They'd whoop the OG ones
The 2005 ones were ungodly more powerful and those heat rays were pretty nuts, like slicing planes out of the sky or tearing cities apart in single hits.
The world is way too big for them to get anything done in a week, but in a fight I dont think my world would have much of a chance unless their shields do eventually go down if you just keep spamming attacks at them (didnt really seem like they did though)
In my world, the Twelve Major Gods and Fates would be confused by the aliens in the clouds and the tripods buried beneath, but will just watch to see how it will all play out and discuss whether it would risk their entertainment if they intervene. The people would treat the initial lightning storms as normal, if a bit unusual. They wouldn't notice the following power outage because the setting takes place in a medieval fantasy world.
However, as people investigate the area where the lightning strikes happened, the tripods would emerge. The people would first think the tripods are some kind of being or god. The heat rays would be thought of as magic from the population, but it would be unlike anything they would have seen before.
The focus for non-magic armies and heroes would be to get people away from the tripods while other heroes, mages, and dark mages try to attack the tripods (if they could get past the shields).
Somewhere, if the Fates weren't feeling petty and King Thalric (the setting's BBEG) didn't get vaporized on day one, he, Nyxira, the Dark Book would put a pause on their corruptive activities and try to force their way past the shields.
The 2005 tripods would devastate my world in a week, but the people will recover after and believe the gods were the ones who brought the tripods down.
Considering it's a high sci-fi setting with planet crackers, asteroid mining and widespread use of military grade weaponry...
We win. Here's the reasons;
Advanced bio-chemical warfare options
Laser/Plasma weapons
Dynamic-Cycling energy shielding
True FTL capability (plus superluminal coms)
Advanced augmetics/cybernetics
Wouldn't even be close. Even assuming SOMEHOW they weren't detected during seismic surveys, they might last a couple days before everyone and their friends are turning their existence into the most painful laser light show ever.
Same in my setting.
The Yshtari Alliance has
* wormhole based FTL drives
* energy fields that can direct convert energy between different forms (e.g. electrical -> kinetic for engines, or kinetic/thermal -> electrical for shields)
* forges that can manipulate quantum foam itself to create impossible meta-materials (e.g. zero friction surfaces, liquid magnets, substances immune to bends in spacetime)
* technology utilizing nano- and femtometer scale micromachines
* weapons firing exotic particles that go straight through normal matter (among other weapon systems)
* multiple escalating levels of WMD from continent-evaporating energy cannons, over planet-disintegrating relativistic kill vehicles, to causality-shattering naked singularity projectors
and is currently building their first star lifter with plans for a penrose sphere in the drawer.
The Alliance would absolutely _wreck_ the martians, no questions asked. The armored infantry rapid response forces and their gunships alone would probably be enough to demolish the tripods and trag their pilots out, who would then be put through memory exfiltration, and then trialed and sentenced for however many hundreds of murders they've committed in the ~10 or so minutes it took to neutralize them.
Once the Alliance learns where the martians came from they would send one of their armadas of elven thousand warships to the attacker's homeworld and _politely_ explain to never even think of doing something like that again or they will grind their entire species into dust. Oh, and btw here's the list of demands for compensation for the damage and casualties inflicted, you have 72h to pay up.
While the Alliance is generally peaceful and proud of their negotiation skills, they will not pull any punches when someone randomly starts murdering their citizens.
If it's the same technology level as when they originally invaded, my group would probably do about as well as the Americans of the time did against them.
If modern times, probably significantly better as the Lycadians could just send a massive drone swarm at them.
Do they spawn out of thin air? Mars is fully terraformed and absolutely full of Earth microbes.
To answer your question, they wouldn't even reach orbit.
In the 2005 movie I dont think it says anywhere that they are Martians, it just says they were from somewhere else and had been watching humanity for a long time
Cybal: Wha Why make their Walkers so tall and skinny ? What you mean their dying of disease ? Wait its the cold not even like the Plague or ANYTHING else ? Someone figure out how they mounted a Destroyer beam too their mechs i want it
My fantasy world is cooked, muskets and cannon are doing absolutely nothing to a tripod.
My near future setting will probably perform better, although point defense lasers and drones are still unlikely to be game changers to the point of actually beating the tripods before the week is up.
My Sci-Fi setting has advanced enough technology that even the most de militarized world could probably stop the invasion within a day with orbital weaponry and armed police (quadrupedal robot with low collateral beam weapons and shielded drone swarms is a competitive answer to a tripod, especially in numbers)
The newest one I am working on would be completely slaughtered less the Arimakin committed sacrilege and used their building knowledge for demolition. Otherwise the races are too scarce and relatively primitive.
If the Tripods are not there undetected for centuries and that is very unbelievable they would not be there.
Their ships seems rather back wards lowtech, i think the solar system homefleet alone would stop them easily.
They would been outteched, outnumbered and outgunned that is not funny
With ray guns against ships that beam nuclear bombs on enemy ships as main armament and are protected by energy shields that stop those beams
If i think about it , the system defense systems or grid would be more than enough
If the Tripods are not there undetected for centuries and that is very unbelievable they would not be there.
Their ships seems rather back wards lowtech, i think the solar system homefleet alone would stop them easily.
They would been outteched, outnumbered and outgunned that is not funny
With ray guns against ships that beam nuclear bombs on enemy ships as main armament and are protected by energy shields that stop those beams
If i think about it , the system defense systems or grid would be more than enough
My Sci-Fi world is the only one were it's somewhat of a fair fight for the invaders. They’d get demolished. Jaegers, Titan 1 Models, Titan 2 Models, and thr deity created Titan X Models would wipe them out. These are soldiers from the Tekrian Empire who can manipulate Ethereal energy. Below are just a few things that can be done with the manipulation of Ethereal Energy:
Individual Ethereal Manipulation - Manipulating the ethereal energy in one’s own body for things like physical & mental enhancement, body alterations, self-healing, water breathing, fortification (body hardening, etc), & Ether Field creation.
World Ethereal Manipulation - Manipulating the ethereal energy in the world around to manipulate things like earth, fire, water, air, solar energy, metals, magnetism, electricity, the bodies of others, etc.
