Time to Kill the Shivans Once And For All

Feazanthia · Post by **Feazanthia** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:45 pm

Yeah, they're an FTL missile. They use my Slipstream drives.

Feazanthia · Post by **Feazanthia** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 2:30 am

So, shall we go ahead and make the topic, inform the Shivans, and start whooping ass? Or do we need more planning?

Kanuckistan · Post by **Kanuckistan** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:12 am

Feazanthia wrote:How much firepower would we need to destroy one of those worldships? A couple 15 gigaton warheads in the middle?

15 gigatons ain't much in this case, so unless they have big, volitile reactors in the middle, it probally won't do much.

Feazanthia · Post by **Feazanthia** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:24 pm

I'm putting about a dozen of those babies in their core.

Now, should we make the topic!?!?

Argheraal · Post by **Argheraal** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:27 pm

Hmm.. why bother will all those weapons?..

Let's send a small craft into subspace, let it be swarmed with the subspace nanites, get the ship back, put it in stasis then send it crashing into their worldships, the stasis field colapses and the nanites start doing their job..

They wont be able to say "Godmod", because it is their creation

Feazanthia · Post by **Feazanthia** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:58 am

Because that could have bad side effects...namely the nanites getting a base in this space. We don't exactly have a totally effective weapon against those buggers yet.

Vernii · Post by **Vernii** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 1:42 am

Feazanthia wrote:I'm putting about a dozen of those babies in their core.

Now, should we make the topic!?!?

Dude, that's still going to do nothing.

For a terrestrial world the size of Neptune, it'd take 8.460E+15 gigatons to overcome it's gravitational binding energy (blow it apart without it's debris clumping back together), assuming that it had the density of hard granite. For something with the density of, say...ice, it'd be "only" 1.260E+15 gigatons. Give or take several thousand gigatons, since the thing isn't solid.

Jangle Jangle Ridge · Post by **Jangle Jangle Ridge** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:05 am

Why don't we just sheer through them with plasma weapons? Or, buy the Steel Plague nanites. We can get some of DGNT's normal nanites, 1 trillion USD for 1 quadrillion. Think of that. We could just swarm them into the inside of the ship, too small to detect individualy, and we can spread them out. They'd just rip through the ships.

Argheraal · Post by **Argheraal** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:11 am

Well, if i understand the nanites became (or were given) sentient.. we could try and contact them maybe? Risky but possibly worth the effort.. after all, the shivans escaped them, and may be wanting rematch..

Jangle Jangle Ridge · Post by **Jangle Jangle Ridge** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:17 am

Or, we could attempt to put some in stasis, drop them in the Yarin system, but a slow time bubble over it, and use escape pods out of the time bubble, and FTL out of there. It IS in a different universe, so it's all ok. But if your worried, we could start building massive defenses outside of the bubble, coming in and out. If worst comes to worst... I can get some of DGNT's handy Matter Relocators. Turns everything in an area into a tiny little paperweight.