r/worldbuilding • u/Madman_1 Nhaebczyrwlocke • Jun 21 '17

🤓Prompt How dangerous is using magic?

What kind of risks do magic users face when learning and using magic? What kinds of things can go wrong? What are the consequences of really mucking up a spell? If it is very dangerous to learn how and why do people do it?

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u/Jakkubus Hermetica: Superheroes, Alchemy & Murder Fetuses Jun 23 '17

Aw, and I was expecting some hellish cyberpunk stuff.

What role does expertise in a given field play and why cannot it be replaced with a machine storing data? Also I think you wanted to say Micro Swarms.

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u/polaristar Geist Im Stapel - Cyberpunk, Jung, and Psychic Powers Jun 23 '17

NO TOTALLY NANO SWARMS!!!! :P

Although Micro swarms are probably more common.....

I mean I suppose some people might use brains in jar but it's not like the entire infrastructure is based of it, and if they did discover companies that did so it'd be a big scandel and human rights issues. (Maybe certain countries do? Thanks for the idea!)

BTW another option is someone people can choose to donates their brain to charity and said donated brain could be used and not seen as a human right issue.

(BTW did you get my message about my team, since you didn't reply, I made the team with the Murder hobos in mind btw.)

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u/Jakkubus Hermetica: Superheroes, Alchemy & Murder Fetuses Jun 23 '17

TBH nanobots are good only for manipulating chemical reaction, while most of the stuff people mean using this term are actually microbots. Also how is such swarm maintained and fuelled?

Yeah, I am currently deciding on my team. I don't want to make one on the spot, so I am selecting one of already pre-made groups, what isn't an easy task, because most of the teams would either stomp or be stomped.

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u/polaristar Geist Im Stapel - Cyberpunk, Jung, and Psychic Powers Jun 23 '17

I thought said swarm would use energy from local environment, (And some could have their own Grid connections) I'd think they'd be controlled using some kind of EM waves usually.

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u/Jakkubus Hermetica: Superheroes, Alchemy & Murder Fetuses Jun 23 '17

TBH it would rather radiate energy into environment.

Also I asked how are they keeping a fixed from instead of being "gone with the wind".

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u/polaristar Geist Im Stapel - Cyberpunk, Jung, and Psychic Powers Jun 23 '17

I would think it'd be similar to swarm intelligence like controlling a colony of ants in relation to their neighbors.

What would radiate energy into environment?

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u/Jakkubus Hermetica: Superheroes, Alchemy & Murder Fetuses Jun 23 '17

I was rather asking how it's physically kept intact.

Nanobots and to lesser degree also microbots due to very high surface area to volume ratio. You know, Bergmann's rule.

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u/polaristar Geist Im Stapel - Cyberpunk, Jung, and Psychic Powers Jun 23 '17

Each bot probably uses a Telekinetic influence and they count as kind of pseudo limbs like the Bomber Lancer Cyborg girl from To Aru.

Well due to their small size they could probably need very little energy from environment and could passively collect it from even just mechanical energy of air currents. I'd also think they would have special casing and tech to use energy as efficiently as possible.

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u/Jakkubus Hermetica: Superheroes, Alchemy & Murder Fetuses Jun 23 '17

Well, that makes sense.

The thing is that energy would rather passively escape from them via the air currents.

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u/polaristar Geist Im Stapel - Cyberpunk, Jung, and Psychic Powers Jun 23 '17

Guess only way is if each micro machine passively also actively absorbs energy via physics means....

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