[hide='Replicators]The Replicators, while appearing to be a human, are actually a collection of microscopic nanites that combined to form a much more complex organism that mimics the form of humans. As such, while they might appear to be human, they are infact a machine based species with a great level of strength which can easily overpower a Human. Furthermore, their lack of a true skin meant that projectile weapons were useless against them as the bullets simply passed through their bodies. Any "wounds" simply healed at an accelerated rate with no degradation in the Replicator's movements. Certain forms of energy weapons seem to be capable of stunning them but only for a moment. All Replicators afre far stronger then humans and were capable of sending a human flying with just a single push. In addition to this, the nanites in their body allowed them to probe the minds of humanoids in a similar capacity as that of the Milky Way's Human form Replicator's. All that required was the Replicator to move their hands to the forehead of the individual and press forward. The nanites passed through the skin where it interacted with the brain of the organic being. In this state, the Replicator was capable of replicating a virtual world with the human being unaware of the probing. This process allowed the Replicator to experience the memories and thoughts of the human though those with prior experience of this action can resist their attempts. When exiting the probe, the human typically experiences a great deal of pain. Despite this, it appears that Replicators can make the process painless if they wish. Other Replicators were capable of doing this act on their fellow kind. They were also capable of killing fellow Replicator by placing their hands in the body of another Replicator and severing the nanite bonds causing them to disintegrate into a pile of dust. Obstacles that were in the way of the replicators were also not a problem to them as their nanites were capable of slipping through the minuscule cracks within door mechanisms whereupon they reconstitute themselves on the other side. This meant that physical obstructions did not impede their movements. One insidious ability of the nanites was their capacity to infect other race's by a simple touch. A single brief moment of contact can allow a Replicator to infect a person with the nanites which begin replicating immediately inside the body. As they begin multiplying exponentially, they start to slowly consume the body of the host. The host body remains in a coma-state while this occurs and while the nanites were quite capable of killing it, in their diminished numbers they would not be able to survive on their own. This was why they began stripping the body of raw material to produce more of their number thus transforming the host into a new replicator. This was only done so until they reached sufficient numbers to begin their own independent entity. This was one method through which they were capable of creating more replicators but was not considered the standard practice and was more like a last desperate attempt to survive by the infecting replicator. In this state, the nanites were vulnerable to electromagnetic pulses though they were capable of consuming the organic tissue of a body and integrate it into their form thus making them immune. The nanites contain an element of the infecting replicator's personality which attempts to subvert the mind of the human host through trickery. The power of the replicator personality is determined by how many nanites were within the host body and the mind worked to suppress the immune system of the host in order to give the nanites the freedom to reproduce their numbers. This was why the host was in a coma state and was completely unaware of the process. A means of termination is to expose an individual replicator to outer space. The individual doesn't crumble into a pile of dust, but can be frozen, as the solar radiation has the ability to freeze the bonds between nanites, incapacitating them. But they can be reactivated by anyone capable of space travel. Being a machine race, the Asurans are ultimately governed by the coding with which their creators programmed them with. Their creators implanted a number of directives within the replicators known as the Base Code. This was incredibly complex and contained a code of over three billion chemical base sequences. It included parameters that prevented the Asurans from harming their creators and from tampering with the code themselves. The replicators were each individual units despite their basic command code being interconnected over a powerful subspace frequency. While this was the case, they were not a collective hive mind. This expansive subspace network linked them all together and allowed them to know whatever their comrades were perceiving. This also allowed them to watch for signs of betrayal among their kind and were capable of Resetting a rogue replicated who are reverted to their base programming. It allowed them to restore a deceased member of their kind allowing for a destroyed replicator to be recreated. Each of the Asuran's exist within the collective and can be replicated many times. This was done through the subspace collective which was responsible for digitizing the replicator mind and aiding in its placement within a new body. A further addition to the subspace network was a periodic collective update known as Merges. This allowed the replicators to exchange new information among themselves and disseminate new data among their people. Any hacking into their network can be detected once a Merge occurs which causes all the replicators to freeze until all the new data has been distributed among their kind. While they were capable of doing this normally, the Asurans also possessed a Central data core which acts as a backup hard drive for the collective and aids in spreading the data of a Merge. [/hide] Advantages: Resistance against blunt force and projectile weapons. Resistance against standard energy weapons. Imunity against biological weapons. Imunity against toxins. Not harmed by any temperature below the melting points of their elements. Survival in any atmosphere (except fluorine unless the element is resistant against chemical bonding). Biological interaction. Material bypassing. Disadvantages: Oxidizing materials. Do not breathe. Gravity doesn't matter. Emergancy freezing. (any more?)