The Game: Beyond the End OOC

I'm going to assume that the Lumiens' thermal vision will work here? I wasn't sure how much of the light spectrum Tresi cancelled out, so I assumed that he didn't cancel out infrared.

Night, Erebos is capable of reacting fast enough to generate the energy storm and fire in time to protect from the tendrils.
All of his attacks so far have happened in a split second or less

EDIT: Maxx, Erebos' orange lighting is linked to his technopathy powers and he is basically shooting the lightning ALL over the room in all directions like a giant Tesla coil. If it hits your soldiers suits, they get disabled and shocked to death, which will happen if they try to get that close to Erebos.

You said it like it was some kind of fire. Terribly sorry. I'll edit.

EDIT: Rest in Peace, Crusader Beta. You shall posthumiously be awarded the Lumien Badge of Honor for performing above and beyond the Call of Duty to protect the fellow members of your squad. We salute you, faceless NPC! *salutes*

Well there is a sphere of fire around him. Its perfectly alright though.

It is not electricity either though keep that in mind. It is the physical manifestation of his technopathy.

*reads the bit about the salt content of Lumiens blood making them harder to boil*

... SALT MAKES WATER BOIL FASTER!!!!!!!

Oh and I am back from camp.

*reads all of the IC*

Aww I wanted to have Glycius teleport the spikey sphere of sawbladed plasmatic doom into Erebos' guts. = (

Welcome back Taco. Sorry that is what happens when you are away for a while.

Erebos would've just absorbed it anyway, and then he would've been chasing you around with it

Dr. Taco. wrote:

*reads the bit about the salt content of Lumiens blood making them harder to boil*

... SALT MAKES WATER BOIL FASTER!!!!!!!

Oh and I am back from camp.

YOU ARE WRONG YOU RIDICULOUS FOOL! That's a wise tale that doesn't actually work! In reality, salt attracts water to make hydrogen bonds with the sodium and oxygen bonds with the chlorine, thereby preventing water from freezing or boiling. Putting salt in water to make it boil faster is ridiculous and bad and if you do it then you should feel bad.

In the words of my former chemistry teacher, SCIENCE SMASH!!!!!

Does water boil faster if you put salt in the water?

Yes and no. If you look at how fast water boils when you add a small amount of salt to it, such as when cooking your noodles, the change is insignificant between pure water and the salted water. However, if you take two identical pots and add one gallon of pure water to one pot and one gallon of 20 percent salt water to the other and heat the two pots on identical stoves, the pot containing the salt water will come to a boil first. Surprised?

To truly answer the question, one must look at what it takes to boil a container of water.

The time it takes a bucket of liquid to boil is controlled by essentially three things. The first is how much heat or energy you put into the bucket. The second is how fast the temperature rises in response to the heat input (the liquid's heat capacity), and the third is the boiling point of the liquid. Assuming that we can control our stoves and add the same amount of energy to each pot, this variable becomes insignificant.

The boiling point of water does rise if you add salt to it, but only by about 2°C (4°F) to 102°C (216°F). Remember, water boils at 100°C (212°F). This is an insignificant change for adding such a large amount of salt. For you science nerds out there, the boiling point increase is calculated using the "ebullioscopic" constant of water. This leads us to the important variable, how fast water or salt water heats up, or the solution's heat capacity.

The heat capacity of water is very high. What this means is that it takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature of water 1°C; in fact, the calorie is defined as the amount of energy that it takes to heat one gram of water to 1°C. Not to digress, but the high heat capacity of water is good, especially if you live on a planet where two-thirds of the surface is covered by water - it helps regulate the global temperature.

Now back to the question. If you look at the heat capacity of salt water, you will find that it is less than pure water. In other words, it takes less energy to raise the temperature of the salt water 1°C than pure water. This means that the salt water heats up faster and eventually gets to its boiling point first.

Why does salt water have a lower heat capacity? If you look at 100 grams of pure water, it contains 100 grams of water, but 100 grams of 20 percent salt water only contains 80 grams of water. The other 20 grams is the dissolved salt. The heat capacity of dissolved salt is almost zero when compared to the high heat capacity of water. This means that the heat capacity of a 20-percent salt solution is 80 percent that of pure water. Twenty percent salt water will heat up almost 25 percent faster than pure water and will win the speed race to the boiling point.

Please note that this will not hold true if you take two identical pots containing one gallon of water each and add the salt to one pot because then the volume of liquid in the salted pot will be greater than the one gallon starting point.

-http://www.swri.org/10light/water.htm

EDIT:@canis dirus: The spiked ball of sawbladed plasmatic doom would tear apart his innards faster than he could react, imagine that a spinning sawblade appeared in your stomach, but you could tell it to stop and it would, the sawblade would already have eviscerated you before you could do anything about it.

Taco, if you had read the IC, you would know he is not really a robot. He has no innards to eviscerate.

