Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-211.26.90.117-20130630032754/@comment-58.178.222.101-20140222142856

Novajester wrote: 116.240.253.190 wrote: That is some weird ass fan-fic you got there.

Anyway the only thing the Precursor buildings are vulnerable from is a neural weapon that outright destroy cosmic thought, so....

[Darth Grunt] The issue is pulling two completely incompatible systems together, If we could establish a meeting zone between the two it would be easier to draw connections.

Not entirely sure what fan-fic you're talking about, I was just listing things that would throw a wrench into the works of the Forerunners.

Again drawing attention to finding the meeting zone between the two universes. I'm of the firm opinion that warp-power would rip through anything the Forerunners have since the Warp doesnt exist in the Halo universe. However the reverse is true as well, the races of Warhammer 40k have no experience with any of the Forerunner's tools of war, so there'd be heavy losses on each side. The Forerunners can manipulate gravity and Slipspace true, which would really throw the 40k forces for a loop. But the forces of 40k can manipulate the Warp which is another dimension in itself, which the Forerunners have no information about.

If it's a side-on comparison/d*ck measuring contest, then the Forerunners would win, but not as clearly as you seem to think. In an equal war, with exactly the same numbers/disposition of troops on either side, I'd imagine that the Forerunners would win, but they would be pretty ravaged.

This is of course dependent on which 40k faction they are fighting, Orks would prolly get dropped without much fight, Imperium would put up a pretty good fight, Chaos w/ Daemons would do better then the Imperium, Chaos w/o Daemons would go down pretty quick, Tyranids would drop the Forerunners without much issue, going off the same idea as the Flood, swarm them with numbers.

I have to stop you there bub, it has been done to death that numbers ain't going to do jack against opponents that has the capabilities to single handedly teleport your entire fleet to the nearest Black Hole. When it comes to numbers the Nids are actually the worst off when you consider the Forerunners can field Trillions of Lesser Warships on what counts as a "Minor Security Check on a Single Planet", each one have arguably has the firepower of a Imperium Retribution-Class Ship and each one can be made in "Less then a minute". And when you further put in the fact that the Nids are basically fighting inedible Automotons made out of solid light 98% of the time....it really makes their only advantage useless when you consider the fact that Forerunner Security Teams, (Not even a Military Unit) were seen ripping a planet apart with their "Basic Weapon Plaforms". Or either consider the other fact that the Forerunners can mass produce Sentinels in the Qaudrillions per minute on a single manufacturing planet alone (Onyx), each when grouped in a 7-by-7 would have the firepower to atomise entire fleets of Warships.

In a realistic sense, the Nids would be horrendously outgunned, outpaced by a laughable degree (A single Forerunner ship can zip across the Galaxy within a minute or less) out-teched (As in, imagine multiple Tyranid Hive Fleets suddenly dissapearing into the void of Slipspace) and ironicly stalemated in numbers due to the insane industrial output of the Forerunners. To put it simply, the Forerunners wouldn't even consider the Nids a threat but mere "Pest Control".

Although I do like your post, you have to remember that you CANNOT compare the Tyranids to the Flood, if you have read the books it would be like comparing a cocroach to Yog-Sothoth. Just to give you a clue, the Flood did not defeat the Forerunners by numbers, they defeated them due to literally mind-warping and fracturing the very presence of Reality and Time to suit their needs AKA "Cheating entire Realities and Universes". In a sense, to compare the Flood to the Nids is highly inaccurate, the more accurate version would be the unholy lovechild of all Four Chaos Gods, the C'tan Gods and H.P. Lovecraft.

tl:dr, the Forerunners are classified as "Culture Light", anything other then High-End WiH Necrons or Tzeentch with his fonky Troll Magic would literally be smeared to a inrecognisable pulp. Other then the Tyranid/Flood confusion I mostly agree on what you said.

[Darth Grunt]