I know what you’re thinking. Ridiculous premise right? I mean, who would program the robots if they’re fighting in the Jurassic? For the purposes of this discussion they just came that way. Created by an unknown entity and programmed to kick Dinosauria ass. Assume for the most part that they’re android shaped robots, however, I guess some could be like self driving cars or those little arms you see on assembly lines (someone’s gotta make new robots).
The dinosaurs, for their part, have all learned to settle their differences. Meat eaters & herbivores…together they fight crime! Also, don’t worry about pesky time differences like “oh noes! The Triassic and Cretaceous were soooo far apart. These dinosaurs wouldn’t have even known each other!” The dinosaurs have access to a Dinosaur train run by a Troodon who can bring in reinforcements.
So they’re locked in a fight to the death. Who wins? You get two choices. Pick wisely.
Robots are made of metal and dinosaurs are made of flesh. Granted lots of flesh, but still flesh. And they take a long time to make new dinosaurs, as well. Little dinosaurs are easy pickings, too. Reasons why humans won’t stand a chance when Skynet takes over no matter what the movies may lead you to believe.
Come, come, haven’t you seen Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla? All the dinosaurs with atomic breath win.
Okay, all dinosaurs with atomic breath, raise your right hand.
All right, then, if somebody has gone to the trouble of making dinosaur-fighting robots, and developed the technology to send them back in time, then, yeah, Robots all the way. Go Robots!
I never defined in my scenario how many robots. Sure if there were ten billion that arrived at once, it would pretty much be over before it started. Let’s assume a number of 1 million total robots to start with, with the ability to create more themselves, assuming they can find and process the requisite raw materials.
Would you stop making fun of the T-Rex please? He’s got enough self esteem issues as it is.
well, since the premise says the robots were designed to kick robot butt, and dinosaurs just evolved, I’ll have to take intelligent design over evolution.
Hmmm, the OP states that the carnivores and herbivores have put their differences behind them. So what DOES T-Rex eat? Free range herbivores that just fall over dead? Or has the Dinosaur Messiah arrived, creating a holy peace between them? Can the robots defeat dinosaur angels? Inquiring minds want to know!
Just ‘fall over dead’? Really? Are you forgetting that there’s an army of millions of robots out there literally designed to kill dinosaurs? Sure, a few might keel over suddenly for no apparent reason, but believe me, if those robots are doing their job there’ll be no lack of freshly killed dinosaur meat available!
Robots all the way, not even a question… unless the dinosaurs have access to magic or something. Oooh, what about dinosaur technology? Can they make dinosaur robots? Or robot dinosaurs. Or whatever you’d call them in this case, I don’t know.
I thought that the OP indicated that the dinosaurs coming to terms with each others was not necessarily caused by the robot incursion. Reading it again, it could be either way. I also see the dinosaurs have a time-traveling train as well, so, could the dinosaurs get to the future to eat the robotmakers before they can send the robots back to kill the dinosaurs, or would the robotmakers have sent the robots to dismantle the DinoTrain station?
Make it dinosaurs with enhanced intelligence – brain boxes, or simply evolved that way – and you’ve got a fight on your hands! As it is, the big lizards are too dumb to know a pit-trap when they walk into one.
Dinosaurs survived against all comers for millions of years. It took an astronomical catastrophe to beat then. Robbie the Robot would be crushed like a bug.
And how are the robots going to keep powered? How are they going to handle all the different dinosaurs, especially if those dinosaurs are working in some sort of unified effort versus the metalmen?
If the air flying reptiles don’t swoop down and carry them off, then the sea-going dinosaurs would short-circuit and rust 'em, and the gigantic land monsters would turn our robot army into so many screw, nut and sparkplug junkpiles in short order.
We have no way of judging the intelligence of the dinosaurs from our high and mighty 21st century, without access to a time travelling train of our own. I’m going to posit that they’re intelligent enough to know the robots are a threat and can work together to fight against them. How much more intelligent is an argument to be made in the thread.
Understand, though, that if you’re questioning dinosaur intelligence, you also need to question how good the robot programming is, and how likely they can adapt to new situations.
On the subject of the dinosaur train, I’m adding that in there to give any dinosaur (or groups of dinosaurs!) you so choose the ability to fight against the robots. Alas, it cannot be used to wipe the robots out by itself nor to create time paradoxes (such as having an Allosaurus kill its own grandmother, or for a Giganotosaurus to accidently step on a butterfly).
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The machine was a vast fortress, containing no life, set by its long-dead masters to destroy anything that lived. It and many others like it were the inheritance of Earth from some war fought between unknown interstellar empires, in some time that could hardly be connected with any Earthly calendar.
One such machine could hang over a planet colonized by men and in two days pound the surface into a lifeless cloud of dust and steam, a hundred miles deep. This particular machine had already done just that.
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I’m giving it to the robots. Robots have higher showings.
Big question: Do the robots have weapons, and if so, what? If it’s human sized (android) robots with bare hand fighting, the dinos, at least an army of sauropods, T-rexes and Spinosauruses are going to have a rather easy time just stomping on them. Stegosauruses and ankylosaurids are going to smash the crap out of them at will, and giant flying reptiles like the Quetzlcoatlus will simply pick them up and throw them in the ocean.
Now, if they’ve got plasma lasers and mini remote bombs, those dinos gonna die.
