"Getsuga Tenshō!" The heavily distorted voice of Ichigo roared, the spiritual attack surging out and impacting with the Barrier.
With a swipe over his own face, the substitute Soul Reaper dismissed his Hollow Mask. "Well?"
"I think you made it ripple a little." Orihime offered from her vantage point on the ground.
Hearing Uryū snort made Ichigo annoyingly certain that Orihime was being overly generous. "Okay, fine. What's next, Uryū?" He asked, dropping out of Bankai and back down to the ground from his airborne perch.
The Quincy consulted his list. "'Throw giant slab of Sekkiseki at Barrier.'" He read out.
Ichigo glared at his friend. "And where exactly do you expect me to find Sekkiseki in the World of the Living?"
Without a word, Uryū moved on the next item. "'Have Orihime Reject Barrier.'"
Orihime squeaked in slight panic. The Barrier was far, far larger than anything she had Rejected before, and was the Cause of so many Effects that removing it from the time-stream would be... well, it wouldn't be as difficult as her last-ditch plan to Reject the Hōgyoku... probably.
Fortunately, she was saved from having to try when a Senkaimon opened up, depositing Rukia among Ichigo and co. "What exactly do you idiots think you're doing?!" She hissed, striding toward the orange-haired teen.
"What's it look like we're doing?" Ichigo asked in annoyed confusion. "We're getting rid of that thing, of course!" He indicated the Barrier with his thumb.
Rukia glared at him. "You know full well that the affairs of the Living are no concern of yours!" She poked him in the chest angrily.
Ichigo spluttered. "No concern of...?! Rukia, I live here! Besides, you can't look at that Conversion thing and not tell me it's messing with the Soul." He accused right back.
Rukia crossed her arms. "Given that it's basically the opposite of Hollowfication, Central 46 doesn't have a problem with it."
Ichigo stared back in shock. Then he turned to Uryū. "Can you call Hat-And-Clogs and tell him that we'll be needing his backdoor into Soul Society again? I need to go beat some sense into - ow!" He cried as Rukia slapped him.
"None of that!" She told him sternly. "You are going to sit here, and not cause any trouble, you hear?"
"Yeah Human, get out of here!"
Blinking, both full-time and part-time Soul Reaper turned to find a small army of ponies emerging from the Barrier. All of them were armed (mostly with lances) and were wearing steel barding. Interestingly, all of them were flying - despite the usual three races being represented evenly, the non-pegasi somehow flying using wings made of the same steel as their armor.
One pony with more ornate armor than the rest flew forward and addressed the assorted humans - living and dead. "Equestrian souls are the purview of the Valkyries, guardians of the fields of Elysium! You are neither needed nor wanted here. Begone!" She added, for good measure.
Rukia slowly assimilated the knowledge that the ponies had their own version of Soul Society. Obvious in retrospect - ponies had souls, ponies died, pony souls had to go somewhere when they died. That was going to make everything more complicated.
"Well, this makes everything simple!" Ichigo grinned. Then he charged with a cry of 'Bankai!'
The head Valkyrie tapped the breastplate-equivalent on her barding, causing it to glow with runic symbols all over as she flew to meet Ichigo's charge.
Rukia's eye twitched. "Dance, Sode no Shirayuki" She intoned as she unsealed her Shikai. Who she would use it on, she hadn't decided yet.
-BOOM-
Hooves over her ears, Xlestia dragged herself up out of bed. "They still haven't run out yet?!" She half-screamed. The royal pony had barely gotten any sleep in the past three weeks due to the deep explosions that went off precisely at five minute intervals.
Token Minion grabbed a comb and started brushing her princess's hair as best she could. "I believe that's explosion number six thousand three hundred and two."
"What were they planning to blow up with that amount of explosives, a star?!" Xlestia's hysterics were mostly due to sleep deprivation, but also partly due to how slow her plan was going. Given the amount of radiation and heat the Barrier had to absorb before it could move on, the magical wall had slowed to a snails pace.
After the first ship had tried to nuke her kingdom, she had reached out telekinetically and 'politely' shoved it all the way out of the solar system as a warning. She had planned for that to be the end of it - 'don't bother, we can withstand your bombs and I can crush your ships in return.' Unfortunately, she had underestimated how crafty humans were. They had started the tactic of simply emerging from wherever their ships went, dropping the bomb, and vanishing back into their space-bruise before she could even find them in the sky.
