Quote:Interesting. Different approaches...
The GC crew did it differently, and more slowly -- taking two years to slowly grow a 'wavium hull, using local silicates as raw materials. One of the "specials"/"cool stuff" I'm calling in for my story is the idea that the coven can influence (slightly) what the 'wavium decides to do. Per rule 1, Handwavium is like a cat, but even a cat can be herded if 20 people work together on it...
Looking at the two large-scale projects, it seems that Grover's Corners was fashioned in a far more...careful and systematic fashion. The Islanders were a lot more haphazard and irresponsible in their land-conversion...saturating the ground with a special diluted 'wavium mix. Hence, the whole 'wave-pollution bit.
I'm guessing that Grover's Corners, then, is basically a giant bowl-shaped wavium hull...with unaltered soil and earth inside it. And then the buildings on top.
Kokuten's Hephaestus is on a smaller scale, but comparable...in the sense that it's a basket of concrete and sundry materials containing regular land.
In contrast, all the land that makes up the Island, all of it, is 'waved. To some degree.
Quote:The Island's original lift drive is a similar sort of uber-'waved device. I need to go back and edit the ship registry entry...I've developed the concept a bit more since I wrote that. The numbers are wrong anyway.
If the Grover's Corners handwavium drive is in fact a "real" spindizzy, there is no upper limit. We could just as easily have taken the whole county as the 250 acres.
But basically, the Island took off with an extremely powerful "antigravity" drive. The thing extends a field-of-effect to anything its in contact with...regardless of mass.
Well. Actually "antigravity" is a misnomer. That's what many of the Island crew call it. But what the device really seems to do is reduce effective mass. "Mass-reduction field" is more accurate.
IE, you still need rockets and such for propulsion, but what the rockets are pushing...suddenly seems a lot lighter.
-- Acyl