Today I am focusing on 4 of , what I feel, are the worst of them all, the most terrifying and sinister. Of these four I want you to pick who you think is the most Bad Ass, so here I go.
So number 1 on my list today is:
The Daleks
The Daleks were created on Skaro by a man named Davros. They were a mutated descendant of the Kaleds, one of 2 species fighting a civil war on Skaro (the other being the Thal). Davros created them to be the perfect soldiers, ones with no emotion's and the only drive to conquer, or rather Exterminate. Over the nearly 50 year history of Doctor Who and the Daleks, we have seen them with a multitude of weaponry including the standard Gunstick (the whisk) used for exterminating and disintegrating, the manipulator arm (the plunger), mostly used for moving objects, connecting up to computer systems etc, but we have seen it used to smother peoples heads thus killing them. Extra's we have seen include flame throwers, claw arms equipt with blow torches and a machine gun. One Dalek is all it would take to destroy everything, the superior shielding on a Dalek doesn't let much past. This does however depend on the variety of Dalek you are dealing with as some have been shown to be rather easy to destroy, whereas other (such as the one in the new series episode "Dalek" have been virtually indestructible)
It's not though the weapons of a Dalek that makes them so terrifying it's their lack of emotions, the unwillingness to empathise or to sympathise, they are without a doubt pure evil and have no Conscience holding them back or forcing them to look back in remorse. The second most scary thing about them is that they fought the last great time war with the Time Lords and the only thing that could destroy them, also destroyed the Time Lords, the most powerful race ever in existence.
Dalek's have the uncanny ability of coming back, no matter how many times you think they have been destroyed, they always come back...
The second species on todays list are:
The Cybermen
The Cybermen, much like the Dalek's, have been shown in a vast variety. Originally they were created by a wholly organic species of Near-Humans who originated on Earth's former twin planet, Mondas. The humanoids turned themselves into Cybermen to survive our solar system when their planet drifted into it. The second version of Cybermen are from an alternate universe known as "Pete's World", these Cybermen are converted humans from that world. They were created as the ultimate upgrade of human kind. Much like the Dalek's often do with Davros, the Cybermen turned on their creator and "upgraded" him also. These Cybermen are fitted with emotional inhibitor's that prevent them from feeling any emotion. This lack of emotion, again much like the Dalek's makes them remorseful and quick to kill or "upgrade" any one they find.
The weapons of the Cybermen have included electrified hands, wrist blasters, the ability to fire darts from their mouth's and they have been shown to use large blaster weapons as well.
Perhaps not as sleek and elegant as the Daleks, the Cybermen have always had a large force and have also accord in 2 universes suggesting that they be an inevitable evolution of humanoid kind, or at least a backwards one.
As I am writing this I cannot decide who to put third and last as I both love and fear these species the same. They are both terrifying and deadly, but these two also have more human characteristics that makes them both more cunning the the 2 previous entries, but also more relate-able in some ways.
Still I have to choose so, the third entry is that of:
The Borg
Relatively speaking, little is still known about the Borg, we think they originated in the Delta Quadrant as that would make the most sense as that's where the bulk of their territory is, we know they assimilate species and technology in order to add there "distinctiveness to [their] own", we know they have tried to assimilate Earth on several occasions and failed. It is clear that the Borg, like the Daleks and like Cybermen were originally a humanoid species with no technology in their bodies, it would seem through experimentation that they developed technology which they implanted into their bodies, eventually forming the Hive mind, the collective. They have been around for "thousands of centuries" making them one of the oldest species in the Galaxy.
The Borg arsenal is probably the most awesome (and i am not using that word in the "OMG its so awesome" way). Because of the assimilations of countless species and technologies they have a unique ability to adapt to almost any form of assault, the weapons they have access to is only limited by the number of species they have assimilated. They are almost unstoppable, only cunning and often an ex Borg drone on your side is the only thing that will keep you alive.
The scariest thing about the Borg though, isn't the technology, isn't the adaptability or even the way they look. It is the sheer numbers of them, they number in the trillions with millions of ships spread across a third of the Galaxy. They are the sort of enemy where you can sit there and think what is the point in fighting, we will never beat them! That is why for me, they are probably the scariest species in science fiction.
Finally though, the last entry goes to a species I love, one that also scare's the crap out of me, but one i am extremely fascinated by. After all they are our great great great great times a million grandparents:
The Cylons
That's right we are related to toaster's. But before they spawned a new species with old style humans, they were a Bad Ass species that really scared the shit out of people because, they won.
So a little history on the Cylons and humans. Humans originally evolved on a planet called Kobol, they formed 12 tribes, they then got lazy and built cybernetic lifeform nodes to do the heavy lifting and dirty work. These first gen Cylons evolved (if you can use that term) into human form Cylons, these human forms became the 13th tribe of Kobol, and for a time it was good until the centurion style Cylons rebelled, thankfully they were defeated. At some point these human forms left Kobol and left the "real" humans behind. They went to a planet they called Earth. Skip forward and the human form Cylons have only gone and made the same mistake the human did, they made centurion style Cylons to do the heavy lifting and dirty work and so the cycle began, these centurion's rebelled and destroyed Earth and the human form Cylons, except for 5 individuals who resurrected. After a long journey these five found the 12 colony's of man, the Humans on Kobol had left and settled in a new star system. Once the five individual's arrive at the new system they discovered that these Humans were at war with, yes you guessed it, a new form of centurion Cylon they had created. The 5 only existing human form cylons brokered a peace with the new Cylons and convinced them to leave the colony's in peace, in exchange they would make them human form cylons and give them resurrection. After 40 years of peace, the children of humanity came home to the colony's and wiped them all out (bar some little rag tag fleet of less than 50,000 people).
Now there are different version of the Cylons clearly, however most of things in common. So the Centurion models all tend to be tall, strong fitted with guns to them, or at least carry guns. They are also tough to destroy needing more than often, high explosive rounds to kill them.
There are Basestars, Raiders, heavy raiders and a number of other support ships etc, these are all alive. Most of them, including the centurion's (those under the command of the latest human forms) do not have any free will and are treated more like pets or slaves.
The most destructive and powerful version of the Cylons though, is the human form. They use infiltration, seduction, mind games, religion and so much more to destroy you from within.
A special mention here to my favourite Cylon and main reason the colony's were so easily destroyed, Caprica 6 who used seduction and sexuality against us.
Petty children come back to kick their parents out of their homes, thats how one could look at the Cylons.
Eventually as we know the Human Form Cylon's (or at least some of them) joined up with the humans and eventually settled on a new lush planet, they all called Earth, this being around 140,000 years ago.
OK, so ive delved into the 4 of what I think are the most Bad Ass artificial life or cybernetic life out there, the question is, who do you think is the worst? who would you least like to run in to when piloting your ship around the galaxy?
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