Agatha and the Jason...tinkering with new vehicles for fun.

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robkelk wrote:

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That is, using handwavium on the tools to build the weapons, not the weapons themselves.

Ah, I see that somebody else has noticed the loophole in Rule #1)b)iv).

Say our genius creates a "fabber." The handwavium effect is that he can use materials a current hardtech fabber cannot.

But where do those materials come from? Nobody's managed to handwave a nanotech fabber into existance, and I'm not aware of any
larger-molecular-scale fabbers that can create the materials needed for many of the proposed energy weapons. (Not trying to shoot down the idea, just asking
for clarification...)

I was thinking of the "handwave" of it being that it temporarily alters the material in question into something that can be
extruded/sterolithed. Admittedly this means that the base control computer before waving has to be fairly complex to keep track of every molecule as something
is being fabbed.

In fact, if a Boskonian is responsible for the weapons fabbing, that could be a secondary effect of the Crystal Cities raids/Dark Senshi plots. After all, the
Senshi have proven very adept at creating large scale "gemstones."
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll