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The Lydia model Waaritech was the first encountered by humans at the beginning of the Occupation period. Slightly more intelligent than the Dolly model, these are the machines responsible for killing the President of the United States and most of his staff on Air Force One. Unlike Dolly, which is only capable of short leaps and jumps with its internal rockets, Lydia is capable of sustained flight and showed its dogfighting prowess in a brutal style by literally smashing through the numerous fighters, bombers and helicopters sent to counter the Waaritech attack.The Lydia model Waaritech are constructed from the same nano-molecular materials as their Dolly cousins, which enables them to heal rapidly and in general shrug off most damage imparted on them. Nuclear weapons have little effect on these machines, even a building falling on one will only stop it for as long as it takes to dig itself out.
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Am i the only one who thinks there needs to be more Waaritech units?
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I'd be highly surprised if any civilization with at least plasma weapons and polarized hull plating can put up a good fight against something like that. And yes, that is a reference to Enterprise, and yes I think a war like that would be "interesting". I don't even fathom how 21st Century technology could really do much. I mean, this thing doesn't even have conventional weaponry! It just rams it's enemies! That's INSANE!!!
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I imagine that even though atomic bombs may have little effect, the plasma fireball that occurs around the detonation site as the bomb explodes would certainly damage the outer shell pretty heavily, maybe even critically damage the machine if if an opening was available... not to say the least of any kinetic forces involved in the explosion.
Still, given the scale of damage that would do to the surrounding area and the fragility of nukes any interception efforts on the nuke would very likely succeed.
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>even a building falling on one
IMO being in epicentre of thermonuclear blast, where matter simply vapourises and ceases to exist, is a _little_ worse than few hundreds tons of rock. This is very contrasting with article about "dolly", which says that it, being made of SAME materials, was destroyed by a mere naval ship. If you don't want aliens to be affected by atom bombs - just let them direct their first attack onto nuclear silos and vessels. or else it is, well, curbstomp battle, and then why is humanity was not annihilated already?
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I very do like the radial symmetry of these things, though. :3
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Amazing. Great idea. Lovely execution and geometry too.
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wat does a "warritech" alien look like i mean something had to make them so they could be like this.
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Well, the Waaritech are the machines themselves. They built each other and have been doing so for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years. They were originally built by an organic race that I have yet to illustrate.
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interesting, i love the story line im intrigued for more. i would love to see the illustrated form of the organic race, please tell me when u do this. most appreciated. and great work with creating the illustrations
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Well, I don't know if I'll ever draw the creators of the Waaritech, but keep your eyes out, I suppose. If you search for "Waaritech" in my gallery, you can see all of my other related creations.
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You have such fantastic descriptions for these models you create. I love that you explain them, there history, etc. Then I have a look down there and you explain they are part of your 'universe' which after a browse through your 3d gallery...you're really envisioning and creating in 3d. It's wonderful to see this kind of effort and contemplation going on here. Not to mention such a great description when "..." seems more and more common.
Bravo to you! Glad to be able to give you your first well deserved badge!
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Thank you for this cake, I shall cherish it!
Also, thank you for the awesome comment! I put as much effort into my stories as I do my pieces.
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I like the design, but I gotta say, a nuke having 'little effect' is a lot like saying 'BTW, its invincible.' To cancel out a nuke, without using some multi-dimensional shield (IE a Prime's Dyson Shield), I'd expect it to be either built out of exotic mater, or somehow trans-dimensional in its self.
If a direct hit from a nuclear weapon can do anything less than totally remove it from existence, you can forget using atom lasers, particle beams, photon whatevers, relativistic missiles, all that. While you CAN produce much larger explosions with weapons more advanced then nukes, nothing surpasses the destructive capacity of the core of a nuclear explosion. Mind you, the chain reaction that is feeding this explosion would run through the atoms that make up your device as if they were any other.
I understand its sci-fi, but we're talking type 2, or even 3 civilizations here. You'll notice that a lot of sci-fi still uses Nukes far into the space age of a race, and only when 'magical' shielding systems start to pop up do nukes start to lose their threat.
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The Waaritech are by far one of the most advanced races in my universe. They're millions of years old and in short "they're invincible." Well, they are when confronted with any modern weapons. The energy created by explosions, even ones generated by atoms ripping apart are absorbed by the machine's matrices and used to repair any damage inflicted. The Waaritech didn't used to be this powerful or invulnerable, but they've evolved since they were set upon the universe.
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You good at making this kind of droid. I should learn from you now
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It's not that hard to make em, I just chose simple geometric shapes and chopped em apart. The Waaritech like machines that can fold up nicely.
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How do they deal with liquid water? Change their density temporarily to allow them to float?
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No, water is actually one of their greatest obstacles. They have difficulty crossing ice, cannot swim, and often fall off of boats they try to land on.
