Brood Lord and Broodlings

[Nicol Bolas]

A highly doubt any sort of biological carapace can defeat something technologically created (fictional steel used for giant flying fortresses).

You can doubt it all you want; it's a basic part of StarCraft lore that Zerg stuff (biological) can do these kinds of things. If Zergling claws can tear open a Command center, then imagining that a Zerg unit can be hurled as a missile weapon is far from a stretch.

Ultralisks in SC2 have an anti-building headbutt attack.

[XSOLDIER]

Seriously - anything that's capable of EVOLVING a blade with a monomolecular edge shouldn't be underestimated.


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[Pandonetho]

Ultralisks in SC2 have an anti-building headbutt attack.

They also have mass, compared to what, at most a 50 pound biological projectile that doesn't even use any chemical (like the glaive wurm's explosive properties) method but actual physical velocity to try to damage things?

Maybe it has monomolecular scythes on it's face. Who knows.

Whatever it is, the main problem is it's just silly looking.

[Bobo]

I agree with Pando. Bring back good old acid bombardment or make new egg-like projectiles that spawn broodlings on impact. Period.

[MattII]

A highly doubt any sort of biological carapace can defeat something technologically created (fictional steel used for giant flying fortresses).

What about if it was laced with Corundum?

[Norfindel]

You actually believe that there are no tricks to it? Why do you think they're always aligned the same way? I'd like to see these martial artists break a brick wall with their hands.

Some of these are are baloney, sometimes they cut the center of the brick in a way you can't see it so that the pressure of the hit causes the thin center (since it was cut) to snap, forcing the brick in half.

They can break some (not too wide) concrete blocks, but i doubt they can break a brick wall, that's a lot more resistant.

They can do it, because the taken a lot of suffering by hitting hard stuff all the time, so their bones have micro-fisures, that when fixed are actually more resistant (and heavy) than the original bone. I would just use a mace if i were them, but that doesn't impress people, right?

[PsiWarp]

Monomolecular carapace, genetically engineered pain sensory removal, and a simple genetic composition for mass production seems logical.


-Psi

[Quirel]

What about if it was laced with Corundum?

Wouldn't work as well. You can can give a cockroach a corundum exoskeleton, and if you fire it at a jeep with enough force to do damage, that roach is dead.

But since this IS fiction, the main problem I have is that the thing is being hurled by external mechanical forces.

Has anyone else seen the deleted scene in AvP (I know, you'd have to watch AvP first, but it's easy enough to forget with a case of alcohol) where the Predator, upon removing a xenomorph's head-carapace, 'tickles' the rear part of the head with it's knife. At that point, a chain reaction acting along the length of the head pushes the inner mouth out with enough force to punch through body armor (And scare the crap out of that black lady, whose name I forget and can't be bothered to remember).

Seeing something like that launching mantaling eggs, be it in the Brood Lord model or the Swarm Guardian, would be awesome.

Hmm... can't find it on youtube...

[The_Blade]

They also have mass, compared to what, at most a 50 pound biological projectile that doesn't even use any chemical (like the glaive wurm's explosive properties) method but actual physical velocity to try to damage things?

Maybe it has monomolecular scythes on it's face. Who knows.

Whatever it is, the main problem is it's just silly looking.

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[ManjiSanji]

A highly doubt any sort of biological carapace can defeat something technologically created (fictional steel used for giant flying fortresses).

Oh and regarding brick smashing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xKOw...eature=related

Watch this video, notice how every brick breaks down smoothly through the middle? Notice the end where you see little sticks lying on the floor? They intentionally create weakpoints in the brick so that it's actually POSSIBLE to break these bricks, why else do you think they stack them with a slight gap in between each brick?

And just because you can break bricks that are specially set up in a certain way doesn't mean anything. Military designers don't create defense designs while purposely including flaws so that their guys can die faster.

The sticks are actually pencils put on the sides of each brick. They're called "spacers." These are used to keep the bricks from gaining support from the rest of the bricks they're sitting on, basically keeping the necessary energy to break each brick individually at a minimum. Since the energy to break each brick, after breaking, is essentially mostly left in the momentum of the object doing the breaking, it continues through and less energy is lost than if the bricks were all stacked on each other without said spacers.

It is a trick. It's still not incredibly easy to break that many bricks, but it's not as hard as a person would think. Breaking bricks actually stacked on top of eachother is substantially harder (and much more painful if you fail to break them). While some people do cut the bricks a bit, it's not too terribly common nor necessary. A cinderblock brick like that really isn't that hard to break if you hit it in the center and follow through.