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Unknown, whenever Mike gets around to it. Lots of real life stuff in the way at the moment.

Pretty much done, just waiting for the next part of Chronicles to be written before I start posting data files.

No Comment But you forgot to mention the part where Sho used the Giga Smasher and everyone's response to it? Otherwise I believe your question has been answered

Then compare it to the original version of that battle.

Well at the time that Takaya created the Guyver series the only other person I know he collaborated with was Hirohiko Araki, who created the BAOH Manga with many of the same characteristics and themes of the Guyver series. Godzilla was the inspiration for the Mega Smashers and some later characters like Khan's Dragonlord form and the Gigantic Exceed... and the Guyver was also possibly influenced by Tokusatsu legend Kamen Rider. At least that is what a former editor of one of his publishers had stated. No source I know of though has ever mentioned an association between the Creators of Tekkaman and Guyver though. But could be possible since the Anime series Tekkaman: The Space Knight was originally produced back in 1975, though was a mecha like character back then, and is what the Tekkaman Blade series was based on. Though didn't the Tekkaman Blade series come out in 1992? I don't know anything about the Manga for Tekkaman and I don't even know which came first, the Anime or the Manga series?

Well, if you read part two of Chronicles there was a rather revealing battle between the Gigantic and a Grakken...

Exactly, so imagine just how much I'm not telling you? Especially about the Chronicles version of these characters. :

Guyver Units adapt to the host, and the potential Bio-Boost is completely dependent on the potential of the host. The translation of the Creators comments during the Guyver Zero test show that for the Creators the Unit only Bio-Boosted them to 1/10 that of what it does for a human host. They were also surprised by the Mega Smashers, so we can assume the unit never manifested those weapons for the Creators. Probably because they didn't have the energy for such a powerful weapon. A Guyver/Tekkamen combination would be thus like a Zoanoid/Guyver combination and produce a more powerful being since the base host is also augmented and thus would have greater Bio-Boost potential. The effects of course would only be apparent in the armored form to distinguish a normal Tekkaman from a Guyver Tekkaman. It is also only because the Guyver Unit is designed to return a host to their normal state that the unit bothers doing so. The augmentations could be permanent but the lack of active internal organs would make it difficult for the host to survive without the Unit, no continuous energy siphon from the boost dimension without the gravity control orb for example. So the unit returns the host to their original state when disengaging the armor. After all for the Creators it was mainly just a universal space suit and not something to be used all the time and they were in the business of altering other species and not themselves. However, Creator technology otherwise allows for instant and rapid biological re-modifications, it all depends on the Control Medal and what it is programmed to do. In the case of a combined Tekkaman/Guyver Unit, the Control Medal could just be programmed for the required host modifications and thus transform the host within moments of bonding. A normal Guyver unit is simply not programmed to do this, the Creators even have unit removers so to them it was never intended to be permanent but an intentional Tekkaman/Guyver unit could indeed be programmed to make permanent changes.

Well, just goes to show that the fic has a lot that isn't immediately apparent unless you really think about all the small details. 1) We have repeatedly suggested the Gravity Shield was created to defeat the Black Nova Unit but the Black Nova Unit is a 10x character with a wide range of abilities. It would hardly be effective if it relied on simple gravity tennis to defeat that unit's higher power level. 2) We have shown the Gravity Shield can do other things, some like the using the pressure cannon to recover lost energy being a hint of its greater capabilities. 3) The Guyver is known for gravity manipulation, in fact most of its abilities are derived from gravity manipulation. 4) We have hinted many times that the WG is loosely based on the Gigantic, in terms of using it as an example of the full potential of a human hosted Guyver. This was another hint that the Gravity Shield had a wide range of capabilities. 5) We over emphasized that WG2 could kill WG in the fic for exactly the reason it was too quick an assumption, especially when we kept on having Jason take on the more powerful characters and not WG2. In other words it was another hint that WG should not be underestimated. 6) The Warrior Kavzars were another hint as we showed that the WG2 units were not being used by soldiers but rather by the Creators themselves. 7) The Creators limited ability to use the power of a Warrior Unit was also a clue. Course the CPM's can be used for some neat effects too

