Torpedo Kids

[Chris_Redfield8]

can you tell me where to find this article?

[Neptune]

can you tell me where to find this article?

lol its sumthing fellow Project Umbrella member El Bastardo has written for the site, based on theories we put to gether it details the formation of the T+G Virus, an accurate timeline for the events, cos its more complicated than it looks when thought about.

its not for circulation really atm, Dot shud have a copy as he is a contact for the site which i am assured will be going live very soon, and the article will put up then!

[biohazard_star]

Hitting the final boss' weakpoint is such a pain in the ass when you're using a regular controller.

[Chris_Redfield8]

thank you ill check the site out when it is accessable

[Nomad9026]

PO, you are the MAN. Explain the origin of nautilus... I can't wait for you to write something new. And I would like to read this da article.

[Project Omega]

First lets look at the Torpedo Kid (TK). The face on the head of the TK looks mammalian while the torso looks more like it belongs to the original creature, the tadpole larva of the Sea Squirt. Given that, there's a good chance that the water is contaminated with particles of T-Virus laden debris coming from the zombie corpses that are rotting in the water, they are filter feeders so they may have gotten infected while just eating food.

Since the T-Virus has the unnatural ability of being able to jump species at a whim's notice, that is most certainly what happened here. Through the normal events of filter feeding small particulate matter, the see squirt may have encountered some T-virus infected tissue which upon consumption proceeded to infect the creature. On some occasions, the T-Virus can "bring along" genetic material from it's previous host (as seen most notably with the case of RE1's Chimera with it being apparently one third, human, one third spider, and one third fly), which does effect how the resulting T-Virus infection will effect the new host.

Most invertebrates that are infected with the T-Virus grow to be many times their original size so that's essentially the case with the Nautilus and the TK's. Given that they are exposed to air instead of being submerged in water, as is the case with most sea squirts, that could explain the dry cracked appearance of their tunic. Also, since their tunic is composed almost entirely out of polysaccharides, due to the T-Virus, there may have been some alteration done to their normal tunicin skin to make it function more like a shell made out of chitin, which in it's natural form is leathery and probably more structurally durable than the tunicin they were using originally.



Chances are the previous host of the T-Virus that infected the original sea squirt was mammalian; in fact, probably human. Since there are several decomposing zombies in the water ways near where the Nautilus are, chances are some human characteristics were transferred over genetically thanks to the T-Virus, although I can't really see any human characteristic within the Nautilus, as mentioned earlier, we can see a slight humanistic appearance with the TK's face...



Since if the Nautilus are filter feeders then that would explain there they are getting the nutrients to create so many TK's. It may be using the space within itself as a sort of brooding chamber to keep immature TK's in before they are ready to be launched. Which is why they are able to be launched many at a time. Since much of the animal may extend under water, there's no way to accurately tell the size of the brood chamber, therefore the numbers we see of TK coming from a single Nautilus can be biologically plausible.

In real life, most ascidians species protect themselves through hoarding vanadium. Vanadium is an essential component of vanadium chromagen proteins within the ascidians. Vanadium chromagen proteins are a group of vanadium-binding metalloproteins and are only found in the blood of some ascidians. Because of this protein, the concentration of vanadium in their blood is more than 100 times higher than the concentration of vanadium in the seawater around them. Vanadium is toxic to predators. Since they are massive now and no longer have any natural predators, the need for vanadium concentration may have gone down significantly. This could be why their blood is green and not yellow as it's supposed to be since vanadium itself is yellow. Much like our blood is red when oxygenated because of the iron, the vanadium when you or you kill them. Perhaps they have also evolved there circulatory systems to use hemocyanin?

Hemocyanin carries the oxygen in the blood of most molluscs, and some arthropods. Because of copper in the hemocyanin pigment is blue, mixed with the lower concentration of vanadium in the ascidians, this would make for a medium to dark green color of blood. Hemocyanin would be a better choice compared to hemoglobin since the water they live in and breath may contain a low oxygen concentrations an is probably colder to boot.

Something I want to note is that the tadpole larva forms of ascidians occur only after successful sperm/egg fusion which means that the Nautilus is actively breeding, however there's no evidence to indicate whether the TK follow their natural life cycles and become Nautilus themselves. Breeding in BOW is something that doesn't occur too often and we rarely see it aside from the empirical evidence for it that it does occur.

[Ridley W. Hayes]

Damn... nice read. Great work there PO!

[Chris_Redfield8]

^^ second that last comment