Hey all. Started out by trying to write a technical article an the joy of substance abuse led me to writing a complete article describing various forms of plasma and other equipment. The list is still growing but just as hard-light had a global article for all to see as a setting element, I think plasma could use with one too.
https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=lazarus:advanced_plasma
I think the top half is pretty clear as to how plasma works. In discussions, it passed Uso's "is it technically correct or possible" and was basically born from an extended conversation on Reddit's r/scifi/ where I was asking people what they thought plasma was, how it should work, then delved into the SARP wiki and asked if what they saw or heard there made sense.
Lots of people throw plasma around as a word without being really sure what it means.
I think I've got something good here and if I can use the top half to serve the community as a means of disambiguating plasma so it makes more sense to the userbase and we have a better idea of how it works, I think that would be good.
I do however, not want to lose my "advantage" in plasma development -- the specialist weapons used by the Lorath Matriarchy like compressed accelerated packet weaponary and soon, advanced wake manipulation. As a result, I'd like to know which factions use which forms of plasma and I want to add a list with each type, giving example weapons used by other factions so people can see "oh, this is beam plasma" or "oh, this is arc plasma", "this is what it can do, how its used" and from there "oh, here's some examples which do this so I can read" -- both as a way of educating the self and as a character shopping list for nice shooty toys made by various factions.
Sorry if I seem out of it. Grinding my teeth a bit. 2 hours of sleep in 2 days. Methylxanthines (refined caffeines, -- theobromine, theophyline) are love in a can. Oh the things you can do in a kitchen~
Chemistry is love. Science is love.
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