Star Trek Earth vs Nature's Fury
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Star Trek Earth vs Nature's Fury
Alright, how would Star Trek Earth's advanced technology from the 24th Century handle these Apocalyptic Threats:
Nanotechnology-Gray Goo that consumes everything it touches (Man Made)
Advanced AI (Terminator Route)
Gamma Ray Burst (Already caused a Mass Extinction on Earth)
Ice Age/Snowball Earth
Hypercane (a theoretical contributor to the Extinction of the Dinosaurs)
Yellowstone's Supervolcano
Magnitude 10 level Earthquakes
Nanotechnology-Gray Goo that consumes everything it touches (Man Made)
Advanced AI (Terminator Route)
Gamma Ray Burst (Already caused a Mass Extinction on Earth)
Ice Age/Snowball Earth
Hypercane (a theoretical contributor to the Extinction of the Dinosaurs)
Yellowstone's Supervolcano
Magnitude 10 level Earthquakes
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EMP blast?Nanotechnology-Gray Goo that consumes everything it touches (Man Made)
Same as above. I think this would be the hardest to fight though. Convental fighting could work to but they have an advantage there.Advanced AI (Terminator Route)
This would be easy enough. Some form of planetary shielding.Gamma Ray Burst (Already caused a Mass Extinction on Earth)
Hell we're making the earth hot as it is I bet they can do it to.Ice Age/Snowball Earth
Waether modification is something we can theoretically do so they should be easily able to fix that.Hypercane (a theoretical contributor to the Extinction of the Dinosaurs)
Hard but doable. Beam magma out from under it dropping the pressue.Yellowstone's Supervolcano
No idea. Fuse the plates togther through beam weapons?Magnitude 10 level Earthquakes
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Re: Star Trek Earth vs Nature's Fury
Make Goo 2.0SuperSaiyaMan12 wrote: Nanotechnology-Gray Goo that consumes everything it touches (Man Made)
Assuming they got starships and caused much initial death it would be a battle. The Federation gets an advantage for being spread out though.Advanced AI (Terminator Route)
If they didn't get starships and it was just an earth thing the battle would go poorly for the machines.
In Trek they are working on an extended periodic table. And use high energy absorbing high density materials for ships hulls. Since high atomic number and high density is what stops gamma radiation it is possible they could just shield houses as appropriate if a planetary shield is a no go. Or make a giant sheed of the stuff.Gamma Ray Burst (Already caused a Mass Extinction on Earth)
Just pump out some greenshouse gasses. Though really with modern tech it would be easy enough to live in antarctica so it isn't much of a worry except for biodiversity (which is why th'ed bother to try and heat the planet.Ice Age/Snowball Earth
I'd think the quickest way to mess with something like this would be using stuff to just apply heat in the right places to disrupt the flow. THough again hunkering down with your future tech would probably see you through it.Hypercane (a theoretical contributor to the Extinction of the Dinosaurs)
Phasers seem to be able to cut through rock pretty well. Probably cut angled paths down to the magma packet to vent it safely from a number of locations.Yellowstone's Supervolcano
Then open the spas.
With their advanced sensors and ability to transport/phaser rock I'd imagine they'd detect this well in advance and work to remove the pressure on the fault line.
Magnitude 10 level Earthquakes
Find out that is intelegente, comunicate with it, relocate them to a rock in space.Nanotechnology-Gray Goo that consumes everything it touches (Man Made)
Blow it up.Advanced AI (Terminator Route)
Weather control web.Ice Age/Snowball Earth
Drill a hole. Let out the preasure.Yellowstone's Supervolcano
Transport the population out of the effected area.Magnitude 10 level Earthquakes
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Re: Star Trek Earth vs Nature's Fury
SuperSaiyaMan12 wrote: Nanotechnology-Gray Goo that consumes everything it touches (Man Made)
Nanites - modified borg nanites.
Advanced AI (Terminator Route)
Electro-magnetic pulse. Or perhaps a stasis field. Or a polaron item (i think it was polaron lol)
Gamma Ray Burst (Already caused a Mass Extinction on Earth)
Planetary shielding grid. or manouvre a giant asteroid into position in front of the radiation.
Ice Age/Snowball Earth
Giant heaters duh. Or manipulate the weather to cause heatwaves.
Hypercane (a theoretical contributor to the Extinction of the Dinosaurs)
weather manipulation, energy barriers
Yellowstone's Supervolcano
beam the magma out
Magnitude 10 level Earthquakes
fuse the plates. Or use energy weapons to damage the rocks. You could even put loads of shock-absorbers into the ground.
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If they're mechanical, an EMP blast should do the trick nice enough.Nanotechnology-Gray Goo that consumes everything it touches (Man Made)
You mean a Skynet-style computer that's invading other computers in an attempt to rebel?Advanced AI (Terminator Route)
Not sure. Their ships appear to be vulnerable to hacking attacks, and firewalls seem non-existant. If they can get a defence up quickly enough, then it just becomes a mop-up operation taking down the ships that the AI has taken over. If they don't act quickly enough, or if the AI is smart enough to stay out of sight and not alert anyone to its presence while it propogates throughout the fleet, then Starfleet could very well end up with the vast majority of its fleet in enemy hands.
