrom Cannon. A weapon that can hit every point in time and space is pretty much Max Dakka.
- Can it hit parallel dimensions?
- Got me there...
- Well, as long as Rossiu is in the other dimension for targeting purposes...
- Hittin fings aint der point of yer shoota, it's dere to make loads o noise while you get all close up an proper like a real Ork.
- Alright... here's my take on 'Enuff Dakka': You must create a weapon that can hit every point in space and time in the multiverse... with bullets that are each composed of every point in space and time in the multiverse... at point blank range to every point in space and time in the multiverse... And to clarify, the term "multiverse" includes: all alternate realities, parallel realities, perpendicular realities, potential realities, imagined realities, unimagined realities, inconceivable realities, and impossible realities. So you need a gun that shoots at everything, with everything, when next to everything. Now... how can we achieve * dramatic chord* Too Much Dakka?
- So the Crisis on Infinite Earths was the result of the Anti-Monitor trying to get together Enuff Dakka?
- That would only be enough dakka if the weapon can hit every point in the multiverse WITH every point in the multiverse, at every point in time in the multiverse, infinity times per 10^-infinity seconds. Remember, one of the key points of dakka is rapid-fire capability. Hitting everything once isn't orky enough.
- ...so, does that mean the Big Bang was the result of someone creating Enuff Dakka?
- You've achieved Too Much Dakka if yer shoota has so many barrels and gubbinz and whotnots stuck on it yer can't pull da bloody trigga.
- As any Big Mek would say, "Stikk on anuvver trigga, den shoot evryfing wot moves!"
- Let me repeat this to make it absolutely clear. You can never, ever have too much dakka.
- Gork an' Mork. Dey gots Enuff Dakka. Me gonna choppa and dakka more squishy mans an' bugs an' things until me bigs enuff. Den me gonna smash Gork an' Mork an' take deir Dakka sos me can have ALL DA DAKKA!
- Naow Add one mo' dakka. And one mo'. And one mo...
- I would just like to point out that there is no way (physical or meta-physical) to achieve ENOUGH Dakka. Looking for too much Dakka is just being silly.
- The only way to get enough Dakka would be to turn everything that exists in every form of reality into a gun that fires everything that exists in every form of existance and those reality bullets fire more reality bullets causing an infinite loop of dakka. If that still isn't enough, the gun fires everything that does exist in any form of reality and everything that DOESN'T. Of course, everything is rocket propelled and rapid-fire while on fire and covered in pointy death.
- Make it an auto shotgun and that's about halfway there.
- You have enough dakka when your opponent falls asleep during your shooting phase.
- You hummiez gots it all wrong! Youz are muckin about gobbin bout dakka. DA ORKS IS MADE FOR FIGHTIN!
Maybe don't target the Romulans. Just kill Professor Diggins as soon as he takes his newborn AI out of the simulation.Time travel is rare and unreliable, so even if they tried, it would take too much effort* to get back then- and that's if the agent sent back succeeded despite the butterfly effect and Romulan stubbornness.
End result.
*turns and eats Richardson's brains*The beautiful sound of escalation, my friend. Now come here. I have this little light I'd like you to look at. *Drags Redshirt away while putting on black sunglasses*
I think the 'due' part is some form of misapplied analogy - i.e. you're trying to buy what goods you can with what little commercial credit you have.It's make do, not make due. People seem to get that one wrong a lot around here, for some reason.
"Oh shit, the Romulans are berserkers and the Federation got eaten by its AIs - how fast can we GTFO this galaxy?"Yeah...
The Federation is one thing, but I'd like to see unaffiliated groupings' perspective on all this. Lone colonies, maybe the Klingons now that the Feds have taken their gloves off...
Yeah...
The Federation is one thing, but I'd like to see unaffiliated groupings' perspective on all this. Lone colonies, maybe the Klingons now that the Feds have taken their gloves off...