Trigger warning: Infertility issues, miscarriage

UMD Seraphim Universe

I didn't understand the term "angry at god" until me and my wife's first miscarriage, I was angry at the world, angry at myself, angry at existence. This is were this coping mechanism/ revenge fantasy thing came from. Looking back it was very cathartic imagining this monster of rage tearing into hordes of enemies.

"I am Seraphim Jian the sword of humanity!"
-Seraphim Jian

This universe is if Doom, Investiture Of The Gods and and a death metal album had a baby.

Concept:
Humanity is being pushed to the brink of extinction by swarms of alien "bugs". The once mighty galaxy spanning federation of planets is now a bare handful of systems besieged on all sides. Many allied alien species are now gone and humanity is alone. Scrounging up everything they can humanity fights back in desperation. Thus the Seraphim project is born: humans forced to become Avatars of humanity's gods who have returned in these dire times.

The story follows Seraphim Jian a Avatar of the Xian god Nezha. It begins with his start as a newly promoted Seraphim with barely any control of his power to his eventual ascension to the lord of fire.

UMD= Unit of MegaDeath

Clad in the best power armor humanity can produce, Seraphim are the master of battle and can wipe out armies by themselves.

Weapons:

SPAS-444 (Triple death)
-Seraphim Purpose Assault Shotgun
-8 barreled, 1 gauge automatic shotgun
-Equipped with nanoforges for virtually unlimited ammunition
-cyclone action (spin gun around fingers to reload), semi-auto and full auto

Pax SMG
-Compressed light automatic weapon
-For a normal Pax this would be considered in the carbine size, due to Jian's height (9 feet tall) it is more a machine pistol

Hardlight Dragon head guillotine

Weapon Coffin
-Main gun is a 1C tripled barrel gatling gun
-Under barreled shotgun and grenade launcher

Demon head Flying Guillotine
-Self guided flying blades of death
-Can fly onto heads of enemies to behead them
-Make a horrible undulating sound when flying to strike fear into enemies

Other Dakka (guns) and cutlery (melee weapons)...

Powers:

Armillary cloth
-Power Jian is first able to manifest
-Flame based projections that act as whips or binding chains

Immunity from extreme temperatures
Immunity from flammability

-Short burst of speed causing a fiery trail

Aeor Elite

One of the many alien races opposing the humans in the Aeternam universe.

Uplifted from a small tree dwelling species, these aliens quickly became the praetorian guards of the Aeternam.

They were granted many privileges such as acting as lieutenants in the overall command structure of the Aeternam empire and most importantly given access to create daughter species as they saw fit (covered later).

The basic Aeor is known as an "Elite". Possessing 7 limbs they were adept at having every limb either getting a weapon ready, attacking with a weapon or used for locomotion. Their mode of locomotion could best be described as limbs flailing in chaos, this made them a very hard target to hit. Due to the freedom needed for the limbs, Aeor forces relied more on their speed and agility then heavy armor or shielding.

Have not posted anything mecha related in a while.

I found myself suddenly coming off a creative binge that lasted 18 years, 18 years that looking back on it were some of my most productive. It feels it was my minds way of keeping me sane or was an outlet for something.

AI art happened and I tried dabbling in that with less then satisfactory results. This has been the running theme for the last two years, a unsatisfactory feeling towards trying to dive into something.

To that end instead of throwing stuff at my figurative wall and seeing what sticks, I'll try throwing stuff on this figurative wall and seeing what sticks. Maybe seeing it in writing will spark something, at the very least it will satisfy my need of putting something creative out into the interwebs.

This is the end. Beautiful friend.

Trump your own Gulf here

"You probably don’t understand how a rainbow really works."

Yup.

I have the "Too Challenging For You" song in my head and you should too.

We live in absurd times. All I can do is note the absurdities as they come along.

Rather than noting the ones that terrify me (like Trump's cabinet), I'm just going to start here:

The Onion buys Alex Jones's conspiracy site Infowars at bankruptcy auction

In a post published Thursday entitled, Here's Why I Decided To Buy Infowars by Bryce P. Tetraeder, Global Tetrahedron CEO, the fictitious Tetraeder writes that Infowars "has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses."

"No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds," Tetraeder writes, celebrating "the continued consolidation of power and capital."

o/

Glad you're still posting, Al. Even if it hasn't been for a long time. DYP lives on!

Hi all!

Long time no post!

I'm currently working on a couple of unrelated universes to the Grandarmspedia. Still a work in progress, eventually I would like to create a site for them similar to the Grandarmspedia.

This is going to be a bit of an exposition dump so I apologize.

Aeternam Fall

Premise: The Universe was "blessed" by a visit from the Aeternam, beings with unfathomable power, technology, knowledge and patience from another dimension. Many species in the known universe were united under their banner, to fight against their opposites the Manretea.

Unfortunately it was all a ruse, the universe was merely a plaything for the Aeternam/Manretea. They left as suddenly as they arrived (their reason for departure is still debated to this day), after 10,000 years under their unifed rule the universe is in chaos. Old allegiances have been broken and new ones are being forged. The setting takes place 1000 years after the Aeternam's departure.

Universe concepts

Angling more towards fantastic ideas with fantastic consequences. Wanted something a little "harder" sci-fi then what I usually go for, in that energies or physics would have to be counteracted against instead of quickly hand waved away. The other concept was that humanity would not be the top of the heap when it came to fighting or interacting with other alien species.

Work in progress Asura class UAAA

Pictured in the link is my WIP for an Asura Class Ultratech Augmented Assault Armor or UAAA for the Terran Republic. Usually reserved as the elite of the elite that human forces can call on.

To don the suit a user must go thru extensive physical and genetic modification, essentially becoming a super soldier to even have a chance of using the suit without harm.

The main weapon is a railgun capable of firing shots at Mach 2000 speeds. To counteract the massive recoil a graviton cylinder is mounted inline with the barrel, several graviton cylinders are mounted in the binders of the suit and lastly the UAAA can fire spikes into the ground for anchoring.

Secondary arms on the binder provide additional firepower or utility as needed and this become an important factor as many aliens in this universe are multi-limbed.

Several nanoforges in the body of the suit provide the ability to restock ordnances or parts as needed in the middle of battle. There are ejection ports on each of the four shoulders to allow delivery of said forged items.

For defense there are several layers to protect the UAAA. Several strips around the suit are actually micro lasers/ micro explosive launchers to intercepts missiles, bullets or other physical objects. After this are magnetic and energy fields which serve to dampen or hopefully nullify physical and energy based attacks. Next up are plasma shielding and hardlight shield projectors, after this are graviton field generators to hopefully bend attacks around the suit. Lastly is the suits magnetically reinforced armor.