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we-r-nomad — FMP Tech Update 08: Behemoths
Published: 2010-04-03 04:17:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 16272; Favourites: 86; Downloads: 424
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Both capital ship and set piece for their infamous "Recruitment Drive", FMP's Behemoth Type Orbital Megadreadnaughts are feared throughout the known multiverse.Though the Disintegrating Lightning Ray arrays that bristle along their hulls have remained silent since securing victory back in the war of robot indepedence, the Behemoths have adapted well to their new role of securing vast quantities of FMP's most cherished natural resource-- maids.
While veteran Behemoths, like the "Destroy All Humans" pictured above can eclipse a sun with Seekers and capture damsels by the starship load, they still have to transport their "recruits" to FMP for full maidification.
Newer Behemoths, presently in development, will boast onboard factory blocks so this task will be able to be completed during transit.
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Holy-! I designed the ARK's size off of star destroyers! And I purposely pointed out that they're slow! I unitnionally gave the Aldamari no chance!
(Or did I?)
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Well, they may be slow, but given the relative size of two vessels, I'd imagine the Arks would be significantly more nimble.
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I guess. I mean they kind of have to be now if they're gonna stand a chance.
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Oh wow....it definitely deserves the name Behemoth! That ship is massive!!!
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Fortunately for AMAZON, there are only 100 of them.
Well 101 if you count Leviathan.
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101....that's a scary armada...
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Not so much when you realize that the Husquons bioships are waaaaaaay bigger, and that MASA has over one million vessels.
FMP would not survive a war with either. Its a good thing the turtles don't care, and the humans can be bought off.
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Well....when you put it that way....not so much then lol.
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Where had you been drawing it? Let me see.
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I remember this. You make everything cute.
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Have you ever played the video game series "destroy all humans"?
It has the same sci-fi art style as you and you would love the second level in the first game,
which is where you hypnotize a beauty pageant winner into submitting herself to probing in your flying saucer
...
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Really?
Wow, it's like the sci-fi version of the part of "Grand Threft Auto", where you get the call-girl.
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I figure if the FMP ever need allies they could always go to the Furons...
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you know, it has occurred to me that, while there presumably was a slow build in the FMP's forces, at this point the UCCE and MASA would be unable to ignore them anymore. just the sheer outcry from the female population, plus the outrage from the families of the men murdered to get to the NYT's, it would be most unwise politically and practically.... ha, revolution and Femocracy!
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what would happen if a death star met a behemoth?
just wondering
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That is a awesome question, my friend.
It would be like cowboys at high noon. It could come down to who fired first!
If the Death Star got off a shot with it's Super Laser? Boom, no more Behemoth. End of fight.
Now a Behemoth can't annihilate a Death Star with a single shot, but it does have something I have never seen in the Star Wars technical pantehon. Strategic Disintegrators! (Sure there was the "No disintegrations" quip from Empire, but I have never seen a ship-to-ship version.)
While not being able to wipe out a Death Star, a broadside from its Disintegrating Lightning Ray batteries would so damage the battle station that it would not be able to respond with its Super Laser. At that point, the Behemoth could either finish off the Death Star or deploy 10,000 Seekers to search it for maidifiable personnel--and then finish it off.
Whoever draws first wins.
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You underestimate the power of the dark side of the Force.
Or not, but you have just set up an awesome Darth Vader vs. Nomad fight.
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...and you realize i've already infiltrated the death star, took out to controls for their cannon AND all other defense systems, right?
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And scouted the number and whereabouts of any maidifiable female personnel? 
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....uhhhhhhh...well nooo- WHAT DO YOU THINK OF COURSE I DID
but hey the stromtroops were a pain in the ass man
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It's still not enough to shanghai a Super Star Destroyer in my opinion.
But hey, maybe the soldiers and ship operators fell asleep.
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Try fighting the original Sith Empire from TOR. They apparently have the same trchnology as the Galactic Empire, despite being 4000 freaking years older than them, and they have many Darth Vaders more than willing to go Starkiller on you and crush ships with immense mindpower.
