HRogge Wrote:One possible "in universe" reason for this is that Handwavium does not react well to bureaucratic organizations. Which means that the organized exploitation of Handwavium often hits "creative" roadblocks. Another reason might be that Governments do not want Handwavium to spread through the Industry, because they fear a complete lack of control.Best case, a government trying to create something with Handwavium gets something so quirked out, that only a very small percentage of the people it was intended for can actually use it effectively, either because it forces procedures that are well outside any "sane, normal" operating procedure, or because few people can effectively optimize operations around the quirk. A prime example would be an engine that needs a different song of a particular "type" a day to operate at anything near 100%, and that type does not cleanly correspond to a genre of music, or a band, or even a theme, such as "inspiration to kick some social ass" music.
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"You know how parents tell you everything's going to fine, but you know they're lying to make you feel better? Everything's going to be fine." - The Doctor