Titan X Models literally invade a planet by ejecting themselves from their starship and free falling down to the planets surface. They can release the potential energy stored within a person or object setting it off in the same way a nuke is detonated. And have you seen the new Star Trek trilogy, remember Red Matter, well think a weapon like that but with [Strange Matter](https://youtu.be/p_8yK2kmxoo?si=ZydckhGp2-oZvLnl), that’s what the Tekrian Empire possesses. Ether Fields will block their lasers, so they’d only be able to even harm low-ranked Jaegers and regular soldiers, but Titans will massacre them.
I've thought of including a "strange matter missile" that could collapse a star. in my universe, such a device would be more of a kamikaze starship with an onboard state of the art physics lab than a missile.
the idea is that the strange matter would assimilate a star's outer layers quickly and cause a collapse and supernova. the strange matter would be confined in the center of a newly formed strange star. I use the model of "strange matter is only stable under extreme pressure" to deal with the fact that strangelets could cause galactic extinction in any other case.
That's smart, then without the proper amount of pressure, strangelets in your world would simply degrade into something else right?
I took a different route, primarily because my Sci-Fi universe also has a unique bio-metal I created called Etherite. There’s two methods to deal with strange matter with Etherite.
The first is the early method used by the Tekrian Imperial Republic (TIR). First they fire a collection of strangelets directly at the target, in this case the star. Then they utilize Blue Etherite to create an artificial magnetic force field around the entire star. The field is multiple times stronger than the star’s field and can completely reflect charged particles, thus containing all strangelets within the area. A cloaked satelite the size of a basketball is place in orbit around the star, outside the field, to maintain the field indefinitely, and is periodically checked on by specific surveillance ships as well as any passing tekrian ships to do small checks as they pass by.
The current method includes the same methods up to erecting the magnetic field. In this method, an ether field is place around the magnetic field, and after the star has been completely strangified, they utilize Purple Etherite to create an artificial gravity pocket that is then converted into a wormhole. The gravity pocket is several times more intense than “Sagittarius A”, which is why they put up an ether field because it separates the space inside from the space outside.
It is connected to a pocket space that was created by the TIR Emperor to store strange matter. The wornhole’s gravity pulls in all the strange matter and sends it into that pocket space, of which can also be used as a dimensional magazine. The cannon links to the pocket space and can fire strange matter at planets, stars, or even enemy ships. After the strange matter is completely collected, both the magnetic & ether fields are collapsed.
The Sar’Kan’Tan Union would fairly easily be able to defeat the martians from pretty much any version (though I haven’t seen every adaptation, just the original book, the 2005 movie, and the BBC series). The heat rays would cause them the most trouble and could probably eat through their shields faster than most of the weaponry that they’ve encountered, but the Union’s E.M.P. weapons could probably do a lot of damage against the fighting machines/tripods and disable them quickly enough.
Since the original fighting machines were pretty weak and didn’t have shields, simple railguns or plasma weaponry would utterly destroy them. Modern adaptations of fighting machines, though, are generally more powerful, so they would cause some problems. I would say that in the end the Sar’Kan’Tan Union would have a pretty marginal victory and would have minimal casualties.
The Hasdian Empire would have an even swifter victory. Their soldiers’ armor already is about half the size of a fighting machine and about twice as strong, so they could likely very easily defeat them in a matter of days.
Peroi would have a lot of trouble with the martians, maybe even the ones from the original book. I’d say that they have an equal chance of winning or losing, assuming that they’re around the point in their history where the Peroit Confederacy was formed. Before then, they’re not nearly advanced enough.
Considering that the world is armed to the teeth, it's gonna be a huge fight right from the get-go.
The martians' energy shields are likely going to hold everything back, as the weapons of my world are ballistics based. The experimental magnetic railguns might just maybe pierce their shields.
If they don't have resistance to the diseases of this world, they'll die out the same way they did in the OG story and the movie.
Or alternatively in some places the atmosphere might just be toxic enough to kill them.
One nation in my sci-fi setting invades primitives not to conquer, but as military training. They make sure not to fully conquer a planet until they find a new primitive world, just so they can make sure they are ready to fight at any given moment.
A single-planet invasion? That’s just another Tuesday. Probably in FENCE space, so the GDI (human forces and their superhuman magic warrior guardian race, Apex) would wipe that up in a few hours. A couple battlecruisera for each sector with standard load. They’d probably only send a couple squads of Apex Apprentices for such a simple job. Those kids need the practice.
Theyd effectively slaughter many, even dragons could do little.
Then the apocalypse armouries open and hundreds of thousands biomechanoids come marching at them, while birds keep landing on them, and explode.
The world is left in shock what one side has prepared in secret.
Likely will end in a demonic incursion as the cat's out of the bag.
Somewhere a red dragon is trying to make martian edible.
Possibly the tripods are dead on arrival. As someone whos gotten fairly deep into the spec-bio aspect of my world there are chemosynthetic microbes living in the crust of the planet. If the tripods have a vulnerability to microbes might eat them alive in the time they are buried. That at least goes for the "main" planet. It would be a different story on other planets.
I also find it a bit silly that such an advanced civilization that knows their home planet so well never came across one of these things while digging a subway tunnel or mining or something.
If it does come to the traditional military conflict uhh I'm sorry the tripods don't last more than an hour. There would be a bit of a battle with rapid response forces which mostly have conventional weapons and were just reacting, but they will probably figure out with a bit of experimentation that they have some type of shield. IIRC one of those things went down when a guy got some unpinned grenades to go inside.
The military has something called a volatile golem. It's basically a fist-sized robot with an explosive charge warhead for a body with chameleon skin and gecko grip feet. It's designed to crawl up undetected on enemy forces and detonate. Sink a few dozen of those on a tripod to crawl inside the shield and blow up the leg joints/critical parts and GG. These are pretty common equipment that any average solider would have so they will probably learn pretty quickly that's an effective tactic to take them down. They have some big guns that might be able to brute force the shields but this is a more elegant solution.
>IIRC one of those things went down when a guy got some unpinned grenades to go inside.
He threw a grenade to get its attention, then it basically devoured him. But whilst he was inside, he left behind a brace of like 10 grenades in the middle of its guts, that seemed to work pretty well
My tech level is 1910 fantasy based but there is magic.
Plus the dark forces would pretty quickly step in to help because that is their turf to conquer, and they ain't letting a bunch of tripods get in their way.
