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In the pre-colonization age of Toria when the planet was still young, alien terraforming robots roamed the surface, working to make the planet habitable. The race to whom these robots belonged never claimed their planet, and left the robots to work until their fusion cells died.This particular robot collects sediment from the planet's surface and extracts oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen from it, then pumps it into the atmosphere in a gaseous state. The most common robot, thousands of these would roam a continent at a time.
Specs:
Approx. 15ft (5m) tall
Top Speed: 30mph
Runs on a deuterium-lithium-core fusion cell with auxiliary solar cells (Thanks to ~Mechatherium for the suggestion)
Lifespan: Between two and three thousand years.
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Have fun finding inconsistencies! I just made all that up on the spot, so errors are bound to happen.
Anywho, felt like painting a robot. I like it C:
I PROMISE I'LL POST FANTASY ART SOON. Don't kill me D:
Toria, this robot, and art © Me
#Toria-Art
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Comments: 106
The painting looks very professional, and the idea for it being the remnant of an ancient altruistic species sounds brill.
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Polonium is a radioactive heavy metal. It's heavier than iron, so you can't get energy from fusing it. It does, however, give off some heat as it decays.
Here's the Wikipedia article:
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Still, a creative and original concept. Great Work!
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Haha so I've been told. I didn't do much research (my laziness will be the death of me, I swear); I just looked up "highly radioactive elements" on Google and that's what I got. Ta-daa.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Hm. You could go with a polonium fission thermoelectric or thermoacoustic generator (no/one moving parts)or if you want to use fusion, use deuterium-tritium (radioactive) or deuterium-lithium (no radiation).
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Again, I haven't the faintest clue what I'm talking about here, but the Deuterium-Tritium fusion sounds interesting. The only problem with fusion is that it will continue to create heavier elements that may not be very good for powering a machine over a long period of time. These things will have had to continue running for centuries. Either the element would have to have a very long half-life or the machine would need to be able to harvest fuel from the planet itself.
Perhaps the binary star Toria orbits throws out a lot of radiation. That could possibly provide power, couldn't it? It's not like there's an atmosphere there when the machines first arrive; the whole point of their being there is in fact to make the planet habitable.
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Deuterium and tritium are commonly available isotopes of hydrogen. Tritium is actually a bit rarer but you can make it from the common metal lithium by neutron bombardment. One of the cool things predicted for fusion reactors--if any get built
Solar power, why not? Does Toria get as much sun as Earth? On Earth solar power runs about a thousand watts per square meter. Assuming panels of high efficiency, will that be enough?
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The problem there is that Toria doesn't have any salt water. The fauna that show up later didn't evolve on the planet, so there was no need for seawater.
I considered solar power, but I'm not sure how efficient that would be for machines the size of the ones made to terraform the planet. Plus, the machines are not Earth tech, so their home planet may have different requirements for "sufficient sunlight".
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Does it have any water? Also, if you're using fusion, you can fuse lithium with hydrogen or boron with hydrogen, those are plausible and both are usually available as salt deposits.
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Not at first, but the planet's atmosphere was seeded with chemicals to create rainclouds. The water is all fresh, though.
Hmm, I'll have to look into that.
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Amazing!
I love the fact that it looks like an insect but is in fact gigantic.
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Thank you!
You know, I really should add something to show scale. I'll do that eventually...
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XD that's a new one. Thank you!
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Love the way you've painted the lighting on this. The colours/design are a good mix of organic and mechanical too. Well done ^ ^
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Inspiring! How much time did you spend in this awesome work?
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I really couldn't say for sure. If I had to guess, probably around 2, maybe 2 and a half hours.
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Too cool! The 'face' design is neat, kind of reminds me of something that could exist in the Mass Effect or Star Wars universes.
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Thank you! By "face" do you mean the little lights and sensors and suchlike?
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Yeah. Well. Wherever the sensors are most concentrated.
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Amazing! The design is impressive and I like how it looks...
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Wow! Nicely done! I like the grain on its underside! Great job!
Have you seen ? I think you might like it!
If you want to join, or have questions, just let me know!
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Thank you very much!
I hadn't heard of that group before, bu this is now in the gallery. Thanks to you, I presume. C:
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nice, like a good concept design. I like how its well thought out, not just a random drawing.
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Thank you! Thinking things out is something that I pride myself on C:
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This is fantasy. Fantasy is imagination! C:
I really like the details of this.
.. wait... 5 m? OnO
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Haha I guess you're right. Still, I'd call this one sci-fi.
Yep, it's a little under three times the height of the average human.
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I'm not going to sleep well tonight! o.o
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Haha why? It's not going to jump out of the picture. Your screen's not large enough (I hope)
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... I'm not sure if such a screen would be awesome or just lame, but it would sure give one a pain in the neck x'D
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I suppose most of this could work quite well, Although I'm not sure how long a fusion cell with polonium as the fuel would work, I suppose that as fusion occurred and it bonded together atoms into new elements it could use those as well, breaking them apart when fusion no longer provided energy enough because the atom got too large. But I do love this robot, I saw it at first and just imagined it jacking into some large system. Be like, I hack your technologies.
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I don't know. I just googled "most radioactive elements" and picked one that sounded legit 
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