So he is a solid hunk of metal that can't move?

Not neccesarily

This is the sheet for my Grey character. I'm posting it here now so that I can get it accepted quicker, since in my next post I'm going to kill off Flaeron.

General Information

Name/alias: Shakoth Og Zlann (normally known as Shax the Reaper)
Race: Grey
Gender: male
Age: Greys don’t age, but he’s lived for around 30 years
Appearance: Shax is a generally disturbing character. He is eight feet tall, a looming shadow of a man, slim and foreboding. He is generally humanoid with arms, legs, and a generally humanoid torso. His hands have six fully-functional fingers, two thumbs and four regular fingers. His fingers are long and have the same number of knuckles as human fingers, but have no fingernails. His arms are humanoid and thin, and fall a little below his hips. His torso is shaped slightly differently, with more ribs and a thin abdomen. His neck is slightly longer than the average human neck. Shax’s head is the shape that your classic Grey’s head would be. it is bulbous in shape, with a large encephalopod-like cranium. Shax has very large glistening black eyes and no nose (Greys have no sense of smell). His mouth is small and relatively humanoid except with a mouth filled with grinding molars and no canines or incisors. He is obviously herbivorous. Shax also does not appear to have any sort of ears, though he can hear. Shax’s entire body is covered in very smooth rubbery light grey skin, where the name “grey” comes from. Though Shax looks peaceful, he is badly scarred from battle. Though no harm came to his braincase, his arms, legs and torso are nicked with bullet scars and plasma burns. The skin is slightly moist and cool to the touch.  Shax wears a white jump suit with a pair of black boots and a black belt. On his belt is clipped a small red orb.

Personality:
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral, though seen by most as Lawful Evil
Affiliation: The Greys
Bio/history: Shax was born on the planet classically categorized as Zalon-6, though the inhabitants call it A Magra meaning “The Mother”. Zalon-6 is smothered in a very thick foggy atmosphere that disrupted radio signals, causing it to be completely isolated from the rest of the universe. Zalon-6 was a peaceful planet with pacifiscal inhabitants who worshipped the planet as their sort of deity. They were a very naturalistic people who, despite their towering white spires and bullet train-like global transportation systems, always gave back to the environment. The nature on Zalon-6 is pristine and beautiful, almost perfectly preserved. The Greys believed all plant life sacred, and so only built their cities on clear fields and deserts. They got the materials to build their cities from the ground, which contained a great amount of silicon and diamond. The Greys figured out a way to harness their own electrical energies to produce power for their cities, allowing them to create a global wireless power network (more on the electrical energies of the Greys in the power section). They were completely at peace, with a very minimal crime rate and no wars. Everything changed when the Lumiens came. One day a Lumien ship descended from the fog and discovered the civilization below. They wanted to colonize Zalon-6 and harness its minerals, but the Grey high priests resisted, saying that the gems of the ground were a gift and that permission must be given by the Oracle to use it. So one of the high priests took the captain of the Lumiens to the Oracle. That high priest was Mazzon Og Zlann, Shax’s father. The oracle denied the Lumien’s requests, and so they decided to go with plan B. Mazzon and the oracle were both shot, and Lumien soldiers stormed the Temple of Light, the Grey’s primary house of worship. Three hundred Greys were slaughtered brutally despite the Consulate’s commands to peacefully request colonization. Shax barely escaped with his life, but his mother was not so lucky. She was shot dead by the Lumien captain himself. Shax ran home and cried himself to sleep, vowing that he would avenge his parents’ death. He was That night, an emotion long dormant in the grey people was born again: hatred. The electricity grid became a massive EMP wave that trapped the Lumiens on the planet and disabled their ship. Angry Greys stormed the Lumiens and fought back in a long and bloody battle. In the end, the Greys won due to their technology being EMP-hardened and the Lumiens’ being vulnerable, though it was a hollow victory.

The following months contained nothing but strife as the Greys attempted to form a military to defend themselves from the Lumiens. Due to their newfound burst of telepathic energy and the weapons left by the Lumiens, the Greys developed weaponry quickly, as well as space travel. A brutal twenty-year war waged on Zalon-6 between the Lumiens and the Greys. Shex fought on the front lines as the Lumiens were defeated again and again. The Greys’ use of the planet’s electric network and their natural ability to turn themselves invisible was a major tactical advantage, and the Greys eventually forced the Lumiens to surrender. The Grey high priests, however, had become corrupt in the fighting. They ordered the execution of all non-Lumiens and burned their bodies. The Lumiens, watching their own comrades die, felt that they had no choice but to obliterate Zalon-6 and everything on it. Before they could, however, a Grey spy found out about it and was able to evacuate many of the younger citizens of the planet. The Greys ran away through the stars as the Lumiens obliterated Zalon-6, taking with them the Grey’s Deity and the high priests. The Greys vowed to regroup and avenge their dead god. Shax, being one of the highest-honored surviving soldiers, was promoted to be one of the Grey’s leaders in the absence of the High Priests. The Grey fleets began to explore other empires, searching for refuge from the Lumiens who intended to kill them.