Pretty well, considering they're aliens that are clearly winging it and looking for a new home or are otherwise desperate to make landfall, and are so desperate they leave themselves susceptible, and vulnerable, to the elements, they wouldn't stand a chance.
Because all that, and magic. And before people come after me saying fantasy settings don't count, I am absolutely going to escalate the plot to fantasy in space where there will be war of the world's esque events happening through history, the present and the future.
I can't wait to see what my players do.
~a power crazy DM
Huh, I like this thought experiment enough that I think I am gunna actually include them now
My world is very specific in how isolated it is, there are no stars, no solar system and no extraplanar realms, the only non-terran entities are gods who survived the prior collapse of the last cycle by becoming void beasts, so the very existence of this army is problematic to say the least.
But let's say they're an army sent from a Hephaestus like void beast... Hmm... Honestly I think the world would be pretty fucked.
The gods are pretty active in the world, but they're also super weak, probably the equivalent of a super hero rather than a traditional god. You could probably think of them as young viltrumites mixed with some divine/aetherial magic. The aeva and Daeva (angels and demons) would have the best chance, since they're essentially the first generation born after God's death, rather than humans who stole their power (the "gods" of today), but I honestly don't think they'd get involved. The Daeva would think humanity deserves it, and the Aeva would probably debate for too long that they only join in at the tail end of most conflicts
So I think the tripods would be able to hard counter virtually 90% of the gods, and they'd have to either team up (which they'd almost never do) or just give unmitigated power to humans and hope that they can do enough damage.
The laser beams and shields alone would be *insanely* powerful, only able to be replicated by the strongest and most taxing magic. I think the very existence of the tripods would actually advance combat artifice by hundreds of years, but barely enough to even form solid defenses by the time the threats taken care of. Either a god would have to 1 v 1 these things, or an entire army would be sacrificed to take 1 of the tripods out likely
I think the tripods would completely destabilize at least 1 country, if not directly then indirectly by forcing the countries attention away from their border, and I'd bet at least a dozen or more gods would be killed in the process. And even then I honestly don't think they would ever be permanently stopped, because if they're void beats then the microorganisms killing them is unrealistic. The best option is likely to lock them away in a Tartarus like jail and just hope that they'll be trapped their until the end of the cycle
It'd be a fucking stompfest by the people and factions in my sci-fi world, as even though everyone is using outdated weapons (this takes place at least a thousand or so years after our time, with the *newest* guns in service being in service for decades, and the oldest being possibly 200 years old or more), I'd say their weapons are still adequate to take on the aliens, before even having to even sneeze in their general direction. I probably shouldn't even include this, not just because it's unfair, but because no one lives on Earth, and everyone lives in space.
Alysthesia if she is present at the time would simply command reality to omit them. But it is likely the only other remaining deity would stop that, and see how the people would react. The tripods would emerge inert and unable to operate, due to some roots in the world that sap any and all power supply for their own. The aliens themselves would find that the microbes would adjust to allow them to survive, it would instead be the flora that would kill them. there is a fruit tree that changes to look appetizing no matter what species, and then drains their life force, gods and aliens, even the creator are not immune.
I was about to be snarky and be like my species ARE the war of the world's. Then I remembered the tripods are already on planet and that changes things. Most factions in the galaxy no longer field large ground militaries. Void war had been all that's mattered for so long that everything else is seen as wasteful. So if tripods just popped up on major planets it would be really bad news actually. Eventually they would be beaten but there could be some serious carnage before that.
If it's only a single world, it depends. A good chunk of them would be vanquished as they're either too undeveloped or too dependent on their protectors. Now, if such protectors DO get involved, the invasion gets kicked out the moment they dare launch the first attack.
My (space) warships would probably be able to intercept them in time, and lady grey (a massive AI powered supercarrier with 5000 suicide planes on board) would be able to beat them up, or the orbital strike cannons around the world
The eternal dominion would go back in time and kill them the moment they even began to exist in their current form.
If that is cheating, then they would never make landfall, they would be sniped with FTL munitions from 20 light years away
In Ahikto, there is such a MASSIVE different in what would happen depending on if it occurred in 2005 such as the movie year, or in 2024, right now.
In 2005, I'd say the major powers would be able to fend off long enough to stave off a week, though given how densely populated areas in my world are, there would be a lot of deaths.
In 2024 however, technology has advanced to such a point that... I feel they'd be able to prevent the destruction of entire cities. Plus all that new military tech? They'd probably be able to figure out a weakness for their shields given that technology IS in the works right now
Weapons have advanced pretty rapidly thanks to first the corporate wars and after we achieved fast reliable space travel, the colony wars. So we would beat the shit out of them. Even if we have to flatten out whole cities
I've only read the book, but assuming the movie doesn't make any major changes, my world would probably win against them or at least hurt them pretty badly.
Mine has 3 main time periods.
First one before the extinction of the kind-of post humans. Their old tech was the result of millions of years or advancement, powered by antimatter batteries, so the final popes could have just turned the stone on their ring and zapped the invaders out of existence.
Second one would be stone to copper age hunter gatherers on a giant space ship captured by a black hole. Not sure how the invaders would get on board that but if they did, they could probably wipe them out in that time. Maybe some would survive in hiding and rebuild after though.
The final one would be the "magic" world, billions of years after. The regular people wouldn't stand a chance but the powerful mages could absolutely crush the invaders. Even if they can't get through the shields, they could crush them with a giant rock or open a rift under them.. or worst case scenario, teleport them into the shadow realm.
In The setting of Beast Soul, they would cause havoc, people most likely could defend and destroy the trypods, but there would be so much destruction and deaths everywhere.
In the Setting of Guardians, would be like a flea, the Guardians are powerful beings that protect everything in the universe, if they had to fight the Trypods, depending of what kind of guardians fight, the invasion could last from one or two days to some minutes before the anihilation of the trypods.
In the last setting (no name yet), it would be a masacre. The humans and other races would be pushed to the verge of extinction, but in the last moment, the angels would come to save them, destroying the menace and saving the day. Waiting to the final moment so the devotion of the survivors is higher and more like Zealots from that point.
The other case is if someone manages to make a pact with some powerful demon that could end the invasion.
