Shattered Planes Archives (Seasons 4 & 5)

Hey, I wasn't the one that decided to use the thread for their own personal venting needs, or to insult people.
Also, what happened to "you can celebrate any way you want to"? I guess that only includes the ways you want to celebrate it, huh?

"A lot of US schools/students do this type of exchange annually."

A lot of schools across multiple countries have exams that fall over the valentines period. No-one's claiming it's valentines tradition.

"There is no right way or wrong way to celebrate something."

On this basis, not celebrating the holiday is a valid way to celebrate the holiday. Which is a logical fallacy, and as such disproves the statement. I actually pointed this out to you before.

"I was raised doing this. I've never been part of a couple on this day until this year."

I already answered that one. This is a reminder about hypocrisy, since you often complain about me repeating myself.

"And I really don't care anymore about what you're arguing about"

I assume the fact that you didn't care is the reason you continued to argue with it. Looping back into logical fallacies.

"The real argument was "me asking for attention" v. "Me actually celebrating the damn holiday in the way I celebrated it growing up"."

Really? Because I was just responding to the complaints you had with what I said up above. I'm sure if that's what you were complaining about, it would have shown up when I was responding at some point along the line.
But, to address this issue, since you've brought it up, I was agreeing with Hikaru that this thread doesn't really seem to be about valentines, and is actually just another art thread. My basis being the above logic, that it doesn't match the "spirit of the holiday". In actual fact, the fact that you then decided to use it as a vent topic also demonstrates that it's not a valentines thread, since that also doesn't fall into the "spirit of the holiday". It also doesn't fall into your own definition of the holiday.

*Can't resist the call of the unused arcane spellcaster spot*
My character for Lyoko's Campaign.

I'll edit the Familiar's ref sheet in once it's done.

Also, Hik, your regular AC and your flat-footed are the wrong way round, unless I missed something. Haven't seen Rogue played Pacifist before, this should be interesting. ^_^

Edit: Have a familiar ref sheet!

The issue here isn't that you consider the reactions overblown, it is simply that it doesn't directly affect you that causes you to not care. Also, accusing other people of over-reacting? Possibly a little hypocritical.

Congratulations. You managed to repeat exactly what I said.

You're going to use someone elses off-site idea? Lame, very lame.

Actually, I completely agree with this statement. It's hella lame that you guys wanna reuse my CE event from last year, without my permission. Space zombies was my thing.
*Goes on to reference Reevers from Serenity, Necromorphs from Dead Space, and whatever the zombies in Doom are called*
If you're gonna re-use my idea, adding the single adjustment of slapping on a tagline stolen from Dawn of the Dead (when there's no more room left in hell), at least do me the justice of crediting me.

(For the record, this isn't entirely serious. I don't actually think K2's stealing my idea, and as I pointed out, space zombies wasn't an original idea when I did it. Just making a point. =D )

*Sighs*
Based on human statistics, one cubic meter of air has enough oxygen to last you two hours. I'd estimate that most ships have roughly thirty cubic meters of air per person (about the size of a small room). Which means there would be enough oxygen to last them almost three days. As I've pointed out, effectively everyone can manually run their engines without electricity in an emergency, assuming there's at least one guy on board that knows how their engines work (if you don't have an engineering crew onboard, it's kinda your own fault, dude).
Basically what I'm saying is, you have three days to reach the nearest planet. Probably more, in fact, since every race on the forum is "they're humans but better", so you probably don't need to breath as often. Anyone complaining that they're going to die because of this is working on the basis that it's completely impossible to come up with a creative solution for anything. That wasn't even a creative solution. "Turn on the engines and fly home" is not a creative solution.

Actually, what you should be worrying about isn't life support at all, it's space debris. Without your shields, a pair of sunglasses in orbit could probably rip through your hull. Enjoy. =3

Preferably the latter. Without you guys having any tech, I can probably conquer the galaxy by the end of the week. Just sayin'.

Yeah, apparently the staff are happy to leave me double-posted thread stick around. Oh well! Guess I will just get this race twice! =P

But yeah. For anyone who's still struggling: Unless you're using EMTs and tesla coils (which I highly doubt, since I know most of you aren't that smart. No offence. Being smart isn't everything. Unless you're me), your technology isn't necessarily reliant on electricity, except for control. There's no reason you can't manually boot your engines, land your fleet, and fix stuff up to not be electricity reliant from the ground. This one was free. Next time you need solutions, you can negotiate for them. <3

Well, all space-faring ships are out of commission. There is no control over them any more, and their crews are likely dead. Otherwise, you make a good point.

