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Ta'kaya as "Teyla the Demiphoenix"
Introduction:
This thread is just something I wanted to do at random. In the distant future, I was going to write a long story about the Behind-the-Scenes in the Metroid universe, and I decided to try to find explanations behind how everything works before I got down to actually writing it. I had/will have some help with some of these, so if you see anyone besides me talking about it, then you can be slightly less alarmed.
Gravity Suit:
I always wondered how the Gravity Suit worked (specifically, how it allows you to move unhindered through liquid), and then one day I was looking up Inertial Dampeners on an undisclosed wiki. Apparently Inertial Dampening works by using an artificial gravitational field to counteract an objects momentum, making it behave as if it had less mass. What if the Gravity Suit works by using just that? Not only would it explain why it works the way it does in gameplay, but it could also explain the name (remember, gravitational fields) and possibly even the purple color (a special coating that conducts the gravitational field, maybe?)
What are your thoughts on this, universe (and persons)?
Weapon-Downloading and Resource Recovery (Metroid Fusion):
Ever noticed that when Samus (in Metroid Fusion) absorbs an X-Parasite (frakking reverse-auto-correct), there is a flash of energy around her before something of hers gets replenished? And how she can use recharge rooms and stuff? I came up with an explaination for that: It is all a matter of Energy Condensation (and thus, energy-to-matter conversion and vice versa, ignore any unintentional puns).
Also, has anyone ever noticed that Samus' suit (in all of the Metroid games) has glowing lights all over it? I think those are not only what emit the shields for her suit (that is what all of those energy tanks are for), but they are how she can absorb energy in Metroid Fusion.
In another one of my favorite videogame franchises, WipEout (for those of you unfamiliar, it is an Anti-Gravity racing franchise for Playstation), ships receive weapons by running over weapon pads, and can either fire the weapon or absorb it to replenish their shield energy. What the Weapon Pads do is they shoot a bolt of condensed energy (but ot condensed enough to be matter) into your ship, and your ship's computer can either assemble and recondense the energy into ammunition for various weaponry, or redirect that energy straight to the shields. When you absorb a weapon, it has a similar visual effect to when Samus absorbs an X-Parasite, so perhaps what she is doing there is essentially the same principle.
When a Metroid consumes biomass, it outputs a high concentration of energy as waste, and Samus is doing exactly the same thing when she absorbs X-Parasites, except her suit is reconfiguring the energy into either ammunition for her weapons or shield energy. When she downloads weapon data, the Datapod jolts her suit with energy as the computer in her suit reassembles the energy into ammunition for the new weapon.
Okay, that is all for today. I've already exhausted my brain enough as it is by figuring out how to turn general relativity into applied science (though technically it has already been done, in the case of GPS).
References:
General Relativity - Wikipedia
Inertial "Dampeners" - Stargate Wiki (Negator/Compensator is more accurate)
Inertial Negation - Wikipedia
This thread is just something I wanted to do at random. In the distant future, I was going to write a long story about the Behind-the-Scenes in the Metroid universe, and I decided to try to find explanations behind how everything works before I got down to actually writing it. I had/will have some help with some of these, so if you see anyone besides me talking about it, then you can be slightly less alarmed.
Gravity Suit:
I always wondered how the Gravity Suit worked (specifically, how it allows you to move unhindered through liquid), and then one day I was looking up Inertial Dampeners on an undisclosed wiki. Apparently Inertial Dampening works by using an artificial gravitational field to counteract an objects momentum, making it behave as if it had less mass. What if the Gravity Suit works by using just that? Not only would it explain why it works the way it does in gameplay, but it could also explain the name (remember, gravitational fields) and possibly even the purple color (a special coating that conducts the gravitational field, maybe?)
What are your thoughts on this, universe (and persons)?
Weapon-Downloading and Resource Recovery (Metroid Fusion):
Ever noticed that when Samus (in Metroid Fusion) absorbs an X-Parasite (frakking reverse-auto-correct), there is a flash of energy around her before something of hers gets replenished? And how she can use recharge rooms and stuff? I came up with an explaination for that: It is all a matter of Energy Condensation (and thus, energy-to-matter conversion and vice versa, ignore any unintentional puns).
Also, has anyone ever noticed that Samus' suit (in all of the Metroid games) has glowing lights all over it? I think those are not only what emit the shields for her suit (that is what all of those energy tanks are for), but they are how she can absorb energy in Metroid Fusion.
In another one of my favorite videogame franchises, WipEout (for those of you unfamiliar, it is an Anti-Gravity racing franchise for Playstation), ships receive weapons by running over weapon pads, and can either fire the weapon or absorb it to replenish their shield energy. What the Weapon Pads do is they shoot a bolt of condensed energy (but ot condensed enough to be matter) into your ship, and your ship's computer can either assemble and recondense the energy into ammunition for various weaponry, or redirect that energy straight to the shields. When you absorb a weapon, it has a similar visual effect to when Samus absorbs an X-Parasite, so perhaps what she is doing there is essentially the same principle.
When a Metroid consumes biomass, it outputs a high concentration of energy as waste, and Samus is doing exactly the same thing when she absorbs X-Parasites, except her suit is reconfiguring the energy into either ammunition for her weapons or shield energy. When she downloads weapon data, the Datapod jolts her suit with energy as the computer in her suit reassembles the energy into ammunition for the new weapon.
Okay, that is all for today. I've already exhausted my brain enough as it is by figuring out how to turn general relativity into applied science (though technically it has already been done, in the case of GPS).
References:
General Relativity - Wikipedia
Inertial "Dampeners" - Stargate Wiki (Negator/Compensator is more accurate)
Inertial Negation - Wikipedia
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