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keir451 wrote:Nothing fancy here, just the Question.
How would YOU the GM's & Gamers of Rfits, kill the Xiticix? Be as verbose or as simple as you want.
Balabanto wrote:I would plug the hives up with whipped cream. Whipped Cream is too heavy to fly in, too airy to float in, and the Xiticix breathe through their skin. They would all drown in the space of 24 hours, confused and unable to survive.
RoadWarriorFWaNK wrote:one at a time. with my bare hands.
If you pulled THAT off you'd be set for life, AFTER you fought off every punk who would try to kill you to gain their reputation. Jorel wrote:I'm looking for suggestions for good Xiticix repellent.
Its not necessary to kill them though I'd like that better.
Zapper specialized in bug killing.
or
(Un)Natural Predators like giant birds and spiders.
Maybe some type of frequency to keep them at bay.
Keep them out of a radius of a few hundred feet to a mile or so.
Hope this isn't outta line with the OP.
Holy BLEEP! Why didn't I think of that- It's brilliant!rat_bastard wrote:The "Egg Popper" robots from Triax 2 can be re-purposed to spray the egg chambers with Napalm P and ignite the entire place. That would severely wound a hive.
Shark_Force wrote:Jorel wrote:I'm looking for suggestions for good Xiticix repellent.
Its not necessary to kill them though I'd like that better.
Zapper specialized in bug killing.
or
(Un)Natural Predators like giant birds and spiders.
Maybe some type of frequency to keep them at bay.
Keep them out of a radius of a few hundred feet to a mile or so.
Hope this isn't outta line with the OP.
i'm told by very reliable sources that dead xiticix are the kind most likely to leave you alone
johnkretzer wrote:4) a Army of giant venus fly traps
Armorlord wrote:Holy BLEEP! Why didn't I think of that- It's brilliant!rat_bastard wrote:The "Egg Popper" robots from Triax 2 can be re-purposed to spray the egg chambers with Napalm P and ignite the entire place. That would severely wound a hive.
Kudos to the Ratmeister.
Just using the anti-egg bots in general would be a great tactic to adapt against the Xiticix. I feel bad for small animal life in the hivelands once they go swarming out to crush this enemy to the hive though.
Zerebus wrote:In a thread a while back I suggested that a handful of high level Earth warlocks could summon elementals to wreck absolute havoc to a subterranean hive.
keir451 wrote:Nothing fancy here, just the Question.
How would YOU the GM's & Gamers of Rfits, kill the Xiticix? Be as verbose or as simple as you want.
Lenwen wrote:keir451 wrote:Nothing fancy here, just the Question.
How would YOU the GM's & Gamers of Rfits, kill the Xiticix? Be as verbose or as simple as you want.
Water..
Flood them out...
Earth is covered in 78% water .. Easiest way..
rat_bastard wrote:Lenwen wrote:keir451 wrote:Nothing fancy here, just the Question.
How would YOU the GM's & Gamers of Rfits, kill the Xiticix? Be as verbose or as simple as you want.
Water..
Flood them out...
Earth is covered in 78% water .. Easiest way..
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Wooly wrote:Dust off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
The Xiticix hives have no defense against modern long range missiles.
Cracked.coms 6 New Weapons That You Literally Cannot Hide From wrote:Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries
If someone told you that "rocket powered flaming rubber balls" were on the enemy's list of **** they were going to try and kill you with, you might be in danger of throwing out your back from all the maniacal laughter that would ensue. Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries are just that, though, and while the concept sounds retarded, the reality is about as close as the real world will ever get to being directed by Roland Emmerich.
The idea is to launch lots of hollow balls of rubberized rocket fuel with a hole in one side, and light them on fire.. They become rocket-powered fireballs that bounce around inside the building, killing everything near them in the most cartoonish yet horrifying way possible.
The thing is, the flaming balls don't actually have to hit you. The concept works something like a martini shaker; the reason the shaker cools your delicious drink faster than simply mixing in ice cubes is because they move around the liquid inside, cooling a higher volume in a much shorter time. With the KFI, you get essentially the same thing, except the ice cubes are flaming balls that raise the ambient air temperature to over 1000 degrees in seconds, not to mention knocking down doors and spreading the same horror throughout the building.