Now, the nukes weren't damaging her Barrier - she had designed it specifically to withstand whatever humanity could throw at it - but nopony could leave the Barrier either without bursting into flames and burning before they had a chance to die of radiation poisoning. All the humans on this world had retreated to the other side of the planet as expected, but she had not expected them to simply load up on ships and leave at their leisure. She couldn't even stop the leaving ships because the humans kicked up their bombing campaign and broke her concentration when she tried!
-BOOM-
"That's it! I can't take it anymore!" Xlestia screeched. "If the humans want to stay unhappy war-mongers forever, fine! Token, we're leaving. Lets go find a more grateful planet."
Up in orbit, the UNSC Ponies go home emerged from Slipspace for its usual bomb-drop, only to find the continent they had been targeting had left as mysteriously as it had arrived. The cheers couldn't be heard from the ground, though not for lack of trying.
With a great splash, Aquaman leaped out of the ocean and landed next to the assorted members of the Justice League. Standing up, he gave them all the stink-eye.
"What?" Flash asked defensively. Aquaman was looking far more serious than he usually did.
"I just had to organise the evacuation of half an ocean. Why is that giant eyesore still there?" The ruler of Atlantis demanded.
Superman held up his hands in the classic 'surrender' pose. "Magic."
Aquaman switched his gaze to Green Lantern.
"My Ring can't analyze that thing, and I can't brute-force it. I could call for backup, but I'd have to convince the Guardians that the low-tech, planet-bound civilization is an interstellar threat without, y'know, some pretty impressive abilities that they don't have. It's a big universe, they have to prioritize where they send the super-cops." The green-wearing hero defended himself.
The Martian Manhunter met Auqaman's gaze evenly. "...you know how I feel about mind control."
Finally, the Atlantean glared at Batman. The caped crusaded didn't even glance at Aquaman, simply continuing to watch the Barrier though a pair of binoculars. "I have a plan."
"Do you."
"Yes."
"Care to share?"
"Not really."
Superman interceded before the discussion could get heated. "We're currently waiting for Zatanna and Wonder Woman to get here. This stuff's more up their alley. I sure breaking this dome shouldn't be hard for them."
"It'd better be." Aquaman muttered grouchily to himself.
Just inside the Barrier, Token Minion held Xlestia's tail firmly between her teeth. "Come on, Princess. They're the protectors of Earth, you're the protector of Equestria. I'm sure you'll get along fine."
Unknown to Token, Xlestia had been using magic to eavesdrop on the League's banter. "Nooo!" She wailed, straining to fly away. "I can't leave the Barrier with them out there! They'll destroy me!"
Watching Xlestia freak out though his bat-noculars, Batman smirked. His plan was working just fine.
On one side, the Straw Hat crew stood on deck and watched the Barrier slowly edge closer.
On the other side, the Mane Six clamored to the side of Twilight's hot air balloon to watch the group of crazy humans who had just sailed right up to the Barrier. Didn't they know it could kill them? (They didn't, but they wouldn't have been in the least bit surprised. In the Grand Line, everything was trying to kill you.)
They were far more surprised about what happened when their balloon floated to the human side of the Barrier.
The Straw Hat wearing human stretched his arms out so far he was able to grab the side of the balloon and pull himself right up face-to-face with the ponies. While everypony other than Pinkie recovered from the shock, the human smiled so widely he had the pink Earth Pony feeling vaguely insecure.
"Who wants to join my pirate crew?" He bellowed, as friendly as could be.
Rainbow Dash suddenly jumped up. "Oh! I do! I do!"
"Eat death, ponies!" Soldier bellowed, firing rocket after rocket into the Barrier.
"Soldier." Spy growled in his french accent. "I realize that your skull is the densest material in the known universe, but surly even you can see that your rockets aren't making it through?"
"Ha! Of course I know that!"
Spy gave the helmet-wearing member of the team a long-suffering look. "I know I'll regret asking, but then why are you still firing?"
Soldier gave one of his crazed grins. "Because they are making it through!"
"I knew it. I do regret asking."
"Naw man." Scout intersected. "Look harder, see? His rockets are turning into roses, that's all. You should've been here earlier, Heavy's bullets were turning into watermelon seeds."
Blinking, Spy saw the spread of flowers along the other side of the Barrier where Soldier had been firing. "So they are. And what exactly do you hope to do with these thorny presents?"
Soldier pointed at a pair of curious ponies huddled on the other side of the Barrier. "I figure if I aim it juuuusssttt right, I can nail the suckers in the eye!"
Spy murmured something unflattering in French.
