Thematic issues. Why all the sci fi.

[Rinoa_353]

This is actually an interesting point. I think the "magicians" are being understated here a little bit. In a combative sense, the gap between the two isn't that large, if at all.

Which might make sense. All magitek does is manipulate the six elements of aether to create a desired result--this is literally no different than what a mage does. Magitek devices ultimately just create a surrogate body to manipulate the aether that Garleans can't (obviously past a certain size like transport vessels this becomes an entirely different argument, but at a footman and fireball vs walker argument it kind of pans out).



You are my new favorite person on these forums.

You're welcome lol.


To add to the tread topic, Electrope technology is also magic based where the circuits imprinted on the Electrope is based off the Arcanist runes from the South Sea Isles. So it actually fits into the lore, it just looks like Mass Effect but they explain the underlying concept of how it functions. This is speculation but I think it's reasonable that the Source would also have deposits of Electrope since the Reflections are all based off of the Source. It's just that Allag existed and developed their advanced technology that didn't need Electrope since holograms, robots and spaceships exist in the Source from Allag without Electrope. Another theory could be Allag did use Electrope in their technology and maybe exhausted all deposits since their empire spanned nearly the entire planet at their height and the Fourth Umbral Calamity may have buried any remaining deposits deeper underground perhaps?

[Basteala]

You're welcome lol.


To add to the tread topic, Electrope technology is also magic based where the circuits imprinted on the Electrope is based off the Arcanist runes from the South Sea Isles. So it actually fits into the lore, it just looks like Mass Effect but they explain the underlying concept of how it functions. This is speculation but I think it's reasonable that the Source would also have deposits of Electrope since the Reflections are all based off of the Source. It's just that Allag existed and developed their advanced technology that didn't need Electrope since holograms, robots and spaceships exist in the Source from Allag without Electrope. Another theory could be Allag did use Electrope in their technology and maybe exhausted all deposits since their empire spanned nearly the entire planet at their height and the Fourth Umbral Calamity may have buried any remaining deposits deeper underground perhaps?

Good points regarding the application of arcanistry to electrope--I forgot about that. Where Electrope is concerned I feel there are two possibilities--either the fact that there is electrope somewhere on the Source as you're saying, or it could be a side effect of the shard becoming so heavily aspected towards lightning, thus putting the conquest and submission of lightning and stone into a slight imbalance, allowing certain stone to become what we now know as electrope.

The theory you have with Allag is interesting, especially given the striking similarity between electrope's application and the art of aetherochemistry. The fact that the calamity the Allagans caused being the calamity of Earth might really give that theory legs.

Those are some very interesting thoughts.

[Asari5]

as far as i remember there was a limited amount of electrope on the shard.
when they relied more and more on it the balance tipped and created more electrope which resulted in them relying even more on electrope and fighting for it... which made the whole shard spiralling down faster and faster