Pseudo Science at it's finest, Explain the normally unexplainable

Here we explain the science behind our practices. Be it magic or technology, here's the place to discuss the underlying principles behind them...

Materials

Oriculum- In a dark ritual, hundreds are slaughtered at once to create an ounce of this unbreakable material, for every ten dozen souls. Said to have it's properties because of the soul's in ability to give in. Anyone caught with the material in possession is sentenced to death.

Mythril: The "mythical" metal, turned out to be useless outside of arms applications. It's very soft bordering on play dough quality defense, however it reacts violently to certain substances making an extremely effective bomb material.

Admant: A Green material which seems to be unbreakable, it's heavy weight limits it's implementation in armor. It has been mostly used in stationary defense platforms, electronics and specialized workers tools. However Steel and Iron were brought back into popular use in other construction as mythril will wreck anything made out of it.

This post has been edited by Skillkill on Mar 17 2009, 09:12 PM

Some know I have 3 versions of my character Rachel. All are werewolves of some sort, but 2 are relevant to this.

There is a type of technology called "Shikaar", mainly used for turning organic material into energy stores or weapons, or both. Some would hesitate to call it "technology" due to the fact that it heavily involves magic.

First, there is the Shikaar jewel. There one version of Rachel that was affected and gained her werewolf form, as she was a werewolf that couldn't change into a werewolf until she was affected by the Shikaar jewel. It allowed her to go back and forth from her normal form to a werewolf, but the werewolf acted as a different personality. Basically, there's a reason she declares herself a schizo.


The other Rachel was human, and she was permanently turned into wolf like creature because the jewel was specifically made for a particular wolf like alien creature. This Rachel has more story behind her, and will be referred to, alone, by her other name, Crystal Wolfe.



In any case, any creature affected with a shikaar goes through a major physical change. The skeleton is replaced with a crystalline structure, and most of the organs are deconstructed into simple organic matter. The crystals act as an outlet for energy, as well as storing energy (both Rachel's can store kinetic energy). Although most organs are lost, the crystals and organic matter make up for the loss. In fact, Crystal's body becomes nearly half crystal by the time she becomes a commander for a, for lack of a better term, space police group.

Shikaar are kind of like cyborgs, except instead of metal and synthetic skin, it's crystals and organic matter, and there are many grades of Shikaar jewels (Crystal's pretty high, although at most given times she can only used up to 35% of maximum power due to the fact her shikaar jewel was made for a larger creature.)

Magic Vs Guns Vs Swords

In my world you're wondering the merits of swords in a world of guns....

Guns were the main form of combat until the Haecians came and introduced magic in the year 2287. After they warded off HYDROGEN bombs with their magical barriers and took shotguns to the head without flinching, the humans realized if they didn't find a way to defend themselves they were screwed.

The Federation was originally formed for the sole purpose of trying to progress forward to form a solid defense. While this proved pointless after the Haecians realized they were scaring them shitless and they weren't fighting for the sake of fighting, they still kept up weapon development and advanced in cybernetics and firearms technology however......

The Ascadians decided this was foolish and started releasing magic into it's order along with reinventing swordplay to combat the demons. Swords were ensured to help bypass the warrior's thick hide, and the holy magics often proved deadly to their kind.

However in converse the Haecians had guns and simply SHOT the mages to death.....only to be quickly impaled......by people who's head's were being blown off....

Creating the Hieharchy Guns>Blades>Spells>Guns

lol, Rock, Papper, Scissors =P

I SHOULD do mana first but mana's list isn't finished for me

Magic types

All things that exist conduct mana. When an person attempts to concentrate mana onto their person using this property, using their willpower, and a chant, power word or glyph to control the spellcaster's ability so they don't backfire,completely jettisoning their mana reserves killing the mages instantly.

Glyph magic: Often the fastest cast as unless you have a mana impairment, the spell goes as fast as you can draw it with your finger. The major drawbacks are that without security, casting can be interrupted without any effort by tossing a pebble in the path. Another problem lies in that if you can't draw well you can backfire easily, and it is neigh impossible for normal mages to preform the spells without harming themselves if they use it in close proximity. Principles of attack and defense spells have been incorporated in glyphs before but it takes extreme skill to preform them.

