thebuilder
300 Million ships was extrapolated from the number that had 300 Militia ships per colonized world, which is technically correct. But none of these ships would be very effective.
Essentially, the 4mil Starfleet and 300mil Combined Member Navies are both correct.
Old Hegemony had point defense weaponry reaching the megatons of explosive power, you know what else is in megatons? the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuke ever detonated.
Undated_Abyss Yeah guess what - he isn't gonna ban me most probably because one of the aforementioned divine entities with that power is his, and I haven't committed a banable offencd. Plus I'm just hypothesising - if non divine factions play their cards right they can beat the Mak if they team up, that is the principle of the event.
Exactly, what point is making an event designed to unite the galaxy only to just delete them.
Valiantshade The entity would get over whelmed CAS THEY ARE BUGS AND REPRODUCE LIKES TERMITES
and use FLOATING SPACE ROCK as fuel to grow
Mak aren't bugs, they are a collective of AI utilizing drones to grow exponentially, they are based on the idea of Von Neumann Probes/Self-Replicating Spacecraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replicating_spacecraft
Valiantshade asteroids are a solid object and CAN BE EATEN but okay
Mak don't eat, they convert matter into different forms.
Undated_Abyss Yeah true. However indirect psionics can work - because you apply psionics not to the mak, but to the area around them, eg launching asteroids into them.
yep, Psionics don't directly work but they do work indirectly.
Iantech But what if you use it before the MAK start multiplying for the attack? Then quickly kill off the couple of MAK left, so they can't multiply. In fact, that is something we could start the event of with; the MAK getting attacked by one of us.
A single drone can replicate into two drones which can replicate into four drones then eight drones, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 etc.
That's just assuming a drone can only replicate one other drone per generation which is incorrect, a single drone can replicate into multiple other drones.
Ultranova There is one way to potentially defeat the Mak. It'll be very hard to achieve and probably won't work. However, we know that the Mak are a hivemind, there isn't one single origin point or 'central command' for them. If we were to find someway to disconnect the drones from the hivemind, even for a short period of time, it would give us enough time to wipe out millions, if not billions of the Mak in one giant swoop.
Theoretically, it might work. But it will take quite a lot of factions all putting their effort in to achieve any single step in that idea.
RedAndCosmoteer So an incredibly powerful jamming field.
Unfortunately that (counts as cyberwarfare) won't work as the Mak communicate via Dimensional Hyperspace, trying to jam it is like trying to turn a freshwater lake into a saltwater lake by using a salt shaker.
RedAndCosmoteer Think of the Mak as the Vashta Nerada from Doctor Who. In a small group, they pose exactly zero threat to you, however when in swarms of quintillions of numbers, they can eat up your ships faster than you can say 'hi'.
Highly accurate.
Valiantshade we have FLT and we can jump universes and ignore the mak untill they come back
That's like trying to defeat someone by hiding in a bunker as they raze the world above you.
the_guy545
That's all you'll ever need to end them.
That's about as effective as killing a hive of bees with a single needle.