Yes, this particular technology will absolutely reduce costs. The materials aren't any harder to produce than existing composites and the self healing nature of this product will lengthen the times the material has to be replaced. Ergo reducing maintenance costs significantly. Reduced fracturing also means the air intakes have less to deal with As for the DD-1000, I think it's debateable. The DD-1000 for example is designed to take heavy damage. Especially because of the missiles, http://www.raytheon.com/products/ddg_10 ... index.html You can't say the same for a Battleship if it takes an equivalent hit where the ammo is stored. The heavy armor only went so far and material technology of traditional battleships is well over a century old. In comparison, ships of the 21st century don't rely on heavy armor alone anymore. The designs are much more advance and get more done with less. Composite armor can do the job of much heavier traditional armor, in fact that's why we use composite materials for armor. It by no means means a ship is lightly armored if it uses composite materials for armor. It just means the ship is lighter for an equivalent armor protection. Never mind the modern ships are also all being designed for stealth as well, which makes the ships harder to hit in the first place. Even the hull design of the DD-1000 is also to make it harder to sink as well as stealthy. Never mind there is more than just physical armor to ship defenses these days. Even the heaviests of armored ships can still be taken out with the weapon systems the navy is equiping ships like the DD-1000 with. So weapons that take out incoming missiles, etc are much more important than heavy armor for 21st century warefare. So I think you may have to re-evaluate your definition of a battleship. Especially since warefare of the future will most likely be done over longer distances than the battleships of old were ever capable of. The DD-1000 can for example take out targets up to 83 nautical miles away and do so with near pinpoint target strikes. Though it is intended to support land battles those same weapon systems can easily take out nautical targets as well. This compared to the just over 26 mile range of a Battleship's (like Yamato's) guns. And that's not even going into the railgun system, which can have even greater range and as much power as any Battleship cannon. Never mind railgun projectiles are self guidable for greater realiability and no need for dangerous gunpower. So CGX, DDX, and LCS collectively fill the gap left by the decomission of the battleships from the fleet and shows the warships of the future will look very different from the warships of the past. Though you are right that presently such ships aren't classified as Battleships, but this discussion is about where the navy is headed more than what it presently is at.

Only with the Matrix would that be possible, since they are based on the same technology, but then the two would become indestinguishable from each other. Dreadnought for example is completely capable of tapping and channeling energy from Hyper Space just like a CPM.

Greg, maybe not, but Dreadnought wouldn't have to look up anything. He'd know flat out that time had been altered! And having Faye dead and Stephen alive would definitely get him involved. Though all that is completely besides the point it would be a worse future, and you don't need to be Enstein to figure out what could go wrong. Never mind no one ever said changing history would be easy.

Not really, they've had this thing since G2. All that time and they are still afraid of activating it. Seems more likely they slapped materials they could have gotten from one of the three Relics and weren't even sure it would work.

Sorry but you're basically missing the significance of the fact that both Gohan and Goku were able to maintain the SSJ form for a long period of time. So the only time limit of the SSJ form was how long they could will that form on and not relax back into their normal form. This is separate from how much energy it takes to achieve each SSJ state, as that drains their energy and leaves them less to actually fight with after the transformation. But as they got stronger they could maintain those forms longer. Gohan is a bad example, short transformation was only because he had barely achieved the power needed to transform and had yet to master the transformation as Gohan always had trouble tapping his hidden potential. This was theme throughout the whole series for him. Let's not forget that when Goku first transformed he did so twice during the battle with Freeza, and this was all after he had a major battle with Freeza before Kuririn was killed. So he didn't have a time limit, he was going to fight Freeza as long as it took and obviously had enough energy to transform twice. As for Goku's heart virus, it didn't effect him until he started fighting the Androids. Which was a significant period of time after Piccolo had already commented that Vegeta was now more powerful than Goku. Remember, only the battles are dragged out. The day to day life is always fast forwarded whenever nothing important is happening. So if you take into account the fact many DBZ characters can sense power levels that this clearly shows that was the case. Often times the Ability to sense power levels has proven more accurate than the Power Level Meter, as they could apparently sense potential as well as active power level.

Yes, that's the basic idea. The thing is Dreadnought can still learn to control the Gravity Shield properly, like the face off he had with WG-Vamore. He just has even more potential as Dreadnought. Turning WG-Vamore into a living Pressure Cannon to blast a massive hole in the Ark being just one of many things he can do now And McAvoy's analysis is essentially correct. Though this is not true for every reality shown in the WG fic. The Strange World fic for example showed a world where the Nova Project advanced enough to produce the Dark Nova Upgrade for the Black Nova Unit.

Yes, though it isn't just a lack of creativity or imagination. It is also a lack of opportunity, since both the CPM and Gravity Shield are incredibly powerful. It's not like they can just find any place to practice, especially since the Gravity Shield is capable of rivaling the destructive power of full scale nukes.

