Natans he/him Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) By WOB recently this was saidMe: Can you use hemalurgy to power machinery?Brandon: He was initially confused as to what I meant, so I said I got the idea from thinking about FTL travel, and he said that it was a RAFO, but that I was thinking along the right lines, there needs to be a merger between magic and technology. So, if we need we need something of be a merger between science and magic. How about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code Put a allomancer, (well the better part of him at least) in a "matrix" machine device. We are in a sci-fi setting, so lets' say insert some cranial neural electrodes mambo-jumbo to active the "almost but not quite" allomancer body using his power but at same time that you have precise controls of what is going on and voilá a very creepy Bio-FTL-Allomancer drive.Or we have the something between in this way, like if you wanna play square, use Hermalurgy to put in, let's say, a cloned body without conscious the required allomancer power to act like the bridge and tcharammmm less creepy Bio-FTL-Allomancer drive. (Ethical concern plot problems are a bonus)In a more serious way anybody asked to Brandon if the Hermalurgy could be used to give Allomancer powers to animals ? I think that readed that Kandra could receive a spike with allomancer power, but never if a dog or such could. If the answer is yes we could have something of Bio-FTL driver really going on. Crazy? Possible? Jujubes ? =) Edited January 22, 2015 by Natans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kipper he/him Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 In a more serious way anybody asked to Brandon if the Hermalurgy could be used to give Allomancer powers to animals ? I think that readed that Kandra could receive a spike with allomancer power, but never if a dog or such could. If the answer is yes we could have something of Bio-FTL driver really going on. Crazy? Possible? Jujubes ? =) Well, we know that cats can certainly receive hemalurgic spikes, so I don't see why dogs couldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 I think the running theory is that you just use the spike with the Allomantic spiritweb attached, not a whole person. There's some interesting stuff going on with the Southern Scadrians and Allomantic technology so hopefully we'll see it in the next trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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