The Eldritch One (Celestial Forge)

It would still need to work with the other Shard as to not kill their Host in the struggle to take control of something directly connected to the Host's brain. For the comparison it kinda ignores the whole idea that Zion and Eden would have administrator access to all the Shards because they sent them out in the first place while the other two wouldn't.
Yes but we already know that Shards can connect to each other via their Hosts; that's the basis of several Parahuman Weirdness things.

Also I'm pretty sure that Administrator Access is one of the things that the Entities give away at the end of the start of every Cycle.
 
Well that's statistically weird given how Shards work; even with the Parahuman-members having a lot of kids and Second Generation Parahumans being how they are I would have expected a second First Generation to have come from that same family to get numbers that high and I don't think that Shards like to distribute themselves that closely; especially if their Host's Trigger is similar enough.


A family of billionaires and a statistically impossible amount of triggers. Hmmm, what is it with all these rich people and their family members having disproportionate amounts of powers. Like there's actually a correlation between how much money you have and how likely you are to get superpowers. Like you can buy them.

On the other hand, somehow this is also the first time I've come across a fanfic that actually implemented the idea of rich people who aren't supervillains buying their powers. It's a weirdly rare thing in fanfics when literally in the same town where most of the action takes place, the local mayor's family has all of the young members with purchased powers.
 
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I went into a bit of a analysis about why antimatter would be concerning to others, to the effect of milligrams of the stuff being suitable for demolishing buildings right down to the foundation, and others were kind enough to mention that not only would that happen but the pair-annihilation would convert protons and neutrons, and their pairs, into force-carrying particles, for however long it took for them to annihilate/decay, and enough photons to cause ionizing radiation.
Yep, antimatter does all that - when it's not safely stored which Taylor's is. It even says so on the door.
 
A family of billionaires and a statistically impossible amount of triggers. Hmmm, what is it with all these rich people and their family members having disproportionate amounts of powers. Like there's actually a correlation between how much money you have and how likely you are to get superpowers. Like you can buy them.
Oh, *Facepalms*, fuggen, *Facewalls*, I'm just a complete moron damnit!
On the other hand, somehow this is also the first time I've come across a fanfic that actually implemented the idea of rich people who aren't supervillains buying their powers. It's a weirdly rare thing in fanfics when literally in the same town where most of the action takes place, the local mayor's family has all of the young members with purchased powers.
I think that the wealth requirements for that sort of thing are a little bit more extreme then that; Accord could purchase powers for his minions but he's damn-near a Business Thinker; I imagine that the mayor needed to promise some political favors to make the payments.

That and the whole business is Invitation Only, or thereabouts, so there's also that restricting who can just buy powers.

Also also I think that there's something like eight uncanonized Parahumans within Brookton Bay.
Yep, antimatter does all that - when it's not safely stored which Taylor's is. It even says so on the door.
Hey did you know that loose Fullerene is indistinguishable from soot? A very fine powder, almost a smoke, of it as well. Lisa probably stirred up some of it with the updrafts from her body-heat, much less her breath, and is currently wearing some antimatter.
 
It was a bit of a mathematicians answer but I received semi-confirmation that it was being stored in Fullrenes.
No you didn't. This is what you asked:
Is it Fullerened or something?
There's a whole lot of possibility in that 'something' and it doesn't have to have anything to do with fullerenes. The authors answer to that question just confirmed that it was safely stored.

What we know isn't really applicable to what ROB knows.
 
Well, in this case it's magical/clarktech fullerene since you can't actually store antimatter in a normal one.
Anti-protons have the same charge as, and thusly are repelled by, electrons and a Fullerene is a molecular cage of electron-shells; if you can't contain the former with the latter then you're a little bit fucked regardless.
No you didn't. This is what you asked:

There's a whole lot of possibility in that 'something' and it doesn't have to have anything to do with fullerenes. The authors answer to that question just confirmed that it was safely stored.

