@egoo just dug up plans made during discussions with
@DragonParadox and got progress and cost from him.
These will make fine additions to defense systems. Think Phantom Menace, basically.
[ ] Selectively Permeable Force Effects: Allow wards, enchantments and spells to selectively ignore materials passing outward and inward through a Force effect, allowing for more complex structures and materials with further research. Not limited to examples given.
-[ ] Tier 1: Gateway research. Straight upgrade for pre-existing, simple barriers, at-cost. (
Brilliant Barrier can attune to the weapon systems on airships.) - 70,000 IM / 25 Progress
--[ ] The first step to creating more delicate workings that interact with the Ethereal Plane, progressing along this path will first allow simple, contiguous objects to pass through Force effects once properly attuned. At this level of progress, mass and complexity is limited, and materialized creatures and objects with strong auras of enchantment will be unable to move outside of the effect.
-[ ] Tier 2: Better static wards. (spell creation,
Sign of Sealing, Superior:
Allows attuned creatures and more complex objects to selectively pass through a static force effect, otherwise as Sign of Sealing, Greater).
- 210,000 IM / 50 Progress
--[ ] As a proof of concept, a spell is developed which informs upon the level of understanding one has obtained on this branch of research. The example spell is a static ward bound to a structure, allowing objects with more elements and components or strong auras of enchantment to pass through, but moreover allow properly attuned creatures to move into and out of the barrier intersecting between two planes, but will not allow incorporeal entities to pass through them.
-[ ] Tier 3: Upgraded Spell effects, at-cost. (Example spell conjunction,
Brilliant Shield:
Allows multiple Brilliant Barrier modules to charge an area-scale force field to keep it continuously deployed, allows larger structures e.g small aircraft to pass through them. Modules may be mounted on any moving or static structure.)
- 540,000 IM / 65 Progress
--[ ] Functionally unlimited complexity for objects passing through force effects, and even large structures with overlapping auras of enchantment will pose no problem for them when properly attuned. In example given, Force effects must to some degree still be segmented, layered in hexes, etc., once a certain surface area is reached, otherwise power becomes an increasingly limiting factor.
