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Description Adam, the young human (in this picture, he's 10 or 11) is a character of and the naga, Rixa Julaja is an original character of mine.

Humans aren't normally allowed on Midden, but Adam is a special case. He was discovered by a Middenian research ship after it touched down in the Azure forest, as the natives call it. Adam wandered onto the ship just before take off, and found himself trapped in the cargo hold. He was discovered by the crew during the return trip to Midden, and if anyone knows Adam's personality, they would have seen this coming. He was panic stricken and sobbing like the little boy he was, but the crew was able to calm him down, by presenting him with a beverage similar to coffee, but with opposite effects. It calms the nerves, and drastically relaxes those who even smell it's aroma, even putting some to sleep. Adam was deemed suitably intelligent for "live-in" study, and was entrusted to the care of Rixa Julaja, and as it was an interesting find to discover seemingly native humans not on Earth.

This Picture: Adam is overly trusting of anyone he feels comfortable around, and he took to feeling very comfortable around Rixa and many of the other inhabitants of Midden, as to somone as young as he, the all seemed to look alike. On a trip to a seaside market in the port city of Cajan, Adam wandered away from Rixa as she shopped, and eventually found himself completely lost, with Ms. Julaja nowhere in sight. But what he did happen to see was a squad of Venrock Firebreathers practicing in public. Adam has an intese fear of fire and heat, and passed out at the very sight. Rixa, in somewhat of a panic, happened to notice a crowd gathered around something on the sidewalk, and headed over, to find a semi-consious Adam being revived by a Vulpesant of similar age. After he recovered from the incident, Rixa insisted that he keep firm hold on the tip of her tail, so he would not wander off again. Adam agreed with no arguements.
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Comments: 49

MusicalNumber [2012-01-24 19:15:44 +0000 UTC]

^-^ Still very cute, even though it's six years old now.

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JazzLizard In reply to MusicalNumber [2012-01-24 19:22:01 +0000 UTC]

Also, I should draw the little Vulpesant gal who befriended him

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MusicalNumber In reply to JazzLizard [2012-01-24 22:47:18 +0000 UTC]

n.n Agreed.

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JazzLizard In reply to MusicalNumber [2012-01-24 19:17:04 +0000 UTC]

Aww man, I'll need to draw a new version!

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MusicalNumber In reply to JazzLizard [2012-01-24 22:47:07 +0000 UTC]

But this version is adorable!

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nomyai [2008-09-14 12:42:27 +0000 UTC]

I had no problem seeing my own children, at Adam's age, in your story.

Bravo to Rixa for being a wonderful 'arent'.

I thourghly enjoy your artwork and story lines.

Keep it coming.

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JazzLizard In reply to nomyai [2008-09-17 14:02:34 +0000 UTC]

Lol, thank you!
For a reptilian species, the Hikki have excellent parenting skills.

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nomyai In reply to JazzLizard [2008-09-20 20:03:08 +0000 UTC]

Your most welcome.

Your wonderful characters have gotten me thinking. Just how would they move? Wiggle like a snake, bump along like a catepillar?

Thank you for stimulating the old brain cells.

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JazzLizard In reply to nomyai [2008-10-19 15:52:03 +0000 UTC]

My Hikki (nagas) all slither like snakes. Some of the Xain (insect-like nagas) species crawl like catterpillars.

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nomyai In reply to JazzLizard [2008-10-20 15:12:41 +0000 UTC]

Cool, thanks.

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triadenforcer [2008-04-02 15:33:07 +0000 UTC]

"Midden stays away from the Earth system, for reasons I will elaborate upon later. And humans generally aren't allowed on Midden, for the same reasons."



I think I know what that reason is.........


to quote from ironhide in the transformers movie

"Why are we fighting to save the humans?....They're a primitive and violent race."

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JazzLizard In reply to triadenforcer [2008-04-09 16:28:29 +0000 UTC]

Nope, that's not the reason at all, 'cause for all intensive purposes, Midden is a violent and primitive race.

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Lord-Aries-Greymon [2006-07-28 03:08:23 +0000 UTC]

Cuuute.

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JazzLizard In reply to Lord-Aries-Greymon [2006-07-30 22:02:41 +0000 UTC]

Very glad you think so!

