Goonhub
08-30-2014, 09:03 AM
I dunno why clarentine (a high energy conductor) and koshmarite (flesh-like ore) is considered magical and it slightly irks me. Gems like miracle matter, uqill and telecrystals seem to fall into the "magical" side of things alot more than the former. Koshmarite (and Viscrite) should have unique special flesh-like properties rather than just falling into the "oh, something gotta be magical, lets use that"
IMO the "magic" wizards use is actually just sophisticated technology made to look archaic and their whole "technophobia" is rather based around considering anything nanotrasen to be vastly inferior technology-wise. The term "magic" back in yonder days was normally used to express something that people don't quite understand, like Alchemy back in medieval times was actually just a proto-chemistry/medicine.
That said I don't think "magical" ores should be used to cripple the surrounding technology, I think it should be far more randomized than that. It should do "magic" stuff to technology, random very unpredictable effects.
IMO the "magic" wizards use is actually just sophisticated technology made to look archaic and their whole "technophobia" is rather based around considering anything nanotrasen to be vastly inferior technology-wise. The term "magic" back in yonder days was normally used to express something that people don't quite understand, like Alchemy back in medieval times was actually just a proto-chemistry/medicine.
That said I don't think "magical" ores should be used to cripple the surrounding technology, I think it should be far more randomized than that. It should do "magic" stuff to technology, random very unpredictable effects.