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| colddigger | Mar 5 2011, 03:10 PM Post #31 |
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Not to mention that if all they had to do was twitch out an electrical response then accidental discharge may be rampant, or if the electricity is released by a pair of glands it may be some form of endocrine reaction (toward fear perhaps) meaning using it as a means of firing weaponry is pointless. |
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| Canis Lupis | Mar 5 2011, 10:50 PM Post #32 |
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Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.
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Good points all around. I don't really understand weapons technology (or any technology for that matter) of Humans (I'm completely in the dark about how television and computers work). So my question to you all, since a bioelectric trigger (really just the Servain's own electricity) would not be very plausible, would it be possible for, after Servain technology becomes more advanced, a battery that can store a Servain's bioelectricity and amplify it for use in actually making the electrolock gun fire? There would obviously need to be some sort of trigger, but is the idea plausible? Also, I was thinking about how the Servain could utilize electrically-conducive metals (like coppor for instance) for use in more traditional weaponry. The Servain would create weak bioelectrical energy that would travel along the weapon and cause their opponent to die from an electrical shock. This would be relatively primitive technology, roughly equivalent to something inbetween the Human Bronze and Iron ages, but it could be effective. Heck, I imagine that, in modern Servain society, lower class Servain are pitted against each other in an arena-like structure and are forced to fight each other with these electroswords. The killing would thus be more artistic (more like a good martial arts movie) rather than bloody (like the gladiatorial battles from ancient Rome). Heck, and this may be an all-too-obvious allusion to Sparticus's slave revolt in the days of the Roman Republic, I imagine that the general (leader of the radical Marxist revolution) could have gotten his start in these "gladiatorial" shows. The "gladiators" would probably be lower class Servain (who refuse to learn their place) and criminals. |
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| T.Neo | Mar 6 2011, 05:11 PM Post #33 |
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Translunar injection: TLI
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I don't think trying to store or amplify their bioelectricity would work; I'd imagine it'd be too much trouble, even if they could consistantly "juice up" their inventions with their bioelectricity it'd almost be like... flipping a toggle switch back and forth to try and accumulate enough of a charge with some odd kind of generator, to charge up something like a torch. I don't think electroswords would work either, for one it would probably be easier just to try and stab/slash/club your opponent than shock them, the bioelectricity was originally intended to stun fish, and an adult Servain is presumably quite a bit larger than a fish, so I doubt it would be lethal, especially when conducted through something like a copper sword... then again, it might be a pretty effective unarmed combat move on an unsuspecting victim, kind of like an electrical "Vulcan Nerve Pinch". |
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| Canis Lupis | Mar 6 2011, 05:16 PM Post #34 |
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Fair enough. Just some ideas I was tossing around. Yeah, I was considering just making it something that could temporarily stun a Servain, though not for as long a period of time as a Servain could stun "fish." Anyway, any other questions, comments, or concerns? I was planning on starting to write this bad boy either today or tomorrow. |
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| Canis Lupis | Mar 13 2011, 06:29 PM Post #35 |
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So no further comments or questions about the story? Hopefully the first chapter will be up this week. |
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| T.Neo | Mar 14 2011, 08:39 AM Post #36 |
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Well, in regards to stunning, it is not only time but overall severity that changes- it'll have less of an effect on a larger organism, which will therefore be able to recover from it faster. |
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