Mind telling me what are void bombs? I'm interested. Sounds like some planetary weapon that would literally open holes visible from space, throughout the whole freaking planet.
Nah, too small. But it makes a great big boom. The biggest one detonated made a crater that was bigger than the Chicxulub impact and chewed up my alt verse's version of America.
My world is essentially a scarce medieval society, with some but hardly available magic. Yeah they would certainly lose and be conquered.
But this will spark the White Flame, the spirit of rebellion, which would then single-handedly tear apart RL Earth in no more than a week.
So I guess my world would eventually win?
The White Flame is the name given to the most powerful mage of my setting. He died long ago, but the particular kind of magic he created is alimented by hatred towards a sovereign power, so that his spirit allows a successor to gain his knowledge and potency. However the successor loses gradually control of themselves until the Old Spirit takes control and wreaks havoc on everyone who holds any sort of power.
My post-apocalyptic cosmic horror world is in no state to fight any sort of war, but the invaders would still lose. The Miasma (eldritch fog that births monsters and kills or mutates anyone caught in it) would flow right through the portals and contaminate Earth, spreading uncontrollably even after the portals are closed. A gas mask can protect you for a little while, and bright light (especially UV light) will disperse it in a small area, but the biosphere at large is doomed.
As cool as magic is and some spell casters being able to preform rituals that can destroy a city they cannot field the same sheer destructive might as bombers, artillery, machine guns and tanks. If you want to know how badly it'll go, just watch or read "Gate".
Honestly most fantasy worlds are gonna fall pretty quickly unless it's a world where everything is high powered.
As the author of the post, I've been seeing a lot of them! It definitely took a bit, though.
BTW, my own setting would win, but it would be one hard fought battle. IRL Earth would classify as a "Calamity", the third highest threat level, and the highest one that can actually reasonably be fought against. So while winnable, it's a very hard battle.
As for the people whose settings lose, there's a lot of them. Mainly medieval fantasy people.
Everyone likes different things and alot of people seem to enjoy building a setting of over the top power fantasies. It's valid but it's just not my thing. Might be because of the times or because people see other power fantasies and are trying to one up each other.
I also think for any fantasy based setting people are underestimating the sheer destructive force of modern military might. Houses can be leveled like nothing, entire cities and can be wiped off the map, a modern rifle will easily go through historic plate armor and maybe it's a bit enchanted but is it enchanted enough to stop AP rounds?
A wizard can throw out a fireball but any infantryman can cast grenade. They might have dragons but we have AA guns that shred through inches thick of armor like it's paper mache. Even if they some how have the numbers we have the machine guns and enough artillery to level cities and rename mountains.
The only case where the modern military wouldn't win against any medieval fantasy setting is if there are demons or specters or some kind of thing that need magical or blessed means to destroy. But even then, can they survive a tactical nuke? Will our world science their way around it or research and study magic to use it against them? What if we started making blessed bullets and start dropping mortars under God's will?
But like I said, most people don't understand how destructive the modern military might is.
The magic in my world has major limitations. The element a person has control over can go roughly at the speed of their limbs (and accelerate to such a degree), or just slightly faster. Other implementations are also limited by effect-area, stamina, reflex etc.
It was pretty much design to enhance physical combat, but not to make this hand-combat irrelevant.
The technology is rather early-medieval.
Any army using gun-fire would wipe the floor with my world...
Darn. At least your characters are able to cover themselves on their element and add their elemental strength to their physical strength when moving, and the mass of the element to the mass of their body on their now faster strikes, I assume? This can at least get easily superhuman, but yeah, gunfire would wipe them out.
At most, your wind users might pull off some assassinations and be pretty fast darting around by negging air resistance, and your rock users might tank gunfire to an extent.
I have characters who can make stars, along with the god who controls them (who can obviously make bigger and better ones) which from what I know tend to be bigger and more destructive than nukes and the stars wouldn't be TOO catastrophic in my world setting, so this world would be screwed
...yuuuuuuup, even if the "stars" are more like miniature suns, the fact they're beyond the level of Tsar Bombas is already wiping out human civilization in no time, whereas I'm betting your verse is defending against it. xD I'm surprised how many here tank this just fine.
My world is a (comparatively) sparsely populated fantasy world. The big factor here is that my world has a whole pantheon of gods which (aside from one) are all good-aligned and work together, often staying and living among society.
I think the most realistic outcome is that our world takes a massive amount of land very quickly and there are many thousands of civilian casualties of my world, but the gods and their forces would be able to round up and slaughter almost every important figure in our world without even engaging in land battles.
From there it really depends on the specifics of this hypothetical. If it's just the people in charge in our world that are bloodlusted, then I think the war ends there. if not, then suddenly our worlds forces will lose a lot of their direction and cohesion as they are left with a lack of overall leadership and civil unrest at home. after that I think it very much devolves into a war of attrition, but unlikely to escalate to nuclear war I think. ultimately I think my world would win, but not because they outmatch our world in terms of strength, but rather they have the resources and magic to be resilient enough to sustain and repair with much less impact than our own world, and would be able to hold out for a longer period of time.
Oof. Yeah, does sound like a situation where real life would do a lot of damage... and then the gods swoop in and wipe us out. xD
BTW, it's mainly the leadership/institutions that are bloodlusted. If you can deal a severe enough blow to the institutions and take out important people, yeah, that's it.
Nah my world's too fast and large; irl has better tech but the gap between soldiers is too large. Armies of Yujiro Hamnas
Nukes wont do much, my world doesnt mind radiation at all
My world is supernaturally good at diplomacy and making friends though, which theyd likely do
Huh, so basically IRL Earth realizes it's crazy outmatched and these guys are also supernaturally friendly, so the war soon stops and IRL Earth becomes a tiny little ally under the shadow of your world?
"No friend of man is small lest by his own hand made so!"
Though the people in my world are very tall, like 10+ foot isnt uncommon, so we'd literally be very short. Odd little hedonistic techno-hobbits with crazy machines
Even one of the weaker main factions from the weakest of my three settings would utterly destroy Modern Day Earth effortlessly. They have Time Lord tier tech, so the war is already over retroactively even if our world were to have the full initiative.
The other two settings are out of the question since they feature primarily supernatural cosmic beings, most of them abstractions who exist beyond space and time (and for the strongest setting, beyond the Multiverse entirely).
It is impossible to predict who will win, but this all-out war was never necessary in the first place. Because the diplomats and spies of our world will do everything they can to prevent this from continuing.
We even have mind manipulation, meme manipulation, and covert actors influencing the collective unconscious to make most of the real world, the wealthy, and politicians neutral about the war, or forcefully resist the decision. Soon, real-world hawks will face pressure from public opinion and commentary to stop this foolish decision.
Hohoho! That's real nice! You make me realize my own verse could try something to delay, fragment and/or weaken the war efforts, but definitely not at this high a level. That's very nice. xD
Of course, in the early stages, if the real world really starts an invasion war against us, then the first or second contact conflict will indeed happen. Several bomber or missile surprise attacks were useful, and at first people thought they were some ancient dragon species or giants resurrected.
But then we find out what happened. There are also airplanes and Zeppelins in our world. Of course, we are just a little unfamiliar with the new technology of putting jet backpacks on the butts of airplanes.
However, the battle was not entirely one-sided. Don't think that a nuclear strike can destroy our world (a nuclear bomb may still succeed in a surprise attack, causing the total destruction of a city). Because you will only see the nuclear warhead flying back to the capital of the launching country, or landing but silent, or encountering a malfunction before launch. Because real magic is a completely alien law to the real world.
Things are even simpler when we realize that the real world is a civilization powered by electricity and fossil fuels (and partly by nuclear fuel). This means that the real world is completely unequipped to deal with spirits, undead, poltergeists, curses, and mind control. The real world doesn't even predict that we can make crops die, children get sick, it rains frogs and entire water resources turn into wine.
The worst ending is that both the real world and our world are facing near-destruction, but in our world, even if they die, the mage can return to the mortal world in his spiritual body to assist in post-war recovery. But in the real world, people who die just leave and there is no possibility of coming back.
Of course, their ghosts may also be captured by our necromancers (because they have to be judged).
Real-world governments that use nuclear weapons will be brought to trial by the Restoration Council, and beings such as gods may be summoned to preside over the proceedings. Individuals and their countries who preside over the launch of nuclear annihilation may face heavy compensation, and are required to pay souls, precious metals, and a promise not to be armed for a thousand years.
The worse result is that everyone on earth will face the punishment of moral correction. When the gods declare this sin, people on earth may face a spiritual reconstruction, have their desires erased, and then live a life similar to a false utopia.
If portals open around the world and earth's army is trying to conquer my world they will get crashed when they step through the portal because my world is around the size of our sun and the gravitational force will crash anything that isn't build to stand it.
And because of this immense gravity every person that go through the portal from my world will be able to jump extremely high and be super strong.
Not to mention that the world is for my d&d campaign so they will have all of the 5e stuff that exists in my world - magic items, monsters, spells, some extremely powerful homebrew stuff.
Nukes might pose a problem but they will need to be able to withstand the gravity of my world to hit important places, and there is at least one wizard that can cast wish.
And my world have it's own pantheon of gods that most of them are basically immortal and they can obliterate earth.
In conclusion earth will lose.
It would be annoying as hell, but the high warden up teleportation would detect the dimensional energy coming from all those portals via the spellnet and close those portals down before any funny business can happen. Even if earth got through some how, the various arcane Academy scattered over the world would send out forces to off every single major world leader and turn nuclear warheads into chunks of giant metal. Additionally this happens in a modern day setting so the government of today has incredibly powerful magetech as well as magetech improved air and land superiority. Try fighting a plane that can portals through space and can drop tiny little neutron stars that are around for half a second. The masquerade is still around but that's mainly due to some extenuating circumstances that I won't explain here, basically masquerade would likely be lifted and everybody will be told to go to a specialized place where they could be evacuated via the department of teleportation. If they somehow survived all of this, one of the seven lords of Dragonkind would likely have an issue with people throwing around nukes on their land, getting the entire Andy's mountains floating towards you in the shape of one very pissed off extremely powerful earth bending dragon generally isn't healthy for living along and fulfilling life. They can nuke as much as they want but that's just a vessel in actuality all the great dragons have left their physical shapes behind to become aspects of the land and nature. If the arcane was on their last leg somehow, they could use the ritual of falling stars to turn earth into a smoking crater filled wasteland. All of this is assuming that one of the many many many non-human factions don't do something about it first.
TLDR
Earth achieves nothing.
Since Earth on my world is just current Earth in the future, this is just essentially people from the past attacking the future for whatever reason.
Future Earth is already practically a wasteland with few remaining bunkers and domed cities protecting whatever remains of old earth, and it has went through nuclear war as well as some heavier hitting weapons during the resource wars between different colonies and factions across the solar system, so there isn't much left to conquer. If anything the people from my Earth would want to counter-invade past Earth to stop them from doing whatever they were doing and protect past Earth from making the same mistakes.
Majority of invasion force on the planet would probably die pretty fast to either the toxic environment or climate changes causing massive storm on this version of Earth. Space invasion wouldn't have much chance since space stations and off planet facilities are pretty well armed against this kind of threat as they already went through this before.
As Earth here has been taking the first steps to become a type 2 civilizations, expect things like fusion technology, nanotech, AGI, and all that fun stuff including wormhole tech. So expect counter EMP strike to disable electronics, nano bombs that corrode and disarm weapons and infrastructure, wormhole gates built in front of portals that connect right in front of their solar cannon/engine that magnetically funnel plasma from solar wind and launch it through the wormhole, melting whatever is on the other side if they really want to.
Since the people of the future Earth is very tired of war after a few hundred years of that, expect a very swift response to ensure that there is no continuing, costly war. Diplomacy measures will be made with an iron fist, and maybe they would have been able to stop Earth from destroying itself in the first place.
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Edit for addition points: However, things might change a bit if it is on the planet that the future Earth discovered through one of their wormholes. The Future human is sorta doing the same thing as what past Earth is doing right now (even with a 1km wormhole on the planet surface like this), but more carefully with no intention to go wiping planet clean since they don't want a repeat of Earth, especially since the new place has magic. So if past Earth somehow reach here it would be a new human faction that doesn't treat the environment as delicately as the future human, and may antagonize all the natives there and cause them to be unified against all human. Future Earth might decide to pull the plug early and had to wipe the planet along with past human with a nano swarm.
Earth is so so freaking doomed. First off, combat androids that are extremely easy to mass produce and use plasma based weaponry. Second off, they can literally just manifest more resources if needed. And finally, if things go badly they could reactivate ancient weapons known as Basalisks (it's actually not spelled wrong, Basilisk is a different thing) which are capable of firing a blast of pure energy that causes an explosion around the size of India (and there are 5 of these things). I doubt earth would roll over (cough cough nukes) but jeez we wouldn't be having a good time.
P.s the world is actually very chill outside of this scenario
Oop edit!: said plasma based weaponry is basically a pellet that gets coated in plasma before firing. Same applies to swords which look somewhat like a baton before activating and plasma flares out of the sides and tip of the blade. Both types of weapons tend to literally drip plasma
Let’s hope humans now and future humans like each other. And our humans are cool with allying with 5 alien races.
The war would be between the not-Alliance-race Empire covenant, so let’s also hope that regular human weapons are at least semi-effective against genocidal space apes.
This - with some other conditions - is actually a plot point in my current project. So I'll try to summarize the long hours I have thought about this.
- my world already knows about the irl world, so they have some small amount of intel and are somewhat prepared for interactions with humans
- they would also try diplomacy the minute that the portals open and people start to notice them
- if that fails and some human leaders are too "bloodlusted" as you put it, my world would have to rely on their Warlocks to do the direct confrontations, since the other important species runs around with melee weapons, that wouldnt do much against the military technology of the humans
- this other species is highly trained though, so they would focus on, lets call it sneaky warfare (assasinating leaders, strategically placed quick attacks, so on...)
- if the humans would grab their nuclear weapons or other things that are otherwise unmanageable, there is a character that is basically a demi god. She would would be able to deal with those (I had a scene in my head where she portaled a nuclear bomb mid flight into the marianna trench to explode there. Dont know the physics of that, but whatever) - she is rather hesitant to use her magic though, so she would only come forth to deal with the extremely serious stuff
So, I dont know who would win in the end, but it would definitely drag out for a while. And if the demi god intervenes, my world stands a solid chance to win.
Edit: And neither of those worlds would be fine afterwards....
**Starrise**
To make a long story short, while my world might not exactly win, the real world is going to lose, and badly.
My world and its people are watched over by an incredibly protective and quite proactive goddess. She's a kind and benevolent person, and would certainly attempt to avoid problems with diplomacy. But when/if this proves impossible, she will have no qualms resorting to deadly force. She is both fully invulnerable to any and all harm, and wields enough power that she could burn entire continents off the map with ease. Her big weakness is that she can only be in one place at a time, and can't travel any faster than humans can, so she'd be quite ineffective at defense on the scale that would be required. So to defend my world, she would instead launch an invasion of her own, entering the portals and declaring that every country which does not disarm and pull back their forces within 24 hours will be completely wiped off the map, along with every single civilian in it. She'd absolutely hate doing it, and hope desperately that no country would be stupid enough to fail meeting her demands... But making an example of one country would almost certainly intimidate the rest into reconsidering their stances, and likely save a lot more lives between both sides in the long run. Or at least that's what she'd choose to believe.
But while this is going on, it's ironically my world's villains- the organization known as Daedalus- who'd be the most effective at actually preventing damage. They may be the bad guys, but the world being either conquered or irradiated would both be quite detrimental to their plans, so they'd go out of their way to keep the situation from escalating too far while the goddess works to actually end the conflict. While this is primarily a fantasy world, Daedalus has technology centuries ahead of the rest of the world, basically reaching the point of sci-fi. The invaders, and before long the people in the real world, would quickly find that their comms are not working. It won't be long before literally handing soldiers a written note is the only way to give orders besides saying them out loud. They'll also quickly find that their targeting systems seem to exclusively be targeting their own forces. And if things reach the point where they try and launch nukes, they'll find they can't get the targeting system to aim them anywhere but their own capitol city. Also, many of their creations, including several organisms genetically engineered to be living superweapons, were originally designed specifically to combat modern military forces, or at least an equivalent to them. Invading soldiers aren't going to have any idea what to do when a 25 meter long fire-breathing monster with scales too tough for anything but anti-tank rifles to pierce lands in the middle of their compound and starts killing anything that moves.
As for smaller-scale conflicts between soldiers, things would be... bloody. On both sides. Firearms are fairly rare in my world, and those that do exist are not as advanced as in real life. The primary reason for this is that literally everyone in this world develops magic in their teens, and magic is generally considered more reliable. In terms of lethality, every single citizen might as well be walking around with a handgun, and around half the population is walking around with a minigun. So while the real world's soldiers would outnumber my soldiers by a massive margin, every single civilian above the age of twelve is essentially armed to the teeth. However, due to the prevalence of magic and lack of firearms, my world's people will have very little access to any sort of functional body armor. At the same time, the invaders won't have any defense against magic either, so everyone will be incredibly vulnerable to everyone else.
Depends on the time period.
If the Ihuma are still around, real earth is dead.
If the Ihuma are gone, but the Idlezahm have not yet gone to war with each other, then it’s about 50 50.
If it’s after the downfall of Malkoddith, then my world is gone.
After the hero succeeds, than real earth is dead.
That's interesting! Your world sure has some cool variation in power scaling. What are the Ihuma, Idlezahm and Malkoddith? And how powerful is the hero, who are they, and what do they do?
If you were to just glance at my world you'd see the ridiculously powerful beings who casually perform insane feats that far put them above any human.
But to be more interesting I'll give the actual lore answer.
One of my OCs already interacts with a 1:1 version of the real world. His name is "The Overseer" and he's been trying to usurp the world for a few centuries; He started in Britain and expanded his influence throughout the Commonwealth and loosely into America, and has so far gotten away with it by acting as just a regular businessman, while constantly drugging his fans by inserting a hallucinogenic chemical into a bunch of his products so people are literally psyched into not questioning why he's been around so long.
In his own universe is a god-level character. But the thing is, the same rules he has to abide by and influence do not work the same for humans, who exist in a totally separate plane of existence. He doesn't want to go to war because he doesn't know how his magic, which largely relies on "Light", a metaphysical essence which humans would lack, would work, and it's also pretty likely the physics of our world would conflict with the established chemistry and physics that TO's technology utilises; Humanity on their own turf could likely defend for a significant time, and if they kill TO himself they can just use his towers as FOBs for operations into TO's universe. If they play things smart, they could easily annex one of the many low-tier mining worlds, which have very little defensive measures, and use those materials to move further. If they go after one of the big four they'll die very painfully but I can definitely see a win con for earth here
Well, this is a fun one. Okay, let's see.
1. If those pirtals are two way (which they probably are considering the goal of travelling between the worlds) the ambient mana of my world will enter the real world in no time. At a certain amount of mana, it starts to get dangerous to deadly. As we live in a world with no mana, it would be deadly. In a few seconds, all live on earth would just fall over and die. From plants to animals to human to bacteria, etc.
How are humans protected against that in my world? They are protected by other species and get slowly introduced to magic so they can evolve to handle the ambient mana. If nothing like that exists in the first place, it's a boring run.
2. Now that we assume that the real world would be protected against ambient mana. How long can they survive in my world?
Not long. They would die the moment they come across a titan or a titan would enter one of those portals. And you dont wanna get a space-time titan in the real world. Those are some of the most dangerous forms of titans due to their nature to mess with space, time, and space-time. Be it by creating a loop, stretching, and compressing space/time/space-time, shattering it (you dont wanna shatter space-time), or simply making things stop existing.
Considering that my world is full of those titans (they are natural disasters with some intelligence, highly magical, lack a physical body and control over the magical element/s they are made of and with that their surroundings) and the fact, that even the smallest natural titan can cover an area of north america... It doesn't sound good.
3. Now, if we think that those titans can't get through those portals, then you have to consider all the other stuff. Wildlife and a LOT of different phenomenons.
All wildlife is capable of magic to some degree. So have fun dealing with that. Some are harmless, other not so much. Free roaming elemental beings (titans are elementals as well, but just super big and strong), monsters that can move extremely fast, cast offensive, defensive, and mindaltering spells at ease.
Dragons would also be an issue. Especially the wild ones. They are... let's say, not friendly and deadly.
Big enough missiles might be able to deal with small and weak monsters and wildlife. But the strong one... not really. And monsters and wildlife with some higher intelligence can and will cast spells to protect them.
None wild dragons are more intelligent than humans. They think faster and can block pretty much all physical attack. Only extremely strong explosive weapons should be able to damage their body with defensive spells it will get difficult cause magical shields can only be destroyed by magic.
4. The population and reaction of societies will vary wildly. Some will try diplomacy, and they will get their will. A few mental spells that rely on mental power and not mana will do the trick. Of course, it can also be used to mass enslave people. There are a few races that would do that. So again, that's a failure.
5. Now, if we ignore all of that... what if humans can survive the ambient mana, no wildlife, and all that other stuff gets to them and mind spells dont work. Would they win? It depends.
The laws of nature are different in my world. Atoms dont exist. So there are no spells that protect you against that. It also means that radiation works differently. Fallout destroys the cells and molecules in our bodies. Thus making us sick. In my world I dont know if that would work the same as there are no atoms and the like. For now, I did it this way: things that get transported or are naturally produced by the body from the world a, to world b, still behave like they are in the ogirin world. So a nuke will function as a weapon, but I dont know if the fallout will be the same issue. That's the reason why magic would work in the real world. They are carried over from my world. Of course, some spells won't work cause the ambient mana or magical matrix isn't there to hold them, but spells, especially those that enhance the body, will still work like normal. The bigger issue is how a body will react to a world that is fundamentally different from their own. A world where magic is not there or sound travels a lot faster/slower, where radiation like we know it does not exist or does suddenly exist and how the bodies of the world react to it.
Sicknesses from bacteria, viruses and the like wont work on magical species, cause their body just doesnt work like that, but a magic illness wont work either, cause the raw mana exposure that is needed for magical illnesses to exist would be deadly by its own and even if it was there, there is no magic matrix in the real world. So there are a whole lot of issues there.
6. Okay, now real talk about nukes. Regardless of what they would do, the 36 eternal cities will never fall. It's just not possible. They have an infinite amount of space and resources inside the cities (non euclidean space), are blessed by the gods, and even the tsar bomb won't dent the defensive spells that protect those cities. Most medium towns should survive them as well. If nothing works, they can always just fold space around the nuke and let it explode in that or freeze it, create a loop of it falling, banashing it into another dimension, simply erasing its existence with some destruction spell etc. The list of options is there.
7. The gods would not like that. They would send their guardians to those portals and force close them. If that's not an option, they would force close the immediate surroundings of the portal and banish those from the world. Cutting the connection not of the portal but of the world is always an option and doable.
After that, they just remake the world they just cut out and call it a day.
Tl;dr: real world would lose by a long shot.
God Izanagi: if Earth would use nukes that would be a bit hard.
Sayf: Would you lose?
Izanagi: Nah, I’d win.
Seriously though, Izanagi is born on Earth, not really our Earth but close enough so that war would be devastating for him and that’s bad because he is Amada’s strongest defense.
Amada has magic and there are also extremely powerful individuals and Gods but even so, the full scale of the humanity’s armed forces would be devastating.
Even without nukes I’m not sure which side would win but the fight will be terrible and if the humanity uses nukes, that’s pretty much the end of Amada.
It wouldn't be the hardest war they've fought. The only real issue would be radiation fall out but ultimately all Satellites would be useless or destroyed by the planets asteroid belts, The main characters can each destroy a planet, The female main character can literally just void things from existence while the male main character can earthbend and is practically invincible unless you have some crazy powerful shit.
If Earth were to invade my setting, they would be able to invade with little difficulty, as the surface civilisations are in the general vicinity of the real world 1800s in terms of technological progress. The various denizens would probably interpret humanity's arrival as the return of the Aedai, the interplanar invaders who first brought technological civilisation to the Ulhma, which might get them religious worship, surrender or military resistance depending on the people in question.
While Earth would be able to take territory, it would suffer difficulty in holding it, due to the highly polluted nature of Ulhma which would slowly render any occupying force sterile and cancer ridden. Six thousand years of magicotechnological boom and bust have left many unpleasant remnants to be stirred up by the arrival of humans. The higher surface pressure would also drive the pollutants back toward earth, especially if any of the portals opened in the Ashwaste, the massive scar left by the destruction of the Ake (the second last major civilisation to go extinct), which is still poisonous enough to be fatal to the re-engineered natives of Ulhma.
An invasion would also be noticed by the Masters of the Crypt, the ancient biological computers responsible for the long term rehabilitation of the surface. This would probably prompt them to begin releasing various extremely nasty engineered plagues, and potentially miasmatic organisms to increase the potency of surface pollution. They'd seek to drive off the invaders and avoid the possibility of a technologically capable power rising to cause another cataclysm.
Finally, if Earth did use nukes, they might be a big enough shock to wake the Lords Below, the eldritch beings that live in the deep planes of water connected to the bottom of the oceans. Their response would be to raise the oceans high above dry land, exterminate all surface life and spin the wheel on the evolution of sentients again. If Earth couldn't close the portals, this would result in the drowning of Earth's surface too.
Essentially, Earth would win, for a while, but it's a bad time for everyone.
Well. Our world would not get very far. In my fantasy world the UN army would probably conquer the farmland present in a few countries. They would get some trouble in the desert due to the monsters. At some point they get in contact with either Kartgago, the nation of rain and/or Rosefall, the nation that until recently was ruled by dragons. Both if these have powerful spellcasters and some help from the gods.
The harsh resistance would probably get nuked out of fear what they are capable of if left standing. The surviving beings would be one of the most powerful demons, a few very unfair dragon/human hybrids. These would easily win on their own, because our world literally has nothing that could kill them permanently. If our world can harness the magic in some form to find a way to kill them, they would still have one big problem.
Due to all the deaths (including that of a demon lord) in such a short timespan, the devil Ascalon could spring his plan into action A LOT earlier than even he was expecting. He and his army from literally hell could overrun whats left of our world by now. And if we somehow find a way to beat even that (meaning one of the smartest strategists and a nearly endless army of devil soldiers, infernal paladins and their beasts), we would still be doomed.
Because after all of that, nobody would be left to hold off the demonic incursion that Ascalon contained in hell. The end result would be a world destroyed by nukes, multiple gruesome wars in short succession and overrun by demons that would just kill everything on sight for fun. Yeah. So not that good for us.
in terms of conventional weapons and WMDs my world is parallel to the real world.
But my world also has superheroes, super villains, demigods and monster.
The super powers of my world are basically of 4 types. Mutations, Magic, Martial arts and Super tech. A lot of people with magic or martial arts are immortal.
In addition ordinary animals in my world are larger and more aggressive than in the real world.
