>A rift in space and time opens >A strange swarm of alien aberrations emerges and begins to consume everything in their path >Several sectors quickly go dark >Reports flood in to the Imperium about this new xeno threat >The Bydo Empire has begun it's assault upon the galaxy
The Bydo Empire has come to ensure the destruction of all things in the 40k galaxy. What will happen to the galaxy as a result of the arrival of this new threat?
Bydo are like chaos, in that even thinking about Bydo can change you into Bydo. It'd be pretty shitty win or lose. Plus Bydo can't really be wiped out due to time travel.
Camden James
Shmups always have the most bullshit lore power levels.
John Smith
>A rift in space and time opens >A strange swarm of Slavs in track suits emerges and begins to consume everything in their path >Several sectors quickly go dark >Reports flood in to the Imperium about this new xeno threat >The Bydlo Empire has begun it's assault upon the galaxy
Luke Murphy
I first read that as "Bydlo Empire"
Jordan Smith
The Getter could do it.
Ryder Smith
Yeah but we're not fucking talking about your weeb mecha shit so no one cares
The Bydo can't really be wiped out even if you somehow circumvent their time travel bullshit. One ending in Final was literally gathering up every Bydo to have -ever- existed, and destroying them all in a single swoop, one by one. You only had one chance and if you failed all of humanity would die horrible screaming deaths, but if you succeeded the Bydo would be wiped out for good. Come Tactics, and they are back again and up to the same old tricks, except they are even stronger this time. Then you add in the Solar Envoy from Bitter Chocolate, and it becomes clear that the Bydo are literally impossible to destroy because of their nature.
Charles Sanchez
Yeah but if we're going with Tactics, what was the shit scaring the Bydo so bad that they were fucking off from their home en masse?
Nicholas Anderson
>crossover autism
James Clark
No. Bydo is not Getter. However, Bydo is from a game developed by a japanese gaming company about a space plane fighting giant space monsters. Ergo, by your logic is "weeb mecha shit."
Angel Bailey
Alright then fuck off with the Getter shit, you only needed to answer.
Thomas Perry
You fuck off. You can't talk about weeb mecha shit, then tell someone to fuck off for talking about weeb mecha shit.
The Getter would totally be able to fuck up the Bydo. Because the Bydo are a bunch of fucking weak ass bitches.
Cooper Campbell
Apparently the Other Civilization was committing what could only be called "Space Auschwitz", which caused the Bydo to do a complete 180 and fuck off to find someone else to plague. The only thing that terrified them more than this was the Solar Envoy.
Caleb Baker
>The Getter would totally be able to fuck up the Bydo. Because the Bydo are a bunch of fucking weak ass bitches. >Beings capable of infesting light, thought, empty space, the space-time continuum itself, entire timelines, have the ability to time travel to any point they so wish, can create whole universes made entirely out of Bydo, have an infinite number of forces to through at the opposition, have so many "mastermind" level units that no one even knows which is the TRUE mastermind behind everything, and they have the Solar fucking Envoy >Weak, or even capable of defeated by generic shonen anime monsters
You are a very funny individual user.
Adam Watson
You can't become one just by thinking about one, but much like chaos, just being near them can corrupt you physically and mentally.
Logan Reyes
I've just spent an hour reading the R-Type wiki and there's some spoopy shit in there. >The human fleet doesn't realize they've been infected until the other humans start attacking them that subtle body hotel does it for me mang
Kevin Lewis
*subtle body horror, fuck
Jace Thompson
You have just reminded me of the tragic fate of the R-13. Rest in peace Old Forest Watchdog, rest in peace.
Grayson Reyes
>has been playing HoMM3 for 16 years
BASED
Connor Roberts
Dude, I have totally been doing that. Am still.
A pirated version.
Robert Long
Effectively the bydo would rape everything short of the gods in 40K. To fight them requires utter bullshit level technology. They are to the tyranids as the tyranids is to the galaxy.
Wyatt Foster
The Necrons might have a chance if they bring out their big guns.
Ryan Green
Maybe. How powerful the full necron armies are is pretty vague and given how the Bydo function all it would take is them being surprised once and then the bydo could likely use their technology themselves.
Adam Martinez
They're not all bad.
Thomas Moore
What even is this game? It sounds interesting.
Bentley Ortiz
Bydo repeatedly get smacked the fuck around by a single space fighter. EVERY race in 40k has millions of space fighters. Bydo are fucked. Nonsensical sequel-driven lore about their ability to reappear again and again after their defeat doesn't negate their always already inevitable demise at the hands of a spaceship that shoots lasers and blows up when anything touches it. Bydo are cool, but not special--they are biomechanical space monsters just like those in Gradius and Darius, and hyperbolic lore doesn't change that.
Because Ishikawa's shit is not particularly "Generic Shonen"
And those are the good guys
Jacob Turner
I understood it more to be that seeing that examination/vivisection place didn't scare the commander's residual sanity as much as make it realize that the whole Bydo fleet had been going the complete wrong way.
They left with all haste because they just slaughtered through a world's defenders for nothing and it's going to take so long to get back and dammit Charles, you said you can read space-maps.
Jaxon Robinson
R-Type is really the exception—it's the shmup series where you are explicitly part of a huge armada. This is why R-Type Final has a gazillion ships and why R-Type Command and its sequel work the way they do.
Sometimes I think about how to import some of these things into tabletop roleplaying, because I want to create a system where you can play characters with smart bombs, homing missiles, R-Type Force-like things, Darius beam duels, Gradius options, and so on.
Can't even begin to come up with a way to make it work, though.
Lucas Edwards
same
Ethan Bell
>Bydo repeatedly get smacked the fuck around by a single space fighter.
That "single space fighter" is capable of firing full blown petaton level shots, and is capable of annihilating full blown planets with a fully charged Wave Beam. also it is only a single member of an entire armadas worth of ships with similar, if not superior firepower. And they are still only barely holding back the Bydo. The running theory about the Bydo is that it has transcended physical reality, and has become Evil itself. Everything the R-fighters do in game is just disturbing it enough for it leave a small pocket around the Earth for a time.