Quote from: BaconShelf on September 10, 2015, 02:35:54 AM

The Republic/ Imperial Commando series f books is pretty damn good.

How many are there?

4 republic commando an one imperial commando

Alright. Let's assume for a second that there is a near omnipresent and invisible alien force in the universe that hunts and makes civilizations disappear. Would not an intelligent force with such capabilities not be the most capable moral agent to be making those decisions? And that we as intellectually inferior beings should have no quarrel when their interests are ultimately more informed and meaningful than ours because we lack the scope and perspective that they do?

Such a social contract already exists on Earth. We control the fates of animals, often without care for their individual needs, but in return we as more intelligent beings can ensure them stable lives, food, and safety from the hardships they endure in the wild. Humans should be trusted to control the fate of Earth. Why shouldn't the masters of the universe be trusted to control the fate of their domain?

Oh I guess Carl Sagan cares more about mah human bean feelings than any moral agent anywhere doing what their knowledge leads them to think is the correct course of action.

But good thing the Fermi Paradox is unscientific bullshit.
you might as well say we shouldn't explore the Mariana Trench because Cthulu might live down there, you'd be equally sound

This is a load of shit. Should animals just lie down and let us hack at their habitats because we're "morally superior"?


Also, the Fermi paradox doesn't say we shouldn't go into space. It asks a vital question; stars like our sun number in the billions. A significant amount of them will have planets o similar size of earth in their Goldilocks zone, and probability dictates that at least a fraction of them will have some kind of life.

And that fraction is still a pretty fucking big number. The paradox says that by all rights, alien life should be running rampant in the universe. But it isn't. Because we aren't special. Our star is t special. Our planet isn't special. Thinking that we deserve anything just because the right mix of chemicals happened to be in the that place at the right time is pretty fucking arrogant.

IT crowd
Mighty Boosh
Red Dwarf
The Three Flavours Trilogy

I was never too interested in pinnacle of humanity sci-fi fictional universes. I'm more fond of post-apocalyptic universes with the past holding many dark secrets.

Eh. Whenever I do something like that, I always eventually get drawn back to the "This is too much like fallout" thing. Plus, I like space. It's one of my biggest interests.

What do you have in mind with this? It sounds like you have something you're referring to, and I'm interested in what it is.

tbh im kinda burnt out on open world games. Without multiplayer they're really boring

I would say the opposite.

It's a shame really. I've been playing around with the FC4 editor, and I do think it's a shame they give an amazing editor to a game that no one plays (Multiplayer, obviosly).

I love using the outpost mode to create custom bases to sneak around and take over. Though nothing beats the elephant-machinegun charge.

So yeah. Far Cry. I've got back into it lately, and I love it.

I just wish it had a survival mode. a game so focused around survival and hunting seems odd without having to eat/ drink.

heck i'd get destiny even with the shitty story just because the gun play is quite fun when im feeling to play something a little casual but bungie really have pissed me off with their pricing

the gunplay is fun and the soundtrack is good.

that's literally all the complements I can give the game. Art style is arse, story and dialogue is arse, exploration is arse, pvp is arse

literally everything aside from the base gunplay and soundtrack is arse

Where is Staten now?

http://www.halopedia.org/Halo:_Shadow_of_Intent

>buying water
>not having your own bottle

>lost it over the summer

I ended up buying a bottle of pepsi so I can refill it everyday. Anyway, I only do monday-wednesday then have four days off (Wednesday is only a morning, too) so I don't need to go in that often.

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on September 09, 2015, 05:23:10 PM

The Fermi Paradox is pretty stupid, in my opinion. It's tantamount to claiming that because a person in San Diego is capable of walking to New York in a year, that he should have stumbled upon a random person in Texas in a few months.

Big difference between a year and 13.8 billion years.

Especially, when all predictions say we are at what is essentially the beginning of the universe now. For all we know, we could be the first intelligent life. Like the forerunners of the real world and in millions of years, other species will flourish and they will find and discover our remnants.

It's what I like to believe.

>destiny

It's not a bad idea, at any rate.

There is no reason for aliens to attack us, unless they're dicks. Any resource you can find here, you can find much easier in space. Earthlike planets are extremely common, according to probability. If there was something that aliens really wanted on Earth, it would still take thousands of years to cross star systems, and they ain't sending a big military. So if aliens wanted to kill us, we would know not only hundreds/ tens of years in advance, but we would likely have the home field advantage and the numbers. Unless they dump a big rock on the planet. Even if they decided to come to use, our broadcasts have reached a few dozen stars out of a galaxy of billions. If there were alien life anywhere near our level anywhere near us, we would have heard their broadcasts by now.

So it may not be a good idea to broadcast, per se, but there's nothing to be sacred of. Aliens aren't going to be showing up now, in a year, in ten years or in a hundred years.

[Note. The poll was tied between planets and technology, so I chose my favourite]

Sol is the capital system of the Imperium, bearing two life-sustaining worlds, eight colonised worlds and over a dozen colonised moons. Alongside these terrestrial colonies, hundreds of space stations, orbital stations and other artificial space-based structures are located throughout the system in the orbits of planets and the central star itself.

