Thread 723130820

What would happen if you dropped one of these things in the:
>Mass Effect universe
>Star Wars universe
>Star Trek universe
>Warhammer 40k universe

halo was never good

>>723130820 (OP)
Canon Star Wars or expanded universe Star Wars? those are two whole different beasts

>Mass Effect
They barely explored 1% of the galaxy and use tech passed down and reverse engineered from other species. They get fucked hard.
>Star Wars
Will do better if they respond to the threat in a pragmatic way but if theyre on one planet and get on a starship then the galaxys gonna have a hard time. Theres also a ton of droids to infect.
>Star Trek
I know little of Trek but they have Q. Would Q let the Flood fuck the galaxy?
>40k
No idea.

>>723131196
flood sidious

>>723130820 (OP)
>Mass Effect
Depends where, I guess. They need the Mass Relays for FTL travel, right? (it's been years since I've touched ME). I'd say if it lands in any populated zone, then it's going to be a problem.
>Star Wars
If it's on the Outer Rim I could see it being a huge issue since those planets are more or less left unchecked. I feel like the tech in Star Wars would neutralize an infection form without much issue since you have so many droids in various different forms. Left unchecked and allowed to spread, it could be a big issue. Luckily, they have planet destroyers in this setting.
>Star Trek
Again, depends entirely where. If it's in the Alpha or Beta quadrant, it's going to be a big issue. Hard to say with the Gamma quadrant because of the Changelings. I don't think Flood could do anything to them. For the Delta, you have the Borg, and they would probably capture it and analyze it. If it can add anything to them, they'd try to assimilate it. If not, they'll destroy it. You also have literal realty warpers like the Q, the Douwds, and the Travelers (as well as the Department of Temporal Investigations who can rewrite the past if an anomaly shows up). If it gets too big, then one of those big heads will erase the outbreak from existence. If it's just the United Federation of Planets/Klingon Empire/Romulan Empire with no outside help, then they could potentially lose if the outbreak is massive enough.
>Warhammer 40k
Considering they're constantly dealing with Orks, Tyranids and other magical demons, I don't think the Flood would even register as a threat except to some outer colony. You'd probably have some cults rising up to worship it thinking it's connect to Nurgle.

>>723130820 (OP)
all 4 of those universes would call halo a gay videogame thing & continue on with their stories. Faggots like you should go shit up /vr/.

>>723130820 (OP)
>>Star Trek universe
There like dozen of those kinds of things in Star Trek. They're treating like a Monster of the Week episodes.

>>723131196
>Would Q let the Flood fuck the galaxy?
To an extent, yes. The Q know of the Borg, and other races that wish to dominate/kill literally everything, and they basically don't give any amount of a shit beyond telling other Q to leave them alone. That being said, as soon as they notice that the flood will ruin all their entertainment forever, and they'll notice literally instantly, The counsel of Q will probably get Q, Q, and Q to just fuck them up

Everyone is fine except WH40k, because of how weak that universe is

>>723130820 (OP)
>gay sex
>gay sex
>gay sex
>gay sex
Because all that shit is for fags.

>Mass Effect
ME is doomed. Completely and totally fucked
>Star Wars
Canon star wars is fucked
I don't know enough about extended universe SW to say otherwise
>Star Trek
Probably fucked if it doesn't get the attention of reality warpers like Q
>40k
Its like the Tyranids but on Crack
Wipes out the Aeldari/Drukhari, wipes out T'au. Imperium glasses itself to stop an outbreak on whatever planet it shows up on after its discovered that space marines can't stop it on the ground. Probably locked in an infinite stalemate vs the Nids and Orks. Makes Nurgle more powerful, can't touch the other chaos gods, Necrons destroy it and Trazyn takes some spores or flood forms as a fun toy

>>723131535
This board swears up and down that 40k is the strongest sci-fi universe.

>Mass Effect universe
The reapers are absolutely disgusted and end up fighting a forever war against the gravemind
>Star Wars universe
Depends on the era but a ton of people will die regardless. Pre Clone Wars Republic eats shit unless the Jedi resolve the entire situation themselves (lmao), Clone Wars Republic would have to glass planets (same for CIS) but would probably eat shit. Galactic Empire glasses planets and has an actual reason to use the Death Star. The rebellion eats shit. The new republic gets fucked with no lube.
>Star Trek universe
Some reality warper neutralizes them.
>Warhammer 40k universe
Nobody really can tell the difference.

