[Fair warning note: I still have a lot of pages of stuff to read. ^_^;;; ]
#2 kind of makes me nervous, simply because I actually came up with something that seemed amusing to write, and a lot of what my character does involves a sort of "memory plastic". Reshaping is it's entire purpose for existing. (Partly inspired by thinking "Hey, wouldn't it be neat to have a spacesuit that wasn't like any others I've read anyone using", partly inspired by the desire to land a car in the ocean, and partly due to having once read "The Mind Pool".)
#3's "reduce intensity" part could have amusing tactical implications... if you can think of a way to apply it to missiles while they are being launched at you.
Still, the thing that's always bothered me about this part is how you decide what's considered a weapon. I've been contemplating something that would be a mere (though effective) nuisance delaying action against an enemy in space... and be certain death for any regular terrestrial aircraft struck with it. In neither case does it actually do any damge itself. (Unless you have a weakness to rap or gospel music.) So is it considered a weapon or not? Or only in one case? Just how much is this stuff supposed to be able to know about the consequences of not-necessarily-dangerous actions? What the hell is going on?
On a side note...
On another side note, what defines "solid state wavium"? I've seen the term used a few times"I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, or espers here, come sleep with me."
---From "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
-----(Not really)
#2 kind of makes me nervous, simply because I actually came up with something that seemed amusing to write, and a lot of what my character does involves a sort of "memory plastic". Reshaping is it's entire purpose for existing. (Partly inspired by thinking "Hey, wouldn't it be neat to have a spacesuit that wasn't like any others I've read anyone using", partly inspired by the desire to land a car in the ocean, and partly due to having once read "The Mind Pool".)
#3's "reduce intensity" part could have amusing tactical implications... if you can think of a way to apply it to missiles while they are being launched at you.
Still, the thing that's always bothered me about this part is how you decide what's considered a weapon. I've been contemplating something that would be a mere (though effective) nuisance delaying action against an enemy in space... and be certain death for any regular terrestrial aircraft struck with it. In neither case does it actually do any damge itself. (Unless you have a weakness to rap or gospel music.) So is it considered a weapon or not? Or only in one case? Just how much is this stuff supposed to be able to know about the consequences of not-necessarily-dangerous actions? What the hell is going on?
Quote:This seems to be hard to reconcile with all the stuff that makes it sound like it's considered actively dangerous in most nations. I suppose it might just be being used for certain applications, but the question is which and how much? (If there's major industrial penetration, I'll have to come up with something entirely different for the story I'm working on. ^_^;;; )
Everybody's forgotten this - hell, I've forgotten it most of the time - but the central precept isn't that the Mundanes aren't using handwavium at all because it's dangerous and scary, they're not using handwavium for the purposes the fen are using it for because, frankly, they can think of better shit to do with handwavium than colonize space while pretending to be Klingons and space heroes and all that. They're building Utopia on their terms: nice, peaceful, prosperous and maybe a bit dull, while the fen are building Utopia on their terms: free, wooly, full of excitement, adventure and really wild things.
On a side note...
Quote:I offiically declare this one of the best lines ever.
"who died and made him Haruhi?"
On another side note, what defines "solid state wavium"? I've seen the term used a few times"I have no interest in ordinary humans. If there are any aliens, time travelers, or espers here, come sleep with me."
---From "The Ecchi of Haruhi Suzumiya"
-----(Not really)