Massive Multiversal Crossover: Interest Check and Signups

[CourierSix]

*Cries, not knowing anything about 40K, and not nearly enough about Transformers* Man, I need to start being a fan of universes with a higher amount of power and ability. Marvel has the Beyonder. Boom, 'nuff said.

[Flamelord]

Hm, sounds fun. I'm sure the GEoM would like to have a few words with Unicron, once it becomes obvious that they're dealing with a physical Chaos God (Or something like that. I only vaguely know WH40K myself, so I'm not shooting you down for the sake of it)

[Mtntopview]

So they stop playing nice and actually focus the Imperial Navy. If it's a slugging match, the Imperium wins. They've got too many ships, and something that threatening would have them actually focus the insanity that is its disparate forces. You're trying to take on a sci-fi Empire that inhabits billions of worlds, many of which have far greater populations than modern Earth, with a single planet-sized thing. It's a losing battle.

Raineh Daze

Basically, the Decepticons and the Autobots combined are just above the total level of the Space Marines. This is not counting the Sisters of Battle, any of the Ordos (Hereticus, Malleus, Xenos), or the Imperial Guard. Unicron would be treated as a major campaign for the Navy, but not any worse than, say, what Cadia deals with every time Abaddon comes a-knocking or what's brewing over at Orktavius. WH40k doesn't focus on naval battles a lot, but just by the fluff, they get to some rip-shit insanity in space.

Earnest Evans

Your forgetting the 13 original Primes. Each one of them is god-like

[Raineh Daze]

So they stop playing nice and actually focus the Imperial Navy. If it's a slugging match, the Imperium wins. They've got too many ships, and something that threatening would have them actually focus the insanity that is its disparate forces. You're trying to take on a sci-fi Empire that inhabits billions of worlds, many of which have far greater populations than modern Earth, with a single planet-sized thing. It's a losing battle.

Raineh Daze

Basically, the Decepticons and the Autobots combined are just above the total level of the Space Marines. This is not counting the Sisters of Battle, any of the Ordos (Hereticus, Malleus, Xenos), or the Imperial Guard. Unicron would be treated as a major campaign for the Navy, but not any worse than, say, what Cadia deals with every time Abaddon comes a-knocking or what's brewing over at Orktavius. WH40k doesn't focus on naval battles a lot, but just by the fluff, they get to some rip-shit insanity in space.

Earnest Evans

Your forgetting the 13 original Primes. Each one of them is god-like

Mtntopview

Several 40k armies throw actual gods onto the battlefield. Mostly in pieces. They wreck things. Unicron's too small-scale in actual ability to bother the place.

[Mtntopview]

So they stop playing nice and actually focus the Imperial Navy. If it's a slugging match, the Imperium wins. They've got too many ships, and something that threatening would have them actually focus the insanity that is its disparate forces. You're trying to take on a sci-fi Empire that inhabits billions of worlds, many of which have far greater populations than modern Earth, with a single planet-sized thing. It's a losing battle.

Raineh Daze

Basically, the Decepticons and the Autobots combined are just above the total level of the Space Marines. This is not counting the Sisters of Battle, any of the Ordos (Hereticus, Malleus, Xenos), or the Imperial Guard. Unicron would be treated as a major campaign for the Navy, but not any worse than, say, what Cadia deals with every time Abaddon comes a-knocking or what's brewing over at Orktavius. WH40k doesn't focus on naval battles a lot, but just by the fluff, they get to some rip-shit insanity in space.

Earnest Evans

Your forgetting the 13 original Primes. Each one of them is god-like

Mtntopview

Several 40k armies throw actual gods onto the battlefield. Mostly in pieces. They wreck things. Unicron's too small-scale in actual ability to bother the place.

Raineh Daze

This god shit is getting confusing

[Raineh Daze]

So they stop playing nice and actually focus the Imperial Navy. If it's a slugging match, the Imperium wins. They've got too many ships, and something that threatening would have them actually focus the insanity that is its disparate forces. You're trying to take on a sci-fi Empire that inhabits billions of worlds, many of which have far greater populations than modern Earth, with a single planet-sized thing. It's a losing battle.

