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[Madman198237]

Hey, it's OK, since as soon as you explode you start to heal. Of course, it's only one part of you that heals, and the rest keeps exploding til it's gone, but that's OK, because you'll just be entirely regrown! Painfully Painlessly regrown! Just like that! Unless of course your damaged, mutating genes mess it up and we have to go back to the cloning center, but it's OK! Because we'll get one! Right after you explode for the first, and very messy, time!

[Glass]

Don't make him explode.

[Smoke Mirrors]

The words cloning center disturb me for some reason, I wonder why.

[Madman198237]

Because the proposition was to have a largeish room full of growing vats of genetically unstable potentially explosive superhumans?

[Tyrant Leviathan]

As for lasers there are three kinds.


Chemical:  urns through power and makes heat beam/radiation to cut things ( in reality would do horrific damage like boil blood and explode blood vessels in intense burning. Even red smoke)


Static Laser: Powered by a atmosphere that supports static electricity.

Electron: Pushes matter away based
On frequency as the beam is propelled by magnetic field. Can actually set said frequency to different radiation so as to effect different material.


Also light energy has sound, mit and Japan of now can make hard light constructs. MIT made a knife ( light saber boy!)

Japan? Mass Effect style functioning holo keyboard.

[Glass]

I can only assume that the M in MIT now refers to something other than Massachusetts.

[Madman198237]

Actually those are not types of lasers, except for chemical.

Your laser types are primarily:
Chemical: By ionizing certain gases, and then firing large numbers of photons into them, the photons will be emitted with the same frequency at the same time, meaning that a peak for one is a peak for all (When graphed as a wave). This is called "coherence", and is the basic principle of "lasing", the property by which a substance, under certain conditions, will produce a beam of coherent light. Sometimes chemical reactions can render the chemical mixtures necessary inert, though functioning multiple-use chemical lasers are used today.

X-Ray (Nuclear): First, detonate a small nuclear bomb. Then, use copper rods to collect the rapidly expanding spherical shell of x-rays (That briefly outrace the explosion) and direct them towards a target. The amount of radiation (And, you know, nuclear fallout) released makes this weapon pretty much unadvisable unless you really don't care about the planetary population...or you're in deep space. Also, the bomb tends to blow things up (This is a genius revelation, brought to you by Mad Science, Inc.), like the laser system itself, so it's only a one-shot weapon.

Crystal: Firing light through certain crystal matrices will cause a lasing effect, but it does run the risk of melting the crystal if overused.

While the electron pressure effect it cools, you pretty much need to have your own personal star to make it measurable, especially at long distance, so it's not really a practical anything right now. Unless you REALLY want a solar sailer...which is unadvisable.

Hard light?.....Well, there are ways by which you can do fun things to light, but as a general rule, relativity stands, which means light always travels at the speed of light. Duh. Plasma is probably a better option.

[VoidSlayer]

Name: Yzari "Plasteel" Redbranch
Race: Tarn
Department: The Randiri Skyjumpers
Role: Operative/soldier
Skill: Piloting, hand to hand, heavy weapons, tactical/squad leadership - Focus on heavy weapons

Liability: Royal Honor - Believes that the strong should protect the weak, and in turn be given places of deference and power.  Of course Yzari and Tarn in general are particularly worthy in his eyes.

Technoglitched - Yzari loves technology and science, he just does not really understand any of it.  Penalty to using any alien, unusual or unfamiliar technology.  Most standard technology he would equip do not get the penalty as using them has been explained repeatedly with big pictures.  Newly developed tech might lose the penalty after repeated use.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The child of a noble family on a core world, he was brought up to take over the task of managing large amounts of leisure time.  When the war came to his world though he fought to protect his family and people, all in vain.  He watched the continents burn from orbit as part of the handful of refugees who escaped the devastating world killer weapons.

Broken by the loss, he became a mercenary for a time until his company had an extended contract with the fleet.  When the contract was up he was offered and took a long term position training and leading assault teams.

Yzari is tall with shortly cropped bright red hair and a strong build for a Tarn.  He has numerous scars, including three across his face he claims came at the hand of some kind of war robot.  When not in combat armor he prefers loose fitting cloths in whatever color will clash with the environment, so that he stands out.  In combat though he is professional about his appearance.

[Glass]

The "hard light" thing is probably more along the lines of a mixture of dust in the air to make the light visible plus tactile sound-based "holograms" (I know that hologram isn't really the right term, but whatever).

[Madman198237]

Quite possibly. But also, SOUND-BASED? That makes almost less sense than light-based.

[Smoke Mirrors]

Light sabers Glass, don't ruin it.

[Glass]

Madman already declared the lightsaber knife bunk, SM.

Real scientists are actually looking into using sound to make tactile (touchable) holograms, Madman.

As for it not making sense... no, actually, it makes a lot of sense. Sound is based off of the movement of air in specific patterns of vibration. That air has force, as can be seen in the power of wind. Therefore, sound, which makes air move, makes sense as something that would allow for a "fake solid object" (to put it crudely, since that's the point of the whole endeavor, be it hard light or anything else).

[Madman198237]

I'm trying to even approach visualize what you'd have to do...and I'm not sure.

Maybe, if you could get the sound waves to interfere in extremely precise ways? Maybe if you could use sound waves to compress air so much it feels like a solid? I'm not sure, but it'd definitely not be easy.

[Glass]

But people are working on this kind of tech today. Since that's the case, I wouldn't be surprised if they'd figured it out by the time that the events of this game take place.

[Taricus]

Yeah I'm gonna agree with Madman on this, a lightsabre isn't going to be a reasonably practical weapon. I mean you could get a plasma blade contained in a magnetic field but it wouldn't be on for long.