| From: | Robert Watkins <bob@******.CS.NTU.EDU.AU> |
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| Subject: | Dead Zones |
| Date: | Thu, 24 Jun 1993 14:18:48 +0930 |
in which tech, while unreliable, may still work. (An example in a story in the
NAGEE is a guy pushes 2+2 into a calculator, and gets back 7). Cyber would be
quite happy to work here long enough to haul ass out of there.
Biotech does work in Dead Zones... Magic has trouble healing Biotech cause it
doesn't know what it's meant to end up as, not because it is "unnatural". All
Biotech is based on the same principles as the human body.
As for science: It's not void. It's back to the old Greek science: Fire, Earth,
Air, Water. Inertia still exists. Combustion still works, but only in the slow
form we know as burning. Explosive combustion may still work, but requires more
energy if it does, hence bullets don't shoot. Lightning still zaps around (it's
a form of Fire, in Greek physics). It's mentioned in the NAGEE that submarines
can see a dead zone in the same way as a radar set: it's just a big black zone
on the screen. This would not be true: Subs use sonar, and sound still works in
dead zones, as do echoes. So subs stay a LONG LONG way away from suspected dead
zones.
For roleplaying purposes: Think of Dead Zones as an area where the atom is the
smallest indivisible unit. So: Electricity doesn't work. Forget ions, but not
ionic bonds. Magnetism still holds true, for the same reasons as ionic bonds:
the atom itself gets the charge, it's not caused by wandering electrons. Light
is now a continous wave, no quanta, and only occurs in frequencies very close
to visible light, so no xrays, or radio. Atomic decay doesn't occur.
What does all that mean: If it's high tech, odds are it doesn't work. If it's
got little electric thingies in it, it certainly doesn't work. And bullets
don't shoot, either. Good place for the naturalist, but sam's are stuffed.