Raineh Daze

Basically, the Decepticons and the Autobots combined are just above the total level of the Space Marines. This is not counting the Sisters of Battle, any of the Ordos (Hereticus, Malleus, Xenos), or the Imperial Guard. Unicron would be treated as a major campaign for the Navy, but not any worse than, say, what Cadia deals with every time Abaddon comes a-knocking or what's brewing over at Orktavius. WH40k doesn't focus on naval battles a lot, but just by the fluff, they get to some rip-shit insanity in space.

Earnest Evans

Your forgetting the 13 original Primes. Each one of them is god-like

Mtntopview

Several 40k armies throw actual gods onto the battlefield. Mostly in pieces. They wreck things. Unicron's too small-scale in actual ability to bother the place.

Raineh Daze

This god shit is getting confusing

Mtntopview

Yup. So forget the god thing, and it's best to just focus on the fact that whilst he IS powerful, he only eats planets at a time, and the Imperium has both billions of those and is liable to blow him up. Thus delaying further planet-eating by stupidly long amounts of time. Much like there's a machine controlling stargod buried in Mars. 40k is weird.

[Mtntopview]

So they stop playing nice and actually focus the Imperial Navy. If it's a slugging match, the Imperium wins. They've got too many ships, and something that threatening would have them actually focus the insanity that is its disparate forces. You're trying to take on a sci-fi Empire that inhabits billions of worlds, many of which have far greater populations than modern Earth, with a single planet-sized thing. It's a losing battle.

Raineh Daze

Basically, the Decepticons and the Autobots combined are just above the total level of the Space Marines. This is not counting the Sisters of Battle, any of the Ordos (Hereticus, Malleus, Xenos), or the Imperial Guard. Unicron would be treated as a major campaign for the Navy, but not any worse than, say, what Cadia deals with every time Abaddon comes a-knocking or what's brewing over at Orktavius. WH40k doesn't focus on naval battles a lot, but just by the fluff, they get to some rip-shit insanity in space.

Earnest Evans

Your forgetting the 13 original Primes. Each one of them is god-like

Mtntopview

Several 40k armies throw actual gods onto the battlefield. Mostly in pieces. They wreck things. Unicron's too small-scale in actual ability to bother the place.

Raineh Daze

This god shit is getting confusing

Mtntopview

Yup. So forget the god thing, and it's best to just focus on the fact that whilst he IS powerful, he only eats planets at a time, and the Imperium has both billions of those and is liable to blow him up. Thus delaying further planet-eating by stupidly long amounts of time. Much like there's a machine controlling stargod buried in Mars. 40k is weird.

Raineh Daze

Well ... Unicron is more like the manifestation of evil and chaos. He seeks to return the universe to what it was like before things were things. He does it by devouring not only planets, but Suns and even the fabric of reality itself. I'm not very good at explaining unicron and always get confused. Go to a wiki and research Primus.

[Raineh Daze]

So they stop playing nice and actually focus the Imperial Navy. If it's a slugging match, the Imperium wins. They've got too many ships, and something that threatening would have them actually focus the insanity that is its disparate forces. You're trying to take on a sci-fi Empire that inhabits billions of worlds, many of which have far greater populations than modern Earth, with a single planet-sized thing. It's a losing battle.

Raineh Daze

Basically, the Decepticons and the Autobots combined are just above the total level of the Space Marines. This is not counting the Sisters of Battle, any of the Ordos (Hereticus, Malleus, Xenos), or the Imperial Guard. Unicron would be treated as a major campaign for the Navy, but not any worse than, say, what Cadia deals with every time Abaddon comes a-knocking or what's brewing over at Orktavius. WH40k doesn't focus on naval battles a lot, but just by the fluff, they get to some rip-shit insanity in space.

Earnest Evans

Your forgetting the 13 original Primes. Each one of them is god-like

Mtntopview

Several 40k armies throw actual gods onto the battlefield. Mostly in pieces. They wreck things. Unicron's too small-scale in actual ability to bother the place.

Raineh Daze

This god shit is getting confusing

Mtntopview

Yup. So forget the god thing, and it's best to just focus on the fact that whilst he IS powerful, he only eats planets at a time, and the Imperium has both billions of those and is liable to blow him up. Thus delaying further planet-eating by stupidly long amounts of time. Much like there's a machine controlling stargod buried in Mars. 40k is weird.

