Post by StellarWind Elsydeon on Jan 9, 2011 13:18:05 GMT -5
Name: Arvad (his true name is unpronouncable to non-Tydris due to the nature of the Tydris language. Arvad is the name he chooses to go by.)
Race: Tydris
Gender: Male
Age: Weird time shit makes it ambiguous.
Appearance Data: His appearance is completely obscured by the biomechanical encounter suit he is integrated into, and is as such unknown. It is unclear how much of it is is because he requires the suit to survive and how much of it is because he's secretive about what he is.
The head section of the suit has an elongated convex form with a small round lensed orifice glowing a radiant azure (given its camera-shutter-like closing mechanism it is possibly an ocular sensor) at its front end. Four segmented tentacle-mandibles extend from modules at the sides of the head section, though their purpose is unknown - perhaps to secure the head module. The neck is a little longer and covered with overlapping plates connected to each other vaguely through membranes which only appear as the plates move up and down subtly as he breathes (or is it as the suit itself breathes?). These plates continue along the back (think Torizo) and longish, flexible tail. Its arms and hands appear rather humanoid. The legs are digitigrade, clawed and powerful. At rest the suit stands approximately 1.8 meters tall.
The assorted plates and parts of the suit appear to be composed of some kind of dark greenish organic material, its texture a strange cross of organically smooth and yet metallic. It seems to refract light in an odd rippled way and has a mottled appearance, like a cuttlefish, the markings upon it changing periodically. Some segments that are not plated (such as the underside of the neck and connection points of limbs) appear to be covered with a vaguely pleated dark biopolymer. Various plates appear to have orifices that are normally closed, though may open to activate bioluminescence nodes or perhaps extra rebreathers.
Weapons and Powers: Both are facilitated by his encounter suit.
His primary weapons are extendable/retractable, slightly curved armblades. At rest these are folded along his arm, terminating shortly above his 'elbow'. When extended they project to the sides extending from the side of his wrist. Two blades exist per arm, one is longer and the other is shorter and 'fits' into a groove in the longer one. This is his primary melee weapon. For longer ranged combat (though still not TOO long) he facilitates a pair of long, plated, sharp-tipped tendrils extending from his shoulders, normally fitting into grooves between the back-plates and the rest of the body.
The suit itself is rather modular. The suit's skin produces most of its energy via a modified form of photosynthesis, and through control of the pigment rates it expresses it can display a manner of active camouflage. Being composed of organic technology the suit is capable of regeneration over time (though this requires time and raw materials). The accellerated growth of the suit is facilitated using nanobiomachines that live in 'symbiosis' with the suit, and given the raw materials can even synthesize new tendrils or specific modifications. This is, of course, a time and resource consuming process and can only be done when sufficient amounts of nanobiomachines are available. The nanobiomachines can also be weaponized, 'injected' into a target via long range tendrils and paralyzing/poisoning/simply entangling the target by extended rapid growth of filaments - and can also be utilized for complex microsurgery or, perhaps, hacking.
Of course, such an encounter suit is not without its drawbacks - it is not particularily armored: while rather resilient to minor elemental damage (some of which it can transform into energy) it still has a relatively medium-light armor rating to retain mobility. Nor does it enhance the physical capabilities of its wearer to superhuman levels - physically speaking his abilities are rather average for a reasonably athletic human, barring an enhanced reaction rate and attention span typical of his kind (and rather required to control something with flailing tendrils and armblades!) Also, though largely self sufficient as the suit provides him with nutrients, he still requires water, certain nutrients, and occasional periods of light.
Personality: Arvad is a warrior-scientist - and as such he has a sense of curiosity and fascination with the world while at the same time a sharp tactical mind - he knows how to watch his back, and as such his interests in the motives of beings he encounters are far from academic only. He will be nice when approached nicely (though will attempt to determine motives), but will respond to acts of aggression with aggression - he would prefer to avoid unnecessary combat, but will fight in self-defense or in defense of whatever companions he may have.
As his species' language is not entirely vocalization based, Arvad may come off as a little cryptic when he talks as the subtle cues in encounter suit markings and bioluminescent nodes clarifying certain things he says may be lost on those who cannot understand them.
