tecnowraith
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I have an odd request. Can one here list all the movies, tv show, books games and anime that have bioweapons or bio-items? The only thing I can think of right now is Guyver, bio-armor suite.
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Bioweapons in scifi!
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Well, The Company in Alien/(s) wanted them for the bio-weapons division.
Bio-weapons popped up several times in B5. IIRC in season 1 there was a device that turned the person it was attached to into an "Ultimate" weapon, but was programed to preserve the "purity" of the race and therefore wiped out the race that created it since they weren't "pure" enough. There was also the Drahk plague that was used against earth in the TV movie "Call to Arms" leading to the series Crusade, where the goal was to find a cure for the plague. The Drahk also used a parasite creature as a monitor/controller for people. Of course there were the Shadow ships that used people as the controller/cpu for the ships, PSI's were used as especially effective controllers/cpus and some were modified where they would "take over" ships when woken up.
Bio-weapons popped up several times in B5. IIRC in season 1 there was a device that turned the person it was attached to into an "Ultimate" weapon, but was programed to preserve the "purity" of the race and therefore wiped out the race that created it since they weren't "pure" enough. There was also the Drahk plague that was used against earth in the TV movie "Call to Arms" leading to the series Crusade, where the goal was to find a cure for the plague. The Drahk also used a parasite creature as a monitor/controller for people. Of course there were the Shadow ships that used people as the controller/cpu for the ships, PSI's were used as especially effective controllers/cpus and some were modified where they would "take over" ships when woken up.
Roudi
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The New Jedi Order series of Star Wars novels introduced the Yuuzhan Vong, a species from beyond the galaxy that used biological entities in place of technology. Everything was a creature or plant; their spaceships, armor, weapons, everything.
Star Trek often featured biotech, from the "Tin Man" living spaceship in The Next Generation to Xindi weapons that use creatures as a power source on Enterprise.
Star Trek often featured biotech, from the "Tin Man" living spaceship in The Next Generation to Xindi weapons that use creatures as a power source on Enterprise.
Joshua Randall
Legend
Another Star Trek example: Species 8472, featured in several ST: Voyager episodes, used/were bioweapons. In a clever twist, the Voyager-ites used modified Borg nanoprobes to defeat Species 8472 -- technoweapons trumping bioweapons, at least in that particular show.
Babylon 5...Volons, Shadows, the dead race (it took over the guy in 1st season), even the Techno mages as they seems to have inplants to control their nano-magic.
Farscape...Moya the ship, Cyberclone Harvey.
Farscape...Moya the ship, Cyberclone Harvey.
Well, let's see...
There's the Shadowrun RPG (3rd edition all the way! Down with 4th edition!) that has tons of "bioware" - eyes modfied to see in low light, lungs with expanded volume and hearts with better aerobic performance, implantable venom sacs, muscle grafts, self-healing armor skin, reflex enhancers, you name it.
There's a series of books by Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies) in which it's possible to get entire synthetic/organic bodies custom-built, and consciousness transfer is common.
There's Fallen Dragon by Peter Hamilton, which features organic powered armor called "skin" - which interfaces with the wearer's body to the point of sharing the blood supply.
I should be able to come up with more stuff once I get home and have the chance to scan my bookcases to refresh my memory...
There's the Shadowrun RPG (3rd edition all the way! Down with 4th edition!) that has tons of "bioware" - eyes modfied to see in low light, lungs with expanded volume and hearts with better aerobic performance, implantable venom sacs, muscle grafts, self-healing armor skin, reflex enhancers, you name it.
There's a series of books by Richard Morgan (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies) in which it's possible to get entire synthetic/organic bodies custom-built, and consciousness transfer is common.
There's Fallen Dragon by Peter Hamilton, which features organic powered armor called "skin" - which interfaces with the wearer's body to the point of sharing the blood supply.
I should be able to come up with more stuff once I get home and have the chance to scan my bookcases to refresh my memory...
Joshua Randall
Legend
...which of course was inspired by the William Gibson books, Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, and uh, some other ones whose names escape me right now. But they feature all the usual stuff: implants, drugs, consciousness transfers, you name it.mmu1 said:
Y'know, we have bio-tech in real life: pacemakers, cochlear implants, artificial joints, insulin pumps... in only a few short years we'll be just like the Borg. Whee!
Sir Brennen
Legend
Earth: Final Conflict had a lot of bio-tech central to the story, IIRC, including the “wrist blasters” worn by the human companions to the aliens.
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