"S'cuse me, coming though." Engineer called, carrying one of his red toolboxes.
Spy puffed angrily at his ever-present cigarette. "Ah, Engineer. Had a better idea since that fiasco with the teleporter, I hope?"
"Tha' would'a worked if Pyro hadn' messed it up."
"It might have helped if you had explained to it that our world is not normally invested with grossly-proportioned talking ponies."
"...anyway, this here's not a gadget per se. Actually, its just a chunk of Australium."
Spy looked from Engineer to the Barrier and back. "'Throwing Science at the wall to see what sticks'?" He quoted one of Mann Co's main competitors.
Engineer adjusted his goggles and shrugged. "I'd stand back, y'all." Removing the chuck of yellow metal from its box, he gave it a deft swing through the Barrier. As it passed through, it changed color from yellow to a light blue.
"S'cuse me miss." Engineer called to the nearest pony. "Could you do me a favor and toss that back please?"
"Um, sure." The mare replied in the pony race's usual American English. Trotting over to the chunk of mutagenic metal, she picked it up in one hoof and tossed it back.
"Hmm..." Engineer examined his prize carefully, unchanged by it's second trip through the magical wall. "I'm feeling unusually polite, and a craving for hockey."
Scout whistled. "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
Soldier nodded. "Lets see them try and invade when all their marching tunes are Justin Bieber songs!"
"Soldier, that's a war crime." Spy remarked.
"So?"
"Just making sure you knew."
Stepping out of her hovercar, Chi-Chi resisted the urge to skip. Her husband's life was absolutely crazy, and sometimes she could feel a little left out. Not this time! This time she would solve the... problem....
"Bulma, what are you doing here?" She asked the Capsule Corp heir.
The inventor looked up from where she was up to her elbows in machinery. "Oh, I'm just building a ray gun to get rid of that thing." She gestured lazily at the Barrier. "What are you doing here?"
Chi-Chi's eye twitched. "I just finished gathering the Dragon Balls." Proving her point, she opened a draw-string bag and showed Bulma the seven orange orbs. "I'm about to summon Shenlong, and he will take care of that thing!"
"You can't do that!" Bulma protested. "I've spent hours working on this thing. You can't just steal my thunder at the last moment!"
"What, you think finding the Dragon Balls without Instant Transmission is easy? Who is stealing who's thunder here?!"
Flying several hundred meters above their wife's heads, Goku and Vegeta watched the argument unfold.
"You know, I really don't get women." The prince of the Saiyans commented to his rival.
"I know, right?" Goku replied. "If they wanted to get rid of that thing, they could have just asked one of us. One Destructo Disk would have done it."
Vegeta snorted. "Why bother with that?" He held out his hands and gathered his ki. "Galaxy... break-"
Goku quickly crash-tackled Vegeta when he noticed that Vegeta was pointing the attack down.
Team Fortress? Really? "Why would you suggest this" indeed.
Then again, the unexpected crossovers are the best part of this fandom IMO.
Vegeta making kamehameha? Wtf?
Ps. Do Full Metal Alchemist manga! (Or Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
Suggestion: Joss Whedon's Firefly verse.
On the core worlds, everything is peaceful and prosperous, and there's an evil government that has unlimited resources, and will stop at nothing to maintain the status quo.
Outer worlds, everyone is a gun-toting, authority-hating criminal.
Space, Reavers. Nuf said.
I think it should be stated the title says worlds where this stuff doesnt work why include one piece where they just sailed through it thereby making it work
The half life universe.
whatever universe has Godzilla.
again Mianite the lets play/roleplay series just go to Captain Sparklez on Youtube and look it up try for season 1. Season 2 is a little ummmmm..... hard to understand sometimes, that and the server breaks to much. It's Minecraft btw
5926312 Sailed up to, not through.
I would like to suggest warframe. I think that a few nullifiers (magic immune dirtbags!) could probably solo the bureau, not to mention the energy draining eximus units could theoretically drain the barrier just by standing near it, or tenno shennanigans like limbo rift phasing reinforcements though the barrier.
You know what would be awesome? Borderlands. Or Fallout. Or, hell, even Bioshock. Just something with a metric shitton of guns. Maybe DOOM...?
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The ponies would piss off the Combine.
5926263 That's what I get for half-finishing my research. Hang on. Changed it to a technique he actually knows.
You should totally do league of legends or dota. Although dota would be a complete stomp.
Maybe even Diablo that would be another cool one.
silent hill a scary place.
do RWBY. Please
How about Digimon.
