[quote=@Draken]
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.
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Weeeeeeeell, if you REALLY want to nit-pick....Madrys' core is a perpetual motion machine as well. It just doesn't produce its own ether and so must use outside ether to actually power the movement of whatever body it is in.

[quote=@shylarah]
[@Draken] Hm...maybe producing it has a high cost, and is thus prohibitive?  Or else there's a high chance for something going catastrophically wrong?  And it might need some sort of fuel to keep going, just a majorly reduced amount?  If we don't want things to break completely, that is.  It definitely is a huge thing, but we already had a similar thing with the Madrys core, just on a much smaller scale.  Either way, this is brand new tech.
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Just as Shy said, I would imagine that the calibrations for sucj a generator would be so astronomical in their calculations that it would be unreasonable to use it without someone like Amir, or Rodion when he learns how to use it.

[quote=@Lovejoy]
[@shylarah] The Madrys was definitely an inspiration from an out of universe RP standpoint, but the URA (RETCON ALERT: I feel like we should capitalize all the letters in it from now on) is definitely several magnitudes more powerful and complex. Maybe Rodion will be inspired by it? Who knows!
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Inspired he is! And if I'm being completely honest, i read your post and a chorus of angels began to sing when I got to the part about the slave-generator, and then when Amir said that it produced its own ether, Rodion's mind exploded.

*Looks at Madrys* 

1 month later...

Madrys destroys everything!!!!! MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Also!!! That picture of Ziotea is AMAZING!!!