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 Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:42 pm
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:48 pm
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Age: Twenty-three.
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Appearance: Micajah can usually be spotted from a distance by looking out for some kind of experiment teetering dangerously on the verge between brilliance and disaster. Unfortunately more often than not it falls to the latter and it’s not uncommon for Micajah to be swathed in clouds of putrid black smoke where a mechanical invention of his has backfired, or drenched in oil where “just a little more lubrication here and there” got pushed to the extreme. Fortunately Micajah’s general exuberance and perhaps slightly clichéd ‘mad professor’ hair that refuses to bend to the will of any comb or brush, manages to make him avoid looking like a miserable walking disaster zone and instead makes him seem quirky and endearing. All over Micajah gives the impression of child-like youthfulness. He stands at a slightly shorter than average height of five-foot, four-inches and has a slim boyish build. His brown eyes are wide, intelligent and friendly and if he were to grow out his facial hair (which he attempted once in his teenage years on a whim) his beard grows patchy and itchy and consequently he keeps himself clean-shaven all the time, only adding to his youthful look. At a glance you would not be to blame for thinking that he is still in his teenage years. Clothes wise Micajah tends to stick to stuff that he wears when he’s tinkering in the laboratory (apron, gloves, boots. etc) in addition to any useful accessories he has managed to create. (The most notable being his rather dashing blast proof goggles – complete with magnification lens for close work!)
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History: Micajah is of dual heritage, his mother being a member of the homunculi faction and his father the machine faction. As a result of their mixed parenting and influence he is an interesting blend of perhaps the stereotypical traits one might apply to the people of each faction.
From his father he gained the scientist's desire for knowledge and understanding, a trait that was one of the first things about him that became clear. Micajah's first word - to the mild horror of his mother - was "why", shortly followed by "how", "what" and other questioning words; rather than cooing over the names of the objects he loved, he pried into their workings and reasons, a trait that only expanded as he grew older. However, despite his father often trying to show him the intricate workings of the gadgets and gizmos that he constructed for his job he found that he simply could not capture the boy's interest... Instead of beaming as he saw cogs and screws working together and making animatronic life, he marvelled at petals unfurling from tightly budded flowers and ants marching in neat order along branches.
Evidently this love of all things natural was credited to his mother. Whilst she did not hold any particularly important position within the alchemic circles, unlike her partner; a well-known tinkerer, she filled the house with flora - to the point where even the clean and highly polished personal workroom of her husband featured one or two lovingly grown plants. When she realised that her son loved the outside world just as much as she, she exposed him to it as much as possible. Though until he began to grow into himself and explain his personal scientific relationship with nature more fluently it still bothered her that rather than being in awe of the sheer beauty of their recovering earth he would pry and try to work out just why it all happened.
When Micajah was reaching his teenage years he boldly told his parents his dreams in life. He wanted to be a biologist; he wanted to know how organic things worked and behaved, they were like machines - with individual and intricate parts that worked together to produce an amazing functional being. His parents were confused. Did he mean a medic? Understanding of the human anatomy was indeed useful and they would be more than happy to see him help people in such a way. Yet his insistence of wanting to know how nature itself worked - the plants and the animals - confused them for years to come until finally his personal studies (in a section of his father's workshop roped off for his use and filled with all sorts of animals both caged and bottled) produced a discovery about the learning capacities of rats, significant enough for him to catch the attention of more senior scientists who took him on as an apprentice of sorts.
Micajah proved himself to be a good student and with a more official seal of approval on his work his parents loosened up significantly and were far more understanding in terms of his interests.
Ichnaea was created just after Micajah's twentieth birthday, three years after becoming an apprentice. The guardian was mainly given to him so that he would be better equipped to study in the field. His teachers often found that Micajah's talents were wasted on close laboratory study and felt that his keen eye and passion for discovery would make him perfectly suited for working alongside scouts and warriors outside of the city - noting down the fauna and flora that was bound to be discovered on recovered areas.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:51 pm
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Appearance: As a stage 1 machine I would like to see Ichnaea mainly built from the metal form of calcium, a dull grey material, so that he complies with the standard metal look of the machine guardians. However, if possible I would also like to see parts of him made from the more organic forms of calcium. This could be a way of mimicking the giant anteater’s markings – for example calcium carbonate could be easily used to make the white patterning. The fluffy areas of anteaters (most notably the backs of the legs and the tail) could be made using fluted shell or bone-like constructs as calcium is a key component in both shell and bone formation.
