Lanternium Power Cell

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Name:  Lanternium Power Cell 
Notes:  Perhaps the earliest devised application for powdered Lanternium, these power cells have since become a common sight across the Zodiac Empire. Though some slightly different external designs exist, the internal components remain consistent throughout.
Contained within every power cell is a slurry comprised of powdered Lanternium suspended in a superconducting fluid. Rotating impeller blade mounts spin the slurry to allow the Lanternium particles to charge up. This charge is then extracted to power almost anything and everything in the Empire, with some limitations. Translucent sections allow for a visual check of the Lanternium’s glow in order to manually judge charge level.
Unfortunately, Lanternium power cells have a flaw. If a user draws the charge out unto depletion, the cell is useless until it can recharge itself. While this has its uses as a feature in some applications, others see it as a weakness. As such, scaling up with current technologies reaches a finite point where the input/output ratio is to low to be of value.
Successive generations of power cell have become more and more effective and efficient. Faster recharging, less required input, greater output....as the technologies improve, the value of these power cells increase exponentially.
Though technologies do exist to allow for immaterial based manipulation of the slurry, and some designs do make use of these, the vast majority of Lanternium power cells utilize mechanical based oscillation.
Category:Technology