08-19-2015, 04:49 AM
(08-19-2015, 04:02 AM)Umbra Wrote:(08-19-2015, 03:43 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: Considering Void energy is a similarly bullshit pseudo-science I made to explain things like gaining speed from Newtonian physics being applied to light, I think we basically have magic that is not magic but is but isn't but is science but is not but is limited but basically works with anything.
So our own little version of Mass Effect.
Yeah, we really need to refine this... As dumb as it may seem, it's actually a really good idea to put constraints on everything so there isn't something with no constraints that can be exploited.
(08-19-2015, 03:49 AM)SharpTeeth Wrote: That's actually kind of frightening. Keep a small part of it defined or you got yourself a roving plot hole. Yeah, it can be used for anything, but then again, it can be used for anything, including solving all your character's problems.
Thankfully, nobody put two and two together and tried to do that.
Thankfully, Void Energy actually cannot do anything. By itself, the worst it can do is give you horrible medical conditions.
I'm not selling this very good, am I?
In order for it to actually do anything, you need to gather it up, and infuse it with stuff. The resulting effect depends on what you just infused it with, and it cares about pure elements, not compounds. I've barely documented it, but it has a limited amount of stuff it will actually do, because a limited amount of things actually make it do stuff.
Nickel, in the case of Hard-Light engines, is lucky. Get one big slab of nickel (Try taller than a human, and thicker than a bookcase), infuse it with void energy (which is very, very sparse and needs specialized operations and tools to gather), and run light past it, and voila! Opposite reaction from light! The engines are hilariously expensive though (but that can be said of anything involving void energy), and you need tons of them to anywhere. You can't even make one huge engine, because the speed output doesn't scale very well, leaving you with even lesss speed than if you had tons of little engines.
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