Post by microfarad on May 4, 2010 18:19:09 GMT -5
Some of you may recall the Faridians from Planetary Wars. The Faridians are my fictional race. It must be noted that the Faridians were an idea of mine before I came here. The Planetary Wars Faridians deviated significantly from the official Faridian canon which I will begin to detail here. Some of this was thought of long ago, some of it is recent.
The Faridians originally came from a relatively near by solar system called Locke. Their home planet was named Skie. The striking similarity between Skie's environment and Earth's can be explained by their extraordinarily similar origins. The striking similarity between the Faridians and humans however, is unexplainable. Faridians Are actually quite human looking. They do, however, have some significant differences. They are, for one, all pale blue. Their hands have only four fingers, two of which are similar to thumbs, and lie on opposite sides of the hand. Similarly, their feet have four digits as well. Faridians tend to be slightly taller and thinner than the average human. Their features are generally more angular and they have no hair. Faridians do often wear hats, in fact, they almost never take off their hats.
The Faridians made an incredible discovery during their tenure on Skie. Some human scientists have predicted an island of stability in elements with high atomic numbers. Some of these elements will not decay within milliseconds, but rather in a relatively long period of time. Human scientists, however, have never predicted an island of stability which exists for much larger elements. In the middle of this island is a perfectly stable element with remarkable properties. Faridians have named this element Ignosum. Ignosum can be used to bend energy. With this extraordinary element, the Faridians were able to create an incredible number of useful devices.
One of the first applicatons of Ignosum was PMT (plasma manipulation technology). With PMT the Faridians were able to make the PAG (plasma arc guide) weapons. PAG guns basically have a very high voltage anode (positively charged electrical terminal) and cathode (negatively charged). As electricity arcs between the anode and cathode it creates a band of plasma. The Ignosum is able to guide this plasma into an electrical arc of almost any shape.Typically however, it will be stretched in a straight line, since this is easiest to achieve and uses the least energy. Howver, PAG guns can also shoot around corners, if that is desired. Because of the nature of PAG guns, they only work for a (very) limited range. PMT shields are also possible. PMT shields are basically spheres or hemispheres (formed by inverting the bottom half of a sphere) of plasma which conduct a charge that swirls around in a circle, all moving about an axis. Thus, at the top of the sphere, there is a point where there is little charge movement, and there is, in fact, a hole in the plasma shield. When a plasma/light (laser) weapon hits the shield it will be absorbed by the shield, yet a price. The charge flow in the shield is disrupted and no longer continiues upon it's ideal path. More energy is required to reverse this damage. Thus, as a shield is hit repeatedly, it goes further into entropy, and becomes weaker. The shield is destroyed when the Ignosum can no longer guide the fields of energy, which are swirling about randomly. The shield can only be repaired slowly since it takes a huge ammount of energy. Shields, however, typically last a very long time, even under heavy fire. This is because the flow of charge in the field has a property which can be best described through the analogy of momentum, though it is in fact due to magnetic fields and inductance. Physical projectiles are vaporized when they hit a PMT shield, and contribute little to entropy.
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The Faridians originally came from a relatively near by solar system called Locke. Their home planet was named Skie. The striking similarity between Skie's environment and Earth's can be explained by their extraordinarily similar origins. The striking similarity between the Faridians and humans however, is unexplainable. Faridians Are actually quite human looking. They do, however, have some significant differences. They are, for one, all pale blue. Their hands have only four fingers, two of which are similar to thumbs, and lie on opposite sides of the hand. Similarly, their feet have four digits as well. Faridians tend to be slightly taller and thinner than the average human. Their features are generally more angular and they have no hair. Faridians do often wear hats, in fact, they almost never take off their hats.
The Faridians made an incredible discovery during their tenure on Skie. Some human scientists have predicted an island of stability in elements with high atomic numbers. Some of these elements will not decay within milliseconds, but rather in a relatively long period of time. Human scientists, however, have never predicted an island of stability which exists for much larger elements. In the middle of this island is a perfectly stable element with remarkable properties. Faridians have named this element Ignosum. Ignosum can be used to bend energy. With this extraordinary element, the Faridians were able to create an incredible number of useful devices.
One of the first applicatons of Ignosum was PMT (plasma manipulation technology). With PMT the Faridians were able to make the PAG (plasma arc guide) weapons. PAG guns basically have a very high voltage anode (positively charged electrical terminal) and cathode (negatively charged). As electricity arcs between the anode and cathode it creates a band of plasma. The Ignosum is able to guide this plasma into an electrical arc of almost any shape.Typically however, it will be stretched in a straight line, since this is easiest to achieve and uses the least energy. Howver, PAG guns can also shoot around corners, if that is desired. Because of the nature of PAG guns, they only work for a (very) limited range. PMT shields are also possible. PMT shields are basically spheres or hemispheres (formed by inverting the bottom half of a sphere) of plasma which conduct a charge that swirls around in a circle, all moving about an axis. Thus, at the top of the sphere, there is a point where there is little charge movement, and there is, in fact, a hole in the plasma shield. When a plasma/light (laser) weapon hits the shield it will be absorbed by the shield, yet a price. The charge flow in the shield is disrupted and no longer continiues upon it's ideal path. More energy is required to reverse this damage. Thus, as a shield is hit repeatedly, it goes further into entropy, and becomes weaker. The shield is destroyed when the Ignosum can no longer guide the fields of energy, which are swirling about randomly. The shield can only be repaired slowly since it takes a huge ammount of energy. Shields, however, typically last a very long time, even under heavy fire. This is because the flow of charge in the field has a property which can be best described through the analogy of momentum, though it is in fact due to magnetic fields and inductance. Physical projectiles are vaporized when they hit a PMT shield, and contribute little to entropy.
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