History: Arvad is a Tydris - an advanced race of beings that evolved (or rather, will evolve) on Earth in the far future. A great cataclysm - perhaps a war, perhaps a natural disaster, the Tydris do not speak of it - forced them to depart their ancestral home, crossing the Divide into a new dimension - a crossing that set them back significantly for a while as they were forced to rebuild their civilization in a new environment. The Tydris continued their life and evolution in their new dimension, advancing their organic technology even further than the point it was in prior to their crossing.
Eventually, a way to cross the Divide again has been refined, and Arvad, then a young scientist-warrior, volunteered to make the initial test jump. His encounter suit was modified and he was placed into stasis within a specialized pod to be launched off across the divide.
Naturally, something had to go awry. The dimensional stabilizers operational parameters had a faulty component due to infection of some sort, and the pod crossed the divide into the wrong time period.
The pod materialized on a small volcanic island, many, many years into the past. The civilization that inhabited this island considered the appearance of the pod a 'miracle' and enshrined it for many years. Then, disaster struck as the entire civilization was wiped out by a volcanic eruption, buried underneath the ash and magma in the manner of Pompeii, the pod with it - all unbeknowst to its still slumbering inhabitant.
Many years later, in what would be considered the present era, an archaeological team began an excavation of the island and unearthed the pod, carrying it away on board their ship to be studied - and after determining superficially that the thing posed no risk, taken to be displayed in a museum.
However, unbeknowst to the archaeologists, the magic used to excavate the island triggered the pod's activation and initiated the slow process of thawing and reviving its contents, scanning and absorbing information and uploading it into the encounter suit - including the primary language of the beings that recovered the pod.
After having been on display for a while, the thawing was completed. One night the pod began to crack, veins of energy seeming to flow through it as nanobiomachines broke it down and absorbed it for nutrients. Emerging from his chrysalis, Arvad found himself encased in a glass casing, and he wasn't particularily happy about it.
Arvad shattered the display case that he was sealed in, naturally triggering a whole mess of alarms. Alarmed (if you may pardon the pun), he engaged his active camoflage and escaped the museum prior to the arrival of museum security - though obviously, security camera footage recorded his emergence and escape. Knowing that he cannot return home (as at this point in time it was not yet colonized by the Tydris) and that he is most likely believed dead or lost forever, Arvad seeks his place in this new world.
Race: Tydris
Gender: Male
Age: Weird time shit makes it ambiguous.
Appearance Data: His appearance is completely obscured by the biomechanical encounter suit he is integrated into, and is as such unknown. It is unclear how much of it is is because he requires the suit to survive and how much of it is because he's secretive about what he is.
The head section of the suit has an elongated convex form with a small round lensed orifice glowing a radiant azure (given its camera-shutter-like closing mechanism it is possibly an ocular sensor) at its front end. Four segmented tentacle-mandibles extend from modules at the sides of the head section, though their purpose is unknown - perhaps to secure the head module. The neck is a little longer and covered with overlapping plates connected to each other vaguely through membranes which only appear as the plates move up and down subtly as he breathes (or is it as the suit itself breathes?). These plates continue along the back (think Torizo) and longish, flexible tail. Its arms and hands appear rather humanoid. The legs are digitigrade, clawed and powerful. At rest the suit stands approximately 1.8 meters tall.
The assorted plates and parts of the suit appear to be composed of some kind of dark greenish organic material, its texture a strange cross of organically smooth and yet metallic. It seems to refract light in an odd rippled way and has a mottled appearance, like a cuttlefish, the markings upon it changing periodically. Some segments that are not plated (such as the underside of the neck and connection points of limbs) appear to be covered with a vaguely pleated dark biopolymer. Various plates appear to have orifices that are normally closed, though may open to activate bioluminescence nodes or perhaps extra rebreathers.
Weapons and Powers: Both are facilitated by his encounter suit.
His primary weapons are extendable/retractable, slightly curved armblades. At rest these are folded along his arm, terminating shortly above his 'elbow'. When extended they project to the sides extending from the side of his wrist. Two blades exist per arm, one is longer and the other is shorter and 'fits' into a groove in the longer one. This is his primary melee weapon. For longer ranged combat (though still not TOO long) he facilitates a pair of long, plated, sharp-tipped tendrils extending from his shoulders, normally fitting into grooves between the back-plates and the rest of the body.
