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From: starman@crash.amigans.gen.nz (Robin Halligan)
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:32:25 PST
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Time to visit the VAULTS.
Ok from TOHOTMU  Vol 2 No.3 Feburary 1986 (Time travel mode on)
Typed without permission

CYCLOPS

Known superhuman powers

Cyclops is a mutant with the superhuman ability to project a beam of
ruby-colored concussive force from his eyes.
The precise nature of this energy and it's origin remain unknown,
although various hypotheses have been made in the past. There appears to be a 
direct correlation between the length of the time Cyclops has been exposed to
sunlight and the intensity and longevity of the force beams.
Cyclops apparently somehow metabolizes sunlight and presumably starlight
as well, in the process of generating the force beams.
It has been argued that Cyclops could therefore prevent himself from
generating the force beams by confining himself to places sealed off from
sunlight.However, for unknown reasons, deprivation of sunlight for extended
periods sets up a dangerous physiological imbalance of unknown nature in 
Cyclops's body.On one occasion cyclops increased the power of his eye beams 
temporarily by metabolizing large amounts of electrical energy.
but this was an unusual instance which is unlikely to recur.
The exact means by which Cyclops stores the solar energy his body absorbs,
and by which he stores the unknown energy of his optic beams, also remains
unknown. Although Cyclops was born with a section of his brain and certain
nerves that would enable him to control his optic blasts fully.
These were damaged in his fall from the burning aircraft when he was a boy
As a result Cyclops is unable to will himself not to produce optic blasts.
Under normal circumstances,therefore the optic energy continually pours from
his eyes at a level capable of killing a normal human being. Cyclops can
prevent the optic energy from harming anyone by wearing glasses or a visor
with lenses made from ruby quartz. The ruby quartz somehow diffuses the optic
energy, rendering it harmless and undetectable.Cyclops can also prevent the
energy from escaping by shutting his eyes.
The limit of the time he can do this is unknown, but it is clearly somewhere
over eight hours otherwise he could not sleep normally. For unknown reasons
Cyclops's own body is invulnerable to the optic energy, as well as the energy 
projected by his brother Havok, although the sheer impact of Havok's energy
or his own if it was reflected upon him somehow ,could hurl him backward
thereby hurting him. It is also unclear exactly how Cyclops sees, although
he has displayed no limitations in doing so.
On very rare occasions even rarer in recent times, Cyclops has exhausted
the supply of optic energy he has generated. However, in each case he has
begun to generate new optic energy almost immediately, so that, in effect,
optic energy never stops being emitted from his eyes, although at times 
it maybe to weak to form a "Force Beam."
Cyclops can focus the width of his force blasts with his eyes. The height of
his eye blasts is controlled by his visor's adjustable slit.
His narrowest beam, about the diameter of a pencil at a distance of four feet
has the force of two pounds per square inch.
His broadest beam that has so far been observed, about 90 feet across at
distance of 50 feet, has a force of about 10 pounds per square inch.
His most powerful eye blast is a beam 4 feet across which, at a distance
of 50 feet has a force of about 500 pounds per square inch.
The beams effective range is about 2000 feet, at which point a one inch beam
has spread out to 10 feet square, and has a pressure of .38 pounds per square
inch. Cyclops's maximum force is sufficient to tip over a filled 5,000 gallon
tank truck at 20 feet, or puncture a one inch carbon steel plate at
a distance of 2 feet.

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