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ah....that's one weakness that can be used.....
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I'm curious as to how exactly would you use this weakness?
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or we can spray the pieces with corrosive acid
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Considering that these guys are hundreds of thousands of years old, they're probably immune to that.
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here's one, it might work or maybe it's just stupid:
we drop them into the water, then we rip them apart limb by limb, keep the pieces separate.
then we drop the pieces into a volcano, and melt the pieces
Nah, Screw It! *throws the plan into a wastepaper basket*
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Yeah, both of those plans involve having some way of "dropping them", which we don't have. Separating the pieces would work, it's actually what the Germans did right when they destroyed the first Dolly that fell to earth. But you'd need to do this to every unit out there, which would be impossible.
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do they have any internal CPU chip which controls them?
or any other electronics like a motherboard?
do they have a fuel source that can be overloaded?
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Nope, nope and nope. Computer technology like that is already obsolete. One square centimeter of any portion of these machines is smarter than any supercomputer we have today. As I said in another post, these guys are made up of millions of tiny machines, working together much like the cells of a body. There's no central battery, fuel tank, sensor bank or CPU.
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then we must target the little bots, can they be vaporized with a nuke?
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Seeing how Waaritech absorb energy from outside sources, they'd probably enjoy that like someone sunbathing. In the first few hours of the invasion, nuclear weapons were used, to absolutely no effect other than killing lots of the people they were intended to protect.
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you said that a psychic could melt them like a Popsicle
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Yes, psychic energies are capable of destroying things on a level no other weapon can even come close to matching. The most powerful psychics can simply erase an object from space.
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*throws another piece of paper into an overflowing wastepaper basket*
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Well, not so much a weakness as something to slow them down a bit. You're still gonna die as the planet's temperature drops dramatically due to the sulfur dioxide they're pumping into the upper atmosphere. Unless you have a warm place to hide, with plenty of food and water, you'll either freeze to death or get stomped on by someone.
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seriously.....who are these "warritech" guys?
.....they sound like utter assholes
speaking of which....what about EMP pulses?
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They are the assholes of the universe, so to speak. There's a very long story to go along with them, one I'll post later, prolly. I don't wanna give too much away too early.
As for EMP, that would be like adding fuel to their fire. All Waaritech units are powered by external sources, most drawing their power from their own "gravitational torsion reactors", which utilize the rotational inertia of bodies within the planetary system for power. They're incredibly advanced machines, and throwing an EMP at one of them would probably be like giving a shot of adrenaline to a boxer who's already beaten the sh*t out of you.
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any true weakness?......
my guess is that when one machine is missing a piece.....it stay inactive.......
and do the warritech have any enemies?
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Well, they travel through the universe in a pyramidal spacecraft that from tip to tail, is longer than the earth is wide. They make plenty of enemies, but you don't want to hunt them down to pick a fight. They'd just wipe your entire race out.
And on the off chance that a Waaritech is destroyed like Dolly was, he'll be recovered and repaired by his comrades.
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like the freaking borg.......
in that case......why not quicky retrieve a Waaritech droid and hide or destroy the individual parts?.....
pardon me for sounding arrogant......but I believe that even the most fearsome opponent has a weakness.....like what batman said in the first episode of the "Justice League Animated Series"......
it just needs to be found.......
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Well, we have no weapons that can do any serious harm to any Waaritech unit. Yes, they do have weaknesses, but they attacked earth in the mid 21 century, and killed 98% of the earths population in four months before leaving. The attack was too quick to study their units for weaknesses, and the ONLY people to survive were those who hid from them, and did so well. If you fought them, they would kill you, if you remained exposed, they would see you and kill you then.
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dang, was this done in a 3D program? or s this some of the best line arting I've seen '_';
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Yeah, sketchup 7, actually! I just played with the styles a bit to get the lines perfect while exporting.
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Nice reminds me of a old mech design of mine a Mobile Suit stile mashine that could trasform in to a tank. Like some mobile Armors (gundam) and the verateck fiaghtes do (robteck).
I think I see 3 week spots on the Lydia.
Thrusters put a round in them it could go up in flames.
Joints in ground combat they could be disabled.
Sensers tempary blind them by hiting there to give time to attack one of the other points.
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All of the thrusters and rockets the Waaritech use and electro-nuclear, they don't use fuel other than electricity. Also, due to the "intelligent-material" design, any damage incurred is very quickly repaired, and the same method for damaging them wont work a second time. As for sensors, these things don't have a single set of eyes, cameras or sensing units; they're covered with thousands of them build into their shell.
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so only a high yeld beam cannon is efective then
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Humans in the 21st century don't have access to that kind of technology. If the Waaritech were ordered to overtake a planet armed with that sort of weaponry, they would simply destroy it from orbit.
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