Raineh Daze

Well ... Unicron is more like the manifestation of evil and chaos. He seeks to return the universe to what it was like before things were things. He does it by devouring not only planets, but Suns and even the fabric of reality itself. I'm not very good at explaining unicron and always get confused. Go to a wiki and research Primus.

Mtntopview

Thus a conflict with the Imperium would just get him into a direct fight with the Chaos Gods, absolving anyone else of the need to do anything. Problem solved.

[Mtntopview]

Which comes back to God vs God is dumb.

[Prostagma]

@Prostagma: While this is funny, you need to tweak his first ability so it doesn't trivialize any fights or issues in the RP. Maybe turn it into more of a supernatural tinkering skill? As in he's really good at makeshift solutions that shouldn't work.

VitaVitaAR

But you have Nono, Dianor, Emiya-Archer, the dude from Demonbane, Suwako, Nanoha... don't all of those guys already trivialize combat? I mean, Dianor has an utterly unblockable and untankable conceptual weapon as well as being pretty much immortal and having two super angels backing her, Nono can kick celestial bodies in half and generate black holes, Archer is flat-out unkillable as long as Saber is nearby, Suwako is an extra stage boss in a Touhou game and apparently unkillable here as well, Nanoha had demonstrated on multiple occasions that there is not a single problem in existence she can't bypass via gratuitous beam spam, and Demonbane guy is from Demonbane. It seems a bit odd that "change things that aren't puzzles into puzzles" is considered overpowered when you have guys like that running around. Besides, it doesn't necessarily mean it'll be a perfect solution- if you've ever played an adventure game you've probably noticed that most puzzles tend to end with the protagonist in an even worse position than when he started. Fights are usually solved by bypassing them or just running away. Your average Lucasarts protag (Guybrush Threepwood from the Monkey Island series and Sam from Sam and Max: Hit the Road both come to mind) is functionally unable to be fully beaten, but nearly as incapable of success- those are the kind of characters I'm trying to emulate here.

[Raineh Daze]

Which comes back to God vs God is dumb.

Mtntopview

Well, neither side would ever win, because if anyone looked like they were about to, the other Chaos Gods would just gang up on them. Endless conflict!

[Dead Cruiser]

The Necrons can cause any star to go supernova at will. :D They just don't because that really screws up cosmic balance or... Something. It was weird.

Rin

Just popping in to Necron-fanboy. They're pretty much the only faction in 40K with a snowball's chance in hell at stopping Chaos. Last I heard, their plan involved screwing with galactic leylines to forcibly and permanently separate the Materium and Immaterium. The effects being twofold: ripping the soul out of every sapient being in the galaxy (possibly excluding themselves), and condemning the Chaos Gods to slowly and painfully starve to death. You can get away with this kind of crap when science for you is forced to abide by the same tabletop rules as magic for everyone else, with such tools as stable time travel at your disposal. Good fun, that.

[Mtntopview]

Which comes back to God vs God is dumb.

Mtntopview

Well, neither side would ever win, because if anyone looked like they were about to, the other Chaos Gods would just gang up on them. Endless conflict!

Raineh Daze

Exactly. God vs God = Everyone else loses

[Rin]

Which comes back to God vs God is dumb.

Mtntopview

Well, neither side would ever win, because if anyone looked like they were about to, the other Chaos Gods would just gang up on them. Endless conflict!

Raineh Daze

Exactly. God vs God = Everyone else loses

Mtntopview

40k in a nutshell, right there. :D

[Raineh Daze]

Which comes back to God vs God is dumb.

Mtntopview

Well, neither side would ever win, because if anyone looked like they were about to, the other Chaos Gods would just gang up on them. Endless conflict!

Raineh Daze

Exactly. God vs God = Everyone else loses

Mtntopview

Nah. If he was fighting Chaos itself, he'd be sequestered in the Immaterium, so the rest of reality wouldn't really notice.

The Necrons can cause any star to go supernova at will. :D They just don't because that really screws up cosmic balance or... Something. It was weird.

Rin

Just popping in to Necron-fanboy. They're pretty much the only faction in 40K with a snowball's chance in hell at stopping Chaos. Last I heard, their plan involved screwing with galactic leylines to forcibly and permanently separate the Materium and Immaterium. The effects being twofold: ripping the soul out of every sapient being in the galaxy (possibly excluding themselves), and condemning the Chaos Gods to slowly and painfully starve to death. You can get away with this kind of crap when science for you is forced to abide by the same tabletop rules as magic for everyone else, with such tools as stable time travel at your disposal. Good fun, that.