Man, wouldn't it be funny if two people posted these comments directly back to back like this. Like, one person going "here's a possible solution" and the next person immediately going "all hope is lost, we'll never find a solution!" No, wait, that totally just happened, didn't it? Never mind.

My humblest apologies. My internet's being weird today, and apparently this got sent twice. If some kind admin could delete this thread, I'd be much obliged.

Name: The Aberrant

Physical Description: A fluid race with a thick elasticated skin. They can take any simple physical form (although they wouldn't be detailed enough to say, recreate someone's face) within their size limit (conveniently about the same size as the average human). Their colour, however, is a steady silver-blue.

Mental Description: An Aberrant's conscious thought is purely made of their magnetic field, rather than having a solid physical storage. This leads to a few interesting advantages. Firstly, they're able to directly control their physical shape (I'll go into that in the bio-func section), reducing reaction times. Secondly, they're able to sense other magnetic fields with incredible accuracy. Furthermore, by ceasing to concentrate on maintaining their own magnetic fields, they are able to warp other fields around them to their whims, in effect manipulating whatever caused them.

Psychological Description: Due to their mental nature, Aberrant avoid each other as much as possible. As a result, they're generally incredibly solitary creatures. However, because of their ability to sense magnetic fields, they're also incredibly empathic towards those that are near by (I'll talk about that in the bio-func section too). So basically, they like to surround themselves with other races. =3

Biological Functionality (For Swift's Benefit): So, this section is gonna be stupid long. You can skip this if you do not like science.
Physiology - So the majority of their body is liquid mercury, and their skin is a flexible Mercury-copper alloy. So, silver with a copper-blue tinge. With no skeleton or musculature, they're not able to move by the usual means, but fortunately their consciousness is pure magnetism. So they just tweak the fields a little, change the density ratios, and move like that. That means no cells. Nice and simple! ^_^
Notes on Magnetism - Because the brain functions through various different moving charges (charged ions for chemical reactions, electrical exchange within neurons, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera), the human mind has a really complex magnetic field around it (because a magnetic field is just the product of a moving charge). So, by sensing someone's magnetic field, they're able to read thoughts. Using science. Science, bitches. As a side note, by changing their own magnetic field, they can effect the magnetic fields of others, and cause physical effects as a result (think like when you move a magnet towards another magnet, and it causes it to move).
Senses - Because of the lack of cells, they don't really have the usual senses. However, they can detect sound through molecule movement, and visually map areas around them based on the magnetic fields around them. Scent, taste and touch, however, are lost to them. Anything that carries a charge though, can be detected if it moves relative to their reference frame.
Reproduction - Physically, reproduction is entirely asexual, and basically treats them as one giant cell (Yes, they do need some source of Mercury to do this). Boom. Psychologically, however, three minds or more are required to connect to reproduce. However, these don't all have to be Aberrant minds. More than that, we won't go into it. That's just gross, dude. Why do you want to know about weird mind sex? Like, seriously, man.
Energy - To sustain themselves, like anything in the universe, Aberrant need energy. rather than ingesting or breathing, they just syphon energy from the magnetic fields they interact with.
I think that's everything necessary, but if there's anything I've forgotten, feel free to remind me.

Origin: I don't quite know how the whole planet creation thing works, so feel free to tell me I'm doing it wrong. =P
The Aberrant originate on a small, earth-temperature planet (named Abhor) formed in a debris ring of a white dwarf. The world was similar to earth in size, and was even mostly liquid, much like earth.
However it was almost entirely mercury based.
This was the perfect condition for the Aberrant to evolve. Born at the bottom of a colossal sea of mercury, they had the perfect breeding ground, and there was little need to move anywhere. It was millennia before they knew there was something beyond that, and then millennia more before they realised the possibilities of space.

Civilisation: Originally, because there was no need to feed, the Aberrant had little need for physical possessions. What they did need, however, was space. So instead of a physical currency, the Aberrant made territory their currency.
This was okay early on, but as time went on and the population rose, transport became vital. As a result, they never really developed weapon technology.

Religion: They inexplicably worship cats, and abhor trolls.

Faction: I'll... be doing this bit later.

I dunno, there's probably other stuff I could talk about, but I'll let people ask for stuff, rather than just clogging up more of the screen with unnecessary typing.

^_^

Since magic doesn't work for now, I can put off learning about it. My understanding is that basically anything goes with it, right?
Nice to actually be properly introduced Hik. <3