>>723133284
In 40k, Flood start off as bargain bin Tyranids barely worth a thought, but if they're allowed to accumulate enough biomass to produce a gravemind they very rapidly start catapulting past the Tyranids' threat level and start eyeing the Chaos Gods' throne as the Galaxy's Biggest Problem.

>>723130820 (OP)
Mass Effect has shields as a widespread thing so not too much damage but it depends, Thresher Maws getting infected would be terrible if they managed to release spores into space afterwards
Star Wars has too much bullshit for the Flood to really make a dent at this point
Never cared for Star Trek
Warhammer 40K again like Star Wars it wouldn't so much and Nurgle probably already uses it anyway, perhaps it'd cause a three way with Orks and Tyrannids, at worst the galaxy dies and Necrons go back to sleep

>>723131535
The only thing weak is this bait

halo powerscaling stuff is always so funny because it's like
>you don't understand. in DA BOOKS the flood are literally warping reality with their very fucking existence. the idea that a traditional military response could stop them is laughable...
and then in the games one guy with an assault rifle and a flamethrower carves through them and then they concentrate literally ALL of their forces in one spot and fucking die because they're stupid

>>723131506
TNG Q isn't just some guy dicking around with people because it's funny, he's the embodiment of the ideal Trickster God: he's teaching Picard and crew a lesson even if he's being a massive cunt about it. Introducing the Enterprise to the Borg was a harsh lesson to teach them that there are things the Federation is not prepared to face yet, and it's canon that the Cube he sent them to was already on its way to the Alpha Quadrant. He was giving them a subtle heads up that they're about to get fucked sideays and is the reason Wolf 359 was a terrible loss of life and not the total assimilation of Earth.

So Q would intervene to a certain to degree to give humanity, if no one else, a fighting chance.

>>723133827
Floodbros...our response?

>>723133865
TNG Q does begin to play ball with the Q continuum's bullshit more in Voyager. But yes, the three I mentioned (him his wife and his son) would absolutely demand intervention if the flood became a legitimate threat and eventually do it anyway if refused.

>>723130820 (OP)
>Mass Effect universe
Would reek havok but eventually contained by the reapers.
>Star Wars universe
somehow The force would unfuck this.
>Star Trek universe
It would be one wild episode and then immediately taken care of or completely forgotten.
>Warhammer 40k universe
The Imperium of Man or the Orks will battle the home world of until either the Orks win through their sheer brain dead mind warping fuckery or the Imperium of man deem the world lost and exterminatus it.
The flood is effectively just a large parasite that makes Zombies. Most of these universes solved that kind of problem at one point.

>>723131458
>>723130916
Kys zoomer

>>723133827
This is why I dont take anything not shown in the games seriously. If it wasnt important enough to be displayed or touched upon in a game then I don’t care. Not reading some book by some crappy author either.

>>723135303
>reek havok
fucking retard

>>723130820 (OP)
I only like Star Wars, so the real question is if midichlorians are in everything, how many bodies would the Gravemind need to assimilate before becoming force sensitive? Surely an entire planets worth of people, plus capture of one Jedi would allow the Gravemind to use the force.

>>723133827
>>723134187
>>723135527
>um actually the flood is weak in the games
>what do you mean the games show that they need to kill entire galaxies to destroy them?
>STOPPPP!

>>723135598
Oh fuck how has no one thought of this? That's actually an awesome idea.

>>723130820 (OP)
>Mass Effect universe
>Star Wars universe
No chance. No chance at all.
>Star Trek universe
>Warhammer 40k universe
It depends if magic/powerful beings will save the day, otherwise they are screwed.

>>723135598
One the one hand, if the flood parasite is stronger then the midichlorian cellular parasites we're in flavor town. On the other, that would likily cause a massive imbalance in the living force vs the cosmic side of the force and who the fuck knows what would happen.

