Post by Hyperion on Mar 15, 2008 15:32:19 GMT -5
Radica
(Because 98.6 degrees is for wusses)
The Radica has many names, given by those who survived it. The Manipulator of Waves, Kelvin’s Absolute, and its personal favorite, the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics.
Its matter moves at close to light speed, with temperatures unheard of since the Big Bang. If you were to perform a spectroanalysis upon it, you would instantaneously develop cancer and die (Hey, it’s not a good idea to get too close, y’know?).
It lives upon the surface of stars, using its core for energy. Once upon the surface of such giant masses of fusion reaction, it can manipulate the inner workings, use them as a place to store its memories, and even cause it to move (Although this depletes the star fastest of all).
Its history is quite a sad one, really. It knows nothing of its origins, for it lost the memory it stored within its star. It can only remember a few billion years back, using gamma rays to store its information inside what for the sake of argument we’ll call its brain. It lived on a blue giant many years back, observing as the planet farthest away started to develop life. Not thinking nor caring, it went down to the planet to greet them. The results were macabre. The atmosphere was the first to ignite, before the entire planet combusted into a cloud of superheated gas. It left in shame, having figured out quite quickly the lonely life it would lead.
It came to another star, a bit colder than the last. It once again saw how life developed and became intelligent within the system. It edged them on through their development; sometimes preventing the odd meteorite to crash into their planet, and other times scrambling navigation computers upon the spacecrafts to make them fly toward systems more likely to be habitable for the explorers.
Alas, all it did was for nought. The stars they lived on began to die with age and extraction of resources. The space stations they lived on started to die a heat death, having expended all their energy sources. Radica could not help them, for to do so would only kill them like his previous “children”. He realized the implications of what had occurred, and determined how the universe would eventually end. He, as the one with the most energy, would be the last to die out as all the stars were extinguished.
He vowed to destroy those that reminded him of what he saw as his failure to reverse the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and went on a rampage that only a lucky few survived. They fled to places unknown, carrying the legend of Radica with them. But some suspect that his quest for the destruction of the planet-dwellers may have deeper implications.
Radica is currently moving his current star (A lovely O-IV) toward a disturbance he felt knock his wave patterns. If encountered, Space explorers are advised to run away screaming in the opposite direction.
(Pics coming soon!)