Are we all just skimming over the fact that we just had an implied perpetual motion machine? I mean, even if the Omestrian Ether created (is it still technically Omestrian? Can we create more kinds?) isn't as much as is consumed in operation, this is an incredibly massive breakthrough. If we could engineer it to create more artificial ethers, there could be new, more potent forms of ether produced in these machines for field use. If Omestrian ether is, say, 5% fire 95% ice, and it's so significantly more powerful... Getting it even to 8% fire would be major for the Inquisitors, at least.