Dead Cruiser

Necrons don't have any souls. If they had souls, they'd have a presence in the Warp. They don't. :P

[VitaVitaAR]

@Prostagma: Nono's abilities are strictly limited unless the powerful stuff is absolutely necessary, Dlanor's nerfed outside of the Uminekoverse so that she can be countered by supernatural things, Emiya-Archer isn't actually here(and I'm not sure anything with Saber would work even if Shirou ever gets a post since they're from two different versions of the Nasuverse), Kuzaku(Demonbane) doesn't have access to the really broken stuff Demonbane can do or I would not have accepted him, Suwako is unkillable but I'm pretty certain she can be incapacitated in a serious fight and does not possess any of the real broken Touhou powers, and Nanoha, while very beamspammy, can still be hurt and incapacitated as well. It's not a matter of being overpowered, as well. It's more of a matter of making sure a fight is fun to RP for all involved, which is a bit harder to do when someone can end the fight immediately via solving it like a puzzle. Like I said, I think the character is funny and I like the idea, but I don't want him to be able to instantly end any fight just for the sake of the fights being fun to RP. ... Also, for the whole Unicron issue, he's never showing up in the RP at all. ^^;

[Mtntopview]

Which comes back to God vs God is dumb.

Mtntopview

Well, neither side would ever win, because if anyone looked like they were about to, the other Chaos Gods would just gang up on them. Endless conflict!

Raineh Daze

Exactly. God vs God = Everyone else loses

Mtntopview

Nah. If he was fighting Chaos itself, he'd be sequestered in the Immaterium, so the rest of reality wouldn't really notice.

Raineh Daze

Actually that makes sense. So if I guess correctly, it would become like an infinite tug-of-war as each one tried to pull the other into line. Until Primus comes to break it up and shit goes crazy.

@Prostagma: Nono's abilities are strictly limited unless the powerful stuff is absolutely necessary, Dlanor's nerfed outside of the Uminekoverse so that she can be countered by supernatural things, Emiya-Archer isn't actually here(and I'm not sure anything with Saber would work even if Shirou ever gets a post since they're from two different versions of the Nasuverse), Kuzaku(Demonbane) doesn't have access to the really broken stuff Demonbane can do or I would not have accepted him, Suwako is unkillable but I'm pretty certain she can be incapacitated in a serious fight and does not possess any of the real broken Touhou powers, and Nanoha, while very beamspammy, can still be hurt and incapacitated as well. It's not a matter of being overpowered, as well. It's more of a matter of making sure a fight is fun to RP for all involved, which is a bit harder to do when someone can end the fight immediately via solving it like a puzzle. Like I said, I think the character is funny and I like the idea, but I don't want him to be able to instantly end any fight just for the sake of the fights being fun to RP. ... Also, for the whole Unicron issue, he's never showing up in the RP at all. ^^;

VitaVitaAR

Good. Things usually start to break down when gods are added.

[Earnest Evans]

Actually that makes sense. So if I guess correctly, it would become like an infinite tug-of-war as each one tried to pull the other into line. Until Primus comes to break it up and shit goes crazy.

Mtntopview

In which case it becomes a seven-way battle for control of the Warp, and nothing actually happens since the Warp is not, strictly speaking, connected to real time and space. It's foolish to say that Unicron can defeat the 40k universe, even if it's EVERY incarnation of Unicron. Let's go back a bit, to when you said Soundwave could quickly defeat Bjorn the Fel-Handed. That one we all can argue.

[FacePunch]