Chant magic: Obvious. Chant an incantation, say the spell name, get the result. The chant provides the most control over a spell and if you can read it you can cast it, however some spells require a sleight of hand instead of or alongside them. Powerwords are the advanced form of chant magic, where you preform the spell from the name, a quick slight of hand, or a combination. They tend to cost alot more though to bypass the security, and can often hit allies.

Objects engraved with glyph magic can become enchanted and songs with chant magic incorporated can become very powerful spells.

It seems my story takes place in a very strange world indeed. Earth is entirely unrecognizable by the time it takes place, so yeah. For the sake of being better understood, I will be gradually updating this post with information regarding "my" world, in an effort to clear up/explain some of the more bizarre elements.
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Here are links to some images to give everyone an idea of what the world looks like. Please note that this is very very old, and so, I will probably change stuff.

Map 1: Over the Atlantic Ocean
Map 2: Over Africa
Map 3: Over Australia
Map 4: Over Antarctica
Map 5: Over Greenland

This post has been edited by TNT Colonel on May 15 2009, 06:26 AM

Because Rez brought it up here's how Claude's time stop works.

Claude is able to strip the mana of all things for a brief moment allowing himself to move unimpeded while everything else grinds to a halt. To do this he reverses his mana flow and releases all of his bodily mana to swap it with the environmental mana. The mana from his own body provides mana to whatever Claude is interacting with such as the air he breathes, the roses he throws in stopped time or the clothes on his body. This mana reserve prevents the inevitable suicide by time stop and also changes the properties of materials, allowing Claude to move even faster than usual, removing air resistance, the and the traction of various materials. Most who can achieve this sort of exchange have an auto switch although those who received the ability through traumatic means do not have a natural limit leading to two possible scenarios. 1. The user expends their full capacity ranging from twelve to eighteen seconds causing their hearts to burst instantly when they resume normal activity or 2. They resist the pain of several deaths for a full minute and are trapped in their motionless realm forever as the area itself resumes it's pace. As it affects mana and not time, even gods are susceptible to the technique although it strains the user more than usual when they take in that much mana.

Rez if you want to debate it go ahead just use a reasonable argument here

This post has been edited by Skillkill on Apr 26 2009, 02:36 AM

Transcended Humans - Special humans who are transformed by Solien into a new type of entity. They have to pass through a certain ritual first before becoming a transcended human.

Because people are thinking that it does not run on matter, I'll try my best to explain how Wynona's Bomb Generator (and the other matter-alterator-machines) work.

As you all know, the bomb generator is a hybrid apparatus that is embedded into Wynona's entire body, ranging from her feet to her head.
The "exhaust" ports, so to speak (where the bombs appear when generated) are located on her shins, the bottom of her feet (plants? soles?) , the palms of her hands, and her forearms.

I have already said that Wynona's Bomb Generator (BG from now on) is an alchemy device, which implies that it works with matter. But since people don't see rocks disappearing, or something, people are questioning if it truly works or not.

You see, it does work with matter. How so? Well, as far as I know, air (oxygen + nitrogen + tons of other gases and whatnot) is matter, even if it's invisible.

Unlike the exhaust ports, the BG has intake ports all over Wynona's body, which means that she can take in air from, say, behind her back, and transport it through the BG itself into any exhaust port she chooses. Even though she can use the exhaust ports to intake the air, doing so will result in all the things Skill mentioned about not having air to detonate and whatnot, so it is simply more convenient to intake the air from a more distant part of the body.

Keep in mind that this will also work with water, for example, and that under no circumstances is Wynona incapable of using solid matter as "fuel" for the alchemy device.

As for not having the proper elements to make a bomb, I'll concede: yes, average air does not contain heavy metals, sulfur, and the like, but that's precisely why it is an ALCHEMY device: it transforms matter at an atomic level. All of the ingredients for the bomb are created separately within her to ensure that she won't explode out of nowhere, and are only placed together once the desired bomb is materialized in the exhaust port of choice.

Another thing to keep in mind is that since it DOES run on matter, if Wynona were to theoretically be able to survive in an absolute void (no matter except for herself), the BG would not work unless she resorted to one of two extremes: making the BG run on itself ("chew" off part of the BG to convert it into a bomb) or making the BG run on herself ("chew" off part of her body, be it from the inside or the outside, to convert it into a bomb).

