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Post by shadowknight on Nov 23, 2013 6:52:03 GMT
That disturbing fact aside...does everyone agree with the placements? Fine by me. Yea, AvP 2 was disturbing, I mean, the first chestburster scene you see after they get on earth is a man and his 9 or 10 year old son on a hunting trip get hugged. An hour or two later you get to watch as the boy sees a burster pop out his dad, then we watch one pop out of him.
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Post by GuardianAngel1911-Admin on Nov 23, 2013 6:53:02 GMT
yeah
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Post by Knukails on Nov 23, 2013 6:54:42 GMT
Ugh, I felt sick during that part. The flood still has the advantage in infect speed. A several seconds and they can take control if the target is dead. If I remember right, Necromorphs require targets to be dead before they can enter them. lol, so the flood my have to deal with some body snatchers. Anyway, the xenos also use dead bodies, except not as hosts. Xenos.....terraform if you will. They spit up this Hive node that basically eats up all available organic materials from plants, carcasses, and even microorganisms to produce the structure for building hives. I am assuming that the xenoes start out with a queen, or at least Royal facehugger eggs (they hold queen embryos) so the Xenoes have a working hive mind in place form the start. Nah, three separate earths remember? Having the option between live or dead targets is a huge advantage. What's the purpose of a hive?
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Post by Knukails on Nov 23, 2013 6:55:30 GMT
That disturbing fact aside...does everyone agree with the placements? Fine by me. Yea, AvP 2 was disturbing, I mean, the first chestburster scene you see after they get on earth is a man and his 9 or 10 year old son on a hunting trip get hugged. An hour or two later you get to watch as the boy sees a burster pop out his dad, then we watch one pop out of him. AvP 2 Tried to overcome the friendly version that was AVP.
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Post by shadowknight on Nov 23, 2013 7:19:05 GMT
If I remember right, Necromorphs require targets to be dead before they can enter them. lol, so the flood my have to deal with some body snatchers. Anyway, the xenos also use dead bodies, except not as hosts. Xenos.....terraform if you will. They spit up this Hive node that basically eats up all available organic materials from plants, carcasses, and even microorganisms to produce the structure for building hives. I am assuming that the xenoes start out with a queen, or at least Royal facehugger eggs (they hold queen embryos) so the Xenoes have a working hive mind in place form the start. Nah, three separate earths remember? Having the option between live or dead targets is a huge advantage. What's the purpose of a hive? The Hives purpose is just that, a hive, a fortress for the Queen to lay her eggs in safety. Once a Queen is borne (or Drone molts into a Queen due to a lack of one/ over population) its first instinct is to find the darkest, warmest place it can and start pumping out eggs. A Royal facehugger has 2 Xeno embryos inside of it. One with the Queen, the other a Drone to do her bidding right out the gate. The drone is borne first and will defend the Queens host(and later the Queen herself) to the death. Hives are formed quickly and can very in size. Large hives often have smaller ones around it as satellite hives. The largest know hive is on Xenomorph prime, where a one hive was literally an entire continent (though this was a special case due to its Queen actually being an Empress) . Once a hive reaches max capacity (several thousand) a drone leaves, molts into a Queen, and starts its own hive. Each hive is like an ant colony, two separate hives will often get into conflict with each other over border disputes early on. After that the Hives set about terraforming the territory they have and plucking it clean of life. The Xenos work on a hive mind, Queens talk telepathically to their drone/warrior classes and give them orders, like wise an Queen Mother's hive mind reaches the entire Xenomorph species and instructs them in the same way. The Queen Mother has strong enough telepathy that she communicates with other species. During the Xeno takeover of earth, the Queen Mother spoke to humans through their dreams, indoctrinating many into aiding the xenos in their takeover. These indoctrinated would be taken last, after they have helped find all the remaining survivors.
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Post by Knukails on Nov 23, 2013 7:25:11 GMT
hmmm, The flood don't have a hive per say....Everything around the gravemind just turns to flood biomass. However the anceint grave mind turned entire planets into key minds. a version of the gravemind dedicated purely for computing and strategic planning.
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Post by shadowknight on Nov 23, 2013 7:45:58 GMT
I'm sorry, I had to go back and fact check. Its not an Empress that has the power over the entire species, its the Queen Mother. An Empress is like a queen, but is larger and is a grey color. Empress are the result of multiple Queens fighting for dominance, and the winner molts into an Empress. Empress's do command Queens and have large hives, but all are subservient to the Queen Mother who is in command of the entire Species. Its her telepathic link that reaches to every mind in the species throughout the universe, as well as other species for indoctrination. during the Earth Wars, she took control of a lot of the human population, indoctrinating them. She was even able to control humans that were in such bad physical state that they would be considered dead. The Queen Mother has also been shown to be able to communicate through dreams/nightmares with other creatures, and has some form of empathic capability. With this, the Queen Mother has the potential to drive people mad.
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Post by Knukails on Nov 23, 2013 16:01:26 GMT
hmmm, I still think the gravemind is more efficient. He convinced the greatest A.I. the forerunners had (who's sole purpose was to fight the flood) to join the flood. Also the gravemind doesn't just give orders, it can control and speak through individual flood units.
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Post by shadowknight on Nov 23, 2013 16:27:06 GMT
Well, its not a battle its a race, and I still see the Xenos retreading old territory and claiming their earth in like 3 or 4 months. The flood will probably win due to the infection in seconds thing so I guess 2 months sounds good, considering I haven't found anything showing how fast they take over planets. As for the necros...well they need dead people to inhabit. They need to make people to crazy and kill each other first before they can start taking over bodies. So I say they come in last, not by much, but still last.
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Post by Knukails on Nov 23, 2013 16:30:20 GMT
Well, its not a battle its a race, and I still see the Xenos retreading old territory and claiming their earth in like 3 or 4 months. The flood will probably win due to the infection in seconds thing so I guess 2 months sounds good, considering I haven't found anything showing how fast they take over planets. As for the necros...well they need dead people to inhabit. They need to make people to crazy and kill each other first before they can start taking over bodies. So I say they come in last, not by much, but still last. I could agree with that.
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