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The Expanse is IIRC fanfiction, of a sci-fi tabletop roleplaying session the author was running.

Not at all, it just means that a 'Laser' weapon is something different from a 'blaster'. They both require - in theory - Tibanna gas, so it's possible that the designation is merely a description of how that gas is excited. A laser may simply be a blaster with an added lasing system to boost per...

Then that specification is either wrong, or 'Laser' in Star Wars doesn't mean light amplified by stimulated emission of radiation. Because we see X-wings fire their weapons, and they don't fire laser beams. They fire solid red bars that move at slower than light speeds. 2:20 Onwards The films...

Yeah, blasters seem either shoot some sort of 'packaged' exotic particles, or are just straight up particle beam guns. They're clearly not laser weapons.

During the fight with the Amun-Ra class, the Donnager held up pretty well all things considered. But the captains arrogance was a notable detriment to her performance, and ultimately led to her getting dunked on. Instead of her being alone and relatively unprepared, the Donnager this time...

Why not Grey Knights. An army of Grey Knights would be hilarious overkill, even by the already presented overkill in the thread.

Brutal. Anyway. Ship: Ra'nodaire support carrier warbird. Forces: 30% X-com Templars. 20% varied mechanicus technicians and support staff. 50% Sardaukar. I can sit in orbit, replicate out equipment for the mechanicus, and Sardaukar. Then beam them down to hotspots when they're needed.

They'd probably need to get in line. Wizards like to blow each other up as much as the IRA liked killing their own countrymen. Vampires have a magical blood substitute that probably keeps them sustained. There is a potion for Hags that suppresses the compulsion to eat human flesh - leaving them...

The duplicating spell makes material create copies of itself, and that copy then makes copies, and so on. Those copies then also keep other spells put on them. The copies are 'worthless' in that they degrade faster, but the creators of the spell used it to make copies of their own stuff right up...

Sorta? Most wizards outright don't care about muggles from what we see in the books. Voldemorts psychotic little brain trust though, yeah, they'd definitely organise shit like this. I doubt the actual ministry would though; from what we see of them, they're just apathetic to muggles at worst...

Ironically the purebloods were most opposed to having to isolate. Most of them were nobles at the time, and were high up in courtly life. One of them could have even ended up as literal royalty. Which would have radically - for the better - changed the world of Harry Potter...

Yeah. Wizards have - in pottermore canon - been capable of covering up global fuckups. But I doubt they can keep doing it, or would even want to. The impetus for the whole 'secrecy' thing in the first place was 'lol, muggles are killing each other. Fuck that.' Most people hated it then; half...

I watched both episodes. It's okay? The main villain is really, really not bringing her A-game as an actress. There's a scene in the second episode that was so painfully contrived I had to force myself to keep watching. But the special effects are pretty, costumes are neat. The acting isn't...

A lot of magical things are just invisible to muggle in general without spells. And Rowling said that the statute of secrecy is still going strong forever - or at least up until the 2030-2040's. Sort of makes muggle kinda irrelevant in Harry Potter. Cursed Child is canon according to Rowling...

There was nearly an Anglo-French governmental union IIRC? So assuming war were off the table, the UK would probably bite. Makes sense to have some hold on the continent rather than none. What happens to French colonial holdings though? Would the UK be given Normandy and similar regions in return...

In terms of Alien invasion at the same time then, Statute of secrecy is done pretty much out the gate. The Ethereals are going to be hunting down wizards just as much - if not more because of magic - as they are normies. There's no real way to run the war on two fronts concept where wizards and...

Would they even class them as muggles anymore? Hags, Vampires and other magical humanoids aren't considered muggles even though they can't do wand magic. What makes a muggle? Squibs can't do magic, they can see all the magical creatures and effects that are normally invisible to muggles though...

Judgement day happens in 2004. It's not making any deepfakes. It's also limited at that time to maybe a handful of automated factories, flying HK's, and minigun toting tanks. All of which are networked to it. The US upper command all know Skynet was plugged in, and then launched almost...

1 & 2 aren't happening. But 3 might be. It's in 'everything, everywhere' by the end of T3. The US still has no radar, no early warning systems, and no military communications. If Skynet knows that A) The US government knows it just tried killing them, B) The US government is now effectively at...

I don't think Skynet really works that way? In T2 Skynet is described as being a defence computer that learns things at a geometric rate - which is kind of useless since we don't know the baseline, or the common ratio, but I assume to just mean 'very fast - so I doubt it can just lie to humans...