What we know isn't really applicable to what ROB knows.
Yeah, I know, that's why that thing I did get was a Mathematicians Answer.
 
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Anti-protons have the same charge as, and thusly are repelled by, electrons and a Fullerene is a molecular cage of electron-shells; if you can't contain the former with the latter then you're a little bit fucked regardless.
Unfortunately it only works like that in Schlock Mercenary, not real life.
There is a reason that CERN has to use magnetic bottles to store antimatter.
Anyway, since it's some kind of super-material, we can assume that it's engineered to be relatively safe to handle.
 
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The author only confirmed that the antimatter was safely stored.

Which is probably why Lisa Nope'd the fuck out of the place.

It's a fucking tote bin of anti-matter.

Operating on Forge logic. If we're allowed to call it that.

Its probably literally a plastic bin full of anit-matter, and her power knows its anti-matter and is sitting there wondering why the room isn't an expanding cloud of plasma yet.
 
Unfortunately it only works like that in Schlock Mercenary, not real life.
There is a reason that CERN has to use magnetic bottles to store antimatter.
Anyway, since it's some kind of super-material, we can assume that it's engineered to be relatively safe to handle.
You think that there's that much of a difference between Electron-Shells and Magnetic Bottles?

Listen, people have managed to ionically bond Hydrogen Cations and solvate Electrons; I honestly do not think that caging a anti-particle in some nanostructures would be that unusual as long as you had the ability to actually get the former into the latter in the first place.



That all said though there are things like Nanobuds and Nanotubes and Nanosheets and Nanofoams as well so it doesn't necessarily need to be Fullerenes either.
Which is probably why Lisa Nope'd the fuck out of the place.

It's a fucking tote bin of anti-matter.

Operating on Forge logic. If we're allowed to call it that.

Its probably literally a plastic bin full of anit-matter, and her power knows its anti-matter and is sitting there wondering why the room isn't an expanding cloud of plasma yet.
I personally always just thought that there'd be something like tanks/canisters and "tubing" and dispensers and whatnot; the fucking storage-containers threw me like a martial artist.
 
You think that there's that much of a difference between Electron-Shells and Magnetic Bottles?

Listen, people have managed to ionically bond Hydrogen Cations and solvate Electrons; I honestly do not think that caging a anti-particle in some nanostructures would be that unusual as long as you had the ability to actually get the former into the latter in the first place.

The antiproton would tunnel through the electron shell. Otherwise antiprotons wouldn't annihilate with regular atoms, despite the fact they do. In addition, they could just kick an electron off an atom and muscle their way through that way. Your mistake is thinking that subatomic particles are anything like you'd expect bulk materials to behave.

I'd also suggest actually looking into how magnetic bottles work. There are very large differences between electron shells and magnetic bottles. Even the first paragraphs of wikipedia explaining how bottles are leaky and have inherent instabilities before getting into how bottles are asymmetric and so on will help you understand why, exactly, they are in fact different.
 
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The antiproton would tunnel through the electron shell. Otherwise antiprotons wouldn't annihilate with regular atoms, despite the fact they do. In addition, they could just kick an electron off an atom and muscle their way through that way. Your mistake is thinking that subatomic particles are anything like you'd expect bulk materials to behave.
You don't see protons tunneling out of atomic nuclei; why does the opposite happen?
 
You don't see protons tunneling out of atomic nuclei; why does the opposite happen?

Tunneling requires going from a high energy state to a low energy state, skipping the intervening barrier. The antiproton has to tunnel through a barrier 137 times weaker than the strong force to get to an extremely low energy state, while the proton has to gain a lot of energy to hop out of the strong force pit. Protons actually do regularly tunnel through the strong barrier around the nucleus, however, this is in alpha decay, which only occurs in heavy elements where the coulomb force is strong enough to give nucleons enough energy that tunneling can happen.
 
I personally always just thought that there'd be something like tanks/canisters and "tubing" and dispensers and whatnot; the fucking storage-containers threw me like a martial artist.

