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Huh. That sucks to face them, I presume.It does. Thankfully, their forms can be killed with normal weapons fire (though the parasite can simply infect a new host) and Metroids are both immune to this assimilation and are the natural predators of X.
Just throwing this idea out there.Leave the metroids out. They'd simply consume the X parasites and we'd be back down to a three-way battle.
The Ing vs. the Zerg vs the X parasites.
And maybe throw in metroids.
Void Dragon is canon. What exactly it is and what it is capable of are not canon. The Emprah meets the Void Dragon in the Mechanicum Heresy book, and seals it away beneath Mars, out of reach of the Techpriests.So whether the Void Dragon has any effect at all on an Empire vs Imperium battle is up to the whim of the author. Alrighty, that makes sense.
Is that actually canon? I thought it was (probably) just a fan theory.What about the Void Dragon trapped on Mars, though If it ever awakes...WH40k Skynet, anybody?That one needs to be present in the star system, and get fairly close to the star it wants to destroy. Stopping it would still be tricky of course, considering it's nigh-invulnerable nature.No one remembers the Galaxy Gun? Don't even need to pop into the Sol system, just launch a planet-busting missile from the other side of the galaxyWhat about the Sun Crusher or whatever that is?
That one needs to be present in the star system, and get fairly close to the star it wants to destroy. Stopping it would still be tricky of course, considering it's nigh-invulnerable nature.No one remembers the Galaxy Gun? Don't even need to pop into the Sol system, just launch a planet-busting missile from the other side of the galaxyWhat about the Sun Crusher or whatever that is?
You've pretty much got it right. Palpatine was very strong in the Force, and would basically move his conciousness from clone body to clone body.Let's go back to the whole "cloning the God-Emperor of Mankind" idea for a moment. Take Star Wars cloning tech: I think we've got sufficient evidence to conclude that it functions perfectly insofar as that it creates exact genetic duplicates of the original donor, but the issue is whether it would also function in such a way as to transfer the GEoM's pskyer ability/status as a living god to the clones.Oh, from what I remember of Star Wars tech, at least some of its cloning techniques are capable of just... full capability cloning, or something very close to it. Palpatine used that junk more than once, and force capability/knowledge apparently transferred/copied just fine. S'been quite a few years since I read the books, though, and it's entirely possible I'm misremembering things.
Yeah, I'd have to go with the Titan in that case. I'm guessing that much firepower would be enough to vaporize Tokyo-3 without breaking a sweat. It all depends on if the AT-field decides to work or not, and how powerful it decides to be for that episode.-snip for size-Jeepers, and here I thought the WH40k universe raped physics hard enough already
Of course, the single biggest hurdle facing the Commander would be on the ground. The Imperium doesn't exactly lack things that can chew up building-sized mechs for breakfast, y'know. Hell, the sheer amount of dakka that a Leman Russ brigade can produce would probably bring it down. There are tanks that are referred to as "titan killers" for a reason. Or if it ran into an actual Titan; THAT would solve the problem quickly.
@ Hans: Refresh my memory, are the Imperators the super-ginormous titans or the smaller ones?
Imperators are the biggest Imperial titans. They have a massive battle-cathedral on their backs that has spires of guns and such on it that are the size of Warhound Scout Titans. It takes several Legios of smaller Titans to kill one.
-snip for size-Jeepers, and here I thought the WH40k universe raped physics hard enough already
So. Let's talk about that. Assuming the Thing can't assimilate an Alien, to pander to the fanbase (Hans lurves teh Xenomorphs, btw, but knows Jeffrey would win, because seriously? Are you fucking serious? It's the Thing.) what's to stop a human-biomass sized Thing from simply outsmarting the Alien? Aliens are quite intelligent, probably as smart as a particularly intelligent dog, but a Thing in manform is as smart as a man. Hell, one made a SPACESHIPI don't know if any of the fleshy bits of Pariahs are accessible, though. It might just be a brain inside the metal skull, which I don't see the Thing gaining access to very easily. And besides, a gauss flayer would easily kill the Thing.IN A CAVE WITH A BOX OF SCRAPSWITH A BOX OF SCRAPS.
Also, we should probably assume that all 'special abilities' from all the universes work on each other. The Thing can assimilate the Alien, the Alien can facehug the Tau, the Psykers can mindcontrol the Thing, etc. Otherwise people just get all pissed off and shut down. Oh, and the Thing could probably take over at least part of the Necrons. The Pariahs are part human.