Stargate (pre Universe, because fuck that glorified soap opera). I'm fairly certain a handful of Naquedah-enhanced warheads beamed through a shield would handle the ponies nicely.
Or just Jack and the team 'politely' removing another false god.
Alagaesia might work, I think a Dragon Rider with the power of several thousand ancient Eldunari might be able to give the ponies a run for their money
The Marvel universe to parallel with DC maybe.
His Dark Materials might work, I think a subtle knife might just cut through that barrier, and beyond.
I wonder I Artemis Fowl might super genius his way into defeating them with a little fairy help.
Dark Souls might work too, what with the whole undead curse and BEING FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE TO KILL THOSE MOTHERFUCKING BOSS ASS.... sorry, sorry... I'm good now... THAT OBE FUCKING BULL BASTARD AND THE FUCKING SKULL HEAD FREAK! IJUST WANT TO.... Ahem... Moving on...
Skyrim's a solid maybe, I don't know if the power of the Thu'um and having only one person able to do any actual work would be able to combat the ponies...
Half life 1 or 2 is a probable no, unless the combine can up their game... Though Gordon Freeman might be able to single handedly stop Xlestia...
I wonder about them meeting the Your Human and You universe by MadMaxtheBlack? That could be interesting...
LotR would be a good one, though similar to the Harry potter one, just replace dumblydoor with gandalf...
The M:tG universe would be interesting too, but that's an angle I am not certain how you'd be able to pull it off...
Star Wars could be one, but you'd have to pick a point on the timeline.... The Old Republic (Kotor era, just prior or just after Revan maybe, but before the whole planet destruction incidents thanks to Malak) might work...
Pern would be interesting, though it'd probably be the Thread killing the ponies more than anything else...
The Percy Jackson universe would be interesting too...
And the God of War one if you stuck with Greek ideals...
Minecraft could be funny....
Bio shock would be interesting but again I'm not sure how that angle could be played...
I think I'm out of ideas... I've spent the last half hour doing this....
EDIT: borderlands would be hilarious, as would x-com and the aliens universe (Ripley aliens)
EDIT: oh, and uhhh. Crap I forgot.... Will re edit if I remember.
5926854 Its a completely idealistic, not even slightly practical desire that ignores what will happen and...
Oh wait. Hmmm. You might be on to something here.
A Hunter x Hunter chapter (or suggestions) would be great
it would be crazy if Equestria appeared somewhere near NGL and the Chimera Ant King and the Royal Guards decided to go there to set up base . And then have the Castle Invasion portion of the storyline take place in Canterlot.
Yeah, DOOM would be interesting, either the demons get everyone because they are magic-tech, or Doomguy finds a way through Hell into Equestria.
Megas XLR would also be amazing. Who wants to take bets on who destroys more of New Jersey, Coop or the ponies. My money is on Coop.
Xcom would research a way to deliver a mech punch to Xlestia's face.
Justice League: Of course Batman would do that.
TF2: This had me in stitches. Soldier was hilarious, especially with Spy providing deadpan remarks and that oh so subtle Portal reference was perfect! And to top it off, a clever Bieber joke by Soldier and Spy!
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I'll take that action! What if Xlestia tries to destroy Megas with Jersey?
And here's my own suggestions!
1: Honor Harrington, in whatever way you like because there's so much that could happen. They could land on Manticore and have to deal with Home Fleet immediately. Somewhere in Haven territory and deal with Citizen Admiral Cowboy himself, Lester Tourville. Maybe they try for Torch and get Anton Zilwicky, Victor Cachat, Thandi Palane, her Amazons, the Erewhonese, Admiral Luis Rozsak, then everyone and their mother! Mesa and all their horrors. Or perhaps drop on Old Earth and make the Solarian government actually do something.
So take that as you please.
Second: Bob and George! It's a webcomic and an awesome one!
Third: Red vs. Blue!
5927247 It's actually a variant of Bob and George's famous line, "I hate Time Travel." It's always said because it gets super confusing for them.
But now that you mention it I see your point.
Steven Universe, Inuyasha, and Animorphs.
Very nice, I especially liked the Halo story, 'twas a very practical(if obvious) solution. Nukes would be wasteful though, they could just use MAC rounds.
It would be awesome to see some Stargate and X-com stories.
5927474 You think the 600-ton slugs of metal would be easier to come by then nukes? Halo is so far in the future that I think manufacturing a nuke would take less resources then mining 600-tons of materials.
