11-05-2015, 01:37 PM
(11-05-2015, 03:49 AM)SilverOtter Wrote: Well I guess it's time to talk about...Heck yes.
VOID ENERGY: A MISNOMER, SERIOUSLY
Void Energy, confusingly, is a sub-particle that was discovered separately by all major races during their early space age. It has properties like no other sub-particle, and were it not for it's remaining properties, it might as well not be one. It exists in thankfully small quantities, spread thinly throughout the galaxy, with no unusual clumps or holes in this layer besides those made by sentient species.
Void Energy is called a variation of "has no energy" in all known languages, due to the property that it cannot be heated, or vibrate. Thankfully, the particle is capable of movement, as it otherwise would be useless. It is said that the human scientist who discovered for his race declared it had "void energy" rather than "0 energy", although it is disputable whether or not this actually happened, and that the name stuck in the general populace, much to the dismay of scientists everywhere.
The Major Races discovered this particle during the search for other, more elusive ones, almost always because of misconfigured equipment capturing it. As a example, the humans discovered it in their particle nets during the search for dark matter (which has yet to be found) when the nanonets were given an incorrect charge that caused it to react to the field Void Energy emits, which warped and ripped the nets apart.
The greatest property of Void Energy is that, under highly specific environments, it will bind to atoms and "awaken" a property of that atom. This ranges from Iron's artificial gravity, to Adamantium's extreme elasticity. However, 80% of all elements have an unknown environment, and the 20% were found by a combination of blind luck and the relatively simple environments most had. An example of complex environments is Triarch, which requires that it be surrounded by an alloy consisting of several powders but not be contained in this alloy, and be brought to 7 degrees kelvin, upon which the Triarch gains the property of expelling itself from the local area of other atoms.
However, working with raw Void Energy is highly dangerous to living creatures due to an unexplained property of unbound Void Energy. In large quantities, Void energy will passively effect the body of a living creature in complex and arcane ways [for those who want examples, just look at how the public used to view radiation: it would either give you superpowers, mutate you, or otherwise change your body in strange ways]. It is unknown how the particle can do it so precisely and thoroughly.
Creating unneeded excess of void-infused materials is considered wasteful, as there is no known way to separate the particle from the atom once it is bound.
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