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Post by GuardianAngel1911-Admin on Jan 29, 2014 13:57:08 GMT
Three races go head to head today, each one known for one thing. Making as much money off of other species as possible. The Volus of Mass Effect, known for getting an entire galaxy on the same currency system, the Ferengi of Star Trek, known for putting greed at the forefront of their culture, and the Hutts of Star Wars, known for going from Empire, to crime lords, and back again in the pursuit of having more money and territory. Each race has 1 thing in common, they love money. With all we know of these three in mind that leads to a multi round match. 1. If you had no other choices but one of each of these species, which would you trust more with an investment. 2. Barla Von, Quark, and Jabba are in a poker match they've all been explained the rules and had time to get used to the game, which one is most likely to win (assume their all able to speak the same language) 2.1 After Poker they will play a game of Tongo 2.2 Next a game of Sabacc 3. 3 squads each with five members of each race are placed in evacuated Los Angeles, the squads are given their universes or if more likely then their species equivalent of a standard assault rifle and told to kill the other teams to recieve the heafty sum of six trillion in credits/latinum/credits. Which squad comes out on top. 4. All three appear in the same galaxy, with all their planets, and all members of their species available. They decide to envelope the other two into their empires not through conflict but through back room deals, sneakiness, slavery, whatever it takes without going into all out war. Which group will own the others at the end of it?
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Post by shadowknight on Jan 29, 2014 21:50:23 GMT
1. Probably the Volus, cause at least they are the more .... legitimate out of the three.
2. Barla Von would have the best poker face fallowed by Jabba. As to who wins....well, Jabba would have the most experience when it comes to gambling, I mean, he was a middle-age Hut which means that he was somewhere between 651-844 years old. (The oldest Hut I have found in Star wars was Zirchros who lived to be 1,700 years old, he was an exception though, for most elderly Huts usually die of old age around 925 years old) 2.1 Not sure, possibly the Trek dude. 2.2 Jabba wins, This is the most popular card game in the Star Wars universe and he would have had hundreds of years to learn all the ins and outs of the game.
3. Ok, now, This will probably go to the Trek team(volus, while small in size, are going up against people with lasers weapons...and like the Quarians they need their suits to survive and if it gets damaged they will more than likely die); however, the Huts do have a regeneration of sorts, they can regrow limbs and there was even a Hutt known as Gargonn lost that half his head, including an eye and apparently a sizable part of his brain, when he was ravaged by a wandrella. The only catch is that it was anticipated that he would regenerate the injured tissue completely after a century or so, which means that it would not really help in a short term fight.
4.The Huts, plain and simple. They have been dominating the Star Wars universe's criminal underworld for...well....put it this way, the first kotor game takes place 4,000 years before the Movies, by the time of the Kotor game the Republic had been running the galaxy for 5,000 years. The Huts Ruled the Galaxy for at least a few thousand years before the Republic came to prominence. So what I am saying is that for the other two teams are going to be going against a species that has had over 9,000 years of experience in back door politics, shady deals,slaving, and everything else you mentioned.
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Post by GuardianAngel1911-Admin on Jan 29, 2014 23:06:42 GMT
Yeah the Hutt's are like Krogans and Asari...they just don't fucking die for centuries. And their running the galaxy for a long time is why I didn't make an who was more influential round
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Post by shadowknight on Jan 29, 2014 23:12:25 GMT
Yeah the Hutt's are like Krogans and Asari...they just don't fucking die for centuries. And their running the galaxy for a long time is why I didn't make an who was more influential round Yea, I mean the others might know the tricks of the Trade......but the Huts(In their universe)created the trade and the tricks. Thats why I think they have the last round, because its literally their environment.
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Post by GuardianAngel1911-Admin on Jan 29, 2014 23:16:24 GMT
I'll be honest it's tricky to make a match for money grabbing types like these so I just sort of winged it.
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Post by shadowknight on Jan 29, 2014 23:41:42 GMT
I'll be honest it's tricky to make a match for money grabbing types like these so I just sort of winged it. Well, I don't know about the Trek side, but if they are as greedy as you say, then they would probably have a temporary truce until the Volus are gone....then they would turn on eachother.
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Post by GuardianAngel1911-Admin on Jan 30, 2014 0:24:23 GMT
They are, according to Star Treks wiki.
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Post by Mister Teal-Rule Abider on Jan 31, 2014 10:42:48 GMT
I found Netflix has all the star trek series, so I'm gonna watch Next Generation and Deep Space Nine since they have the ferengi
see you in 14 seasons
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Post by Lowk on Jan 31, 2014 22:44:38 GMT
And thats why Volus win. 1. Volus they tend to sway on the greedy side but, iirc; because of them the galaxy has a stable economic system and they continue to maintain that. 2-2.2 have no Idea 3. Might go with the Volus mainly due to the fact the fighters of the race who aren't biotic rely on their suit which have cloaking as standard, some can project decoys, create drones, and drop mines. 4. Volus aren't what you would called dominate, Hutts can get pretty dirty, Don't remember much about the Feriengi. So I'd probably go Hutt.
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Post by Mister Teal-Rule Abider on Feb 1, 2014 20:51:34 GMT
oh yeah I forgot about volus' multiplayer descriptions about them buying top-of-the-line gear
but I won't weigh in since I don't know about the other two. Although from some youtube clips I think I will like the ferengi
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Post by Mister Teal-Rule Abider on Feb 7, 2014 10:51:22 GMT
ok so I'm still slowly making my way through DS9, and while I haven't seen much of the Ferengi military or what not (only on like ep. 12) I did get some info on Quark that I think gives him an edge on the poker portion (or at least over Barla Von -- not sure about the Hutt)
Nothing big, just he repeatedly refers to himself as a gambler and mentions he's calculated odds for many games of chance. While it can be inferred that Barla Von has good enough math skills of his own due to his financial expertise (although he seems to be more about exploiting financial loopholes) I think Quark's remarks could beat out the Volus what with calculating pot odds and such yielding more consistent results in a poker game. That said, with the suit Barla Von's got a nice way to cover physical tells, although betting habbits could still be observed. Also the wiki mentions Ferengi ears being able to pick up subtle changes in the environment and what not, and mentions something about how they can tell a person's gender with them or some such. I haven't seen Quark do any of this personally but just some tidbits.
Not a game changer obviously, just some fluff to consider
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Post by Mister Teal-Rule Abider on Feb 16, 2014 7:54:45 GMT
So I watched a few more episodes in. And despite Quark's previous claims, he was losing in that one game ST plays (Tongo I think) to the Trill lady, who appeared to just be winning due to experience (200 something years old is she)
Anyway, while I don't know the specifics of her skills I think the earlier assessment about the Hutt's age and experience could turn out similar.
Also,
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Post by Christopher on Oct 12, 2021 16:11:21 GMT
This is essentially 2 races of criminal masterminds against a race of bankers. The Volus would win the first round as they are the most trust worthy, however mass effect meme's the hell out of the fact that physically volus are useless.
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