AMCO
I'm Sorry Dave
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Matter and energy are, in theory, interchangeable. Changing one into the other is no easy feat, however.
The Matter Annihilation Reactors accomplish just this and make it look easy in the process. Naturally, their inner workings are anything but simple and the costs of building one are steep. Steep but generally worthwhile, as once that initial hill is climbed, vast amounts of energy can be produced cleanly and efficiently from comparatively tiny amounts of physical matter. Even better, any matter can be used, even waste materials.
To take full advantage of the new development, Globex often pairs it with Visium synthesis to facilitate the storage and movement of energy, and Atomic Forges to turn excess matter into whichever combination of energy and alternate matter the Corp currently needs.
Compared to more conventional fuel production chains, a MAR to Visium process is location agnostic (local resources are largely irrelevant) while replacing 'a veritable army of labourers' with a small cadre of highly-trained and well-compensated technicians.
The redundant workforce is someone else's problem. Let them eat paste.
- Intent: Turn matter into energy using the power of pseudoscience.
- Image Source: Plasma flowing from ball, sourced from Getty Images.
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- Primary Source: Hypermatter Annihilation Reactor | Visium
- Manufacturer: The Globex Corporation
- Affiliation: The Globex Corporation
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: Matter Annihilation Reactor
- Modularity: Limited; primarily size.
- Production: Mass-Produced
- Material: Chromium-Neuranium (7:3) Reactor Shielding
- Matter Annihilation Reactors function by suspending matter within a bubble of perfect vacuum altered to repel matter but allow photons to pass through unimpeded. Through a process tantamount to magic in the eyes of a layperson, the contained matter is slowly destroyed, releasing a stream of photons in the process. These are, in turn, converted into usable energy with minimal inefficiency. More matter can be injected by 'tunnelling' through the vacuum bubble and pushing in matter with enough force to prevent the 'escape' of the contained matter.
- If this process is interrupted midway, the result is not an explosion or anything comparably dramatic. Rather, the halfway-dismantled matter is left as what Globex's physicists call Depleted Matter. This unstable matter will attract mundane matter and meld with it in a process that leaves behind a dense but useless material composed of various elements and releases a lot of harmful radiation.
- E = mc²: Matter Annihilation Reactors directly convert matter into energy, generating unfathomable amounts of power in the process. As this process isn't instant, the key advantage over traditional reactors is sustainability - the sheer commonness of the fuel (literally any matter that is not 'overly exotic' will do just fine) and the amount of energy that can be extracted makes running out of fuel all-but impossible.
- Slow Start: Matter Annihilation Reactors can be activated near-instantly, but the power generation must build up over time - if such a reactor is disabled during a crisis, bringing it back up to optimal output in a timely fashion is easier said than done.
Matter and energy are, in theory, interchangeable. Changing one into the other is no easy feat, however.
The Matter Annihilation Reactors accomplish just this and make it look easy in the process. Naturally, their inner workings are anything but simple and the costs of building one are steep. Steep but generally worthwhile, as once that initial hill is climbed, vast amounts of energy can be produced cleanly and efficiently from comparatively tiny amounts of physical matter. Even better, any matter can be used, even waste materials.
To take full advantage of the new development, Globex often pairs it with Visium synthesis to facilitate the storage and movement of energy, and Atomic Forges to turn excess matter into whichever combination of energy and alternate matter the Corp currently needs.
Compared to more conventional fuel production chains, a MAR to Visium process is location agnostic (local resources are largely irrelevant) while replacing 'a veritable army of labourers' with a small cadre of highly-trained and well-compensated technicians.
The redundant workforce is someone else's problem. Let them eat paste.
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