Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27324808-20170125001334/@comment-29171447-20170323030020

@ fffffplayer:

You make some very good points as to why a "outside materials curse" would not fit into the KotOS story. I just have a few queschons concerning your points.

1. You say that Imagination and Maelstrom are not energy sources, but rather supernatural forces. I am fine if this is the way Imagination works in KotOS. However, I do dissagree with this view. Imagination is very different from electricity in the sense that it can be used to power magical spells, power up attacks, and even energize minifigures. Despite the fact that Imagination is more versitile than electricity, it still seems to act as an energy source in the same way. In LU, one's abilities were powered by the Imagination bar which was a limited source of energy. This isn't really a queschon, just a comment.

2. I guess I had assumed that if Maelstrom infected technology was brought to a non-infected planet, the Maelstrom would begin to spread. While this still seems logical to me, I now realize that this might not necessarily be the case. Once again, another comment. I don't know why I said that I have a few queschons when they're really all comments.

3. Your point that the outside materials idea misses the entire point of explaining why Morcia is in a perpetual medieval state makes sense. I can't argue with that! :P

4. Your point about it not being compatable with current descriptions of the curse is a good one as well.

5. Well, I guess that if everyone does have the power of Imagination within them, then Imagination wouldn't be foreign. Still, I disagree that Imagination (capital I) and imagination (lowercase i) are not seperate things. While imagination is certainly the conduit throug which you use the power of Imagination, and they are cerainly related, I still think that they are seperate things. That's just my opinion, however.

6. All in all, you make good points as to why the outside material idea wouldn't work. Nonetheless, my main objection to the electricity curse still stands. Why everyone doesn't go around with shotguns and RPGs and mortars and more, all of which do not use electricity. thedude and his forces have not reason to not be taking advantage of these technologies, yet they have not done so anywhere in the story. Additionally, as you pointed out, steampunk tech should still work in Morcia, so I see no reason as to why thedude doesn't use that. Maybe he's just not smart enough? Maybe the Nexus Force blockade prevents him from importing the necessary materials to create such technologies? Actually, this seems like the most plausible remedy to this problem. Perhaps the Nexus Force blockade prevents shipments of technology to Morcia in order to keep thedude from getting his hands on such non-electrical tech.

7. This brings up another queschon, however, which is how does the curse inhibit the electricty? For example, does the curse somehow affect the behavior of static electricty such as lightning?

Of course, we're probably overthinking all this. I'm sure if we just called it a anti-electricty curse, and never mentioned the effects it has on lightning, or any of the other specific details, no one would ever care. Except for us, of course. No non-KotOS reader would ever care. :P

So much for just "a few queschons." :P

@ Talmid: I had always beleived that the reasons for why minifigues re-spawn, while partially due to their imagination, had more to do with where the Nexus Force set up respawn areas to which one's imagination can return to after smash. The reason that minifigures smash permanantly in Morcia is because the Nexus Force has never set up any respawn points in Morcia. In fact, I had concidered having Shard and Blaze being part of the Nexus Force mission to set up the first NF base on Morcia, which would have then served as a Safe Area for respawning. Of course, either the mission would fail, or the Safe Respawn Area would be destroyed shortly after the mission succeeded, which is why minifigures still smash permananly on Morcia. Of course, this is just the way I have always viewed it. That's not to say this is the way it has to be. In fact, it actually makes sense that proximity to the Nexus would have some effect on a minifigure, as minifigures regenerated imagination simply by standing near the Nexus.