My input on Ichnaea’s later stages is fairly minimal. In general I prefer to give artists creative lee-way because their ideas tend to be far superior to mine. One of the things I would like to request would be the continuation of the inclusion of the shell and bone concept as I find the fact that calcium, an earth metal, being so important in the creation of bone and shell really cool. White hair, or a mixture of metallic grey and white, in a messy fauxhaux could be interesting to see because something about anteater’s hair reminds me of that hairstyle – but I am really not fussy.
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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:04 pm
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXＧｉａｎｔ ＡｎｔｅａｔｅｒXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXＣａｌｃｉｕｍ  The Giant Anteater, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, is the largest species of anteater. It is the only species in the genus Myrmecophaga. It is a solitary animal, found in many habitats, including grasslands, deciduous forests and rainforests. It feeds mainly on ants and termites, sometimes up to 30,000 insects in a single day. The genus name Myrmecophaga is from Greek murmekos, ant, and phagein, to eat.
The giant anteater is one of few taxa of mammals without any teeth even in a mature state. An anteater instead crushes insects it consumes using hard growths found on the inside of its mouth, and its flabby stomach. Sand and small rocks have also been found in anteaters' stomachs, suggesting that these are ingested to aid digestion (possible gastroliths). They have an average body temperature of 32.7oC, which is one of the lowest of all land-living mammals. This low rate of metabolism, common in xenarthrans, means it is inactive for a mammal.
It grows to a size of up to 7 feet in length, with a 4-foot-long head and torso, and a 3-foot-long tail. Generally it weighs from 65 to 140 pounds. The giant anteater is covered with stiff, straw-like hair which grows up to 40 cm long on the tail. Young have soft hair until they are mature. The dominant colouring may be grey or brown, but all have a diagonal black and white shoulder stripe.
The giant anteater is generally acknowledged to have a very keen sense of smell, used to locate ants, but is thought to have poor sight and hearing. The giant anteater does not sleep in any fixed place, instead curling up in abandoned burrows and hollows. It covers its body with its long, bushy tail to sleep. The anteater's tongue can reach 2 feet in length, but has a width of only 1⁄2 inch. The anteater can cover its tongue in a sticky saliva, allowing it to trap ants, and can extend and withdraw it up to 150 times per minute. Calcium is the chemical element with the symbol Ca and atomic number 20. It has an atomic mass of 40.078 amu. Calcium is a soft gray alkaline earth metal, and is the fifth most abundant element by mass in the Earth's crust. Calcium is also the fifth most abundant dissolved ion in seawater by both molarity and mass, after sodium, chloride, magnesium, and sulfate. Calcium is essential for living organisms, particularly in cell physiology, where movement of the calcium ion Ca2+ into and out of the cytoplasm functions as a signal for many cellular processes. As a major material used in mineralization of bones and shells, calcium is the most abundant metal by mass in many animals.
Chemically calcium is reactive and soft for a metal (though harder than lead, it can be cut with a knife with difficulty). In bulk-form (typically as chips or "turnings") the metal is somewhat difficult to ignite, more so even than magnesium chips; but when lit, the metal burns in air with a brilliant high-intensity orange-red light. Calcium metal reacts with water, producing hydrogen gas at a rate rapid enough to be noticeable, but not fast enough at room temperature to generate much heat. In powdered form, however, the reaction with water is extremely rapid, as the increased surface area of the powder accelerates the reaction with the water.
Calcium is an important component of a healthy diet and a mineral necessary for life. Calcium plays an important role in building stronger, denser bones early in life and keeping bones strong and healthy later in life.Approximately 99 percent of the body's calcium is stored in the bones and teeth.
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