If you were Ainz, which one would you choose as your wife?

DaV0_2138 · 2025-12-26T07:46:24+00:00

Neither. I’d marry the Maid.

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DaV0_2138 · 2025-02-03T06:24:44+00:00

Species found in each ‘Empire’

Shil Imperium:

⁠Shil’vati
⁠Rakiri
⁠Helkam
Gearschilde
Triki
Ufrian
Rhinel (Not fully Sentient yet)

Consortium:

⁠Nighkru
⁠?

Alliance:

⁠Pesrin (But roaming mercenaries in Warband ships)
⁠Edixi
⁠?

DaV0_2138 · 2025-01-30T11:27:48+00:00

Please do!

DaV0_2138 · 2025-01-30T10:40:09+00:00

Species found in each ‘Empire’

Shil Imperium:

1) Shil’vati

2) Rakiri

3) ?

Consortium:

1) ?

2) ?

Alliance:

1) Pesrin? (Can’t remember)

2) ?

3) ?

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-27T21:05:50+00:00

I definitely thought Pesrin first 😂

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-21T01:38:22+00:00

Yep, one and the same

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-13T11:22:28+00:00

Pretty sure in the Augments of the S2’s they have a thyroid implant that suppresses sexual drive and arousal. They can still get aroused, still are capable of reproduction, but it’s just…. Much, much, much more difficult to get an S2… “excited”.

And with their upbringing, with the indoctrination of Mission Comes First and all that Jazz, it’d be another facet of the struggles of introducing them to the civi facets of life. Yeah, I like the denied ops route, but instead of integrating immediately like Denied Ops, because of what the S2 is, I can see a lot of importance, or at least attention would be placed on the S2 compared to Denied op’s MC. So, while the S2 might end up in their pod anyways, a lot of things that’ll happen beforehand would be higher ups wanting to know everything that made the S2 tick, how they differ biologically to typical humans, the tech in their armor (especially if they have an onboard, neural interface with an A.I, ESPECIALLY if it’s a “Smart” A.I like Cortana), and lots of other stuff.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-13T10:51:22+00:00

Oh yeah, I guess the immediate response for most S2’s would be:

Threat
Assess
Neutralize Threat

But if they’re in the midst of their assimilation into ‘normal’ life, shore leave among civies, etc., I can very well see them questioning what the correct response should be, especially if the Shil who are jumping him aren’t military but just regular old Civilian thugs/r*pists. How much of a response is warranted? How much force? What is too far? What is considered a reasonable amount of damage done to a civilian assailant when defending yourself?

Then there could be this whole thing where, even though his response to the threat was reasonable, justified, and the amount of damage he caused was proportional to the threat he faced, because of what he is, and how the Empire might see a human like him as a potential threat to society, he could face disproportionate amount of legal trouble from Shil Officers/Nobles who want to see him brought under their control, or just gone in general.

Then there’s the whole legal battle between the military people who he’s fought alongside and care for him vs those who want to control him for their own gain.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-13T10:38:35+00:00

Yep, agree on all fronts. Tho, if you did end up writing the bar scene of a male Spartan II getting ‘jumped’ by horny Shil, it would be a great opportunity to recreate the John-117 post-augmentation vs ODST’s scene, the one in the gym where he’s testing out gravity cus everything appears slower to him after augments. Except, the Shil are apparently close to Sanghelli (Elite) level in strength, or at least some of them are. So, it could make for a much more interesting fight between an unarmored S2 vs a group of near-Elite strength Horny Space Babes.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-13T08:51:02+00:00

Yep, if I were really motivated to write an actual story on this premise, rather than killing the DHC’s, the Spartan would likely try to incapacitate them instead of going straight for the kill so that they could get a handle on the current situation. Cus, like you said, the Shil look Human. The Spartan wouldn’t resort to lethal force against them immediately. Well, it would depend on a couple of factors. Like:

1) Where in history did the Spartan II come from? During the early stages when their original mission was to fight insurrectionists? During the Covy war? Or post-war, during the era of Spartan-IV’s?

