Re: RP PUBLIC/SOCIAL V10T: The Funeral of Balverstus
Anik came to this place for the quite and solitude. He went deep into the gardens to find somewhere he won't disturb others, and somewhere next to a water-hose of some sort. He had been without crafting for too long.
With limited materials he couldn't do much, but he could make a reactor here none the less. Taking his bag off he gathered his small supply of stone balls, iron rods, quartz, and the lead box of Thorium.
He got to work.
The quartz was bent and pulled away from itself, expanding to unnatural shapes of crystal which would redirect sunlight into his work. After which he began slowly transmuting the iron into necessary minerals using it's own radiation from the process to further it, as he could now bend and shape that as well as the material itself. He even used the lead box from the thorium in the mix, as a base actually. Twisting and turning them metal at a molecular level until it was pure and smooth. He used the water hose to bring fourth the needed water.
The first part of the design would be tricky, though intellectually simple (well actually it was incredibly complex but simple enough idea for Anik). He was creating a miniature nuclear reactor. With his ability to transfer properties (even shadows of his own powers). He separated the 3 kg of thorium into strands which would twist around each other inside a pure water barrier. So tight was the ball that he had to keep a hand on the water to keep it from springing out. 9 stands of would protrude outward from the material. He was careful in the way he wove the material so that the isotopes would continuously be changing from non-fissile thorium to the fissile Uranium which would release a chain reaction around it's thread. But unlike a normal reactor which uses the heated water to produce mechanical energy, the microscopic nuclear reactions would be directed instead. The wires were woven in such a way that it was a highly impressive fractal of magnetism which kept the nuclear power moving along wire of the thorium and then out of the 8 protruding wires of thorium.
Of course any radiation (there was no "extra" radiation, Anik very much intended that some radiation escape the threads of the wire-ball) that could not be sent through the wires would be absorbed by the water which flowed through the molecular-sized "gaps" in the ball. The water was a key component of controlling the ball, which is explained later.
Just a note but by this point any "names" for elements basically meant what is WAS at "rest state" before the reaction, truth be told once the reactor got going the ball of "thorium" would constantly be moving between the nuclear metals.
The wire-ball having directed the raw nuclear energy through it would then be connected to some quartz. This is where superior "raw" science, divinity, and super-naturalism would connect. Crystals are good because of their structure. With structure comes order, and with order comes the ability to manipulate that order. And if anything will manipulate the order of atoms, it's nuclear radiation being pumped out of a small reactor.
Anik would use layers and compartments once again to allow the reactor to be "modular" the first bit would need a bit of Anik's own skill in it. Taking his own divine energy from his blood (no need to include the blood now). He made 8 quartz crystals which he completely fused into the wires in such a way that they WERE part of the wire... with millions of atomic "strings" being twisted inside the small crystal connectors. The crystal would his his divine power of transmutation except not with material, but energy. 6 of the crystals would allow the output and input of raw-harmonic energy in which other "transmute" crystals could be activated when connected.
The last two crystals would instead be kept "inside" the reactor on it's magnetic poles. Instead of outputting or inputting energy they would be used to "contain" the energy of the reactor by keeping working the magnetic fields through the wire-ball reactor. But they were not powered by the reactor's "line-feed" instead they were only "input" the energy. These crystals would take heat and radiation from the water and transform it into the needed magnetic energy. Inside the crystals Anik imprinted an atomic order into them, so that the crystals would act like a "scale" of input, output, and control by comparing the poles, their own heat and radiations inputs, and the potential energy of their own wires.
Now if you recall there were 9 strands that nuclear energy could be transmitted (well 6 that transmitted and 2 that could have potential nuclear energy). The last one was a external "control line" which was connected to the heart of the reactor, where in fact all 9 wires were one. While the Internal Control lines would act like super-transistors to the rector to keep it stable, the Outer Control would be something like a users control. Right now Anik could be the only user since only he could control the reactor by touch. The outer control would allow him to edit all crystals, the reactor, and water as needed. This would allow him to upgrade the internal materials as well as eventually put a control crystal which anyone could use.
Right now without a shell... the thing only weighed 9 kg. 3 kg of thorium, 4 kg of water, and 2 kg of quartz.
After everything was complete he took the iron rods and lead box to form the outer shell which would keep the high-pressure reactor from bursting out, or the radioactive water inside from coming out. With the shell now it weighed a nice 25 kg.
In the end it looked like a bowling ball sized orb of black iron (the lead being mostly on the inside of the shell) with 1 wire sticking out on top, and 6 control crystals an equal around the middle.
While as a "reactor" it was really really good because it was compact, but that wasn't the point. Anik could have easily made a much less complex and smaller reactor. But the key was... it allowed for input as well as output, meaning it was a RECHARGEABLE reactor. Basically a prototype of a nuclear battery that allowed output in any form of energy (as soon as a energy-transformation crystals were made to change the harmonic energy into the needed type).
Anik was pretty much spent by the end of making this... and he hadn't even charged the damn thing.