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I've spent way too many years enamored with all things related to the superhuman. In all that wasted time I've developed my own list of superhuman characters and a fictional world in which to write short stories that I use to help me process the things I've learn in life. In this posting I'm going to go explain how I explain the functioning of the "super elements" in my fictional world.
Why super beings in the first place?
The state of "super being" is an evolutionary tools providing a member of a species with attributes and abilities they cannot possess as they are. This permits evolution to determine if that species can evolve into a species with these particular attributes or abilities. I know pretty simple and doesn't explain in and of itself the range of super abilities and attributes possessed by superhumans in my stories on the service but then it's evolution and who knows what you need to adapt to?
Why are they super in the first place?
Super beings have what I simply call an "S-Factor" (yes the "S" stands for super as it does whenever I use the prefix "S-"). An ambiguous term that encompass the elements required to produce a super being's abilities and attributes. The s-factor exists across a series of sub-dimensions that exist collectively within a dimension known as the "S-Dimension" which overlaps with the other normal dimensions of the universe (27 dimensions the last time I heard). This dimension contains S-Force and S-Energy which provide the power for and are the mediums used by the S-factor to create "super effects". As example for a person to be able to exhale fire would need a bladder that contained the gases necessary for combustion; they would need muscles to compress the bladder to force the gas out and a method to ignite it as it leaves their mouth. With an s-factor the same ability is handled with extradimensional elements that alters their "apparent" properties so they can exhale fire by simply drawing in breadth and then exhaling while "willing" the effect to happen. I should note most super beings in my stories are born with their s-factors but may not have displayed any apparent superhuman attributes until some event like exposure to radiation caused an evolution.
The s-factor and evolution
Aside from physical evolution there is also a "reincarnation" component hence also a spiritual evolution thing. The s-factor picks up on elements from a super beings previous life and adapts them to their current life. The s-factor may do something like carry memories and knowledge into the super beings current life causing them to be child prodigies who for instance can speak with adult capacity as soon as their vocal mechanisms permit it or they may be able to say fix cars the first time they pop open a hood. If a person was an animal in previous life they may be able to intuitively understand and deal with the species of animal they were in a previous life.
This leads me to a class of superbeings I call "Chimeras" (after the mythical creature of Greek mythology). A superbeing who has attributes and/or abilities from one or more other species. You might get a super being who resembles a cockatrice for instance, part rooster and part rattlesnake. It could have been born to a snake and then it's rooster attributes show up as it grows up. You can also have plant animal hybrids, one of the super villains in my stories has a pet who is a snake/rose combination. I call these hybrids Plantimals. Manimals are a subclass of chimera who are a mix of human and a non-human animals.
S-Tek
Yeah, yeah it's a lame name which obviously means super technology. S-Tek is technology with an s-factor and are of course artificially created well actually early S-Tek was derived by using the remains of super beings. For example super armor and super weapons would have been created by using the hide and natural weapons from super animals. For example in Greek mythology Hercules used the skin of the Neamean Lion as armor. A more modern example might be a vehicle that had an s-factor applied to it that gives it motion enhancing properties making it overall quicker and more fuel efficient.
The Batman/Captain America factor
Something has always baffled me about "superheroes" with no apparent super powers being able to fight other super beings in direct combat. Captain America and Batman are renown for their ability to go toe to toe with super beings with superior attributes to theirs. My answer to this in my own little fictional world? All "S-Positive" (those with an s-factor) beings have the ability to manipulate s-force and s-energy at least intuitively. Hence if struck by a blow from a super strong super being the "non-powered" super being may instinctively redirect the bulk of the blow away from themselves. Hence in the case of someone like Batman or Captain America who had intensive combat training have been conditioned to intuitively use s-force/s-energy to enhance their combat skill permitting them to stand to to toe with other super beings with super powers and attributes.
That's it about that for now. I hope you've enjoyed a glimpse of my geekier size. This little fictional world of mine is a good way to let me work through things and deal with some of the bigger picture stuff.
Why super beings in the first place?
The state of "super being" is an evolutionary tools providing a member of a species with attributes and abilities they cannot possess as they are. This permits evolution to determine if that species can evolve into a species with these particular attributes or abilities. I know pretty simple and doesn't explain in and of itself the range of super abilities and attributes possessed by superhumans in my stories on the service but then it's evolution and who knows what you need to adapt to?
Why are they super in the first place?
Super beings have what I simply call an "S-Factor" (yes the "S" stands for super as it does whenever I use the prefix "S-"). An ambiguous term that encompass the elements required to produce a super being's abilities and attributes. The s-factor exists across a series of sub-dimensions that exist collectively within a dimension known as the "S-Dimension" which overlaps with the other normal dimensions of the universe (27 dimensions the last time I heard). This dimension contains S-Force and S-Energy which provide the power for and are the mediums used by the S-factor to create "super effects". As example for a person to be able to exhale fire would need a bladder that contained the gases necessary for combustion; they would need muscles to compress the bladder to force the gas out and a method to ignite it as it leaves their mouth. With an s-factor the same ability is handled with extradimensional elements that alters their "apparent" properties so they can exhale fire by simply drawing in breadth and then exhaling while "willing" the effect to happen. I should note most super beings in my stories are born with their s-factors but may not have displayed any apparent superhuman attributes until some event like exposure to radiation caused an evolution.
The s-factor and evolution
Aside from physical evolution there is also a "reincarnation" component hence also a spiritual evolution thing. The s-factor picks up on elements from a super beings previous life and adapts them to their current life. The s-factor may do something like carry memories and knowledge into the super beings current life causing them to be child prodigies who for instance can speak with adult capacity as soon as their vocal mechanisms permit it or they may be able to say fix cars the first time they pop open a hood. If a person was an animal in previous life they may be able to intuitively understand and deal with the species of animal they were in a previous life.
This leads me to a class of superbeings I call "Chimeras" (after the mythical creature of Greek mythology). A superbeing who has attributes and/or abilities from one or more other species. You might get a super being who resembles a cockatrice for instance, part rooster and part rattlesnake. It could have been born to a snake and then it's rooster attributes show up as it grows up. You can also have plant animal hybrids, one of the super villains in my stories has a pet who is a snake/rose combination. I call these hybrids Plantimals. Manimals are a subclass of chimera who are a mix of human and a non-human animals.
S-Tek
Yeah, yeah it's a lame name which obviously means super technology. S-Tek is technology with an s-factor and are of course artificially created well actually early S-Tek was derived by using the remains of super beings. For example super armor and super weapons would have been created by using the hide and natural weapons from super animals. For example in Greek mythology Hercules used the skin of the Neamean Lion as armor. A more modern example might be a vehicle that had an s-factor applied to it that gives it motion enhancing properties making it overall quicker and more fuel efficient.
The Batman/Captain America factor
Something has always baffled me about "superheroes" with no apparent super powers being able to fight other super beings in direct combat. Captain America and Batman are renown for their ability to go toe to toe with super beings with superior attributes to theirs. My answer to this in my own little fictional world? All "S-Positive" (those with an s-factor) beings have the ability to manipulate s-force and s-energy at least intuitively. Hence if struck by a blow from a super strong super being the "non-powered" super being may instinctively redirect the bulk of the blow away from themselves. Hence in the case of someone like Batman or Captain America who had intensive combat training have been conditioned to intuitively use s-force/s-energy to enhance their combat skill permitting them to stand to to toe with other super beings with super powers and attributes.
That's it about that for now. I hope you've enjoyed a glimpse of my geekier size. This little fictional world of mine is a good way to let me work through things and deal with some of the bigger picture stuff.
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