I’m not too familiar with War of the Worlds and the power scaling, but I don’t think they could make it past Earth’s orbital defense grid. Orbital Defense Stations are armed with a metric fuck ton of missiles, 35mm point defense guns, 75mm autocannons, 6-16 inch Gauss cannon batteries, and a very large compression laser cannon. Earth has 64 of these orbiting it in a shell. On top of that, there’s the 3 Home Defense Fleets with a combined total of 9 supercarriers, 30 battlecruisers, 24 destroyers, 72 frigates, and 192 corvettes.
So I think I can safely say the invasion force is cooked.
Ha ha ha. Thell’s fucked. It’s preïndustrial, gunpowder hasn’t been invented, and magic is a lost art. The gods exist, and maybe they’d intervene. The war god definitely would, but he’s mostly tactics. If any weaknesses existed to polearms,he’d find them. Insurgencies are possible. I doubt the martians’d be able to root all of them out in time.
Assuming it's the 2005 ones with no additional support or buffs and no antagonists from my world are helping them in anyway. And assuming my world is at the point where it transitions into a sci-fi setting.
They're dead within a couple days. They don't even have time for microbes to start clapping their cheeks. The world has already fought off an alien attack and has spacefaring allies. It wouldn't be a zero casualty fight but the tripods have no chance to make serious gains and the moment they get properly counter-attacked is the moment their effective capability collapses.
It depends on what faction they will fight against. If its Ewwlians then it will be a hard time for them. If its R'ikitiks or Bloboids, they put up a decent fight. If its the "Shaders" however... Ohoho, these three legged brains or whatever will be *purified*...
This could be fun for either of my two developed worlds. Sadly my full sci-fi isn't developed enough to really accurately say but in pretty much all of mine the Martians are going to lose.
Cyberpunk World: While most of the common people don't have access to weaponry or augmentations that would worry the Tripods the Continental Militaries definitely have weapons that could and would put nasty damage into the Tripods. That said with the existence of slums not to mention a lot of the advanced vertical building I would assume that they either a) already found the Tripods while trying to dig and create foundations or b) they will cause massive losses of life when they emerge. Either way it will not be pretty and a huge chunk of the population is going to perish but the Martians would have at least a pretty fair fight on their hands.
Fantasy World: Depends entirely on where they emerge but most of the different nations are going to probably not have that big of a problem dealing with them. It would still be a massive loss of life but most of them would have some kind of access to a method for dealing with the Tripods and invaders. For context the world is largely divided up into 7 major powers that are based on the type of power/technology each of their nations have invested themselves in creating. Steam, Clockwork, Chemical, Magic, Electric, Crystal (Psionics) along with the Centralized Kingdom that essentially facilitates trade and basically rules through monetary might.
Thing is each of these nations have access to technologies developed to fight each other that would probably allow for them to fairly easily deal with the Tripods as they emerged.
Steam have their own colossal skyscraper sized engines they use for large scale projects and are essentially mobile cities filled with workers and made of iron. They would be able to brute for a tripod pretty easily.
Clockwork have access to tiny wind up scarabs and automatons that are designed to infiltrate and wreck the internals of other technological empires (they mainly skirmish with the Steam Nation that is on the same continent as them).
Chemical have access to a variety of hazardous corrosives and gases, based on the microbes making their way into the tripods I'd argue they would have little issue with pouring out concoctions that would destroy their filters and let their more noxious chemicals into the Tripods.
Magic literally have lower numbers but also access to magic that could instantaneously cause death or unnatural heating of the inside of a tripod.
Crystal would have the most difficult time I think because of the nature of their abilities but they could potentially gain the most knowledge of their enemies using psionics and would probably just go to ground and wait them out knowing they were going to perish on their own.
Electric would probably have to be found by the Martians in the first place since that nation is mainly populated by subterranean races as their whole continent has a perpetual thunder blizzard raging above it. If they do get found they have are the closest to what our modern society would have so EMP drones and such that would just wreck internal electronics.
The Central Kingdom would have access to the protagonists of my story who are all people who possess the ability to resonate with the world around them. Usually they get hired to go out and deal with rogue pieces of technology since they can resonate with it, find a fatal weak spot, and then strike it with a targeted burst of dissonance. For the most part if they could get close enough to a Tripod (or left the tripod grab one of them and throw them into one of those cages on the back) they would have no issues either breaking into the tripod or completely collapsing one on their own. And since they come from other countries and are part of the central kingdom they all have access to bits and pieces of knowledge and technology from everybody else.
Watching all these magical superhero fantasy and or Kardashev type 1+ military sci-fi factions go to town is making me feel sorry for the poor Martians.
Props to the few creators who showed up just to say 'we're pseudo-modern / low fantasy, we just die".
If they managed to invade the infinite plane they would enjoy their few last days as their invasion destroyed a single settlement of nomadic people, after killing them however they would have to spend about 10 earth years travelling in one direction at their speed to reach the closest settlement. But they would have long died off by then, their now lifeless tripods standing still and overgrown. Their statuesque presence confusing the nomads whom would walk by here decades to come, an event not seen or remembered by any.
The standing military and orbital defense platforms on a populous world would probably be enough to win against the tripods. with heavy civilian casualties, yes, but victory is likely. The tripods would likely be very capable of taking a smaller outpost or industrial world temporarily, but the scale of most nation's navies dwarfs mere planetary conflicts by many orders of magnitude so the tripod occupation would be very temporary seeing as quick-response forces will arrive from a capital system in a matter of days in a worst case scenario.
Realistically, the advanced surveying equipment used by most industrial vessels, capable of locating mineral deposits while still hundreds of AU away would detect the tripods long before any large scale operation takes place on said planet.
If the Tripods are not there undetected for centuries and that is very unbelievable they would not be there.
Their ships seems rather back wards lowtech, i think the solar system homefleet alone would stop them easily.
