Electromagnetic Sheens
As technology has continued to develop across the multiverse, we’ve seen an interesting flow of problems that arise in our way during development. Specifically, scaling projects to a micro scale, and eventually nano-scale, has presented a few problems to us. Its amazing to believe computational devices that used to fill entire rooms have been reduced and even out-performed by devices that fit in the palm of our hands. The concept of precision was the first struggle to overcome. In many cases of scaling down projects, the issue was no harder than a literal conversion of metrics to the smaller size, but how is the construction process then influenced by limited workspace? Luckily that is near a moot point given mass-production. If you can set up an automated system to create something once, such a replicator schema, then you can forever more repeat that process with little trouble beyond the initial difficulty.
But the true concern comes out when we try to increase the potential of the device or setup in question. If something becomes smaller, how then do we ensure it stays consistent or even increases performance over its larger, older counterpart? Simple – we improve the system of efficiency – but what does that mean?
On a computational level, that problem is solved through smart use of resources. Proper use of scheduling and processor time, avoiding things like idle locks and loops in computation, limiting background threading to necessity, and assuring smart placement of hardware vicinity is key. But on a resource level, this problem becomes a little more vague. What about physical performance issues? If, say, battery A is just smaller than battery B, is it possible to get something more from battery A? The honest answer is, of course, no. But that doesn’t stop us from trying to be creative. Rather than trying to do the impossible piece by piece, lets implement a better physical management of resources for the problems we’re trying to solve.
This sort of philosophy brought about the thought for the development of a kinetic-resource solution, the electromagnetic insulation sheen. The basic sense of the idea is as follows. The observation is made that auxiliary movement through any means – power armor, mechs, any such machine, has a fair amount of electrical current passing through it at any point in time. There also exists a means of creating force from this current without diminishing the bulk of its flow – that is, electromagnets. So if we have some kinetic motions that we want to spend conservatively on, why don’t we take advantage of this particular upside of our current?
The resulting creation is the electromagnetic sheen – the idea of withdrawing and routing the central current flow in a mechanical unit such that it can be directed to course through key points of the overlaying body body. This can be done through a means of insulated mesh between the computing and armor portions of the setup, or drawn into a more detailed and specific setup depending on your needs so long as you can separate the force resultant from the magnetic pulse such that you don’t do any internal damage to your unit as a result. By directing this to a central balance processor, you can replicate a thrust-like effect capable of compensating in lack of other resources.
Example of electromagnet placement within a human-shape overlay. Reversing pull between sides causes opposite shift for slowing and transitional kinetics.
So far I have a few different models for how this setup is created and used, so please forward any queries on more unique implementation to my attention and I can assist in coming up with a solution. Given time, my hope is to abstract this into a wider array of units that can be placed and even adapted onto current systems quickly and efficiently. In the long term, while recyclable resources are difficult in theory, I’d like to come up with further examples of this line of conservation on a hardware level.