But this is some weird-ass DARPA project that will probably never move beyond the inventor's brain, right? Nope, published documents show that they have been tested, successfully. Is there a word for the emotion you feel when something is really really cool and really really horrible at the same time? If not, we need to invent it soon.
Shark_Force wrote:rat_bastard wrote:Lenwen wrote:keir451 wrote:Nothing fancy here, just the Question.
How would YOU the GM's & Gamers of Rfits, kill the Xiticix? Be as verbose or as simple as you want.
Water..
Flood them out...
Earth is covered in 78% water .. Easiest way..
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
yeah lenwen. don't be silly.
by composition, there's a *lot* more molten iron and nickel, and even more molten rock, on this planet than there is water. so clearly the *easiest* way is to simply dump massive quantities of molten rock, iron, and nickel on them until they die.
(or, to put it another way: yes, there's enough water on the earth to flood the xiticix and drown them... provided the area is somehow enclosed, which would most likely be close enough to impossible to not matter, and also provided the xiticix don't fly over it, and that they don't break the enclosure, and that the xiticix can't swim, and that their eggs will be killed by the water, and that you somehow manage to even get all that water into position... but that's an awful lot of rather far-fetched assumptions to make. the sheer logistics of getting enough water into the area to drown the xiticix without them responding is truly mind-boggling)
Zer0 Kay wrote:Wooly wrote:Dust off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
The Xiticix hives have no defense against modern long range missiles.
Sure they do. Missile coming it a bunch of the swarm sacrifice them self as a bug shield.
rat_bastard wrote:Cracked.coms 6 New Weapons That You Literally Cannot Hide From wrote:Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries
If someone told you that "rocket powered flaming rubber balls" were on the enemy's list of **** they were going to try and kill you with, you might be in danger of throwing out your back from all the maniacal laughter that would ensue. Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries are just that, though, and while the concept sounds retarded, the reality is about as close as the real world will ever get to being directed by Roland Emmerich.
The idea is to launch lots of hollow balls of rubberized rocket fuel with a hole in one side, and light them on fire.. They become rocket-powered fireballs that bounce around inside the building, killing everything near them in the most cartoonish yet horrifying way possible.
The thing is, the flaming balls don't actually have to hit you. The concept works something like a martini shaker; the reason the shaker cools your delicious drink faster than simply mixing in ice cubes is because they move around the liquid inside, cooling a higher volume in a much shorter time. With the KFI, you get essentially the same thing, except the ice cubes are flaming balls that raise the ambient air temperature to over 1000 degrees in seconds, not to mention knocking down doors and spreading the same horror throughout the building.
But this is some weird-ass DARPA project that will probably never move beyond the inventor's brain, right? Nope, published documents show that they have been tested, successfully. Is there a word for the emotion you feel when something is really really cool and really really horrible at the same time? If not, we need to invent it soon.
Now Imagine, some CS robot techs take a look at the schematics of the "Egg Popper" drones and decide that while that is all well and good they need a cheap efficient method of killing Xitixix. So they design the CS "Bug cooker" drone that look something like a golf ball sized skull with 6 bony legs that are designed to climb inside a hive and go sufficiently deep inside so they can all await the kill signal. Once the kill signal is delivered thousands of drones crack open their skulls and ignite rubberized MDC napalm balls which shoot around inside the the hive, burning everything.
Nits die, larva die, eggs die, warriors, nannies, workers and queens have their sensory organs burned off and the mold that grows throughout the hive that feeds the colony is incinerated. Then wave two marches in, Custom designed 4 armed skelebots made for climbing and leaping march into the hive, two arms are barbed climbing hands and two are weapons, plasma flamers for filling entire tunnels with killing flame and a pulse laser for precision killing. Their enemies are blind, their antennas are charred off, their scent organs are clogged with the overwhelming stink of dead bugs and ash and tireless merciless death is marching through to them killing bugs en mass.
jhwrench wrote:rat_bastard wrote:The "Egg Popper" robots from Triax 2 can be re-purposed to spray the egg chambers with Napalm P and ignite the entire place. That would severely wound a hive.
