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Aether is a place.
Aether weapons either pull stuff from the aether and use it to power a weapon (meaning it shoots at whatever speed the non-aether branded version shoots at) or the weapon is a shock cannon style device.
Shock cannons fire a light-speed pulse that causes the energy of the aether to show up. The wave propogates at light speed, the blast explodes outward from the wave at normal blast speed. This has some very special properties, like being able to travel past armor without losing weapon strength, or being able to evenly bake the entire planet all the way through from all directions at once.
Updated wiki with this excellent info.Aether is basically energy and/or an energized matter/anti-matter plasma that starts reacting as shortly after it's pulled out of the aether. Aether energy (e.g. white beam) moves at light speed, and aether plasma moves however fast you can push it with your coil gun, although if you are producing enough aether plasma, you won't have to push because it'll push you (e.g. aether plasma engines). I always figured aether energy consists of a wide mix of energy types (basically a full EM spectrum) rather than any particular type (e.g. gamma rays). Scalar waves travel at light speed and cannot be blocked by anything that doesn't block the force of gravity.
No, I think EM shields would be good at blocking EM radiation.Would a full EM spectrum attack pierce or bypass EM sheilds?
Armor can help protect against aether energy and aether plasma, but aether shock weapons have to be defended against with shields or anti-gravity systems.Apologies for the brevity of this post - I'm on my somewhat ancient iPhoon 4 as I type this - but given what @Wes has stated above, does this mean there is no way at all for armor of any kind to mitigate the damage caused by Aether-based weapon systems ?