5927481 I would imagine, that with the length of the war, they would have planetary mining operations and the production of 600 ton rounds down to a science. I couldn't imagine either would prove difficult for them, a lot of this depends on the scarcity of fissile materials, but for all I know they could be able to cheaply recreate rare fissile materials(uranium, plutonium, deuterium, and tritium) in their labs, making Nukes the obvious choice. In hindsight it seems like a lot of this conversation would rely on us making assumptions about Halo universe tech not discussed by its makers, and that would be disastrous...Halo tech is almost as wonky as MLP tech...the fact that they use nukes proves this.
5926352 didnt luffy have to go through to get to the baloon which was the other side?
I still think digimon would be interesting because the barrier is probably one of the most dangerous things for digimon. Digimon are beings born from our trash data in the net if there were no internet anymore the digiworld would too cease to exist but for such a big thread well there are several big digimon who could do enough damage for such a barrier well and another thing is that friendship is too important in digimon
5927595 The fact they're still using nukes is simply a result of the same mindset behind them using gunpowder firearms.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Obviously, the Covenant War shoook things up, which why we see more "sci-fi" technologies in the later parts of the series.
Warhammer 40k, for the Emperor.
Monster Hunter
2014 Godzilla
5927676 The problem is that in this current age most countries armed with nuclear weapons have willfully signed a nuclear test ban treaty due to it's negative environmental impact, and some countries wish to get around this. The U.S. Navy has already had multiple railgun and laser testings, so the gunpowder example might not even survive the next fifty years given continued progress in materials engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology.
Apparently world peace wasn't reached until 2170 which was preceded by brutal interplanetary wars, this gave us more than enough time to improve our tech to unheard of levels and invent technologies indistinguishable from magic. A technological arms race voids the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Also, why would it take so long to create a super soldier? We've already made the technology necessary in altering a primates genetic structure. Where's all the nanobots(somehow Dues Ex: Human Revolution is ahead of halo in nanotech)? I'm also noticing a startling lack of artificial implants used to augment the human condition(bionic parts which far excel their biological counterparts). We've already made meta-materials capable of invisibilty in small quantities, so how aren't those standard issue uniforms among marines by then? I've not even mentioned how screwed up their nonmilitary tech is. I'm still thinking Halo tech is wonky.
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You're making the mistake of assuming that the technological and social trends will continue into the future unchanged.
There was a time that people thought that, by now, we'd have colonies on the Moon. That we'd be sending people to Mars on a regular basis. This was something that people declared inevitable.
It's 2015 and we haven't even thought about going back to the moon for almost 40 years.
There was a time where people that the Cold War would go on forever. I spent my childhood wondering why so many globes seemed to have this "USSR" thing where Russia should have been.
Things that seem inevitable today can become irrelevant, unpopular, even illegal, sometimes very, very suddenly.
The old syndicate game would be funny.
Or shadowrun if you don't want to cut yourself on that edge
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Nah, worse: they show up on Earth each time it's applicable.
They end up actually revitalizing Earth-That-Was. Ponies end up hailed as heroes and immediately put into mass labor fixing other planets. Nothing really changes, because it's still Rebels and Empires up there.
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hopefuly, the next Age would be an "awakening" one. up to now, the oly thing that look better is the tech of prospetric limbs, and I'd rather avoid a full out "human revolution event" in the upcoming 50 years; a lunar colonization project, at least to gain physical space woult take part of the heat off it
You guys know what would be over-kill for Xlestia and her ponies? The universe of the Bayonetta game series. They won't just have problems with two certain witches but with the forces of heaven and the legions of hell.
5927604 Okay, that might actually be confusing. Fixing...
5928517 ...considering that Firefly has OP terraforming tech (they can somehow give moons Earth-like gravity) I'm assuming the reason they haven't gone back and fixed it themselves is because the light-year commute isn't worth it
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5928135 Guys, guys. I used nukes both because they are used in Halo canon, and because it renders the area outside the Barrier unlivable.
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Well yes, rather than a mistake that's generally the basis of every discussion of future technology. If you're going to say that we can't make future claims based on past trends then you might as well not discuss the future at all.
There was also a time when people thought that we'd have atomic powered vacuum cleaners and flying cars, which are comparable to your claims in that they're based on emotions like "that's cool, it'll go on forever" and "that's scary, it'll never end". The general public usually isn't well informed about past changes in technology. There's a vast difference between "we're going to have skyscrapers on the moon because it's neat" and "we're going to continue to have gradual steady increases in battery capacity due to there necessity in smartphones, laptops, electric cars, etc."
