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Theory #1: The Energy Properties of Metatron
The discovery of Metatron in the 2100s led to an unprecedented jump in energy technologies, particularly those projects based on vessel drive technology or power generation plants. Regardless of the importance or advances made in these fields however, no project exemplifies the use of Metatron so well as a military project undertaken in the 2160s.
The creation of the Orbital Frame.
The Orbital Frame is a humanoid weapon, not unlike Earth's current LEV technology. However, the use of Metatron in the Orbital Frame's veritable myriad of systems, being weapons, computers, thrusters, sensors, and even battle AIs allows for massively superior performance in all aspects. In 2167, the research of a Martian faction, led by doctors Rikoah Hardiman and later Rachel Links finally bore fruit in the first Orbital Frame, Idolo. Test runs showed the Frame's superiority index to be well over the levels of the standard Earth LEV. With the creation of Idolo, the LEVs were rendered hopelessly obsolete.
Granted, the tests showed the incredible performance of Idolo, but what about Metatron made the Orbital Frames so powerful? Even the scientists behind the Orbital Frame still do not fully understand the properties of Metatron. Theories are still being proposed about the nature of this wonder mineral; such as the one I am about to propose.
Metatron as it seems has much to do with extra dimensional happenings, such as the development of the Vector Trap. By applying high pressure and rotation to Metatron, a rift in normal space-time can be created for use as cargo space or ammunition storage (in anime, the Vector Trap seems to be a common occurrence-- angry women will frequently extract mallets from a Vector Trap to brain another male character over the head). Several Orbital Frames use Vector Trap technology in some way, such as Ardjet storing its Wisps inside a Vector Trap, or Jehuty pocketing the massive Vector Cannon inside a Vector Trap, or even Anubis' ubiquitous "teleportation" technique which uses a Vector Trap to compress the space between itself and its destination in order to cover great distances in a matter of microseconds, in addition to being pulled along by the rotating axis of the Vector Trap.
In addition, Metatron allows for the omission of an onboard reactor to power the Orbital Frame. With what would the Orbital Frame power itself with then? With no reactor, all internal combustion, nuclear, or otherwise chemical reactions would be rendered infeasible. Also, a reactor cannot function inside a Vector Trap due to the difference in physics inside Vector Space. Even were a reactor made to function properly inside, it would have no way of feeding power to the Frame. Currently understood forms of energy cannot travel freely inside of a Vector Trap as it is lost in the maelstrom of space and matter compression within nanoseconds of its departure from any solid surface (the Vector Cannon's blast of compressed space expresses photons due to the mass amounts of photons lost inside of Vector Space). Adding to that problem is no known form of energy reaction could produce enough energy to meet the massive energy requirements set out by Orbital Frames. Therefore, the only logical assumption that could be made in this case is that Metatron serves as a sort of collection point for a still mysterious form of energy not understood: Zero-Point energy.
Zero-Point energy is the energy in the vacuum which remains even when all else is gone-- matter, thermal radiation, electromagnetic radiation, all matters of understood matter and energy in the universe. What this theory proposes is that Metatron is not the energy source itself, but rather a sort of middleman. Orbital Frame power plants use Metatron's apparently natural Zero-Point absorption, at which point the Zero-Point energy is converted by the Metatron into usable forms of electrical or otherwise forms of energy for use by the Orbital Frame. Due to the extra dimensional nature of Zero-Point, as well as that of the Vector Trap, a reaction may happen between the two as the Zero-Point passes through the Metatron. Which reaction it may be is still under speculation, but the possibility that stands out the strongest so far is the "Vector Fusion" theory.
This theory portrays Zero-Point particles as extremely tiny particles, smaller than any subatomic or subquark level particle currently in existence. The Vector Trap, being an area of compressed space, is amplified in the highly refined Metatron used in Orbital Frames. As Zero-Point energy particles contact a molecular cluster of Metatron, they are drawn into a Vector Trap, which appears to originate at the molecular level. The smaller the area of Metatron, the smaller the resulting Vector Trap, and therefore the increased spatial pressure on contained matter. In this super-compression state, the Vector Trap compresses the component Zero-Point particles into denser, higher-mass subatomic energy particles to be used by the Orbital Frame. These subatomic particles are extruded from the Vector Trap before they can be lost inside Vector Space, and then are put to use in the various operations of the Frame.
This explains how Orbital Frames can stay in the air for near indefinite periods of time on gravity-bound planets, as they have a theoretically inexhaustible source of energy to power their thrusters. Also, the Zero-Point energy theory is reinforced by a surveillance video recovered from the ruins of a destroyed Raptor unmanned Orbital Frame. The video shows the activation of the Orbital Frame Jehuty while it careens down a canyon wall on the surface of Callisto. Jehuty, inside the container, is drawing massive green beams of energy from out of nowhere it seems. That 'out of nowhere' energy would most likely be the Zero-Point energy phenomenon explained in this theory. Also, in the Burst Attack of Orbital Frames in general, the Frame can be seen drawing energy into itself from the surrounding space. Why photons still manage to escape the Vector Trap effect is still unknown, and will require further study.
As of yet, this is currently the only theory I am aware of that seems to successfully explain the energy properties of Metatron. However, this simply remains a theory, until proven by actual scientific data.
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Note: Zero-Point energy is an actual physics concept, although not quite understood by today's scientific society, and I'd imagine not even in 2174, where ZOE2 takes place.
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