Thats the best idea ever!
Shark_Force wrote:by composition, there's a *lot* more molten iron and nickel, and even more molten rock, on this planet than there is water. so clearly the *easiest* way is to simply dump massive quantities of molten rock, iron, and nickel on them until they die.
Shark_Force wrote:yes, there's enough water on the earth to flood the xiticix and drown them... provided the area is somehow enclosed
Shark_Force wrote:but that's an awful lot of rather far-fetched assumptions to make.
Lenwen wrote:Shark_Force wrote:by composition, there's a *lot* more molten iron and nickel, and even more molten rock, on this planet than there is water. so clearly the *easiest* way is to simply dump massive quantities of molten rock, iron, and nickel on them until they die.
Not talking about "IN" the earth .. I am talking about "ON" the Earth, since you want to get technical ..Shark_Force wrote:yes, there's enough water on the earth to flood the xiticix and drown them... provided the area is somehow enclosed
Wrong, the main parts of the Hive's are underground.. The Hives are already sealed .. from the water tables outside of the hives .. If you want to flood the hives its as easy as getting enough water to where you want it to be. Logisitical nightmare for a tech based sociaty to be sure .. but still a very real possability ..
So technically .. the hives are already sealed for the flood due to being dry from the current water tables at their current depth ..Shark_Force wrote:but that's an awful lot of rather far-fetched assumptions to make.
The Xit's breath .. aka they can drown .. perhaps the eggs wont drown till after they have hatched, (certainly a possability) but they would be utterly crushed being down that far underwater .. ever 30ft of water and you double the Atmosphere pressure .. aka you double the amount of PSI in the given chamber ..
Taking into account the Towers can be up to 1500ft high, and the underground tunnel systems are literally dozens of times deeper then the towers are tall.. with 1500ft, alone of water pressure .. those eggs would be dead as it is .
Now take 1500 and times it by at LEAST 5-10x for the towers being 5-10x smaller then the Hive is deep, and you can literally see not only could you drown most of the Xit, but you would crush any and all who could not escape ..
Thank you for your time, Was a fun lil debate.
Shark_Force wrote:Lenwen wrote:Shark_Force wrote:by composition, there's a *lot* more molten iron and nickel, and even more molten rock, on this planet than there is water. so clearly the *easiest* way is to simply dump massive quantities of molten rock, iron, and nickel on them until they die.
Not talking about "IN" the earth .. I am talking about "ON" the Earth, since you want to get technical ..Shark_Force wrote:yes, there's enough water on the earth to flood the xiticix and drown them... provided the area is somehow enclosed
Wrong, the main parts of the Hive's are underground.. The Hives are already sealed .. from the water tables outside of the hives .. If you want to flood the hives its as easy as getting enough water to where you want it to be. Logisitical nightmare for a tech based sociaty to be sure .. but still a very real possability ..
So technically .. the hives are already sealed for the flood due to being dry from the current water tables at their current depth ..Shark_Force wrote:but that's an awful lot of rather far-fetched assumptions to make.
The Xit's breath .. aka they can drown .. perhaps the eggs wont drown till after they have hatched, (certainly a possability) but they would be utterly crushed being down that far underwater .. ever 30ft of water and you double the Atmosphere pressure .. aka you double the amount of PSI in the given chamber ..
Taking into account the Towers can be up to 1500ft high, and the underground tunnel systems are literally dozens of times deeper then the towers are tall.. with 1500ft, alone of water pressure .. those eggs would be dead as it is .
Now take 1500 and times it by at LEAST 5-10x for the towers being 5-10x smaller then the Hive is deep, and you can literally see not only could you drown most of the Xit, but you would crush any and all who could not escape ..
Thank you for your time, Was a fun lil debate.
ok, you completely missed my point, which is that the simple act of transporting the obscenely large quantities of water makes the idea that this is the easiest way to do anything laughable. yes, water is plentiful. so are many other things. that doesn't mean that it's a trivial task to just pick up an ocean and drop it on the xiticix.
MillionDollarHatGuy wrote:Not sure how this would work.
Couldn't you flood the tunnel system, and then run an electrical current through it?