Rin! Pyo! Toh! Sha! Kai! Jin! Retsu! Zai! Zen!

Isn't that a monk's incantation?

Actually, yes, monks DID use the original 9 Syllable Seals from Buddhism, Shinto and Ninjutsu for meditation purposes, although folklore and Animu (a lot did use this system actually) have used it as a representation of magical words.

Isn't it obvious that Kyochi is Japan? *shot*

Well, you even said yourself you take a lot of concepts from Japanese myths and legends for your canon, so yeah D=

Looks like I wasn't trippin' after all D=

Mystical Properties of Classic Substances: Simply how certain mundane materials have Magical or other spiritual properties in their Alchemic form.

-Alchemic Silver: Alchemic Silver is a very high conductor of Mana, but doesn't store it. Enchanted or spiritually enhanced silver also makes an excellent metaphysical purifier, useful for harming beings dependent on such inpurities like the undead or Dark energy. Alchemic Silver also function as a mirror that can expose metaphysical objects to those who are spiritually connected as well as being associated with the magic of moon and water.

-Alchemic Copper: Alchemic Copper a moderate conductor of Mana that allows a high limit of Mana storage. Alchemic Copper has moderate protection for metaphysical objects by amplifying the harmony of the spirit and its physical vessel as well as a blood healer. It also stabilizes Mana stored within vessels and is associated with the magic of love.

-Alchemic Gold: Alchemic Gold is an excellent assistant in the process of unlocking the potential of one's soul. In fact, Alchemic Gold can open the gate to higher levels of spirituality and metaphysics in advanced Alchemy. Alchemic Gold also is useful for balancing one's self with both nature and ethereality as well as enhance luck.

-Alchemy Lead: Alchemy Lead is a high insulator of Ki. This also reveals Alchemic Lead's true properties of it being metaphysically empty and spiritual isolation, thus acting as a resistor of Ki from passing through it. Being spiritually voided, Alchemic Lead also cannot enter astral planes entirely.

-Alchemic Iron: Alchemic Iron is both a good transmitter of Mana by "sucking" out Mana concentrations from a higher source and "transfers" it to a lower source of Mana concentration. Alchemic Iron also works well in harming entities that are created through magical means such as Youkai, Angels and Fairies as well as weaken manifestation of spirits.

When Alchemic Iron is regulated at freezing temperatures, it is known as Alchemic "Cold Iron" and it has an even more powerful effect than regular Alchemic Iron.

-Alchemic Tin: Alchemic Tin is a metal that can preserve and accumilate the metaphysical properties, enchantments or energies of things when they are combined together as one. It seems to preserve and accumilate any kind of mystical energy most of all. It is also capable of dissolving physical or conceptual things into a greater form when fused with them and expand Life and Essence on its own.

-Alchemic Mercury: Alchemic Mercury is the metal that metaphysically transcends stillness/motion, life/death and material/spiritual since it possesses the concept of thought. Even in advanced Alchemy, only little has been learned and harnessed from the mysteries of Alchemic Mercury's metaphysical properties including the connections between physical and metaphysical as well as the true nature of things and their purpose in existence. It is also one of the prime reasons the spiritual community has evolved and may be cause of how Espers came into existence.

In theory, Alchemic Mercury may possibly be the doorway to Perfect Magic that many long-time Magicians have sought after and possibly transcend into an Avatar. However, advanced Alchemy hasn't even come close to solving the entire mystery, let alone figuring if that is even possible at all.

-Salt: Alchemic Salt is a purifier of negative or harmful essences. Salt also can be used as a somewhat weaker deterent agaisnt physical or manifested impurities such as corrupted spirits and Youkai.

Even mundane salt is a mortal poison to all Youkai, except Tengu, that ingest after it's refined.

-Garlic: Capable of disrupting the undead through ingestion or injection, which can interfere with their some of their special support functions such as specific parasites, bacteria and viruses.

-Roasted Soybeans: A mortal poison to Oni when ingested.

Reminds me how I "learned" in Supernatural that Pure Iron can disperse ghosts and ward them off, along with salt.

I think Supernatural actually applies mythological legends of substances and metals and subverts it with real-world scientific explanations like electromagnetic fields or something like that.

This here just keeps the mystical feel while giving scientific explanations instead.