The Gravity Shield does require concentration, but so does the CPM's. WG2 only learned about the ability when his life depended on it, and even he isn't using the CPM's to their full potential either. Like WG, WG2 is just using his CPM's like raw power boosters. He hasn't considered the fact he's manipulating dimensions every time he uses the CPM's to channel hyper space energy. Also he hasn't ever tried channeling his own unit power like WG does, like how WG can channel his body shield energy to boost his pressure cannon. Like I once mentioned on the board before, the Power Wave is part of the WG tech. The Matrix just made it easier to access. Applications for the Gravity Shield include: -Creating black hole attack. -Incredibly powerful Pressure Cannons, which can also be fired as an omni-directional hail. -Creating Wormhole for FTL travel. -Gravitational Shockwaves as powerful as nukes, dependant on charge. -Super Boosting his momentum enhancers (which basically channel the unit's gravitational energy to boost the momentum energy of a punch or kick-normal Guyver gets 10x so imagine what WG could do with the gravity shield backing him up) -Manipulating Space/Time, similar to Black Nova. -Supplimenting energy by converting gravitational energy into bio-energy like he did when he used a pressure cannon to recover from VWG's energy drain. -Boosting his flight speed, dependant on how much gravitational energy he has amassed but can potentially go near light speed. -Can absorb momentum for rapid decelleration. -Create a hyper space rift -Lower an object's effective mass to make it easier to move. Also, you should add F-WG to the list of host who may someday master the Gravity Shield. Since she's using an alternate of Jason's unit and thus she also has the Gravity Shield.

So that would be another benefit to a Tekkaman/Guyver merger as a Guyver Unit can instantly regenerate a host when activated. For example Sho was once impaled by Aptom and after activating and using his unit he only had a hole in his shirt. The unit itself can regenerate so long as the Control Medal remains intact. It just took about 11 hours of dormancy before Guyver 1's CM regenerated him completely in a matter of mere minutes from just a few cells. Sho even remembered everything up to his death at the hands of Enzyme, so I'm pretty sure a Tekkaman/Guyver wouldn't have to worry about losing memory. Reflexively, the Guyver has dodged lasers blasts and out run cars so dodging bullets should be no problem. Even in the live action movie, which used a weaker version of the Guyver, the Guyver could recochete a bullet right back at the person who fired it. It would not be possible to make a Guyver controllable though, the Control Medal directly interfaces with the host brain and that controls the Unit. The Advents in fact did control humans and zoanoids alike psionically, the zoanoids just had genetic modification to make them easier to cotnrol, but the Guyver is completely immune to control. The Creators so feared the Guyver effect that they tried to obliterate the planet with a near planet size asteroid, which would have pretty much assure total destruction if it had hit. The effect though is unique to life on Earth so you can simply say the Radam never encountered that effect before. As for time, the Guyver bonding process is so fast because the unit can instantly transform the host biology, and by instant I mean instant! The entire biology of the host is radically altered in a blink of an eye when the armor is activated. The unit just reverses it just as quick when the armor is deactivated but even the Guyver leaves alteration to the host. Like telepathic organisms on the host back that allow for communication with other Guyvers and are what the host uses to call the armor. Also something is added to the host cells, exactly what we aren't entirely sure but is presently being assumed some of the Unit's genetic code is stored in the host to help with the rapid transformation. Similarly a Tekkaman/Guyver Unit would instantly transform a host, so the process should be pretty quick. The alterations to the host would just be more significant. The Gigantic however did take a year to form, probably because the Navigation Spheres of the Relic had to reformate themselves and that is the one part of the Guyver technology that does not easily change and like the Tekka Crystal it is the one weakness of the Guyver. The Gigantic is actually similar to Tekkaman, with shields and plasma back thrusters. Though more powerful just like the Blaster Tekkaman is more powerful. A Blaster Tekkamon/Gigantic Guyver though would have virtually limitless power. Never mind a Blaster TG/Gigantic Exceed!

