LULZ sci-fi post:

[underlankers]

In my Omniverse Tales I have an homage to Dune in the form of the Architects of Fear, a shadowy organization that seeks to make a figure that short-circuits quite a few traditional problems in a fashion not dissimilar to science fiction......in the Empire. The irony is that the Architects, by promising what sounds like the plot of a science fiction

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[ddstory]

To the hypothesis in your 3rd paragraph. It's pretty simple. You do what you can and what you want, in order to protect your world from the other one. If you're the stronger one, you can do whatever you please, in accordance with your practical purposes and moral principles (or lack thereof). If they're stronger, they do the same. If their purposes and principles require that we're removed from their way, they will do it. And viceversa. There's no dilemma there.

How would we defend against that?

We can try kicking and screaming, and probably try some of our weapons against them, then die. Or if they're more primitive, they'll do the same. Or the stronger side may decide that it's in their better interest to leave the other one alive but in submission. Or in cooperation, if our/their principles are like that. But if one side is much more superior than the other, and it decides that the other should die, ultimately there's nothing that could be done.

To the hypothesis in your last paragraph. I don't think the type of religion (or lack thereof) in those new worlds would be of such a primary significance, compared to such things like the resources, demographics, economy, technology, and military. Oh, and society at large of course. Which religion may or may not be part of, or even the defining factor, I'll grant you that. But it's unlikely.

What would we do with such "barren" Earths were we to encounter them?

See if they're habitable, or if not, if they could be made habitable, and inhabit them, in case it's worth the effort at all.

The tyrannosaurus? How'd they react to us? Rrroooaaaarrrrrr! Breakfast! End of story.

But so what. Can they catch us in our space ships and shuttles? No? Then bugger them.

Ps. You know, you should really publish your book in its entirety.

[luvdovz]

[underlankers]

Well, the thing is how do we exactly conduct a *war* through cross-time methods? It'd seem that portals don't carry infinite space within them so conflicts between dimensions would be more on the order of endless bush warfare than full-scale clashes of army groups.

[htpcl]

While we're on the subject, I recommend this series:

Parallel universes being at war, strange events happening, and a special team of FBI agents trying to reach to the bottom of it all, and save the world! OMG!

The coming season 5 will feature an invasion from the future. OH MY!

[underlankers]

I've heard of Fringe but I've never actually watched it. I tend to be leery of sci-fi series on TV for some reason. And I'm saying this as the guy who likes movies involving men in rubber suits in model cities. ;P