I have seen enough episodes to say they don't do that. When explanations are given they aren't given scientific exlanations at all. At least, none I can remember.

I guess, although I know my reasoning for doing it is really different than why Supernatural did it... And even then, that's only to give the opposing beliefs SOME kind of hope for fans of the unlikeable badguys.

Since I post a lot of Phantasia pseudo science here, I'm feeling up for posting more RED (and by extension, SCOPE) stuff here... although, the science isn't really pseudo in this case, but I need somewhere to post this stuff anyway. Will post more RED tech whenever I come up with more.

R.E.D. Technology

-Metamaterial: An old, but progressive type of technology based on artificially engineered materials that exhibit physical properties not found naturally, gaining their properties from manipulating their structure rather than what they are compose of. These kind of materials come in a vast variety for near limitless combat and mundane applications including cloaking, shielding, superlensing, absorption and many more methods to bend the electromagnetic force.

-Nanomachines: Another old, but progressive type of technology that deals with manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale through machines or modifying and programming matter on such fine scale. As such, this kind of technology is extremely versatile and extensive as it is capable of enhancing, transcending and finer control of existing technology, materials, medicine, combat and other physical scientific fields. However, there are downsides since they require equally fine control, quantum computations, construction, resources and other physical limitations. It is due to this that nanomachines are not practical or efficient in large scale uses.

-Programmable Matter: A highly advanced material that has the ability to control, alter or shape its form and physical properties through user signals or indepent sensors. This is done through information of internal or external quantum macro or micro computers. The application and potential for combat or mundane purposes allow for flexibility, reusability and expansive variations in material usage.

-Ansible: Superluminal communication devices that use quantum tunneling to teleport signals between devices rather than sending them through physical space. Comes in countless forms and are practically the foundation of galactic imperialism.

-Electromagnetics Device: A futuristic twist on the oldest form of physical force manipulation technology, this device is essentially a more advanced version of those technologies with greatly increased fine tuned control over and shaping the most important forces of the physical universe, electricity and magnetism. Transcending the application and potential for older technologies for both utility and combat purposes, it is considered one of the most versatile pieces of technology around. Abilities of this device includes:
*Controlling and shaping of photons and electromagnetic radiation of all spectrums
*Controlling and shaping of chemical reactions
*Controlling and shaping over most physical mechanics that are subjected to forces and displacement that leads to subsequent effects on physical bodies asides from gravity
*Control and shaping soundwaves
*Structural integrity enhancing
*Electricity, magnetic or electromagnetic disruption weaponry
*Electricity and magnetic detection

-Combined Nuclear Force Device: A very important technology that can be used to control and shape both strong and weak nuclear forces of physical matter and energy. This also provides profound technological applications and potential for both utility and combat purposes. Abilities of this device includes:
*Radioactivity dampering
*Nuclear reaction neutralization
*Stabilize transuranic material
*Tramsmutation
*Structural integrity enhancing
*Nuclear disruption weaponry
*Greatly advanced nuclear weaponry
*Nuclear energy detection

-Gravitics Device: By manipulating graviton particles and waves, this kind of technology can control and shape the forces of gravity itself. This offers much application and potential in terms of mundane and combat utility. Abilities of a gravity device includes:
*increasing, decreasing or displacing gravitational fields of physical matter and energy in general
*Levitation and flight
*Anchoring matter and energy
*Gravity enhancing or neutralizing fields
*Warp time and space
*Control and shaping mass and density
*Gravity disruption or compression weaponry
*Graviton detection

-Probability Device: Through extremely fine control and precise quantum computations, probability devices can manipulate physical matter and energy down to their smallest quantity from the subatomic level and below. At a quantum level, subatomic particles are regularly capable of feats that would be realistically improbable on a macroscopic scale, however, a probability device's purpose is to make those phenomena happen on a macroscopic scale. This offers profound technological applications and potential for mundane and combat utility. Abilities of a probability device includes:
*Teleportation
*Synchronize matter and energy without a direct connection
*Make the same exact matter or energy be in multiple places at once
*Increase or decrease the accuracy of physical matter or energy based projectiles to drastic degrees
*Selective intangibility to physical matter and energy
*Trigger natural phenomena within an area of effect
*Predict the outcome of local physical events
*Connect two points in time and space
*Quantum wave function collapsing weaponry
*Remote power and material source siphonage
*Subatomic particle detection

-Space Gate and Network: Large gates that are multi-dimensionally linked to enable spatial hopping between them through controlled, temporary fourth dimensional wormhole generation. Multiple gates linked together can create a portal network in which gates can be crossed into any of each other through computerized dialing that allows for superluminal travel. However, they can be energy intensive, requires exotic matter, precise quantum computations and is dangerous without a controlled environment. These necessities also limit them as too bulky and risky on a personal level.