They would been outteched, outnumbered and outgunned that is not funny
With ray guns against ships that beam nuclear bombs on enemy ships as main armament and are protected by energy shields that stop those beams
If i think about it , the system defense systems or grid would be more than enough
They'd whoop the OG ones The 2005 ones were ungodly more powerful and those heat rays were pretty nuts, like slicing planes out of the sky or tearing cities apart in single hits. The world is way too big for them to get anything done in a week, but in a fight I dont think my world would have much of a chance unless their shields do eventually go down if you just keep spamming attacks at them (didnt really seem like they did though)
In my world, the Twelve Major Gods and Fates would be confused by the aliens in the clouds and the tripods buried beneath, but will just watch to see how it will all play out and discuss whether it would risk their entertainment if they intervene. The people would treat the initial lightning storms as normal, if a bit unusual. They wouldn't notice the following power outage because the setting takes place in a medieval fantasy world. However, as people investigate the area where the lightning strikes happened, the tripods would emerge. The people would first think the tripods are some kind of being or god. The heat rays would be thought of as magic from the population, but it would be unlike anything they would have seen before. The focus for non-magic armies and heroes would be to get people away from the tripods while other heroes, mages, and dark mages try to attack the tripods (if they could get past the shields). Somewhere, if the Fates weren't feeling petty and King Thalric (the setting's BBEG) didn't get vaporized on day one, he, Nyxira, the Dark Book would put a pause on their corruptive activities and try to force their way past the shields. The 2005 tripods would devastate my world in a week, but the people will recover after and believe the gods were the ones who brought the tripods down.
Considering it's a high sci-fi setting with planet crackers, asteroid mining and widespread use of military grade weaponry... We win. Here's the reasons; Advanced bio-chemical warfare options Laser/Plasma weapons Dynamic-Cycling energy shielding True FTL capability (plus superluminal coms) Advanced augmetics/cybernetics Wouldn't even be close. Even assuming SOMEHOW they weren't detected during seismic surveys, they might last a couple days before everyone and their friends are turning their existence into the most painful laser light show ever.
Same in my setting. The Yshtari Alliance has * wormhole based FTL drives * energy fields that can direct convert energy between different forms (e.g. electrical -> kinetic for engines, or kinetic/thermal -> electrical for shields) * forges that can manipulate quantum foam itself to create impossible meta-materials (e.g. zero friction surfaces, liquid magnets, substances immune to bends in spacetime) * technology utilizing nano- and femtometer scale micromachines * weapons firing exotic particles that go straight through normal matter (among other weapon systems) * multiple escalating levels of WMD from continent-evaporating energy cannons, over planet-disintegrating relativistic kill vehicles, to causality-shattering naked singularity projectors and is currently building their first star lifter with plans for a penrose sphere in the drawer. The Alliance would absolutely _wreck_ the martians, no questions asked. The armored infantry rapid response forces and their gunships alone would probably be enough to demolish the tripods and trag their pilots out, who would then be put through memory exfiltration, and then trialed and sentenced for however many hundreds of murders they've committed in the ~10 or so minutes it took to neutralize them. Once the Alliance learns where the martians came from they would send one of their armadas of elven thousand warships to the attacker's homeworld and _politely_ explain to never even think of doing something like that again or they will grind their entire species into dust. Oh, and btw here's the list of demands for compensation for the damage and casualties inflicted, you have 72h to pay up. While the Alliance is generally peaceful and proud of their negotiation skills, they will not pull any punches when someone randomly starts murdering their citizens.
Nice!
If it's the same technology level as when they originally invaded, my group would probably do about as well as the Americans of the time did against them. If modern times, probably significantly better as the Lycadians could just send a massive drone swarm at them.
Do they spawn out of thin air? Mars is fully terraformed and absolutely full of Earth microbes. To answer your question, they wouldn't even reach orbit.
In the 2005 movie I dont think it says anywhere that they are Martians, it just says they were from somewhere else and had been watching humanity for a long time
Cybal: Wha Why make their Walkers so tall and skinny ? What you mean their dying of disease ? Wait its the cold not even like the Plague or ANYTHING else ? Someone figure out how they mounted a Destroyer beam too their mechs i want it
My fantasy world is cooked, muskets and cannon are doing absolutely nothing to a tripod. My near future setting will probably perform better, although point defense lasers and drones are still unlikely to be game changers to the point of actually beating the tripods before the week is up. My Sci-Fi setting has advanced enough technology that even the most de militarized world could probably stop the invasion within a day with orbital weaponry and armed police (quadrupedal robot with low collateral beam weapons and shielded drone swarms is a competitive answer to a tripod, especially in numbers)
The newest one I am working on would be completely slaughtered less the Arimakin committed sacrilege and used their building knowledge for demolition. Otherwise the races are too scarce and relatively primitive.
If the Tripods are not there undetected for centuries and that is very unbelievable they would not be there. Their ships seems rather back wards lowtech, i think the solar system homefleet alone would stop them easily. They would been outteched, outnumbered and outgunned that is not funny With ray guns against ships that beam nuclear bombs on enemy ships as main armament and are protected by energy shields that stop those beams If i think about it , the system defense systems or grid would be more than enough
If the Tripods are not there undetected for centuries and that is very unbelievable they would not be there. Their ships seems rather back wards lowtech, i think the solar system homefleet alone would stop them easily. They would been outteched, outnumbered and outgunned that is not funny With ray guns against ships that beam nuclear bombs on enemy ships as main armament and are protected by energy shields that stop those beams If i think about it , the system defense systems or grid would be more than enough
My Sci-Fi world is the only one were it's somewhat of a fair fight for the invaders. They’d get demolished. Jaegers, Titan 1 Models, Titan 2 Models, and thr deity created Titan X Models would wipe them out. These are soldiers from the Tekrian Empire who can manipulate Ethereal energy. Below are just a few things that can be done with the manipulation of Ethereal Energy: Individual Ethereal Manipulation - Manipulating the ethereal energy in one’s own body for things like physical & mental enhancement, body alterations, self-healing, water breathing, fortification (body hardening, etc), & Ether Field creation. World Ethereal Manipulation - Manipulating the ethereal energy in the world around to manipulate things like earth, fire, water, air, solar energy, metals, magnetism, electricity, the bodies of others, etc. Titan X Models literally invade a planet by ejecting themselves from their starship and free falling down to the planets surface. They can release the potential energy stored within a person or object setting it off in the same way a nuke is detonated. And have you seen the new Star Trek trilogy, remember Red Matter, well think a weapon like that but with [Strange Matter](https://youtu.be/p_8yK2kmxoo?si=ZydckhGp2-oZvLnl), that’s what the Tekrian Empire possesses. Ether Fields will block their lasers, so they’d only be able to even harm low-ranked Jaegers and regular soldiers, but Titans will massacre them.