That's what I'm saying. It doesn't have to be anything. It's literally a plastic bin full of naked antimatter.

Why isn't it blowing up? Who the fuck knows!

Sanity? You came to the wrong neighborhood!
 
"We aren't." From Tattletale as she looks like she's eating earwax. "We don't know how far this goes up their family tree
I like that this can be compared to a classic xianxia young master family.
You attack the side branch, and then the main branch comes after you. You deal with the Elder, the Patriarch comes. You deal with the Patriarch, the Supreme Elder comes. You deal with the Supreme Elder, the Ancient Ancestor wakes up from his coffin. :rofl2:

Is the antimatter going to be used for something later?
 
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That's what I'm saying. It doesn't have to be anything. It's literally a plastic bin full of naked antimatter.

Why isn't it blowing up? Who the fuck knows!

Sanity? You came to the wrong neighborhood!
That would be extremely funny, and might work if Taylor can suck it up with the Build Gun, but also this is a Starsector-brand Fuel Production Facility.
I like that this can be compared to a classic xianxia young master family.
You attack the side branch, and then the main branch comes after you. You deal with the Elder, the Patriarch comes. You deal with the Patriarch, the Supreme Elder comes. You deal with the Supreme Elder, the Ancient Ancestor wakes up from his coffin. :rofl2:

Is the antimatter going to be used for something later?
I wonder whether Taylor could just outright pay The Elite, in goods and services rather then currency, to just outright denounce them.
 
Is the antimatter going to be used for something later?

Well, considering that in the real world, anti-matter was priced at $62.5 trillion dollars per gram a few years ago...

Taylor could just sell some for a fraction of a percent of that price, and never have to worry about money ever again.

...She'd have to immediately deal with governments of the world and the Protectorate freaking out about her casually having anti-matter, since you'd only need 23 grams of anti-matter and matter annihilating to get a 1 megaton bomb.
 
Is the antimatter going to be used for something later?
Well, considering that in the real world, anti-matter was priced at $62.5 trillion dollars per gram a few years ago...

Taylor could just sell some for a fraction of a percent of that price, and never have to worry about money ever again.

...She'd have to immediately deal with governments of the world and the Protectorate freaking out about her casually having anti-matter, since you'd only need 23 grams of anti-matter and matter annihilating to get a 1 megaton bomb.
Oh right I meant to address this as well. Pair-annihilation can convert Baryons into Mesons and produces ionizing quantities of photons so it's suitable for use in things like energy-generation, via the photovoltaic and photoelectric effects, and particle-beam weaponry.
 
Oh right I meant to address this as well. Pair-annihilation can convert Baryons into Mesons and produces ionizing quantities of photons so it's suitable for use in things like energy-generation, via the photovoltaic and photoelectric effects, and particle-beam weaponry.

Taylor does lack any technical knowledge to actually use her anti-matter for that though. Unless she wants to try mixing Anti-matter with her mouths power, or try to use it as an alchemy ingredient with her slime.

But, I don't think ingesting antimatter is the best idea.

Until she gets some actual technological knowledge as a perk or using her librarian + efficiency* power to brush up on physics, the best thing to do with her stockpiles is to just sit on for now. Even selling it would get loads of attention she probably wouldn't want.

*Does Time Flies (Lords Of The Night Zombies) (200CP) and One-Man Industry (God Catching Meister) (400CP) stack to let her work 50 times as fast as other people? It would help if she wants to learn how to use her antimatter the hard way.
 
Taylor does lack any technical knowledge to actually use her anti-matter for that though. Unless she wants to try mixing Anti-matter with her mouths power, or try to use it as an alchemy ingredient with her slime.

But, I don't think ingesting antimatter is the best idea.

Until she gets some actual technological knowledge as a perk or using her librarian + efficiency* power to brush up on physics, the best thing to do with her stockpiles is to just sit on for now. Even selling it would get loads of attention she probably wouldn't want.