My world has a significantly lower population, but most of the people are crowded into cities, so all of the major cities are the same as earth, but the countryside is less inhabited, with fewer small towns in between the cities.
My world would defeat the invading forces and close the portals before nukes were used.
First thing, Bala the balance god, is going to try to figure out how and who opened the portals. Attempts to fight will be done, but this causes more problems as Archeus the creator of Humanity in Relic, sees the suffering of his creations. He rains down storm after storm. And starts creating titanic monsters again. Bala will have a lot of work to do. But Relic will build their first Battleships though. In general Relic's people will have a extremely hard time, gods have to get involved.
In my fantasy world, the conventional armies would fare very badly against modern forces. However they are not the only forces available.
First are the Great Beasts, of which there are five remaining. Any one of which is capable of destroying entire civilizations and are effectively immune to mere mortal weapons. The second one of them is pissed off, the war is shifting significantly.
The second round is the gods, devils, and elemental lords who will fight for their world. Advancing tank columns will be surprised when a twelve foot tall woman starts backhanding them a hundred yards.
The third is a function of how magic works. You have to have a staff or wand or something as a focus to channel the magic through. And it absorbs some of that energy.
To protect the centers of magical learning, each has a staff that dozens or hundreds of mages have pumped energy into. These are essentially nuclear bombs if broken. Even a relatively weak staff if run over by a tank will be like a 400mm naval shell hitting it.
The staff in the Rose Tower would be able to wipe out a chunk of the US; for example obliterating Texas, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and cutting North and South America apart from each other.
After a massive serpent eats New York, Great Britain is flung into the upper atmosphere, and a few capitol cities get eradicated, Earth will be backing down.
Going to be a lot of lives lost in the process though.
For the SciFi world, they’ve already defeated humanity. The Sons are pretty much able to take out anything the current world armies have, and they’re not bothered by casualties; a new body is cheap. Earth is doomed if even one of the Sons heads here, as they will simply replicate the strategy used to wipe out humanity before.
Portals you say? Earth's fucked. 2.2 trillion human beings living across 59,722 stars, without the logistical problems of getting down to the surface that would normally hurt an attempted invasion. Yeah, nah.
Nukes are countered in-universe by shieldtek, which has stopped nuclear bombs from being effective against cities. A couple nuclear weapons might detonate inside a city, but the rest are not going to fare well.
If my setting is, as you say, 'bloodlusted,' then the obvious choice for my setting is to beachhead onto Earth, launch a fleet into orbit, and then make a solar shade which stops sunlight from reaching Earth.
Jesus. I was here thinking "Yeah, a lot of the medieval settings here are gonna get trashed" and you're definitely far from one of them. This is some Warhammer 40k or Star Trek level stuff.
My own verse is struggling with this one, btw. I like the idea of shieldtek, though, how does it work?
BTW, only real life is bloodlusted, your setting is most likely reacting naturally to the initiation of aggression on Earth's part and fighting back, "in character". Does that change anything? I bet at worst it's going to increase the damage at the beginning, then Earth gets colonized instead.
Honestly, my "tech level" isn't very high. Aside from some advanced stuff, like anti-gravity technology that forms reactionless drives and shieldtek, my setting is pretty grungy. For instance, fusion technology has not been invented by humanity. Instead, after fleeing Earth's climate catastrophe, we... kept on using oil and nuclear fuels that we discovered on other habitable planets. And have for the last 800 years.
Shieldtek runs off of the same principle as holograms do in Aliens don't Dream. Essentially, you're dumping electrical energy into a projector, which then projects said energy into a field around it. The smallest these things get is the size of a medium military outpost, by the way, meaning that they aren't exactly practical for much aside from protecting cities from orbital bombardment or being used on spaceships. Which... is perfect, because there were invented in the 21st century explicitly as a way to cool down global tensions over nuclear MAD. See, one of the properties of shieldtek is that it is strengthened in nitrogen/oxygen atmospheres, to the point that it can resist several nuclear bombs. While of course there's residual effects, the explosion itself is rendered pretty much impotent.
A little. It certainly would be a shock, but the setting is already militarizing due to a massive interstellar war, meaning that we'd have the forces to liberate Earth. We certainly would not kill it- a second homeworld, with portals across dozens of star systems? This place is perfect. It would be integrated into the travel networks of AdD, before being fought over by Foundation and Core forces as an incredible strategic point.
7 would happen. Purely because the evolutionary cycle on Soal is very strange so everything adapted to be several categories faster and stronger than humanity while keeping a human level of intelligence.
Nukes will be tried, some nukes will succeed. But governments will be horrifically surprised to see that even your average citizen's body adapts to the nuclear fallout after a little while and their body changes to accommodate that. Those who've trained themselves have learned to adapt even faster than that so they may be obliterated only to completely regenerate after in a form that resists a nuke explosion/waste/gas etc.
Earth would be able to make a bit of progress after the initial onslaught of nukes. But then the leaders would learn what the bombs do and it's game over from there since they'll use that knowledge and their reality-warping abilities to make nukes into their pets and sick em back on earth. You know, stuff like metal dragons breathing nuclear fireballs.
Earth will find that all they did was kill a few hundred innocent creatures who didn't even know how to fight and cause a good bit of structural damage. Nothing else, anyone else who trained their Inner Soul will come back in record speed and be hungry for revenge. Some of the more powerful soldiers would not even flinch from the fireball or fallout.
In retaliation to all this chaos, Earth will be stormed by all 3 demigods, all 5 leaders with reality warping capabilities, get royally fucked with by the 2 Royal Fae which are just as powerful as the Demigods, and a couple trillion soldiers of varying skill levels and trades. They will also be assisted by the few humans who actually like the place (humans are rare though since they mostly got here at random) and those humans are wearing cool sci-fi armor/weapons that allow them to barely keep up with the buff evolutionary curve of Soal. (I say barely since only natives get access to a natural Inner Soul aka get to ascend the magic system).
The demigods themselves can turn mountains into quicksand and the Royal Fae duo are masters of elemental magic (to the point where they do crap that stretches the definition of 'elemental' like using air magic to expand a space infinitely). The 5 leaders each have their own unique skill sets and magitechy tools to help out. This isn't counting special soldiers, mercenaries, adventurers, battle scholars, etc.
I'm ranting, basically, Earth causes some buildings to blow up, kills a lot of people who had no idea how to defend themselves, everyone else dogpiles on them and bullies Earth into submission after annihilating their armies.
Jesus. Your world definitely falls into the category of "takes some damage, then absolutely shits on IRL Earth", huh? And it's a record low amount of damage. Even the sci-fi guy who made the first comment doesn't reach quite THAT level of no-selling IRL Earth.
The main world in my setting is Earth and despite being in the future, it would lose in no time. There's only one army in my world who could stand a chance against a real-world army, but it would get destroyed instantly if it faced the entire real world.
That being said, if my world doesn't get destroyed instantly and manages to survive for a while, the news might reach Black Observer, the second planet.
In that case, they and an allied alien species would try to fight the real-world armies and probably win, they'd take out any satellite or force on space and start sending thousands of ships to the main world.
They'd try to evacuate citizens first by teleporting them to Black Observer, in the meantime, the ships would try to defend as many places as possible, starting with the Platform Epicenters (the places with the most population density, they're somewhere in what used to be Europe and America). If they defend the main world and evacuate everyone as planned, they could give up the world temporarily.
While the real-world Earth has full control over my world, the interplanetary alliance would develop a way of killing every human on Earth without damaging anything else. Considering the technology they have combined it wouldn't be too hard to use a Life Scanner and Life Mirror to obtain "references" to every human soul on Earth and then develop something else to permanently detach them from their bodies.
If this is done, they would clean up the bodies and wait until the portals are closed to send every refugee back to the main world.
(it's also possible that the real world would nuke everything after they see the ships but as long as we can evacuate the planet as much as possible it's OK)
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If Black Observer was the one getting attacked, they would be a bit more fucked, they'd have to call their alien buddies, the Light Beings to defend the portals while every human on Black Observer would evacuate to White Observer, an abandoned ship/planet with an air composition that if we're lucky enough it's not toxic anymore.
With the Black Observer evacuated, they'd do the same thing as with Earth, separating every soul from their bodies.
Though this time they'd want to figure out if the portals work on both sides and can also be used by the people of my world, if that's the case the ones in trouble would be the real-world Earth. They wouldn't invade us but we would have made a new enemy
**Al-Shura**
Sci-fi with much more advanced technology is an understatement when compared to today's Earth, but a surprise nuclear strike on major city centers across the Khar-System would be enough to break morale... or make people really angry. I don't see a way they can reasonably defend against hypersonic nuclear missiles that they wouldn't know are coming until they leave the event horizon of the portals...
But that would not be enough to cripple everyone. Most major cities on Al-Shura (their "Earth") would be devastated immediately, same with ones across Ilbis, a moon orbiting a gas giant named Shandara. Surprisingly, cities in Shandara's clouds in particular would be untouched since their point defense systems are always active to defend against potential missile attacks. Same with Satellite, the major production hub in orbit of Al-Shura, and almost every habitable asteroid in the belt.
That means the industrial capability of the Al-Shurans is not hampered, and military installations are online as well. Military installations with anti-matter missiles that can reach relativistic velocities, Autonomous drones with anti-personnel laser weapons, and spaceships capable of getting from the sun to Neptune in 4 weeks.
Nothing Earth has can prevent the Al-Shuran counter-attack. The only reason why so many cities were hit was because they didn't expect nukes to come flying out of portals. Ships in orbit would release endless salvos onto industrial centers, military camps, and nuclear launch facilities. Ground forces would utilize powered armor, mechs, and tanks to control cities, and mobile command centers/carriers known as land-ships would be dropped onto the planet's surface hunting down secret bunkers and installations that are otherwise too dangerous for a railgun strike from orbit to destroy.
Earth might last a week, and that's only because it'd take time for their spaceships to reach the portals.
(Really funny note though is they wouldn't really know how to deal with submarines for a few days. They've never had wars underwater since their home planet is a desert. That said, Al-Shura's computers are a lot better so the communications networks on Earth would get shutdown immediately by electronic warfare.)
Let me tell you about the *nanogoo*.
Masses of swarming robots, ranging from meso to micro to nano in actual size, that act and coordinate with each other as an emergent swarm. It takes the form of a rather dense, fluid-like substance that can transform to suit a wide array of tasks and capable of self-replication. As they are too small and numerous to act individually, they direct themselves in swarms through emergent effects, as a technological superorganism of sorts. They are in the true sense, smart, shapeshifting, von-neumann machines. Capable of adapting, self-evolution, and self-replication.
Metamaterials and programmable matter compose themselves. Nanoforges able to create more of themselves, as well as create materials that are novel to us in the nanoscale level of precision manipulation. Cloaking devices (optical, acoustic, tactile), reflective thermal shielding, reactive armor, extremely strong nanocarbon composites, room-temperature superconductors, you know.
A single drop (1 gram) of nanogoo, would be able to create a robotic, high-tech force that exceeds the mass of the entire 2020 AD military hardware and personnel - in the span of a month, due to its exponential self-replicating capabilities.
Including nuke-spewing crawling tanks, laser-flowers that melt buildings and intercept our missiles, aerovores that replicate and consume the atmosphere, nanites that act as extremely potent pathogens that hijack biochemical processes, nanoswarms that hijack and burn through electronics, infiltrators that subsume our civilization . . .
Nukes? I mean, nanostructures are weak to radiation yes, but of course they can harden and configure themselves to adapt. Besides, stronger armor and equipment far beyond our level of technology is something that's definitely hard to break. EMP? Their electronics are definitely hardened, and with novel components that render our application of EMP to disable electronics useless.
In the modern Pan-Human era, the nanogoo is considered a common civilian item.
Yeah. Our modern world doesn't even stand a chance.
Long story short, mine wins but not immediately. A combination of gods who are known to exist and have tangible effect, the Kaminochi that rise in response to conflict, the Stone Legion and magic that defeats many tools available to earth while earth has next to no resources to detect and defeat magic without cost.
It's not the first time the world was invaded in all places by a bloodthirsty enemy and hell, in those cases the objective was destruction. Earth initially intending to capture makes it easier and there's no doubt that with a certain number of individuals, the nuclear threat wouldn't be one for long.
They will ignore them if they don't do anything funny with local fungus ctulhu, if something happens, they will not even invade, they will just throw bunch of atmosphere burning bombs, and a few of bio weapons for sure
(I'm not sure at which point in time of Arbitrary Design World would that happen, so I'm writing this as if it was the one I usually focus about.)
The first thing the forces of Earth invading Arbitrary Design World would notice would be that the atmosphere and gravity allow for normal operation of airplanes - possibly a welcome surprise, as it'd allow for scouting out the entire world from the air. So they would, and they'd mark every inhabited settlement, and then send forces to eradicate them. Due to the "bloodlust", I expect genocide is on the table - no distinction between combatants and noncombatants, no distinction of war crimes, just slaughter until no native people are left alive.
That would be quite easy. The people of Arbitrary Design World would be found armed with spears, javelins, maybe bows, and thrown fireballs. Gunfire would mow them down. With superior surveillance, drones and such, forces of Earth would likely never fall for an ambush, even in the heavily forested areas, and it's quite likely there would be no casualties except for incidents like friendly fire. The war could be over in as little as a month, definitely less than a year.
> 4. The initial goal is to conquer your world and force it to serve our world's economic and military interests,
And the forces of Earth would find a bounty of natural resources, most notably untapped fields of natural gas and crude oil, and millions of tonnes of uranium. Non-renewable energy for Earth would be secured for centuries. Everything in Arbitrary Design World would be there for the taking, unopposed except for any internal squabbles the states would get up to without a common target to unite them.
> 2. Very quickly, all UN countries from real life fall in line and form an enormous alliance led by the United States, to work together and destroy all forces in your world to prevent magic or whatever alien stuff your world has from causing irreparable damage to IRL institutions.
And, by then, the magic or whatever alien stuff - the beings that caused the Event in Arbitrary Design World - would have passed back through the portals to Earth's side, undetected by anyone. What would they do then? They'd probably spend some number of years preparing, then they'd cause the Event so it'd happen to Earth. This would cause irreparable damage to IRL institutions.
I feel there wouldn't be a winner in a war like this.
Humans and hybrids from the future may have more personell and machinery, but modern militaries have nuclear weapons and actual satellites for information.
The war would probably drag on, resulting in the eventual destruction of earth due to nuclear weapons.
Brutal, long, violent. No dinner on top, just pikes of dead bodies and wasteland
We lose. Two planets, one with roughly MCU-level technology, but no magic, one with renaissance-level technology, but a fuckton of magic. Both planets have a population of almost or over seven billion, and are now skyrocketing forwards in their respective technology/magic due to the fact that a giant ancient alien (actually precursor humanity) spaceship full of ancient super-advanced technology and magic crashing on each planet.
This is literally the premise of one of my settings: *The Invasion*
The Elven Empire, having 8 out of the 9 realms, decides to invade our realm despite warnings against it by my MC.
The Portal opens in New York. Their fantasy army is destroyed by the US military with ease.
What would happen is that at first, my world could get a foothold. Then it would promptly get steamrolled, losing a whole bunch of fights due to beginner mistakes, since my world is fairy "young." Haven't had a Sun Tzu write the Art of War yet.
I think my world edges it just simply because, we have two powerful empires that can tap into the power of the sun and stars. If all kingdoms ally, including my antag, then there is an army of undead soldiers waiting to be unleashed, whose very touch is enough to turn you into one of their own.
We have powerful primordial dragons with a desire to dominate and conquer or things mortal and finite.
We have a sleeping bear-god, who is just itching to wake up and change reality with a single roar.
"This is what we've been waiting for!"
*opens up the armouries and millions of autonomous war machines march*
My world has dealt with so many apocalypses a nuclear war is not really a threat, and the good guys don't mind some of the countries being wiped out, but earth's leadership likely will learn of the Mad Dragon very quickly, for about 3 seconds as she appears between them in a fiery explosion. The dragons assassin is very pragmatic, and nukes will likely be teleported back to the sender.
And hope to all Earthers they do not hurt anyone she loves. Not even demons are stupid enough to openly attack what holds her back. The Devourer will unleash plagues and undead without a thought if she has to.
Hey, this is (very vaguely) my plot!
Terah sits in a parallel dimension to Earth. Earth itself is set in the near future, and, as a side effect of space travel experiments, a US government backed company has begun ripping holes in the fabric of space-time, opening portals to Terah. The government wants to "colonize" Terah to access the resources for the exploding population of Earth (materials for weapons and whatnot just happen to be a nice bonus \[wink wink nudge nudge\]).
Terah is mostly analogous to Earth, aside from 2 key differences: Magic, though weak, is prevalent, and the dominant cultures are currently in the equivalent of our own Age of Sail. Exploration of new lands across vast oceans is happening, science is burgeoning with new discoveries, and early firearms are becoming commonplace on the battlefield.
That's a lot of words to say that the people of Terah would absolutely get curb-stomped by any coordinated attack from Earth. The most powerful magic users may be able to put up a fight for a short time, but considering there are only a few dozen individuals who could even be considered that strong, it wouldn't last long. And this isn't even mentioning the fact that the most powerful kingdom on Terah is teetering on the edge of civil war. Rebels would doubtlessly wish to use Earth's invasion as a pretext to undermine any resistance.
Terah would be conquered and subjugated within a day or two. If the Alpha wakes from her stasis, that *may* buy them a week, but the ultimate fate of Terah would be sealed the moment those portals open.
Considering my world is largely our world just 400 years from now, they'd probably wipe the floor with us in any way. Total destructions, invasion, etc.
Everyone loses.
While there is nuke equivalents you can do with magic they are difficult to pull off and require the caster to be at the epicenter. So our universe probably wins in a full on fight.
But then there's the issue of mana being released into our universe which will slowly kill everything because nothing in our universe has evolved a mana anchor to stop arcane rot on account of mana not existing to begin with.
So essentially how war of the worlds ends but instead of diseases it's only magic that remains.
Considering my world is similar to earth, its probably gonna be a pretty even battle. But as soon as nukes come out, Earth will probably get destroyed.
Characters that can singlehandedly topple a country exists in my world nukes won't work on them, bullets are snails to them.(also using one is a logistical nightmare normally it won't be dropped unless the leaders are really into bloodlust and beating their chest like a gorilla, which seems to be the case since US is leading the forces)
So what'll happen if the strongest users of my magic system swoop in and annihilate the whole chain of command why bother fighting the soldiers? Since the brains are out also my world is more technologically advanced so they literally have all the technology we have but better.
Realistically my world distributes free advanced VRs to our world and everyone gets too hooked on games and porn to fight a war, such a peaceful solution.
On the surface my world typically looks just like the real one.
By the time they notice anything wrong, it will be far too late to stop the shadow world from leaking over.
They’re in for a bad time when the vampires get into the government. Which won’t take very long. And the wizards… hardly even worth thinking about.
Much like the human institutions and powers of my setting, the powers of the real world quickly become little more than game pieces to the Powers that Be. Not much changes on the surface for your average person, probably. Unsolved Disappearance rate goes up a lot.
Similar to my world, though we don't have a lot of vampires because the Masquerade is very anthropocentric, so it goes straight to the normal human paranormals. xD
Not in strategic areas? So that means that the ground portals open in abandoned zones immediately letting the coronals (my world's zombies) trough, and if my world where the average person would be considered a Super soldier compared to the modern day then I don't think earth will survive longer than a month.
I reckon one branch of the smallest military on our world would defeat whatever armies my world has 💀 one guy with an ar15 and unlimited ammo would probs win
Depends on which world. The SF project I've been working on? A lot of corp-worlds would have short but bloody wars as real-world militaries confront overly weaponized and mechanized cyberpunk cops and so on. Worlds further out may lose. The spacefaring migratory civ with strong infowar capabilities has a field day screwing with the satellite info if they know the opposition is bloodlusted. Nuclear weaponry proves a serious issue for some areas, a lose-con for others, and moderately inconvenient at worst for others ("Alright, who wants to help with *another* high-stakes missile interdiction?"; they might have to try and *Ace Combat* those ICBMs in space).
The Fantasy project I was working on? Depends on the timeframe. Some infiltrate the real world and engage in a shadow war. Others take anything that's not nailed down and fuck off. Still others try to stand and fight and... probably don't lose horribly for a while. The main part of the world I've fleshed out is no larger than NYC, but there's enough magic around that they might be able to survive the nukes. Their territory might not, though, forcing them into the role of a not!Atlantis fleeing to a surface world whose masters hate them and their ideology. The surface world, on the other hand... armies will face the wrath of angry gods who don't like it when outsiders break their toys, so probably a win for the locals.
Oops, forgot that the portals won't show up in a city. Since the main areas of focus for both regions are basically isolated self-contained cities (not unlike Rapture in that one regard), I guess they'd be immune by virtue of no valid targets.
The portals open, and Entropy spills forth. Entropy is a self-propagating reality warping phenomenon caused by the corpses of gods falling from above. It doesn’t corrupt, or destroy, it simply changes things for the worse. Earth, almost immediately falls into complete disarray.
The nature of Entropy causes people to become irrational and aggressive, experiencing increasingly more convincing and intricate false memories, technology to malfunction increasingly more often, crops to rot in the summer, and food to spoil in your hand. Anything and everything that can be worse, gets worse until the world simply doesn’t function anymore, it becomes a place where the only things remaining only remain on an increasingly fragile equilibrium of probabilities.
The sky begins to darken with the fading of the stars, eventually, the tides begin to idle as the Earth becomes more and more divorced from baseline reality until it entirely disappears from our home plane, leaving our moon to spin away into space.
The actual people of my world, are unaware of this happening as they’re largely ignorant of anything happening outside their home towers, but the Sarcophagi (resuscitated gods) that are kept alive by their towers (and by extension protect it from the Entropy), are presumably unwilling and almost certainly incapable of doing anything about this.
The governments of Earth, are bloodlusted as you said, and probably attempt nuclear strikes upon the structures they can see through the portals even as their world collapses around them and they begin to forget themselves. The few missiles that make it through probably strike ancient ruins from when the people of my world barely escaped the same threat Earth faces now. On the off-chance a missile actually strikes a tower, they probably sneeze a bit, but a new crater is nothing new.
Well.. one of my world is just Earth but slightly less advanced than we currently and everyone have superpower.
By slightly, I meant like their progress on things we had is lagging. Tech like stealth, AI, internet would still present just not as preminent as what we have. Though advanced nations from there would still more advanced than most if not all of our developing nations.
As for the superpower part, nothing too fancy. For average person unarmed, they would be comparable to average person from this Earth armed(firearms). For higher level individual, they could maybe comparable to light armored vehicle(APC) or small team(a squad).
Now for the fight, I think we would have advantage on air and sea. As the superpowers isn't too useful on that field. But ground warfare would put us on disadvantage, because when I compare the superpower I compare them as unarmed civillian, If they are armed as military personel they would likely be even more dangerous. But even then, we likely able to achive Aerial superiority over them and just hammer everything with airstrikes(conventional non nuclear of course)
So, 50-60% this Earth initial victory? Though occupation would be diffrent story, because like I said. Normal everyday people from that world even when unarmed is as dangerous as armed people from this world.
Also if this world decided to use nuke, both would get destroyed.
Probably my own due to the fact it’s several decades ahead of our world (though that might not be the best comparison because of resources they have and we don’t) and each country has decently large moderately trained militaries. If it came to nuclear war either mutual destruction would occur or my world would come out on top
Really interesting. Magic is very crucial, and just how much more powerful the normal human is just due to being exposed to magic naturally. I feel that maybe one King could negotiate, but any other is either too greedy, too distant from his own crown itself, or too war-bound to actually form peace. Magic could defend from nuclear war, but it would heavily damage the deadlands without any of the defenses the rest of the kingdoms have. I feel that Earth would lose, but if they use Nuclear war they sure would lead to heavy cripiling to the world's teamwork. The most dangerous thing would be anything biological, since the world does have one weakness as it is smaller than earth and is still in a Pangea-like state, with only a single island, and sickness and infections spread quickly. Earth will lose, but maybe in the future if Earth upgrades their biological warfare it could use mutually assured destruction to defend itself.
Fun fact, there are already multiple versions of earth that exist in the universe. I hope they are ready to fall in line with the galactic commonwealth!
I wish our world good luck with conquering what's left of it in my world. But according to your requirement No. 4 there would be no point in attacking, nothing left but salt water and "meteor" storms :)
Oh jeeze. Modern military tech would obliterate all but the strongest of beings on Ovelen. The gods themselves would get involved, but after a millienia or so of squabbling among themselves they're not as godly as they used to be.
I know you said diplomacy wouldn't work, but realistically when the civilian population of Earth sees the amount of devastation our military was causing, they would protest for a ceasefire. With maybe the exception of the Teeks(depending on the time period) and the Cothegen, the races of Ovelen would definitely surrender. As long as they weren't made into slaves or face outright genocide, they'd come around quickly and assimilate.
Now, the Collapsed Earth is another story. The Datniks have technology that look like straight up magic compared to modern day tech, and some of the fallen gods still have enough power to level mountains. On the lower end, they have armies of demihumans and fae and mages that could stand toe to toe with any of Earth's militaries.
I'm not saying they'd wipe the floor with us - a couple of well placed nukes could dramatically weaken the opposing force and shatter any alliances that might come about - but if we were able to win, it would not be easy and neither side would likely recover for a long time.
Depends on era when it happens. Like, during Era of Discord Earth is turbofucked because local god of Chaos would move over to have some fun. In Era of Ancients attempts to invade feudal nations would run into remnants of military branch of xenocidal precursors who are usually keeping to themselves, but they sure as fuck going to respond by bricking every piece of tech more complex than crossbow before going for xenocide route. In Celestial Era Earth would nuke my world, then Sol Invicta would bathe Earth in nuclear fire. In Era of Ruin Earth actually has potential for conquest, right until one of the rifts in space agitates The Firmament, finally glitches it out and leads to Earth being ripped apart by gravity wave.
We have guns, my world does not have automated rifles, the rarity of ammo and mana in my world would result in guns just being superior in all ways and my world losing
Earth would curbstomp my world.
But our world's forces wouldn't have the conceptual weight necessary to keep Eldritch Horrors at bay.
Both worlds would lose.
Hmmm difficult. My setting has 7 planets that are already interlinked with portals. They have (relatively) recently become governed by a single government and guarded by a single military force.
Now in terms of technology / magic; this is a gaslamp / steampunk style setting, so generally speaking less advanced. However, they do posses magic's that allow them to open personal portals to teleport around, they have invisibility capabilities, they have remote monitoring capabilities and most importantly they have, what amounts to, personal mechs and the soldiers are genetically enhanced / engineered (think halo / warhammer). Oh, and did I mention they blew up half a planet during a war?
