So, things we learned in this one short section:
-The original discovery involved some form of multi-element doping of the glass feedstock which was hard to replicate. This basically meant that the original pathway involved something like Ultraviolet Florescence ->Visible light vibration->Metalight. This pretty much explains why the original discovery was so bloody difficult, deductive analysis doesn't work well because without atomic theory or heck, 19th century chemistry we don't know which component of the ingredients under which transformation produced the transition.
--Uranium ore simplified it by being a relatively pure source of florescence changing a multi-step path to a single step one. Then you just need to 'mine' out the magic glass from the main batch without ruining it. We'd presumably have plate glass production figured out to make this feasible. I don't want to imagine having to extract an irregularly shaped chunk of glass without fracturing the whole block.
If nothing else the old Guild Secrets model yet carries!
First thing, good god that lens is insanely expensive on size alone.
Secondly,
@Academia Nut what frequency range is this vibration on? I'm trying to figure out whether it sounds more like a lightsaber, a mosquito or a cat.
And heres where normal physics takes a vacation.
Ultraviolet light is used to cause florescence within the uranium glass lens, which on intersection with green light and vibration, sent it somewhere weird before it came out. This should be some kind of constructive interference, except you...shouldn't have constructive interference between UV and green under normal physics.
This is a nightmare to figure out without Electromagnetic Theory.
Interestingly, this is visible to the naked eye. We have receptors for it.
So intelligence is necessary to interact with the Green. Any example animals?
This is going to cause so much religious havoc. Hey guys want to set the Syffryn on fire again?
War
[][War] Continue War - Royalists Pleased
(+1 PW)
[][War] Uti possidetis - Peace out with limited gains (+1 Temp Happiness)
The Temp Happiness isn't worth it in this case. We know from our economic analysis that the Hung situation is literally holding up the global economy. If we peace out, they collapse and then the chain reaction starts.
Yes, people are feeling war-weary. This happens with any war that's not short and victorious. But triggering the collapse early is definitely going to make our everything more worse.
Spending Bill
[][Bill] 2 PW - Naval Armaments Bill (-1 IC, +1 Temp IC, +1 Navy, +2 Temp SoL, +4 Sell Crown Corp Uses, Royalists Pleased)
(+1 PW)
Gives us Temp SoL 4/Temp Consciousness 5. I
think this might lower Temp Pollution and thus lower Consciousness, by the permanent IC loss, but that has its own issues of course.
Crown Corp sale makes us particularly vulnerable to the coming crash of course.
This lets us push the Nohon back a bit. Whether its enough is anyone's guess.
[][Bill] 2 PW - Proper Living Bill (-1 Temp IC, -1 SoL, Settle Kyberi Action, +3 Temp SoL, +1 Edu, +1 Innovation, +4 Sell Crown Corp Uses, Conservatives Pleased Twice[+2 Temp Happiness])
This is Plan Dig A Deeper Hole. It makes us much happier
now, but the Education raises Consciousness again, the permanent SoL loss makes it harder to match and overall this is trying to kill us
[][Bill] 2 PW - Development Bill (-2 IC, +1 temp IC, +1 Railroads, +5 Temp SoL, Boost Science Research +7 Sell Crown Corp Uses, Liberals Pleased)
This aims to bend over and spread em. We'd be stripping our protections at the worst time.
[][Bill] 2 PW - King's Bill (+1 temp SoL, Boost Science Research, +2 Sell Crown Corp Uses)
Limited sale, nobody pleased, but it keeps us from redlining anything. We'd be spending the next turn doing nothing but propping up everything though.
Boosts the following:
Mid 19th Century Math (6/30-40?) [Science][Open]
Mid 19th Century Logic (6/30-40?) [Science][Open]
Hiding in the Rainbow? (59/80-100?)[Science][Unique]
Experimental Electricity (6/20-25?) [Science]
Germ Theory of Disease (32/40)
If we can grab Germ Thery before the crash we'd have SOME leeway for SoL.
[][Bill] 1 PW - Veto (+1 temp Consciousness)
Going to be feeling the pinch, but our large permanent stats to the rescue
Kielmyr Railroad Development
[][Rails] 0 PW - No thanks
[][Rails] 1 PW - Yes please (Kielmyr Invest, gain +1 Railroads)
We need this bad enough to go for it. Grab it.
We NEED those rails, and we got nothing to spend for them.
So net combo for me:
[][War] Continue War - Royalists Pleased
(+1 PW)
[][Bill] 2 PW - King's Bill (+1 temp SoL, Boost Science Research, +2 Sell Crown Corp Uses)
[][Rails] 1 PW - Yes please (Kielmyr Invest, gain +1 Railroads)
Net result:
PW 3 -> 1
SoL 7(3) -> 7(4)
Consciousness 2(5)
Basically, don't crash yet, don't blow up the world economy yet and then pump the shit out of our SoL next turn.
E: veto proven safe
