What is Quintessent Wave Differentialometer?

[dusk]

I am kinda new here and am still reading through all the "forum rules" and "setting info and guides". However, I would like to get started on helping to improving
weaponry and cloaking technology, especially sound based and resonance based technology. Umm... So I found out that most of the stealth armor is made from Xiulurium or Zanarium. Kinda reminds me of Reflec from the Star Wars Universe.
Anyways after reading about the alloys I did have some questions:
Question:
What is Quintessent Wave Differentialometer? I read the wiki article below, but I am still kinda of confused about what SARP means by quintessent energy.

Source of Question:
https://wiki.stararmy.com/doku.php?id=sh ... tialometer


P.S. I so happy that I can edit my post hours afterward (tears of joy). I luv this forum!!!
P.P.S. I originally planned to post all this in the "New Technologies and Setting Elements"; however, I am still worried about submitting anything major until I finish my Character Profile.

 

[Zack]

This isn't offical but this is how I see it:

The QWD takes measures aether/Zero point energy/whatever you want to call energy in the universe this week. By watching how this energy moves it can tell what is causing the movement, IE ships and such.

 

[dusk]

Thanks, that help me better understand how Xiulurium or Zanarium works and what it cannot cloak against.

Right now I am playing around with an idea of how either detect cloaking flields or disable cloaking fields. Since most cloaking is based on the concept of refraction and light absorption, I thought that something like a refractive index detector (RID) could detect a cloaked ship in SARP. After reading you response, I pretty sure think RID detection similar enough to QWD to say that RID is just a specific case of a QWD. Despite this set back, I have not lost hope in developing a countermeasure against cloaking technology. I plan to may work more with my other idea of creating a resonate wave emitter that temporarily disables the cloaking field generated by Xiulurium and Zanarium. After I get somethings figured out and talk to certain aquatic-loving GM's for their opinion, I am going to probably post the idea later on New Technologies Board.


Thanks again


*Refractive Index Detector (RID)-detects object by utilizing the slight variations in the refractive index of particles in space

 

[MissingNo]

Actually, a large number of Yamataian cloaking devices take a ship into a dimensional bubble. If you think of space as a swimming pool, it would be like hiding a toy ship traveling in that swimming pool by taking it out of the water.

 

[dusk]

Wait so does that mean that Xiurlum and Zanarium creates a Bubble Manifold*? Or is the cloaking created by Xiurlum and Zanarium different from the cloaking the Yamatians use?




* I chose to use the word manifold instead of dimension because of the ambiguity of the word dimension. For example, dimension is also using to describe one of the 7 measurable fundamental quantities that make up any and all measurable quantities in science (hence dimensional analysis).
*definition of a manifold:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold

 

[Wes]

To answer the question:

A Quintessential Wave Differientialometer is a sensor that measures units of difference of energy level waves in the aether dimension. It is used to try to find the "wake" of other ships using aether power sources.

Xiulurium disrupts this sort of measuring.

 

[dusk]

.... hmm.... that kinda makes more sense.

Thanks again Wes and MissingNo ^_-