Solar Guyver

[Vengeance]

I'm in the process of creating a new guyver unit for a fan-fic of mine and wanted to post this up to try and get some help from the WG Nation as I like to think of all of us here at the board. The design of the unit is to have its main power source be solar energy which it can channel through specialized crystals installed through out the unit. Any thoughts as to abilities or attacks that would be unique to this unit would be greatly appreciated since my knowledge of science is somewhat limited. Let me know what ya think.

[McAvoy]

He going to have need some sort of storage in case it's cloudy...

[Vengeance]

lol

The way it works is that when the unit is active it absorbs and stores solar energy into itself and acts in essence like a huge solar battery. The crystals are then utilized to channel its solar energy into various abilities and attacks. The unit also has the standard weaponry of a head beam, gravity orb, vibro swords and mega smashers but they are all at a standard unit's level since solar energy is its main form of power.

[*zeo]

Well I did help someone with a Solar Powered Guyver character a few years ago but he decided not to write that story.

Anyway, does this character still Bio-Boost or does it rely on Solar Energy?

Also what is the reason for this Unit and what kind of enemies will it face?

[Vengeance]

The character still bio boosts. Solar Energy is utilized mainly for increased stamina and a higher power level. In this fic the unit was originally designed to be a long range scout of sorts for the Creator Empire. The Solar Guyver was intended to travel through the harshness of space in search of new worlds for the Creators to settle. Since the unit was designed to be alone for untold amounts of time its power is somewhere roughly 3-4x in an effort to allow the guyver to be able to defend itself from numerous high powered opponents should the need arrive. Solar energy was chosen due to the abundance of solar bodies throughout the universe and in a vacum its stamina is just a shade below say the HSL.

The unit itself constantly absorbs solar energy. Once the solar energy is stored it can be focused through specialzed crystals installed on the forearms, palms, knuckles, calves, chest and back. The intention of these crystals are to allow subject to focus its solar energy into various forms of attacks and defenese. When solar guyver is using these power it gives off substanial amounts of light that make it painful for even higher forms of life such as guyvers and zoalords to look upon it.

As for the enemies it will face in the beginning it will deal with a much more powerful version of Chronos. THe main opponent will be a fully powered Alkanphal but later on difficulties will arive having to face other powerful guyvers and even going toe to toe with the Creators themselves.

[largo]

Question

If he is constently absorbing solar energy wouldn't he eventually overload? The only way I can think of it being able to do this is that it is related to the w'akr unit or similar in design.

[*zeo]

I would hardly think that a problem largo, he would have to absorb a lot of solar energy before he is in danger of exploding like Neo Zektole did when he fired his Solar Cannon. But that's if he never uses the power for anything else and simply charges up.

Also like a rechargeable battery there simply may be a limit to how much energy the unit can hold and it won't or can't be charged past that point.

Like a sponge, it won't keep on absorbing after it has been saturated.

It would be a serious design flaw if the unit could overload itself that way, though story wise you could make it that way if like a ProtoZoalord this unit was intended to eventually die.

[largo]

Zeo if it was like a protozoalord that would be a very intresting story to read.

[Vengeance]

Glad to hear it. The solar guyver is just one of several new guyver units to be added into the fic that i am creating.

[Juggernought]

The Creators never seem to be able to at least have one guyver out of the hundreds created to serve them just once and remain loyal do they?? It's an interesting concept though definately look into it.

[Dorian Michaels]

Corny as this may sound, you might well want to look to DC, Superman in particular-- while a portion of his incredible strength and resiliency is due to the extreme difference between the gravity of Krypton and the gravity of Earth, most of his power is due to SOLAR power-- sunlight, yellow sunlight in particular. And it is also known that is possible for Superman, potentially, to have truly unlimited strength and invulnerability as long as he has access to enough yellow sun power, but not overload. As this link, http://www.starnet-database.com/dbase_d ... erman.html, tells, the reason the Man of Steel does not blow up whenever he absorbs too much too quickly, it is because when collected, his Kryptonian physiology converts it into a hyperdense cellular protein which he can break back down into bioenergy to use. True, while it says there that a bulk of it is due to the fact that Superman's body is specially adapted to both collect, process, and store solar power as a reserve (due to the specialized organs, and cellular structures within him), there is no reason I see why not that the amplifier crystals on this new Guyver could act much like the biomatrix energy field Supes' cells generate to capture any and all radiant energy that passes by, concentrating it, converting it, then storing it as the cellular protein. And since it has already been established that the host body bioboosts when it summons the Guyver, it could be that this collected cellular protein could be stored within the bioboosted body, and remain there even when the armor is dismissed. This could also explain the reserve the Guyver would need to fight and operate in darkness, or lack of sunlight. Another adaptation could be adapting the bioboosting cells which constitute the armor to make up another radiant energy collector ala Last Son of Krypton. If utilized correctly (or for long enough), and given the right circumstances, this Guyver could prove to be immensely strong in ALL aspects. I know its kinda left-field, but, thoughts?

[Aranor]

You may want to check out the inverse-square law of light. Basically the farther away from a star the less energy will be available to your character. Also why Superman loses some of his strength the longer he is away from our solar system. I would almost suspect that the boost dimension draining system is similar to solar but more efficient. As with Superman different radiations might offer different potencies of energy for your character. If it is going to be a scout I would resort to something more abundant. There's a whole lotta space out there between stars. Perhaps extra gravity orbs to draw in more energy allowing it to function for longer periods of time and possibly sacrificing some strength for increased speed. Travelling from planet to planet might be pretty tiring.

[Kamui de' Tempest]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter

These could also be interesting alternative power source/management systems for a stellar scout class guyver.