Alright. Transcript for context, cut out off-topic conversation and the least helpful reply in the universe at the end.
WanTheFloof06/04/2020
So I get the idea behind not going super deep into the workings of things, but to have rp where something is scientifically deconstructed, it would be good for some groundwork of how something works. So, I was reading Aether weaponry and the description of it shredding atomic bonds, which was interesting. So I thought, maybe it could happn by inducting an artifical nuclear repulsion like Columb's Law, pushing atoms away from each other and breaking the bonds, causing matter to be disintergrated like that.
Whisper06/04/2020
I think it's been described as being most/all types of energy simultaneously? I know it reacts really poorly to atmosphere. It's an infinite source of energy, but the energy itself doesn't provide infinite power. Still limited by what you can pull, etc
Given its effect on zesu, which is otherwise indestructible, something like what you described is a fair assumption but I don't think we have an IC answer
Jack Pine06/04/2020
It's the energy drawn from a newborn universe iirc
It's basically superheated superheated plasma
WanTheFloof06/04/2020
It's effects on Zesu could be explained by atomic disentanglement. Since you aren't destroying the "Chain" you are just unlinking one from the other. Making a cloud of indestructable but otherwise separated atoms.
Alex Hart06/04/2020
You should likely check with Wes
Whisper06/04/2020
yeah,
@Wes would be the best authority on the matter. Same for Zesu
Alex Hart06/04/2020
I just step back and accept that it's space magic
WanTheFloof06/04/2020
And if I wasn't playing a scientist, I would too.
The KrimsonWulf06/04/2020
Lol, it does make sense if you go the route of atomic disentanglement with Aether,as a description or the closest understand we can get to what and how it works other than of course, space magic. Which would be neat.
WanTheFloof06/04/2020
I'm all for keeping public perception of it as "Space Magic". Because my understanding of a lot of stuff is "Science" which is pretty synonomous with "Space Magic". But playing a Scientist, It would be cool if there was a deeper, actually scientific understanding of it to go into for imersive and realistic rp
Jack Pine06/04/2020
I did explain it earlier
WanTheFloof06/04/2020
If it was super super plasma, it wouldn't break down atomic bonds or effect something that doesn't melt at all.
Jack Pine06/04/2020
Apparently the problem with zesu is that it disperses all energies thrown at it, basically making anything energy based useless against it.
WanTheFloof06/04/2020
And considering projectiles and lasers are both different kinds of energy weapons, it stands impervious to pretty much everything
Jack Pine06/04/2020
Yep
It is the yam god metal
Whisper06/04/2020
Kinetic force still gets transferred through it, so it's not invincible. Aether can cut it, too. Still very, very strong
WanTheFloof06/04/2020
The metal itself is invincible. Conservation Of Force doesn't change that. And Aether can damage it, so Aether can't be direct energy attacks
WanTheFloofYesterday at 11:43 AM
Yea. Aether is the only thing without a scientific real world backing. Hence why I need to give it one so my Scientist can do Science with it and not default to an extraordinarily vague "because it does"
AmethelianaYesterday at 12:44 PM
Well tbh
In our setting there is science to it
https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=technology:aether
Some vets discuss it here, too. Second and third posts are my favs:
https://stararmy.com/roleplay-forum/threads/aethers-damage-effects.59226/
Star Army
Aether's Damage Effects
I was in the process of updating the Aether Flechette when I realized something: how does one actually describe the physical effects aether has on an object?
The Aether Weaponry article sheds some light on the subject and even has a section on aetheric detonators
WanTheFloofYesterday at 1:00 PM
From what I can gather, it is somewhere between "Space Magic" and some sort of Plasma that vaporises a metal that doesn't conduct any form of heat so can't vaporise.
AmethelianaYesterday at 1:00 PM
there was another thread on the color of aether that helped but I can’t keep looking for it. maybe someone else remembers and can find it
It’s not either of those things. Did you read my links yet?
weaponized aether is HOT
WanTheFloofYesterday at 1:01 PM
I did. Shuffling between the sly jabs and off-topic conversations, it being "New universe plasma" is the only coherent thought I can seem to pick out of the first thread. The second one just says what, not why.
AmethelianaYesterday at 1:03 PM
it is being pulled from another universe. plasma is ionized gas but aether is... the light/heat death of a universe
From my understanding too
Wes made up the laws
So some stuff does get lost in translation rn
the space magic ppl talk about is that it’s not wikified to everyone’s standards and it is IRL theoretical so nobody can lean on IRL fact
new universe plasma is close but plasma weapon and machinery is very different from our aether. It is more stable, less expensive, not restricted tech, and... hurts less
I hope I helped
WanTheFloofYesterday at 1:14 PM
Maybe I am clinging to this a bit hard. But, if I am going to pay a Scientist with any degeree of accuracy and do science lessons and science studies, then I need to get some basic understanding of the thing I am studying. Outside of it destroying Zesuaium, the "Plasma But Kind Of Different yea?" idea would be a solid one. But, Zesu isn't effected by the electromagnetic spectrum. In effect, it has a higher specific heat capacity than is physically possible to transfer, leaving it impervous to heat. And atoms packed so densely together that you suffer the same problem with kinetics. So it can't be that one. The only thought I can think of is that it's otheruniversal properties causes objects hit with it to lose the Strong Force that binds things into form, so it isn't interacting with a thing as a whole but rather on the atomic level, seperating atoms from each other and causing them to drive away now they are no longer bound together. Which additionally supports the description of shredding atomic bonds you can find in the aether wiki.