Power Core; how does it work?

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or the power orb, energy sphere or hyper-ownage-ar2-secendary-fire-thingy if you prefer.
First time I used it I was OMGWTFBBQWHEREAREMYANTLIONSGONE11111111:eek:
But what the hell does it do? In true R&S spirit I've made up a theory to try to pointlessly explain something that's pretty much only for gameplay.
I think they use dark energy somehow because they are in the citadel which has a dark-fusion reactor and such. I think maybe it converts matter into dark energy somehow which as anyone who understands the E=mc2 exqation knows would produce quite an amount of power. This also explains the citadel digging and giant wall-teeth because any would matter is then suitable for this procces.
 
High energy particles compressed into singularity....mmmmaybe....
 
A really tiny amount of anti-matter in a containment field?
 
But then it would take chunks out of walls too.
 
Try asking the Combine; they might tell you how their weapons work. lol
IMO, it's like the BFG #000 in alot of games. :) Guaranteed to pwn anyone in it's path. ;)
 
Sulkdodds said:
But then it would take chunks out of walls too.
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Maybe it only works on loose material?
And nobody come along and say that it only works on NPCs and not object because I know. Hey! New theory! It destroys anything with a soul, thus explaining why it doesn't work on dead bodies!
 
ríomhaire said:
No. That wouldn't explain it.
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Didn't really think so. Probably doesn't have an explanation in known physics anyway. :)
 
As we seem to have no idea of how this works I will now unleash the great catch all phrase as to how this works:
Very carefully.

Other wise? er... I'm with Eejit as to the "no explanation in known physics"
 
The thingy is actually a semi-rubber ball with millions of nano-robots inside it.
The nano robots spill out when it hits something and automatically scans for signs of life.
If it is determined that the subject is alive, the nanobots automatically goes into kill mode, incinerating and electrocuting with antigravity devices implanted in them.
 
15357 said:
The thingy is actually a semi-rubber ball with millions of nano-robots inside it.
The nano robots spill out when it hits something and automatically scans for signs of life.
If it is determined that the subject is alive, the nanobots automatically goes into kill mode, incinerating and electrocuting with antigravity devices implanted in them.
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Then why are they used to power things?
 
The nanomachines run continuously on tiny, tiny treadmills.
 
They are activated by heat... heat from laser beams that they hover by in generators, and body heat. The energy they release can't be held within the body it hits, so that thing is destroyed. They always need some form of heat or they will explode (after bouncing off walls without hitting things...)
 
ríomhaire said:
Then why are they used to power things?
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They are not actually the "batteries", they maintain the steady electric current with high electromagnetic radiation caused by the antigravity devices. The more = the more stable, none = current mess-up -> power failure.
 
But its not only weapon, its mainly power source (for shields....).
 
To the above.

They are not actually the "batteries", they maintain the steady electric current with high electromagnetic radiation caused by the antigravity devices. The more = the more stable, none = current mess-up -> power failure.
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Maybe they are some mini-teleportation-spheres with some lovely physical properties
 
ríomhaire said:
Maybe it only works on loose material?
And nobody come along and say that it only works on NPCs and not object because I know. Hey! New theory! It destroys anything with a soul, thus explaining why it doesn't work on dead bodies!
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sounds like my ex...:|
 
from my understanding of the game it's supposed to be dark matter contained in a high energy field "bubble" my roommate and I discussed this for a few hours after we had both beaten the game... and decided there is simply no possible answer in modern science because in the game the bubbles move at different speeds and intervals even passing through eachother in the tubes if it were a form of power using dark matter this would be entirely impossible and if 2 of the bubbles hit eachother the universe would implode... so we decided how the game describes the games features is wrong and how it actually should be is as follows the generator condenses large amounts of energy into transport spheres the shell is then pumped full of superheated lighter than air inert gas creating a plasma sphere which in modern practice would vaporize anything it hit... but in future practice does not because everything in the area would be designed to withstand the immense radiation produced by the generator so instead the plasma spheres cause the strange reaction of floating biological matter...

