Hah, that's niceVendetta wrote:The various godlike entities of the Three Body 'verse are on the higher end.
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Hah, that's niceVendetta wrote:The various godlike entities of the Three Body 'verse are on the higher end.
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They teleported stars along with planets.Simon_Jester wrote:
The culminating act of large-scale 'kaboom' involves an attack on an entire galaxy dominated by a species of hostile chlorine-breathers, extensively colonized by fortified planets who have their own intergalactic-range weaponry. The mode of attack involves teleporting planets around.
"Remember, that time on XWorld, what I told you to do with that kind
of crap! That still goes," and he had taken off at full touring drive on
course one seven five Universal. This course, which would give the
First Galaxy a near miss, was the most direct route to a galaxy that
was distant indeed; the galaxy lying on the extreme southern rim of
the First Universe; the galaxy in which the DQ had been built; the
galaxy that DuQuesne had surveyed so thoroughly and which he
intended to rule.
...
"You're a precisionist; that's my idea exactly. To pick out a few
hundred people-we won't need many, as there are billions already
where we're going-as much as possible like us, and build a
civilization that will be what a civilization ought to be."
The girl gasped, but her eyes began to sparkle. "'In a distant galaxy',
as Ravindau said?"
"Very distant. Clear out on the rim of this universe. The last galaxy
out on the rim, in fact; five degrees east of Universal south."
Schlock Mercenary gravitic weaponry will most likely dominate all low to medium tier settings; it can crush opposing ships into neutronium pellets, and the only defence against it is another high-powered gravity generator. Their FTL is instant teleport to anywhere in the same galaxy, jammable but most non-peer opponents won't know how to do that. Teraton yield warheads are common; sheilds, hull material strength and AI technology are quite competitive as well. However they will still lose to Culture and up.Q99 wrote:Plus just conventionally, their ships are pretty sweet.
Don't forget that they now have the Immortality FormulaQ99 wrote:Of course, for a 'reasonably high end,' but not one of the big universal ones, Schlock Mercenary currently has a war between galaxies, with each side turning their core into a generator, and with an attempt to devour one of the galaxies with a baby universe via self-destructing said generator at startup thwarted.
Plus just conventionally, their ships are pretty sweet.
Impossible to say, apart from "powerful then the Federation", we don't even know for sure if said species abilities come from really advanced tech or are something inherent to the species.HortonX25 wrote:How powerful is Q anyway? As I've had people claim he's anywhere from the level of something like The Presence from DC (lol) to being defeated by Sisko's punch, which I suspect was just him letting his guard down. As I'm pretty sure he's incorporeal.
From Amanda Rogers, I imagine it's very much inherent based on that.Lord Revan wrote:Impossible to say, apart from "powerful then the Federation", we don't even know for sure if said species abilities come from really advanced tech or are something inherent to the species.HortonX25 wrote:How powerful is Q anyway? As I've had people claim he's anywhere from the level of something like The Presence from DC (lol) to being defeated by Sisko's punch, which I suspect was just him letting his guard down. As I'm pretty sure he's incorporeal.
Very powerful. When depowered he wondered at one point why the crew didn't change the gravitational constant of the universe to solve a problem. He can also hang out in the big bang and shrink to subatomic scale. Time travel at very high levels too.HortonX25 wrote:How powerful is Q anyway? As I've had people claim he's anywhere from the level of something like The Presence from DC (lol) to being defeated by Sisko's punch, which I suspect was just him letting his guard down. As I'm pretty sure he's incorporeal.
I dunno, the Ultimate Sanction and the Dalek's reality bomb are quite big on raw power.Eternal_Freedom wrote:It really depends on what you mean by high-end universes. If we want raw firepower and/or speed and/or civilisation size, the yes the Time Lords will lose out, but that's mainly because their many "I win" buttons don't need firewpoer or speed or size. Why need a universe-spanning network of outposts when your small, bigger on the inside capsules can go anywhere and anywhen?Q99 wrote:Doctor Who is always an odd case for me- because on the one hand they have truly impressive stuff like altering physics to eliminate magic, a few transcendantly powerful beings, and multiverse bombs- and all the EU stuff from the novels, war TARDISes etc. all.The Romulan Republic wrote: Edit: And yes, I see that the OP mentions Who, but its not quite clear to me weather they're giving it as an example of high-end or not.
I'd certainly say it qualifies, due to the presence of multiple major factions that can semi-casually rewrite reality.
On the other hand, the actual battles we see (of space and similar variety) are pew-pew with flying saucers and continent-busting attacks.
I personally put it as high end with an asterisk.
Why bother engaging in a massive battle when you can go back and rewrite history to be a curbstomp win for your side? Hell, why even bother getting involved, when you're going to outlive and outlast all these lesser races anyway?
Those two devices are big on raw power in exceeding specific ways only used as last resorts.jwl wrote: I dunno, the Ultimate Sanction and the Dalek's reality bomb are quite big on raw power.
Point being that the Time Lords and Daleks are fully capable of destroying all of space/time and surviving to remake the whole thing in their own image. The only reason they haven't succeeded is because the Doctor is there to stop them.Q99 wrote:Those two devices are big on raw power in exceeding specific ways only used as last resorts.jwl wrote: I dunno, the Ultimate Sanction and the Dalek's reality bomb are quite big on raw power.