Talk:Chaos Crisis/Phase III/@comment-5135903-20130818172819

Okay. Here we are. I'll try and make a very optimstic prediction for how longit would takethe Anathema to cover the whole of the Andromeda Galaxy.

Assuming there are 1 trillion stars to cover, the Anathema self-replicate exponentially, it takes 6 months for the Anathema to take over a star/solar system (which is actually very optimistic, as they have to take over a number of planets, hunting down space habitats, all while having to remember to self replicate), few to no Anathema get destroyed by civilizations/accident, the Anathema can travel anywhere instantly and they split off and go on to two other stars/solar systems once they have taken a solar system (if they split any further it would mean they would have to replicate more to rebuild their numbers, taking longer to take over each solar system).

That works out at about 15 years (2^(30 generations) = just over 1 trillion stars) 30 x 6 months = 15 years.

Remember, this is for just a single galaxy, with highly (even unrealistically) favourable numbers for the Anathema.