Dartz Wrote:Well, the original piece was from a cutting torch intended to cut unobtainium materials, and would need to be capable of doing damage to function.I didn't reply immediately because I wasn't sure I understood you, and wanted to see what others might say. Also, a night's sleep now and then can help understanding. [grin]
Or maybe it's the difference between handwavium and unobtainium. Waving individual components to enable (roughly) understood physics to work, rather than the more fantastic and spectacular effects some people have going. Handwavium is when you just don't care how it works... just that it does. That doesn't like making weapons.... but it is possible to do an end-around run and make the components of a weapon, provided you have a good grasp of how the weapon should work 'if only you could build blah'. Because the components are no more weapons themselves than a trigger or a hammer divorced from the gun.
It takes far more effort to go chunkytech than it does to go full wave. Obviously so, given the problems with building anything larger than a handgun.
Are you saying that the component approach is using handwavium to make unobtainium?
You have something you're building, and hard tech can't give you some of the components (they are 'unobtainable') so, instead of waving up the whole thing, you wave-up the missing component(s)?
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