none of this theory can be disputed because in modern science we have absolutely no idea how truely superheated materials react as we have no way to contain them
 
Who says it has to be super heated it is probably some undiscovered energy from the combine planets and if it is a new type of energy we would have no way of explaning how it works without a sample of it or Maybe its a contained nuclear reaction which would explain why it turns things it hits into energy if you guys want to here more about my contained nuclear reaction theroy just say so and I'll tell you how it would work.
 
contained nuclear reaction? thats a fine theory if the orbs didn't pass through eachother... theres plenty of options that work if the orbs didn't move at different speeds and intervals but their ability to pass through eachother cuts out nearly every option plasma spheres are basically weak nuclear it's the only power source I know of that would produce the energy needed and be able to pass through another source of power without having massive negative effects
 
Maybe the energy contained with in the orbs needs a certain amount of carbon and other elements found in life forms to react thats why it only effects organics and just bounces off walls, and like I said it could always be a new state of matter or some undicoverd form of energy.
Solids,Gas,Liquid, Plasma,?????
Guys what would you call the fifth form of matter?
 
Uh... I dunno. Fiftomatter? Some sort of theoretical particle form? When plasma has so much excess energy it breaches the actual "walls" of accepted space time and enters a state that's never been observed before?

Hmm, that's a neat concept. I'm going to steal it.
 
Is it possible that this weapon is not based on real science at all? I mean, everyone was probaly sitting around and someone said: "Hey lets make the scondary fire a disenagrating ball of energy".
 
lol it does sound pretty cool. I mean that would be amazing, and it would also have so many strange properties it could explain a lot. If it breaches accepted space time then it probably would be essential to teleportation and even time travel it could lead to a lot of things and if the people in the game have discovered this new form of energy it might explain why the g-man is so powerful he could have tons of tech built around the fifth state of energy.
 
ríomhaire said:
Power Core; how does it work?
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As far as the game is concerned, it works on science fiction. :D

I think RandomX's heat theory fits. But I'm no physicist.
 
here's some thing I had thought up a while ago (it got somewhat disproven, but I don't remember how, so here it goes)
the IR uses small compressed orbs of antimatter for ammunition. it is compressed two different ways- one, in the round clip, and the other in the little pill-type things that are for the secondary. The secondary, when you fire it, ahs some sort of swivelly thing inside, it looks almost like DNA, and I think that is a computer that helps the orb differentiate between organic matter and non-organic. When it touches organic stuff, the antimatter expands and when it comes into contact with the organic matter, it cancels each other out. The sparks are the brain's electrical currents and the remains of the computer fizzling out of exsistance.

The reason it would ony work on living bodies, might be because it reacts to the electrical brain currents and whatnot going through the synapses, which goes alogn with the sparks. Oh, oh, and when it's used in the citadels and stuff, in the laser things, it's like a replacement for wires, and the balls carry aroudn massive amounts of data and electrical energy/input whatever, and when you grab them and shoost them with the gravity gun, the electricity reacts to the energy in organisms which is charged differently, and not to the combine machines (which are charged the same way as the ball). I bet when people touch combine machinery, they get a little shock :O

btw, dark matter could replace antimatter in this thesis, I think.
 
AIDisabled said:
I thought it was Plotonium. :D
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And here I was thinking it was by Sarcasm!

Oh, and perhaps the balls of energy just burn mollecules and cells at a level so hot that it's white.
 
sinkoman said:
And here I was thinking it was by Sarcasm!

Oh, and perhaps the balls of energy just burn mollecules and cells at a level so hot that it's white.
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Shit, I was sure it was Sequelinium.

(Okay, I'll quit while I'm ahead. Of myself.)
 
You ever read Singularity by William Sleator? If you didn't know what a singularity was, you can read that...
 
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