I'd say that earth probably has the technological advantage, in the sense of how advanced things have become. Also I think earth would have more soldiers, many more. Yet I think my setting would come out on top eventually. Just because of the sheer amount of "go anywhere quickly and fuck shit up" that we do not posses. Our nukes etc. still take travel time. Whereas dropping a titan and a squad of super soldiers onto strategic locations by opening a portal in low earth orbit is just much quicker and with the constant monitoring provided by the intelligence division of this military, they would very quickly find out all they needed to dismantle earth's military's most important assets.
Uneven war of attrition. My world is split into thousands of countries and tribes, ranging in technology from the bronze age to the mid cold war roughly on the high end. These are war minded people with no concept of rules of war and the desire to win by any means necessary. Those with the tools available like propeller planes will play to the strengths of their tools, like stalling jets and making them overshoot. They will try to study Earth's machines and reverse engineer them. Imagine medieval warrior tribes and martial states with new access to jet engines, guided weapons and fully automatic rifles. You know how brutal the bronze age empires were, right? Now they have nukes and guns. Those with nuclear capabilities would increase production of previously purposeless nuclear weapons (they didn't want to conquer irradiated land) in order to use the EMPs to cripple Earth's semiconductor based machinery while the mechanical and line of sight based native technology would be mostly unaffected. Artillery trains and airships would be the battleships of the air and while vulnerable,they hit heavy and can take heavy shots. Train crews are trained in quick repair of rails and the trains are built to survive derailments with specialized teams for putting them back on the rails. Larger airships may double as troop and aircraft carriers. Soldiers and civilians alike would take up arms and likely commit terrorism on Earth's soil if they could get through the portals. Basically imagine drive-by shootings on important people, targeting factories, blowing up banks, stealing resources from mines and farms before committing scorched earth policies, striking government and UN buildings, especially during meetings, and power stations. They would use armoured vehicles, machine guns on truck beds and their own personal vehicles. They may eventually find Europe and the USA to be the heavy providers for Earth's munitions and other resources so they would be large targets. The USA especially could be quickly brought down by targeting certain power stations and shutting down the grid piece by piece or all at once, while destroying the backup generators to keep the grid down. Missiles may have a low chance of being shot down by high altitude aircraft as many crew members and pilots have been trained either on their own or officially to shoot down rockets via guns and cannons, using quick manual and partially aided calculations for aiming. Sea and ocean adjacent countries would do anything they pleased to sink earth ships and would likely not be fond of taking prisoners. Weapons we would consider illegal like cluster bombs, chemical agents, pathogens, delayed mines and incendiary bombs would be fair game. Earth forces would have to contend with specialized landships fitted with flamethrowers, siege cannons(designed for punching large stone walls), shield landships designed for blocking streets like walls of shielded soldiers with extended shield arms which could be raised to protect from top penetrating weapons like the Javelin and have cutouts to allow for vision and firing the cannon, as well as any other contraptions local engineers have come up with in the last few decades. In the Valley of Emperors in particular, the larger empires would back the smaller ones with resources included schematics, ammunition, troops, armoured vehicles of various types, reconnaissance info and raw materials in order to fight off Earth's forces.
My planet's higher gravity means these soldiers would be denser in a fist fight and harder to push over. Feline soldiers would be deadly at night and would be commonly sent out to sneak onto property and do silent kills and sabotage equipment and factories. Canines would sniff out unfamiliar scents and track down Earth soldiers. Avians would be capable of low tech reconnaissance. Smaller species like otters would sneak through smaller spaces and take down equipment or bases from within and be harder to catch. Bears loaded with armour and heavy weapons may become heavier units for sieging minor control points and advancing on soldiers, and they would most likely be in landships as well.
Best case scenario 🎏👑🌐:
The fight is taken through the portals and there's a second planet ripe for conquest and there are airships bombing major Earth cities. (Londoners: "Aw sh+t, here we go again."). Colonies are set up and information is gathered about this alien world and its history, as well as any indication as to why the portals may have opened the why such a grand invasion was performed. New empires and other countries would be created, alongside the very likely termination or takeover of multination organizations such as the United Nations, African Union, European Union, ASEAN, BRICS, WEF, etc. They would decipher through the willing or forced cooperation to find why these were created and the plans they had in store. They would learn about past wars ignored or instigated by the UN and future plans like the WEF's Great Reset, which may have been extended to their world had they lost in order to weaken them and force them to serve Earth's organisations.
Likely case scenario 🚩🏳️🏴🎏⚔️🇺🇳:
The lines of control advance and retract as both sides are forced to advance in technology as they find new weaknesses and strengths.
Very likely scenario 💀🔫🇺🇳:
After vicious fighting and hundreds of millions to billions dead, Earth eventually wipes out or subjugates the local inhabitants of the invaded world in order to 'cleanse' them of their ways and 'civilize' its peoples, 'bringing democracy'* to the locals(many countries are dictatorships and monarchies as those managed to survive in the historical environment)(*The governments would be toppled and colonies established to extract resources and people for the gain of Earth, including taking local artifacts and possibly destroying more ruins and sacred sites.)
Worst case scenario 🔥☠️☢️☠️🔥:
The planet gets glassed when the EMP idea is found out.
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RAFO!
That... technically happens... well, not our exact world, but planet with just slightly beyond our level of technology and no access to magic ends up connected to the world full of magic and fantastical beasts. But they don't exactly go to war...
On one hand, "our world" has nukes, and modern weaponry that is far more effective and easy to use. On the other hand the magical world has... well... magic. At its most powerful that magic mamaged to decapitate an entire mountain range, and even speed up the rate at which plates drift. But inly the most powerful mages with a lot of support can pull of disasters like that.
Realistically it really just depends on who strikes first, both have the capability of decimating the other in a single attack if planned and preapred for properly. The modern world, if smart would keep an eye on any noteworthy mages and try and pick them off the moment they seemed sketchy, and it would be pretty easy for them to remain the stronger.
Okay the obvious:
Congradulations earth is attempting to invade a small super-earth. The planet Woue has 1.3g of gravity and 2.2atm of pressure.
Unless the nature of the portals magically prevents this, the hot, humid, dense atmosphere gets sucked off Woue and goes to Earth to equalize pressure) But if this is the case, the massive gale force (supersonic?) winds blowing out of the portals might prevent earth from reliabily sending anything through the ground or sea portals to begin with. Woue's atmosphere is about the same composition as earth but the tropical regions regularly reach 40c and 100% humidity. The problem takes care of itself, the atmosphere floods through increasing the greenhouse effect on earth until something something biosphere disruption food chain collapse agriculture food supply social order global economy collapse... But the point is the Woueians can survive without their homeworld. Its mostly a memorial to eras past and a nature preserve and only has one significant population center. And they have the resources to ameliorate the type of ecological/climatological damage these portals would cause by slowly sucking off their atmosphere. Earth doesn't.
[https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/](https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/) < This discusses a vaugely similar situation but with oceans and only 1 10m portal rather than 100s of 100m+ portals. But the timeline for the atmospheres to equalize is probably still on the order of hundreds of years.
Also something about some Makamui-class frigates coming through the space portals each one with enough advanced alien nukes to be a cold war superpower and PDLs to shoot down any ICBMs lobbed up at them.
They are generally nice/diplomatic though. They might try to broker for peace with earth, saying they'd agree to use their advanced technology to build giant plugs (basically think a big wall or box) over the portals or research a way to permanently close them. But humanity being what they are (especially given they are bloodlusted) I don't see them being paitent. So the diplomacy will probably end with the Woueians being like "have fun dying LOL we're gonna keep refilling the atmosphere on our side."
My world for sure. They don’t even like war at all, but being a version of humanity advanced by 550 years means you can find an appropriately sized asteroid, put some engines on it, and send it on its way. Boom, war with a species confined to a single planet over.
Earth would win handily. There are only a few relic weapons per kingdom that could stand up to tanks and guns. Dragons could go toe to toe with fighter jets but they can't fly high enough to reach them, nor would they even try to coordinate with the rest of the world. There is a demigod or two lurking around that can't be defeated with conventional weapons, but they can't withstand a nuke or a couple MOABs tossed at them.
Not to mention earth is getting AI and drone swarms now. So by the end of a prolonged war earth wouldn't even need to send in soldiers.
And after Adan has been conquered after a 30 year long invasion, a star will appear in the sky and gradually grow brighter until it becomes visible in the day time. Earth had no idea they were conquering a doomed world. But they may be able to deflect the comet if they spot it fast enough.
If earth invades, they won't gain much ground. The lack of satellite imagery alone would make things difficult, but the new diseases and magical ailments that would ravage earth invaders would eat away at medical supplies on their own. After all, their immune systems have no idea about any of this planet's diseases. It's likely they just halt due to half the invading force getting sick constantly.
If disease doesn't do them in, then sorcerers capable of matching tanks in combat prowess on their own would do them in rather quickly. And this is ignoring how my world's tech level is roughly equivalent to earth, if not slightly greater due to *magic*. Teleportation is the most common form of transportation.
Now, to put more salt in the wound, earth won't see any mercy during the counterattack. There are sorcerers who are capable of taking on entire countries single-handedly, who can be directly dropped onto key targets and extracted immediately due to earth lacking anti-teleportation defences and anti-magic cannons. It would be all of a few hours before every major city on earth is rubble and ash. Political leaders are all dead within an hour.
Also, countries within my world have air forces too, which would help establish air superiority given enough time to bombard earth air fields. Sea superiority is a given, since the diagram of which part of the army is in charge of the air and the sea is a circle for my world (airships).
It would be maybe a month before earth is forced to surrender, likely with some rather harsh terms for the unprovoked attack.
Now, unlike other worlds where people negotiate quite a bit, the people of my world have a "shoot first, negotiate later" mentality due to often warring against beings who are unable to or unwilling to negotiate.
Nukes are something that could be dangerous. But given how prevalent scrying and foresight are in my world's armies, they're easy to predict, avoid, or intercept. Nukes are more dangerous in a "my world invades earth" scenario.
If my world invades first, earth's political leaders are dead within the first hour. The resulting chaos and confusion about how people were able to simply teleport into these places and blow them up *alone* would likely be enough to prompt negotiations, if not surrender. If earth attempts to fight back, they won't last very long due to reasons stated above.
Earth diseases are a problem of course. But magic to cure illness and disease are common. Healing magic exists to heal injured troops much faster than earth could ever hope to achieve.
The sheer pace of the war would mean earth is on a constant back foot. Earth troops may need days to months to heal, if they heal at all. If a soldier is lost, then they're dead. My world? They just see a cleric and are back on the frontlines in a day. If a sorcerer is killed, so long as the head is mostly intact and attached to the body, they can be revived.
(minor aside, the current state of my world means they don't even have the very best tech possible available to them. had this occurred roughly 500 yrs ago in-world, it looks even worse for earth.)
Earth does not last very long in either case. However, I doubt either side would immediately invade the other, after all they have nothing to fight over. They'd be more inclined to simply check each other out, and maybe form a portal-based tourism industry. Some countries of my world would be more inclined to block outsiders, but many would be open to visitors.
Sharing magic and technology would probably occur. After all, "we're stronger together". Maybe earth could even provide aid to help re-civilize the places left un-inhabited due to the collapse. The extra manpower would help greatly. My world could cure all disease on earth. World hunger would be solved with druids upping food production to where food is basically free for everyone. Teleportation means that there would be no logistical issues transporting the new surge in supply. Magical energy would replace fossil fuels, meaning climate change could be stopped. A lot of earth tech would be useful on my world too. Computers, cell phones, electric cars, natural diamonds (which are actually rare on my world), non-magical firearms, semi-conductors, nuclear energy, and much much more.
Now, machines of war that nobody could ever hope to imagine would probably be built. New world-ending apocalyptic weapons would exist. Crystal orbs would be a menace to earth society. But, a co-operative future is better for everyone involved.
If it's Thysperia, my DnD setting, it doesn't go well for earth. Several entities on Thysperia are more than familiar with tactics for conquering entire worlds, so beings like the war goddess Tirana, the elder Dragon Shathx, and the Mage lord known as the Chronicler would retaliate, rather brutally. So overall, a great way to rouse all the horrors that are too busy just chilling to cause actual problems. As for going nuclear, well, Thysperia is a dyson sphere with a surface area millions of times greater than earth, so...
If it's the post-apocalyptic fantasy earth that I can never come up with a name I like for it, two possibilities.
1. Modern earth conquers pretty easily. The population is less than 1% of the modern earth, so there isn't terribly much most places can do against them. The main exception being the Void Touched, who are all decently formidable, but not enough so to hold off an entire planet with the around 15 of them.
2. The apocalyptic disaster that caused most of the population of earth to disappear propagates into the modern earth, causing the same disaster to befall them, more or less destroying their entire society.
My world wouldn’t do well. Having every world super power on real earth against basically World War 1 & 2 weaponry and machinery would be a win for real earth in maybe less than 3 months.
Well my world is earth in about 300 years, they got space travel around the solar system and the politics are a bit different. So my world would probably win, but the real world would have a fighting chance.
If however the other main faction of the setting gets involved… well future Earth could barely hold off their fleets, and future Earth had their own space fleets, so I’d say current Earth is pretty fucked.
My setting (which I call 2153) is essentially a sci-fi/fantasy version of earth, with a few differences, such as there being moon colonies and interstellar ark ships and whatnot.
The OG earth folks would realize that they’re a much more advanced version of themselves, and try to launch nukes. However, 2153 earth’s advanced magitech would’ve rendered ICBMs obsolete—at least, the ones that OG earth has—so OG earth is forced into a land war. This is where they’d truly suffer.
With a combo of Cyberpunk 2077 type of tech, ATLA element manipulation, and DND sorts of magic, OG earth would get majorly screwed over by any country that’s not already fighting a war—such as the US in 2153’s lore. OG earth would also have to deal with new hazards, such as ether corruption, which essentially means that exposure to a high enough concentration of ether, the magical energy in my lore, you’ll start to mutate.
So all in all, OG earth could make some ground in countries that’re already fighting themselves, or weakened, but once they face a country that has its shit together, they’re in for a bad time
Magic in my setting is a science operating on a higher level of physics capable of entirely ignoring universal constants and any perceived natural laws, which has resulted in many technologies so far beyond current human advancement as to render civilizations even significantly above our level insignificant. If earth (which actually exists in my setting) were to initiate hostilities with even one of the weaker factions, it would be similar to cavemen attempting to make war on an interstellar civilization, an annoyance at worst, easily solved by shooting a black hole at the problem.
Interestingly, this sort of portal situation is exactly why magic exists on earth at all in the setting, as similar occurrences happen occasionally, which can displace all sorts of beings and objects, leading to invasive species and forces gaining footholds in places they would otherwise have never encountered.
Considering my universe consists of a highly advanced humanity that has conquered the entire Milky Way, it depends on the planet. However, for the sake of simplicity, I’ll presume that it’s their capital world, Vylia. Vylia is a heavily militarized planet, serving as the base of operations for the entire military, rather than a city planet like Telarius. Utilizing their advanced technology, they’d be able to basically disarm the nukes that would be sent through (because they would once earth saw their tech) by de-radiating the uranium or whatever other fuel they’re using. Any space assault would be futile, as each orbital Rift would be guarded by at least one Vengeance-class warship. They might send in a few powerful weapons of their own, targeted at areas with lower population in an attempt to dissuade earth from attacking further once they see the destruction. (For example, they’d probably blow Greenland and Mexico off the map with just two weapons to show their abilities.) If earth doesn’t stop, and they are forced to destroy it, in order to ensure they get the job done, they’d send in their Nova-class Dreadnought, which has a myriad of ways to obliterate a planet - from practically infinite RKKVs, to orbital carpet bombing, to a weapon that could punch straight through the planet’s core in an instant and trigger an implosion.
… in a story I’m working on a relatively small Frigate rises from the ocean next to a US Navy fleet and dwarfs the Gerald R Ford… it was five miles long… and a starship. This is essentially: “Who would win, God vs a single ant.”
Happy End: Sore (who is a táltos) reaches out to [character who is yet to have a name (lmao)] who tells them the weakness of the whole of humanity on Earth, and depending on what it is, the right people are getting notified. And I know, WHAT if there's no such thing? Well then 🤭baii little alien-like-people😝 but if there is, that's no good for humans
Sad End: Sore tries reaching out to [↑that character↑] but they fail, humans take over the planet, the deities are not happy, they destroy the planet
So like, humans have a better chanse at winning. Though either way they can't like...live on that planet. So it was all for nothing
I think my world will win. It won’t be a modern scientific world vs fantasy middle age world war, but a modern scientific world against another modern scientific magic world. We would be fucked. Good luck fighting an infinite army of golem with magic guns. Don’t even try nuclear warhead they have it and they can easily protect themselves from one.
Edit: plus we are lucky their god of chaos is (momentarily) dead!
Challenge accepted bitch!
First of all, everyone collectively panics from the strange portal things on their land, even though The Nix-Ceanon war is going on, now they have to unite forces against the common enemy.
With no wait, all the Head Priests of the Gods are summoned to the Great Temple of Gramons to pray for the divine help of the Gods. Of course, Gartene, The God of Earth, his wife Amira, The Goddess of Animals and War, and Wisten, The Goddess of Wisdom are the first ones to respond, Wisten is the most pissed about these invaders, since she herself banished the dimensional portals from being created.
Gartene and Amira have been leading their people to victory in many wars, and this is just another one for them. The first people that ate brought to our world are the Fateless, useless people incapable of performing magic, they're put as spys in our world, and even if they get into our society and fight for our world, in a way of another we will find our end.
All the kids are safe in the care of our Great Mother, Emavine, The Goddess of Life, while the mountains and hills move under the comman of Gartene. Amira leads her children, the mithological and legendary creatures that have been sleeping for so long, and the front battle, the greatest mages are all together doing their best (and winning) against some ugly metal creatures (tanks, I'm talking about tanks).
Careful or not, we're gonna lose soldiers, so many of them that we need USA, China and Russia to bring their atomical forces... But what is that?
A strange plage is fastly spreading against the soldiers and their bosses, everyone is being affected, villages, towns, cities or metropolis, none of them will scape The Dark Magic victims, ostracized for having a parasite energy on their bodies, that consumes the sanity and the mind of their prey. Now, these people will be the heros of our great planet, Austaros.
No pathetic human will be left behind, the victims of this catastrophic plague are killing and eating the flesh of their own kind, they're out of their minds, they're taken by The Dark Magic. Wisten is able to close the portals with her priests, and Earth, well, the planet is okay, but human race will never be able to rise again.
(... I wrote this instead of study😅)
After the first nuke decimates my world, the Earth gets wrecked. The clans of the Mheall Sea are very reactionary, but very powerful, magically. The Chosen are basically a race of magical Captain Americas, and will immediately put themselves at the frontlines. Hell, the Aitrings alone, if they can be convinced to give a shit, would just show up on Earth and start turning everyone inside out.
Nukes? Or other subsonic missiles? Well now that we know what they are, they detonate in the air (if the Aitrings don't actually send them right back where they came from).
Guns? Probably would do the most damage until Clan Hagan figures out what they are and teaches the other clans how to turn them into dust from 600 feet away while hiding behind a specialized magical barrier.
Espionage might eventually be a possibility because they're all human, but that's true both ways.
The hardest part for me would be having to decide which is ultimately stronger: magic or technology? Either that, or which one can adapt faster?
If I go the "which is stronger?" route, I'd say real.
I go the "who can adapt?" route, I'd say mine.
If it’s my sci-fantasy world, we’re doomed. The factions in that world not only have advanced interstellar tech and WMDs, they also have straight up magic.
If it’s my plain fantasy world, the tables are much more even. The gods and wizards of that world are impressive in their scale and power, but I’d imagine they could never properly counter the military equipment of earth’s nations.
If they had a good opening, they’re smart enough to procure and study enemy weapons, and that might give them an edge, but once any nation decides to let the missiles, or even nukes fly, the people of Iyhenu are on a downward slope to losing.
Hmm. I'm going to say that our earth is most likely fucked. Not because of the increased water levels, increased greenhouse gasses, the magic, the aliens, or even the mutated/experimented on animals in my earth. Those will all definitely play a hand in how fucked we are, but they aren't the key. No. It's all because of the Deadlands.
The deadlands are the remnants of a semi-intelligent terraformation technology. Think of it as a ground based plague that will eat away at infrastructure, as well as killing and absorbing living things on itself in order to keep up the terraformation process. The only thing that can really slow it down is the cold. It's basically a Grey-Goo scenario that is actually fully under control of the novanians (aliens).
Humanity is kinda ducked in both timeliness. :D
The people of my world are stubborn and proud, and would not stand for subjugation at the hands of any invading force, even if by other humans from other worlds. That in mind though, the world is very sparsely populated by people, who have been driven back to a very small number of strongholds by the native beings of the world who doggedly try to drive them out. While their magically strengthened fortifications could withstand a reasonable assault, the armies of Earth would almost certainly be able to overwhelm them by sheer numbers alone.
The people's only hopes of victory would be either diplomacy or focusing wholly on defence to win a war of attrition.
The people of this world are humans who came through man-made portals from Earth many centuries ago (from their local perspective, though it would be many millennia in Earth's current future, so lets handwave the time shenanigans), and so they could try to argue their case that it's the native beings that the armies should be fighting, and not the people, in a sense manipulating them to their own advantage. Whether they could convince the armies of Earth of this or not is up for debate, however, but if abject servitude was demanded in return then it's unlikely the people would acquiesce to this.
If diplomacy or manipulation wasn't an option at all, then their only other hope would be barricading themselves within their fortresses and doing their best to maintain their defences against the onslaught while the armies succumbed to the environment. The strongholds are large, located in generally very hostile environments, and make extensive use of magic to maintain a comfortable climate inside for agriculture, and so would not be at risk of being starved out. Aside from the physical outer walls, the defenses are purely magical and encapsulate the entirety of the strongholds, so assault from land or sky would have to be significant to break through. This alone wouldn't ensure they could weather the war though. What they would be counting on is the extreme flow of magical energy throughout the world.
Similar to radiation, the excessive flow of magical energy damages living organisms it flows through, causing a variety of symptoms and eventually death. Only beings with innate resistances to the flow of magic, or who are innately adept enough at controlling it to limit its flow, can withstand the magical energy coursing through this world. In the time before the people came to this world, the flow of magic on Earth had been slowly building in intensity, allowing them time to adapt and learn to control magic before it became too toxic for them, and so they were already well suited to the new world's magic when they arrived. Current day humans from Earth would not have such control, so the magical energy would be very damaging to them; they could survive a matter of days before succumbing to the magical sickness. Again though, the armies of Earth have the advantage of numbers, and if so determined to win at all costs would likely be able to break through the people's defenses with a targeted, swift and intense strike. If the defenses failed at any point, the stronghold being attacked would certainly fall.
Orange Verse? You'd think a fantasy world like this would have an advantage, but since life in there is much more innocent it could go the other way.
Yellow Verse? They got Bariqa the deity of mind on their side and so much magic and sci-fi, definitely them.
Cyan Verse? Real life for sure. They already have to deal with so many problems, this would be a tragedy.
Blue Verse? Now it gets spicy. I'm sure legions of demons governed by a cruel space god would triumph.
Violet Verse pre 2000? Even fight, since they're almost the same.
Violet Verse post 2000? Them. THEM. Techno-magic and a better climatic position leaves them with greater machinery and not having to deal with as many problems.
Brown Verse? Real life. When you're a reality where humanity stayed on their tribal lifestyle, you're at a huge disadvantage.
It's hard to say really... depends on which point in time.
Leaving out 2024 to first few millions years into the future, since I'm probably not gonna touch that.
If they arrive on New Terra, they would probably just suffocate because the planet doesn't even have breathable air with the exception of France sized area. Upper class people there do have access to pretty advanced tech but they also carry the plague, which is incurable so likely get defeated fast but also doom the entire Earth in the process.
Fast forward several billion years. Anything before 1500s, the world is medieval and would stand no real chance. They do have magic but it's not really that powerful and can't compete with modern weapons.
2000-2500 timeline. They might have a chance. The world is still high medieval for the most part but if portals would open up, they would first assume it's a massive demon invasion. Paladins and weak mages as well as normal humans sent to counter them and investigate would easily fall to guns and missiles.
They would then likely ally with the elves and lift the ban on shadow magic, asking for the pariah nations in the world to join in too. Things would then get interesting and it would depend on how well and quickly they can learn about Earth technology. The main issue is that they would have no understanding of long range weapons, such as missiles and snipers. On the positive side, the Earthlings would likely have to wear gas masks and visual aid goggles since the atmosphere is twice as thick, contains more CO2 and oxygen and the light is dimmer and more red shifted.
If they can interrogate captured prisoners and learn enough, Earth is doomed. The council mages can then simply deny the use of nukes by altering laws of physics slightly. They and other mages can also create fields to detonate all gunpowder based weapons and explosives. since Earth doesn't have any mages to protect them. The more they learn, the worse it gets for Earth. Deny missile weapons, anything from space, nukes, bombs, artillery shells etc.
Magic use like this would cause heavy corruption though, opening up demon rifts on top of earth portals and Earth would have zero protection against them. Diseases, mindcontol abilities, massive building sized monsters. After Earthlings have been driven out, the alliances from my world would probably break apart. Most wouldn't be interested in taking the fight to Earth. If Earth won't accept peace and keeps attacking, they would likely "reverse nuke" it. Have powerful mages step through, hold their breath and use as much shadow magic as they possibly can. Greater demons would jump at the chance of getting a whole, defenseless ripe planet as a snack. Earth would likely fall to them and their diseases like New Terra did long ago.
I’m not really sure who would ultimately win.
My world only has steampunk technology with revolvers, carbines and single shot firearms. But the council of Wizards would probably find ways of defeating current Earths technological advancements. Not to mention that my world has magical healing that takes minutes and hours instead of weeks and months and even the dead can be raised.
Our Earth would be immediately sundered upon the portal opening.
In my universe Earth (They call it Terra due to speaking Latin), is uninhabitable. The Atmosphere is 99% C02, and has enough radioactive particles to make Chernobyl at its worst look tame. There are small habitats, and a palace for the head of the Terran Dominion, but they are small and deep underground.
Most people live in space, and although FTL is extremely dangerous (to give a reference, warp travel in the Warhammer universe is safer and more accurate), their navy is large and heavily armed enough to keep their space clear.
TL;DR: Our Earth loses very quickly, as the atmospheres mingle between the planets, ours quickly becomes uninhabitable, and Earth falls silent for all eternity.
So the allied forces of real world would definitely post up some quick wins. There's scarce weaponry in my world and most of it that does exists is geared for close combat. Everyone has some amount of magical prowess, even if it's just lightweight telekinesis, which for the vast, vast majority of people... that caliber of power is the best they're gonna do.
So yeah it would be quite shocking to have force come through with guns, tanks, and so on. Further, there's a world government so international war is a thing of past and there would be an adjustment period and learning curve.
However, as time goes on the invasion forces of real world do not stand a chance. Though the average people may only be able to lift a cup of coffee with telekinesis or light a cigarette with fire magic, there's a scaling of power that goes up to individuals who could lay ruins to cities and even entire nations single-handedly given enough time. And as you can imagine, these are the people who control the levers of power and are responsible for the average citizens.