-Force Field: A specific class of technology that can use either electromagnetic devices, combined nuclear devices, gravetics devices or a combination of either of all to erect a physical energy construct designed to serve as strong protection. Force fields come in many varieties of specialties, size, scale and strengths to protect personnel, structures or vehicles. Due to their enormous energy demand, dustcaster are beginning to gain more popularity against brute force since they are much more efficient, however, traditional force fields are still useful to protect against things that dustcasters cannot guard against.

-Dustcaster: Using magnetic fields to finely manipulate attractive particles such as steel, water or even sand, a special defensive device can form a protective shield that morphs into various shapes on demand. Since most of the shield is solid matter, it's much more conservative in energy and durable than traditional varities such as force fields.

-Stasis Field: A device that pauses all physical matter and energy within an area of effect field through very a sophisticated degree of quantum manipulation and advanced dimensional warping. The main purpose of such devices is for preservation purposes, but can also sevre as a defensive, capturing or imprisonment device. Something such as highly intense gravity fields could rupture a stasis field, but otherwise all physical matter anbd energy encased by the field should be considered completely impervious.

-Time Space Gate and Network (experimental): A massive gate structure that creates a fifth dimensional wormhole by directly the quantum structure of the timeline within the universe. The premise of this technology would be very similar to the Space Gate and Network technology that already exists, but would allow hopping between one established point of time to another point in time to essentially allow time travel. Entering the past or future would itself cause timeline branching, and therefore the timeline accessed simply would be another timeline of many without causing a time paradox. However, it is in the experimental stage and thus not completed nor ready for safe use yet.

-Possibility Space Gate and Network (experimental): A massive gate structure that creates an eighth dimensional wormhole by directly manipulating the quantum structure across an infinite number of parallel and alternative universes within the multiverse. The premise of this technology would be very similar to the Space Gate and Network technology that already exists, but would allow hoppinh between one established point of a parallel or alternative universe to another point to essentially allow cross universe travel. However, it is in the experimental stage and thus not completed nor ready for safe use yet.

Levels of Existence

Realities are made up of two sides of existence called planes, which are fundamentally connected to each other. As a matter of fact, planes occupy and overlap the same places in reality at the same time and thus are not really considered separate realms. Planes are basically the dual aspects of realities.

-Astral Plane: The side of reality which compose of the metaphysical aspects of existence, also known as the spiritual plane, metaphysical plane or abstract plane. This includes abstract concepts and spirituality such as magic, tao and psi. Being the part of reality transcended of the physical, everything in the astral plane cannot directly interact with the material plane without physical projections/manifestations and subtle manipulation of concepts that is tied to something physical. Projections/manifestations or conceptual manipulation into the material plane will be subjected to little or no impositions to physical laws, essentially bypassing them. Projecting or manifesting into the material plane requires spiritual means however.

Everything that exists has an astral side since they must be constructed of abstract concepts. Things like souls are additional astral representations for physical bodies that can potentially allow the entity to interact on both planes. Meanwhile, things like spirits and abstract entities reside primarily on the astral plane. in other words, entities and objects can exist astrally without a physical side and material plane cannot exist without an astral side.

-Material Plane: This side of reality composes the physical aspects of reality, also known as the physical plane or substance plane. This includes energy, matter, space, time and all dimensions as well as quantum mechanics. Since the material plane subordinates the astral plane, everything in the material plane cannot directly interact with the astral plane without being projected/manifested into as their metaphysical form. Also due to the physical subordinating the mtaphysical, projections/manifestations into the astral plane are subjected to impositions of metaphysical rules.

Everything that exists on the material plane are manifestations of complex constructions of countless abstract concepts from the astral plane. Tampering with a construct on a physical level can alter their abstract construction and vice versa. Since everything physical has an astral side to them, the material plane relies on the astral plane in order to exist.