Post by Admin on Oct 13, 2023 16:17:45 GMT
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More about the Kryptonian inventions
As Halk was mentally reviewing each of Jor-L's inventions, in most cases, the Mind Prober Ray enabled him to remember the details blueprints, schematics, diagrams, and Jor-L's notes about each - and these were captured on the video tape. As well, he dictated everything he knew about each invention from his discussions with the inventor.
The cape of flight - a green and yellow cape emblazoned with a globe of Krypton. Using a woven room-temperature superconductor and magnetic repulsion, the cape gives the user the ability to fly, and the flight is mentally controlled. It also endows the wearer with super speed, allowing the wearer to move at speeds approaching the speed of sound on Earth (about 700 mph). Plus it surrounds the user with a force field that protects from the buffeting of wind and the heat of air friction when moving at high speeds.
The gloves of strength - green gloves trimmed in the same yellow as the cape that provide the use with enhanced strength. The theoretical basis behind the gloves was still unknown to Thoronan science, though Jor-L's notes indicated that it produced some kind of force field that wrapped around the wearer's body and which duplicated the movements of that body, acting to supplement the strength of the wearer.
The glasses of enhanced vision - they originally looked like standard male glasses with thick lenses and a heavy frame, but the pair Halk Kar wore had been modified to look like swimming goggles. The glasses provide the wearer with telescopic and microscopic vision, as well as heat and x-ray vision. (When adapting the original glasses to his own use, Halk had added a miniaturized long range communicator of his own design)
An inexpensive tabletop cold fusion reactor - this invention also utilized room temperature super conductors, and would have provided virtually endless supplies of electrical power. But Jor had just begun development on it when he was forced to turn his attention full time to completing and testing the escape rocket for baby Kal-L.
The super powerful lightning projector - could direct lightning thousands of times more powerful that the strongest natural lightning bolt at a specific target. It required a stupendously powerful super capacitor to store the electricity require for the lightning discharge and then a fairly long time to recharge. It would have become a much more useful weapon once the cold fusion reactor had been completed. As it was, it was a terrific weapon but was vulnerable while charging.
The paralysis ray - produced a ray that instantly paralyzed any living thing even partially inside the cone of the beam. Paralysis ended as soon as a target was entirely out of the beam. In most cases, the paralyzed victim was not even aware of being paralyzed when out of range of the beam's effects - it was as if time stopped/started again for that target for the duration of the exposure.
A spray-on invisibility gun- produced a stream of ultra-refractive sub microscopic particles which aligned on contact with a solid surface in such a way as to capture incoming light, carry it instantly to the other side of the sprayed object, and release it on the same vector with identical energy. In essence the light beam was not interrupted by the solid object coated with the spray. However, the particles are not highly adhesive and it is fairly easy to 'blow them away' revealing the untreated surface beneath.
A ray that causes plants to grow at fantastic speed to fantastic sizes, as much as a hundred times their normal size, in only seconds. Unfortunately after about a second of exposure the plant will die.
The matter-radio was an invention that would break a person down into radio waves, beam them to a designated location, and then reassemble that person in the new location. Jor-L had once beamed an Earth scientist to Krypton and back through a temporary space warp using this device. Unfortunately radio waves travel at the speed of light, and disperse as they travel. Once the warp was closed, it would have taken upwards of 30 years for a person from Krypton to reach Earth, and the radio waves would be so dispersed and weak that reconstitution on Earth would have been impossible without a specially built-receiver. So Jor couldn't save himself and his family that way. He had no way of knowing that another temporary warp would open after the destruction of Krypton that would save his son many years of travel time...
The ‘levitation bombs’ also used magnetic repulsion, and could be programmed to fly to anywhere on Krypton. They were the equivalent of killer drones - but fortunately Krypton was generally peaceful and these flying bombs were never actually used. Jor-L worked directly for the Kryptonian government before Lara was pregnant, but when government scientists had adapted his invention to become a deadly weapon, he quit and worked on his own for the rest of his life. These devices might be useful fighting against the forces of K-Pau - they were small, hard to shoot down, and deadly!
