[Torg] other uses for Eternium

[ksjim at sdc.org]

(Apologies for any formatting issues, I'm writing this from work  
through a web-based email system that I don't normally use.)

For some reason this morning my wandering, half-awake mind got to  
thinking about a weird scientist trying to explain to a Core Earth  
scientist how gadgets work. He got to explaining about possibility  
capacitors being made out of Eternium and how it was this unique  
element that allowed Nile science to sneer at the limitations of  
regular science. The CE scientist in my imagination then asked where  
Eternium came from and the weird scientist told him how it was  
distilled by Mobius out of "Eternity itself" (ie, what we call  
eternity shards.)

This got some gears working...eternity shards like Darkness Devices  
originate from outside normal reality (Apeiros and TNO) and both are  
able to operate in ways outside the normal limits of reality.  
Presumably then this is what allows Weird Science to ignore the  
limitations of the Nile's Tech axiom, it operates outside the  
boundaries of what the Tech axiom allows due to being powered by  
Eternium.

(For the moment I'll consider synthetic Eternium, which has to be  
periodically recharged with P-Energy, as being the same as regular  
Eternium.)

If Eternium can be used to power technology that operates outside the  
boundaries of the Tech axiom, could it also be used in ways which  
operate outside the boundaries of the other axioms? Could it give the  
Nile spells and miracles above and beyond what its axioms normally  
allow? The Nile kind of does this already with its Nile Mathematics  
and Engineering spells and Egyptian Religion miracles, maybe the  
missing element (har) in those rulesets is that they require Eternium  
too?

Kansas Jim (ksjim at sdc.org)