Name: Kal-El (Superman) Age: Unknown (Appears to be in his late twenties) Gender: Male Appearance: 6'3, 235 lbs, blue eyes and black hair. Canon, AU, or OC?: Canon Universe of Origin: DCU (New 52) Personality:Superman is commonly seen as a brave and kind-hearted hero with a strong sense of justice, morality and righteousness. He adheres to a strict moral code often attributed to the small town American values with which he was raised, thanks to his adoptive parents. His commitment to operating within the law has been an example to many other heroes but has stirred resentment among others, who refer to him as the "big blue boy scout." Superman can be rather rigid in this trait, causing tensions between himself and many of the so called "Anti-heroes" he works alongside. To protect his secret identity, Superman has constructed a persona in his civilian identity as Clark Kent. To the world at large, Clark is a mild-mannered and clumsy person. Having lost his home world of Krypton, Superman is very protective of Earth, and especially of Clark Kent’s family and friends. This same loss, combined with the pressure of using his powers responsibly, has caused Superman to feel lonely on Earth (and in the universe at large), despite his many friends, and his parents. The arrival of Supergirl (Kara Zor-El) to Earth in recent years had relieved some of said loneliness. Something significant worth noting is that Superman rarely goes all out. Most of the time, he holds back considerably, out of fear that he could kill his opponent and/or threaten bystanders and his allies. Abilities/Weapons: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman_%28Clark_Kent%29#Powers He has way too many powers to post here. I assume everyone knows what Superman can do, though. Experimental Kryptonian Containment Device: A small chip installed into the back of Superman's neck, the machine acts as a power equalizer and 'kill switch.' The device works by constantly irradiating Superman with small amounts of red sun radiation, as well as being enchanted by powerful magic; this combination keeps Superman from using his full power. The EKCP (E-kip) was created by UMMA as a way to monitor Superman, and keep his powers in check. They theorized that if S.E was able to take control of Superman's mind, he would become a legitimate threat to UMMA's very existence. Inside the device is also a piece of green kryptonite surrounded by lead. If UMMA's leadership, for some reason, needed a way to stop Superman completely, they could activate the kryptonite and eject its radiation into Superman's brain. This will instantly bring Superman to human levels of strength and block off the use of his other powers, as well as putting him through intense pain. The kryptonite will take time to kill Superman, however. Backstory: Superman's origins, in free comic-book form!http://theages.ac/origin/1.html Superman is the most powerful being on planet Earth, an alien immigrant named Kal-El from the planet Krypton who was raised in Smallville, Kansas, to become an American superhero. Raised with high moral ideals, he uses his incredible strength, speed, flight and various other superpowers to fight evil and protect the innocent. In his civilian identity he is Clark Kent, a mild-mannered reporter working for the Daily Planet in Metropolis. He is a founding member of the Justice League of America and a charter member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th Century. A few months after Darkseid's defeat and the formation of the Justice League, Superman found himself confronted by an alternate version of Mister Mxyzptlk, an omnipotent cosmic trickster, who enjoys screwing with his reality's Superman. The being claimed that he had become bored of his universe's Superman, and had decided to use Kal-El as his new entertainment. After an entire day of being stalked and harassed by Mister Mxyzptlk, Superman attacked him. Mister Mxyzptlk, panicked by Superman's anger, reacted by teleporting him out of the DC multiverse. Superman found himself in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by unfamiliar worlds. When he came in contact with UMMA, he learned that his multiverse was in fact but a small piece of the actual multiverse at large, on the other side of what his multiverses' gods called the 'Source Wall.' Upon discovering this, Superman established a working relationship with UMMA and became one of their agents (though his true loyalties lie with the Justice League and earth.) He has devoted himself to protecting the Multiverse at large, working hand in hand with the rest of UMMA to defeat the Shadow Entity. Superman, despite his new obligations to UMMA, remains in frequent contact with the Just League on earth using advanced quantum entanglement communications technology. He is on constant watch for the return of Darkseid and the armies of Apokolips. For his full history, go here: http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Superman_%28Clark_Kent%29. Be warned, there's A LOT there. Faction: UMMA --- I know, it's extremely short. But I'm using its length to test the waters here, so to speak.

[Mtntopview]

Actually that makes sense. So if I guess correctly, it would become like an infinite tug-of-war as each one tried to pull the other into line. Until Primus comes to break it up and shit goes crazy.

Mtntopview

In which case it becomes a seven-way battle for control of the Warp, and nothing actually happens since the Warp is not, strictly speaking, connected to real time and space. It's foolish to say that Unicron can defeat the 40k universe, even if it's EVERY incarnation of Unicron. Let's go back a bit, to when you said Soundwave could quickly defeat Bjorn the Fel-Handed. That one we all can argue.

Earnest Evans

If Soundwave requires a way, he will find a way. Or he could just get someone more powerful than Bjorn to fight it for him. And I never mentioned Bjorn directly. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Superman will probably need to be nerfed. Based on what I know from Superman