AR: (EN) Create point source

Arcane Energy: powering the world
Every magical device, whether a wand, a rod, a magical engine, a portal between planets – they all need power. In the Speculation system, no matter the specific setting or campaign, those devices will be powered by a point source.

Whether the point source is self-contained or harvests ambient energy, the critical function is creating the conduit that supplies energy to whatever the device happens to be: whether it's as small as a ring or as big as a floating city.

Types of Point Sources
No matter the campaign setting, the majority of point sources in Speculation games will be arcane crystals. These come in a variety of configurations, capabilities and capacities. This is roughly analogous to batteries, capacitors or fuel, with the commonality that they are "stored charge" sources.

The other category are channeling point sources, which harvest ambient energy. These are usually a little more exotic, and are roughly equivalent to arcane windmills, watermills, geothermal, tides and so forth. This is a device or a network that draw the natural "magic" in from the universe and concentrate into a usable point source.

Some offer the equivalent of microvolt trickle charge, while others can produce so much power that they can propel a space craft to break the speed of light the old fashioned way: raw, asymptote-shattering acceleration.

Each campaign setting will have its own texture and terminology, with some areas maximizing these rules, while others may only partial dip into this catalog, depending on the maturity of that world's arcane research and development.

Creating the Point Sources
Enchantment is one of the few areas where someone without personal attenuation or no Arcane Practice (AP) skill can "make magic." This is where Arcanology is applied: the mechanical actuation of the wavelengths that allow attenuation in a fun-4 environment.

The arcanology skill by itself only takes a practitioner so far. In order to create stored or channeling point source, they'll need a level of fun-4 science and engineering, usually some sampling of chemistry, crystallography, metallurgy and so on.