MillionDollarHatGuy wrote:No idea. Im just curious if my idea would even work.
I prefer the shoot and scoot method myself.
Shark_Force wrote:Lenwen wrote:Shark_Force wrote:by composition, there's a *lot* more molten iron and nickel, and even more molten rock, on this planet than there is water. so clearly the *easiest* way is to simply dump massive quantities of molten rock, iron, and nickel on them until they die.
Not talking about "IN" the earth .. I am talking about "ON" the Earth, since you want to get technical ..Shark_Force wrote:yes, there's enough water on the earth to flood the xiticix and drown them... provided the area is somehow enclosed
Wrong, the main parts of the Hive's are underground.. The Hives are already sealed .. from the water tables outside of the hives .. If you want to flood the hives its as easy as getting enough water to where you want it to be. Logisitical nightmare for a tech based sociaty to be sure .. but still a very real possability ..
So technically .. the hives are already sealed for the flood due to being dry from the current water tables at their current depth ..Shark_Force wrote:but that's an awful lot of rather far-fetched assumptions to make.
The Xit's breath .. aka they can drown .. perhaps the eggs wont drown till after they have hatched, (certainly a possability) but they would be utterly crushed being down that far underwater .. ever 30ft of water and you double the Atmosphere pressure .. aka you double the amount of PSI in the given chamber ..
Taking into account the Towers can be up to 1500ft high, and the underground tunnel systems are literally dozens of times deeper then the towers are tall.. with 1500ft, alone of water pressure .. those eggs would be dead as it is .
Now take 1500 and times it by at LEAST 5-10x for the towers being 5-10x smaller then the Hive is deep, and you can literally see not only could you drown most of the Xit, but you would crush any and all who could not escape ..
Thank you for your time, Was a fun lil debate.
ok, you completely missed my point, which is that the simple act of transporting the obscenely large quantities of water makes the idea that this is the easiest way to do anything laughable. yes, water is plentiful. so are many other things. that doesn't mean that it's a trivial task to just pick up an ocean and drop it on the xiticix.
keir451 wrote:I, personally, love the kinetic kill weapon (aka Rod from God) fired from a bout L5 (Lagrange 5) right into the midst, sinking it low enough to flood the lowest of warrens and drown them all.
taalismn wrote:Start a new franchise...KFX...Kentucky-Fried Xiticix...I pay whoever of you comes up with a solution that nets me the most usable meat, plus anybody who brings in their own fresh(killed) Xiticix gets 75% off on the preparation(and I'll throw in the large drink and side dish for free).
Come on now they're bugs everyone knows that it would be more like sea food like Red Xiticix, Joe's Xiticix Shack, Long John Prosek's, Captain X's Hivefood, and of course keir451 wrote:Get a bunch of Water Warlocks to open a series of Rifts to the Elemental Plane of Water over the Xiticix hives.
Shark_Force wrote:keir451 wrote:Get a bunch of Water Warlocks to open a series of Rifts to the Elemental Plane of Water over the Xiticix hives.
pretty sure in rifts underseas it mentions that underwater rifts don't have massive quantities of water come through. (it could be in another book, but i'm pretty sure there is an explicit mention of this somewhere)
keir451 wrote:Get a bunch of Water Warlocks to open a series of Rifts to the Elemental Plane of Water over the Xiticix hives.
Zer0 Kay wrote:taalismn wrote:Start a new franchise...KFX...Kentucky-Fried Xiticix...I pay whoever of you comes up with a solution that nets me the most usable meat, plus anybody who brings in their own fresh(killed) Xiticix gets 75% off on the preparation(and I'll throw in the large drink and side dish for free).
Spoiler:
Hystrix wrote:This wouldn't be the easiest way, to be sure, but chemical warfare seems to be the best way. The trick is finding a poison or biological agent that kills 100% of Xiticix, or makes those that survive, steril. I don't remember the Rifter it was in, but there is an article on the CS Biowarfare, and it briefly discussed the idea of chemical warefare. Again, not simple, but could be done.
If some bio-agent could be discovered or invented it could be administered on some scouts who take it back to thier respective hives, and spread it like a desiese. No lose of human (or d-bee) life nessisary.... except for the Xiticix...