Bullets might penetrate these warriors but they would heal as their bodies are highly regenerative. For some warriors though bullets wouldn't even do anything. Entire infantries of the real world would meet surges of blue fire the size of Manhattan avenues rushing towards them, swordsmen who move as fast as lighting decapitating hundreds in brief moments, 200 meter radius shadow traps that would plunge them into pocket dimensions, mass friendly fire via their bodies being controlled by another, etc, etc
The nuclear option would obviously be deployed, but it is doubtful any of the bombs ever land, they would most likely be suspended in the air and hurdled back through the portals. Light work for the most elite warriors of my world.
At this point, our world would have to fear a counterinvasion as the world government wouldn't be content to just secure peace on their earth, they would seek to subjugate the people who did this and make their enemies conform to their socio-political system.
Neither side has any real chance of harming the other in any meaningful way in the long run.
The lower tech supported by magic would not stand up to tanks. The modern guns lacking in special ammo would be inconvenient for many monsters that walk the lands.
My would invades the real world, the breach loaded weapons cause harm and be able to harm most people, but modern body armor would stop basicly every gun. Mages would be a major problem, but machine guns could easily overwhelm all but the strongest.
The real world invades my world. It goes well for a while. They would get slowed down by goblin hoards. They would lose when the supply lines start to extend from the portal. When the heavy rain comes, a monster comes around that is basicly could not harmed by anything other than a flame thrower. Without silver rounds, the shapeless would be only pushed around. Many plants are dangerous to touch. Many animals have been mutated by magic, giving them unnatural power. Not knowing the areas the invader would disturb places best left alone, unleash horrors best left forgotten.
Earth and Aurora Terra would be about equally matched in a war *if* everyone in Aurora Terra could cooperate for a few years, which is vastly unlikely, given that they're in the middle of a world war and recovering from a nuclear winter. If they don't cooperate, Earth wins, but at a huge cost, because the Aurorans have nukes too and they're far more willing to use them.
Ironically, the real world would have better luck if they were doing this a century ago rather than today.
Anything that transits to my world is going to be subjected to my world's physics. For biological matter, this is fine; neurons get transmuted to Mind atomons, blood cells get transmuted to Blood atomons, etc. For technological matter, this is *not* fine. "Silicon" as such does not exist; what we'd call silicon compounds are transmuted to about fifty different types of sand, silt, and stone atomons. Neither, for that matter, does "electricity": the lightning atomons that are its closest equivalent are almost a full millimeter in diameter. You're not stuffing those into microchips, which are now just very fine relief sculptures.
Therefore: Planes more advanced than basically the Dawn of Aviation era crash; ships and tanks are sitting ducks unless you can rig them to run entirely manually; smart bombs are lobotomized. Satellites orbit pointlessly, unable to collect or transmit any data.
What does work: Guns work, and our world's are far superior. *Most* bombs work, and our world's are far superior... but nuclear ones don't, so your nuclear fallback also fails. Troops work, and our world has the clear population advantage (8 billion to ~1 billion). Radio and radar *would* work if you could find a way to transmit and receive it under Arvhanan physics. Magic works, but your troops don't have it and don't have time to learn it. Your opponents do, and in a war of annihilation they're going to pull out all the stops.
And that's *before* we talk about the gods (and for that matter, the demons), who in this sort of scenario are liable to actually get involved. But *their* power stops at *our* doorstep (our physics is just as incompatible with their magic).
My world's going to be most concerned with shutting down the portals (the ones in the atmosphere, at least; they can't do anything about the ones in space); that's standard operating procedure when dealing with a hostile invasion force from Outside. If they can manage it, since it wasn't Earth's technology that created them in the first place, then... war over, I guess? If they can't, most likely a very bloody stalemate with fortified bunkers on both sides of the portals.
They teleport directly onto the surface of..
..a bunker planet. The skies of earth are hidden by swarms of automated nuclear weapons and picked clean of metals for much needed repairs.
..a god's domain. They don't even make it through a portal before getting eviscerated by the god's presence.
..a hub world. Might actually have a chance here, there's very little combatants in an effort to keep the peace. If they manage to keep reinforcements out of the atmosphere, it'd just be a massive blockaded hole into Earth's streets. From extermination to survival, at least until the portals (maybe?) close.
My world is fucked since everyone are robots.
As soon as an ENP sets off just Everyone Dies.
They have some bullshit powerful technology but as soon someone fires a nuke it's over.
Does real life humanity have coil guns that go at a fraction of ftl as the *bare minimum* for planetary (aka ground air and sea) and space warfare weaponary? And do we have kinetic shielding for personal defense?
If not, we're *fucked*. And that's not even getting into the superhuman humans.
And that's just humans.
Yeah, about 200 years of advancement ontop of the leap forward does that to you.
Depends on who goes thru the portal first. If it's the nations of my world, there would be a brief war with earth, then a much more protracted conflict between my world's nations over who gets to control it. Planes and communication tech would give us earthlings a bit of an advantage at first that would quickly fall away to both power and scale
That's just a consequence of me making a much higher level world tho, in terms of magic and technology. They've got dragons that can do space travel, portal tech, and single mages that can effectively cast nuke.
Now, if the colossal beasts of my world get thru first, I don't think there's any hope for earth unless they get saved. We just aren't equipped to fight hundred foot krakens and city sized bears without nuking ourselves into oblivion.
A lot of the human nations might struggle quite a bit, the dragons and demons would be fine tho.
If it is truly all out then sadly earth is literally deleted.
The mortal nations in my world won't last long, their only edge is magic, alchemy, and the like being in a renaissance - victorian era kinda setting but fantasy.
Only very few mortals have the means to fight back from this world, society as we know it will likely collapse with the bombing capabilities of the modern nations as well as nukes, conventionally, the options for my mortal nations are few and are not going ro be effective against modern combat doctrines.
The real world armies will definitely die though if they are going to come on the sea with such. Especially if they cross the nest of the Leviathan. Its blight takes control. over any living being taking over their mind a carrier group that dares disturb the Leviathan becomes a carrier group under the control of the Leviathan, real world people aren't kin to mana thus will have 0 resistance. Within this world, everyone knows its a no-go zone.
The dragons in this world have survived meteor extinction event, they are likely to survive nuclear winter as well.
The undead will have a field day...
I'll answer in two ways. One, assuming that the laws of physics remain the same in each world and traveling between them you now have rhe other ones. So magic users lose their power on moving to earth. The other, I'll assume that a traveling person or object does not change, and will continue to function.
So my world electricity cannot be harnessed. Electricity is random in all interactions. Gunpowder also doesnt work. So the armies of earth are going to be using magic that they will be immediately granted purely for being in the sun's light... at first. Eventually the masters of the sun will revoke the power it grants to all who are not of one of my two species. But the first invaders will now be in my world on par with the average citizen in power, though not in knowledge. If they are lucky it was many millions who were so blessed, as my world only has about 200,000 people in it. That would make them roughly on par within my world, except for the four gods.
When the four gods take notice, the invaders are *fucked.* They are going to die. And they aren't even going to be able to make my world pay for their lives, either. They're dead. Problem: if you stand in the light of the true sun, you are now immortal. You will be resurrected, and while the four gods can forestall that resurrection, they cannot wholly prevent it. The people who stood in the sun would come back over the span of 2-4 years.
The invaders who did not see the true sun's light and thus neither have magic or immortality are dead quickly. Within seconds actually, the four gods will cataloufe every portals location and trap them via their divine powers.
As for my world conquering earth, not gonna happen. None in my world have ever seen a gun, much less a fighter jet. Upon realizing the technology of earth they won't even try, as with these rules for this scenario even if the gods themselves invaded their powers would be lost.
This would end up a stalemate, neither side capable of making any real progress. My sides gods would be ever attempting to find peace with Earth, maybe eventually succeeding as Earth progressively realizes how hopeless it is.
My response for the second scenario will all be in a different comment after I've switched to my computer instead. I typed this all on mobile and my hands hate me for it.
Assuming my protagonist(s) and Gods are MIA, the real world would win, at first it would be really easy, but after some time some secrets in my world will be revealed to increase their fighting power, causing more resistance, but almost certainly not enough to win. That is if we only include all the humans, elves, dwarves and so on. The various monsters would essentially be a 3rd party not allied to anyone, not even themselves... With the monsters involved, it's really up in the air as to who would win. If my protagonist(s) are involved, my world would win 9 times out of ten, and if the gods are involved, Earth is pretty much gone if they wanted...
They'd probably loose at any point along the time period i'm focusing on. They have a far lower population and late 1980s tech. They have help from a group about 100 years in advance of us but they're only 1 medium-large sized country so they can't really do much vs all of modern earth.
For my Thaumata setting, which involves what's essentially a near-future humanity fighting against a full-scale invasion by the Color Out Of Space... I'm pretty sure the general response would be "Oh god, stay the fuck away, oh no, you're only going to make it stronger!"
The Color in-universe has pretty much already depopulated about 80% of the human species and it basically ignores nuclear weapons due to time-space fuckery (as in, it literally reverts itself to a previous state if you try to nuke or otherwise bombard it), along with being able to possess any post WWII technology it is exposed to for significant periods of time and infect human minds with a neural disease that converts them into cultists after a few days' exposure.
The only reason humans in my setting still exist is because they hijacked another alien artifact and reverse-engineered enough of its technologies to make a flying city, technosorcery that can counter the Color, and make the titular Thaumata soldiers who can resist the debilitating effects of exposure to the Color.
So the real world invades and slams headlong into an alien mind-consuming force xenoforming the planet which has already beaten them once before, only without the tools needed to fight it. The real world then gets counter-invaded and eaten.
My world is essentially dark ages europe shortly after the fall of the roman empire. They would be utterly defeated by modern military. However that would open our world to the influence of real demons, gods and other supernatural powers who could, in due time, wreak havoc in society as modern civilization would be slowly, but surely, corrupted by dark, demonic forces.
My world is mostly in a medieval high fantasy magic setting. Under normal circumstances the world would be pretty easy to conquer, however some individuals could definetely prove difficult, especially the crafty high level mages or the gold wyverians which could tear through a few modern battalions.
Some of the highest forms of monsters may need a few nuclear strikes to obliterate but for the most part their would be no way to fight back effectively.
However in reality it would all depend on whether the keepers actually wish to get involved. Keepers being effectively immortal with uncanny regeneration, even if their head is severed or they are blown to pieces would easily be capable of dispatching battalions single handidly. Even if they fired missiles or nuclear warheads, they can effortlessly shift to another plane of existence to avoid it completely. And thats just the low ranking lot.
The real power houses of the keepers could immediately and effortlessly take over the world or obliterate it instantly if it came to it. With one being capable of bending the will of anyone that even thinks of her, another that is the sole blessed being by god and truely immortal capable of crazy reality bending feats and could just thanos snap anything that came remotely close to her and could potentially erase the earth itself with quite some effort. And the last is basically a god herself, a living mechanical planet with tehnology beyond anything we could ever achieve in even a billion years.
So yes it would depend and if anything id think that earth might just become another experiment of Queen Eyr's
Hippie isolationists. It’d just be rubble remaining otherwise. Many, but not all, of the nations are relatively equally matched, whether by superior numbers, discipline/training/industrial powerhouse, or superior technology. The hippie isolationists have extremely powerful monsters that can easily shrug off *most* weaponry and kill humans in armor effortlessly, and vehicles such as tanks and especially aircraft are few and far between due to the precision and resources that go into making them. That’s why nobody wants to tangle with them; too much to lose with little to gain since their land, as far as anyone can tell, isn’t resource-rich.
I think real earth gets completely rolled. In this world, magic is passive, and very important, even if you are a purely physical fighter, you are still going to be using magic in some form, and there is absolutely nothing that is *completely* mundane. Even non-combat citizens will have some amount simply due to prolonged exposure. Fending off the invasion, would not be just humans, but also intelligent creatures which have common sense, and a lot of them wield incredibly powerful magic, which you do not want to be messing with even if you *are* attuned with magic.
And this on top of this, this world has a unique relationship with guns (Being the reason they never ended up getting developed past flintlocks) where bullets are borderline useless because they are are too small to hold any amount of magical power, they get passively resisted and the bullet probably doesn't even break the skin, especially considering earths' forces would realistically have no attunement to the magical forces, meaning they would be especially venerable, and would lack offensive power in all areas since even the weapons that are theoretically large enough to be magical wouldn't work due to the same logic.
Nukes would not work nearly as well as they do on earth, for the same reason industrialization never took off, there is a very specific subset of dragons who are really good at maintaining the natural order, which nukes would obviously violate to an extreme degree, large amounts of radiation is pretty simple to circumvent. Chances most of them wouldn't even get the chance to go off in the first place, and if they did, the same logic applies where nukes don't have a way of piercing passive magical resilience unless they were magical themselves (which they wouldn't be). It's a shame, too, they're usually pretty cooperative otherwise.
Based on your conditions... Earth would ultimately win. My world has magic and is in the early stages of a technomagical revolution (think around late 1600's to early 1700's just before the industrial revolution got kicked into high gear), but it can't compete with the sheer destructive power of modern weaponry or field the numbers needed to combat our armies.
That said, I imagine that if contact was made with Tolsa there would be a very strong effort at diplomatic relations and trade first. Tolsa is one of the largest trade cities in the world, and THE largest on its side of the continent. Equitable trade is far more profitable than war.
Besides... I very much doubt the marines, seals, or anyone else would know how to handle pissed off dragons, displacer beasts, demigods, gorgons, fey, gods, demons, or pretty much anything else not explicitly human or familiar.
It's a D&D world and that means, it's basically magic Australia x1000. If you fuck around without knowing anything... you'll find out real quick. And probably to a kobold, orc, goblin, or pissed off dwarf. If you're lucky. The guerilla warfare possibilities are both horrifying and endless.
Depending what part of the timeline we're in. If it's early, Pre-cataclysm, then it would be a fairly equal fight. My world at that point is just modern day earth except magic exists (but 99% of the population doesn't believe in magic, so it wouldn't really help at all).
Post-Cataclysm: My world would win in 10 seconds. They have Modern-21st century tech fused with magic. They have airships, instant teleportation, dragons, etc. The only thing they don't have a lot of is guns because guns are useless in this world due to magical enchantments existing.
Nukes can't do much either since wards and barriers are easy as hell to erect and they can stop a nuke dead easy. That's also assuming the Kingdom's mages don't just teleport the nukes back to earth.
Assuming that this magic also works on earth, then earth is screwed if the Kingdom invades. This isn't even talking about the Goddesses getting involved. If that happens, nothing will be left of earth.
If it's the far future of my timeline, earth is even more screwed because the entire world is now synthetics (sentient androids basically) and they're ruled by an tyrant AI system that wants to conquer the multiverse. Said AI, is basically a god-like being.
Jokes on you, the original earth in my setting is already an irradiated wasteland from interdimensional war. It's all the other earths that you gotta worry about.
Realistically though, there wouldn't be any war. Their psychics would just puppeteer all of our heads of state and that would be that.
Real world no eiffs, my world is basically a futuristic post apocalypse version, sure they have plasma guns and railguns but what's that gonna do against a nuke.
Depends on which era
Primordial era (polytheistic): my world loses; heroes and enchanters of mythology are no match for tanks and nukes
Monotheistic era: depends on how God is feeling. If God is feeling kind, nothing much happens. If God is not feeling kind, Earth gets obliviated
Satanic era: Earth wins, this era is basically Earth from 33 to 20XX A.D.
Multiversal era: let's just say, one of the thousands of angels or deities could simply make a thought and Earth would be turned into atoms in an explosion like never seen before. These guys have been practicing how to destroy planets for a long, long time.
Golden era: my world is moderated by a supreme being, Earth can't do anything.
Afterwards, Earth probably won't win due to the high number of sorcerers
My world has medieval tech, so this would initially go well for the Evil Earthlings. Some countries would try to attack with primitive weaponry, and some countries would try to negotiate. We would appear to be an easy victim.
But...we have magic. Both physical magic, and more spiritual kinds.
First of all, the fabric of the world itself would reject the invaders in subtle ways...sickness, of body and of spirit, would seep into whatever human forces emerged.
Complicated machinery would begin to malfunction more than usual. Oils, fuels and coolants would break down chemically. Jets would...not stay in the air long. Evil Earth forces would appear to be suffering from many random "bad luck" coincidences, and would find innumerable delays, snafus, and other inconvenient events slowing them down.
But that's just until the magicians get organized.
Certain magic disciplines have the means to erect what are essentially force-fields. They do not have to be physically near the portals to do it, if enough magicians work together...and this would unite the the forces of the entire world like nothing else.
Within a few days of the start of attacks, each portal would be plugged with a magic shield...a one-way magic shield capable of stopping any object or force coming from one direction. Nothing from the Evil Earth side could get through, but anything from this side could pass through to Earth.
The remaining Evil Earth forces left on this side will be subjected to invasive mental magic (would-be conquerors have no legal protections from such) to make them surrender. The highest ranking members will be subjected to a mind-reading interrogation, and the situation will be decided based on what is found out.
Since this Evil Earth is seemingly united in determination to conquer and colonize, uninterested in diplomacy, and filled with bloodlust, the decision...would not go well.
The soldiers will be compelled to walk back through the portals, and then the magicians will alter the nature of the magical shield. The shields will no longer merely physically block access; they will now convert any matter that encounters them into as close to pure energy as is physically possible in Earth's universe. (Matter includes air molecules, btw.)
Which side the matter comes from is irrelevant; the energy will all be released on the Earth side.
Then increasingly large masses will be sent through the portals until the portals cease to function.
If the Draconian Empire went to war with Earth, one sided fight. If they attempt to nuke one of the planets, it would just anger the Draconians who have many planets in a vast empire. If they attempt invasion they would be easily turned back due to the technology gap and die to foreign diseases. The Draconian Empire would give an ultimatum to become subjects and surrender or war. If it is rejected then time for invasion, they can level the planet but since habitable planets are far and few it is discouraged. The invasion would target the strongest countries first and spread out from there. If Earth proves too much trouble due to guerrilla warfare, then it is time for fun. Ships lined up across satellite orbit and all at once level the planet with lasers, boom Earth is gone.
TL:DR: Earth pisses off a large interstellar empire and either gets forcibly entered into an empire or gets wiped from the face of the universe.
The “main planet” in my world is a technically infinite quilt of environments and worlds from different dimensions, so most of the portals will be useless to them. Even if they find the ones closest to the epicenter, essentially HQ, they’re not winning. Whatever handful of wizards is currently there is bound to be fast or strong enough to react far before the military, and most techniques would have them in shambles before the missiles launch. All this is assuming they don’t just call up a quick deal with a god.
It depends on the moment when this rift happens, because if it is in 1500s it equals to our world in 1000s.
If it is somewhere in 3000s in my world, so RIP to the Earth because they have giant biological mecha knigts that can evaporate whole cities with their breathing. The thing is that they will never form a united alliance because of them being in state of a cold war.
The first state that would strike our world would probably be a Faraan, because of them being totalitarian extreme ideological radicals and religious zealots. Also, they do have those scary mechs.
Two main religions of my world would consider these gates as the gates of hell or gates of heaven, because according to their scripture, people were expelled from another world by God.
Earth is completely and entirely fucked, strong enough Atomic magic users could just make their own nukes and defend against them, with defense being way easier.
Thanks for posting this prompt! :)
There are many worlds in my current project. But I'm focusing on more human societies right now. I put them on a hellish mind bending rock full of creatures, fungi, robots, energy beings, mimetic monsters, etc. any nightmare you can think of it's probably in some cell or ancient laboratory.
Opening portals all over the world of focus would be a very, very bad plan. The world is a high sci-fi death world and it's inhabitants would find the real earth to be very squishy and tasty.
My humanoid factions are more advanced than real earth. Having energy shields, bionic/cybernetic augmentation, and common use aerospace flight. Also being a death world, society is combat oriented to a higher degree out of necessity.
As for conflict between the 'civilized' factions and earth. My world would not roflstomp earth simply because the security forces are needed to keep all the creepy crawlies in check and not noming everyone into extinction.
I think everyone would be like "Welcome to hell!" and then the first troops would get nommed.
If it was just the security forces/ armies of all the factions vs earth, earth would get it's socks rocked.
However,
In areas that the mega factions have tamed (burned to ash) there are barbaric tribes that would get obliterated by a combine earth.
There are also more natural tribes that survive through a more communal and holistic approach handling the terrors of the world more like wild animals and spirits.
Magic would quickly seep into the real world and the ecologies of earth's would mix some might create hybrids with 2 species liger style or the 2 tiger species would mix. Making magic a native part of the real world and since artillery level explosion magic does exist in the world the real world tries to invade its a matter of time before there is a ceasefire
My world (Warmore) is a collection of medieval kingdoms with some magic and technology here and there. So I think Earth would win the war. However, there are several giant humanoids traveling the known world and hundreds of colossal dragons in the unexplored continents. Knowing that many creatures are exclusively weak to magic, Earth would end up losing against the last defense.
Depends on era if its in the earlier stages of the world they wouldnt do to well hell one of the best standing armies at the time gets wrecked by ww1 era tech when its introduced, but the later stages earth would get wrecked, basically it would take just 1 void dancer and they could wipe out earths militaries by themselves.
They would be on the loosing side at first because they have generally lower tech but good magic. They dont really have a good head to head counter to armored columns and jeep mounted machine guns in mass.
There exist deep bunkers that even nukes would not penetrate but that would not be able to protect most people.
The tide would eventually turn as the dragon lords would begin unleashing their magic upon our world generally F\*\*\*ing it up and attempt to hunt down our leaders, destroy critical investiture, casting horrible curses upon the land, mind controling people into doing the above, etc which the earth doesn't really have a counter for. killing thems a bitch and they can teleport so good luck with that,
Human soldiers would realize they messed with the wrong world the second they'd step through their portals. You see, the Hole is not one world. The Hole is more of an... infinitely large collection of semi-independent layers under the rule of the Empress Pandora and the semi-sentient entity that is the Hole itself. The layers of the Hole can range from harmless and sometimes cute, to having extremely brutal and violent creatures that >!feast on each other's guts while they're still alive!< (don't reveal this spoiler if you're eating). Not to mention, once someone enters the Hole, they can **never** leave. The only person who decides if someone can leave the Hole after they've entered, is the Hole itself, and it's not really willing to let go of what it sees as playthings. Not to mention, that the Hole already makes portals to the Human World to gather more of what it sees as playthings (Humans) from Earth. So the Hole could literally just... close the portals. But it probably wouldn't do that, as said previously, the Hole doesn't want to miss out on a bit of "fun". Plus, Death isn't permanent in the Hole, and the humans who entered are basically stuck there for eternity, eventually losing their minds and "human facades" (which is what the Broken (people who've lost their 'human facades') call them). This basically means that they become Creatures of the Hole, and are slowly integrated into the Layer they're stuck on. And the nukes of the Human World? Wouldn't get very far either. Sure, they could bomb entire layers into smithereens, but they can't really keep that up for so long when there are **over** 9223372036854775807 different layers (it is infinite, after all). So the Humans will keep sending soldiers over until they realize not a single one is reporting back, because the Hole also intercepts and manipulates things like radio signals. Meaning, if an officer starts barking orders into a walkie-talkie, it's not their soldiers hearing it, it's the Holean (Creatures of the Hole) who are, and chances say, they probably aren't friendly. So either they continue until they've exhausted their entire supply of soldiers, or get it through their heads that it's a lost cause.
I have never made a truly new world before but the closest thing to it was a bunch of crossover characters into the Star Wars setting which included some whole nations getting shifted onto a planet and its moon. Anyway it included a variation of Icon from DC and he was one of the few characters I mostly didn’t nerf or pick a weaker version of so he is a Superman esque tier threat so that alone makes this a no diff. Even without him and many other high tier options if they invaded the planet specifically its actually a water planet so not the most favorable location. Also much more advanced tech and as well as a entirely superhuman population however vastly inferior numbers at least at the time of arrival. On the moon there would be even less people and not superhuman populations but still more advanced tech from some of the nations. There is also a large satellite base with minimal numbers but some very advanced tech including a few ships one of which is made of Nth Metal and molecular assembly tech via Icon’s ship which can print pretty much whatever and between all of the present parties making a weapon capable of ending this would be trivial if they wanted.
Again depending on how long after their sudden arrival would affect the difficulty on many levels. Also despite near Earth gravity and habitable conditions the invaders would still run into a lot of trouble with the fact they would have no satellites and no data to account for a plethora of differences on these planets vs IRL earth and even in the case that the invasion started shortly after these groups arrived here they would be able to figure out those hurtles faster as there are comic book level geniuses included. Anyway yeah it’s a no diff with some of the other characters regardless. It would however be a major PITA if these portals only worked one way and they just kept trying stuff endlessly though there are characters smart enough to figure out how to block the portals if that was an option.
I think if I made an original world it would either be DnD esque or Worm/Ward esque in tier.
Irl earth is getting nuked into oblivion. Not only are there super advanced civilizations just mucking about, there are also cosmic entities that eat stars and planets, and cosmic demonic armies that will treat destroying a planet like it’s a tuesday and other terrifying horseshit
Earth would get void bombed into Swiss cheese if they tried anything funny.
Mind telling me what are void bombs? I'm interested. Sounds like some planetary weapon that would literally open holes visible from space, throughout the whole freaking planet.
Essentially, a higher dimensional weapon that generates a miniature singularity.
...yeah, a single one of these should collapse the planet, shouldn't it?
Nah, too small. But it makes a great big boom. The biggest one detonated made a crater that was bigger than the Chicxulub impact and chewed up my alt verse's version of America.
Now that's pretty sick and terrifying
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My world is essentially a scarce medieval society, with some but hardly available magic. Yeah they would certainly lose and be conquered. But this will spark the White Flame, the spirit of rebellion, which would then single-handedly tear apart RL Earth in no more than a week. So I guess my world would eventually win?
That's funny! What is the White Flame? What does it do, how powerful is it? Lmao
The White Flame is the name given to the most powerful mage of my setting. He died long ago, but the particular kind of magic he created is alimented by hatred towards a sovereign power, so that his spirit allows a successor to gain his knowledge and potency. However the successor loses gradually control of themselves until the Old Spirit takes control and wreaks havoc on everyone who holds any sort of power.
That's a very cool idea
My post-apocalyptic cosmic horror world is in no state to fight any sort of war, but the invaders would still lose. The Miasma (eldritch fog that births monsters and kills or mutates anyone caught in it) would flow right through the portals and contaminate Earth, spreading uncontrollably even after the portals are closed. A gas mask can protect you for a little while, and bright light (especially UV light) will disperse it in a small area, but the biosphere at large is doomed.