Tactical Information (PM me this if you'd like)

Skills: Shax is a better diplomat than he is a soldier. He is capable of talking and manipulating his way out of trouble (with help from his superior mind, of course). He is actually not a very good hand-to-hand fighter, but his abilities lend towards him not needing to be.

Equipment: Shax wears no armor like a true Grey soldier but does carry a few tools. Firstly, he carries a manipulator, a small spherical device that can use his electrical field to turn itself into a multitool of sorts. It can unlock doors, weld metal, act as almost any tool, and can be used to track electromagnetic signatures of different frequencies (so he can track people by their frequency).

Transportation: This is one of the Grey’s ships. The doors are touch-controlled so that only a Grey can open them, and the ships’ defenses are powered by the Grey’s electromagnetic field. The ships can send out EMP blasts to thwart enemies and if needed can channel the field to create controlled energy blasts. All technology on Grey ships are isomer locked so that they can only be used by Greys. No other beings in existence can use their technology but them (especially since the ships have no wiring).

Power: Shax’s power lies in the Grey’s electromagnetic field. Basically, all Greys generate a large field on electromagnetic energy which they can use for a majority of things. Firstly, they can use these fields to bend light around themselves, making them invisible to all spectrums of light. Nothing in the universe can see a cloaked Grey. Secondly, the Greys can harness this energy to create energy blasts to defend themselves with (they look kind of like tiny lightning bolts). Now if Shax were to use his blast alone, it would not be very effective, as it would pack around the strength of a taser. But the beauty of the Greys is that they have the power to share their electromagnetic field. The more Greys you have in an area, the more powerful their attacks get. If you were to group, say, 100 Greys together, each one’s electric attacks would become 100 times stronger. They can use their energy fields to telepathically communicate with each other, to power electrical devices wirelessly, and to create EMP pulses to disable non-hardened technology. Greys can communicate emotions as well as thoughts, allowing an entire group to know if one member is wounded. This also gives Greys a good bit of pain tolerance since they can share the pain amongst their brothers. The more Grey are in an area, the less pain each individual Grey feels. Due to this field, Greys are very social creatures, meaning that Shax is almost never alone.

Weaknesses/limitations/drawbacks: Shax’s weakness is also his greatest strength. You see, Greys are only strong when they can communicate with other Greys. So if you were to isolate Shax in a device that blocks his electromagnetic field (like a Faraday cage), he would be completely cut off from the rest of the Greys and would become very weak. Greys that are separated from the rest of the group often become suicidal quickly and kill themselves with their own electricity, though Shax has been hardened towards this. Also, the Greys have a weakness in their ability to spread pain. If you were to cause one Grey in a small group an immense amount of pain, it would spread the pain to the others, causing them all to become weakened. Death of a member does not kill all of the Greys, however; they instead get cold and feel this sort of darkness and depression wash over them. Doing something like burning alive or badly electrocuting a Grey would quite possibly paralyze the rest of it’s group (so long as the group isn’t too freakishly large. If you did this to 1,000 Greys, they’d all feel a little sunburnt and then fry you like a wanton).

Yo Glict do you want to do something with the Greys and Hatred? I think it would be cool if they somehow got sucked into the Destroyed Realm.


EDIT: Okay, so I'm setting up three possible options for Shax and the Greys. They can either (1) get sucked into the Destroyed Realm by Hatred, (2) get noticed by Neutral Station Delta, or (3) get noticed by Kydi and Thray. The first one would probably be a more violent subplot as the Greys would not appreciate getting used as entertainment by Hatred, while the second option would give a major tactical advantage to Garthedus, Lumea, and other Garthedan allies: isomer-locked controls and wireless energy (that is, if the Garthedans are nice to the Greys and can somehow get the Lumiens to apologize for blowing up Zalon-6). The third option could give a large advantage to Sar's empire (whose name I cannot find anywhere). I'd be fine with any of the three, though if said-big-bad-evil-superenemy came back anytime soon, the Greys would give the Garthedans a big technological and tactical advantage as they make good spies with their invisibility fields and can provide Garthedus with a wireless energy field. This could cause strife with Lumea though.

Steve I am not going to post until next week now.

Liam, stop whining and go post or I'll ban this account too. You've done enough to warrant a ban.

Don't try and threaten me because that doesn't work.

Sar's empire is the Invaders. Their actual name is the Kyrenians.

If you ban me I will teleport to your house and kill you with a pre mailed weapon.

Teleportation is impossible.

As is time travel.
Not to mention you sound stupid when you threaten like that Taco

EDIT: Nice profile pic maxx