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If we were discussing a period of time 20 or 30 years into the future, I might agree with you. 500 years into the future, and it all goes out the window. At that point, it's simply guessing. That's why most futuristic settings are set either a few decades in the future, where the guessing can be mitigated, or so far into the future that you can make things up wholesale and not worry.
There's also a difference between "why isn't my cellphone more efficient?" and "where's my jetpack?".
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And we're discussing why they're canon.
Halo: Good job.
TF2: Didn't fully understand it, but the JB (Junior B#$(%) was entertaining.
DBZ: Is this the TFS version? If not, do Team Four Star!
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It also takes DECADES to do. The Barrier does it (with resistance that wouldn't exist in this case) in under a year in most cases.
The difference is that the Firefly-universe humans are only technologically advanced in some ways, and magic would provide them the shortcuts they need to get a jump on things... and the 'smiling faces, dying hearts' mentality of the Alliance would probably scare even Xlestia.
Right, but the problem that I'm having is that a lot of their tech is only about 30 years out of our reach. I can buy into R n D slowing down in some fields down the road, but far too many fields would almost have to come to a dead stop for their tech to be where it's at more than 500 years into the future. A dead stop in fields with little to no antagonists.
Before I reply to this I need to be sure that I know what you're going for, are you referring to the difference between gradual increases and groundbreaking discoveries?
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Okay, now we're getting somewhere.
I can see a few potential explanations. One is that one or more technological fields simply didn't prove feasible; maybe nanites are hideously difficult to produce, or monstrously inefficient, for example.
Another is that the UEG/UNSC just didn't see a need. Super-soldiers weren't even explored until the insurgencies started, for example; why build a better gun if there's no one to fight (this would also go a long way to explaining the "if it ain't broke" mentality)?
Another is that something happened to shift public perception of a technology and it simply became unpopular or illegal. Maybe a batch of nanites went grey-goo in a lab and word got out, and now people just don't trust the technology, for example.
All have historical precedent. The ancient Greeks invented the steam engine 2000 years ago, but only ever considered it a novelty, a toy, the jetpack never took off because no one could find a fuel for one, not without it either being too heavy to lift off or only having a minute of flight time total, and research into the NERVA engine and ORION drive stopped because 'nuclear' became a dirty word.
More that it seemed like you were complaining that Halo's future world didn't turn out the way you thought it should at the time.
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As a point of interest, while jetpacks never made it past the drawing board, water-jet-packs and heli-packs have been build and successfully used. The water-jet-packs are, like you say, a novelty (they can't leave the lake they draw water from); and heli-packs... well, the landing gear on those were the pilots legs, which had a tendency to shatter on landing. Only one prototype survived testing, and the idea was scrapped.
Depending how you interpret Celestia, she'd be about as good a power source for Superman as our own sun. She'd basically be buffing him throughout the entire fight.
Also, a nitpick: Justin Bieber wasn't yet born during TF2's setting. It is admittedly a fairly different Earth, but the Soldier DID jump a ship and start killing Nazis, and he's not that old, I'd guess mid-30s at the oldest. I'd guess TF2 takes place during the 50s or 60s at the latest.
5932982 Even if Xlestia constantly gave off sunshine, (which I'm pretty sure she doesn't) it'd be magic sunshine, and therefore almost as likely to kill him as buff him.
Oohh! I know I said I would edit my previous comment if I came up with more, but an HP Lovecraft world would be hilariously funny (if done right. Right could either include hilarious Elder Ones like other Lovecraftian comedies on this site, or actually playing into Lovecraft's style$
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You do understand that the SPARTANs were genetically re-engineered people with biotic and synaptic implants to speed up reflexes, strength, etc. and to allow them to neurotically connect into their armor?
In fact, only soldiers with a nueropathi implant could operate the Scorpian tank.
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I could see that for some.
The military's already implementing Transcranial direct current stimulation to train snipers faster, so they're not adverse to trying to improve their soldiers. Like I said, they had huge interplanetary wars about a hundred years from now, so multiple sides had a reason.
The military has a consistently rising budget during times of peace which is used for weapons R n D. "If it ain't broke" is a terrible policy for a military to have.
It's possible, all of these are, but simultaneously cutting off so many valuable areas of research in the same timeline? At some point you have to admit there's an insane improbability to this, comparable to Cthulhu rising from his watery tomb and legislating against technological progress.
Ah, besides the stunted tech, it's also that they're lacking tech that we'll have in thirty years.