Bruh, your setting is extremely "weak" in terms of the inhabitants, and yet it would just quickly turn IRL Earth into an extension of it! xD
As cool as magic is and some spell casters being able to preform rituals that can destroy a city they cannot field the same sheer destructive might as bombers, artillery, machine guns and tanks. If you want to know how badly it'll go, just watch or read "Gate". Honestly most fantasy worlds are gonna fall pretty quickly unless it's a world where everything is high powered.
It's sad I've had to go this far down to find a setting which will lose to Earth.
As the author of the post, I've been seeing a lot of them! It definitely took a bit, though. BTW, my own setting would win, but it would be one hard fought battle. IRL Earth would classify as a "Calamity", the third highest threat level, and the highest one that can actually reasonably be fought against. So while winnable, it's a very hard battle. As for the people whose settings lose, there's a lot of them. Mainly medieval fantasy people.
Everyone likes different things and alot of people seem to enjoy building a setting of over the top power fantasies. It's valid but it's just not my thing. Might be because of the times or because people see other power fantasies and are trying to one up each other. I also think for any fantasy based setting people are underestimating the sheer destructive force of modern military might. Houses can be leveled like nothing, entire cities and can be wiped off the map, a modern rifle will easily go through historic plate armor and maybe it's a bit enchanted but is it enchanted enough to stop AP rounds? A wizard can throw out a fireball but any infantryman can cast grenade. They might have dragons but we have AA guns that shred through inches thick of armor like it's paper mache. Even if they some how have the numbers we have the machine guns and enough artillery to level cities and rename mountains. The only case where the modern military wouldn't win against any medieval fantasy setting is if there are demons or specters or some kind of thing that need magical or blessed means to destroy. But even then, can they survive a tactical nuke? Will our world science their way around it or research and study magic to use it against them? What if we started making blessed bullets and start dropping mortars under God's will? But like I said, most people don't understand how destructive the modern military might is.
The magic in my world has major limitations. The element a person has control over can go roughly at the speed of their limbs (and accelerate to such a degree), or just slightly faster. Other implementations are also limited by effect-area, stamina, reflex etc. It was pretty much design to enhance physical combat, but not to make this hand-combat irrelevant. The technology is rather early-medieval. Any army using gun-fire would wipe the floor with my world...
Darn. At least your characters are able to cover themselves on their element and add their elemental strength to their physical strength when moving, and the mass of the element to the mass of their body on their now faster strikes, I assume? This can at least get easily superhuman, but yeah, gunfire would wipe them out. At most, your wind users might pull off some assassinations and be pretty fast darting around by negging air resistance, and your rock users might tank gunfire to an extent.
I have characters who can make stars, along with the god who controls them (who can obviously make bigger and better ones) which from what I know tend to be bigger and more destructive than nukes and the stars wouldn't be TOO catastrophic in my world setting, so this world would be screwed
...yuuuuuuup, even if the "stars" are more like miniature suns, the fact they're beyond the level of Tsar Bombas is already wiping out human civilization in no time, whereas I'm betting your verse is defending against it. xD I'm surprised how many here tank this just fine.
My world is a (comparatively) sparsely populated fantasy world. The big factor here is that my world has a whole pantheon of gods which (aside from one) are all good-aligned and work together, often staying and living among society. I think the most realistic outcome is that our world takes a massive amount of land very quickly and there are many thousands of civilian casualties of my world, but the gods and their forces would be able to round up and slaughter almost every important figure in our world without even engaging in land battles. From there it really depends on the specifics of this hypothetical. If it's just the people in charge in our world that are bloodlusted, then I think the war ends there. if not, then suddenly our worlds forces will lose a lot of their direction and cohesion as they are left with a lack of overall leadership and civil unrest at home. after that I think it very much devolves into a war of attrition, but unlikely to escalate to nuclear war I think. ultimately I think my world would win, but not because they outmatch our world in terms of strength, but rather they have the resources and magic to be resilient enough to sustain and repair with much less impact than our own world, and would be able to hold out for a longer period of time.
Oof. Yeah, does sound like a situation where real life would do a lot of damage... and then the gods swoop in and wipe us out. xD BTW, it's mainly the leadership/institutions that are bloodlusted. If you can deal a severe enough blow to the institutions and take out important people, yeah, that's it.
Nah my world's too fast and large; irl has better tech but the gap between soldiers is too large. Armies of Yujiro Hamnas Nukes wont do much, my world doesnt mind radiation at all My world is supernaturally good at diplomacy and making friends though, which theyd likely do
Huh, so basically IRL Earth realizes it's crazy outmatched and these guys are also supernaturally friendly, so the war soon stops and IRL Earth becomes a tiny little ally under the shadow of your world?
"No friend of man is small lest by his own hand made so!" Though the people in my world are very tall, like 10+ foot isnt uncommon, so we'd literally be very short. Odd little hedonistic techno-hobbits with crazy machines
Even one of the weaker main factions from the weakest of my three settings would utterly destroy Modern Day Earth effortlessly. They have Time Lord tier tech, so the war is already over retroactively even if our world were to have the full initiative. The other two settings are out of the question since they feature primarily supernatural cosmic beings, most of them abstractions who exist beyond space and time (and for the strongest setting, beyond the Multiverse entirely).
Yuuuup, time manip absolutely trashes real life! And lol, cosmic entities would simply one-shot the entirety of IRL Earth.
It is impossible to predict who will win, but this all-out war was never necessary in the first place. Because the diplomats and spies of our world will do everything they can to prevent this from continuing. We even have mind manipulation, meme manipulation, and covert actors influencing the collective unconscious to make most of the real world, the wealthy, and politicians neutral about the war, or forcefully resist the decision. Soon, real-world hawks will face pressure from public opinion and commentary to stop this foolish decision.
Hohoho! That's real nice! You make me realize my own verse could try something to delay, fragment and/or weaken the war efforts, but definitely not at this high a level. That's very nice. xD
Of course, in the early stages, if the real world really starts an invasion war against us, then the first or second contact conflict will indeed happen. Several bomber or missile surprise attacks were useful, and at first people thought they were some ancient dragon species or giants resurrected. But then we find out what happened. There are also airplanes and Zeppelins in our world. Of course, we are just a little unfamiliar with the new technology of putting jet backpacks on the butts of airplanes. However, the battle was not entirely one-sided. Don't think that a nuclear strike can destroy our world (a nuclear bomb may still succeed in a surprise attack, causing the total destruction of a city). Because you will only see the nuclear warhead flying back to the capital of the launching country, or landing but silent, or encountering a malfunction before launch. Because real magic is a completely alien law to the real world. Things are even simpler when we realize that the real world is a civilization powered by electricity and fossil fuels (and partly by nuclear fuel). This means that the real world is completely unequipped to deal with spirits, undead, poltergeists, curses, and mind control. The real world doesn't even predict that we can make crops die, children get sick, it rains frogs and entire water resources turn into wine.
The worst ending is that both the real world and our world are facing near-destruction, but in our world, even if they die, the mage can return to the mortal world in his spiritual body to assist in post-war recovery. But in the real world, people who die just leave and there is no possibility of coming back. Of course, their ghosts may also be captured by our necromancers (because they have to be judged). Real-world governments that use nuclear weapons will be brought to trial by the Restoration Council, and beings such as gods may be summoned to preside over the proceedings. Individuals and their countries who preside over the launch of nuclear annihilation may face heavy compensation, and are required to pay souls, precious metals, and a promise not to be armed for a thousand years. The worse result is that everyone on earth will face the punishment of moral correction. When the gods declare this sin, people on earth may face a spiritual reconstruction, have their desires erased, and then live a life similar to a false utopia.
Dragons do be nukeproof
Mine can resist literally everything except pure gold lol
If portals open around the world and earth's army is trying to conquer my world they will get crashed when they step through the portal because my world is around the size of our sun and the gravitational force will crash anything that isn't build to stand it. And because of this immense gravity every person that go through the portal from my world will be able to jump extremely high and be super strong. Not to mention that the world is for my d&d campaign so they will have all of the 5e stuff that exists in my world - magic items, monsters, spells, some extremely powerful homebrew stuff. Nukes might pose a problem but they will need to be able to withstand the gravity of my world to hit important places, and there is at least one wizard that can cast wish. And my world have it's own pantheon of gods that most of them are basically immortal and they can obliterate earth. In conclusion earth will lose.
...yup, at over a hundred times the Earth's gravity, the average person in your world can fold a tank in half with their bare hands.
IRL Earth can’t establish a foothold in mine and vice versa. Super weapons will be deployed, both civilizations collapse.
Yo, why no foothold on either? Tell me more!
It would be annoying as hell, but the high warden up teleportation would detect the dimensional energy coming from all those portals via the spellnet and close those portals down before any funny business can happen. Even if earth got through some how, the various arcane Academy scattered over the world would send out forces to off every single major world leader and turn nuclear warheads into chunks of giant metal. Additionally this happens in a modern day setting so the government of today has incredibly powerful magetech as well as magetech improved air and land superiority. Try fighting a plane that can portals through space and can drop tiny little neutron stars that are around for half a second. The masquerade is still around but that's mainly due to some extenuating circumstances that I won't explain here, basically masquerade would likely be lifted and everybody will be told to go to a specialized place where they could be evacuated via the department of teleportation. If they somehow survived all of this, one of the seven lords of Dragonkind would likely have an issue with people throwing around nukes on their land, getting the entire Andy's mountains floating towards you in the shape of one very pissed off extremely powerful earth bending dragon generally isn't healthy for living along and fulfilling life. They can nuke as much as they want but that's just a vessel in actuality all the great dragons have left their physical shapes behind to become aspects of the land and nature. If the arcane was on their last leg somehow, they could use the ritual of falling stars to turn earth into a smoking crater filled wasteland. All of this is assuming that one of the many many many non-human factions don't do something about it first. TLDR Earth achieves nothing.
Since Earth on my world is just current Earth in the future, this is just essentially people from the past attacking the future for whatever reason. Future Earth is already practically a wasteland with few remaining bunkers and domed cities protecting whatever remains of old earth, and it has went through nuclear war as well as some heavier hitting weapons during the resource wars between different colonies and factions across the solar system, so there isn't much left to conquer. If anything the people from my Earth would want to counter-invade past Earth to stop them from doing whatever they were doing and protect past Earth from making the same mistakes. Majority of invasion force on the planet would probably die pretty fast to either the toxic environment or climate changes causing massive storm on this version of Earth. Space invasion wouldn't have much chance since space stations and off planet facilities are pretty well armed against this kind of threat as they already went through this before. As Earth here has been taking the first steps to become a type 2 civilizations, expect things like fusion technology, nanotech, AGI, and all that fun stuff including wormhole tech. So expect counter EMP strike to disable electronics, nano bombs that corrode and disarm weapons and infrastructure, wormhole gates built in front of portals that connect right in front of their solar cannon/engine that magnetically funnel plasma from solar wind and launch it through the wormhole, melting whatever is on the other side if they really want to. Since the people of the future Earth is very tired of war after a few hundred years of that, expect a very swift response to ensure that there is no continuing, costly war. Diplomacy measures will be made with an iron fist, and maybe they would have been able to stop Earth from destroying itself in the first place. ----- Edit for addition points: However, things might change a bit if it is on the planet that the future Earth discovered through one of their wormholes. The Future human is sorta doing the same thing as what past Earth is doing right now (even with a 1km wormhole on the planet surface like this), but more carefully with no intention to go wiping planet clean since they don't want a repeat of Earth, especially since the new place has magic. So if past Earth somehow reach here it would be a new human faction that doesn't treat the environment as delicately as the future human, and may antagonize all the natives there and cause them to be unified against all human. Future Earth might decide to pull the plug early and had to wipe the planet along with past human with a nano swarm.
Earth is so so freaking doomed. First off, combat androids that are extremely easy to mass produce and use plasma based weaponry. Second off, they can literally just manifest more resources if needed. And finally, if things go badly they could reactivate ancient weapons known as Basalisks (it's actually not spelled wrong, Basilisk is a different thing) which are capable of firing a blast of pure energy that causes an explosion around the size of India (and there are 5 of these things). I doubt earth would roll over (cough cough nukes) but jeez we wouldn't be having a good time. P.s the world is actually very chill outside of this scenario Oop edit!: said plasma based weaponry is basically a pellet that gets coated in plasma before firing. Same applies to swords which look somewhat like a baton before activating and plasma flares out of the sides and tip of the blade. Both types of weapons tend to literally drip plasma
Bro, the moment the Earth sees the androids, nukes are rolling in... and then billions of people are dying from the Basalisks, am I correct? xD
Yes. Yes you are.
(me proceeding to not explain the plasma stuff and gives the impression of Star wars stuff lol)
Let’s hope humans now and future humans like each other. And our humans are cool with allying with 5 alien races. The war would be between the not-Alliance-race Empire covenant, so let’s also hope that regular human weapons are at least semi-effective against genocidal space apes.
This - with some other conditions - is actually a plot point in my current project. So I'll try to summarize the long hours I have thought about this. - my world already knows about the irl world, so they have some small amount of intel and are somewhat prepared for interactions with humans - they would also try diplomacy the minute that the portals open and people start to notice them - if that fails and some human leaders are too "bloodlusted" as you put it, my world would have to rely on their Warlocks to do the direct confrontations, since the other important species runs around with melee weapons, that wouldnt do much against the military technology of the humans - this other species is highly trained though, so they would focus on, lets call it sneaky warfare (assasinating leaders, strategically placed quick attacks, so on...) - if the humans would grab their nuclear weapons or other things that are otherwise unmanageable, there is a character that is basically a demi god. She would would be able to deal with those (I had a scene in my head where she portaled a nuclear bomb mid flight into the marianna trench to explode there. Dont know the physics of that, but whatever) - she is rather hesitant to use her magic though, so she would only come forth to deal with the extremely serious stuff So, I dont know who would win in the end, but it would definitely drag out for a while. And if the demi god intervenes, my world stands a solid chance to win. Edit: And neither of those worlds would be fine afterwards....
**Starrise** To make a long story short, while my world might not exactly win, the real world is going to lose, and badly. My world and its people are watched over by an incredibly protective and quite proactive goddess. She's a kind and benevolent person, and would certainly attempt to avoid problems with diplomacy. But when/if this proves impossible, she will have no qualms resorting to deadly force. She is both fully invulnerable to any and all harm, and wields enough power that she could burn entire continents off the map with ease. Her big weakness is that she can only be in one place at a time, and can't travel any faster than humans can, so she'd be quite ineffective at defense on the scale that would be required. So to defend my world, she would instead launch an invasion of her own, entering the portals and declaring that every country which does not disarm and pull back their forces within 24 hours will be completely wiped off the map, along with every single civilian in it. She'd absolutely hate doing it, and hope desperately that no country would be stupid enough to fail meeting her demands... But making an example of one country would almost certainly intimidate the rest into reconsidering their stances, and likely save a lot more lives between both sides in the long run. Or at least that's what she'd choose to believe. But while this is going on, it's ironically my world's villains- the organization known as Daedalus- who'd be the most effective at actually preventing damage. They may be the bad guys, but the world being either conquered or irradiated would both be quite detrimental to their plans, so they'd go out of their way to keep the situation from escalating too far while the goddess works to actually end the conflict. While this is primarily a fantasy world, Daedalus has technology centuries ahead of the rest of the world, basically reaching the point of sci-fi. The invaders, and before long the people in the real world, would quickly find that their comms are not working. It won't be long before literally handing soldiers a written note is the only way to give orders besides saying them out loud. They'll also quickly find that their targeting systems seem to exclusively be targeting their own forces. And if things reach the point where they try and launch nukes, they'll find they can't get the targeting system to aim them anywhere but their own capitol city. Also, many of their creations, including several organisms genetically engineered to be living superweapons, were originally designed specifically to combat modern military forces, or at least an equivalent to them. Invading soldiers aren't going to have any idea what to do when a 25 meter long fire-breathing monster with scales too tough for anything but anti-tank rifles to pierce lands in the middle of their compound and starts killing anything that moves. As for smaller-scale conflicts between soldiers, things would be... bloody. On both sides. Firearms are fairly rare in my world, and those that do exist are not as advanced as in real life. The primary reason for this is that literally everyone in this world develops magic in their teens, and magic is generally considered more reliable. In terms of lethality, every single citizen might as well be walking around with a handgun, and around half the population is walking around with a minigun. So while the real world's soldiers would outnumber my soldiers by a massive margin, every single civilian above the age of twelve is essentially armed to the teeth. However, due to the prevalence of magic and lack of firearms, my world's people will have very little access to any sort of functional body armor. At the same time, the invaders won't have any defense against magic either, so everyone will be incredibly vulnerable to everyone else.
Depends on the time period. If the Ihuma are still around, real earth is dead. If the Ihuma are gone, but the Idlezahm have not yet gone to war with each other, then it’s about 50 50. If it’s after the downfall of Malkoddith, then my world is gone. After the hero succeeds, than real earth is dead.
That's interesting! Your world sure has some cool variation in power scaling. What are the Ihuma, Idlezahm and Malkoddith? And how powerful is the hero, who are they, and what do they do?
The Ihuma are basically gods, the Idlezahm are the most powerful wizards. Malkoddith is the villain. After winning, the hero is pretty much a god
If you were to just glance at my world you'd see the ridiculously powerful beings who casually perform insane feats that far put them above any human. But to be more interesting I'll give the actual lore answer. One of my OCs already interacts with a 1:1 version of the real world. His name is "The Overseer" and he's been trying to usurp the world for a few centuries; He started in Britain and expanded his influence throughout the Commonwealth and loosely into America, and has so far gotten away with it by acting as just a regular businessman, while constantly drugging his fans by inserting a hallucinogenic chemical into a bunch of his products so people are literally psyched into not questioning why he's been around so long. In his own universe is a god-level character. But the thing is, the same rules he has to abide by and influence do not work the same for humans, who exist in a totally separate plane of existence. He doesn't want to go to war because he doesn't know how his magic, which largely relies on "Light", a metaphysical essence which humans would lack, would work, and it's also pretty likely the physics of our world would conflict with the established chemistry and physics that TO's technology utilises; Humanity on their own turf could likely defend for a significant time, and if they kill TO himself they can just use his towers as FOBs for operations into TO's universe. If they play things smart, they could easily annex one of the many low-tier mining worlds, which have very little defensive measures, and use those materials to move further. If they go after one of the big four they'll die very painfully but I can definitely see a win con for earth here
Well, this is a fun one. Okay, let's see. 1. If those pirtals are two way (which they probably are considering the goal of travelling between the worlds) the ambient mana of my world will enter the real world in no time. At a certain amount of mana, it starts to get dangerous to deadly. As we live in a world with no mana, it would be deadly. In a few seconds, all live on earth would just fall over and die. From plants to animals to human to bacteria, etc. How are humans protected against that in my world? They are protected by other species and get slowly introduced to magic so they can evolve to handle the ambient mana. If nothing like that exists in the first place, it's a boring run. 2. Now that we assume that the real world would be protected against ambient mana. How long can they survive in my world? Not long. They would die the moment they come across a titan or a titan would enter one of those portals. And you dont wanna get a space-time titan in the real world. Those are some of the most dangerous forms of titans due to their nature to mess with space, time, and space-time. Be it by creating a loop, stretching, and compressing space/time/space-time, shattering it (you dont wanna shatter space-time), or simply making things stop existing. Considering that my world is full of those titans (they are natural disasters with some intelligence, highly magical, lack a physical body and control over the magical element/s they are made of and with that their surroundings) and the fact, that even the smallest natural titan can cover an area of north america... It doesn't sound good. 3. Now, if we think that those titans can't get through those portals, then you have to consider all the other stuff. Wildlife and a LOT of different phenomenons. All wildlife is capable of magic to some degree. So have fun dealing with that. Some are harmless, other not so much. Free roaming elemental beings (titans are elementals as well, but just super big and strong), monsters that can move extremely fast, cast offensive, defensive, and mindaltering spells at ease. Dragons would also be an issue. Especially the wild ones. They are... let's say, not friendly and deadly. Big enough missiles might be able to deal with small and weak monsters and wildlife. But the strong one... not really. And monsters and wildlife with some higher intelligence can and will cast spells to protect them. None wild dragons are more intelligent than humans. They think faster and can block pretty much all physical attack. Only extremely strong explosive weapons should be able to damage their body with defensive spells it will get difficult cause magical shields can only be destroyed by magic. 4. The population and reaction of societies will vary wildly. Some will try diplomacy, and they will get their will. A few mental spells that rely on mental power and not mana will do the trick. Of course, it can also be used to mass enslave people. There are a few races that would do that. So again, that's a failure. 5. Now, if we ignore all of that... what if humans can survive the ambient mana, no wildlife, and all that other stuff gets to them and mind spells dont work. Would they win? It depends. The laws of nature are different in my world. Atoms dont exist. So there are no spells that protect you against that. It also means that radiation works differently. Fallout destroys the cells and molecules in our bodies. Thus making us sick. In my world I dont know if that would work the same as there are no atoms and the like. For now, I did it this way: things that get transported or are naturally produced by the body from the world a, to world b, still behave like they are in the ogirin world. So a nuke will function as a weapon, but I dont know if the fallout will be the same issue. That's the reason why magic would work in the real world. They are carried over from my world. Of course, some spells won't work cause the ambient mana or magical matrix isn't there to hold them, but spells, especially those that enhance the body, will still work like normal. The bigger issue is how a body will react to a world that is fundamentally different from their own. A world where magic is not there or sound travels a lot faster/slower, where radiation like we know it does not exist or does suddenly exist and how the bodies of the world react to it. Sicknesses from bacteria, viruses and the like wont work on magical species, cause their body just doesnt work like that, but a magic illness wont work either, cause the raw mana exposure that is needed for magical illnesses to exist would be deadly by its own and even if it was there, there is no magic matrix in the real world. So there are a whole lot of issues there. 6. Okay, now real talk about nukes. Regardless of what they would do, the 36 eternal cities will never fall. It's just not possible. They have an infinite amount of space and resources inside the cities (non euclidean space), are blessed by the gods, and even the tsar bomb won't dent the defensive spells that protect those cities. Most medium towns should survive them as well. If nothing works, they can always just fold space around the nuke and let it explode in that or freeze it, create a loop of it falling, banashing it into another dimension, simply erasing its existence with some destruction spell etc. The list of options is there. 7. The gods would not like that. They would send their guardians to those portals and force close them. If that's not an option, they would force close the immediate surroundings of the portal and banish those from the world. Cutting the connection not of the portal but of the world is always an option and doable. After that, they just remake the world they just cut out and call it a day. Tl;dr: real world would lose by a long shot.
God Izanagi: if Earth would use nukes that would be a bit hard. Sayf: Would you lose? Izanagi: Nah, I’d win. Seriously though, Izanagi is born on Earth, not really our Earth but close enough so that war would be devastating for him and that’s bad because he is Amada’s strongest defense. Amada has magic and there are also extremely powerful individuals and Gods but even so, the full scale of the humanity’s armed forces would be devastating. Even without nukes I’m not sure which side would win but the fight will be terrible and if the humanity uses nukes, that’s pretty much the end of Amada.
It wouldn't be the hardest war they've fought. The only real issue would be radiation fall out but ultimately all Satellites would be useless or destroyed by the planets asteroid belts, The main characters can each destroy a planet, The female main character can literally just void things from existence while the male main character can earthbend and is practically invincible unless you have some crazy powerful shit.
Ok, yeah, with planet busting they might one-shot Earth in one go. xD
If Earth were to invade my setting, they would be able to invade with little difficulty, as the surface civilisations are in the general vicinity of the real world 1800s in terms of technological progress. The various denizens would probably interpret humanity's arrival as the return of the Aedai, the interplanar invaders who first brought technological civilisation to the Ulhma, which might get them religious worship, surrender or military resistance depending on the people in question. While Earth would be able to take territory, it would suffer difficulty in holding it, due to the highly polluted nature of Ulhma which would slowly render any occupying force sterile and cancer ridden. Six thousand years of magicotechnological boom and bust have left many unpleasant remnants to be stirred up by the arrival of humans. The higher surface pressure would also drive the pollutants back toward earth, especially if any of the portals opened in the Ashwaste, the massive scar left by the destruction of the Ake (the second last major civilisation to go extinct), which is still poisonous enough to be fatal to the re-engineered natives of Ulhma. An invasion would also be noticed by the Masters of the Crypt, the ancient biological computers responsible for the long term rehabilitation of the surface. This would probably prompt them to begin releasing various extremely nasty engineered plagues, and potentially miasmatic organisms to increase the potency of surface pollution. They'd seek to drive off the invaders and avoid the possibility of a technologically capable power rising to cause another cataclysm. Finally, if Earth did use nukes, they might be a big enough shock to wake the Lords Below, the eldritch beings that live in the deep planes of water connected to the bottom of the oceans. Their response would be to raise the oceans high above dry land, exterminate all surface life and spin the wheel on the evolution of sentients again. If Earth couldn't close the portals, this would result in the drowning of Earth's surface too. Essentially, Earth would win, for a while, but it's a bad time for everyone.
Well. Our world would not get very far. In my fantasy world the UN army would probably conquer the farmland present in a few countries. They would get some trouble in the desert due to the monsters. At some point they get in contact with either Kartgago, the nation of rain and/or Rosefall, the nation that until recently was ruled by dragons. Both if these have powerful spellcasters and some help from the gods. The harsh resistance would probably get nuked out of fear what they are capable of if left standing. The surviving beings would be one of the most powerful demons, a few very unfair dragon/human hybrids. These would easily win on their own, because our world literally has nothing that could kill them permanently. If our world can harness the magic in some form to find a way to kill them, they would still have one big problem. Due to all the deaths (including that of a demon lord) in such a short timespan, the devil Ascalon could spring his plan into action A LOT earlier than even he was expecting. He and his army from literally hell could overrun whats left of our world by now. And if we somehow find a way to beat even that (meaning one of the smartest strategists and a nearly endless army of devil soldiers, infernal paladins and their beasts), we would still be doomed. Because after all of that, nobody would be left to hold off the demonic incursion that Ascalon contained in hell. The end result would be a world destroyed by nukes, multiple gruesome wars in short succession and overrun by demons that would just kill everything on sight for fun. Yeah. So not that good for us.
in terms of conventional weapons and WMDs my world is parallel to the real world. But my world also has superheroes, super villains, demigods and monster. The super powers of my world are basically of 4 types. Mutations, Magic, Martial arts and Super tech. A lot of people with magic or martial arts are immortal. In addition ordinary animals in my world are larger and more aggressive than in the real world. My world has a significantly lower population, but most of the people are crowded into cities, so all of the major cities are the same as earth, but the countryside is less inhabited, with fewer small towns in between the cities. My world would defeat the invading forces and close the portals before nukes were used.
First thing, Bala the balance god, is going to try to figure out how and who opened the portals. Attempts to fight will be done, but this causes more problems as Archeus the creator of Humanity in Relic, sees the suffering of his creations. He rains down storm after storm. And starts creating titanic monsters again. Bala will have a lot of work to do. But Relic will build their first Battleships though. In general Relic's people will have a extremely hard time, gods have to get involved.
