Delta V

[Iconic]

No, the first is a lobster that I've photoshopped, the second is a brainslug with eye and deely-boppers removed and the third I drew.

[Retech]

Can it talk?

[Iconic]

Can it talk?

Oh [cabbage]!!

[Grim_]

Nah if telepathy is psionically based then it would not be able to get past the shell.

[Iconic]

Well, they can't psionically communicate and don't really have a mouth, infact in my origional drawings they had a human like mouth but I thought it was a bit weird. They can't really communicate with gestures and such so I guess there mutes :P.

 

i think a sort of vibrating stick on the end of the brain could vibrate and make understandable noises, of course english couldn't be pronounced; there language would be buzzz-buzzz-buzzzzzzz-zzzz-zzzz-buzz-buzzzzz.

[Retech]

Archi, maybe we could add that as a disadvantage? :lol:

 

 

 

 

We had to choose 500 years of research, right?

[The_Mather1]

[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?)

[archimage_a]

500 years of research, yeah.

[Iconic]

Oxidizing materials. - I'll give you that one.

Do not breathe. - Advantage

Gravity doesn't matter. - Advantage

Emergancy freezing. - Feature not bug, can be classed as advantage

[Retech]

Advantages:

Resistance against blunt force and projectile weapons.

Resistance against standard energy weapons.

Imunity against biological weapons.

Imunity against toxins.

 

Isn't that...everything?

[Grim_]

If he get's alll of those advantages then he must transmit all data wirelessly on unsecured networks with no antivirus.

[The_Mather1]

How are "gravity doesn't matter" and "doesn't breathe" disadvantages?

 

Now I can safely say they are overpowered.

No oxygen bonus and no gravity bonus.

 

Retech, they are imune against non-standard weapons and there are still explosive/heat weapons and psionic left as non-resistant.

 

Grim, you can connect using any active nanite, but remember we don't use the same language and lettering. It'd be like trying to read Chinese with no translator... and in 3d.

[Nexaduro]

Advantages:

Resistance against blunt force and projectile weapons.

Resistance against standard energy weapons.

Imunity against biological weapons.

Imunity against toxins.

 

Isn't that...everything?

Not Psionics. :twisted:

 

If he get's alll of those advantages then he must transmit all data wirelessly on unsecured networks with no antivirus.

I foresee amusing results...

[Seraphi]

Mather, that is stupid.

 

It isn't even worth pointing out what is stupid about it anymore.

[The_Mather1]

Who said I was imune to hacking? And I resist 1.75 of 4 standard weapons with imunity against one unconventional weapon.

[Iconic]

Rocco: I am playing with my reasonable race and doing pretty well.

Nex: I am playing with my reasonable race and doing pretty well.

Edel: I am playing with my reasonable race and doing pretty well.

Mather: RAGGHHHH!!!!!! BWAH, UNKILLABLE!!! BWAH CAPSLOCKCAPSLOCK

[Nexaduro]

I say we let him pull a Scathe. See how he does as the antagonist, facing off against all the rest of us. When he's destroyed he can rejoin as another race as Archi has stated.

[The_Mather1]

Edel, I believe that in my entire life I have only used caps only in one post and never used deliberately poor punctuation.

 

Rocco, the main weapons are balistic, energy, heat/explosives and psionic. Bio/toxic weapons are non-standard like nuclear.

 

Nex, to be an antoganist I'd have to actually do something against someone, it'd just seem idiotic with multiple people attacking someone who stays out of war.

[Iconic]

Edel, I believe that in my entire life I have only used caps only in one post and never used deliberately poor punctuation.

Capslock signifys a certain type of person and your acting like that sort of person now.

 

Why don't you come up with another race, I also dislike the fact that your copying stargate; I may be copying futurama a little bit but atleast I've changed and adapted and been a little creative with it.

 

 

Edit: Mather, no you wouldn't - You'd be the evil guy right from the start because your so overpowered.

[Grim_]

Edel you forgot this

Grim:WAAAAAAAGH!!!

Granted I am slightly copying warhammer 40k but remember I have been told I played like orkz so...

Also as a question to Arch; exactly how does hyperdrive travel work? (also do I start out with hyperdrive tech even if I cannot use it?)

[The_Mather1]

The sort of persons caps signify are trolls, flamers and agressors, so you just acted out what has been used for Hex and Grim and what would fit for Rocco.

And that happening would be like the entire world attacking America.

[Grim_]

The sort of persons caps signify are trolls, flamers and agressors, so you just acted out what have been used for Hex and Grim and what would fit for Rocco.

Comparing me to hex :sad: that hurts man...

[The_Mather1]

herp derp i'm mather, superior to you in every way

Yet again you fail, though you do prove my point, you are a flamer.

"Herp derp" signifies a troll, which I am most definately not. "Derp" alone signifies "I just failed./This is going to end badly."

Also me comparing myself to you proves that I do not feel superior to you (except in ethics which you honestly don't have/show).

 

Grim, I meant you as agressor and Hex as troll, but I only said that caps have been used in signifying you.

[Iconic]

Rocco summed up what I was trying to say.

Grim, I like your race more than Mathers race though.

 

 

Mather, lets not focus on meaning of words.

your a Quagaity Qwoo!!!

 

Archi, is my race ok?

[archimage_a]

Sigh....

Ok.

 

Mather has a race of nanites. So 5 nanometers.

The Specific Latent Heat(Energy required to change from Solid to Liquid) of Beryllium is 1,300,000 Joules per Kilogram...and that is high end(usually it is around 100,000).

 

Beryllium has a density of 184 kilograms per cubic meter...

5 nanometer sphere has a volume of 523 nm^3

Or 5.23×10-25 Cubic Meters.

 

So...

0.000000000000000000000000523*1,300,000 is 0.00000000000000000068 Joules.

 

So realistically, a very small amout of laser fire could melt a very large number of Nanites.

 

 

Edit:

Forgot to multiply out the density, but the change is negligable.