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The Chronicles of Riddick: Crematoria, necromongers, and ambush predator defense


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Necromongers

Where do I sign up? Scary space death cults. Necromonger gothic architecture and interior design. Frowny-faces.

Face on your face

Avoiding ambush predators via application of faces. Strong jaws. Designing against ambush predators. FACES EVWERYWHERE.

Why Google’s Deep Dream A.I. Hallucinates In Dog Faces

(Atmospheric) penetration

Atmospheric entry bombs. Landing invasion ships, overpressure, and displays of power. Also the blue ball planet-killing explosion thing.

Interstellar travel

Ion drive acceleration and speed and average distances between stars. The unlikeliness of non-FTL travel between star systems during the span of human lifetimes.

Private prison

The economics of the private prisons in this universe and how it’s cost-effective to basically put a prison facility on Mercury.

Crematoria

Hot planets close to their sun. Lack of atmosphere and lack of green-house effect causing extremely quick extreme temperature changes.  This planet was pretty much Mercury. The impossibility of breathable atmosphere in these circumstances. The speed of the sunset and solar terminators.

Crematorian dog-things

Robustness of skin. Comparison to other color-changing creatures. Luminescence vs passive color-change.

  1. The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay/Assault on Dark Athena: Amazon
  2. The Chronicles of Riddick by Folding Ideas: YouTube
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