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[DuffyMJ]

Would that bomb have blown up... a planet???  

[Frotality]

then the plan would be to fly across the planet looking for something important to blow up, blow it up, somehow survive the immense defenses it must have, then leave, go to the council, have them ignore your warnings of a pissed off collector army, have an epic space battle at the citadel, you kill the collector general and secure victory against impossible odds, the council thanks you (or dies in the battle for you renegades), then ME3.

[IbramSkyheart]

Once the IFF was retrieved and EDI calculated the base to be somewhere in the Galactic Core, it was pretty safe to assume it was indeed a base, rather than a planet, as I imagine the technology to keep a planet safe on an accretion disc of a black hole doesn't exist, not even for a reaper, whereas it would be quite possible for an artificial construct such as a station.

Though before that... well, good question! I imagine the timed radiation pulse would still have been an option, but on a much bigger scale than the one used on the base. For the paragon option... who knows? But I imagine the tech required to blow up a planet would be within the realms of possibility in the ME universe.  For example... some kind of missile with a big enough warhead would do.  Plant it on some form of burrowing mechanism and launch it at the planet.  The missile burrows down through the layers of the planet to the core and detonates, causing the planet to break apart from the inside out (Babylon 5, anyone? ).

Modifié par IbramSkyheart, 18 février 2010 - 08:53 .

[Gill Kaiser]

I'd imagine they would have tried to blow up whatever was generating the 'safe zone', then rushed back through the relay before everything got sucked into a black hole.

[Sleepicub09]

Frotality wrote...

then the plan would be to fly across the planet looking for something important to blow up, blow it up, somehow survive the immense defenses it must have, then leave, go to the council, have them ignore your warnings of a pissed off collector army, have an epic space battle at the citadel, you kill the collector general and secure victory against impossible odds, the council thanks you (or dies in the battle for you renegades), then ME3.

I don't know why but  this made my day

[DarkNova50]

Have Mordin reconfigure the Normandy's batteries to Death Star like capabilities.

Find a sweet ass black cape on the Citadel.

Tell the Council I find their lack of faith disturbing.

Profit.

[DirtyVagrant]

Virmire the entire planet? I mean, nuke it? I wonder if Cerberus has access to nukes...

[Mossa_missa]

"Have Mordin reconfigure the Normandy's batteries to Death Star like capabilities."



Umh? Aint Mordin a biologist? Or do he have a science degree in SCIENCE!?



Anyway, I dont think the bomb provided wuld have blown up the planet, maybee a large base on it but not the planet. Unless is one of those planets when even a small explosion will engulf it in flames "Battlefield Earth luls".

[Talogrungi]

IbramSkyheart wrote...

Once the IFF was retrieved and EDI calculated the base to be somewhere in the Galactic Core, it was pretty safe to assume it was indeed a base, rather than a planet, as I imagine the technology to keep a planet safe on an accretion disc of a black hole doesn't exist, not even for a reaper, whereas it would be quite possible for an artificial construct such as a station.

Though before that... well, good question! I imagine the timed radiation pulse would still have been an option, but on a much bigger scale than the one used on the base. For the paragon option... who knows? But I imagine the tech required to blow up a planet would be within the realms of possibility in the ME universe.  For example... some kind of missile with a big enough warhead would do.  Plant it on some form of burrowing mechanism and launch it at the planet.  The missile burrows down through the layers of the planet to the core and detonates, causing the planet to break apart from the inside out (Babylon 5, anyone? ).

If it did, then sabotaging it would probably result in the planet being sucked into the core.

Paragon: Sabotage the tech, destroy the planet in the galactic core.
Renegage: Radiation purge, save the planet for Cerberus.

[The Capital Gaultier]

Mossa_missa wrote...

"Have Mordin reconfigure the Normandy's batteries to Death Star like capabilities."

Umh? Aint Mordin a biologist? Or do he have a science degree in SCIENCE!?

Anyway, I dont think the bomb provided wuld have blown up the planet, maybee a large base on it but not the planet. Unless is one of those planets when even a small explosion will engulf it in flames "Battlefield Earth luls".

Battlefield Earth was actually well-explained in the book.  The breathe-gas the Psychlos used explodes on contact with radioactive materials.

But yes, the Collectors certainly don't breathe breathe-gas.

[marshalleck]

Obviously the plan would be "gather intel" if an entire planet were found on the other end of the Omega 4 relay.



I suppose an asteroid drop is always there as a last resort. That can render a planet uninhabitable for thousands or millions of years.

[kaotician]

Or maybe fly in, see the planet, fly back out again and just blow up the relay?

[Keltoris]

Throw a planet through the relay.



Srsly.

[kaotician]

Push the relay into the centre of the sun. That'll learn 'em.

[Keltoris]

What if...

1) you put an engine on the Omega 4 relay

..and then...

2) flew it over to and through the regular Relay?



...while the Collectors were enroute coming out?



(Partial credit for answering just the first part of the question)

[DuffyMJ]

The Capital Gaultier wrote...

Mossa_missa wrote...

"Have Mordin reconfigure the Normandy's batteries to Death Star like capabilities."

Umh? Aint Mordin a biologist? Or do he have a science degree in SCIENCE!?

Anyway, I dont think the bomb provided wuld have blown up the planet, maybee a large base on it but not the planet. Unless is one of those planets when even a small explosion will engulf it in flames "Battlefield Earth luls".

Battlefield Earth was actually well-explained in the book.  The breathe-gas the Psychlos used explodes on contact with radioactive materials.

But yes, the Collectors certainly don't breathe breathe-gas.

but that's crazy, how would the aliens in battlefield earth have even developed past the atomic age to conquer other planets if they couldnt handle radioactive material on their world?

[The Capital Gaultier]

DuffyMJ wrote...

The Capital Gaultier wrote...

Mossa_missa wrote...

"Have Mordin reconfigure the Normandy's batteries to Death Star like capabilities."

Umh? Aint Mordin a biologist? Or do he have a science degree in SCIENCE!?

Anyway, I dont think the bomb provided wuld have blown up the planet, maybee a large base on it but not the planet. Unless is one of those planets when even a small explosion will engulf it in flames "Battlefield Earth luls".

Battlefield Earth was actually well-explained in the book.  The breathe-gas the Psychlos used explodes on contact with radioactive materials.

But yes, the Collectors certainly don't breathe breathe-gas.

but that's crazy, how would the aliens in battlefield earth have even developed past the atomic age to conquer other planets if they couldnt handle radioactive material on their world?

Mathematics!

<- Dead serious.  I should add that Hubbard also set the Psychlos up in a universe with different physical laws from our own universe.

Modifié par The Capital Gaultier, 19 février 2010 - 05:32 .

[bulkhead]

nuke the site from orbit, its the only way to be sure...