M Fnord Wrote:Strains of handwavium are everywhere. Every Fen engineer has one or two favorite varieties of the stuff kicking around.While you don't need a specific strain of handwavium for a project (our resident defector from the capitalists at StellviaCorp tells us they do almost everything with base solids and base liquid, although they have a intermediate-state handwavium gel that aids in AI creation), specialized strains do give better results for particular applications. On the other hand, specialized strains sometimes give particular sets of unwanted quirks to the projects they're used in. On the gripping hand, there are so many handwavium strains that nobody has room to store samples of all of them.
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Rob Kelk
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