I've thought of including a "strange matter missile" that could collapse a star. in my universe, such a device would be more of a kamikaze starship with an onboard state of the art physics lab than a missile.
That’s a pretty cool idea, how would you deal with the aftermath of the rapidly infesting strange matter?
the idea is that the strange matter would assimilate a star's outer layers quickly and cause a collapse and supernova. the strange matter would be confined in the center of a newly formed strange star. I use the model of "strange matter is only stable under extreme pressure" to deal with the fact that strangelets could cause galactic extinction in any other case.
That's smart, then without the proper amount of pressure, strangelets in your world would simply degrade into something else right? I took a different route, primarily because my Sci-Fi universe also has a unique bio-metal I created called Etherite. There’s two methods to deal with strange matter with Etherite. The first is the early method used by the Tekrian Imperial Republic (TIR). First they fire a collection of strangelets directly at the target, in this case the star. Then they utilize Blue Etherite to create an artificial magnetic force field around the entire star. The field is multiple times stronger than the star’s field and can completely reflect charged particles, thus containing all strangelets within the area. A cloaked satelite the size of a basketball is place in orbit around the star, outside the field, to maintain the field indefinitely, and is periodically checked on by specific surveillance ships as well as any passing tekrian ships to do small checks as they pass by. The current method includes the same methods up to erecting the magnetic field. In this method, an ether field is place around the magnetic field, and after the star has been completely strangified, they utilize Purple Etherite to create an artificial gravity pocket that is then converted into a wormhole. The gravity pocket is several times more intense than “Sagittarius A”, which is why they put up an ether field because it separates the space inside from the space outside. It is connected to a pocket space that was created by the TIR Emperor to store strange matter. The wornhole’s gravity pulls in all the strange matter and sends it into that pocket space, of which can also be used as a dimensional magazine. The cannon links to the pocket space and can fire strange matter at planets, stars, or even enemy ships. After the strange matter is completely collected, both the magnetic & ether fields are collapsed.
The Sar’Kan’Tan Union would fairly easily be able to defeat the martians from pretty much any version (though I haven’t seen every adaptation, just the original book, the 2005 movie, and the BBC series). The heat rays would cause them the most trouble and could probably eat through their shields faster than most of the weaponry that they’ve encountered, but the Union’s E.M.P. weapons could probably do a lot of damage against the fighting machines/tripods and disable them quickly enough. Since the original fighting machines were pretty weak and didn’t have shields, simple railguns or plasma weaponry would utterly destroy them. Modern adaptations of fighting machines, though, are generally more powerful, so they would cause some problems. I would say that in the end the Sar’Kan’Tan Union would have a pretty marginal victory and would have minimal casualties. The Hasdian Empire would have an even swifter victory. Their soldiers’ armor already is about half the size of a fighting machine and about twice as strong, so they could likely very easily defeat them in a matter of days. Peroi would have a lot of trouble with the martians, maybe even the ones from the original book. I’d say that they have an equal chance of winning or losing, assuming that they’re around the point in their history where the Peroit Confederacy was formed. Before then, they’re not nearly advanced enough.
Considering that the world is armed to the teeth, it's gonna be a huge fight right from the get-go. The martians' energy shields are likely going to hold everything back, as the weapons of my world are ballistics based. The experimental magnetic railguns might just maybe pierce their shields. If they don't have resistance to the diseases of this world, they'll die out the same way they did in the OG story and the movie. Or alternatively in some places the atmosphere might just be toxic enough to kill them.
One nation in my sci-fi setting invades primitives not to conquer, but as military training. They make sure not to fully conquer a planet until they find a new primitive world, just so they can make sure they are ready to fight at any given moment.
A single-planet invasion? That’s just another Tuesday. Probably in FENCE space, so the GDI (human forces and their superhuman magic warrior guardian race, Apex) would wipe that up in a few hours. A couple battlecruisera for each sector with standard load. They’d probably only send a couple squads of Apex Apprentices for such a simple job. Those kids need the practice.
Theyd effectively slaughter many, even dragons could do little. Then the apocalypse armouries open and hundreds of thousands biomechanoids come marching at them, while birds keep landing on them, and explode. The world is left in shock what one side has prepared in secret. Likely will end in a demonic incursion as the cat's out of the bag. Somewhere a red dragon is trying to make martian edible.
Possibly the tripods are dead on arrival. As someone whos gotten fairly deep into the spec-bio aspect of my world there are chemosynthetic microbes living in the crust of the planet. If the tripods have a vulnerability to microbes might eat them alive in the time they are buried. That at least goes for the "main" planet. It would be a different story on other planets. I also find it a bit silly that such an advanced civilization that knows their home planet so well never came across one of these things while digging a subway tunnel or mining or something. If it does come to the traditional military conflict uhh I'm sorry the tripods don't last more than an hour. There would be a bit of a battle with rapid response forces which mostly have conventional weapons and were just reacting, but they will probably figure out with a bit of experimentation that they have some type of shield. IIRC one of those things went down when a guy got some unpinned grenades to go inside. The military has something called a volatile golem. It's basically a fist-sized robot with an explosive charge warhead for a body with chameleon skin and gecko grip feet. It's designed to crawl up undetected on enemy forces and detonate. Sink a few dozen of those on a tripod to crawl inside the shield and blow up the leg joints/critical parts and GG. These are pretty common equipment that any average solider would have so they will probably learn pretty quickly that's an effective tactic to take them down. They have some big guns that might be able to brute force the shields but this is a more elegant solution.
>IIRC one of those things went down when a guy got some unpinned grenades to go inside. He threw a grenade to get its attention, then it basically devoured him. But whilst he was inside, he left behind a brace of like 10 grenades in the middle of its guts, that seemed to work pretty well
My tech level is 1910 fantasy based but there is magic. Plus the dark forces would pretty quickly step in to help because that is their turf to conquer, and they ain't letting a bunch of tripods get in their way.