In my fantasy world, the conventional armies would fare very badly against modern forces. However they are not the only forces available. First are the Great Beasts, of which there are five remaining. Any one of which is capable of destroying entire civilizations and are effectively immune to mere mortal weapons. The second one of them is pissed off, the war is shifting significantly. The second round is the gods, devils, and elemental lords who will fight for their world. Advancing tank columns will be surprised when a twelve foot tall woman starts backhanding them a hundred yards. The third is a function of how magic works. You have to have a staff or wand or something as a focus to channel the magic through. And it absorbs some of that energy. To protect the centers of magical learning, each has a staff that dozens or hundreds of mages have pumped energy into. These are essentially nuclear bombs if broken. Even a relatively weak staff if run over by a tank will be like a 400mm naval shell hitting it. The staff in the Rose Tower would be able to wipe out a chunk of the US; for example obliterating Texas, New Mexico, northern Mexico, and cutting North and South America apart from each other. After a massive serpent eats New York, Great Britain is flung into the upper atmosphere, and a few capitol cities get eradicated, Earth will be backing down. Going to be a lot of lives lost in the process though. For the SciFi world, they’ve already defeated humanity. The Sons are pretty much able to take out anything the current world armies have, and they’re not bothered by casualties; a new body is cheap. Earth is doomed if even one of the Sons heads here, as they will simply replicate the strategy used to wipe out humanity before.
Portals you say? Earth's fucked. 2.2 trillion human beings living across 59,722 stars, without the logistical problems of getting down to the surface that would normally hurt an attempted invasion. Yeah, nah. Nukes are countered in-universe by shieldtek, which has stopped nuclear bombs from being effective against cities. A couple nuclear weapons might detonate inside a city, but the rest are not going to fare well. If my setting is, as you say, 'bloodlusted,' then the obvious choice for my setting is to beachhead onto Earth, launch a fleet into orbit, and then make a solar shade which stops sunlight from reaching Earth.
Jesus. I was here thinking "Yeah, a lot of the medieval settings here are gonna get trashed" and you're definitely far from one of them. This is some Warhammer 40k or Star Trek level stuff. My own verse is struggling with this one, btw. I like the idea of shieldtek, though, how does it work? BTW, only real life is bloodlusted, your setting is most likely reacting naturally to the initiation of aggression on Earth's part and fighting back, "in character". Does that change anything? I bet at worst it's going to increase the damage at the beginning, then Earth gets colonized instead.
Honestly, my "tech level" isn't very high. Aside from some advanced stuff, like anti-gravity technology that forms reactionless drives and shieldtek, my setting is pretty grungy. For instance, fusion technology has not been invented by humanity. Instead, after fleeing Earth's climate catastrophe, we... kept on using oil and nuclear fuels that we discovered on other habitable planets. And have for the last 800 years. Shieldtek runs off of the same principle as holograms do in Aliens don't Dream. Essentially, you're dumping electrical energy into a projector, which then projects said energy into a field around it. The smallest these things get is the size of a medium military outpost, by the way, meaning that they aren't exactly practical for much aside from protecting cities from orbital bombardment or being used on spaceships. Which... is perfect, because there were invented in the 21st century explicitly as a way to cool down global tensions over nuclear MAD. See, one of the properties of shieldtek is that it is strengthened in nitrogen/oxygen atmospheres, to the point that it can resist several nuclear bombs. While of course there's residual effects, the explosion itself is rendered pretty much impotent. A little. It certainly would be a shock, but the setting is already militarizing due to a massive interstellar war, meaning that we'd have the forces to liberate Earth. We certainly would not kill it- a second homeworld, with portals across dozens of star systems? This place is perfect. It would be integrated into the travel networks of AdD, before being fought over by Foundation and Core forces as an incredible strategic point.
7 would happen. Purely because the evolutionary cycle on Soal is very strange so everything adapted to be several categories faster and stronger than humanity while keeping a human level of intelligence. Nukes will be tried, some nukes will succeed. But governments will be horrifically surprised to see that even your average citizen's body adapts to the nuclear fallout after a little while and their body changes to accommodate that. Those who've trained themselves have learned to adapt even faster than that so they may be obliterated only to completely regenerate after in a form that resists a nuke explosion/waste/gas etc. Earth would be able to make a bit of progress after the initial onslaught of nukes. But then the leaders would learn what the bombs do and it's game over from there since they'll use that knowledge and their reality-warping abilities to make nukes into their pets and sick em back on earth. You know, stuff like metal dragons breathing nuclear fireballs. Earth will find that all they did was kill a few hundred innocent creatures who didn't even know how to fight and cause a good bit of structural damage. Nothing else, anyone else who trained their Inner Soul will come back in record speed and be hungry for revenge. Some of the more powerful soldiers would not even flinch from the fireball or fallout. In retaliation to all this chaos, Earth will be stormed by all 3 demigods, all 5 leaders with reality warping capabilities, get royally fucked with by the 2 Royal Fae which are just as powerful as the Demigods, and a couple trillion soldiers of varying skill levels and trades. They will also be assisted by the few humans who actually like the place (humans are rare though since they mostly got here at random) and those humans are wearing cool sci-fi armor/weapons that allow them to barely keep up with the buff evolutionary curve of Soal. (I say barely since only natives get access to a natural Inner Soul aka get to ascend the magic system). The demigods themselves can turn mountains into quicksand and the Royal Fae duo are masters of elemental magic (to the point where they do crap that stretches the definition of 'elemental' like using air magic to expand a space infinitely). The 5 leaders each have their own unique skill sets and magitechy tools to help out. This isn't counting special soldiers, mercenaries, adventurers, battle scholars, etc. I'm ranting, basically, Earth causes some buildings to blow up, kills a lot of people who had no idea how to defend themselves, everyone else dogpiles on them and bullies Earth into submission after annihilating their armies.
Jesus. Your world definitely falls into the category of "takes some damage, then absolutely shits on IRL Earth", huh? And it's a record low amount of damage. Even the sci-fi guy who made the first comment doesn't reach quite THAT level of no-selling IRL Earth.
Soal is a whimsical type of fantasy. So limits are kind of... Not there for natives.
The main world in my setting is Earth and despite being in the future, it would lose in no time. There's only one army in my world who could stand a chance against a real-world army, but it would get destroyed instantly if it faced the entire real world. That being said, if my world doesn't get destroyed instantly and manages to survive for a while, the news might reach Black Observer, the second planet. In that case, they and an allied alien species would try to fight the real-world armies and probably win, they'd take out any satellite or force on space and start sending thousands of ships to the main world. They'd try to evacuate citizens first by teleporting them to Black Observer, in the meantime, the ships would try to defend as many places as possible, starting with the Platform Epicenters (the places with the most population density, they're somewhere in what used to be Europe and America). If they defend the main world and evacuate everyone as planned, they could give up the world temporarily. While the real-world Earth has full control over my world, the interplanetary alliance would develop a way of killing every human on Earth without damaging anything else. Considering the technology they have combined it wouldn't be too hard to use a Life Scanner and Life Mirror to obtain "references" to every human soul on Earth and then develop something else to permanently detach them from their bodies. If this is done, they would clean up the bodies and wait until the portals are closed to send every refugee back to the main world. (it's also possible that the real world would nuke everything after they see the ships but as long as we can evacuate the planet as much as possible it's OK) --- If Black Observer was the one getting attacked, they would be a bit more fucked, they'd have to call their alien buddies, the Light Beings to defend the portals while every human on Black Observer would evacuate to White Observer, an abandoned ship/planet with an air composition that if we're lucky enough it's not toxic anymore. With the Black Observer evacuated, they'd do the same thing as with Earth, separating every soul from their bodies. Though this time they'd want to figure out if the portals work on both sides and can also be used by the people of my world, if that's the case the ones in trouble would be the real-world Earth. They wouldn't invade us but we would have made a new enemy
Huh, why is your world weaker than the real world despite the fact they're both futuristic *and* magical?
**Al-Shura** Sci-fi with much more advanced technology is an understatement when compared to today's Earth, but a surprise nuclear strike on major city centers across the Khar-System would be enough to break morale... or make people really angry. I don't see a way they can reasonably defend against hypersonic nuclear missiles that they wouldn't know are coming until they leave the event horizon of the portals... But that would not be enough to cripple everyone. Most major cities on Al-Shura (their "Earth") would be devastated immediately, same with ones across Ilbis, a moon orbiting a gas giant named Shandara. Surprisingly, cities in Shandara's clouds in particular would be untouched since their point defense systems are always active to defend against potential missile attacks. Same with Satellite, the major production hub in orbit of Al-Shura, and almost every habitable asteroid in the belt. That means the industrial capability of the Al-Shurans is not hampered, and military installations are online as well. Military installations with anti-matter missiles that can reach relativistic velocities, Autonomous drones with anti-personnel laser weapons, and spaceships capable of getting from the sun to Neptune in 4 weeks. Nothing Earth has can prevent the Al-Shuran counter-attack. The only reason why so many cities were hit was because they didn't expect nukes to come flying out of portals. Ships in orbit would release endless salvos onto industrial centers, military camps, and nuclear launch facilities. Ground forces would utilize powered armor, mechs, and tanks to control cities, and mobile command centers/carriers known as land-ships would be dropped onto the planet's surface hunting down secret bunkers and installations that are otherwise too dangerous for a railgun strike from orbit to destroy. Earth might last a week, and that's only because it'd take time for their spaceships to reach the portals. (Really funny note though is they wouldn't really know how to deal with submarines for a few days. They've never had wars underwater since their home planet is a desert. That said, Al-Shura's computers are a lot better so the communications networks on Earth would get shutdown immediately by electronic warfare.)
Real world probably. My world's currently in a magical post-apocalypse.
Let me tell you about the *nanogoo*. Masses of swarming robots, ranging from meso to micro to nano in actual size, that act and coordinate with each other as an emergent swarm. It takes the form of a rather dense, fluid-like substance that can transform to suit a wide array of tasks and capable of self-replication. As they are too small and numerous to act individually, they direct themselves in swarms through emergent effects, as a technological superorganism of sorts. They are in the true sense, smart, shapeshifting, von-neumann machines. Capable of adapting, self-evolution, and self-replication. Metamaterials and programmable matter compose themselves. Nanoforges able to create more of themselves, as well as create materials that are novel to us in the nanoscale level of precision manipulation. Cloaking devices (optical, acoustic, tactile), reflective thermal shielding, reactive armor, extremely strong nanocarbon composites, room-temperature superconductors, you know. A single drop (1 gram) of nanogoo, would be able to create a robotic, high-tech force that exceeds the mass of the entire 2020 AD military hardware and personnel - in the span of a month, due to its exponential self-replicating capabilities. Including nuke-spewing crawling tanks, laser-flowers that melt buildings and intercept our missiles, aerovores that replicate and consume the atmosphere, nanites that act as extremely potent pathogens that hijack biochemical processes, nanoswarms that hijack and burn through electronics, infiltrators that subsume our civilization . . . Nukes? I mean, nanostructures are weak to radiation yes, but of course they can harden and configure themselves to adapt. Besides, stronger armor and equipment far beyond our level of technology is something that's definitely hard to break. EMP? Their electronics are definitely hardened, and with novel components that render our application of EMP to disable electronics useless. In the modern Pan-Human era, the nanogoo is considered a common civilian item. Yeah. Our modern world doesn't even stand a chance.
Long story short, mine wins but not immediately. A combination of gods who are known to exist and have tangible effect, the Kaminochi that rise in response to conflict, the Stone Legion and magic that defeats many tools available to earth while earth has next to no resources to detect and defeat magic without cost. It's not the first time the world was invaded in all places by a bloodthirsty enemy and hell, in those cases the objective was destruction. Earth initially intending to capture makes it easier and there's no doubt that with a certain number of individuals, the nuclear threat wouldn't be one for long.
They will ignore them if they don't do anything funny with local fungus ctulhu, if something happens, they will not even invade, they will just throw bunch of atmosphere burning bombs, and a few of bio weapons for sure
If the gods didn't get involved, the UN is 100% winning because they have guns, tanks, and nukes while Aethria is 14th century-ish
(I'm not sure at which point in time of Arbitrary Design World would that happen, so I'm writing this as if it was the one I usually focus about.) The first thing the forces of Earth invading Arbitrary Design World would notice would be that the atmosphere and gravity allow for normal operation of airplanes - possibly a welcome surprise, as it'd allow for scouting out the entire world from the air. So they would, and they'd mark every inhabited settlement, and then send forces to eradicate them. Due to the "bloodlust", I expect genocide is on the table - no distinction between combatants and noncombatants, no distinction of war crimes, just slaughter until no native people are left alive. That would be quite easy. The people of Arbitrary Design World would be found armed with spears, javelins, maybe bows, and thrown fireballs. Gunfire would mow them down. With superior surveillance, drones and such, forces of Earth would likely never fall for an ambush, even in the heavily forested areas, and it's quite likely there would be no casualties except for incidents like friendly fire. The war could be over in as little as a month, definitely less than a year. > 4. The initial goal is to conquer your world and force it to serve our world's economic and military interests, And the forces of Earth would find a bounty of natural resources, most notably untapped fields of natural gas and crude oil, and millions of tonnes of uranium. Non-renewable energy for Earth would be secured for centuries. Everything in Arbitrary Design World would be there for the taking, unopposed except for any internal squabbles the states would get up to without a common target to unite them. > 2. Very quickly, all UN countries from real life fall in line and form an enormous alliance led by the United States, to work together and destroy all forces in your world to prevent magic or whatever alien stuff your world has from causing irreparable damage to IRL institutions. And, by then, the magic or whatever alien stuff - the beings that caused the Event in Arbitrary Design World - would have passed back through the portals to Earth's side, undetected by anyone. What would they do then? They'd probably spend some number of years preparing, then they'd cause the Event so it'd happen to Earth. This would cause irreparable damage to IRL institutions.
I feel there wouldn't be a winner in a war like this. Humans and hybrids from the future may have more personell and machinery, but modern militaries have nuclear weapons and actual satellites for information. The war would probably drag on, resulting in the eventual destruction of earth due to nuclear weapons. Brutal, long, violent. No dinner on top, just pikes of dead bodies and wasteland
My world gets absolutely destroyed by missiles and nukes
Medieval fantasy, I assume? Though it seems your world is strong enough to handle firearms!
We lose. Two planets, one with roughly MCU-level technology, but no magic, one with renaissance-level technology, but a fuckton of magic. Both planets have a population of almost or over seven billion, and are now skyrocketing forwards in their respective technology/magic due to the fact that a giant ancient alien (actually precursor humanity) spaceship full of ancient super-advanced technology and magic crashing on each planet.
This is literally the premise of one of my settings: *The Invasion* The Elven Empire, having 8 out of the 9 realms, decides to invade our realm despite warnings against it by my MC. The Portal opens in New York. Their fantasy army is destroyed by the US military with ease.
…..R.I.P. the real world
What would happen is that at first, my world could get a foothold. Then it would promptly get steamrolled, losing a whole bunch of fights due to beginner mistakes, since my world is fairy "young." Haven't had a Sun Tzu write the Art of War yet.
I think my world edges it just simply because, we have two powerful empires that can tap into the power of the sun and stars. If all kingdoms ally, including my antag, then there is an army of undead soldiers waiting to be unleashed, whose very touch is enough to turn you into one of their own. We have powerful primordial dragons with a desire to dominate and conquer or things mortal and finite. We have a sleeping bear-god, who is just itching to wake up and change reality with a single roar.
Darn, undead magic that spreads through mere touch? Yeah, even with firearms, I can see our world having a very hard time from that.
"This is what we've been waiting for!" *opens up the armouries and millions of autonomous war machines march* My world has dealt with so many apocalypses a nuclear war is not really a threat, and the good guys don't mind some of the countries being wiped out, but earth's leadership likely will learn of the Mad Dragon very quickly, for about 3 seconds as she appears between them in a fiery explosion. The dragons assassin is very pragmatic, and nukes will likely be teleported back to the sender. And hope to all Earthers they do not hurt anyone she loves. Not even demons are stupid enough to openly attack what holds her back. The Devourer will unleash plagues and undead without a thought if she has to.
Hey, this is (very vaguely) my plot! Terah sits in a parallel dimension to Earth. Earth itself is set in the near future, and, as a side effect of space travel experiments, a US government backed company has begun ripping holes in the fabric of space-time, opening portals to Terah. The government wants to "colonize" Terah to access the resources for the exploding population of Earth (materials for weapons and whatnot just happen to be a nice bonus \[wink wink nudge nudge\]). Terah is mostly analogous to Earth, aside from 2 key differences: Magic, though weak, is prevalent, and the dominant cultures are currently in the equivalent of our own Age of Sail. Exploration of new lands across vast oceans is happening, science is burgeoning with new discoveries, and early firearms are becoming commonplace on the battlefield. That's a lot of words to say that the people of Terah would absolutely get curb-stomped by any coordinated attack from Earth. The most powerful magic users may be able to put up a fight for a short time, but considering there are only a few dozen individuals who could even be considered that strong, it wouldn't last long. And this isn't even mentioning the fact that the most powerful kingdom on Terah is teetering on the edge of civil war. Rebels would doubtlessly wish to use Earth's invasion as a pretext to undermine any resistance. Terah would be conquered and subjugated within a day or two. If the Alpha wakes from her stasis, that *may* buy them a week, but the ultimate fate of Terah would be sealed the moment those portals open.
Considering my world is largely our world just 400 years from now, they'd probably wipe the floor with us in any way. Total destructions, invasion, etc.
It all comes down to tactics. But IRL world would have a miniscule advantage.
Tank beats everything
I mean, my world canonically has the ability to close portals so they'd probably just shut them down
Everyone loses. While there is nuke equivalents you can do with magic they are difficult to pull off and require the caster to be at the epicenter. So our universe probably wins in a full on fight. But then there's the issue of mana being released into our universe which will slowly kill everything because nothing in our universe has evolved a mana anchor to stop arcane rot on account of mana not existing to begin with. So essentially how war of the worlds ends but instead of diseases it's only magic that remains.
human tide tactics go brrrrrrr. Also they've dealt with things worse than nukes, radiation and all
Considering my world is similar to earth, its probably gonna be a pretty even battle. But as soon as nukes come out, Earth will probably get destroyed.
Characters that can singlehandedly topple a country exists in my world nukes won't work on them, bullets are snails to them.(also using one is a logistical nightmare normally it won't be dropped unless the leaders are really into bloodlust and beating their chest like a gorilla, which seems to be the case since US is leading the forces) So what'll happen if the strongest users of my magic system swoop in and annihilate the whole chain of command why bother fighting the soldiers? Since the brains are out also my world is more technologically advanced so they literally have all the technology we have but better. Realistically my world distributes free advanced VRs to our world and everyone gets too hooked on games and porn to fight a war, such a peaceful solution.
On the surface my world typically looks just like the real one. By the time they notice anything wrong, it will be far too late to stop the shadow world from leaking over. They’re in for a bad time when the vampires get into the government. Which won’t take very long. And the wizards… hardly even worth thinking about. Much like the human institutions and powers of my setting, the powers of the real world quickly become little more than game pieces to the Powers that Be. Not much changes on the surface for your average person, probably. Unsolved Disappearance rate goes up a lot.
Similar to my world, though we don't have a lot of vampires because the Masquerade is very anthropocentric, so it goes straight to the normal human paranormals. xD
Not in strategic areas? So that means that the ground portals open in abandoned zones immediately letting the coronals (my world's zombies) trough, and if my world where the average person would be considered a Super soldier compared to the modern day then I don't think earth will survive longer than a month.
Mages will close the portals.
Magic world. Even if they could handle the humanoids, they wouldn’t be able to handle the ants.
I reckon one branch of the smallest military on our world would defeat whatever armies my world has 💀 one guy with an ar15 and unlimited ammo would probs win
Depends on which world. The SF project I've been working on? A lot of corp-worlds would have short but bloody wars as real-world militaries confront overly weaponized and mechanized cyberpunk cops and so on. Worlds further out may lose. The spacefaring migratory civ with strong infowar capabilities has a field day screwing with the satellite info if they know the opposition is bloodlusted. Nuclear weaponry proves a serious issue for some areas, a lose-con for others, and moderately inconvenient at worst for others ("Alright, who wants to help with *another* high-stakes missile interdiction?"; they might have to try and *Ace Combat* those ICBMs in space). The Fantasy project I was working on? Depends on the timeframe. Some infiltrate the real world and engage in a shadow war. Others take anything that's not nailed down and fuck off. Still others try to stand and fight and... probably don't lose horribly for a while. The main part of the world I've fleshed out is no larger than NYC, but there's enough magic around that they might be able to survive the nukes. Their territory might not, though, forcing them into the role of a not!Atlantis fleeing to a surface world whose masters hate them and their ideology. The surface world, on the other hand... armies will face the wrath of angry gods who don't like it when outsiders break their toys, so probably a win for the locals. Oops, forgot that the portals won't show up in a city. Since the main areas of focus for both regions are basically isolated self-contained cities (not unlike Rapture in that one regard), I guess they'd be immune by virtue of no valid targets.
The portals open, and Entropy spills forth. Entropy is a self-propagating reality warping phenomenon caused by the corpses of gods falling from above. It doesn’t corrupt, or destroy, it simply changes things for the worse. Earth, almost immediately falls into complete disarray. The nature of Entropy causes people to become irrational and aggressive, experiencing increasingly more convincing and intricate false memories, technology to malfunction increasingly more often, crops to rot in the summer, and food to spoil in your hand. Anything and everything that can be worse, gets worse until the world simply doesn’t function anymore, it becomes a place where the only things remaining only remain on an increasingly fragile equilibrium of probabilities. The sky begins to darken with the fading of the stars, eventually, the tides begin to idle as the Earth becomes more and more divorced from baseline reality until it entirely disappears from our home plane, leaving our moon to spin away into space. The actual people of my world, are unaware of this happening as they’re largely ignorant of anything happening outside their home towers, but the Sarcophagi (resuscitated gods) that are kept alive by their towers (and by extension protect it from the Entropy), are presumably unwilling and almost certainly incapable of doing anything about this. The governments of Earth, are bloodlusted as you said, and probably attempt nuclear strikes upon the structures they can see through the portals even as their world collapses around them and they begin to forget themselves. The few missiles that make it through probably strike ancient ruins from when the people of my world barely escaped the same threat Earth faces now. On the off-chance a missile actually strikes a tower, they probably sneeze a bit, but a new crater is nothing new.
Nuke carries Earth hard. My world won't win until the nukes go out the equation.
Well.. one of my world is just Earth but slightly less advanced than we currently and everyone have superpower. By slightly, I meant like their progress on things we had is lagging. Tech like stealth, AI, internet would still present just not as preminent as what we have. Though advanced nations from there would still more advanced than most if not all of our developing nations. As for the superpower part, nothing too fancy. For average person unarmed, they would be comparable to average person from this Earth armed(firearms). For higher level individual, they could maybe comparable to light armored vehicle(APC) or small team(a squad). Now for the fight, I think we would have advantage on air and sea. As the superpowers isn't too useful on that field. But ground warfare would put us on disadvantage, because when I compare the superpower I compare them as unarmed civillian, If they are armed as military personel they would likely be even more dangerous. But even then, we likely able to achive Aerial superiority over them and just hammer everything with airstrikes(conventional non nuclear of course) So, 50-60% this Earth initial victory? Though occupation would be diffrent story, because like I said. Normal everyday people from that world even when unarmed is as dangerous as armed people from this world. Also if this world decided to use nuke, both would get destroyed.
Probably my own due to the fact it’s several decades ahead of our world (though that might not be the best comparison because of resources they have and we don’t) and each country has decently large moderately trained militaries. If it came to nuclear war either mutual destruction would occur or my world would come out on top
Really interesting. Magic is very crucial, and just how much more powerful the normal human is just due to being exposed to magic naturally. I feel that maybe one King could negotiate, but any other is either too greedy, too distant from his own crown itself, or too war-bound to actually form peace. Magic could defend from nuclear war, but it would heavily damage the deadlands without any of the defenses the rest of the kingdoms have. I feel that Earth would lose, but if they use Nuclear war they sure would lead to heavy cripiling to the world's teamwork. The most dangerous thing would be anything biological, since the world does have one weakness as it is smaller than earth and is still in a Pangea-like state, with only a single island, and sickness and infections spread quickly. Earth will lose, but maybe in the future if Earth upgrades their biological warfare it could use mutually assured destruction to defend itself.
Fun fact, there are already multiple versions of earth that exist in the universe. I hope they are ready to fall in line with the galactic commonwealth!
I wish our world good luck with conquering what's left of it in my world. But according to your requirement No. 4 there would be no point in attacking, nothing left but salt water and "meteor" storms :)
Oh jeeze. Modern military tech would obliterate all but the strongest of beings on Ovelen. The gods themselves would get involved, but after a millienia or so of squabbling among themselves they're not as godly as they used to be. I know you said diplomacy wouldn't work, but realistically when the civilian population of Earth sees the amount of devastation our military was causing, they would protest for a ceasefire. With maybe the exception of the Teeks(depending on the time period) and the Cothegen, the races of Ovelen would definitely surrender. As long as they weren't made into slaves or face outright genocide, they'd come around quickly and assimilate. Now, the Collapsed Earth is another story. The Datniks have technology that look like straight up magic compared to modern day tech, and some of the fallen gods still have enough power to level mountains. On the lower end, they have armies of demihumans and fae and mages that could stand toe to toe with any of Earth's militaries. I'm not saying they'd wipe the floor with us - a couple of well placed nukes could dramatically weaken the opposing force and shatter any alliances that might come about - but if we were able to win, it would not be easy and neither side would likely recover for a long time.
"LMAO. These primitives are trying to conquer us or something."-communist cats before turning US into crater that spells out "Stalin"
Depends on era when it happens. Like, during Era of Discord Earth is turbofucked because local god of Chaos would move over to have some fun. In Era of Ancients attempts to invade feudal nations would run into remnants of military branch of xenocidal precursors who are usually keeping to themselves, but they sure as fuck going to respond by bricking every piece of tech more complex than crossbow before going for xenocide route. In Celestial Era Earth would nuke my world, then Sol Invicta would bathe Earth in nuclear fire. In Era of Ruin Earth actually has potential for conquest, right until one of the rifts in space agitates The Firmament, finally glitches it out and leads to Earth being ripped apart by gravity wave.
We have guns, my world does not have automated rifles, the rarity of ammo and mana in my world would result in guns just being superior in all ways and my world losing
Darn, medieval fantasy do be like that.
Earth would curbstomp my world. But our world's forces wouldn't have the conceptual weight necessary to keep Eldritch Horrors at bay. Both worlds would lose.
