What's your Armor Hunter name?

[Baramos]

I think the more you look at them the sillier they get.

I mean I had to do it ten times to get "Cause of Death: Spring break" and "Reading "50 Shades of Armor" on space flight. Blown out of airlock by comrades."

EDIT: By the way, they all seem to recolors of the Armor Hunters we've seen...except for the lady (not Helix, some humanoid woman). I wonder if she's going to be in some flashbacks or something.

ANOTHER EDIT: "Prime ability: Carpeting...where there was no carpeting before!"

Also, "Profuse vomiting caused by Manowar spores"...so, a hint as to how the armors infect organic life forms?

And, finally, this has me looking at the Boltzmann Brain paradox due to a reference. I can't wrap MY brain around it, so I guess it's a good power to force it into people's minds:

"he Boltzmann brains concept has been proposed as an explanation for why we observe such a large degree of organization in the universe (a question more conventionally addressed in discussions of entropy in cosmology).

Boltzmann proposed that we and our observed low-entropy world are a random fluctuation in a higher-entropy universe. Even in a near-equilibrium state, there will be stochastic fluctuations in the level of entropy. The most common fluctuations will be relatively small, resulting in only small amounts of organization, while larger fluctuations and their resulting greater levels of organization will be comparatively more rare. Large fluctuations would be almost inconceivably rare, but are made possible by the enormous size of the universe and by the idea that if we are the results of a fluctuation, there is a "selection bias": we observe this very unlikely universe because the unlikely conditions are necessary for us to be here, an expression of the anthropic principle.

The Boltzmann brain paradox is that any observers (self-aware brains with memories like we have, which includes our brains) are therefore far more likely to be Boltzmann brains than evolved brains, thereby at the same time also refuting the selection-bias argument. If our current level of organization, having many self-aware entities, is a result of a random fluctuation, it is much less likely than a level of organization which only creates stand-alone self-aware entities. For every universe with the level of organization we see, there should be an enormous number of lone Boltzmann brains floating around in unorganized environments. In an infinite universe, the number of self-aware brains that spontaneously randomly form out of the chaos, complete with false memories of a life like ours, should vastly outnumber the real brains evolved from an inconceivably rare local fluctuation the size of the observable universe.

The usual counter-argument is[citation needed] that natural selection is capable of generating outcomes which are a priori extremely improbable (as demonstrated by the weasel program). The level of organization in ourselves, and in the biosphere around us, was not generated by a single random fluctuation, but by a process of evolution by natural selection acting across billions of years. This evolutionary process does not violate the second law of thermodynamics, since the biosphere is not a thermodynamically closed system (it receives energy from the Sun and loses energy to space)."

ANOTHER ANOTHER EDIT: Something I thought of while perusing these: the Vine were incompatible with Shanhara, yet pretty much any organism seems to be able to wield the X-O Manowar class armor according to the descriptions of these various historical Armor Wearers (assuming they aren't all just throwaway jokes...some ARE, obviously, but are all of them?).

The Vine's mythological story about their own origins had them parasitically being born out of the bodies of their masters. Much like it seems the X-O Manowar armors take over the bodies of their wearers and become new beings. Is there a connection here? Is the fact that the Vine die when they put on the armor (coming into contact with it closely) going to play a part in how Armor Hunters play out? (such as Aric using Shanhara to kill other armors?)

[BugsySig]

FVL used Boltzmann brains in his Incredible Herc series.

[Aomalle27]

Yu-Go Megaton
NUMBER OF KILLS: 38
PRIME ABILITY: Dual-wielding swordsman
LOCATION OF LAST BATTLE: The Inverted Sun of Angzo
CAUSE OF DEATH: Argued to death by Confronto, the Aggro Armor

How do you argue someone to death?

[lorddunlow]

Yu-Go Megaton
NUMBER OF KILLS: 38
PRIME ABILITY: Dual-wielding swordsman
LOCATION OF LAST BATTLE: The Inverted Sun of Angzo
CAUSE OF DEATH: Argued to death by Confronto, the Aggro Armor

How do you argue someone to death?

Just check some of the monthly sales threads...

[DIrishB]

Mariner the Calculating

Number of Kills: 18

Prime Ability: Meteor wielder

Location of Last Battle: Riol Seven

Cause of Death: Of all the bars, in all the cosmos, you had to pick a fight with that guy, huh?



This seems apt, since I do a fair amount of calculating to determine the VEI timeline (and the dozens and dozens of other timelines based on fictional universes).