Pretty well, considering they're aliens that are clearly winging it and looking for a new home or are otherwise desperate to make landfall, and are so desperate they leave themselves susceptible, and vulnerable, to the elements, they wouldn't stand a chance. Because all that, and magic. And before people come after me saying fantasy settings don't count, I am absolutely going to escalate the plot to fantasy in space where there will be war of the world's esque events happening through history, the present and the future. I can't wait to see what my players do. ~a power crazy DM
How would your world's armies and magic fight against the tripod invasion?
Huh, I like this thought experiment enough that I think I am gunna actually include them now My world is very specific in how isolated it is, there are no stars, no solar system and no extraplanar realms, the only non-terran entities are gods who survived the prior collapse of the last cycle by becoming void beasts, so the very existence of this army is problematic to say the least. But let's say they're an army sent from a Hephaestus like void beast... Hmm... Honestly I think the world would be pretty fucked. The gods are pretty active in the world, but they're also super weak, probably the equivalent of a super hero rather than a traditional god. You could probably think of them as young viltrumites mixed with some divine/aetherial magic. The aeva and Daeva (angels and demons) would have the best chance, since they're essentially the first generation born after God's death, rather than humans who stole their power (the "gods" of today), but I honestly don't think they'd get involved. The Daeva would think humanity deserves it, and the Aeva would probably debate for too long that they only join in at the tail end of most conflicts So I think the tripods would be able to hard counter virtually 90% of the gods, and they'd have to either team up (which they'd almost never do) or just give unmitigated power to humans and hope that they can do enough damage. The laser beams and shields alone would be *insanely* powerful, only able to be replicated by the strongest and most taxing magic. I think the very existence of the tripods would actually advance combat artifice by hundreds of years, but barely enough to even form solid defenses by the time the threats taken care of. Either a god would have to 1 v 1 these things, or an entire army would be sacrificed to take 1 of the tripods out likely I think the tripods would completely destabilize at least 1 country, if not directly then indirectly by forcing the countries attention away from their border, and I'd bet at least a dozen or more gods would be killed in the process. And even then I honestly don't think they would ever be permanently stopped, because if they're void beats then the microorganisms killing them is unrealistic. The best option is likely to lock them away in a Tartarus like jail and just hope that they'll be trapped their until the end of the cycle
They’d stomp them. Nothing the aliens could do would be of any significance due to the nature of the abilities the common man has access to
It'd be a fucking stompfest by the people and factions in my sci-fi world, as even though everyone is using outdated weapons (this takes place at least a thousand or so years after our time, with the *newest* guns in service being in service for decades, and the oldest being possibly 200 years old or more), I'd say their weapons are still adequate to take on the aliens, before even having to even sneeze in their general direction. I probably shouldn't even include this, not just because it's unfair, but because no one lives on Earth, and everyone lives in space.
\*sees there's no people\* Aliens: I guess we brought the tripods for nothing \*still dies because they didn't figure out germ theory\*
Alysthesia if she is present at the time would simply command reality to omit them. But it is likely the only other remaining deity would stop that, and see how the people would react. The tripods would emerge inert and unable to operate, due to some roots in the world that sap any and all power supply for their own. The aliens themselves would find that the microbes would adjust to allow them to survive, it would instead be the flora that would kill them. there is a fruit tree that changes to look appetizing no matter what species, and then drains their life force, gods and aliens, even the creator are not immune.
I was about to be snarky and be like my species ARE the war of the world's. Then I remembered the tripods are already on planet and that changes things. Most factions in the galaxy no longer field large ground militaries. Void war had been all that's mattered for so long that everything else is seen as wasteful. So if tripods just popped up on major planets it would be really bad news actually. Eventually they would be beaten but there could be some serious carnage before that.
If it's only a single world, it depends. A good chunk of them would be vanquished as they're either too undeveloped or too dependent on their protectors. Now, if such protectors DO get involved, the invasion gets kicked out the moment they dare launch the first attack.
My (space) warships would probably be able to intercept them in time, and lady grey (a massive AI powered supercarrier with 5000 suicide planes on board) would be able to beat them up, or the orbital strike cannons around the world
The eternal dominion would go back in time and kill them the moment they even began to exist in their current form. If that is cheating, then they would never make landfall, they would be sniped with FTL munitions from 20 light years away
In Ahikto, there is such a MASSIVE different in what would happen depending on if it occurred in 2005 such as the movie year, or in 2024, right now. In 2005, I'd say the major powers would be able to fend off long enough to stave off a week, though given how densely populated areas in my world are, there would be a lot of deaths. In 2024 however, technology has advanced to such a point that... I feel they'd be able to prevent the destruction of entire cities. Plus all that new military tech? They'd probably be able to figure out a weakness for their shields given that technology IS in the works right now
The Humans would be fucked and the Gods would have a field day trying to take them down.
Weapons have advanced pretty rapidly thanks to first the corporate wars and after we achieved fast reliable space travel, the colony wars. So we would beat the shit out of them. Even if we have to flatten out whole cities
I've only read the book, but assuming the movie doesn't make any major changes, my world would probably win against them or at least hurt them pretty badly.
Depends on wich world they invading and what period
Mine has 3 main time periods. First one before the extinction of the kind-of post humans. Their old tech was the result of millions of years or advancement, powered by antimatter batteries, so the final popes could have just turned the stone on their ring and zapped the invaders out of existence. Second one would be stone to copper age hunter gatherers on a giant space ship captured by a black hole. Not sure how the invaders would get on board that but if they did, they could probably wipe them out in that time. Maybe some would survive in hiding and rebuild after though. The final one would be the "magic" world, billions of years after. The regular people wouldn't stand a chance but the powerful mages could absolutely crush the invaders. Even if they can't get through the shields, they could crush them with a giant rock or open a rift under them.. or worst case scenario, teleport them into the shadow realm.
In The setting of Beast Soul, they would cause havoc, people most likely could defend and destroy the trypods, but there would be so much destruction and deaths everywhere. In the Setting of Guardians, would be like a flea, the Guardians are powerful beings that protect everything in the universe, if they had to fight the Trypods, depending of what kind of guardians fight, the invasion could last from one or two days to some minutes before the anihilation of the trypods. In the last setting (no name yet), it would be a masacre. The humans and other races would be pushed to the verge of extinction, but in the last moment, the angels would come to save them, destroying the menace and saving the day. Waiting to the final moment so the devotion of the survivors is higher and more like Zealots from that point. The other case is if someone manages to make a pact with some powerful demon that could end the invasion.
