I saw a tagline that said 'zuchai= dilithium" and decided to look into it.
First off, about dilithium: There was an original fhannish explanation that said dilithium was used to focus the output of a matter anti matter reactor into a useable form. Dilithium reacts to light by lasing, and is the galaxie's more efficient laser crystal. Even in room light, dilithium will emit faint laser emmissions, tho not visible to most people due to the faintness.
When exposed to the pure photonic energy emitted by a M/A reaction, the dilithium converts 99.999% of it into laser light, which is easy to harness, split, channel, focus, etc. Of course .001% is wasted as heat, which is why dilithium needs elaborate cooling systems.
Now the 'official' explanation, which is a load of BS, is that dilithium is the only element tin the universe that does not react with anti-matter and is used to channel anti-matter. Yeah, right, the fnahs explanation made more sense and I'll stick with it.
Either way, dilithium did not produce energy, just took photonic energy and converted it to a laser beam which could be directed and used more efficiently.
Zuchai, from what I've bene able to gather, does not produce energy either. it merely stores energy with extreme efficiency, and releases it quickly and efficiently under certain conditions.
So, a jump drive built with zuchai crystals instead of capacitors will be smaller, more efficient and reliable than a standard model using capacitors.
Of course zuchai crystals cost buku times more than capacitors, and are rare so most just engines use capacitors.
I think this is the right explanation of zuchai crystals, can comeone verify it? Also I've heard that zuchai was intorduced just to give traveller a new treasure/trade item type and they designers decided to make it like dilithium just for the hell of it, is that true?
First off, about dilithium: There was an original fhannish explanation that said dilithium was used to focus the output of a matter anti matter reactor into a useable form. Dilithium reacts to light by lasing, and is the galaxie's more efficient laser crystal. Even in room light, dilithium will emit faint laser emmissions, tho not visible to most people due to the faintness.
When exposed to the pure photonic energy emitted by a M/A reaction, the dilithium converts 99.999% of it into laser light, which is easy to harness, split, channel, focus, etc. Of course .001% is wasted as heat, which is why dilithium needs elaborate cooling systems.
Now the 'official' explanation, which is a load of BS, is that dilithium is the only element tin the universe that does not react with anti-matter and is used to channel anti-matter. Yeah, right, the fnahs explanation made more sense and I'll stick with it.
Either way, dilithium did not produce energy, just took photonic energy and converted it to a laser beam which could be directed and used more efficiently.
Zuchai, from what I've bene able to gather, does not produce energy either. it merely stores energy with extreme efficiency, and releases it quickly and efficiently under certain conditions.
So, a jump drive built with zuchai crystals instead of capacitors will be smaller, more efficient and reliable than a standard model using capacitors.
Of course zuchai crystals cost buku times more than capacitors, and are rare so most just engines use capacitors.
I think this is the right explanation of zuchai crystals, can comeone verify it? Also I've heard that zuchai was intorduced just to give traveller a new treasure/trade item type and they designers decided to make it like dilithium just for the hell of it, is that true?