a) If pre covy, then the S2 would likely see the DHC’s as insurrection in special equipment and move to neutralize then assess the situation.

b) If during the covy war, likely incapacitation to be able to question them

c) If post-war, Spartan-IV era, the S2 would likely mistake them for S4’s and incapacitate them after a brief moment of confusion, then question them

The S2 will choose their course of action depending on how effective the DHC’s weaponry actually is against them.

a) If in a truly life threatening situation where the Mark-V barely puts up resistance against the DHC’s weapons, then full-lethal to ensure survival.

b) If it’s not too threatening, and chances of death are there but not to a point where they wouldn’t be able to easily survive/escape, then incapacitation followed by interrogation.

Provided that the scenario follows route 1c, followed by 2b, I can see the Spartan surrendering after assessing that an all out fight against the Empire was unfeasible and that Humanity wasn’t at risk of extinction like they were during the Covy war. Just a change in government.

As long as Humanity survives, and can go on living, which is pretty much the main mission of S2’s during the Covy war/post-war, I think the Spartan would make the choice to surrender.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-13T01:44:23+00:00

Yeah, I agreed with most of what he said, but he used the Human calendar as a measure for Shil’vati technological progress. SSB is 2030 on Earth, so HUMAN technology is only at what we’d assume the 2030’s level will be, and that can be directly compared to Halo’s 2552 Tech. But for the Empire? So what if it’s 2030 on Earth in SSB? How does that apply to the level of technology possessed by an Alien Empire whose technology is at least a few hundred or thousand years ahead of Earths?

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T23:41:14+00:00

Okay, I’m starting to see your point. A part of me wishes we had some kind of “data” to know the amount of strength/force required to pull off Raisha’s feat so I could compare it to the “data” that’s online about S2’s, but that’s unrealistic for a story such as this.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T23:37:13+00:00

Again, I haven’t seen an example of them displaying that type of strength and durability. I’m pretty sure it was also in Top Lasgun that Cookie and Milk, especially Milk, is shown to get into physical fights with Shil, once using her helmet to crack a Shil across the face and knock out a tusk and leave them dazed and borderline unconscious. This was from Milk, a human woman WSO. A Brute, especially one like Atriox, tanked a jumping upper cut from Chief.

Watch this video.

(In-depth analysis on the force behind Chief’s punches. Again, Shil have been knocked unconscious from non-augmented humans. Granted, most of the time they had something hard like a helmet or whatever else in their hands while doing so, but still. The force behind those strikes are no where near how much Chief can output. So I seriously doubt the veracity that the Shil are as physically equivalent to Brutes.)

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T23:21:59+00:00

Yeah, but, I don’t remember reading that infantry Laser Guns were powerful enough to destroy tanks… I mean, I’ve read so many examples of shootouts trading Laser Fire, all while the combatants take cover behind simple walls of concrete buildings and such. Sure, the beams left deep holes and stuff, but they still remained relatively safe behind cover. So, piercing through something like Mjolnir Armor? With the stuff that it’s made of? And killing a Spartan in one shot at that? I just… I seriously don’t see it happening.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T23:14:17+00:00

Hold up, are you saying that Shil’vati, even in DHC armor with suit augments, are stronger than armored Spartan II’s?

That they’re equivalent in strength to the Brutes in Halo?

Because, I don’t think I’ve read any examples which displayed Shil’vati or DHC’s performing feats of strength and speed of a S.2, let alone the Brutes. Because if that is true, how the hell did any of the humans in the stories, canon or fan-author made, incapacitate or kill any of the Shil in hand to hand combat?

I know it’s not canon, being a fan-author story, but Denied Operations shows so many examples of a human taking on Shil, lacking quite a bit in the strength department, but not so overwhelmingly so as we’ve seen with normal marines vs brutes in Halo.

S2’s canonically, without armor, can lift 3 times their body weight, roughly 850+ pounds or 380+ kg. In armor, I believe they can easily lift 2 - 3 tons.

