Alternate History Two Settings that just click. Crossover Edition.

[Spartan303]

say would a 2003 BSG and Battletech crossover work? Or a Battletech and Halo crossover

Oh God yes. I'd love to see someone write this!

For the Halo and Battletech crossover I was thinking something along the lines of UNSC Battlegroup being sent to the Inner Sphere during the height of the 2nd Succession war and trying desperately to stop the madness. Alternatively they could arrive when the Clans show up. That being said I do agree that with the exception of the energy weapons Battletech was definitely a tech tree far closer to NBSG than Halo

Honestly? I think BattleTech was more advanced in most respects to Pre-War UNSC, and in many respects War era and post war UNSC. The Major one where they fall behind is obviously the fleet.

But of course that helps if I narrow down the time period. Star League era BattleTech can match if not surpass the UNSC in terms of industry, a number of technologies and ground based combat. In space, that is iffy with Pre-war and War era UNSC fleet. Post war, not a prayer of a chance. But, we need to remember that the UNSC got major tech boosts from reverse engineered Covenant technology.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Oh God yes. I'd love to see someone write this!




Honestly? I think BattleTech was more advanced in most respects to Pre-War UNSC, and in many respects War era and post war UNSC. The Major one where they fall behind is obviously the fleet.

But of course that helps if I narrow down the time period. Star League era BattleTech can match if not surpass the UNSC in terms of industry, a number of technologies and ground based combat. In space, that is iffy with Pre-war and War era UNSC fleet. Post war, not a prayer of a chance. But, we need to remember that the UNSC got major tech boosts from reverse engineered Covenant technology.

The one area the UNSC definitely outshines Battletech is in transport capacity and ship mass. Seriously the Phoneix class ship design is from the mid 2300s and masses 44 million tons and the bloody thing is capable of landing on planets

 

[Doomsought]

The one area the UNSC definitely outshines Battletech is in transport capacity and ship mass. Seriously the Phoneix class ship design is from the mid 2300s and masses 44 million tons and the bloody thing is capable of landing on planets

The slipspace drive on the Phoenix is about house sized rather than half the ship. Also small Slipspace drives are common and cheap enough that ONI decided that it was a believable cover to register one of their ships as a Slipspace capable Yacht.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

The slipspace drive on the Phoenix is about house sized rather than half the ship. Also small Slipspace drives are common and cheap enough that ONI decided that it was a believable cover to register one of their ships as a Slipspace capable Yacht.

Honestly both sides would massively benefit from technolochy exchanges. Mind you if its during or pre Human-Covenant war ie before the UNSC got slipspace communications technology and the universes connects post Ameris Civil War...yeah I think the UNSC will be acquiring HPG technology even it has to kill literally the entirety of ComStar to do so.

 

[Typhonis]

Let's see for relly out there crossovers...... Fallout and Destroy all Humans. Simply replace the Zetans with Fuons or better yet have Crypto walking through the wasteland.

OBSG+ Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. You can have your aliens, Earth Humanity might stand a chance against Lizard cylons.

Then again I remember reading one crossover where the NBSG crew arrives in the OBSG universe, just before the Cylon attack. A NBSG Fighter pilot manages to get the alarm raised in the Colonial fleet while the Bucket and the Beast headed for the colonies.

 

[Spartan303]

Let's see for relly out there crossovers...... Fallout and Destroy all Humans. Simply replace the Zetans with Fuons or better yet have Crypto walking through the wasteland.

OBSG+ Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. You can have your aliens, Earth Humanity might stand a chance against Lizard cylons.

Then again I remember reading one crossover where the NBSG crew arrives in the OBSG universe, just before the Cylon attack. A NBSG Fighter pilot manages to get the alarm raised in the Colonial fleet while the Bucket and the Beast headed for the colonies.

I'd love to read an NBSG/oBSG crossover

 

[Typhonis]

Some more that click. Years ago on SD Net there was a story Animatrix Cain vs Able. Terminator vs the Matrix basically.

Another one that would work Bladerunner Alien. Who else could see Wayland in Runnerverse or worse..... Serenity?

 

[Kevral]

I think the Bladerunner and Alien verse were already semi canon same verse?

 

[Spartan303]

There is a fan theory that Predator and Terminator are connected. With SKYNET building its Terminator Infiltrators in the form of Dutch because Dutch is essentially the perfect Soldier and defeated a Predator.

 

[Typhonis]

So we could put Terminator, Alien, Predator, and Blade Runner in the same verse? How would that work out?????

 

[Spartan303]

So we could put Terminator, Alien, Predator, and Blade Runner in the same verse? How would that work out?????

