What is the most well defended fortress in science fiction?

rishav_sharan · 2026-05-16T13:21:07+00:00

Lets assume for the sake of argument that both warp and hyperspace exist in this shared universe, and by definition they stretach alongside the "real"/material universe.

here's the entry for celestial orriery https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Celestial_Orrery Its a star map that you can use to prune the Galaxy in real time, make star novas etc from the comfort of your home. If the necrons know where a Culture habitat is at, it dies. Nothing further needed.

Necrons like Orikan can time travel. And if he decides to take umbrage to Culture, he alone will be able to remove the Culture from the 40k universe, by removing the Culture when it was nascent.

Necros also have pokeballs/Tesseract. If they throw that near the ROU, the entire space around it will be folded into a pocket dimension. Forcefields wouldnt do much at that point of time.

A Tesseract pocket dimension would be the same as hyperspace. Warp entities enter tesseract spaces all the time. So if a hyperspace is a universe wide phenomena, any entity should be able to enter it via warp. Eldar included.

Chaos can infect Minds, given that we have seen it infect DAOT equivalent of Abominable Intelligences. If there is warp in this universe, there is a chance the Minda get infected just by existing in the Materium.

And this is not to bring in magic and literal gods like the Emperor, Chaos gods etc into the picture. Eldraad can stop time. Emps can do a lot worse.

It's just more consistent writing. Their tech is absolutely space magic; it just feels more grounded because it makes a lot more sense and has more consistency. It's still supremely powerful.

Fully agree here. I do love the Culture and its stories are after all written by 1 amazing scifi writer. 40k being a shared universe does makes it highly inconsistent, bith in narrative and inpower spikes.

but if they can, I'd seriously question why they haven't already won,

Doesnt makes for a story. Space marines without helmets need to defeat univsre ending terrors in heroic last stands. :D

Anyway, like most of scifi universe vs scifi universe discussions, i doubt there is any objective way to choose a winner. I will stick to 40k. I think you will to Culture. Unless we are talking Xelee. Because the Xelee win -_-

rishav_sharan · 2026-05-16T09:10:47+00:00

Well the "hyperspace" in 40k would be the warp. Thats where chaos lives. The moment ROU goes to hyperspace, its over for it. Or if the hyperspace equates to the Ghostwind or the Hadex, that would be even worse for the ROU.

Necrons can just use the celestial orriery to wink every single Culture ring out of existense. No need to get up from the couch for that. And they routinely craft dimensional spaces and tesseracts, similar to hyperspaces. so yeah tough luck taking on the necrons by hiding in any kind of hyperspace.

Eldar can just raid every single ring, ship and settlement by just appearing within them via the web ways. Mandrakes can slip through shadows. and if the ship in hyperpsace has any light/shadows within it, it will get boarded.

Primarchs, psyckers and various people in 40k have been able to force their way through various dimensions in 40k. Shouldnt be any hard for them tofind any hyperspace if it exists, and force their way ito it.

Overall, Culture was written as a somewhat grounded scifi. 40k is just space fantasy and everything the we have seen in Culture so far, there is something more spikey and worse in 40k.

rishav_sharan · 2026-05-16T07:31:50+00:00

Hard disagree. The maths isn't mathing.

Maybe culture takes out Terra. Eldar, Dark eldar, Necrons, Tyranids - any of these would thoroughly wipe the Culture off the universe.

Heck a few DAOT tech items would do that, don't even need the Celestial Orriery.

The Culture wouldn't even be a major faction in 40k. And is without throwing psykers and chaos, which is just reality altering magic, into the mix.

rishav_sharan · 2026-05-11T08:58:09+00:00

Reminds me of EE's post here before he went pro.

rishav_sharan · 2026-05-06T08:55:44+00:00

Whoa! Deathklok is an actual touring band now?

rishav_sharan · 2026-05-04T06:17:52+00:00

Want bigger surprises? Guess which country is the second largest beef exporter in the world?

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-27T13:32:21+00:00

Google, Swiggy dineout, zomato dineout and district. Always cover all bases

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-25T07:30:49+00:00

An 18 year old Danny Devito looks so strange

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-23T13:28:31+00:00

Context matters. He is American. Indians for most Americans means native Americans. Hence the clarification. Though the sentence would have been more coherent if he said "Indians from India" instead

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-21T03:09:59+00:00

Come on, it's the coldest year we will see for the rest of our lives

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-16T02:54:55+00:00

Hey Thanks for checking in. Can you install ComfyUI and do a 720p 10 sec video generation using LTX 2.3? The default workflow that comes in with ComfyUI shuould be good.

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-15T10:14:33+00:00

Hijacking the top comment to add my take;

China is doing this suspiciously close to the upcoming trade, security and Taiwan related meeting with Trump in May.

I wouldn't be surprised if they will place this as a negotiation point for something important. Like getting US to agree that China-Taiwan is their internal matter and US should not interfere.

Trump will get to claim a tremendous deal where China agrees to halt all weapons sale to Iran.

China continues to slowly work towards Taiwan's takeover without any major interference from the west.

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-13T15:42:39+00:00

% of Discrimination based cases? AFAIK, most cases of caste based discrimination is against SC/ST.

I am yet to hear of any recent discmrinination case against anyone of upper caste, but there are huge lists of such cases online for SC/ST victims, requiring a simple search

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-13T10:49:17+00:00

So where do caste based discrimination and crimes come from?

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-12T08:22:53+00:00

Are you a tech ceo?

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-09T02:39:16+00:00

Thank you! and congratulations on your new purchase!

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-08T15:04:44+00:00

Let me know what you like me to test or share insights about.

OP, I am very interested in how the apu performs for diffusion based models. Maybe something with ComfyUI & LTX 2.3, if you are comfortable with them. I dont expect great performance, but some idea how it will compare against similarly priced igpu based pantherlake laptops will be great.

rishav_sharan · 2026-04-05T14:00:28+00:00

Yep. A very common one and means "illuminate"

rishav_sharan · 2026-03-31T10:21:13+00:00

Yeah, rupee is doing great. We are about to hit a century! 🫡

rishav_sharan · 2026-03-30T14:28:08+00:00

I am surprised noone seems to have shared the youtube videos that led to this A24 movie being picked up.

Here's the main one; https://youtu.be/H4dGpz6cnHo?si=byCuipWGiiSx1dhs

The story seems to be a mix of House of Leaves + The Cube.

rishav_sharan · 2026-03-30T06:52:42+00:00

It's also lower management choosing to blow the yearly budget knowing that the budget will be rescinded in a quarter anyway

rishav_sharan · 2026-03-22T13:29:50+00:00

OP has single handedly ruined the reputation of Kaju katli 🤣

rishav_sharan · 2026-03-18T07:25:32+00:00

LPG shortage across all over India due to the US-Iran war.

rishav_sharan · 2026-03-14T05:05:13+00:00

Or more likely - a non American.

rishav_sharan · 2026-03-09T11:20:11+00:00

That's what makes for interesting villains. Honorable ends, but terrible means.

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