Sol I - Mercury

Sol I is the closest planet to Sol, extremely small and extremely isolated. In the past, it has garnered vast solar arrays, used in the automated production of positrons for use in nuclear reactors and weapons. In more recent centuries, however, it has seen more purpose as a long-term penal colony in the Sol System. The blistering day temperatures and freezing night temperatures ensure that the the facility built on the surface, in a crater filled with permaice, has no possibility of escape for it's nearly 2,000 inmates. These inmates are generally those considered too dangerous for regular imprisonment - or even useful in the future- and are sealed away in cryostasis as opposed to more traditional prison sentencing. The establishment of a prison colony within the same system as Earth, containing the most dangerous people to have lived, is often a point of contention for many - and one often countered woth the fact that an entire complement of UCE Marines is on permanent guard of the station, with at least one frigate in orbit at any time. The possibility of any kind of riot or escape is astronomically low, and generally accepted as a nonissue by the UCE High Command.

Sol II - Venus

Venus is the second planet in the Sol System. Out of all of the planets, it is the most similar to Earth, but ironically one of the least useful. It maintains a colony of barely 900, thanks to it's toxic atmosphere, blistering temperatures, extreme day length, high volcanic activity and acidic rain. There is only one structure on the surface of the planet, built by drones over a period of twenty years. Instead, the majority of the colonisation comes from aerostat platforms floating in the atmosphere via the use of lighter-than-air gases. These three platforms each house about 100 people, and are tied with cables to the surface platform. Although there is a minor civilian presence on these platforms for research purposes, most of the actual activity on the planet is military. The planet was the testing grounds for the failed XPF-335 Headhunter VTOL platform. The surface facility of the planet is used in the training of UCE Marines, as a final stage of the EXOWAR training program; the incredibly hostile conditions provide a perfect training ground for a live-fire operation. Those who survive are prepared for any planetary insertion they may be required to conduct.

Sol III - Earth

Sol III is the homeworld of humanity and the capital of the Imperium and the UCE. It has seen four global-scale conflicts since the 20th century, with the third beginning in 2060 and ending in 2063, and the fourth in 2158 and ending in 2201. In these two wars - the Third World War and the First Interstellar War - the planet has seen much devastation at the hands of humans, with  a radically different coastline to it's appearance in the early 21st century. The use of multiple nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on many cities has reduced many old-Earth cities to little more than rubble. As of 2702, Earth's capital city is located in Suez, built around the massive orbital tether located there. The primary military base on the planet is the naval base located in the Amazon Sea, with a massive military base located in the Atacama Desert. Two additional major facilities, Fireguard and Alpha, are located in the Himalayas and Washington DC, tasked with overseeing orbital defence and commanding the UCE military as a whole, respectively.
Aside from the aforementioned, most of the human population of Earth resides in the Siberian Forests and Europe, where temperate-warm temperatures provide a perfect environment for habitation. Most areas south of Suez and some modern eastern cities are barren wasteland, and many cities are yet to be rebuilt even after centuries of desolation; the reason is simple. In the wake of WWIII, it was decided that those assets built for space exploration would be easier to use to colonise a new planet than to rebuild the old one. Genetically-engineered creatures and microbes ruled the cities affected by the war for decades, and soon adapted to their environments entirely. Much of Earth's ecosystem revolves around these artifical creatures, and travel around the planet is restricted completely, due to the potential for new plagues from areas yet to be fully catalogued. Despite it's status as the capital of an interstellar civilisation, and home to 9 billion inhabitants, most of Earth is effectively under quarantine. It's status of being the capital for humanity is often questioned by aliens, understandably. Most humans loyal to the UCE do not see Earth as a failure, but see the empire that it rose after utter devastation as a symbol to rally towards. To an observer from the 20th or early 21st centuries, Earth would look to be an alien planet.

Sol IV - Mars

Mars was first colonised in 2033, with a small team of 20 landing on the planet as the first colonists. This team, and it'ssuccessors, would watch as those on Earth obliterated themselves with warfare, and would also be there to help with the mass exodus from the planet in 2063. The discovery of interstellar travel shortly after the onset of the 22nd century meant that Mars was forgotten relatively quickly, in favour of colonists trvalling to the newly-discovered planet Primus. As such, Mars remained a relative backwater, despite it's proximity to Earth, and was slowly terraformed over three centuries. As of now, the planet boasts a population of 16 billion. The city of Cydonia, in the region of the same name, is home to one of the most elite army units in the UCE, and is nicknamed the Knights of Cydonia in the military at large.

Outer Sol System (Sol V-VIII)

The Gas Giants boast only a few thousand combined population, with their colonisation coming in the form of orbital platforms and automated Helium and Hydrogen collecting facilities, used in collecting nuclear fuel. Some moons of these giants boast a significant science population, however, and were long the basis for the search of alien life before contact in 2322. Europa is home to the research facilitiy under control of UCE SpecWar's BIORES division, named Nightingale Facility. This base hosts a massive complex built into the permanent ice covering of the planet, as well as landing pads and even underwater launch facilities for deep-sea exploration. The moon of Titan was used for the longest time for the massive reserves of hydrocarbons on the moon. Before nuclear fusion became a widespread technology, this moon was a vital stop for supply shuttles looking to transport chemical fuels back into the core planets - Earth and Mars. The planet's infrastructure has been abandoned for a long time, and much of it has fallen into disrepair in desolation. Vast warehouses and refineries store barrel after barrel of petroleum and other similar fuels, abandoned for centuries and waiting for someone to come and begin the production process again...


Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this insight into the future of Earth and it's sister planets in my science-fiction universe. If you have any questions, be sure to ask below. I'll try to clarify anything that is asked!

I've read the book, and it was fantastic. Highly looking forward to the film adaptation. It's on a wednesday so it's on my half-day, so awesome.

OT- yes, of course

CAS, DDS or CSO class?