Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4621372-20121206202014/@comment-4621372-20121207202114

Tell you what, if we're willing to go ASB with this, let's do this on a massive scale. We should set a line we're not willing to cross, then get as close to it as possible. Like, one of the ideas Courageous and I discussed (and eventually discarded) was a magic/Worldwaresque thing;

Aliens invade Earth, sometime during World War two. Their technology is roughly 20 years ahead of what we have OTL now, so quite substantial but close enough for humans to be able to use (we're not talking like futuristic energy beings). Anyway, so the humans quickly get crushed on many fronts, but they keep fighting, so the aliens try a new, experimental weapon, opening up a hole into another dimension. This fails, it has no real impact on either side at first, so the aliens give it up as a bad job and keep fighting. However, the energies of this portal bathe the humans, as the war begins to slow down; Humans assimilate alien technology like the aliens have never seen and use it against them. Following this, as the war begins to reach a stalemate, the aliens decide to use antimatter weapons aginst some portions of the world, in order to finally still resistence; around this time, the humans find out that they can use the energies as a sort of magic. The Humans strike roughly at the same time as the aliens, and the fleet is absolutely destroyed, while Earth is badly hit. The outpour also somehow brings and end to the magic. Humans, though, passing through the protal, find a similar world to their own, but without sentient life forms on the other side; by some strange event, instead of opening up to a black hole, it opened to a planet. The humans begin to explore...

Probnably won't work. But it's an awesome idea =D.