The ‘human magnet’ ray - was also a result of the room temperature super conductor. This ray attracted iron, the way all magnets do, but it was 'tunable'. It was tuned to only attract iron that included in an organic compoud - and could be finer tuned to actually attract only specific compounds. As an example, it could be tuned to attract only the Kryptonian equivalent of human hemoglobin - so it would attract Kryptonian humans and not apes, dogs, cats, snagriffs, rondors, or thought-beasts.
The missile projector that can throw 'anything' at any target at superspeed. 'Anything' was an exaggeration, the 'ammunition' for this projector was actually limited to being approximately the size of a bowling ball or smaller. The object to be fired would be placed on the 'launch stage', then a beam would throw it at hypersonic velocity along a very specific vector. Generally the vector was obtained via a 'line of sight' 'bomb sight', though it was possible to 'type in' the vector components when line of sight was not available. The projectile would move at relativistic speeds, so even a small object could case massive damage to the target.
A crystal for emitting iron-destroying radiation, that was mounted on the outside of Kal-L's rocket to dissolve any iron-bearing meteorites in the capsule's path.
As Halk was mentally reviewing each of Jor-L's inventions, in most cases, the Mind Prober Ray enabled him to remember the details blueprints, schematics, diagrams, and Jor-L's notes about each - and these were captured on the video tape. As well, he dictated everything he knew about each invention from his discussions with the inventor.
A room temperature superconductor - This was one of Jor-L's most useful inventions. He had used it to overcome the effects of gravity via magnetic repulsion. It involved exotic matter, which Jor-L had only recently discovered, and he would have utilized superconductors in dozens of other inventions if his work had not been interrupted by the explosion of Krypton.
The cape of flight - a green and yellow cape emblazoned with a globe of Krypton. Using a woven room-temperature superconductor and magnetic repulsion, the cape gives the user the ability to fly, and the flight is mentally controlled. It also endows the wearer with super speed, allowing the wearer to move at speeds approaching the speed of sound on Earth (about 700 mph). Plus it surrounds the user with a force field that protects from the buffeting of wind and the heat of air friction when moving at high speeds.
The gloves of strength - green gloves trimmed in the same yellow as the cape that provide the use with enhanced strength. The theoretical basis behind the gloves was still unknown to Thoronan science, though Jor-L's notes indicated that it produced some kind of force field that wrapped around the wearer's body and which duplicated the movements of that body, acting to supplement the strength of the wearer.
The glasses of enhanced vision - they originally looked like standard male glasses with thick lenses and a heavy frame, but the pair Halk Kar wore had been modified to look like swimming goggles. The glasses provide the wearer with telescopic and microscopic vision, as well as heat and x-ray vision. (When adapting the original glasses to his own use, Halk had added a miniaturized long range communicator of his own design)
The sonic screwdriver - one of Jor-L's earliest inventions. A handheld device that could be programmed to act similarly to almost any hand tool (screwdriver, knife, pliers, clippers, hammer, wrench, saw, drill, pry bar, flashlight, laser, radio scanner, compass) which also has some basic medical capabilities (thermometer, scalpel, pulse oximeter). Jor-L was constantly adding functionality to this tool, and used it to work on virtually everything he invented after the sonic screwdriver.
An inexpensive tabletop cold fusion reactor - this invention also utilized room temperature super conductors, and would have provided virtually endless supplies of electrical power. But Jor had just begun development on it when he was forced to turn his attention full time to completing and testing the escape rocket for baby Kal-L.
The super powerful lightning projector - could direct lightning thousands of times more powerful that the strongest natural lightning bolt at a specific target. It required a stupendously powerful super capacitor to store the electricity require for the lightning discharge and then a fairly long time to recharge. It would have become a much more useful weapon once the cold fusion reactor had been completed. As it was, it was a terrific weapon but was vulnerable while charging.