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dramaticirony [2006-07-25 11:31:40 +0000 UTC]

Awww that is adorable! Poor little munchkin! Nice hat though.

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JazzLizard In reply to dramaticirony [2006-07-25 14:31:58 +0000 UTC]

The hat is the only thing of his original outfit that carried over in my drawing- [link]

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dramaticirony In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-25 16:59:30 +0000 UTC]

Ah so I see. I do love hats.

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WarriorofLight [2006-07-25 00:56:07 +0000 UTC]

If you want explinations of "Star Trek" science, I require and recommend reading Mr. Hawking's books. His latest one, "God Made the Integers" is one I haven't really gotten too terribly involved in...yet...but I will. I wish I understood complex mathematics (or math in general) to help me understand Hawking a little better. But I digress...Your artwork is phenomenal as usual.
It reminds me of classic Dickens' literature.

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JazzLizard In reply to WarriorofLight [2006-07-25 01:54:07 +0000 UTC]

I'm familiar with some of Hawkings works, I loved a Brief History of Time, but the thing is that Star Trek itself doesn't explain their science.
Thanks for the comment tho!

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WarriorofLight In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-25 18:44:20 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. It is true, you have a point there.

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The-Snake-Pit [2006-07-24 15:25:56 +0000 UTC]

Aww, this is so sweet!

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JazzLizard In reply to The-Snake-Pit [2006-07-24 15:29:53 +0000 UTC]

Glad you think so!
They'll both be featured in some upcoming pictures.

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The-Snake-Pit In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-24 15:41:42 +0000 UTC]

Cool. Can't wait to see them.

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knightrebound [2006-07-24 13:13:27 +0000 UTC]

Awesome.

I was starting to wonder what kind of part humans played in the universe.

Now I know.. a little.

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JazzLizard In reply to knightrebound [2006-07-24 14:32:30 +0000 UTC]

Midden stays away from the Earth system, for reasons I will elaborate upon later. And humans generally aren't allowed on Midden, for the same reasons.

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knightrebound In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-24 14:54:25 +0000 UTC]

I see. Sounds interesting.

Granted I didn't really know anything about your intentions, but I originally thought they were just rediculously far away. Or it's another reality and Earth simply doesn't exist. (The latter is the approach I'm taking with my latest attempt at writing.)

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JazzLizard In reply to knightrebound [2006-07-24 18:16:32 +0000 UTC]

Well Midden is rediculously far away, but they can easilly travel excrutiatingly long distances, using Halfspace and Quartergates. Halfspace is a nother universe that they can travel to using Quartergates, and then open another Quartergate in Halfspace, to any point in our universe.

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knightrebound In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-24 21:14:33 +0000 UTC]

I see.

That makes no sense: then again in real life it's actually been discovered that light can be made to travel faster than 'The Speed of Light'. This is accomplished by making it travel backwards.

I'll try and elaborate: this guy experimented with light, changing its speeds and managed to slow it down to the speed of a plane. He tried to make it go backwards and the same moment the light went into the front end of the tube of chosen substance to stimulate it, it re-appeared on the opposite end. Two versions of the same signal, one going forward and one going backword, both at normal speed.

Even though it really happened: it makes about as much sense as anything you might see explained on Star Treck, where they make up words and effects.

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JazzLizard In reply to knightrebound [2006-07-24 23:52:28 +0000 UTC]

Um, care to link me to this experiment?
I know that theoretically particles that have negative mass are the only thing that can actually go faster than the speed of light, since they actually cannot travel slower than it. And Star Trek is absolutely terrible at explaining their "science."

My Quartergates are almost purely fictional, but the ability to travel to other dimensions has been theorized before. I've simply implemented the idea that if we can travel to any point in another dimension, another level of space and time, then we can also travel back from that dimension to any point in our own, thus jumping nearly instantly to any other point in our universe.

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knightrebound In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-25 01:59:15 +0000 UTC]

I only half fallow. If I read up a bit on traveling to other dimensions and those theories I might understand.

And gimme a sec. I have the article over that experiment somewhere in my links.

... Found it. Science blog. Articles name: "Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast It Goes Backwards". I don't fully understand the text yet: but I got the part about it instantaneously travelling to the other side then moving backwards and forwards.

Albeit this is a LONG haul from faster-than-light drives, but it makes it theoretically possible that it's the next step up from fast-as-light drives.