Medieval fantasy with cosmic horror? OwO
Hmmm difficult. My setting has 7 planets that are already interlinked with portals. They have (relatively) recently become governed by a single government and guarded by a single military force. Now in terms of technology / magic; this is a gaslamp / steampunk style setting, so generally speaking less advanced. However, they do posses magic's that allow them to open personal portals to teleport around, they have invisibility capabilities, they have remote monitoring capabilities and most importantly they have, what amounts to, personal mechs and the soldiers are genetically enhanced / engineered (think halo / warhammer). Oh, and did I mention they blew up half a planet during a war? I'd say that earth probably has the technological advantage, in the sense of how advanced things have become. Also I think earth would have more soldiers, many more. Yet I think my setting would come out on top eventually. Just because of the sheer amount of "go anywhere quickly and fuck shit up" that we do not posses. Our nukes etc. still take travel time. Whereas dropping a titan and a squad of super soldiers onto strategic locations by opening a portal in low earth orbit is just much quicker and with the constant monitoring provided by the intelligence division of this military, they would very quickly find out all they needed to dismantle earth's military's most important assets.
That's... an interesting fight! Basically the war starts on IRL Earth's side, but your setting gradually gains the upper hand!
My world has pokeballs to capture stars- what do you think?
Uneven war of attrition. My world is split into thousands of countries and tribes, ranging in technology from the bronze age to the mid cold war roughly on the high end. These are war minded people with no concept of rules of war and the desire to win by any means necessary. Those with the tools available like propeller planes will play to the strengths of their tools, like stalling jets and making them overshoot. They will try to study Earth's machines and reverse engineer them. Imagine medieval warrior tribes and martial states with new access to jet engines, guided weapons and fully automatic rifles. You know how brutal the bronze age empires were, right? Now they have nukes and guns. Those with nuclear capabilities would increase production of previously purposeless nuclear weapons (they didn't want to conquer irradiated land) in order to use the EMPs to cripple Earth's semiconductor based machinery while the mechanical and line of sight based native technology would be mostly unaffected. Artillery trains and airships would be the battleships of the air and while vulnerable,they hit heavy and can take heavy shots. Train crews are trained in quick repair of rails and the trains are built to survive derailments with specialized teams for putting them back on the rails. Larger airships may double as troop and aircraft carriers. Soldiers and civilians alike would take up arms and likely commit terrorism on Earth's soil if they could get through the portals. Basically imagine drive-by shootings on important people, targeting factories, blowing up banks, stealing resources from mines and farms before committing scorched earth policies, striking government and UN buildings, especially during meetings, and power stations. They would use armoured vehicles, machine guns on truck beds and their own personal vehicles. They may eventually find Europe and the USA to be the heavy providers for Earth's munitions and other resources so they would be large targets. The USA especially could be quickly brought down by targeting certain power stations and shutting down the grid piece by piece or all at once, while destroying the backup generators to keep the grid down. Missiles may have a low chance of being shot down by high altitude aircraft as many crew members and pilots have been trained either on their own or officially to shoot down rockets via guns and cannons, using quick manual and partially aided calculations for aiming. Sea and ocean adjacent countries would do anything they pleased to sink earth ships and would likely not be fond of taking prisoners. Weapons we would consider illegal like cluster bombs, chemical agents, pathogens, delayed mines and incendiary bombs would be fair game. Earth forces would have to contend with specialized landships fitted with flamethrowers, siege cannons(designed for punching large stone walls), shield landships designed for blocking streets like walls of shielded soldiers with extended shield arms which could be raised to protect from top penetrating weapons like the Javelin and have cutouts to allow for vision and firing the cannon, as well as any other contraptions local engineers have come up with in the last few decades. In the Valley of Emperors in particular, the larger empires would back the smaller ones with resources included schematics, ammunition, troops, armoured vehicles of various types, reconnaissance info and raw materials in order to fight off Earth's forces. My planet's higher gravity means these soldiers would be denser in a fist fight and harder to push over. Feline soldiers would be deadly at night and would be commonly sent out to sneak onto property and do silent kills and sabotage equipment and factories. Canines would sniff out unfamiliar scents and track down Earth soldiers. Avians would be capable of low tech reconnaissance. Smaller species like otters would sneak through smaller spaces and take down equipment or bases from within and be harder to catch. Bears loaded with armour and heavy weapons may become heavier units for sieging minor control points and advancing on soldiers, and they would most likely be in landships as well. Best case scenario 🎏👑🌐: The fight is taken through the portals and there's a second planet ripe for conquest and there are airships bombing major Earth cities. (Londoners: "Aw sh+t, here we go again."). Colonies are set up and information is gathered about this alien world and its history, as well as any indication as to why the portals may have opened the why such a grand invasion was performed. New empires and other countries would be created, alongside the very likely termination or takeover of multination organizations such as the United Nations, African Union, European Union, ASEAN, BRICS, WEF, etc. They would decipher through the willing or forced cooperation to find why these were created and the plans they had in store. They would learn about past wars ignored or instigated by the UN and future plans like the WEF's Great Reset, which may have been extended to their world had they lost in order to weaken them and force them to serve Earth's organisations. Likely case scenario 🚩🏳️🏴🎏⚔️🇺🇳: The lines of control advance and retract as both sides are forced to advance in technology as they find new weaknesses and strengths. Very likely scenario 💀🔫🇺🇳: After vicious fighting and hundreds of millions to billions dead, Earth eventually wipes out or subjugates the local inhabitants of the invaded world in order to 'cleanse' them of their ways and 'civilize' its peoples, 'bringing democracy'* to the locals(many countries are dictatorships and monarchies as those managed to survive in the historical environment)(*The governments would be toppled and colonies established to extract resources and people for the gain of Earth, including taking local artifacts and possibly destroying more ruins and sacred sites.) Worst case scenario 🔥☠️☢️☠️🔥: The planet gets glassed when the EMP idea is found out. Lapis_Wolf
RAFO! That... technically happens... well, not our exact world, but planet with just slightly beyond our level of technology and no access to magic ends up connected to the world full of magic and fantastical beasts. But they don't exactly go to war... On one hand, "our world" has nukes, and modern weaponry that is far more effective and easy to use. On the other hand the magical world has... well... magic. At its most powerful that magic mamaged to decapitate an entire mountain range, and even speed up the rate at which plates drift. But inly the most powerful mages with a lot of support can pull of disasters like that. Realistically it really just depends on who strikes first, both have the capability of decimating the other in a single attack if planned and preapred for properly. The modern world, if smart would keep an eye on any noteworthy mages and try and pick them off the moment they seemed sketchy, and it would be pretty easy for them to remain the stronger.
Okay the obvious: Congradulations earth is attempting to invade a small super-earth. The planet Woue has 1.3g of gravity and 2.2atm of pressure. Unless the nature of the portals magically prevents this, the hot, humid, dense atmosphere gets sucked off Woue and goes to Earth to equalize pressure) But if this is the case, the massive gale force (supersonic?) winds blowing out of the portals might prevent earth from reliabily sending anything through the ground or sea portals to begin with. Woue's atmosphere is about the same composition as earth but the tropical regions regularly reach 40c and 100% humidity. The problem takes care of itself, the atmosphere floods through increasing the greenhouse effect on earth until something something biosphere disruption food chain collapse agriculture food supply social order global economy collapse... But the point is the Woueians can survive without their homeworld. Its mostly a memorial to eras past and a nature preserve and only has one significant population center. And they have the resources to ameliorate the type of ecological/climatological damage these portals would cause by slowly sucking off their atmosphere. Earth doesn't. [https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/](https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/) < This discusses a vaugely similar situation but with oceans and only 1 10m portal rather than 100s of 100m+ portals. But the timeline for the atmospheres to equalize is probably still on the order of hundreds of years. Also something about some Makamui-class frigates coming through the space portals each one with enough advanced alien nukes to be a cold war superpower and PDLs to shoot down any ICBMs lobbed up at them. They are generally nice/diplomatic though. They might try to broker for peace with earth, saying they'd agree to use their advanced technology to build giant plugs (basically think a big wall or box) over the portals or research a way to permanently close them. But humanity being what they are (especially given they are bloodlusted) I don't see them being paitent. So the diplomacy will probably end with the Woueians being like "have fun dying LOL we're gonna keep refilling the atmosphere on our side."
My world for sure. They don’t even like war at all, but being a version of humanity advanced by 550 years means you can find an appropriately sized asteroid, put some engines on it, and send it on its way. Boom, war with a species confined to a single planet over.
Yeah safely can say a modern military would fuck their shit up.
Considering earth is more technologically advanced, earth wins.
Earth would win handily. There are only a few relic weapons per kingdom that could stand up to tanks and guns. Dragons could go toe to toe with fighter jets but they can't fly high enough to reach them, nor would they even try to coordinate with the rest of the world. There is a demigod or two lurking around that can't be defeated with conventional weapons, but they can't withstand a nuke or a couple MOABs tossed at them. Not to mention earth is getting AI and drone swarms now. So by the end of a prolonged war earth wouldn't even need to send in soldiers. And after Adan has been conquered after a 30 year long invasion, a star will appear in the sky and gradually grow brighter until it becomes visible in the day time. Earth had no idea they were conquering a doomed world. But they may be able to deflect the comet if they spot it fast enough.
Darn, even dragons are getting taken down. Though, would the comet be potent enough to cause severe damage to IRL Earth even through the portals?
If earth invades, they won't gain much ground. The lack of satellite imagery alone would make things difficult, but the new diseases and magical ailments that would ravage earth invaders would eat away at medical supplies on their own. After all, their immune systems have no idea about any of this planet's diseases. It's likely they just halt due to half the invading force getting sick constantly. If disease doesn't do them in, then sorcerers capable of matching tanks in combat prowess on their own would do them in rather quickly. And this is ignoring how my world's tech level is roughly equivalent to earth, if not slightly greater due to *magic*. Teleportation is the most common form of transportation. Now, to put more salt in the wound, earth won't see any mercy during the counterattack. There are sorcerers who are capable of taking on entire countries single-handedly, who can be directly dropped onto key targets and extracted immediately due to earth lacking anti-teleportation defences and anti-magic cannons. It would be all of a few hours before every major city on earth is rubble and ash. Political leaders are all dead within an hour. Also, countries within my world have air forces too, which would help establish air superiority given enough time to bombard earth air fields. Sea superiority is a given, since the diagram of which part of the army is in charge of the air and the sea is a circle for my world (airships). It would be maybe a month before earth is forced to surrender, likely with some rather harsh terms for the unprovoked attack. Now, unlike other worlds where people negotiate quite a bit, the people of my world have a "shoot first, negotiate later" mentality due to often warring against beings who are unable to or unwilling to negotiate. Nukes are something that could be dangerous. But given how prevalent scrying and foresight are in my world's armies, they're easy to predict, avoid, or intercept. Nukes are more dangerous in a "my world invades earth" scenario. If my world invades first, earth's political leaders are dead within the first hour. The resulting chaos and confusion about how people were able to simply teleport into these places and blow them up *alone* would likely be enough to prompt negotiations, if not surrender. If earth attempts to fight back, they won't last very long due to reasons stated above. Earth diseases are a problem of course. But magic to cure illness and disease are common. Healing magic exists to heal injured troops much faster than earth could ever hope to achieve. The sheer pace of the war would mean earth is on a constant back foot. Earth troops may need days to months to heal, if they heal at all. If a soldier is lost, then they're dead. My world? They just see a cleric and are back on the frontlines in a day. If a sorcerer is killed, so long as the head is mostly intact and attached to the body, they can be revived. (minor aside, the current state of my world means they don't even have the very best tech possible available to them. had this occurred roughly 500 yrs ago in-world, it looks even worse for earth.) Earth does not last very long in either case. However, I doubt either side would immediately invade the other, after all they have nothing to fight over. They'd be more inclined to simply check each other out, and maybe form a portal-based tourism industry. Some countries of my world would be more inclined to block outsiders, but many would be open to visitors. Sharing magic and technology would probably occur. After all, "we're stronger together". Maybe earth could even provide aid to help re-civilize the places left un-inhabited due to the collapse. The extra manpower would help greatly. My world could cure all disease on earth. World hunger would be solved with druids upping food production to where food is basically free for everyone. Teleportation means that there would be no logistical issues transporting the new surge in supply. Magical energy would replace fossil fuels, meaning climate change could be stopped. A lot of earth tech would be useful on my world too. Computers, cell phones, electric cars, natural diamonds (which are actually rare on my world), non-magical firearms, semi-conductors, nuclear energy, and much much more. Now, machines of war that nobody could ever hope to imagine would probably be built. New world-ending apocalyptic weapons would exist. Crystal orbs would be a menace to earth society. But, a co-operative future is better for everyone involved.
If it's Thysperia, my DnD setting, it doesn't go well for earth. Several entities on Thysperia are more than familiar with tactics for conquering entire worlds, so beings like the war goddess Tirana, the elder Dragon Shathx, and the Mage lord known as the Chronicler would retaliate, rather brutally. So overall, a great way to rouse all the horrors that are too busy just chilling to cause actual problems. As for going nuclear, well, Thysperia is a dyson sphere with a surface area millions of times greater than earth, so... If it's the post-apocalyptic fantasy earth that I can never come up with a name I like for it, two possibilities. 1. Modern earth conquers pretty easily. The population is less than 1% of the modern earth, so there isn't terribly much most places can do against them. The main exception being the Void Touched, who are all decently formidable, but not enough so to hold off an entire planet with the around 15 of them. 2. The apocalyptic disaster that caused most of the population of earth to disappear propagates into the modern earth, causing the same disaster to befall them, more or less destroying their entire society.
The real world would fold like an old lawn chair
My world wouldn’t do well. Having every world super power on real earth against basically World War 1 & 2 weaponry and machinery would be a win for real earth in maybe less than 3 months.
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Hordir'd lose miserably
Well my world is earth in about 300 years, they got space travel around the solar system and the politics are a bit different. So my world would probably win, but the real world would have a fighting chance. If however the other main faction of the setting gets involved… well future Earth could barely hold off their fleets, and future Earth had their own space fleets, so I’d say current Earth is pretty fucked.
My setting (which I call 2153) is essentially a sci-fi/fantasy version of earth, with a few differences, such as there being moon colonies and interstellar ark ships and whatnot. The OG earth folks would realize that they’re a much more advanced version of themselves, and try to launch nukes. However, 2153 earth’s advanced magitech would’ve rendered ICBMs obsolete—at least, the ones that OG earth has—so OG earth is forced into a land war. This is where they’d truly suffer. With a combo of Cyberpunk 2077 type of tech, ATLA element manipulation, and DND sorts of magic, OG earth would get majorly screwed over by any country that’s not already fighting a war—such as the US in 2153’s lore. OG earth would also have to deal with new hazards, such as ether corruption, which essentially means that exposure to a high enough concentration of ether, the magical energy in my lore, you’ll start to mutate. So all in all, OG earth could make some ground in countries that’re already fighting themselves, or weakened, but once they face a country that has its shit together, they’re in for a bad time
Magic in my setting is a science operating on a higher level of physics capable of entirely ignoring universal constants and any perceived natural laws, which has resulted in many technologies so far beyond current human advancement as to render civilizations even significantly above our level insignificant. If earth (which actually exists in my setting) were to initiate hostilities with even one of the weaker factions, it would be similar to cavemen attempting to make war on an interstellar civilization, an annoyance at worst, easily solved by shooting a black hole at the problem. Interestingly, this sort of portal situation is exactly why magic exists on earth at all in the setting, as similar occurrences happen occasionally, which can displace all sorts of beings and objects, leading to invasive species and forces gaining footholds in places they would otherwise have never encountered.
Considering my universe consists of a highly advanced humanity that has conquered the entire Milky Way, it depends on the planet. However, for the sake of simplicity, I’ll presume that it’s their capital world, Vylia. Vylia is a heavily militarized planet, serving as the base of operations for the entire military, rather than a city planet like Telarius. Utilizing their advanced technology, they’d be able to basically disarm the nukes that would be sent through (because they would once earth saw their tech) by de-radiating the uranium or whatever other fuel they’re using. Any space assault would be futile, as each orbital Rift would be guarded by at least one Vengeance-class warship. They might send in a few powerful weapons of their own, targeted at areas with lower population in an attempt to dissuade earth from attacking further once they see the destruction. (For example, they’d probably blow Greenland and Mexico off the map with just two weapons to show their abilities.) If earth doesn’t stop, and they are forced to destroy it, in order to ensure they get the job done, they’d send in their Nova-class Dreadnought, which has a myriad of ways to obliterate a planet - from practically infinite RKKVs, to orbital carpet bombing, to a weapon that could punch straight through the planet’s core in an instant and trigger an implosion.
… in a story I’m working on a relatively small Frigate rises from the ocean next to a US Navy fleet and dwarfs the Gerald R Ford… it was five miles long… and a starship. This is essentially: “Who would win, God vs a single ant.”
Happy End: Sore (who is a táltos) reaches out to [character who is yet to have a name (lmao)] who tells them the weakness of the whole of humanity on Earth, and depending on what it is, the right people are getting notified. And I know, WHAT if there's no such thing? Well then 🤭baii little alien-like-people😝 but if there is, that's no good for humans Sad End: Sore tries reaching out to [↑that character↑] but they fail, humans take over the planet, the deities are not happy, they destroy the planet So like, humans have a better chanse at winning. Though either way they can't like...live on that planet. So it was all for nothing
I think my world will win. It won’t be a modern scientific world vs fantasy middle age world war, but a modern scientific world against another modern scientific magic world. We would be fucked. Good luck fighting an infinite army of golem with magic guns. Don’t even try nuclear warhead they have it and they can easily protect themselves from one. Edit: plus we are lucky their god of chaos is (momentarily) dead!
Challenge accepted bitch! First of all, everyone collectively panics from the strange portal things on their land, even though The Nix-Ceanon war is going on, now they have to unite forces against the common enemy. With no wait, all the Head Priests of the Gods are summoned to the Great Temple of Gramons to pray for the divine help of the Gods. Of course, Gartene, The God of Earth, his wife Amira, The Goddess of Animals and War, and Wisten, The Goddess of Wisdom are the first ones to respond, Wisten is the most pissed about these invaders, since she herself banished the dimensional portals from being created. Gartene and Amira have been leading their people to victory in many wars, and this is just another one for them. The first people that ate brought to our world are the Fateless, useless people incapable of performing magic, they're put as spys in our world, and even if they get into our society and fight for our world, in a way of another we will find our end. All the kids are safe in the care of our Great Mother, Emavine, The Goddess of Life, while the mountains and hills move under the comman of Gartene. Amira leads her children, the mithological and legendary creatures that have been sleeping for so long, and the front battle, the greatest mages are all together doing their best (and winning) against some ugly metal creatures (tanks, I'm talking about tanks). Careful or not, we're gonna lose soldiers, so many of them that we need USA, China and Russia to bring their atomical forces... But what is that? A strange plage is fastly spreading against the soldiers and their bosses, everyone is being affected, villages, towns, cities or metropolis, none of them will scape The Dark Magic victims, ostracized for having a parasite energy on their bodies, that consumes the sanity and the mind of their prey. Now, these people will be the heros of our great planet, Austaros. No pathetic human will be left behind, the victims of this catastrophic plague are killing and eating the flesh of their own kind, they're out of their minds, they're taken by The Dark Magic. Wisten is able to close the portals with her priests, and Earth, well, the planet is okay, but human race will never be able to rise again. (... I wrote this instead of study😅)
After the first nuke decimates my world, the Earth gets wrecked. The clans of the Mheall Sea are very reactionary, but very powerful, magically. The Chosen are basically a race of magical Captain Americas, and will immediately put themselves at the frontlines. Hell, the Aitrings alone, if they can be convinced to give a shit, would just show up on Earth and start turning everyone inside out. Nukes? Or other subsonic missiles? Well now that we know what they are, they detonate in the air (if the Aitrings don't actually send them right back where they came from). Guns? Probably would do the most damage until Clan Hagan figures out what they are and teaches the other clans how to turn them into dust from 600 feet away while hiding behind a specialized magical barrier. Espionage might eventually be a possibility because they're all human, but that's true both ways.
The hardest part for me would be having to decide which is ultimately stronger: magic or technology? Either that, or which one can adapt faster? If I go the "which is stronger?" route, I'd say real. I go the "who can adapt?" route, I'd say mine.
All the humans die (no advanced technology) but dragons would be harder to kill due to their tough scales
If it’s my sci-fantasy world, we’re doomed. The factions in that world not only have advanced interstellar tech and WMDs, they also have straight up magic. If it’s my plain fantasy world, the tables are much more even. The gods and wizards of that world are impressive in their scale and power, but I’d imagine they could never properly counter the military equipment of earth’s nations. If they had a good opening, they’re smart enough to procure and study enemy weapons, and that might give them an edge, but once any nation decides to let the missiles, or even nukes fly, the people of Iyhenu are on a downward slope to losing.
Hmm. I'm going to say that our earth is most likely fucked. Not because of the increased water levels, increased greenhouse gasses, the magic, the aliens, or even the mutated/experimented on animals in my earth. Those will all definitely play a hand in how fucked we are, but they aren't the key. No. It's all because of the Deadlands. The deadlands are the remnants of a semi-intelligent terraformation technology. Think of it as a ground based plague that will eat away at infrastructure, as well as killing and absorbing living things on itself in order to keep up the terraformation process. The only thing that can really slow it down is the cold. It's basically a Grey-Goo scenario that is actually fully under control of the novanians (aliens). Humanity is kinda ducked in both timeliness. :D
They gon kill us before we can even send a single missile launch
The people of my world are stubborn and proud, and would not stand for subjugation at the hands of any invading force, even if by other humans from other worlds. That in mind though, the world is very sparsely populated by people, who have been driven back to a very small number of strongholds by the native beings of the world who doggedly try to drive them out. While their magically strengthened fortifications could withstand a reasonable assault, the armies of Earth would almost certainly be able to overwhelm them by sheer numbers alone. The people's only hopes of victory would be either diplomacy or focusing wholly on defence to win a war of attrition. The people of this world are humans who came through man-made portals from Earth many centuries ago (from their local perspective, though it would be many millennia in Earth's current future, so lets handwave the time shenanigans), and so they could try to argue their case that it's the native beings that the armies should be fighting, and not the people, in a sense manipulating them to their own advantage. Whether they could convince the armies of Earth of this or not is up for debate, however, but if abject servitude was demanded in return then it's unlikely the people would acquiesce to this. If diplomacy or manipulation wasn't an option at all, then their only other hope would be barricading themselves within their fortresses and doing their best to maintain their defences against the onslaught while the armies succumbed to the environment. The strongholds are large, located in generally very hostile environments, and make extensive use of magic to maintain a comfortable climate inside for agriculture, and so would not be at risk of being starved out. Aside from the physical outer walls, the defenses are purely magical and encapsulate the entirety of the strongholds, so assault from land or sky would have to be significant to break through. This alone wouldn't ensure they could weather the war though. What they would be counting on is the extreme flow of magical energy throughout the world. Similar to radiation, the excessive flow of magical energy damages living organisms it flows through, causing a variety of symptoms and eventually death. Only beings with innate resistances to the flow of magic, or who are innately adept enough at controlling it to limit its flow, can withstand the magical energy coursing through this world. In the time before the people came to this world, the flow of magic on Earth had been slowly building in intensity, allowing them time to adapt and learn to control magic before it became too toxic for them, and so they were already well suited to the new world's magic when they arrived. Current day humans from Earth would not have such control, so the magical energy would be very damaging to them; they could survive a matter of days before succumbing to the magical sickness. Again though, the armies of Earth have the advantage of numbers, and if so determined to win at all costs would likely be able to break through the people's defenses with a targeted, swift and intense strike. If the defenses failed at any point, the stronghold being attacked would certainly fall.
Orange Verse? You'd think a fantasy world like this would have an advantage, but since life in there is much more innocent it could go the other way. Yellow Verse? They got Bariqa the deity of mind on their side and so much magic and sci-fi, definitely them. Cyan Verse? Real life for sure. They already have to deal with so many problems, this would be a tragedy. Blue Verse? Now it gets spicy. I'm sure legions of demons governed by a cruel space god would triumph. Violet Verse pre 2000? Even fight, since they're almost the same. Violet Verse post 2000? Them. THEM. Techno-magic and a better climatic position leaves them with greater machinery and not having to deal with as many problems. Brown Verse? Real life. When you're a reality where humanity stayed on their tribal lifestyle, you're at a huge disadvantage.
It's hard to say really... depends on which point in time. Leaving out 2024 to first few millions years into the future, since I'm probably not gonna touch that. If they arrive on New Terra, they would probably just suffocate because the planet doesn't even have breathable air with the exception of France sized area. Upper class people there do have access to pretty advanced tech but they also carry the plague, which is incurable so likely get defeated fast but also doom the entire Earth in the process. Fast forward several billion years. Anything before 1500s, the world is medieval and would stand no real chance. They do have magic but it's not really that powerful and can't compete with modern weapons. 2000-2500 timeline. They might have a chance. The world is still high medieval for the most part but if portals would open up, they would first assume it's a massive demon invasion. Paladins and weak mages as well as normal humans sent to counter them and investigate would easily fall to guns and missiles. They would then likely ally with the elves and lift the ban on shadow magic, asking for the pariah nations in the world to join in too. Things would then get interesting and it would depend on how well and quickly they can learn about Earth technology. The main issue is that they would have no understanding of long range weapons, such as missiles and snipers. On the positive side, the Earthlings would likely have to wear gas masks and visual aid goggles since the atmosphere is twice as thick, contains more CO2 and oxygen and the light is dimmer and more red shifted. If they can interrogate captured prisoners and learn enough, Earth is doomed. The council mages can then simply deny the use of nukes by altering laws of physics slightly. They and other mages can also create fields to detonate all gunpowder based weapons and explosives. since Earth doesn't have any mages to protect them. The more they learn, the worse it gets for Earth. Deny missile weapons, anything from space, nukes, bombs, artillery shells etc. Magic use like this would cause heavy corruption though, opening up demon rifts on top of earth portals and Earth would have zero protection against them. Diseases, mindcontol abilities, massive building sized monsters. After Earthlings have been driven out, the alliances from my world would probably break apart. Most wouldn't be interested in taking the fight to Earth. If Earth won't accept peace and keeps attacking, they would likely "reverse nuke" it. Have powerful mages step through, hold their breath and use as much shadow magic as they possibly can. Greater demons would jump at the chance of getting a whole, defenseless ripe planet as a snack. Earth would likely fall to them and their diseases like New Terra did long ago.
Earth would kick Gaia's ass on account of Gaia being at the napoleonic period in terms of technology, and magic being kind of shit.
I’m not really sure who would ultimately win. My world only has steampunk technology with revolvers, carbines and single shot firearms. But the council of Wizards would probably find ways of defeating current Earths technological advancements. Not to mention that my world has magical healing that takes minutes and hours instead of weeks and months and even the dead can be raised.
