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Shi'ar technology

Trijhaos

16:48 / 20.02.02

Ok, the shi'ar are supposed to have all this godly technology right? I mean they were able to clone Xavier a new body and everything.

So why haven't they ever tinkered with Scott's brain so he wouldn't have to wear his ruby quartz goggles anymore?

Also, wouldn't it be a relatively simple matter for them to come up with some device that would allow Rogue to control her powers?

[ 20-02-2002: Message edited by: Trijhaos ]

Mr Tricks

17:08 / 20.02.02

Well... this is all speculation of course, but I would suspect it's their equivilent of a Prime Directive...

it was actually the Starjammers who cloned Proff X's body, perhaps ileagally.

I recall reading that Cyclop's lack of control stems from brain damage sustained froma childhood fall from an airplane.

Mr Tricks

17:11 / 20.02.02

as for Rogue... it seems to have to do with an electro-magnetic aura...

Perhaps the Sha'r simply see this as a natural variation of Human Mutants & never bother to offer... while those mutants tend to be so preoccupied with whatever storyline their in, it never occurs to them to ask.

Trijhaos

17:15 / 20.02.02

StarJammers? I knew it was one of those groups floating around in space.

Well I figure they've got all this technology, a little brain surgery can't be too far out of their league. Or maybe they could clone him a new brain that doesn't have that defect.

I remember awhile back in a christmas issue when Joseph brought up this huge machine and was able to touch Rogue without her sucking in his powers. Why not just build a big machine like that in microscopic size, implant it in Rogue's brain and let her turn her powers on and off with a thought.

Vadrice

17:16 / 20.02.02

yeah Trijhaos. If you were a mutie I'm sure you would quickly become a very clever post-mutie! Like pre bone wolvie, accept voluntarily. You'd kick ass

for the lord...

Matthew Fluxington

02:01 / 21.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Trijhaos:

So why haven't they ever tinkered with Scott's brain so he wouldn't have to wear his ruby quartz goggles anymore?

Because then they'd have to call him Biclops, and that's just a joke from the Simpsons...

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

14:24 / 21.02.02

never mind the shi'ar
why is it that EVERY villian has some kind of implant/collar that kills mutant powers, and yet the super genius Forge never made something that would let rogue have a shag or 2?

And where do scotts laser beams go? do they get diffused by the quartz into harmless light (could he be a flashlight?) or do they bounce back into his head?

Trijhaos

15:03 / 21.02.02

I think the filtering of the visor diffues the destructive power of his eye beams.

Why exactly do they call him Cyclop's though? He wears glasses and last time I checked he would have been called "four-eyes" so shouldn't he be called Quadclops?

H3ct0r L1m4

15:32 / 21.02.02

Hehehehe. I guess the visor gives an impression the guy has only one eye.

I don't know why he doesn't have an operation; maybe he wants to feel the pain for being a mutie, maybe he wants to keep on being useful to the group in the field.

Now for poor Rogue something might already have been done. Maybe switching off the part of the brain that causes it (either to shut down the ability or to help her control it).
In her case a lot of meditation could work.

Matthew Fluxington

15:44 / 21.02.02

[snob] Shouldn't this thread be taking place on X-Fan, Heros Realm, or Newsarama? [/snob]

Our Lady of The Two Towers

15:58 / 21.02.02

Cyclops problem is supposedly psychological not physical, which begs the question of why Jean/Emma/Xavier haven't done something about it.

But the Shi'ar are described in the latest issue as being a Stage 5 civilisation. IIRC Stage 3s could manipulate their entire galaxy for their power needs, exactly what could a stage 5 do?

deja_vroom

16:53 / 21.02.02

I've just seen X-Men, the movie. In that scene where Toad yanks Cyclops goggles, he closes his eyes to prevent further destruction, but shouldn't the beams destroy his eyelids (they're just skin, right?) and keep on destroying everything? Why the beams destroy stuff but, in the end, when he beams Sabretooh, the guy is just propelled out of the statue, and not reduced to ashes? And what do I care?

sleazenation

17:02 / 21.02.02

jade- mutants (and non-mutants too for that matter) tend to be immune to their own powers... and oftimes those of their siblings (as is the case with alex and scott summers)

gridley

17:18 / 21.02.02

quote:Originally posted by Elijah Non Grata:
why is it that EVERY villian has some kind of implant/collar that kills mutant powers, and yet the super genius Forge never made something that would let rogue have a shag or 2?

Apparently Forge just wasn't interested in shagging her...

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