The Key is Cyberdyne. In one future they created Terminators. In another they created something else. But apparently there might be a link. Again it's only a fan theory but there are Easter eggs there.

 

[Husky_Khan]

So we could put Terminator, Alien, Predator, and Blade Runner in the same verse? How would that work out?????

Predator would be easy to place in the Universe since it takes place earlier then the other settings. With Terminator, the time travel shenanigans seem to keep pushing Skynet and Judgment Day back. The other ironic thing is that Terminator could work as a post-post apocalypse since the world after Skynet is so rarely touched upon in regards to what would Earth turn out like if they just destroyed Skynet's Central Command and there were no Time Travel shenanigans (or it was some sort of multiple timeline thing going on so the timestream just keeps chugging along regardless).

And of course there's always the idea that even if shut down, Skynet could be squirreled away somewhere else, it is a computer program after all at its core.

The problem with adding Blade Runner into the mix is that it's pretty staked out on timelines. You could add Blade Runner but it'd be an alternative verse type of idea (so another literal crossover as the OP says) which is perfectly fine. But at its core it'd be a Blade Runner AU as opposed to the actual film universe as is. So you'd keep the megacorporations and replicants and other themes and characters/organizations to flavor up the new crossover setting.

Another thing is that Blade Runner is linked to other settings as well, most famously the movie Soldier starring Kurt Russell where the Battle of Tannhauser Gate and Shoulders of Orion is mentioned. The character in Soldier is also qualified in the use of the M56 SmartGun and the M41A Pulse Rifle, which obviously are from the film Aliens and the Mark IV BFG from classic Doom. The main writer of Soldier was a co-writer on Blade Runner.



The art designers and writers on Soldier had so much fun on Soldier tossing in Easter Eggs, you can see half of Kurt Russell's previous films were referenced as well as everything from weapons used by Marvin the Martian of Bugs Bunny fame to seeing bits of the Lewis & Clark (of Event Horizon) laying about the surface of the garbage planet (which obviously means Event Horizon and therefore Warhammer 40K is a tie in as well ). But on a more thematic level, one of the awards Kurt Russell's character is given is the 'O'Neill Ring Award' which is a reference to Kurt Russell's role as Colonel Jack O'Neill on Stargate.

Is your mind spinning yet?

 

[Typhonis]

So you could set Alien in the future of the Terminator? Retro tech because advanced computers are not that trusted. The Earth is a shithole and off world colonies send materials to rebuild Earth after the AI wars?

 

[Husky_Khan]

So you could set Alien in the future of the Terminator? Retro tech because advanced computers are not that trusted. The Earth is a shithole and off world colonies send materials to rebuild Earth after the AI wars?

Yeah that could be one side effect.

And Replicants could be a natural choice to replace Terminators since unlike Terminators, Replicants have a built in control in that they die off after a few years (and also they aren't hooked into a worldwide malicious computer program that can build more of itself). Combined with not being a collective, they have to be grown artificially since that is a plot point of the latest Blade Runner (Replicants by and large seemingly incapable of natural birth) film. Plus... Replicants are just flat out easier to kill then more advanced Terminator models even if harder to detect.

But yes, tech allowing, an interstellar diaspora could happen and the brave men and women of the Colonial Marines (and whatever military forces Soldier takes place in) will have to protect them. Earth will likely need resources and just the simple cultural dynamism and vigor from spreading outward from a devastated homeworld to help rebuild.

 

[PsihoKekec]

The crossover we truly need

 

[Doomsought]

Warframe and Bloodborn
A dreamer enters a dream.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Warframe and Bloodborn
A dreamer enters a dream.

Oooh, I like the idea. I assume they are in their true form rather than their warframe? Can the tenno see the dream for what it is right away, or do they need to be granted eyes first?

 

[Doomsought]

Oooh, I like the idea. I assume they are in their true form rather than their warframe? Can the tenno see the dream for what it is right away, or do they need to be granted eyes first?

I'm thinking its just one Tenno. They aren't physically travelling into Yarmin, they are dreaming into it during the stasis between the fall of the Orokin and the start of the game.

The Man in The Wall does not seem to be malevolent, but is unsettling and drives people mad. Which is also fitting for Bloodborn. The Tenno are inoculated from the insanity because they were subjected to the void and its insight as children. But the Tenno does not realize everything right away because they relearned how to live in reality.

 

[Spartan303]

Wonder how well Farscape would fit... being on the other side of the galaxy and Sebaceans and other basic Humans on the other side of the galaxy apparently being descendent from Humans and all that jazz. It could be ported into a lot of settings, especially with a Humans taken from Earth a long time ago theme that other settings also have.

Fascape and Stargate are surprisingly compatible too.

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Monsterverse and War of the Worlds.