Chernaudi wrote:What if one of the Volturi created an "immortal child"?
Are you talking about the demon-spawn Renesmee kind, or the literal vampire baby kind?
Aro likes to experiment, so they did create vampire babies to see what they were capable of and whether they could be taught. However, they always destroyed the experiments (for lack of a better word, typing 'destroyed the babies' just seems wrong) once they were done so there would be no evidence.
For the demon-spawn kind, I assume it would be the same as above. Experiment to Aro's heart's content, then destroy the evidence. Its not really a double standard, doing it for research purpose. They studied the vampire babies before they outlawed them, so they weren't breaking one of their own laws yet.
Chernaudi wrote:Does anyone have thoughs on the chances of survival of the Volturi against a full out military strike?
First off, its intensely unlikely that humans would find out about the Volturi, but for the questions sake, lets take a hypothetical case.
U.S. finds out about Volturi. Gets permission/help from Italy (And the Vatican! Can't see the Catholics liking having a bunch of blood sucking demons so near the Pope) and unleashes a tactical strike on Volterra Castle after evacuating humans.
Its mentioned somewhere that vampires would have to hold still long enough for a bomb to hit them, and that would probably work. Its a bit like the Transformers only being damaged by Saber rounds and up (Not sure how that works, the most I know about weapons is what I've learned from Halo). A sufficently blast of strong heat would probably be able to fry a vampire, provided they hold still. I can't see the Volturi holding still. Wouldn't they have informants everywhere to tell them that a tactical strike is coming? They would have found out and abandoned ship long before anything hit them. *shrugs*