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| Deleted User | Jul 27 2009, 06:47 PM Post #11 |
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What the hell is the C-Synth? What does it do? It synthesizes Carbonadium? From what... thin air? Is it the missing part of some apparatus? How is it so small? Melting down Adamantium requires a nuclear reactor and a massive laboratory. The C-Synth is about the size of a beer can. The Tinkerer made a freakin' pacemaker with it. Carbonadium is radioactive? What good is it then? What could you use it for? You can't build armor with it if it kills all your soldiers. Was it only created for use on Omega Red? Why does Omega Red need it? What does it do for him? How does Carbonadium interact with his vampiric Mutant Death-Factor? If he can heal (or whatever it is he does) himself through his death spores and his tentacles, isn't he also healing from the radiation poisoning? If the metal in his body is killing him, how will making more of it help him? Does he need, like, fresh Carbonadium? Is Omega Red's armor made (or plated) with Carbonadium? Is his skeleton laced with it? Are his tentacles cybernetic, or part of his original mutation? What do those wires do that are always sticking out the sides of his mouth? Jeez... they never stop fighting over this thing. |
 
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| jrpbsp | Jul 28 2009, 02:25 PM Post #12 |
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They made it more or less by mistake trying to make admantium. It never really got used accept for the coincidence that it helped to stabilize Red's powers. As to how it works? No clue I always assumed you needed a factory or something and make the raw materials but who knows. It's comic book physics. |
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| indestructable | Jul 28 2009, 04:33 PM Post #13 |
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The thing that bothers me about Carbonadium is Way made it radioactive. Indestructable material can't be radioactive because radioactivity is a by byproduct of decay. |
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| jrpbsp | Jul 28 2009, 04:43 PM Post #14 |
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Well it was always designed as radioactive even from the beginning. It's not as indestructible as admantium so it could potentially decay but yeah not likely. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 28 2009, 07:07 PM Post #15 |
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The best explanation I've ever heard, even though I disagree with it, is my friend's notion that Red needs the C-Synth in order to remove the Carbonadium from his body. He thinks maybe it acts in the same way as Dr. MacLain's Molecular Rearranger he uses with Adamantium. In that it is a singular device that can manipulate the metal's atomic structure after it has solidified. But they keep using the word "stabilize" in context of it's use for Red. "Stabilize" what? His Death-Factor? I thought that's what the vampirism was doing. The atomic decay of the metal? How to you counteract fallout with more radiation? Man, just give him the dang thing... or just destroy the C-Synth altogether so it's no longer an issue. One word: Tinkerer. Just build another one, Red. No one on Earth can replicate this nearly 50 year old tech? |
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| jrpbsp | Jul 29 2009, 09:54 AM Post #16 |
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It is to stabilize his death factor. Somehow the two negatives work out to neutralize each other. Keep in mind that Red was never 'finished'. The process that he was undergoing was interrupted by Team X who then stole the device. He needs it to finish the process to keep his own powers from killing him essentially. No idea logically how that works though. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 29 2009, 06:18 PM Post #17 |
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I thought that Arkady drained the life forces of others in order to "stabilize" is Mutant Death-Factor. His own powers will eventually feed off of himself and kill him if he doesn't take someone else's life force. Before Carbonadium, he preyed on others simply to sustain his own life and hold his Death-Factor in check. Similar to a vampire. That's right, isn't it? According to Wikipedia, Arkady's tentacles are cybernetic implants. So they are not part of his original mutation and were later laced with Carbonadium. Is that correct? "Red's body is shot through with [Carbonadium]." Is his skeleton laced with Carbonadium as well, or is Logan only referring to the tentacles? Now introduce radioactive Carbonadium into his body. The atomic decay of the metal slowly poisoning his body serves to "stabilize" the Death-Factor in place of the need to drain the life forces of others? Red's radiation sickness counteracts his vampiric Death-Factor? In case you haven't noticed, I could care less about Romulus... I just hope this arc explains the freakin' C-Synth. I also hope to see the Omega Red project "finished"... and have Arkady reintroduced as an even worse villain. |
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| jrpbsp | Jul 30 2009, 08:49 AM Post #18 |
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Yes he has to use his Death power and kill people to essentially get some of it out of his body and use the life energy to keep himself going. Supposedly the Carbonadium prevents it from eating away at Arkady so he would not have to drain others. Of course he still could and would since he's a psycho but he wouldn't have to. I have never heard of him having anything other then the tentacles as far as carbonadium. Now I always assumed since he needed more he was either injecting it or putting bits of it in his body somewhere in order to stabilize things. No idea why the radiation stabilizes him but it is supposed to. Doesn't prevent the power but keeps it from eating away at him and gives him more control over it. |
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| Deleted User | Jul 30 2009, 05:51 PM Post #19 |
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I appreciate all the input, jrpbsp... I guess we'll just have to wait and see if Way comes through with some details. |
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| jrpbsp | Jul 31 2009, 09:12 AM Post #20 |
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From the past issues I am not holding my breath much. He doesn't seem to give much in the way of explanations. |
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