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Old 02-09-2012, 08:26 AM   #226
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I'm surprised that Warhammer 40K has been mentioned so few times! It fits the bill to many of these issues perfectly:
Massively long range navy type space engagements
Armies of genetically (over)engineered supersoldiers
Psychics- telepaths etc
Warp travel - a weird hyperspace pulsated by sentient beings
Daemons, aliens, cultists etc
Dystopian future- stagnant empire ruled by a mostly dead Emperor

I love it.
Reminds me a lot of Perry Rhodan, now that you mention it.
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Old 02-09-2012, 05:58 PM   #227
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One of the best lines of the series and the ultimate sci-fi trope piss take, everything going red when red alert happens
Red lighting is only usable in cases where night-vision is needed, and I can't think any time when this would happen in space... A few texts or lights would be sensible and some quiet sound... But it does look good...
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Old 02-09-2012, 08:36 PM   #228
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Red lighting is only usable in cases where night-vision is needed, and I can't think any time when this would happen in space... A few texts or lights would be sensible and some quiet sound... But it does look good...
The original Battlestar Galactica series everything went red when they had a red alert.
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Old 02-09-2012, 09:03 PM   #229
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WH40K is without doubt one of the darkest, grimmest, most violent sci-fi dystopias around. Also: in the grim darkness of the far future, everybody is British! I love it.

"stagnant empire ruled by a mostly dead Emperor"

Mind your treasonous words, heretic!
The Emperor most certainly does NOT protect.

Blood for the blood god etc etc.

I'm reading 'Deliverance Lost' (Horus Heresy) right now. It's great!
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Old 02-10-2012, 05:35 AM   #230
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Me too! There's a new Horus Heresy title by Dan Abnett out soon, as well, featuring the Ultramarines.
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Old 02-10-2012, 07:16 AM   #231
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"stagnant empire ruled by a mostly dead Emperor"
Uh, no, I work for the Greater Good, and was just skimming by in my spaceship that doesn't even enter the Warp. And excuse me while I pound this lump flat, I seem to have left my fusion blaster under the carpet.
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Old 02-10-2012, 10:48 AM   #232
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Do I have to look back through 15 pages to see if we've talked about pistol-sized energy weapons? I don't mean taser-scale weapons, I mean hand-held phasers that can vaporize boulders and stun Godzilla-sized creatures.

And speaking of energy weapons: My favorite OLD sci-fi scene to guffaw at was from the serial Flash Gordon. At the end of an episode, Buster Crabbe as Flash is captured and strapped to a target. A "laser beam" is set up to kill him. First, the beam is trained on a metallic bust... a beam the size of a Hollywood premier spotlight shines upon it, and in seconds, the bust melts like ice cream at noon in the Sahara.

Then the beam is shifted to Flash, and we watch him writhe in agony (his, and ours) for at least 5 seconds under this foot-wide spotlight on his chest...

"To be continued!"
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Old 02-10-2012, 11:51 AM   #233
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Geez, that trope made me think of a horrible 70's move, Laserblast.
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Old 02-10-2012, 02:26 PM   #234
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Do I have to look back through 15 pages to see if we've talked about pistol-sized energy weapons? I don't mean taser-scale weapons, I mean hand-held phasers that can vaporize boulders and stun Godzilla-sized creatures.

And speaking of energy weapons: My favorite OLD sci-fi scene to guffaw at was from the serial Flash Gordon. At the end of an episode, Buster Crabbe as Flash is captured and strapped to a target. A "laser beam" is set up to kill him. First, the beam is trained on a metallic bust... a beam the size of a Hollywood premier spotlight shines upon it, and in seconds, the bust melts like ice cream at noon in the Sahara.

Then the beam is shifted to Flash, and we watch him writhe in agony (his, and ours) for at least 5 seconds under this foot-wide spotlight on his chest...

"To be continued!"
That reminded me of the old Flash Gordon episodes we watched on TV in the 50s. When set on stun, the blaster would freeze the victim solid for several minutes in whatever position he or she was in at the time the blast hit them.

Cue the two note excitement music:
Da da da da da dat.
Da da da da da dat.
Da da da da da da da da da da da da da dat.
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Do I have to look back through 15 pages to see if we've talked about pistol-sized energy weapons? I don't mean taser-scale weapons, I mean hand-held phasers that can vaporize boulders and stun Godzilla-sized creatures.
Men In Black took on that trope very well - the tiny pistol that was so powerful it blew Will Smith backwards across the room each time he used it!
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The Emperor most certainly does NOT protect.

Blood for the blood god etc etc.

I'm reading 'Deliverance Lost' (Horus Heresy) right now. It's great!
Foul heretic!

Brother Lexicon, cleanse and burn!

This talk of man portable energy weapons makes me wonder what a common soldier fighting at the time of the Peninsula War would think, shown a modern assault rifle. No reloading after every shot, coughing and spluttering from the copious amounts of black power smoke blanketing everything...

Technology changes and weapons are more often than not at the forefront of that change. In a hundred years or so, who is not to say man portable rail guns and laser weapons arm the average grunt?
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Foul heretic!

Brother Lexicon, cleanse and burn!

This talk of man portable energy weapons makes me wonder what a common soldier fighting at the time of the Peninsula War would think, shown a modern assault rifle. No reloading after every shot, coughing and spluttering from the copious amounts of black power smoke blanketing everything...

Technology changes and weapons are more often than not at the forefront of that change. In a hundred years or so, who is not to say man portable rail guns and laser weapons arm the average grunt?

Go watch the video I linked in... a page or so back... I think its describes this thread exactly.
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Go watch the video I linked in... a page or so back... I think its describes this thread exactly.
Does that video suddenly turn into religious propaganda at the end or am I just over sensitive?

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Does that video suddenly turn into religious propaganda at the end or am I just over sensitive?

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I did not think so, but maybe I am over insensitive. It quotes Proverbs in the last few seconds, but the quote is actually very fitting with the topic.
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I did not think so, but maybe I am over insensitive. It quotes Proverbs in the last few seconds, but the quote is actually very fitting with the topic.
Looking at all the related videos I think it was supposed to be religious. Shame about the mistakes (eg people 500 years ago didn't think the world was flat - a Greek calculated the circumference of the globe about 2000 years ago).

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