*Does Time Flies (Lords Of The Night Zombies) (200CP) and One-Man Industry (God Catching Meister) (400CP) stack to let her work 50 times as fast as other people? It would help if she wants to learn how to use her antimatter the hard way.
She can't utilize it conventionally, even if she wanted to learn how to she would only be able to do so with a five-times multiplier rather then a fifty-times multiplier, though notably a times-five and a research/memory/organization boost, since her times-ten one only works on acts of creation, but other Tinkers very probably would be able to harness it to some degree.

That said though there probably is a amount of antimatter that would be safe for Taylor to swallow to Plentimaw-combine with things; possibly with something like a fuel-cell or something. Maybe even food to combine the caloric density of antimatter with something; that would probably have some mildly hilarious uses.

Also I imagine that Taylor would be able to make use of fragments of Taydenite with some assistance from other Parahumans to actually fragment it; Faultline comes to mind.

Also also I kind of really want to see Taylor unintentionally activate her times-fifty accelerator; get a whole months worth of work done in less then a day.



Edit: I was talking about Taylor turning herself into a heat-pump earlier, and explained what heat-pumps even are, and I feel compelled to link to a good visual representation of that that I found.

 
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Chapter 18.5: A Day Late
Lisa did not come back to help figure out my storage situation, and a quick (supersonic) look through the facilities section told me it was still just the garage and antimatter production. Not the worst this could have gone, but that's not really saying much when that particular bar is at the level of a multi-megaton explosion. Apparently.

I don't blame her for not wanting to deal with my bullshit. Hell, I don't wanna deal with it. I'm just going to let her cool off for a little bit, and call her after I update my Dad via the union guy. Just gonna go back to the loft and reeelaax.

After I get back I hang up my coat, trudge up the stairs, and freeze at the ridiculous sight before me. Alec has apparently turned the couch around to face the entrance, set a bunch of dark chocolate out on the counter, and is currently posed on the couch with rose in mouth and wearing a fake suit. Fake as in the shirt is a muscle shirt with a picture of what a suit is supposed to look like on it.

"...You realize Valentine's Day was yesterday, right?"

"I was asleep by the time you got back yesterday. You spent too much time sparring" Accentuated with an eyebrow waggle. "With Brian."



Yeah, I'm not writing the rest of this guys. You'll just have to use your no doubt vivid imaginations. This does mean Taylor/Alec is an official couple.

Plus 1,000 words.


AN: little mini chapter guys, don't go looking for any bonus scenes on the other site, they don't exist. I would've had a more accurate word count for you if they did.

I put this here for future character development and group dynamics purposes.
 
Lisa did not come back to help figure out my storage situation, and a quick (supersonic) look through the facilities section told me it was still just the garage and antimatter production. Not the worst this could have gone, but that's not really saying much when that particular bar is at the level of a multi-megaton explosion. Apparently.
Actually hilarious since she could presumably have figured out how to set the Fuel Production Facility to something less concerning.
After I get back I hang up my coat, trudge up the stairs, and freeze at the ridiculous sight before me. Alec has apparently turned the couch around to face the entrance, set a bunch of dark chocolate out on the counter, and is currently posed on the couch with rose in mouth and wearing a fake suit. Fake as in the shirt is a muscle shirt with a picture of what a suit is supposed to look like on it.

"...You realize Valentine's Day was yesterday, right?"

"I was asleep by the time you got back yesterday. You spent too much time sparring" Accentuated with an eyebrow waggle. "With Brian."
Actually oddly sweet.
Yeah, I'm not writing the rest of this guys. You'll just have to use your no doubt vivid imaginations. This does mean Taylor/Alec is an official couple.

Plus 1,000 words.


AN: little mini chapter guys, don't go looking for any bonus scenes on the other site, they don't exist. I would've had a more accurate word count for you if they did.

I put this here for future character development and group dynamics purposes.
I hope you realize that you just invited others to do this themselves.
 
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