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Science in [REDACTED] - Schwi Dola - 12-11-2014
A little girl floated in a tube though clearly she wasn't human. Her ears were pointed and little light purple horns adorned her forehead in her purple horn around one of the green eyes that are all over her body. She seemed to have clothes that were nothing short of a lovecraftian theme with thigh high boots and gloved hands connected to sleeves all the way up to her shoulder, but with her shoulders and neck bare. Her humanoid eyes were closed and she looked peaceful in that test tube. A man sat there looking puzzled at her with a glowing blue computer screen in front of him. Numbers and chemicals buzzed through his head as Genjuro tried to puzzle through the mystery of all the missing functionality that DesX once had. She used to have similar powers to Desco but ever since he'd summoned her into the Omniverse DesX's powers were clearly different. Reconstructing her body at a cellular level bit by bit through nanomachines to the exact specifications he had naturally committed to memory changed nothing which could only mean the world worked differently here, but so far his experiments with her body had only tripled her previous power.
He pushed off from the station on his wheeled chair and pulled to a different project. This tube held a creature that was deteriorating rapidly, twitching as its flesh melted away. It was a combination of two things. One was something he found here wandering about in a forest. A small electric rodent with a lightning bolt tail and cheeks that generated lightning. This curious subject was deconstructed and combined with a Dragon demon he'd summoned for the experiment to see what would happen. The results were predictably bad, but the analysis equipment attached to the tank discovered many nights worth of data to pour over so that he could see how. He glanced at the latest status on the computer screen at it's station. Surprisingly the thing was still alive though it was long past the point where it could be conscious. Probably the dragon's demonic fortitude at work. It was still producing a large amount of electricity which was surprising. If he had to guess, it had something to do with the magical power of the dragon since the electrical sacs were pretty much gone now.
After a late night's work, Genjuro found himself looking for inspiration elsewhere. Naturally, what the boss man of this facility was up to should be of some interest and it would be good to try and get to know the man though he seemed to be pretty rough around the edges. Genjuro recalled something saying that he was working on a new experiment though because he'd became engrossed in his own work Genjuro didn't realize that it was a few days ago since he had heard. He entered the room where the man was typing into a computer and knocked on the wall to announce his presence. "So, I heard you have something new in the works, how is it going so far?"
Re: Science in [REDACTED] - Proto Man - 03-15-2015
Truth be told, there wasn’t much that pleased Doctor Gero outside the world of science. The reports and public relations documents he had to mull over from time to time were dumped from his brain the moment they were rendered irrelevant by the next twist of Imperial public relations. What was worse than reading the missives from the propaganda department was reading through the atrocious assortment of theses and dissertations he received from graduate and doctoral students from the University of Coruscant. As Dean, President, and CEO of that institution, Gero was responsible for most of the executive decisions about what was—in Omniverse terms—a ‘venerable institution.’
On this night, the good doctor had a night to himself and his experiments. Later in the week, he had to give a keynote speech for a collection of new Masters of Robotics graduates. It would be one of his first public appearances in a few months, and needless to say, he would be happy when it was over and he could return to his laboratory. For now, Gero was left to mull over some data from recent experiments. To a lesser man, many of the results would appear to be successes, but to the venerable scientist, they were failures.
A knock on the wall pulled Gero out of his laser-like focus on the numbers and images on his screen. Swiveling in his chair, he immediately noticed the man standing in his doorway. He was a researcher who, like Gero, understood that sometimes you had to stretch the limits of acceptability to break new scientific ground. He was also a prime, which gave him a little more pull when it came to resources and funding for what he wanted to study.
“So, I heard you have something new in the works, how is it going so far?”
Genjuro’s current projects revolved around gene manipulation and synthesizing some sort of demon girls, which meant he wasn’t here to try and steal ideas from Gero. “The limits of flesh and bone continue to disgust me, Genjuro.” The head researcher swiveled back around to face his screen, which was an unspoken approval for the other man to join him. A few moments later, Genjuro was standing next to him, eyes on the screen.
“What is this?”
Part of Gero wanted to roll his eyes and tell the other man to use his intellect to figure it out himself, but that wouldn’t be the ‘cordial’ or ‘appropriate’ thing to do. “Space marines are bulky and cumbersome,” the head scientist mentioned as he scrolled through some more of the preliminary results.
“You’re trying to replicate the efficiency of the space marine suits as an endoskeleton? Is that even possible given the requisite resources needed to power the suits?”
“Anything is possible.” Gero muttered, his tone a little icier as he glanced up and pressed a button that revealed that the wall in front of him was actually a projection over a two-way mirror. Through the glass, an assortment of ghoulish, blood-stained chunks of power armor and mangled body parts were strewn about the room. “The goal is to create something with the raw, unstoppable ability of the Power Armor that can be used to infiltrate terrorist cells and pass unobserved into foreign verses. The trick is maintaining the full abilities of the armor but converting it into something that you can cover with an organic exosuit… the efforts have been insufficient.”
“But you’ve had results?”