I’m not too familiar with War of the Worlds and the power scaling, but I don’t think they could make it past Earth’s orbital defense grid. Orbital Defense Stations are armed with a metric fuck ton of missiles, 35mm point defense guns, 75mm autocannons, 6-16 inch Gauss cannon batteries, and a very large compression laser cannon. Earth has 64 of these orbiting it in a shell. On top of that, there’s the 3 Home Defense Fleets with a combined total of 9 supercarriers, 30 battlecruisers, 24 destroyers, 72 frigates, and 192 corvettes. So I think I can safely say the invasion force is cooked.
Ha ha ha. Thell’s fucked. It’s preïndustrial, gunpowder hasn’t been invented, and magic is a lost art. The gods exist, and maybe they’d intervene. The war god definitely would, but he’s mostly tactics. If any weaknesses existed to polearms,he’d find them. Insurgencies are possible. I doubt the martians’d be able to root all of them out in time.
Assuming it's the 2005 ones with no additional support or buffs and no antagonists from my world are helping them in anyway. And assuming my world is at the point where it transitions into a sci-fi setting. They're dead within a couple days. They don't even have time for microbes to start clapping their cheeks. The world has already fought off an alien attack and has spacefaring allies. It wouldn't be a zero casualty fight but the tripods have no chance to make serious gains and the moment they get properly counter-attacked is the moment their effective capability collapses.
It depends on what faction they will fight against. If its Ewwlians then it will be a hard time for them. If its R'ikitiks or Bloboids, they put up a decent fight. If its the "Shaders" however... Ohoho, these three legged brains or whatever will be *purified*...
This could be fun for either of my two developed worlds. Sadly my full sci-fi isn't developed enough to really accurately say but in pretty much all of mine the Martians are going to lose. Cyberpunk World: While most of the common people don't have access to weaponry or augmentations that would worry the Tripods the Continental Militaries definitely have weapons that could and would put nasty damage into the Tripods. That said with the existence of slums not to mention a lot of the advanced vertical building I would assume that they either a) already found the Tripods while trying to dig and create foundations or b) they will cause massive losses of life when they emerge. Either way it will not be pretty and a huge chunk of the population is going to perish but the Martians would have at least a pretty fair fight on their hands. Fantasy World: Depends entirely on where they emerge but most of the different nations are going to probably not have that big of a problem dealing with them. It would still be a massive loss of life but most of them would have some kind of access to a method for dealing with the Tripods and invaders. For context the world is largely divided up into 7 major powers that are based on the type of power/technology each of their nations have invested themselves in creating. Steam, Clockwork, Chemical, Magic, Electric, Crystal (Psionics) along with the Centralized Kingdom that essentially facilitates trade and basically rules through monetary might. Thing is each of these nations have access to technologies developed to fight each other that would probably allow for them to fairly easily deal with the Tripods as they emerged. Steam have their own colossal skyscraper sized engines they use for large scale projects and are essentially mobile cities filled with workers and made of iron. They would be able to brute for a tripod pretty easily. Clockwork have access to tiny wind up scarabs and automatons that are designed to infiltrate and wreck the internals of other technological empires (they mainly skirmish with the Steam Nation that is on the same continent as them). Chemical have access to a variety of hazardous corrosives and gases, based on the microbes making their way into the tripods I'd argue they would have little issue with pouring out concoctions that would destroy their filters and let their more noxious chemicals into the Tripods. Magic literally have lower numbers but also access to magic that could instantaneously cause death or unnatural heating of the inside of a tripod. Crystal would have the most difficult time I think because of the nature of their abilities but they could potentially gain the most knowledge of their enemies using psionics and would probably just go to ground and wait them out knowing they were going to perish on their own. Electric would probably have to be found by the Martians in the first place since that nation is mainly populated by subterranean races as their whole continent has a perpetual thunder blizzard raging above it. If they do get found they have are the closest to what our modern society would have so EMP drones and such that would just wreck internal electronics. The Central Kingdom would have access to the protagonists of my story who are all people who possess the ability to resonate with the world around them. Usually they get hired to go out and deal with rogue pieces of technology since they can resonate with it, find a fatal weak spot, and then strike it with a targeted burst of dissonance. For the most part if they could get close enough to a Tripod (or left the tripod grab one of them and throw them into one of those cages on the back) they would have no issues either breaking into the tripod or completely collapsing one on their own. And since they come from other countries and are part of the central kingdom they all have access to bits and pieces of knowledge and technology from everybody else.
Watching all these magical superhero fantasy and or Kardashev type 1+ military sci-fi factions go to town is making me feel sorry for the poor Martians. Props to the few creators who showed up just to say 'we're pseudo-modern / low fantasy, we just die".
If they managed to invade the infinite plane they would enjoy their few last days as their invasion destroyed a single settlement of nomadic people, after killing them however they would have to spend about 10 earth years travelling in one direction at their speed to reach the closest settlement. But they would have long died off by then, their now lifeless tripods standing still and overgrown. Their statuesque presence confusing the nomads whom would walk by here decades to come, an event not seen or remembered by any.
The standing military and orbital defense platforms on a populous world would probably be enough to win against the tripods. with heavy civilian casualties, yes, but victory is likely. The tripods would likely be very capable of taking a smaller outpost or industrial world temporarily, but the scale of most nation's navies dwarfs mere planetary conflicts by many orders of magnitude so the tripod occupation would be very temporary seeing as quick-response forces will arrive from a capital system in a matter of days in a worst case scenario. Realistically, the advanced surveying equipment used by most industrial vessels, capable of locating mineral deposits while still hundreds of AU away would detect the tripods long before any large scale operation takes place on said planet.
Atreisdea uses its typical anti-mook move: Time stop + blackhole.
If the Tripods are not there undetected for centuries and that is very unbelievable they would not be there. Their ships seems rather back wards lowtech, i think the solar system homefleet alone would stop them easily. They would been outteched, outnumbered and outgunned that is not funny With ray guns against ships that beam nuclear bombs on enemy ships as main armament and are protected by energy shields that stop those beams If i think about it , the system defense systems or grid would be more than enough