>>723130916
It went over your head

>>723135712
>stabs once with cortosis knife
>dead
>>723135598
The Force flows through all things but only manifests as powers in living beings. Even Darth Too Angry To Die is kept on the right side of being alive by his powers, not a reanimated corpse.

The problem with questions like these are every universe has their own version of "magic" that isn't compatible with one another
>Mass Effect
Has psyonics but that's probably not relevant since everyone except the Reapers are low powered, maybe the Reapers can use the Citadel to blow everything up like Halo if they need to
>Star Wars
The Force is an active living thing, so you could handwaive a single Flood spore as "a ship happened to land on it and squish it before it could pose any threat". But if the Flood started to take root it seems every big enough empire in Star Wars has planet killers, hell even individual Dark Side users can kill planets. People are dumb and force users in general are rare, someone like Darth Nilius even rarer, so theres a good chance the Flood get too big and overrun the galaxy. Or they start taking root in an Empire planet and they glass it as soon as things look bad.
>Star Trek
"Hard" scifi so the Gravemind probably wouldn't be able to function at all, personal shields are effective against Flood spores so theres a good chance it tries to jump on someone and gets zapped immediately. Or it could land on some backwater and take off
>Warhammer 40k
The biggest issue, how would the Gravemind work with the Flood? If we assume it doesn't it would likely be corrupted by Nurgle as soon as it started infecting people. If it gets to ignore Chaos then its not too different from Tyranids or Orks. 40k has planet destroyers too but they aren't as willy nilly with them as the Empire from Star Wars, so landing on a single Hive planet might be enough for the Flood to create an unstoppable Gravemind. And then the Tyranid fleet taht was already on the way from the Genestealer cult on the planet arrives and vomits acid over the whole planet. And then the Khornite cult that was already there finishes their ritual and Khone chops the planet in half

>>723135712
if you push lightsaber man over (big fan), he falls into the center of the earth and dies

>>723133827
They aren't called The Puddle or the The Pond. They are named The Flood for good reason. Their strength lies in their exponential growth and enormous numbers. It's an organic Gray Goo scenario, and galactic genocide is the only way to truly stop them.

>>723130820 (OP)
Never understood what made those little fuckers so damn dangerous (never played any halo games) so like, what's the thing?

>>723136836
>Star Trek
>"Hard" scifi

>>723130820 (OP)
>>Mass Effect universe
it's ogre
>>Star Wars universe
it's never been more ogre
>>Star Trek universe
might wipe out some specific civilization but the various factions in star trek tend to be relatively isolated from each other and the flood would quickly find itself found out and resisted
>>Warhammer 40k universe
just another tuesday in the grim darkness of the far future

>>723138247
They're basically mr frundles but it gets smarter for every person it eats. Once they get to a certain critical mass they make a gravemind which has the collective intelligence of everything its eaten, and everything any other flood has also ever eaten, and the spores are the powdered remains of a eldritch being-tier precursor species that seeded life in the galaxy, so theyre effectively omniscient.

warframe

>>723138717
:0
I see... interesting (I still won't play halo but it's a nice concept)

>>723130820 (OP)
The flood is gay and lame, necromorphs is where its at.

>>723138427
People will say its both hard scifi because no magic and also its not hard scifi because it has warp speed and Q

>>723139354
Barely registered as a threat in any real sci-fi universe. Even a balding engineer took care of them.

>>723130820 (OP)
Only 40k and star wars would survive flood if they exterminatus/blast the planet with a death star to stop the flood in first contact

>>723130820 (OP)
Correct answer:
Depends on whose book/game it is and who approves the finished story.
Like, Disney wouldn't allow a story to be like "oops, the Flood wins", so they'd probably limit the infection to one planet and then Star Destroyer #701 it at the end.
That kind of shit.
It's like when two companies do a crossover, some kind of Pokemon vs Digimon comic or something, it doesn't matter which side's stronger, they'll either end in a stalemate, or they'll fight for a while and then the respective villains end up working together and that makes all the good guys work together too, defeat the villains, then everyone goes back to their respective dimensions like "dang, I knew WE would've won if we kept fighting!"

>>723144168
> Disney wouldn't allow a story to be like "oops, the Flood wins
Disney killed off the face of Star Wars by having him die alone on some planet drinking alien milk.