Out of Pod Experience

SG:1's Replicators, the borg would have nothing to asymilate while the replicators would be able to replenish and build numbers. I may be missing something that the borg have that would help. also the borgs ability to alterate themselves would not help much except for the start before the replicators figure it out.

no opinion

bugs. sheer number would have it.

can't really say. don't know a ton about either of these. terran would have the disposability of the units, but the space marines are a hell of a lot more powerful per unit. so it may go by sheer numbers but the difference in numbers may not be enough.

tron. internal only means no neo or anything like that, and the agents are external unites interfacing with the computer while tron is all internal.

Babylon 5's Lorien pwns all.

I've written 2 replies and the forums have eaten them both along with a couple of other replies in other subjects. Let's try this again with a ctrl-c ctrl-v shall we.

Tron vs Matrix - Just to Clarify I am talking about all programs on the inside of the Matrix. For Tron this includes Programs, Light cycles, Tanks, Light jets, Recognizers, the Carrier, Tron, and CLU. You can even include Zues if you think Techno will help.

On the Matrix side we would be talking about the Agents, programs like the Twins and the Oracle, and even go as far as including the Architect. If you want to be creative you can even include users since they were a tool used to fight Neo.

I made it internal specifically due to the fact that the Robots could just unplug the system and start over is things got out of hand. But if you're really ambitious, you can include a scenario where the Tron users escape into the real world and are forced to fight Squids and those giant Bombers.



Replicator vs Borg - 2 things I have always noted about the borg. 1st is that they adapt very quickly to any given situation. Usually you have only about a half dozen shots with your phaser before it is useless against their shield. Of course Replicators don't use phasers but I also noticed that they had issues with apophis' personal shields. And like the Replicators, the Borg seem to be able to 2 nail tactic any area that they are in (like taking over an entire deck on the Enterprise E in about 10 minutes).

The other items that I've noticed about Borg is that they don't care about you until you start ******* with them, like say rearranging their ship. At which point the entire ship is focused on simply eradicating you, and the Borg usually aren't concerned with losses in these matters.

in the space marines VS terran, it is rather unfair in the space marines favor, each space marine has up to centuries of experience, Armour tougher by an order of magnitude, and to top it all off they have a distinct offensive advantage as well.

Just to help you out a little on this one, I chose these 2 because they both function pretty close to the same.

I'll try not to give away anything about the replicators origin. Replicators are essentially little spider like droids in SG:1 who's sole purpose is to replicate. Kind of think of them as a mechanical ant colony. They set it up so there is usually a queen who nestles herself near some kind of power couple (or in one case a subs engine room). At which point she's starts making little nano chips that can form together to take on any shape which usually turns into the little spider replicators. Other versions are seen like when a bunch of them formed into a 10ft tall bug that boosted the FTL capabilities of a Ha'Tak ship (there were large beetle like replicators as well). When they over ran the Asgard home world we saw kind of a giant mech version that was carrying Carter. They have even combined together to make themselves into a ship.

In the sense like the Borg, they are always seeking out new and better technology than what they currently have. This gave the Asgard a lot of problems because they are all about technology but every new ship they built the Replicators would take it over and use it to replicate more. Thor's ship was eventually stricken with Replicators and they took it over and started flying to Earth. Naturally our band of heroes found a way to stop them by destroying the ships inertia dampeners just as it came out of light speed causing the ship to go into atmosphere and break up into the ocean, which led to the whole replicator on the sub incident.

There was even one incident where they incorporated themselves into a airman thus kind of making him a borg in a sense.

They usually try to go for stealth if they can by taking out sensors in their area before they start taking over ship controls.

Replicators, as with the Borg, tend not to mess with you unless you do something that interferes with their business, at which point you have a horde chasing you down. They tend to be very susceptible to guns and explosives.

So, given a scenario where the replicators find their way on a Borg ship and start doing their thing, taking the strengths and advantages of both I've been curious of what people think the outcome would be.

As for the others:

Jason is easily in the lead
Aliens and Bug seem about tied
Space Marines are pushing ahead
Tron and Matrix look about tied at the moment

Good ideas from a lot of you so far.

I dunno, the Borg kind of suck. They got time travel technology, and still manages to **** **** up (and why assimilate things in the past, when there is no information or technology to be gained by it? And if they want to remove a threat, just nuke em from orbit in the past). They try to invade the federation and only send one cube, while they got millions of them. Despite hardcore nanotechnology they still rely on biological bodies for their drones. Why use drones at all? Why not amke compact ships that is a lot easier to maintain and handle. Why not use their extensive knowlegde gained from other species to actually make assimilation easier, and just not walse right in demanding other races submit. With their way of spreading they should have grown much fasster if they where as effective as we are led to belive, exponential growth would quickly have converted all of the galaxy to borg.

The answer is of course they are a fictionl race of bad guys form a fictionl universe. But they still fail to be scary as bad guys since they derp so hard. :)