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Cinder Spires Spoilers / Re: Thoughts about "Iron Rot"
« on: October 16, 2015, 02:07:45 AM »Quote
Remember, people no longer live on the surface, but in high altitudes where oxygen should be thinner. However, everyone seems to be relatively fine. So maybe, one of the reasons why people have left the surface, is because there's just too much of an abundance of oxygen down at the surface.
Great point! I hadn't thought of that but it makes sense. Just to add a somewhat terrifying aside, the main reason insects only get so big on Earth is because they have a weird respiratory system that relies on air entering a bunch of itty bitty tubes all over their body. If they get too big, they can't move enough oxygen into those tubes (because there's nothing to really pump it in or out) to survive. If oxygen concentrations were higher, bugs could get a whole lot bigger, which might explain the size of the silkweavers (even though spiders have a different respiratory organ than insects) and maybe some of the other terrifying critters roaming around on the surface of Kashyyyk, uh I mean the Cinder Spires world.
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Also, the crystals seem more of a focus/battery for etheric energies, from my perspective. They basically pull energies from the air, and convert them to energy that can be used. So that's a point for strong electromagnetics.
Yes, that was my thought too.
It also occurred to me that they might be on a moon orbiting a really big gas giant rather than on a planet with it's own extremely powerful EM field. IIRC, Jupiter, by far, has the strongest magnetosphere of all the planets in our solar system. If the Cinder Spires world were a moon orbiting a Jupiter-like planet in the habitable zone of a star system, the planet's magnetosphere could be the source of all that etheric energy in the book. Science-wise it makes far more sense to have a gas giant generating a gigantic EM field rather than a rocky planet, but there was no mention of a really huge planet hanging out in their sky in the book, so maybe not.
