Reactive Ore/metals

[TRIX Rabbit]

I saw this in a dream (i see alot of OP2 stuff in dreams):

instead of not being able to stop the blight, they made an important discovery:
the Blight dies when it touches cesium! the cesium comes in contact with the membranes and such of the blight cells, and since they are full of water, and cesium doesnt like water, the cell explodes, and it has a domino effect. but it stops about 30 feet radius.

Where'd all this cesium come from, you ask?

well, while the blight was terraforming, the quakes opened up some faults on the planet, and it turns out that pockets of raw sodium and cesium came up thru the cracks. when the colonies discovered this, they quickly divised methods of mining these "reactive metals and ore" from cracks in the ground.

heres the reactive tech tree

Magma Refining + Rare ore Extraction + Vulcanology
Reactive Ore Applications(Adv,16sci)
=|Reactive Ore Smelter (3w, 2500C,200R)
=|Reactive Metal Storage (1w, 200C)

=Reactive Ore Purity

=Unstable Weapons Development
==Stellar Fusion Weaponry (Eden)
===|StarBlast (guard post, tiger only)
==Weak Nuclear Weaponry (Plymouth)
===|Nuclear Rockets (spaceport)
==High Energy Waves (both)
===|Gamma Wave Cannon (disables vehicle movement for ~50 Marks)
==Static Discharge Cannon (eden)
===|Storm Beacons (increases chances of storms happening at location)
==Seismic Insability Weapon (ply)
===|TerraQuake Generator (increases chances of quakes at location)

=Atomic Time Keeping (decreases production, training (including Workers), and research times everywhere)

=Blight Disspelling Research
==Blight Resistant Materials
===Blight-Proof Walls
==AntiBlight SuperBombs
===|ABSTRACT missle at starport (Anti Blight, Special Targeting Rocket, Active Cesium Trigger

=Fusion-Fission Power
==|Advanced Tokamak (1000P, 2400C, 1000R, 500RA
==Matter-Antimatter power
===|HyperMak (1750P, 2500C, 2000R, 1500 RA)

=Flash-Core Vehicles
==|allows Jaguar Production
==Cycle-Flash Core Vehicles
===|allows Cheetah Production
==Triple Weapon Vehicles
===|allows Lion Production

I still gotta wonder why all that cesium would be there.

[CK9]

I think a better question, is why you are dreaming OP2 stuff ALL THE TIME!

[Leviathan]

cuz op2 rocks.

ive not had a op2 dream for ages :*(

[dm-horus]

never had one. frankly, i think it would be scary to have one. being all 2d. creepy.

NO, i take that back. i dreamt the middle part of the op2 novella... does that count? i think it does.

[CK9]

well, I had a dream of an unbeatable mission.  had to launch the starship by mark 500, or else a super-fast blight would take the map, iterally, lol

[Leviathan]

my dreams were of playing op2

[CK9]

wait, what happened to the OP2 dream thread?

[dm-horus]

... it was just a dream O_O

[TRIX Rabbit]

I dont dream of playing the game (tho i do occasinaly), but i am a colonist, usually a scientist who works in an Advance lab in Plymouth, or a Residence Worker in Eden, and other things along this line.

maybe i play the colony missions too much

[Leviathan]

sounds cool

the op2 story is great to read

[Betaray]

I dream of op2 all the time, normally Im playing as eden on a huge multy map (like over 20 people at once, and the map is over 10,000x10,000)

I also drempt of some cool senerios, but unfortunally the more I think about the dream, the more I forget about it untill all I have left is fleeting imiges and a scant concept of what was happoning

I wish there was a pill or somthing you could take to recall your dreams, or a way to record them like in final fantacy

[CK9]

beta, start writing down your dreams the second you wake up.  Eventually, you will have complete memmory of them.

[leeor_net]

Just a note, the Tokomak reactors ARE fusion reactors. They're not fision. That's why we don't have active Tokomak's today (more energy used to produce a stable field for fusion than it puts out).

Oh, and cesium... this is a real material? I'll be looking that up.

Mind if I use some adaptations of this for OP3?  :heh:  

[dm-horus]

yes, cesium is a real element

[Hooman]

Cesium and Francium are supposedly the most reactive metals. Flourine is supposed to be the most reactive non metal. I've sorta wondered for a while what would happen if you mixed the two. Anyways, take a look at the periodic table, they're at opposite corners. (Hence why they're so reactive).

Btw: Cesium seems to be a popular choice for atomic clocks.
 

[dm-horus]

because it decays at a regular rate.

[leeor_net]

I'm just trying to remember what material it is that reacts violently when it comes in contact with water... is that a sodium compound of sorts? ... gee... it's been a long time since I've been in high-school.

[dm-horus]

sodium and potassium explode when they come in contact with water. by explode i mean violently, like an m-80 or more. when i was in college i made the mistake of wiping down a lab counter. i didnt know someone had left sodium shavings on the top, so when i wiped the water off i wiped it into the shavings and bam. it was little more than dust but it threw me across the room and really hurt my hand. the rag i was using was shredded. kickass!

[zigzagjoe]

ok, they dont explode THAT violently. I saw a demonstration in my chem class, yeah itthey sure react but they didnt explode. altho mayb as dust its another story. seems to me tho that there may have been something else on that counter or in the air.

[Stormy]

I believe that your Halogens react violently with water. (The ones with a -1 valence are pretty darn reactive.

[lordly_dragon]

-1 valence are not halogene ... the french name is :alcalin (family number one) and those if i remember well my last year science class react with water: LI NA K RB Cs Fr the reaction of a small piece into water and you see it burn and cracking up while floating and moving around on the top. the more you advance into the family the more its react.  

halogen (+1 valence) are used in many cleaning product like windex or chlorine bleach and in many type of soap mainly to kill germs.

 

[leeor_net]

So halogens are not reactive... :-)

I've seen chemicals react in the way that Horus was talking (something with water).

That if you have a good bit with a lot of surface area and if it's pretty pure you'll get a really good reaction. I had the opportunity to throw a chunk into a small pond (was part of our class, the teacher was kinda wierd)... I had to wear a glove and throw it out a good distance. All I can say is BOOM. Not like fire and whatnot but there was a very violent reaction.

[Stormy]

Must be nice *sigh*

our teachers don't let us do "dangerous" things like that  :rolleyes:  

[leeor_net]

They're not really supposed to. My teacher was just an eccentric old guy who loved life and hated rules... He was the first one to break them...  (thumbsup)  

[dm-horus]

my teacher wasnt cool like that, but was generally pretty open. i was too afraid to sneak any home to play with but "accidentally" throwing some into a puddle is fun

i got some nice fat curl shavings into some water, it wasnt just two or three or a little bit, it was a couple grams or so of it. i thought it was aluminum from the construction that was going on in our lab, so i thought nothing of wiping it up. dont forget, its used in military flares so its pretty strong all on its own.