While We Wait: The Next Generation

[Kal'thzar]

They do. The Satar believe that the wars of the earth are reflected in the wars of heaven, so when two peoples go to war, their gods are fighting also.

So, Krato's gods, the Trilui gods, etc, are all real. The religious justification for the Satar to fight is that if they are defeated, their god could diminish and eventually die. And if they win, Taleldil will reign supreme over the heavens.

Our interpetation (that is the Iralliams view) is that your all Istrian path walking Niamdes...

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

@sp, I did some research into your theory. Talking to some gun experts, it is physically impossible for any number of bugs to jam a military grade weapon like you've suggested.

 

[sp1023]

Umm...duh? I don't think the point was realism. sp's idea is frightening from a mental health standpoint, but hey...I've seen worse!

EQ, here.

I understand, but you know, I need something. Any ideas? We'll say their's a new species of bug thats been hiding in the ancient deserts, which are like minature tanks.

 

[Masada]

You could clog up the automatic feeding systems.

 

[sp1023]

I need something that can cause battleships to blow up.

EDIT: And tanks, howitzers, artillery, you get the idea.

 

[Dachs]

Nobody uses battleships anymore.

 

[sp1023]

Cruisers, destroyers, aircraft carriers, whatever is used for Modern Warfare.

 

[Ninja Dude]

Our interpetation (that is the Iralliams view) is that your all Istrian path walking Niamdes...

Yeah, this should prove to be interesting when the two religions come into contact. Becausereally, if Krato loses, what god would be destroyed? Opporia or Istria. From our view point, Istria would be helping you. And from your view point, the god we worship is the one that would be defeated. I doubt many people worship Istria, and therefore, your people (the Satar) would still have to aknowledge his existance, even if you did beat us.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I need something that can cause battleships to blow up.

EDIT: And tanks, howitzers, artillery, you get the idea.

A bug that eats the wiring or piles up on the electronics and causes it to short out.

 

[sp1023]

If that can blow up ships, I'll be damned.

 

[EQandcivfanatic]

And how do you jam a aircraft carrier?

 

[sp1023]

Actually, Bird's idea is pretty good!

What if, the bug ate specific wires, and caused several planes, when taking off, to release their new super tomahawks which were being secretly produced. The resulting explosion(s) would be massive!

THANKS, BJ!

 

[Masada]

Your thinking here way to small.

You can knock out planes by having birds fly the jet engines, ever seen the damage a pelican can do to a jet engine? How effective would heat seeking and radar guided ordinance be at hitting birds? Completely ineffective, your radar is programmed not to pick up birds and your heat seeking ordinance is not designed for targeting birds. There are millions of birds even if you lose a 100 birds to 1 plane you stand to win over time. A sneak attack would see birds committing suicide against all taxied planes and sitting waiting for planes to begin to taxi.

Ships would be difficult to take out completely, you would just target the crew, rats to chew through wiring to start fires and trigger the fire suppression systems would be a fair means of rendering submarines inoperable and severely damaging the capacity of surface ships to do anything. Those are a few of the cuff possibilities, you would not be able to completely render everything useless but you could a fair bit of damage in the opening minutes [perhaps hours the WTH factor would be there].

And how do you jam a aircraft carrier?

Have jellyfish jam the water intakes, apparently that can slow them down, it happened in Brisbane harbor

 

[sp1023]

Or, I could just have krill wreck em. They're already part of part 2.

 

[Ninja Dude]

Well Masada, that sounds like a good idea, but I believe that unless the animals were extremely fanatical and dedicated to their cause, they wouldn't kill themselves by the hundreds to destroy a plane.

 

[Masada]

... Krill? What the hell would near microscopic critters do? If you want to keep it in the realm of possibility then please do. But Krill?

Well Masada, that sounds like a good idea, but I believe that unless the animals were extremely fanatical and dedicated to their cause, they wouldn't kill themselves by the hundreds to destroy a plane.

Ever seen lemmings

I'm also trying to foster intellectual debate here, consider it a showcase of possible asymmetric warfare tactics and the kind of mindset you need to fight technically, numerical and tactically superior conventional forces. The Moon is after all a harsh mistress.

 

[Ninja Dude]

... Krill? What the hell would near microscopic critters do? If you want to keep it in the realm of possibility then please do. But Krill?



Even seen lemmings

I think he means the gigantic ones Iggy posted.

 

[sp1023]

Heh, you're right, Ninja. Well, Madagascar has a faction of lemurs, you know.

Lemmings

 

[Masada]

You could kill those things no trouble though with any kind of ship, no amount of scaling up is going to hide the fact that steel is far stronger than any natural type of carapace armor. If something can breach a few meters of concrete or break through the armor of an opposing warship it will cut through the super krill almost regardless. You could puree the thing with the anti missile systems on the ships themselves.

You would use those in a second wave against already weakened ships which you would hope would be dead in the water... however unlikely that is.

 

[sp1023]

Mutated super krill with super hides, nah. I've got legions of godzilla destroying Asia, what more could I want!

Does anyone have like a BIG map of the world with only the continent borders?