Of course, they've also got legions of Sith hotties. Well, as the old saying goes; no risk, no reward!
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As I recall, Mace Windu said the Sith were all wiped out.
I wonder by what?
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By each other. Read Darth Bane's story. During his era, Sith Lords ruled the galaxy; but they all ended up killing each other.
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The old republic sounds like it's rife with interesting stories. I wonder when George Lucas is going to retire, so somebody can make a competant motion picture about it.
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Actually, it seems like he's getting better. EP3 was a step in the right direction, and although the Clone Wars movie bombed, the animated 3D series is nothing short of Chuck Norris awesome, what with the Mandalorians and the zombies and 'lil Boba Fett running around. With the prequels he pretty much had two strikes and a home run, with EP3 being described as "Better than the original"
And don't forget, Georgge Lucas is pretty much the biggest trekkie around. He made his own Sci-Fi story just to prove it.
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I would not go so far as to say a home run, more like 2 strikes and a ground-rule double.
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You are a kind and generous soul, my friend. I'm glad you enjoy the works you've mentioned here. I did not.
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BTW, George Lucas was the man responsible for Star Trek's sleek new ipod look that many old fans hated. I guess the man's appetite for high tech stuff is what people hated and now call "the George Lucas trap of WAAAAY TOOO MUCH" I guess that's what people hated. They wanted the old George back. You know, the one who actually made a plot that made got the heart pumpin.
I still would like him to make the KOTOR games and comics into movies. He could just start anew, see what type of characters people like, then make them. Since KOTOR is its own universe, he can make whatever he wants.
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I have no complaints about Lucas' visuals. It's his writing and directing that has sharply deteriorated or atrophied over the last quarter century.
I think he should do what he does best--the effects--and delegate the writing and directorial chores to someone a little more on top of their game. The man can delegate, it's not like he pushes every pixel himself.
The best Star Wars movie was Empire Strikes Back. Better than being a good space opera, it succeeded in actually being a superior piece of cinema. He delegated the writing and directing in that movie. He should have learned that lesson and kept at that.
Yes EP3 was the best of the prequels, but it was still a bad movie.
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The reason perhaps for his writing deterioration would be his success. Success does things to people you would never expect. Same thing to James Cameron and Avatar. Titanic was awesome, Aliens was awesome, Avatar looked and felt awesome, but its writing and plot is what let me down.
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Oh man, everytime I hear about Titanic I get angry.
Not because it made so much money, I like Cameron, and I wish the man well in his endeavors, so I rejoice in his triumph over the detractors who made doomsday predictions about the financial gamble he took in funding the film. What stings me is that it won "Best Picture" that year.
LA Confidential was the best movie of 1997. It was better written, better acted by far, and did a much better job recreating a bygone era than the former. Plus, Kim Basinger was 6.02 x 1023 times the actress that Kate Winslet was, and I'd much rather do naked sketches of the former to boot.
Cameron deserved every dime he got off the box office profits, he deserved to do an end-zone dance on the desks of every Hollywood executive who refused to fund his picture, but he didn't deserve the "Best Picture" Oscar.
Sorry about the rant.
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The Oscars are just plain Idolatry to me. I mean, they once gave it to "Dances with Wolves." I mean, come on. The Oscars have a mind of their own, and by mind I do not mean a mind in touch with the people. It is a mind surrounded by hollywood elitists who only care about their own shit.
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Which they think doesn't stink.
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Interesting. How is it crewed?
And exactly how much territory do they cover? I assume they have capabilities to allow them rapid access across their territory, but I am unsure just how much they need. I mean, a speedy drive can get you from one place to another without having to deal with any other space-faring sentients...
I mean, I do not assume that the FMP's territory covers all the galaxy.
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Well, intelligent citizen robots actually operate the ship, although on some occasions their services are augmented by the presence of bound women in skimpy silver miniskirts who are headchipped to manipulate various controls. The combat operations are handled by the various Recruiter drones and Seekers.
(Seekers, btw. 