Gero nodded. “Yes, but at half or less the capacity of the full-sized armor.”
“It’s a start,” Genjuro offered, which only generated a scowl on the face of the older scientist.
“Yes, but half a space marine isn’t the goal of the project. If I wanted to settle for half a space marine, we could just send any generic robot out there, but we need to capture the essence of the suit and the raw might it exudes.” A wave of the doctor’s hand turned the glass back into a wall. “How do your projects do, Genjuro? Demon girls, wasn’t it? Or dragons and mice?”
Re: Science in [REDACTED] - Schwi Dola - 11-24-2015
Genjuro nodded, that was the general way of putting his efforts. "I've found that the limits of demon flesh and the magical energy therein to be quite high. I'm working with as many genetic samples as I can be supplied with, I may unlock ever greater heights." Genjuro rubbed his chin. He has had some successes so far but the failures were more pronounced and much more useful. His attempts at taming Zerg DNA structures did not work. Making Zerg obedient took out a lot of their adaptability. That was their best feature. On top of this it was difficult to combine the genetics of creatures from other worlds and universes into one.
"The demon girl template is a working design from my own world. The original prototype is a prime in fact. You may have read my report about the experiments I did with her in relation to the technology from Dante's Abyss. She originally developed power beyond expectations. She could destroy stars without effort. The Final Design had a stronger baseline power but the experiment had a lower potential due to changes in her personality." Genjuro spoke about his experiments with Desco. DesX was the finalized design that helped him as he had summoned her to the Omniverse. "As you know I could clone her design but like everything else in the Omniverse transference to this reality has weakened her significantly. I've practically had to work from scratch." Genjuro spoke of things Dr. Gero undoubtedly knew, but he liked to talk.
Genjuro gestured to Dr. Gero's work. There was an area of robotics that the lead scientist might not have had too much exposure too. As Genjuro understood it, Dr. Gero's reality had little in the way of magic. "Have you tried an embedded magical power source to power the suit? My personal battle suit has a magicite crystal to start the fusion reactor. The design specifications have probably been filed away in some database." They both knew, the battlesuits he designed on his Earth was partially powered by the user's own magical capabilities allowing a stronger pilot to exceed design specifications. "The rest of the design might not fit the average stormtrooper, but magitech could help with miniaturization."
Re: Science in [REDACTED] - Proto Man - 02-15-2016
Gero nodded his head as he mulled through Genjuro’s remarks. The lead scientist enjoyed the other man’s input far more than most of his peers. Gero came from a world where normal humans could train themselves to wield great power, but that might was still rooted in physics and the laws of the physical world. Channeling ki into techniques like flight and energy blasts might appear to be the work of magic, but the reality that Gero had learned was that it all came down a manipulation of science.
Genjuro, however, came from a world bristling with ‘magic.’ The scientist had studied demons and devils and all sorts of supernatural beasts that would have resulted in the public ridicule of someone from Gero’s home universe. Had the lead scientist gone to Commander Red with his plans to research ‘magic’ or ‘demon flesh,’ the Red Ribbon Army leader would have put a bullet through his skull.
Fortunately, this was the Omniverse, which meant that there was little in the way of boundaries or impossibilities. Who is to say that some sort of magical battery wouldn’t improve the ease of donning the armor? Certainly anything that allowed the project to be mass-produced would please Bradley and Palpatine, which would mean more resources and funding for Gero’s more enjoyable projects.
As Dr. Gero stared at the handful of prototypes, he realized he’d lose very little in experimenting with some of his peer’s area of expertise. After all, it wouldn’t be too hard to come by some ‘magic’ in the Omniverse.
“Might be an interesting idea,” Gero muttered as he pulled up the schematics and started to create possibilities in his head even as other thoughts ran through his cramped but efficient brain space. “Where would we get more resources?” Like Genjuro, the lead scientist understood that it was preferable to locate the actual resource, rather than attempt to create such a complex item from scratch. The majority of Gero’s constructions and the organisms sacrificed in their design had been ‘authentic.’
RE: Science in [REDACTED] - Schwi Dola - 03-18-2016
Genjuro nodded. Finding a source for resources was always tough. Especially when it came to magical resources because these things had to be able to go into mass production so the resources can't be stuck at a bottleneck for any one piece of the puzzle. That was in part why it was better to use magic to jumpstart the fusion reactor rather than just have it powered by magic. A jumpstart would take a relatively small amount of magic every time the suit is powered on so the magic crystal used wouldn't need to be terribly powerful. Once going a fusion generator has very high efficiency rates.
Genjuro said, "I hear the forces in the deeps have discovered some interesting materials the 'Pokemon' natives call Evolution stones. Their own uses for it aside I believe those could provide a power source. Omnilium is something of a limited resource but I'm sure from the samples I've seen of a 'fire stone' I could fashion them into more generic crystals for use. Of course there is always the option of turning wild pokemon from the deep into Omnilium and whatever resources we need but the higher ups are a bit sticky on what to do with things that we have actually turned into Omnilium." Everything then faded black, the rest of this conversation too classified to have been recorded.