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@Saladofstones on post #2894950 (samus aran, metroid, and omega metroid (metroid and 1 more) drawn by yasukuni_kazumasa)

2017-10-18T16:54:27-04:00

Elle_Lowel said:
The Omega Metroid is a big cheater..

..but I am super curious on how they produce fire. I mean stage one metroids just suck energy and that's it.. but from Alpha and on, they can produce fire to use as an attack. I mean a burst of energy can spark a fire.. but to excrete it and expel it even I can't come up with a possible bio-engineering theory for that.

magic

*snort* *snort*

@Elle_Lowel on post #2894950 (samus aran, metroid, and omega metroid (metroid and 1 more) drawn by yasukuni_kazumasa)

2017-10-18T16:52:21-04:00

I kinda can understand that from the both of you.. because as I took a lot of good points from the two of you.. with that possibility that it could be a gas since they are hollow on the inside and said gas could become a liquid state to dribble out of (from the Alpha).. But to spark that, chiton can do that, but since we can't see it, it has to be inside the mouth.

@Kissmyaxe on post #2894950 (samus aran, metroid, and omega metroid (metroid and 1 more) drawn by yasukuni_kazumasa)

2017-10-18T15:34:39-04:00

Pyrophoric compounds don't need a spark to ignite. It's actually plausible that a creature could excrete and store two kinds of chemicals that combine to ignite spontaneously. More plausible than flying jellyfish that absorb energy, at any rate.

@GaijinGamer on post #2894950 (samus aran, metroid, and omega metroid (metroid and 1 more) drawn by yasukuni_kazumasa)

2017-10-18T15:28:11-04:00

Elle_Lowel said:

The Omega Metroid is a big cheater..

..but I am super curious on how they produce fire. I mean stage one metroids just suck energy and that's it.. but from Alpha and on, they can produce fire to use as an attack. I mean a burst of energy can spark a fire.. but to excrete it and expel it even I can't come up with a possible bio-engineering theory for that.

That's funny, I'm in the reverse situation - given that we produce methane on our own more or less daily, I could totally see an alien organism creating some form of flammable liquid or gas, storing it in an organic sac, and then expelling it as a breath weapon, but to my knowledge it's actually pretty difficult to convert biological or thermal energy into a physical spark as opposed to just heat so that it could light it afterwards. What, do they just knock a few boney plates together until it makes a spark? Can bone even do that? Do they swallow flint and stone to light with, the same way some animals swallow rocks to grind food for digestion?

@Elle_Lowel on post #2894950 (samus aran, metroid, and omega metroid (metroid and 1 more) drawn by yasukuni_kazumasa)

2017-10-18T15:08:30-04:00

The Omega Metroid is a big cheater..

..but I am super curious on how they produce fire. I mean stage one metroids just suck energy and that's it.. but from Alpha and on, they can produce fire to use as an attack. I mean a burst of energy can spark a fire.. but to excrete it and expel it even I can't come up with a possible bio-engineering theory for that.