The suit itself is rather modular. The suit's skin produces most of its energy via a modified form of photosynthesis, and through control of the pigment rates it expresses it can display a manner of active camouflage. Being composed of organic technology the suit is capable of regeneration over time (though this requires time and raw materials). The accellerated growth of the suit is facilitated using nanobiomachines that live in 'symbiosis' with the suit, and given the raw materials can even synthesize new tendrils or specific modifications. This is, of course, a time and resource consuming process and can only be done when sufficient amounts of nanobiomachines are available. The nanobiomachines can also be weaponized, 'injected' into a target via long range tendrils and paralyzing/poisoning/simply entangling the target by extended rapid growth of filaments - and can also be utilized for complex microsurgery or, perhaps, hacking.
Of course, such an encounter suit is not without its drawbacks - it is not particularily armored: while rather resilient to minor elemental damage (some of which it can transform into energy) it still has a relatively medium-light armor rating to retain mobility. Nor does it enhance the physical capabilities of its wearer to superhuman levels - physically speaking his abilities are rather average for a reasonably athletic human, barring an enhanced reaction rate and attention span typical of his kind (and rather required to control something with flailing tendrils and armblades!) Also, though largely self sufficient as the suit provides him with nutrients, he still requires water, certain nutrients, and occasional periods of light.
Personality: Arvad is a warrior-scientist - and as such he has a sense of curiosity and fascination with the world while at the same time a sharp tactical mind - he knows how to watch his back, and as such his interests in the motives of beings he encounters are far from academic only. He will be nice when approached nicely (though will attempt to determine motives), but will respond to acts of aggression with aggression - he would prefer to avoid unnecessary combat, but will fight in self-defense or in defense of whatever companions he may have.
As his species' language is not entirely vocalization based, Arvad may come off as a little cryptic when he talks as the subtle cues in encounter suit markings and bioluminescent nodes clarifying certain things he says may be lost on those who cannot understand them.
History: Arvad is a Tydris - an advanced race of beings that evolved (or rather, will evolve) on Earth in the far future. A great cataclysm - perhaps a war, perhaps a natural disaster, the Tydris do not speak of it - forced them to depart their ancestral home, crossing the Divide into a new dimension - a crossing that set them back significantly for a while as they were forced to rebuild their civilization in a new environment. The Tydris continued their life and evolution in their new dimension, advancing their organic technology even further than the point it was in prior to their crossing.
Eventually, a way to cross the Divide again has been refined, and Arvad, then a young scientist-warrior, volunteered to make the initial test jump. His encounter suit was modified and he was placed into stasis within a specialized pod to be launched off across the divide.
Naturally, something had to go awry. The dimensional stabilizers operational parameters had a faulty component due to infection of some sort, and the pod crossed the divide into the wrong time period.
The pod materialized on a small volcanic island, many, many years into the past. The civilization that inhabited this island considered the appearance of the pod a 'miracle' and enshrined it for many years. Then, disaster struck as the entire civilization was wiped out by a volcanic eruption, buried underneath the ash and magma in the manner of Pompeii, the pod with it - all unbeknowst to its still slumbering inhabitant.
Many years later, in what would be considered the present era, an archaeological team began an excavation of the island and unearthed the pod, carrying it away on board their ship to be studied - and after determining superficially that the thing posed no risk, taken to be displayed in a museum.
However, unbeknowst to the archaeologists, the magic used to excavate the island triggered the pod's activation and initiated the slow process of thawing and reviving its contents, scanning and absorbing information and uploading it into the encounter suit - including the primary language of the beings that recovered the pod.
After having been on display for a while, the thawing was completed. One night the pod began to crack, veins of energy seeming to flow through it as nanobiomachines broke it down and absorbed it for nutrients. Emerging from his chrysalis, Arvad found himself encased in a glass casing, and he wasn't particularily happy about it.
Arvad shattered the display case that he was sealed in, naturally triggering a whole mess of alarms. Alarmed (if you may pardon the pun), he engaged his active camoflage and escaped the museum prior to the arrival of museum security - though obviously, security camera footage recorded his emergence and escape. Knowing that he cannot return home (as at this point in time it was not yet colonized by the Tydris) and that he is most likely believed dead or lost forever, Arvad seeks his place in this new world.