Conquer Club

betiko wrote:The aliens from Alien, or the guys from the predator s planet, or the guys from superman s planet, or the super sayans would totally destroy your empires.

muy_thaiguy wrote:So, no kudos to the gender confused alien that could destroy entire planets with a finger and had no qualms about disintegrating his soldiers for nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Even wiped out the race that had brought him so many planets.

tzor wrote:Not enough options. I also note that with the revised Battlestar Galactica you need to specify which version you are considering.

I think the most bad ass sci-fi empire was the empire run by the Padishah Emperor in the Dune series. The Sardaukar put imperial storm troopers to shame.

tzor wrote:Not enough options. I also note that with the revised Battlestar Galactica you need to specify which version you are considering.

I think the most bad ass sci-fi empire was the empire run by the Padishah Emperor in the Dune series. The Sardaukar put imperial storm troopers to shame.

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thegreekdog wrote:I'm going with either the Borg or Cylons. Machines scare me.

muy_thaiguy wrote:How about the Formics? Took a completely new kind of WMD to finish them off.

Keefie wrote:Dr Who has two contenders. The Daleks and the Cybermen.

jimboston wrote:How about any empire controlled by Humans of Earth?

Just about every sci-fi book or movie I ever read, shows this empire getting smashed initially... they're always on the ropes and ready to die. Yet their indomitable spirit always rises up to save them from ultimate destruction. Yes, they sometimes have other races working with them... but this ability to make alliances is just another key talent that they bring to the table.

They have beaten aliens, robots, time criminals, cyborgs, virus', zombies, vampires, dinosaurs, extra-dimensional monsters, fallen angels, gods, I could go on. You name the threat and they have at the very least defended themselves admirably, but often crushing the opponent completely.

jimboston wrote:How about any empire controlled by Humans of Earth?

Just about every sci-fi book or movie I ever read, shows this empire getting smashed initially... they're always on the ropes and ready to die. Yet their indomitable spirit always rises up to save them from ultimate destruction. Yes, they sometimes have other races working with them... but this ability to make alliances is just another key talent that they bring to the table.

They have beaten aliens, robots, time criminals, cyborgs, virus', zombies, vampires, dinosaurs, extra-dimensional monsters, fallen angels, gods, I could go on. You name the threat and they have at the very least defended themselves admirably, but often crushing the opponent completely.

tzor wrote:

thegreekdog wrote:I'm going with either the Borg or Cylons. Machines scare me.

Well Cylons V1 were more to be pitied than censured. The basic Cylon is actually to be admired, in as much as even humans still have a hard time being sympathetic to alien life forms. We can see this in a lot of the dialogue of Lucifer. Indeed there was no logical reason to initiate the extermination of the natives of the twelve planets. However, the supreme leader of the Cylons wasn't a Cylon. He was a fallen angel, the race of extremely superior beings who only show up towards the end of the original series (... NOTE ... Please don't consider 1980 as part of the "Canon" ...) a point that was verified by the only member of the 12 planets who had extensive contact with the supreme leader, Balthazar ... "I know that voice." (And the fact they used the same actor as the voice over for the supreme leader was a fourth wall breaking hint to the audience.

There is a different problem with the Borg. The original concept of the Borg was more viral than bad-ass. This didn't work well with designing long term plots. it's sort of like trying to defend against a star, the star has no real motivation, it just isn't something you want to land on or come into contact with. Over time, they added "motivation" to the Borg and that only made the Borg boring.