Getting Ahead With Science (OOC)

[KnightDisciple]

OOC thread for our shenanigans with Fenris, Voltage, Doktor Archeville, and Cyberknife/Miss Americana (with possible input from AA!).

No rolls just yet, but perhaps soon!

[Avenger Assembled]

Voltage finds that the interior of the drone is almost all conductor - there are almost no 'thinking' circuits here, just systems designed to absorb powerful impulses from elsewhere. No wonder they all fell down as soon as the main control unit was shredded! The internal systems are like the reverse of the wiring he's familiar with, aluminum wrapped around something exotic in the middle - he's not familiar with what it is, but from his tests it appears to be a room-temperature superconductor made of some exotic silver alloy!

[KnightDisciple]

I'm going to have Magnus roll a Knowledge: Technology and Knowledge: Physical Sciences check, to try and determine what the alloy is!

K: T: 28

K: PS: 19

TK, Dok, feel free to roll! We'll see what AA tells us about the stuff I guess...

[Dr Archeville]

Dok's got his mind on Enhanced CHA (so he doesn't seem like a goober in front of you all), and I'm going to say he can't use his "MW tools" through the holo-link, so he's at +16 on most Craft and Knowledge skills.

He's got Skill Mastery on Knowledge (Technology), so that's a 26.

Knowledge (Physical Sciences) roll (1d20+16=31) :science:

[Avenger Assembled]

Here's what you guys find out:

The superconductor appears to be a previously unknown isotope of silver, Ag108, which was thought to have far too short a half-life for any industrial purposes. Somehow this variety of Ag108 is stable, its extra electrons actually accelerating electrical currents passing through it. Once given an initial 'push' of energy, these drones could theoretically keep moving without an outside source of power, even if that push came years or even decades after their construction.