No idea. If it can be stopped by density, then simply towing a large asteroid between the sun and Earth for a while should do the trick.Gamma Ray Burst (Already caused a Mass Extinction on Earth)
Easiest of the lot. Trek has weather control satalites, IIRC, so they simply use them to crank the heat up.Ice Age/Snowball Earth
What's this? I'm assuming from the name that it's just a very large hurricane. If that's true, then the weather satalites can deal with this as well.Hypercane (a theoretical contributor to the Extinction of the Dinosaurs)
Blow a few holes into the ground to let the pressure out. That should do the trick, if I remember my geography classes right.Yellowstone's Supervolcano
I'm not too sure if they could stop this one. They could simply beam the population out, though, so there'd be no casualties.Magnitude 10 level Earthquakes
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They'd cure it with some sort of radiation that only harmed it and no other life on the planet.Nanotechnology-Gray Goo that consumes everything it touches (Man Made)
They would attack it using horrible tactics and get massacred.Advanced AI (Terminator Route)
They would probably take the hit. THey could make it so it doesn't effect people that much with their radiation innoculations but it would harm the environment a lot reguardless.Gamma Ray Burst (Already caused a Mass Extinction on Earth)
Huge difference between those two. The Ice Eart of 600 million years ago is far different than the ice age of 600k years ago. But they'd probably use some kind of mirrors or terraforming. Both can be caused by methane bubbles being released from the ocean so they might need methane cleaners.Ice Age/Snowball Earth
Hypercane I assume is something like a Hurricane. Weather control systems could stop that. The other two would still get the better of Trek technology. The damage would be limited by better technology but there would be no way to stop that.Hypercane (a theoretical contributor to the Extinction of the Dinosaurs)
Yellowstone's Supervolcano
Magnitude 10 level Earthquakes
When has the Federation shown the inititive to shield Earth? The Breen? V'yer? The Borg?Teaos wrote: [
This would be easy enough. Some form of planetary shielding.
Beam billions of tons of rock into space???
Hard but doable. Beam magma out from under it dropping the pressue.
You'd have to scorch through billions of tons of rock to do that. See above. Impossible with what we've seen.
No idea. Fuse the plates togther through beam weapons?
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They cant keep a shield up all the time. Also this shield doest need to be that strong just enough to block radiation.When has the Federation shown the inititive to shield Earth? The Breen? V'yer? The Borg?
They would see it coming ages away. Plenty of time to do it.Beam billions of tons of rock into space???
That Romulan/Cardassian fleet vaporised a large chunk of the Founders planet. So its possible to modify a planets crust.You'd have to scorch through billions of tons of rock to do that. See above. Impossible with what we've seen.
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They had advanced warning on all of those besides the Breen but no shield or talk of a shield ever. Hell I can't remember a planetary shield in all of Trek.Teaos wrote: They cant keep a shield up all the time. Also this shield doest need to be that strong just enough to block radiation.
Assuming they could see it coming from a long ways off (an event no one has ever seen and chances are most other species have never seen), then it would be possible I suppose. But does trek usually beam things like rocks out? And transporters don't work that great of distances you going to beam all that rock into space to let it fall back down?They would see it coming ages away. Plenty of time to do it.
Yeah but I very much doubt that crust vaporizing was done without upsetting the delicate ecological niches in those areas or without damaging any nearby cities.
That Romulan/Cardassian fleet vaporised a large chunk of the Founders planet. So its possible to modify a planets crust.
You can't have a fleet of Federation ships melt crust fissures together some how (Since they're already melted) and not hurt the environment.
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There have been planetary cloaks so large cover tech is possible even if we havent seen a plantary shield.They had advanced warning on all of those besides the Breen but no shield or talk of a shield ever. Hell I can't remember a planetary shield in all of Trek.
Why would you bother with a planetary shield to stop an attack. It would only be as strong as most shields and once you put a gap in it the rest is pointless. Better to just shield important buildings.
Hell you dont even need to beam it into space. Dematerialise it then lose the signal on purpose and let it disapear.And transporters don't work that great of distances you going to beam all that rock into space to let it fall back down?
The fact that they destroyed the crust shows they have the power. Federation phasers are shown to be very accurate and fine tuned so there is no reaosn they couldnt do it.Yeah but I very much doubt that crust vaporizing was done without upsetting the delicate ecological niches in those areas or without damaging any nearby cities.
You can't have a fleet of Federation ships melt crust fissures together some how (Since they're already melted) and not hurt the environment.
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I don't think we've ever seen a planetary shield, nor has one ever been implied to exist.
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There was a planetary cloak. One that caused mass sterilety and was installed on a non-Fed planet. The Federation doesn't have that technology.Teaos wrote:There have been planetary cloaks so large cover tech is possible even if we havent seen a plantary shield.
What gives you that idea? A planetary shield could have the power output of the entire planet pumped into i, compared with only a single ship for most shields. We've also seen that the bigger a shield is (at standard setting), the more powerful it tends to be - see the difference between shuttlecraft and starship shields.Why would you bother with a planetary shield to stop an attack. It would only be as strong as most shields and once you put a gap in it the rest is pointless. Better to just shield important buildings.
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