Mphm. Interesting. Let's try this again.
Powers: Alexandreus' powers are channeled through focused beams. This is projected through multiple colors of fire. His fire changes from light yellow to pure white. He can focus it into a rainbow color, if he wishes.
Ah, so rainbow/light magic. The human aspect of light rather than the physical aspect. Good stuff.
Character Name: Resteroth
Place of Origin: A small dwarf planet in Aldmerri 8B, a solar system closer to the center of the galaxy, but on the same leg as Earth. Because of the proximity of this solar system to a nearby pulsar, as well as a neutron star, constant waves of radiation moved over this planet, combined with energy from a F-Class star, this planet was only able to survive because of a colonization effort long ago by a space-faring race known as the Aldrovarians. The colonists here lost contact with their parent empire and were unable to leave the gravity of the solar system with the fuel their ships currently held, so they did their best to survive, terraforming the desolate planet, pumping atmosphere into the air, and stabilizing it. However, half the the population wanted to return home, while half wanted to stay, and after a brief civil war the surviving members of the Aldrovarians died off. However, over several more thousand years, life quickly sprouted in this paradise, a planet that they named "Fereroth". The creatures which evolved there looked like some mixture between a reptile and a bear which stood on three legs, one in the front and two in the back. They have one large grasper hand in the middle of their body and two other, smaller hands at their side which they used to hold things and do simple tasks. They have two eyes, attached to small stalks which can rotate separate of each other. They only recently, when compared to Earth, took to the stars, and have barely landed a few Ferothians on their two local moons.
Pulsars are neutron stars. Neutron stars aren't pulsars, though. You probably knew this. Judging from what you're saying, the planet itself seems to be orbiting a 90° inclined (relative to the axis between the F-class and the pair) binary neutron star pair at a significant distance (2500 day years are less than Jupiter's year, but the neutron stars have a combined mass of 3-6 solar masses, so the overall distance would be >5 AU), which is unlikely but possible. I don't think planets would survive supernovas, but if the planet once belonged to the F-class star it could have been stolen by the binary neutron star's gravity.
They're unlikely to have stored enough oxygen in their ships to make a planet habitable. The mass of the Earth's atmosphere is 5*10^14 kg, which is a lot.
If the planet had a dense CO2 atmosphere, small lifeforms could terraform it eventually.
However, there are sources of oxygen in space, such as asteroisds and regolith, or simply water. So perhaps if their interstellar fuel was antimatter, but their interplanetary propellant was hydrogen or water (easily replenishable, but not good for interstellar travel), they could have produced enough over time to allow for basic lifeforms to survive. Then you wouldn't need a dense CO2 atmosphere to begin with.
"Recently, when compared to Earth" depends highly on the distance. If they are many dozens of lightyears away, then by the time one arrives in the local stellar neighborhood the Ferothians won't be newcomers anymore. They're not likely to spread quickly, though.
Bio: Resteroth attained his position as a Celestial Space Wizard when one of the first rocket launches of the Ferothians went very wrong. The pilot got a clot of blood in his brain from the intense forces of gravity and soon died, and Resteroth was not able to successfully pilot the rocket back into an emergency landing. The ship, out of control, ended up in a slingshot orbit around one of the two moons, and got flung towards the pulsar star. Resteroth at this point lost consciousness, but woke up to find his ship caught in a kind of gravitational war as the pulsar star and the neutron star both fought each other's gravity wells to steal the ship. Resteroth, figuring it was all over, decided to honorably end it, and depressurized the ship with him inside of it. Caught directly inbetween the gravity wells, his death was stopped only by a figure sheen in light, so bright that Resteroth had to close his ocular devices. The being told him that he had interrupted his feeding on the mana inside a nearby nebula as he flung towards the star, and had piqued his interest. He offered Resteroth a choice: Die here in this space between two of the galaxy's mysteries, or join him as a wizard. Resteroth asked for a year to delegate with himself, and the wizard left him encapsuled in a body of breathable air for a year (A year by Resteroth's definition was approximately 2565 days, as it was back on Feroroth.) In the end, he decided to persist in life, and joined the Wizard. The wizard taught him all he needed to know.
Intense acceleration, not gravity
. By "gravitational war" you might mean an orbit at the lagrange point between the stars. These orbits are unstable, so you would get ejected from the system at a certain point. But depending on the separation between the stars it might take a while (you could also have a
corkscrew orbit, however unlikely), and it appears he was out of his civilization's reach anyway.
Nebulas are diffuse clouds of nonconcentrated Mana. The wizard may have been likely feeding on mana inside the
Zodiacal cloud instead, which would be much closer and within relativistic travel range.
Appearance:
Ferothians never truly evolved any sort of clothing, as they had no need for it. However, masks were soon invented, made out of wood and carved ornately. Resteroth often swaps between masks carved into different forms to express himself.
Powers:
Resteroth has the power to convert mana into basic elements, and can pair mana with already existing elements to create heavier and more complex evidents. He is very good at creating stable elements, but can work with radioactive elements too. He also has the basic powers of a Celestial Wizard.
Stats:
---Basic Arts---
Creation: 2
Reduction: 0
Alteration: 0
Redirection: 0
---Advanced Arts---
Animation: 1
Construction: 2
Destruction: 1
(I apologize if I missed anything, please inform me if I did.
So hyyyyyyped!)
Transmuting elements either requires energy or releases it due to the binding energy of atoms. Mana is made of elements lighter than iron, so combining it into metals would release a ton of energy. This--paradoxically--can be what powers the contraction needed to fuse elements in the first place. The first atom (redirected through Creation) would release enough energy to excite new atoms, making those easier to fuse, and so on. The biggest problem would be that initial reaction, which requires extreme precision (how else do you get two atoms to collide with each other?)
You could try doing this close to stars, perhaps, for a guaranteed source of high-energy particles. Gives a new meaning to "forged in celestial fire."
Alternatively you could just carry around antimatter trapped inside fullerenes so you can initiate fusion whenever you want with an energy gradient. That works too. But the celestial fire thing is cooler imo.
Sorry if this came out as nitpicky. I like the backstory a lot. Accepted.
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