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Post by goduranus on Nov 20, 2016 12:46:55 GMT
when we see gods depicted in the movie, they are often carrying a spear and wearing Greco Roman armor or Norse armor, depicting the origin of their mythos. That's because this is how they looked like when people first imagined them.
If you imagine a god today? How would you imagine his combat equipment? What form would these equipment take?
Maybe he'd have guns and stuff? Maybe X-ray laser guns and force field armor projecting from his shoulder pads? Something like the god emperor of 40k?
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Post by thorneel on Nov 20, 2016 13:19:15 GMT
I'm going to be old-fashioned here, but I would go for the Verb. Basically, what the god says is reality. The best known example being "Light is" - and light was (which is pretty much always mistranslated as "Let there be light").
But then, depending on the scenario about and definition of god you are thinking, this may be a tad overpowered.
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Post by bigbombr on Nov 20, 2016 13:19:25 GMT
A remote.
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Post by The Astronomer on Nov 20, 2016 15:42:51 GMT
Probably an archailect (AI gods) with godtech from Orion's Arm series. Like those void ships, metric weapons and extreme smartness these AI have. Less high gods probably have near-lightspeed kinetic weapons, conversion bombs and stuffs like that.
This actually went to the 'disastrous' zone.
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Post by goduranus on Nov 20, 2016 20:43:28 GMT
A follow up on this. If you were to imagine weapons used by demons from hell, what would they be?
Most popular media would have us think they still use crude melee weapons. But you'd think they would have invented better stuffs by now, if only by observing human warfare.
So if there ever is a demonic invasion, I imagine the demons would probably spearhead it with nuclear missiles, followed by tanks and jet powered aircraft, much like human armies would. But they would enhance their equipment using their supernatural physical endurance and psychic powers, such as telekintically steered air-to-air missile, demonic possessed guided mortar shells, telepathic C3I system, psychic cryptography etc.
I think the Doom series is going in the right direction, except rather than just grafting guns to their bodies, it makes a lot for sense for demons to purpose built large scale fighting vehicles and nuclear weapons. Imagine if they had a few tanks or booby trapped a level with a nuke, then they could have beat the doom guy.
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Post by bigbombr on Nov 20, 2016 20:53:32 GMT
A follow up on this. If you were to imagine weapons used by demons from hell, what would they be? Most popular media would have us think they still use crude melee weapons. But you'd think they would have invented better stuffs by now, if only by observing human warfare. So if there ever is a demonic invasion, I imagine the demons would probably spearhead it with nuclear missiles, followed by tanks and jet powered aircraft, much like human armies would. But they would enhance their equipment using their supernatural physical endurance and psychic powers, such as telekintically steered air-to-air missile, demonic possessed guided mortar shells, telepathic C3I system, psychic cryptography etc. I think the Doom series is going in the right direction, except rather than just grafting guns to their bodies, it makes a lot for sense for demons to purpose built large scale fighting vehicles and nuclear weapons. Imagine if they had a few tanks or booby trapped a level with a nuke, then they could have beat the doom guy. Or a spell that simply transmutates a small amount of matter into antimatter. |
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Post by cuddlefish on Nov 20, 2016 20:55:49 GMT
Are we talking an Abrahamic omnipotent here, or the kind of diety that might also be called a very powerful spirit or hero - the kind that has limited characteristics and is capable of failure?
Because the former actually needing a weapon is rather incoherent as a concept. The latter, though? Tech is a crutch, when you're running on thematic grounds like an immortal divinity, go with what fits your aesthetic, it'll work. Personally, if I was a divine and had call to do violence, I'd stick to the classics. Lightning bolts cast with an overhand throw, a glare of wrath so terrible and absolute that the object thereof burns away in moments, that sort of thing.
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Post by Durandal on Nov 20, 2016 21:20:16 GMT
wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/ChaosI would imagine that "gods" would only need to use use memetic engineering to develop asymetric grass-roots socio-political factions within their "target" which could be further developed into full-scale factions as needed. A nuclear missile or an axe is just an inanimate object. The greatest weapon is the mind that directs it.
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Post by goduranus on Nov 20, 2016 21:35:00 GMT
Are we talking an Abrahamic omnipotent here, or the kind of diety that might also be called a very powerful spirit or hero - the kind that has limited characteristics and is capable of failure? Because the former actually needing a weapon is rather incoherent as a concept. The latter, though? Tech is a crutch, when you're running on thematic grounds like an immortal divinity, go with what fits your aesthetic, it'll work. Personally, if I was a divine and had call to do violence, I'd stick to the classics. Lightning bolts cast with an overhand throw, a glare of wrath so terrible and absolute that the object thereof burns away in moments, that sort of thing. I'm think of gods such as Zeus or Thor that while powerful, still need weapons. |
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Post by wafflestoo on Nov 27, 2016 17:49:37 GMT
A gun that shoots shuriken and lightning
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Post by amimai on Nov 27, 2016 20:43:13 GMT
Weapons? We need no weapons mortal, your mind will shatter when you gaze upon our glorious form and your flesh will boil from our mere presence! Ahh to be a lovecraftian extradimentional being, how does one fight something that sees you akin to a child's doodle of a stick figure in their notebook?  |
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Post by cuddlefish on Nov 27, 2016 20:53:02 GMT
Weapons? We need no weapons mortal, your mind will shatter when you gaze upon our glorious form and your flesh will boil from our mere presence! Ahh to be a lovecraftian extradimentional being, how does one fight something that sees you akin to a child's doodle of a stick figure in their notebook? The good news is, there's little reason to need to fight them, as they have little reason to fight us. One rarely fights with their children's drawings, after all. Perhaps you mount them on the fridge - but you're usually quite careful to avoid destroying the thing in the process. In that metaphor, we should hope they notice us - you don't destroy your child's drawing, you treasure it... but if there's a crumpled up napkin somewhere it's probably getting tossed, even if there turns out to be art hidden in there somewhere. |
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Post by Pttg on Nov 27, 2016 23:26:04 GMT
A gun that shoots shuriken and lightning Now you're just being silly. Clearly it would be a gun that shoots guns that shoot shuriken and lightning. |
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Post by argonbalt on Nov 27, 2016 23:26:45 GMT
In the past we had gods of the in explainable world we anthropomorphised to comfort ourselves, now our gods must be instead the universal forces bent to our will and shaped to our desires. For a weapon idk i guess a bolter is pretty fucken sweet. Attachment Deleted |
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Post by wafflestoo on Nov 27, 2016 23:41:04 GMT
A gun that shoots shuriken and lightning Now you're just being silly. Clearly it would be a gun that shoots guns that shoot shuriken and lightning. ...and lasers! |
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