Apocalypse Scenarios

The apocalypse are a massive field of sci-fi that has been thoroughly explored and re-explored. There are thousands of movies, games, books, and TV shows based on the topic. By far the most popular topics of all are zombies and the "zombie apocalypse". Almost everyone knows about zombies and how they function and how to kill them. Another very popular popular topic is that of aliens and an alien invasion. Conspiracy theorists thrive on aliens. They search for videos and reported but not confirmed UFO sightings and spin theories about the aliens.

However, small apocalypses happen all time. Hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires, and disease outbreaks are all examples of them. If anyone has ever been in one, they know what I mean. For days, weeks, or even months, society in those regions fall apart. People no longer have civilized needs or wants. Their only goal is to survive.

There is a type of person called a prepper. They spend the majority of their lives prepping for any kind of doomsday situation, including the ones that are real so far. Many of them have fortified houses, and build up massive stocks of food, water, medicine, and ammo. Most of them are trained with guns, knives, and/or blunt weapons. They often have bug-out bags ready to grab and go. Many have some sort of emergency plan and an escape route from their house or town, or sometimes even their country.  They are prepared for any situation.

An apocalypse is fun to think about. But it wouldn't be fun at all to be in. However, it's extremely fun to play in a lot of different video games, "surviving" the apocalypse through a virtual world. It's fun to read about and write about. That's living the apocalypse through a mixture of someone else's imagination and your own. It's fun to watch, too. Watching the apocalypse through a director's eyes and actor's skills. But I think that it just might be smart to have a good plan and be ready just in case a real one happens. Thanks, Aidan.

The Death Star

When most people hear of the Death Star, they think of Princess Leia in captivity and the spectacular explosion that destroyed it. But the Death Star is scarier than you think. I mean, just look at the super laser. It blasts planets like a shotgun blasts clay pigeons. The Death Star is most likely way larger than you think. Picture a town that is almost 10 miles and a perfect circle. If someone builds a sphere around said town, that's still only 1/10 of the Death Star's size.

The living and working areas of the Death Star limited. Don't get me wrong, the Death Star walkable space is still massive. But most of the rest of the space is devoted to a massive generator the size of 5 New York's. Other generators size of 1/2 New York. There are probably about 100,000,000 stormtroopers stationed inside. The outer surface is coated in nearly impenetrable armor and thousands of massive turrets. Although in the movie there was a weakness, it would be unlikely that such a flaw would ever be made. Really, I don't think that there would intentionally be a path directly to main generator from the outside.

The size of the death star may be hard to grasp. Do you remember the area that the Millennium Falcon landed in and everyone ran around and rescued people and all? That space that everything occurred in was probably not even a mile. AND, it was only on a few levels. It would be like running around a house compared to the rest of a big city. The Death Star is amazingly scary, no matter how not scary it may have seemed when its weakness was found and it was destroyed. Thanks, Aidan.

Old Sci-Fi Monsters

Old Sci-Fi monsters came in all shapes and sizes. There have been a countless number of them. And most were just as good as the Sci-Fi monsters we have today in our shows. Now, when most people think of old Sci-Fi, they think of the original Star Wars trilogy, or the Star Trek TV series. But I'm talking about the oldest. The ones that appeared in black and white films. You know, the time before color? And yes, there was such a time. Most old monsters are overlooked, and many have been left in the twentieth century by our twenty first century generation. The new generation prefers remakes, or the countless TV shows that are around today. Now, I won't be telling you about every single oldie out there, just one. It's my personal favorite: Godzilla. It's probably the best known, also.

Godzilla is really scary to me. I don't know why. Maybe it's the fact that they always film Godzilla movies in cities that I can recognize, or cities that seem very realistic. It also could be that Godzilla is a massive lizard that sometimes breathes fire, sometimes spits acid, sometimes lays eggs. I could go on. But there is something that seems absolutely harmless about Godzilla. There are 44 different versions of it. And I say "it" because there have been both male and female versions. It has been around for 60 years. And apparently, to celebrate it's 60th birthday, it's making a 45th version of itself. And yet, Godzilla is still true to it's heart: destroy major cities and wreak havoc upon millions of civilians and thousands of soldiers. And that is probably why I always have and always will love Godzilla. Thanks, Aidan.

The Asylum of the Daleks

WARNING: SPOILERS

The Asylum of the Daleks is a place that no one would want to be stuck in. It contains every nasty type of Dalek imaginable, except they're all turned off... for the moment. There are particles in the air that can animate anything that is or was living and turn it into a Dalek. 

Now, if you didn't know, a Dalek is one of the Doctor's greatest enemies. (The Doctor refers to Doctor Who). I remember the first time I ever saw a Dalek. At first I thought it was just a stupid, not scary, talking trashcan. As I watched the show, the Daleks kept showing up. It took until the Daleks fried every nerve in a person's body using something that looks like a whisk for me to be afraid of the Daleks. Later I found out the Daleks have weapons that look like plungers on them. These weapons can basically suck someones soul out. They also have grenades on them that take the form of dull studs on their shell. When released, these grenades will kill everything in about a 20-foot radius of the Dalek except for them and other Daleks. But for me, the most terrifying thing about a Dalek is its inability to reason. Daleks have no emotion but hate, and their only goal is to take over the universe and transform every living and intelligent life form into a Dalek. However, every plan has a flaw, and the Dalek's is no exception.

The Doctor's mission in the Asylum was to get to the heart of the planet, plant a planet-destroying bomb, and set the charge. The Asylum is where the Doctor first met Clara, his paradoxal new companion. She was in the form of Oswin, a pilot of a spacecraft which had crash landed on the Asylum in a crash that killed her crew, who the Doctor met in the beginning of the adventure in the form of Dalek skeletons! Oswin had actually been captured by the Asylum Daleks and turned into the most intelligent Dalek of all time. Eventually, she found out, and caused the entire Asylum to blow up without the Doctor ever planting the bomb. The Daleks were happy, and everyone else was still alive.

Thanks, Aidan.

Trenzalore

Trenzalore is a terrifying world that is dominated by a massive and deteriorating version of the TARDIS, having grown out of control after the death of the Doctor. It is the graveyard of a battlefield. Worlds and species will battle there. It is the place where the Doctor's enemies come together.

But before the Doctor's enemies arrived, it was a quaint place with a town called Truth, where you cannot tell a lie. After they came, for about three hundred years, it was a battlefield. The inhabitants of truth were amazed by what the Doctor could do. He repaired the children's toys, and defended the town against the series of invaders that attempted to destroy it. But as the years progressed, an all out war would start. The town of Truth would become a desolate war zone.