Lexx death toll
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Originally posted by Headgehog:
Thanks DalekTek790 for writing it all down. Just a few corrections/additions though:Mantrid Drones didn’t destroy Lister/Liber they destroyed each other in the ratings war 2.5; so they should go into the destroyed in other ways category. The drones ate the TV Planet. The whole light Zone should probably be added to the mantrid Drone List.
Lexx also blew up the VW-Bus like spaceship in 2.10, the international space station 4.10, a satellite above earth 4.10, a cryopod carrying some poor sod 1.2, and other spacecraft he ate along the way, 2.07 4.01
Finally the two planets that used Klaagia as a dump also destroyed each in some war. Hence all the asteroids Lexx crashed into on its way to Klaagia. 1.3
I got Leester and Liber mixed up with the T.V. planet.
I don’t think anything happened to the guy in the cryopod, he just floated by. 790 had been given the specific command to locate Brunnis-1, and being a robot, he ignored significant things not included in the command. I wonder when they’ll get back to the Children of Vora.
I’ve missed a few fourth season episodes, so I’m not quite up on the destruction. Was the space station blown up, or just eaten? I didn’t count stuff the Lexx ate. That trailer the teens were frozen in for 287 years was eaten, not blown up, right?
Now, this whole blown-up planet thing gets me to the topic of the Lexx’s beams. What are they? I don’t think they’ve ever been called “lasers” or anything else in dialog. The best clue was in [i]Lexx 1.1: I Worship His Shadow[/i], where an officer on the [i]Mega Shadow[/i] says “The Lexx is opening its ocular parabola.” Parabola are only used in the focusing of light, so that rules out plasma, particle beams, etc.
But we still don’t know if it’s lasers or masers. Both are focussed with parabolic mirrors. If lasers were the case, we’d expect a more or less clean vaporization of matter at the point of contact and little damage to surrounding matter outside the penumbra. With a maser, the idea would be to heat the material to the point in which it fractures from uneven expansion.
So the latter would seem more consistent with the Lexx’s beams. We know they’re hot, like masers, since they caused melting and burning in Orlandoin [i]Stan Down[/i]. But in [i]Lexx 1.4: The Giga Shadow[/i] the Cluster (containing a giant Insect) is blown up with the Lexx’s beams, and we get a close-up look at the debris. There are no visible signs of melting on any of the chunks, which would accompany maser fire. The Cluster appears to be composed of non-igneous silicates, which should be both susceptable and indicative of melting.
A standard laser seems inconsistent with the Lexx’s beams. However, it is possible the beams are cased not just by laser but gas excitation provoked by laser. This would mean a photoreactive gas is expelled from the viscinity of the Lexx’s ocular parabola toward the target. This is consistent with the localized nature of the beams, and more notably the color. “Straight” lasers would be invisible until they reacted with a planet’s atmosphere. Judging by the color, the Lexx’s beams, if laser, are neon-argon (I think, don’t hold me to that). The only problem with the gas theory is that gas would be effected by the gravitational pull of a planet. The beams fired at planetoids by the Lexx don’t seem to arc toward the body at all.
It seems both the laser and maser theories of the Lexx’s beams run into some problems. I don’t know what to make of this conundrum. And the writers are probably not saying what the beams really are simply to keep fans guessing. It seems the mystery of the Lexx’s beams will remain unsolved until explanatory dialog is written into a future episode of [i]Lexx[/i].