Goonhub
08-29-2016, 10:47 PM
Right now Nitrogen doesn't do anything at all interesting in the air.
Plasma: Sets fire, carries heat well, poisons people, gets removed from air in reactions.
Oxygen: Necessary for life. Necessary for Flame. gets removed from air in reactions.
CO2: Gets created in reactions. Poisons people. Carries heat kinda well.
Nitrogen: Nothing. Oxygen without the interesting bits.
There are many directions Nitrogen could go. It could be low thermal density, high thermal density. It could react with plasma or CO2 and very high or very low temperatures and remove them from the air.
Personally, I don't really care what it gets, but I would like it to be something. Very high or low specific heat would probably be interesting, so it could be used in fire supression or for explosives. A reaction where it eats plasma at very low temperatures and makes *a lot* of Nitrogen would also be pretty interesting.
The point is pretty simple. There is a lot of room to make atmospherics more interesting just by adding some traits to Nitrogen. Its already pretty interesting, but no reason it couldn't be more.
Plasma: Sets fire, carries heat well, poisons people, gets removed from air in reactions.
Oxygen: Necessary for life. Necessary for Flame. gets removed from air in reactions.
CO2: Gets created in reactions. Poisons people. Carries heat kinda well.
Nitrogen: Nothing. Oxygen without the interesting bits.
There are many directions Nitrogen could go. It could be low thermal density, high thermal density. It could react with plasma or CO2 and very high or very low temperatures and remove them from the air.
Personally, I don't really care what it gets, but I would like it to be something. Very high or low specific heat would probably be interesting, so it could be used in fire supression or for explosives. A reaction where it eats plasma at very low temperatures and makes *a lot* of Nitrogen would also be pretty interesting.
The point is pretty simple. There is a lot of room to make atmospherics more interesting just by adding some traits to Nitrogen. Its already pretty interesting, but no reason it couldn't be more.