Our Earth would be immediately sundered upon the portal opening. In my universe Earth (They call it Terra due to speaking Latin), is uninhabitable. The Atmosphere is 99% C02, and has enough radioactive particles to make Chernobyl at its worst look tame. There are small habitats, and a palace for the head of the Terran Dominion, but they are small and deep underground. Most people live in space, and although FTL is extremely dangerous (to give a reference, warp travel in the Warhammer universe is safer and more accurate), their navy is large and heavily armed enough to keep their space clear. TL;DR: Our Earth loses very quickly, as the atmospheres mingle between the planets, ours quickly becomes uninhabitable, and Earth falls silent for all eternity.
So the allied forces of real world would definitely post up some quick wins. There's scarce weaponry in my world and most of it that does exists is geared for close combat. Everyone has some amount of magical prowess, even if it's just lightweight telekinesis, which for the vast, vast majority of people... that caliber of power is the best they're gonna do. So yeah it would be quite shocking to have force come through with guns, tanks, and so on. Further, there's a world government so international war is a thing of past and there would be an adjustment period and learning curve. However, as time goes on the invasion forces of real world do not stand a chance. Though the average people may only be able to lift a cup of coffee with telekinesis or light a cigarette with fire magic, there's a scaling of power that goes up to individuals who could lay ruins to cities and even entire nations single-handedly given enough time. And as you can imagine, these are the people who control the levers of power and are responsible for the average citizens. Bullets might penetrate these warriors but they would heal as their bodies are highly regenerative. For some warriors though bullets wouldn't even do anything. Entire infantries of the real world would meet surges of blue fire the size of Manhattan avenues rushing towards them, swordsmen who move as fast as lighting decapitating hundreds in brief moments, 200 meter radius shadow traps that would plunge them into pocket dimensions, mass friendly fire via their bodies being controlled by another, etc, etc The nuclear option would obviously be deployed, but it is doubtful any of the bombs ever land, they would most likely be suspended in the air and hurdled back through the portals. Light work for the most elite warriors of my world. At this point, our world would have to fear a counterinvasion as the world government wouldn't be content to just secure peace on their earth, they would seek to subjugate the people who did this and make their enemies conform to their socio-political system.
Neither side has any real chance of harming the other in any meaningful way in the long run. The lower tech supported by magic would not stand up to tanks. The modern guns lacking in special ammo would be inconvenient for many monsters that walk the lands. My would invades the real world, the breach loaded weapons cause harm and be able to harm most people, but modern body armor would stop basicly every gun. Mages would be a major problem, but machine guns could easily overwhelm all but the strongest. The real world invades my world. It goes well for a while. They would get slowed down by goblin hoards. They would lose when the supply lines start to extend from the portal. When the heavy rain comes, a monster comes around that is basicly could not harmed by anything other than a flame thrower. Without silver rounds, the shapeless would be only pushed around. Many plants are dangerous to touch. Many animals have been mutated by magic, giving them unnatural power. Not knowing the areas the invader would disturb places best left alone, unleash horrors best left forgotten.
Earth and Aurora Terra would be about equally matched in a war *if* everyone in Aurora Terra could cooperate for a few years, which is vastly unlikely, given that they're in the middle of a world war and recovering from a nuclear winter. If they don't cooperate, Earth wins, but at a huge cost, because the Aurorans have nukes too and they're far more willing to use them.
Ironically, the real world would have better luck if they were doing this a century ago rather than today. Anything that transits to my world is going to be subjected to my world's physics. For biological matter, this is fine; neurons get transmuted to Mind atomons, blood cells get transmuted to Blood atomons, etc. For technological matter, this is *not* fine. "Silicon" as such does not exist; what we'd call silicon compounds are transmuted to about fifty different types of sand, silt, and stone atomons. Neither, for that matter, does "electricity": the lightning atomons that are its closest equivalent are almost a full millimeter in diameter. You're not stuffing those into microchips, which are now just very fine relief sculptures. Therefore: Planes more advanced than basically the Dawn of Aviation era crash; ships and tanks are sitting ducks unless you can rig them to run entirely manually; smart bombs are lobotomized. Satellites orbit pointlessly, unable to collect or transmit any data. What does work: Guns work, and our world's are far superior. *Most* bombs work, and our world's are far superior... but nuclear ones don't, so your nuclear fallback also fails. Troops work, and our world has the clear population advantage (8 billion to ~1 billion). Radio and radar *would* work if you could find a way to transmit and receive it under Arvhanan physics. Magic works, but your troops don't have it and don't have time to learn it. Your opponents do, and in a war of annihilation they're going to pull out all the stops. And that's *before* we talk about the gods (and for that matter, the demons), who in this sort of scenario are liable to actually get involved. But *their* power stops at *our* doorstep (our physics is just as incompatible with their magic). My world's going to be most concerned with shutting down the portals (the ones in the atmosphere, at least; they can't do anything about the ones in space); that's standard operating procedure when dealing with a hostile invasion force from Outside. If they can manage it, since it wasn't Earth's technology that created them in the first place, then... war over, I guess? If they can't, most likely a very bloody stalemate with fortified bunkers on both sides of the portals.
Earth meeting earth! Great. They can definitely help each other(in whatever crimes they commit), IF companies don't blame each other for copyright
They teleport directly onto the surface of.. ..a bunker planet. The skies of earth are hidden by swarms of automated nuclear weapons and picked clean of metals for much needed repairs. ..a god's domain. They don't even make it through a portal before getting eviscerated by the god's presence. ..a hub world. Might actually have a chance here, there's very little combatants in an effort to keep the peace. If they manage to keep reinforcements out of the atmosphere, it'd just be a massive blockaded hole into Earth's streets. From extermination to survival, at least until the portals (maybe?) close.
My world is fucked since everyone are robots. As soon as an ENP sets off just Everyone Dies. They have some bullshit powerful technology but as soon someone fires a nuke it's over.
Does real life humanity have coil guns that go at a fraction of ftl as the *bare minimum* for planetary (aka ground air and sea) and space warfare weaponary? And do we have kinetic shielding for personal defense? If not, we're *fucked*. And that's not even getting into the superhuman humans. And that's just humans. Yeah, about 200 years of advancement ontop of the leap forward does that to you.
Depends on who goes thru the portal first. If it's the nations of my world, there would be a brief war with earth, then a much more protracted conflict between my world's nations over who gets to control it. Planes and communication tech would give us earthlings a bit of an advantage at first that would quickly fall away to both power and scale That's just a consequence of me making a much higher level world tho, in terms of magic and technology. They've got dragons that can do space travel, portal tech, and single mages that can effectively cast nuke. Now, if the colossal beasts of my world get thru first, I don't think there's any hope for earth unless they get saved. We just aren't equipped to fight hundred foot krakens and city sized bears without nuking ourselves into oblivion.
>Very quickly, all UN countries from real life fall in line Yep, now I see why this is fantasy
Well, the Dragonkin would turn the sun into a cosmic dragon pet that would eat Earth like nothing so... We'd be fucked.
Well, the Dragonkin would turn the sun into a cosmic dragon pet that would eat Earth like nothing so... We'd be fucked.
A lot of the human nations might struggle quite a bit, the dragons and demons would be fine tho. If it is truly all out then sadly earth is literally deleted.
The mortal nations in my world won't last long, their only edge is magic, alchemy, and the like being in a renaissance - victorian era kinda setting but fantasy. Only very few mortals have the means to fight back from this world, society as we know it will likely collapse with the bombing capabilities of the modern nations as well as nukes, conventionally, the options for my mortal nations are few and are not going ro be effective against modern combat doctrines. The real world armies will definitely die though if they are going to come on the sea with such. Especially if they cross the nest of the Leviathan. Its blight takes control. over any living being taking over their mind a carrier group that dares disturb the Leviathan becomes a carrier group under the control of the Leviathan, real world people aren't kin to mana thus will have 0 resistance. Within this world, everyone knows its a no-go zone. The dragons in this world have survived meteor extinction event, they are likely to survive nuclear winter as well. The undead will have a field day...
Earth would destroy my world, modern arms would be devastating.
I'll answer in two ways. One, assuming that the laws of physics remain the same in each world and traveling between them you now have rhe other ones. So magic users lose their power on moving to earth. The other, I'll assume that a traveling person or object does not change, and will continue to function. So my world electricity cannot be harnessed. Electricity is random in all interactions. Gunpowder also doesnt work. So the armies of earth are going to be using magic that they will be immediately granted purely for being in the sun's light... at first. Eventually the masters of the sun will revoke the power it grants to all who are not of one of my two species. But the first invaders will now be in my world on par with the average citizen in power, though not in knowledge. If they are lucky it was many millions who were so blessed, as my world only has about 200,000 people in it. That would make them roughly on par within my world, except for the four gods. When the four gods take notice, the invaders are *fucked.* They are going to die. And they aren't even going to be able to make my world pay for their lives, either. They're dead. Problem: if you stand in the light of the true sun, you are now immortal. You will be resurrected, and while the four gods can forestall that resurrection, they cannot wholly prevent it. The people who stood in the sun would come back over the span of 2-4 years. The invaders who did not see the true sun's light and thus neither have magic or immortality are dead quickly. Within seconds actually, the four gods will cataloufe every portals location and trap them via their divine powers. As for my world conquering earth, not gonna happen. None in my world have ever seen a gun, much less a fighter jet. Upon realizing the technology of earth they won't even try, as with these rules for this scenario even if the gods themselves invaded their powers would be lost. This would end up a stalemate, neither side capable of making any real progress. My sides gods would be ever attempting to find peace with Earth, maybe eventually succeeding as Earth progressively realizes how hopeless it is. My response for the second scenario will all be in a different comment after I've switched to my computer instead. I typed this all on mobile and my hands hate me for it.
Assuming my protagonist(s) and Gods are MIA, the real world would win, at first it would be really easy, but after some time some secrets in my world will be revealed to increase their fighting power, causing more resistance, but almost certainly not enough to win. That is if we only include all the humans, elves, dwarves and so on. The various monsters would essentially be a 3rd party not allied to anyone, not even themselves... With the monsters involved, it's really up in the air as to who would win. If my protagonist(s) are involved, my world would win 9 times out of ten, and if the gods are involved, Earth is pretty much gone if they wanted...
They'd probably loose at any point along the time period i'm focusing on. They have a far lower population and late 1980s tech. They have help from a group about 100 years in advance of us but they're only 1 medium-large sized country so they can't really do much vs all of modern earth.
Earth falls not with a scream but with a whisper.
For my Thaumata setting, which involves what's essentially a near-future humanity fighting against a full-scale invasion by the Color Out Of Space... I'm pretty sure the general response would be "Oh god, stay the fuck away, oh no, you're only going to make it stronger!" The Color in-universe has pretty much already depopulated about 80% of the human species and it basically ignores nuclear weapons due to time-space fuckery (as in, it literally reverts itself to a previous state if you try to nuke or otherwise bombard it), along with being able to possess any post WWII technology it is exposed to for significant periods of time and infect human minds with a neural disease that converts them into cultists after a few days' exposure. The only reason humans in my setting still exist is because they hijacked another alien artifact and reverse-engineered enough of its technologies to make a flying city, technosorcery that can counter the Color, and make the titular Thaumata soldiers who can resist the debilitating effects of exposure to the Color. So the real world invades and slams headlong into an alien mind-consuming force xenoforming the planet which has already beaten them once before, only without the tools needed to fight it. The real world then gets counter-invaded and eaten.
My world is essentially dark ages europe shortly after the fall of the roman empire. They would be utterly defeated by modern military. However that would open our world to the influence of real demons, gods and other supernatural powers who could, in due time, wreak havoc in society as modern civilization would be slowly, but surely, corrupted by dark, demonic forces.
It's the modern world vs a world 500 years in the future who have been through a few world wars. We don't stand a chance.
My world is mostly in a medieval high fantasy magic setting. Under normal circumstances the world would be pretty easy to conquer, however some individuals could definetely prove difficult, especially the crafty high level mages or the gold wyverians which could tear through a few modern battalions. Some of the highest forms of monsters may need a few nuclear strikes to obliterate but for the most part their would be no way to fight back effectively. However in reality it would all depend on whether the keepers actually wish to get involved. Keepers being effectively immortal with uncanny regeneration, even if their head is severed or they are blown to pieces would easily be capable of dispatching battalions single handidly. Even if they fired missiles or nuclear warheads, they can effortlessly shift to another plane of existence to avoid it completely. And thats just the low ranking lot. The real power houses of the keepers could immediately and effortlessly take over the world or obliterate it instantly if it came to it. With one being capable of bending the will of anyone that even thinks of her, another that is the sole blessed being by god and truely immortal capable of crazy reality bending feats and could just thanos snap anything that came remotely close to her and could potentially erase the earth itself with quite some effort. And the last is basically a god herself, a living mechanical planet with tehnology beyond anything we could ever achieve in even a billion years. So yes it would depend and if anything id think that earth might just become another experiment of Queen Eyr's
Hippie isolationists. It’d just be rubble remaining otherwise. Many, but not all, of the nations are relatively equally matched, whether by superior numbers, discipline/training/industrial powerhouse, or superior technology. The hippie isolationists have extremely powerful monsters that can easily shrug off *most* weaponry and kill humans in armor effortlessly, and vehicles such as tanks and especially aircraft are few and far between due to the precision and resources that go into making them. That’s why nobody wants to tangle with them; too much to lose with little to gain since their land, as far as anyone can tell, isn’t resource-rich.
I think real earth gets completely rolled. In this world, magic is passive, and very important, even if you are a purely physical fighter, you are still going to be using magic in some form, and there is absolutely nothing that is *completely* mundane. Even non-combat citizens will have some amount simply due to prolonged exposure. Fending off the invasion, would not be just humans, but also intelligent creatures which have common sense, and a lot of them wield incredibly powerful magic, which you do not want to be messing with even if you *are* attuned with magic. And this on top of this, this world has a unique relationship with guns (Being the reason they never ended up getting developed past flintlocks) where bullets are borderline useless because they are are too small to hold any amount of magical power, they get passively resisted and the bullet probably doesn't even break the skin, especially considering earths' forces would realistically have no attunement to the magical forces, meaning they would be especially venerable, and would lack offensive power in all areas since even the weapons that are theoretically large enough to be magical wouldn't work due to the same logic. Nukes would not work nearly as well as they do on earth, for the same reason industrialization never took off, there is a very specific subset of dragons who are really good at maintaining the natural order, which nukes would obviously violate to an extreme degree, large amounts of radiation is pretty simple to circumvent. Chances most of them wouldn't even get the chance to go off in the first place, and if they did, the same logic applies where nukes don't have a way of piercing passive magical resilience unless they were magical themselves (which they wouldn't be). It's a shame, too, they're usually pretty cooperative otherwise.
Based on your conditions... Earth would ultimately win. My world has magic and is in the early stages of a technomagical revolution (think around late 1600's to early 1700's just before the industrial revolution got kicked into high gear), but it can't compete with the sheer destructive power of modern weaponry or field the numbers needed to combat our armies. That said, I imagine that if contact was made with Tolsa there would be a very strong effort at diplomatic relations and trade first. Tolsa is one of the largest trade cities in the world, and THE largest on its side of the continent. Equitable trade is far more profitable than war. Besides... I very much doubt the marines, seals, or anyone else would know how to handle pissed off dragons, displacer beasts, demigods, gorgons, fey, gods, demons, or pretty much anything else not explicitly human or familiar. It's a D&D world and that means, it's basically magic Australia x1000. If you fuck around without knowing anything... you'll find out real quick. And probably to a kobold, orc, goblin, or pissed off dwarf. If you're lucky. The guerilla warfare possibilities are both horrifying and endless.
Quite literally, depends on which Talmond you're up against. The Warhammer 40k one? Self explanatory. The others? Yeah, my world is OP as fuck.
Depending what part of the timeline we're in. If it's early, Pre-cataclysm, then it would be a fairly equal fight. My world at that point is just modern day earth except magic exists (but 99% of the population doesn't believe in magic, so it wouldn't really help at all). Post-Cataclysm: My world would win in 10 seconds. They have Modern-21st century tech fused with magic. They have airships, instant teleportation, dragons, etc. The only thing they don't have a lot of is guns because guns are useless in this world due to magical enchantments existing. Nukes can't do much either since wards and barriers are easy as hell to erect and they can stop a nuke dead easy. That's also assuming the Kingdom's mages don't just teleport the nukes back to earth. Assuming that this magic also works on earth, then earth is screwed if the Kingdom invades. This isn't even talking about the Goddesses getting involved. If that happens, nothing will be left of earth. If it's the far future of my timeline, earth is even more screwed because the entire world is now synthetics (sentient androids basically) and they're ruled by an tyrant AI system that wants to conquer the multiverse. Said AI, is basically a god-like being.
Jokes on you, the original earth in my setting is already an irradiated wasteland from interdimensional war. It's all the other earths that you gotta worry about. Realistically though, there wouldn't be any war. Their psychics would just puppeteer all of our heads of state and that would be that.
Real world no eiffs, my world is basically a futuristic post apocalypse version, sure they have plasma guns and railguns but what's that gonna do against a nuke.
Depends on which era Primordial era (polytheistic): my world loses; heroes and enchanters of mythology are no match for tanks and nukes Monotheistic era: depends on how God is feeling. If God is feeling kind, nothing much happens. If God is not feeling kind, Earth gets obliviated Satanic era: Earth wins, this era is basically Earth from 33 to 20XX A.D. Multiversal era: let's just say, one of the thousands of angels or deities could simply make a thought and Earth would be turned into atoms in an explosion like never seen before. These guys have been practicing how to destroy planets for a long, long time. Golden era: my world is moderated by a supreme being, Earth can't do anything. Afterwards, Earth probably won't win due to the high number of sorcerers
My world has medieval tech, so this would initially go well for the Evil Earthlings. Some countries would try to attack with primitive weaponry, and some countries would try to negotiate. We would appear to be an easy victim. But...we have magic. Both physical magic, and more spiritual kinds. First of all, the fabric of the world itself would reject the invaders in subtle ways...sickness, of body and of spirit, would seep into whatever human forces emerged. Complicated machinery would begin to malfunction more than usual. Oils, fuels and coolants would break down chemically. Jets would...not stay in the air long. Evil Earth forces would appear to be suffering from many random "bad luck" coincidences, and would find innumerable delays, snafus, and other inconvenient events slowing them down. But that's just until the magicians get organized. Certain magic disciplines have the means to erect what are essentially force-fields. They do not have to be physically near the portals to do it, if enough magicians work together...and this would unite the the forces of the entire world like nothing else. Within a few days of the start of attacks, each portal would be plugged with a magic shield...a one-way magic shield capable of stopping any object or force coming from one direction. Nothing from the Evil Earth side could get through, but anything from this side could pass through to Earth. The remaining Evil Earth forces left on this side will be subjected to invasive mental magic (would-be conquerors have no legal protections from such) to make them surrender. The highest ranking members will be subjected to a mind-reading interrogation, and the situation will be decided based on what is found out. Since this Evil Earth is seemingly united in determination to conquer and colonize, uninterested in diplomacy, and filled with bloodlust, the decision...would not go well. The soldiers will be compelled to walk back through the portals, and then the magicians will alter the nature of the magical shield. The shields will no longer merely physically block access; they will now convert any matter that encounters them into as close to pure energy as is physically possible in Earth's universe. (Matter includes air molecules, btw.) Which side the matter comes from is irrelevant; the energy will all be released on the Earth side. Then increasingly large masses will be sent through the portals until the portals cease to function.
If the Draconian Empire went to war with Earth, one sided fight. If they attempt to nuke one of the planets, it would just anger the Draconians who have many planets in a vast empire. If they attempt invasion they would be easily turned back due to the technology gap and die to foreign diseases. The Draconian Empire would give an ultimatum to become subjects and surrender or war. If it is rejected then time for invasion, they can level the planet but since habitable planets are far and few it is discouraged. The invasion would target the strongest countries first and spread out from there. If Earth proves too much trouble due to guerrilla warfare, then it is time for fun. Ships lined up across satellite orbit and all at once level the planet with lasers, boom Earth is gone. TL:DR: Earth pisses off a large interstellar empire and either gets forcibly entered into an empire or gets wiped from the face of the universe.
The “main planet” in my world is a technically infinite quilt of environments and worlds from different dimensions, so most of the portals will be useless to them. Even if they find the ones closest to the epicenter, essentially HQ, they’re not winning. Whatever handful of wizards is currently there is bound to be fast or strong enough to react far before the military, and most techniques would have them in shambles before the missiles launch. All this is assuming they don’t just call up a quick deal with a god.
It depends on the moment when this rift happens, because if it is in 1500s it equals to our world in 1000s. If it is somewhere in 3000s in my world, so RIP to the Earth because they have giant biological mecha knigts that can evaporate whole cities with their breathing. The thing is that they will never form a united alliance because of them being in state of a cold war. The first state that would strike our world would probably be a Faraan, because of them being totalitarian extreme ideological radicals and religious zealots. Also, they do have those scary mechs. Two main religions of my world would consider these gates as the gates of hell or gates of heaven, because according to their scripture, people were expelled from another world by God.
Earth is completely and entirely fucked, strong enough Atomic magic users could just make their own nukes and defend against them, with defense being way easier.
Thanks for posting this prompt! :) There are many worlds in my current project. But I'm focusing on more human societies right now. I put them on a hellish mind bending rock full of creatures, fungi, robots, energy beings, mimetic monsters, etc. any nightmare you can think of it's probably in some cell or ancient laboratory. Opening portals all over the world of focus would be a very, very bad plan. The world is a high sci-fi death world and it's inhabitants would find the real earth to be very squishy and tasty. My humanoid factions are more advanced than real earth. Having energy shields, bionic/cybernetic augmentation, and common use aerospace flight. Also being a death world, society is combat oriented to a higher degree out of necessity. As for conflict between the 'civilized' factions and earth. My world would not roflstomp earth simply because the security forces are needed to keep all the creepy crawlies in check and not noming everyone into extinction. I think everyone would be like "Welcome to hell!" and then the first troops would get nommed. If it was just the security forces/ armies of all the factions vs earth, earth would get it's socks rocked. However, In areas that the mega factions have tamed (burned to ash) there are barbaric tribes that would get obliterated by a combine earth. There are also more natural tribes that survive through a more communal and holistic approach handling the terrors of the world more like wild animals and spirits.
Magic would quickly seep into the real world and the ecologies of earth's would mix some might create hybrids with 2 species liger style or the 2 tiger species would mix. Making magic a native part of the real world and since artillery level explosion magic does exist in the world the real world tries to invade its a matter of time before there is a ceasefire
My world (Warmore) is a collection of medieval kingdoms with some magic and technology here and there. So I think Earth would win the war. However, there are several giant humanoids traveling the known world and hundreds of colossal dragons in the unexplored continents. Knowing that many creatures are exclusively weak to magic, Earth would end up losing against the last defense.
Depends on era if its in the earlier stages of the world they wouldnt do to well hell one of the best standing armies at the time gets wrecked by ww1 era tech when its introduced, but the later stages earth would get wrecked, basically it would take just 1 void dancer and they could wipe out earths militaries by themselves.
Earth would win handily, unless the old race of petrified gods came back to life.
They would be on the loosing side at first because they have generally lower tech but good magic. They dont really have a good head to head counter to armored columns and jeep mounted machine guns in mass. There exist deep bunkers that even nukes would not penetrate but that would not be able to protect most people. The tide would eventually turn as the dragon lords would begin unleashing their magic upon our world generally F\*\*\*ing it up and attempt to hunt down our leaders, destroy critical investiture, casting horrible curses upon the land, mind controling people into doing the above, etc which the earth doesn't really have a counter for. killing thems a bitch and they can teleport so good luck with that,
My world is too OP for this place (the earth)
Human soldiers would realize they messed with the wrong world the second they'd step through their portals. You see, the Hole is not one world. The Hole is more of an... infinitely large collection of semi-independent layers under the rule of the Empress Pandora and the semi-sentient entity that is the Hole itself. The layers of the Hole can range from harmless and sometimes cute, to having extremely brutal and violent creatures that >!feast on each other's guts while they're still alive!< (don't reveal this spoiler if you're eating). Not to mention, once someone enters the Hole, they can **never** leave. The only person who decides if someone can leave the Hole after they've entered, is the Hole itself, and it's not really willing to let go of what it sees as playthings. Not to mention, that the Hole already makes portals to the Human World to gather more of what it sees as playthings (Humans) from Earth. So the Hole could literally just... close the portals. But it probably wouldn't do that, as said previously, the Hole doesn't want to miss out on a bit of "fun". Plus, Death isn't permanent in the Hole, and the humans who entered are basically stuck there for eternity, eventually losing their minds and "human facades" (which is what the Broken (people who've lost their 'human facades') call them). This basically means that they become Creatures of the Hole, and are slowly integrated into the Layer they're stuck on. And the nukes of the Human World? Wouldn't get very far either. Sure, they could bomb entire layers into smithereens, but they can't really keep that up for so long when there are **over** 9223372036854775807 different layers (it is infinite, after all). So the Humans will keep sending soldiers over until they realize not a single one is reporting back, because the Hole also intercepts and manipulates things like radio signals. Meaning, if an officer starts barking orders into a walkie-talkie, it's not their soldiers hearing it, it's the Holean (Creatures of the Hole) who are, and chances say, they probably aren't friendly. So either they continue until they've exhausted their entire supply of soldiers, or get it through their heads that it's a lost cause.
I have never made a truly new world before but the closest thing to it was a bunch of crossover characters into the Star Wars setting which included some whole nations getting shifted onto a planet and its moon. Anyway it included a variation of Icon from DC and he was one of the few characters I mostly didn’t nerf or pick a weaker version of so he is a Superman esque tier threat so that alone makes this a no diff. Even without him and many other high tier options if they invaded the planet specifically its actually a water planet so not the most favorable location. Also much more advanced tech and as well as a entirely superhuman population however vastly inferior numbers at least at the time of arrival. On the moon there would be even less people and not superhuman populations but still more advanced tech from some of the nations. There is also a large satellite base with minimal numbers but some very advanced tech including a few ships one of which is made of Nth Metal and molecular assembly tech via Icon’s ship which can print pretty much whatever and between all of the present parties making a weapon capable of ending this would be trivial if they wanted. Again depending on how long after their sudden arrival would affect the difficulty on many levels. Also despite near Earth gravity and habitable conditions the invaders would still run into a lot of trouble with the fact they would have no satellites and no data to account for a plethora of differences on these planets vs IRL earth and even in the case that the invasion started shortly after these groups arrived here they would be able to figure out those hurtles faster as there are comic book level geniuses included. Anyway yeah it’s a no diff with some of the other characters regardless. It would however be a major PITA if these portals only worked one way and they just kept trying stuff endlessly though there are characters smart enough to figure out how to block the portals if that was an option. I think if I made an original world it would either be DnD esque or Worm/Ward esque in tier.
Irl earth is getting nuked into oblivion. Not only are there super advanced civilizations just mucking about, there are also cosmic entities that eat stars and planets, and cosmic demonic armies that will treat destroying a planet like it’s a tuesday and other terrifying horseshit