random idea

[iron maiden]

I was reading Avatar's prehistory, the part about the cthonians and became caught on a small sentence fragment: "dropping Biometal 'seeds' from orbit. "

I immediately thought of War of the Worlds and how, like in the prehistory, the seeds landed near towns and unleashed the terrible war machines which were near unstopable. It occurred to me that one could actually make a mod and perhaps change the history of battlezone with this idea? WHAT IF, the martian tripods really were bio-metal war machines that landed on Earth? Perhaps the British could have been the first to look at bio-metal and could have a secret lab somewhere.    Just throwing it out there.

[Warfreak]

From what I understand, small traces of biometal are present in all Meteorite fragments that have reached the Earth's surface.
This actually means that until the Shower in the 1950's each nation would probably have small samples of biometal, but not NEARLY enough to do experiments to the extent done after it's "rediscovery" in the Bering Strait.

I do like where you are going with that though.

[iron maiden]

That's another big part of it, If the all the war machines were shut down when the organic material died from bacteria, the British would have massive amounts of it to conduct experiments with.

[Warfreak]

Do not be mistaken, biometal cannot "die". The machines only sleep. 

[iron maiden]

Granted, but, the British could have melted it down, thinking it was regular steel, after which the "brain" of the bio-metal would be disoriented and be controllable by the British scientists. OR, in the far future, that bio-metal finally remembers its mission and sets out against earth.

[Nielk1]

I had a discussion with WF and came to an interesting idea. Cthonian relics existed on Earth, the Nexus in FE is proof of that. Even biometal pools exist though they are long sense sealed. There might have been, back in the time of BZ1, a group that gathered information and technology of this type. A sort of Torchwood for Battlezone.

[bigbadbogie]

Minus the bi-sexuals I hope...

[Nielk1]

Never saw Torchwood myself so... Taking place around the time of BZ1 I think bi-sexuals would be the least of our worries. Commies...

[Mr X]

I always thought it would be cool to do a mod where, instead of America and Russia, Britain and Nazi Germany discover biometal first and fight out WW2 in space, with the RAF VS the Gestapo or something,

Sadly I am completely unable to make such a mod.

[mrtwosheds]

Lol I can just imagine the German pilots walk animation...

[Mr X]

Maybe if I got some people to help me...

[AHadley]

A sort of Torchwood for Battlezone.

If that idea ever becomes a mod, please count me in.

[iron maiden]

Oh, what if during a routine petrol on mars, the EDF comes across a base of Martian bio-metal war machines. They could accidentally activate them and the walkers go fury on them, thus beginning a real war between Earth and Mars.

[Warfreak]

Considering the NSDF and CCA have been to Mars and found no Martians, would be safe to say the mechs would be Cthonian in origin or Fury... or we didn't look hard enough.

[iron maiden]

Allow me explain something: It is theorized that mars was once home to life but died as its core quickly[in geologic terms] expelled all its energy and thus the planet could not sustain life. When the giant planet[I like to think of it as Unicron] attacked Cthonia, it may have also sent probes to mars which sucked the life out of the planet, contrary to the theory, until the planet was dead. However, with their mothership destroyed around Cthonia[i think that's how it goes], They simply shut down and remained on mars until they re awakened, attacked Earth in War of the Worlds, lost, and went back to sleep.

or we didn't look hard enough.

Its quite possible, it is a pretty big planet.