Yes Okay, the full answer is the existence of the Matrix and the Warrior Kavzar (ultimate body guards) that made the WG gravity shield redundant. With the WK's no one could even get close to a Creator without them letting you get close and the Matrix could augment the Creator's shields, among its other abilities. It's also because Creators are not Guyvers and thus could not take full advantage of the Warrior Unit's potential power, even though they did modify themselves with some human traits they are still Creators and not human. Meaning, aside from being only 1/4 as powerful, they would not be as easily able to use the Gravity Shield as Jason. Unlike for example Isis, who being a true Hybrid has the benefits of both species. . . Basically, Creators can't use the CPM's to power boost. Here's the quote from the WG2 fic when Solom confronted WG2 just after he had used the CPM's for a power boost... Similarly the Creators couldn't take full advantage of the Gravity Shield either. The CPM's firepower though provided an easy augmentation they could better take advantage of, being a secondary system it would not task their own power or their ability to control their power. . . Then there's the final reason, being that the Creators didn't need to be able to take on something like the Black Nova Unit or any super powerful being for that matter since they had the Warrior Kavzars to do all their fighting. So the CPM's were adopted not because they were superior option than the Gravity Shield but rather because they were the more practical option for the Creators to use. So where does that leave us? WG's and WG2's are basically identical. The only difference is one is configured to Generate a Gravity Shield and the other CPM's. The same technology goes into both! The WG2 wasn't the replacement of the WGs, just a different model that fit the needs of the Creators. Most of the advantages of the CPM's that were pointed to, actually only apply to human hosted units but many also ignored the fact that the WG could also augment itself in various ways with the Gravity Shield. Also most of you didn't take into account the fact that much of the energy of a CPM is also gravitational, though mostly raw energy a good chunk of it is gravitational as that is how the energy is focused and channeled, along with the fact the control interface is directly linked to the gravity control systems of the unit, which is why WG2's have different shaped gravity control orbs. In essense, when a WG2 is firing the CPM's they are also firing the equivalent of a stream of pressure cannons along with it in a combined energy blast and is why the CPM's can so easily deliver Mega Smasher level attacks. Course this doesn't mean a WG2 can't win against a WG, since the advantage is only there when the Gravity Shield is used but the host must know to use it and use it wisely. Betwen two highly trained hosts a WG versus WG2 battle can last quite a long time. Now let's clear up the misconception about the Gravity Shield. The Gravity Shield though is more like a Gigantic Power Amp, just with a much higher upper limit. The Gigantic Power Amps for example can be overloaded and shattered but the Gravity Shield is an energy construct and thus can't be shattered and it took the Guyver Zoalord to overload WG. The Gravity Shield can manipulate gravity as well as contain and redirect it. WG for example used it to recharge himself with an absorbed pressure cannon after VWG had drained him. During Strange World Jason used the Gravity Shield to fly when he couldn't activate his unit. And there is more a WG can do with a Gravity Shield that Jason never got around to discovering he could do. Remember, Black Nova not only had immense gravitational power but also superior physical power. In fact Black Nova is stronger than a power boosted WG2, yet we know Solom intended his WG unit to defeat the Black Nova unit. . .

No problem, it is interesting how Anime series often diverge from the Manga.A few points thought, a Guyver Unit works by assimulating the properties of its host and then Bio-Boosting the resulting combined being. So the Tekkaman and Guyver aspects would combine to form a new being and shouldn't be considered separately. Guyver Reflexes are super-humanly fast and are further augmented by the Control Medal, which interfaces with the host brain and can react so fast that one time it was shown in the Anime that the Guyver can use the head beam to vaporize a bullet in mid air. The Guyver Bio-Boost Process infuses the host body with an immense amount of energy, the more powerful the host the more energy is infused. So a Tekkaman/Guyver would have an immense amount of power. Guyvers can't be controlled, the name Guyver is suppose to actually mean Out of Control, so control organism or no a Tekkaman/Guyver would be free of control. When not in use the Guyver Unit stores itself in the Boost-Dimension (something akin to Hyper Space)...

Warmer, correct that the units were used by the Creators, but nope on the reason... Hint, what's the different about a Creator host from a human hosted Warrior Unit? Hint 2, what exists in the WG2 universe that would make extra shielding and super massive firepower redundant?

Hmm, looks like work on smart composites may help you with maintenance soon McAvoy. http://technology.newscientist.com/arti ... 626245.000 http://www.imechanica.org/node/2118

Um, not really... There is lots of things that can be done with the gravity shield, it's hardly a one trick pony as it seems to be assumed. It's just optimized for gravitational energy but it can manipulate that energy pretty much any way the host wills. Never mind most of a Guyver's powers are based off gravitational energy, especially the Gigantic. The actual translation of the Power Amps for example describes them as gravitational amplifiers!!! Hint, who used the WG2 units in the WG2 universe?

Warm but propaganda (I.E.>Half Truths) isn't the actual answer

Well, then here's another trivia question... Why did the Creators choose the WG2 design over the WG design?