Behemoths get around through the use of six MASSIVE Ether Shunt* engines. Each engine is independently slaved to a single control room. The robots coordinate the movements of the vessel through cyberlink over the six individual brains of the control room "captains". This level of cooperation is something only robots can achieve so even if a force of organic beings ever took over a Behemoth, they could never get it to go anywhere.
FMP controls a section of the Milky Way comparable in size to MASA protectorate. I don't know what makes an Ether Shunt go. (In all honesty, it's just a made-up word, like Ludicrous Speed.) But is fast enough for an average Behemoth to traverse FMP's sphere of influence in a few weeks. That's why commerce between FMP, Earth and other civilized planets is increasingly frequent.
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So there are both 'citizens' as well as volunteers aboard these, well, these behemoths. Impressive. I am sure that a wireless connection makes remaining bound in an upright position all the more convenient for operating the ship.
The Behemoth truly is - well, delightfully oversized. xD The scale image is fantstic and utterly preposterous - reminiscent of the ship's crawl in a certain Mel Brooks film.
Exactly how many Behemoths are there? It seems like at this rate, a recruiting drive could consist entirely of just one ship (not including the various air, sea, sky, and many many land units) without any support. If the FMP controls such a vast area, how many of these do they actually possess?
If they do indeed control such a large portion and possess such technology
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You tell me that you're planning an action against me, [link] and then you ask me for intelligence regarding the numbers and disposition of my fleet?
For this unfathomable insolence, you and Maggie shall end this escapade, out in the balmy Trean sun, wearing French maid themed bikinis and spike heels, while rubbing sudsy soap on the very Drill Drones that breached your futile little hideaway and brought you back to what is now your true home. Your merciless Sprinkler Bot overseers with make sure as much water gets on you as on the drones.
It will be a shame about Talon. But hey, that's what lightning guns are for, right?
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Trea? Ah, the Trea system. Well, that saves us a lot of time and effort. :3 My charts are a little out of date - they keep trying to direct me to the "Latex Nurse Planet."
Hm... that is a graphic sight. The FMP using new outfits? Interesting. I remember you mentioned them being tested and adorned by various possible saviors as a morale-breaking device; though I suppose the thought of being considered 'worthy' to wear the maid-themed bikini and stilettos is an honor... <3
*Chuckles* Waterproof! Blast!
Mrrf. Well, I cannot say they did not know the risks. See, normally the heroine says, "Take me instead!" But I know your tricks - it is just too easy to do both. 
(A delightfully graphic image... <3 )
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The Latex Nurse Planet. Hmmm. Would they be allies of rivals of FMP. Afterall, there are only so many women to go around.
FMP is the world formerly known as Treah. The Treans are a race of beings, utterly indistinguishable from humans, who lost the war when their disgruntled machines rebelled against them.
A side note from my brief studies from military history: when one is facing invaders on one's own territory--even when the invaders have greater weapons and training--forces that have the women fight alongside the men (Soviets in WWII, Vietnamese, Isreali's,) are statistically more likely to successfully fend off their attackers than those that rely solely upon male warfighters in the same circumstances.
This trend was borne out during the Trean Robot Revolt. The men all fell to the robots horrible Disintegrating Lightning Ray, and the women, non-combatants during the vicious struggle, were all gathered together, their fate decided by their new Roboverlords! (
Since the home-cleaning robots were, by far, the most populous devices in the robotic provisional government, their voice held sway, and it was decreed that the women of Treah would spend the balance of their lives performing the same menial tasks they had built the home-cleaners to do.
Thus was born the French Maid Planet.
And just so you know, as one particular crowd of dispirited Trean women stood in the rain, packed into a open air arena, (Each female, clutched mercilessly at the shoulders by the painful pincers of the robot that rousted them out of their home, bound them, and brought them to join this moaning throng.) and watched their fates announced to them on a giant public address display; one young woman, her face shrouded by a limp, wet mop of blond hair, swore a muffled oath that she would one day be free.
Three guesses who that was.
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i believe they are allies
last time i checked
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Sure what the heck.
If they can keep MASA at bay with negotiation and bribes, why not make peace with people in the same line of business?
But Robolords are really, really greedy...
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well with THAT kind of logic
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