[Torg] other uses for Eternium

[Michael Jason Teegarden]

Hey, Stephen, now _there_ is an idea (a bit outside of canon, but plausibly deducible).

Darkness Devices are very, very tough, as I recall.  However, they do not have an infinite toughness, merely a very high number.  This means that it is possible for a very destructive force to break apart or weaken or refine such a d-device.  Possibly a d-device can be the cause of the destruction or near-destruction of another.  So one might introduce a "darkness shard" into one's game; I'd image the thing to be potent, tough, possessing of an agenda, entirely crazy (I'm reminded of the renegade and injured D-device in "High Lord of Earth").  But it might indeed grant possibilities to those stormers who were of like-minded, nefarious goals.  All _without_ the possibility of being influenced or taken over by a healthy D-device.  

One wonders now how a damaged d-device could heal itself.

Michael



----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:44:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Torg] other uses for Eternium

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:12 AM,  <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:
> (Apologies for any formatting issues, I'm writing this from work through a
> web-based email system that I don't normally use.)

Looks good to me..

> 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.

Now the question is.. are Eternity Shards something from Aperios or
somehting from Eternity?

> (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?

If I were redoing the basic rules of Torg, I would probably use the
need for Eternium for ANY 'tool' that allows something to sneer at
axioms. The Law of Fear in Orrorsh, various Tharkholdu axiom stuff
etc. All of it would use Eternium (synthetic or pure) to get the stuff
going.

Looking at the question of where Eternity shards really come from.. I
was wondering about Darkness Devices.. if they were 'distilled' parts
of the Void used by The Nameless One to meet its needs. Then I wonder
about Void Shards... but I need tog et some sleep myself.

-- 
Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed
in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
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