Calderans

**Calderans** are native to Caldera. Everyone on Caldera is genetically engineered in a pod of nutrient solution. Because of this, all female Calderans look like and all male Calderans look like.

## Powers

**Alien physiology:** All Calderans possess natural abilities and functions alien to human beings, but common to their species which enable them to survive and adapt, in addition to their wide array of unique superpowers. However, Calderans are genetically engineered so that means each Calderan possesses different powers or skills from others. In addition, they have some physical traits that differ them from humans.

* **Acid Spit:** All members of the species, can expel acid with their saliva. They have been shown to be able to keep this under control, unless they are unconcious, as Skylar has kissed Oliver, who was a Normo at the time, twice without any ill effects on him. In addition, they isn't at risk of melting their faces off unlike a bionic person would if she/he were to unlock this ability, suggesting that this ability is normal for them.
* **Limb Regrowth:** Calderan physiology allows them to regrow limbs, organs, and even a new head if they get destroyed. It is implied several times that they can still do this, even if their other powers were drained by an outside source. This is evident that it is a natural ability, as Experion took an eyeball out of his eye, and it ultimately grew back while being in a power-neutralizing cell.
* **Weather Adaptation:** Due to their unique physiology, Calderans are adapted to withstand and thrive in extremely high temperatures. However, temperatures at 3,000 degrees or below are frigid to them. Curiously enough, only Skylar, Experion, and Scarlett appear to have higher tolerance to Earth temperatures, which are much lower than that of Caldera. Furthermore, the ability to survive Caldera's high temperatures is not affected by the loss of superpowers from an outside source.
* **Superhumanly Acute Senses:** The senses of Calderans are supernaturally acute, likely due to their physiology. This allows them to perceive even the slightest disturbances in her surroundings, which could allow them to a projectile coming at them, even if they are not looking. They are able to hear even the quietest movement from nearby creatures and can hear the breathing of an invisble being as well. Unlike bionic super senses, Calderans don't have the problem of ultra-sensitive hearing. They also have superhuman smell, as they could smell and identify reinforced polymer.
	+ **Microscopic Vision:** The senses of a Calderan are so enhanced that they can see the tiniest things.
* **Longevity:** In They Grow Up So Fast, it is revealed that aliens on Caldera stay babies for 25 years, meaning that Skylar could be over 25 years old and could be older than she looks. If this is true then Calderans are ageless and immortal, allowing them to live indefinitely without physically aging beyond their youthful prime. However, they are still vulnerable to death upon sufficient injuries and such.
* **Three Bladders:** Calderans have been stated to have 3 separate bladders. However, it is possible that could just be unique to Skylar, but as all Calderans were made the same way, it could be the same for them all.
* **Fourteen Toes:** Calderans have been stated to have 14 toes, 6 on one foot and 8 on the other. However, it is possible that could just be unique to Skylar, but as all Calderans were made the same way, it could be the same for them all.
* **Super Inhalation:** Calderans can eat an entire meal under 10 seconds with one inhalation. Scarlett has shown to do so, and claims that she ate too slow, possibly meaning that Calderans can eat faster.
* **Super Durability:** Calderans can survive many attacks, including blasts or physical hits, that would do serious damage to humans. At best, such attacks would only stun them. However, this does not make them fully resistant to heat, as Skylar was burned through her shirt once, and Scarlett fell into a lava pit and died.
	+ **Healing Factor:** Calderans have a healing factor which stems from their Super Durability, as they can get hurt, but then they instantly heal themselves and feel the pain for less time than normal. However, it does not heal them from things such as Black Widower's Poison, which can kill any superpowered being, or instant death from something such as falling into a pit of lava.
* **Various Superpowers:** Calderans are able to have a wide variety of superpowers, as they are genetically modified to do so. However, they have all been specifically modified to have their own set have powers, with Skylar shown to have up to 24, not including her natural physiology, although some of them have been shown to share abilities, as Scarlett shares at least 4 with Skylar. However, they have been shown to have technology that can remove one of another Calderan's powers by draining it from their palms. Outside forces such as the Arcturion, the Annihilator, or Hapax the Elder have been shown to take away some, or all, of a Calderan's powers before as well.

### Weaknesses

*Many of these weaknesses were shown by Skylar. Some were also shown by Scarlett.*

* **Darkness:** She can't see in the dark without night-vision goggles, as no one on her planet can.
* **Coal:** Coal will incapacitate Skylar's species, and too much injected in her or prolonged exposure will kill her and turn her into a walking gas bomb. However, as Chase theorized, small amounts of coal were able to shock her dormant cells enough to restore her powers.
* **Terrestrial Sicknesses:** Afflictions on Earth such as the cold or flu are more detrimental to the health of Calderans than to humans. When Skylar gets infected, not only does it weaken her severely, but it causes random, weaker versions powers to manifest in her uncontrollably. When she lost her powers, she briefly regained flight as a side effect, but could only levitate.
* **Crystal of Kreln:** The only thing that can break her energy barriers.
* **Black Widower's Poison:** Black Widower's poison will kill almost any superhero, including Skylar or Scarlett.
* **Heat/Lava**: Calderans are not resistant to heat, despite living on such a hot planet, and Skylar was burned through her shirt by Bree's new Thermal Touch ability. As shown by Scarlet, Calderans are also not immune to lava as Scarlet fell into a pit of lava and was killed.

## Trivia

* According to Skylar, there are dragons on Caldera.
* Calderan sisters are incredibly violent. They treat each other as if they were "brothers".
	+ It has been shown that all female Calderans look exactly like Skylar. That means it's possible that all male Calderans look like Experion.
* Caldera has an event that is similar to Earth's Olympic games. However, instead of medals, whoever places second gets deboned, and his bones are made into a pedestal for the victor.
* Due to one of the flaws in their natural senses is the complete inability to see in total darkness, when all light sources are removed or deactivated, a Calderan is essentially blind due to their lack of night vision. This is most likely because Caldera is permanently illuminated by the light of the volcanoes and thus, the planet is never dark, so this adaption was never needed by their species.
* Lava pits are very frequent around the planet, as a sort of substitute for water, as according to Chase, Caldera only has 0.0002% of water.
* Calderan females were shown to normally wear white snowsuits, but now they are shown to wear black outfits with sashes.
	+ It could be that the white outfits were worn by Calderans before the war, while the black outfits are the outfits worn by those who support the Opposition, as Scarlett made Skylar change into one when she agreed to join them.
* Although Calderans have the ability to use Pyrokinesis, life on such a hot planet that humans can't survive in, and can spit acid without damaging themselves, they still do not have resistance to high amounts of heat much like Tecton does, as Skylar was burned by Bree's Thermal Touch, and Scarlett was killed after falling into a lava pit. Since it was mentioned that the cure to a cold is being thrown by a volcano, this possibly means that said cure is sacrificing the sick person to a volcano.
* Calderans, according to Skylar, stay a baby for 25 years.
	+ This possibly Skylar is older than she really looks.
* Even bionic humans can't survive the climate of Caldera, despite the fact that they're genetically engineered for extreme climates.
	+ Kaz, a meta-human with Pyrokinesis and thus resistance to heat cannot survive on Caldera without an atmospheric regulator patch, although he was never shown putting one on, so it is only an assumption.