The paralysis ray - produced a ray that instantly paralyzed any living thing even partially inside the cone of the beam. Paralysis ended as soon as a target was entirely out of the beam. In most cases, the paralyzed victim was not even aware of being paralyzed when out of range of the beam's effects - it was as if time stopped/started again for that target for the duration of the exposure.
A spray-on invisibility gun- produced a stream of ultra-refractive sub microscopic particles which aligned on contact with a solid surface in such a way as to capture incoming light, carry it instantly to the other side of the sprayed object, and release it on the same vector with identical energy. In essence the light beam was not interrupted by the solid object coated with the spray. However, the particles are not highly adhesive and it is fairly easy to 'blow them away' revealing the untreated surface beneath.
A ray that causes plants to grow at fantastic speed to fantastic sizes, as much as a hundred times their normal size, in only seconds. Unfortunately after about a second of exposure the plant will die.
The matter-radio was an invention that would break a person down into radio waves, beam them to a designated location, and then reassemble that person in the new location. Jor-L had once beamed an Earth scientist to Krypton and back through a temporary space warp using this device. Unfortunately radio waves travel at the speed of light, and disperse as they travel. Once the warp was closed, it would have taken upwards of 30 years for a person from Krypton to reach Earth, and the radio waves would be so dispersed and weak that reconstitution on Earth would have been impossible without a specially built-receiver. So Jor couldn't save himself and his family that way. He had no way of knowing that another temporary warp would open after the destruction of Krypton that would save his son many years of travel time...
The dimensional traveler moved a person, and the device itself, from a planet in <this> dimension to a planet in the 'same location' in another dimension. The displaced device could then be reversed, returning both person and device to the original dimension and planet. Jor had devised a fail safe so the device would not transport into a dimension that didn't have a planet in the right spot - but other than the existence of that safe landing planet, nothing about it was known. The target could have been a super-Jovian planet or something the size of Pluto. It's not known if Jor ever tried to use this device.
The flying vehicle that became the most popular personal vehicle on Krypton and eventually came to be known as the Jor-L - used the same superconducting magnetic repulsion principle as the Cape of Flight. It was simple to operate and virtually maintenance-free - and by the time Krypton exploded, there were only very few families who didn't own at least one.
The ‘levitation bombs’ also used magnetic repulsion, and could be programmed to fly to anywhere on Krypton. They were the equivalent of killer drones - but fortunately Krypton was generally peaceful and these flying bombs were never actually used. Jor-L worked directly for the Kryptonian government before Lara was pregnant, but when government scientists had adapted his invention to become a deadly weapon, he quit and worked on his own for the rest of his life. These devices might be useful fighting against the forces of K-Pau - they were small, hard to shoot down, and deadly!
The ‘human magnet’ ray - was also a result of the room temperature super conductor. This ray attracted iron, the way all magnets do, but it was 'tunable'. It was tuned to only attract iron that included in an organic compoud - and could be finer tuned to actually attract only specific compounds. As an example, it could be tuned to attract only the Kryptonian equivalent of human hemoglobin - so it would attract Kryptonian humans and not apes, dogs, cats, snagriffs, rondors, or thought-beasts.
The missile projector that can throw 'anything' at any target at superspeed. 'Anything' was an exaggeration, the 'ammunition' for this projector was actually limited to being approximately the size of a bowling ball or smaller. The object to be fired would be placed on the 'launch stage', then a beam would throw it at hypersonic velocity along a very specific vector. Generally the vector was obtained via a 'line of sight' 'bomb sight', though it was possible to 'type in' the vector components when line of sight was not available. The projectile would move at relativistic speeds, so even a small object could case massive damage to the target.
Temporary super power radioactive capsules - that gave the person using them powers and power levels similar to a Kryptonian under a yellow sun for several hours, or about 20 minutes under a red sun. The pills would have a serious side effect when used too often.
A crystal for emitting iron-destroying radiation, that was mounted on the outside of Kal-L's rocket to dissolve any iron-bearing meteorites in the capsule's path.