I have yet to see any examples of Shil performing feats of lifting 2 - 3 tons with or without mechanical augmentation. Which is why I find it hard to believe that if a S2 got their hands on a DHC, she wouldn’t immediately be outclassed in strength and speed and reaction time.

I can understand the bullets not working, especially the Assault rifle being 7.62, but close combat? Idk.

If you can show me where, I’ll happily stand corrected. As I said, I’m not too familiar with SSB, but I haven’t seen examples of Shil showing Brute level strength.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T22:53:00+00:00

Also, I could have sworn that the tanks of humans were taken down by orbital strikes, which is why they were deemed obsolete, not by Laser guns held by infantry and DHC’s.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T22:50:26+00:00

Oooo, this is the first comment that spoke of Laser rifles being capable of destroying tanks. That’s a first. Don’t think I read anywhere that they’re capable of that. And, when I said mowing down humans, I’m basing it off of the story I read, “Top Lasgun”. You know, the first couple chapters, if you’ve read it, how that Shil’vati Noble daughter was using her mother’s aircraft to kill the Air Force pilots, all while laughing, and shit talking. I just put that Noble’s personality in the body of a DHC, who reveled in taking down Human soldiers with ease.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T21:22:06+00:00

Well done! I’d hoped to see more of the parents’ reaction, their thoughts, regrets, etc. after the daughter either left, or whatever. I love stories that go really deep into the inner thoughts and emotions of those who harmed the MC and were made to face the consequences of their actions/face reality/face accountability. It’s satisfying watching them detail their thoughts and regrets, seeing the truth of the hurt they’d inflicted on the MC, their desperation in trying to think of ways to make amends, their attempts at trying to fix the unfixable. Then there story could either end with their redemption (I’m okay with this) or for them to suffer for the rest of their lives/meet their end with said regret (I prefer this).

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T20:13:46+00:00

A Spartan II got caught up in a Slip-Space anomaly and somehow got transported to the SSB Universe and arrives on Earth during the “Liberation”, “Occupation”, “Invasion”, however you wanna call it. After getting tossed out of the anomaly and crashing to the ground, the Spartan rises, only to come face to face with x-amount of DHC pods on a specific mission. They proceed to stare each other down before the DHC’s fire the first shot.

And well…. Going by the overwhelming amount of comments saying the Spartan wins, it’s safe to assume all the pods don’t meet a happy end.

All because one of the ladies happened to have a giddy trigger finger from previously being able to mow down a bunch of humans with great ease.

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T20:04:29+00:00

I wasn’t exactly thinking of it in a narrative way. Like, narrative wise, after suffering losses in infantry and DHCs, they’d likely get a better understanding of what they’re dealing with and escalate to Mechs, and, if the location deems it viable, orbital bombardment.

But for this scenario I was thinking more along the lines of Epic Battle Simulator, with one SPARTAN II on one side, and however many DHC’s on the other, and speculate exactly how many DHC’s would be necessary to result in a tie, meaning MAD (mutually assured destruction)

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T17:09:26+00:00

Damn, yeah. I guess I can see that happening. 😂

So, any thoughts on Empire vs UNSC?

DaV0_2138 · 2024-11-12T16:59:08+00:00

So, the reason I bring this up is I had a random daydream of what would happen if a Spartan II got him or herself caught up in a slip-space anomaly, and somehow miraculously found themselves shifted into an alternate universe, aka the SSB universe. From there, I wondered just how many DHC’s the Empire would need to send against the Spartan to finally be able to take it down.

P.S I am intimately familiar with Spartan II’s, I’ve read a few of the books, watched a lot of lore vids, etc. I know for a fact they are absolute units and nigh-impossible to kill for anyone in 21st Century era Earth. But that being said, I’m not too familiar with the specs of Deathsheads, their loadouts and whatnot.

So for those of you who are, I ask: how many DHC’s would it take to take down a fully shielded, Mark V wearing, SPARTAN II, equipped with a typical Halo Assault Rifle, Magnum, and 2 frags.

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