Or maybe not, who knows. It's some fairly strange and exotic information.

[link]

Ah... and it has a link to the article straight from the University.

.. and it's the same article as the one up there except with a .eps graphic, whatever that is. And 3 animations.

[link]

... and I found this in the comments. An article over the implications of this. It's not the same material, but I haven't read it yet.

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JazzLizard In reply to knightrebound [2006-07-25 15:36:40 +0000 UTC]

That is an interesting trick, but it's not at all what I was talking about. None of my technologies claim to be able to travel faster than the speed of light, "hyperspace" and "warp drives" are seriously a thing of science fiction, or of technology a thousand years from now. It takes a big step to go from pushing light backwards or faster than the speed of light, to moving a craft to the speed of light, and keeping it intact.

I'm talking about wormholes, which do exist and theoretically can be opened and created. Granted, it would take an immense amount of energy to do so, but devices such as antimatter annihalation engines and super reactors could cover that. The shortest distance between two points is one point, not a straight line. I can put together a diagram if it woudl be easier for you to visualize, but my idea is only as farfetched as any other theory for sending a craft across the universe at an incredibly high rate.

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knightrebound In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-25 15:45:54 +0000 UTC]

Ah. Wormholes is an approach I can understand a bit better.

I was thinking of using this backwards light thing as a faster-than-light drive in a story of mine. Of course: this story I'm thinking of isn't made to be serious. The light-speed drive is powered by a flashlight: and at some point someone thinks to or accidentally puts it in backwards! Instantaneous travel!

But yeah. It's all theory.

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knightrebound In reply to knightrebound [2006-07-25 02:00:45 +0000 UTC]

[link]

I forgot to link it. At least I don't see the link.

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KazaraYume [2006-07-24 06:30:35 +0000 UTC]

Adorable kid!

... I wouldn't have any problems with those arrangements either, personally...

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JazzLizard In reply to KazaraYume [2006-07-24 18:17:43 +0000 UTC]

Lol, what, living with a doting naga?

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KazaraYume In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-24 22:21:52 +0000 UTC]

Well, yes, of course, but I was primarily referring to being 'required' to hold onto her tail at all times.

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JazzLizard In reply to KazaraYume [2006-07-24 23:53:07 +0000 UTC]

Ah, liek a kid on a leash, lol.

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KazaraYume In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-25 03:27:50 +0000 UTC]

I can't really think of a better leash.

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JazzLizard In reply to KazaraYume [2006-07-25 15:20:37 +0000 UTC]

No...other than some sort of tentacle...

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EchoWing [2006-07-24 03:45:42 +0000 UTC]

Kid looks lonesome...not to mention a little terrified. Poor thing.

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JazzLizard In reply to EchoWing [2006-07-24 14:34:17 +0000 UTC]

Nah, he's none of the above. Too curious for his own good, tho.

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EchoWing In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-24 14:36:44 +0000 UTC]

Most kids are.

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pure-mattness [2006-07-24 03:30:59 +0000 UTC]

I love it. I absolutely love it. Not only the picture but the whole story. The history of this world, and everything about it is very well thought out. I'm gonna have to find a way to visit this planet someday. lol

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JazzLizard In reply to pure-mattness [2006-07-24 18:19:28 +0000 UTC]

They're not offering tours as of yet, but if you want a taste of Midden, you can visit the Round, which is a near moon-sized space station they built to simulate life on Midden. You can mingle with some of the inhabitants and local fauna, but you have to be on your best behavior.

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FoxmanZEO [2006-07-24 02:59:55 +0000 UTC]

Nice lineverk as jooshual.

Why does this make me think of Great Expectations?

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JazzLizard In reply to FoxmanZEO [2006-07-24 14:34:37 +0000 UTC]

I dunno, never read it.

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FoxmanZEO In reply to JazzLizard [2006-07-25 12:34:55 +0000 UTC]

Me niether. :\

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JulatheGreat [2006-07-24 02:18:23 +0000 UTC]

Oh my god.

I love you.

I love this picture.

Everything is awesome.

Life is good.

You so get a cookie. n.n!

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JazzLizard In reply to JulatheGreat [2006-07-24 18:21:32 +0000 UTC]

Lol,

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