Radianite Technology

Radianite tech is technology that is powered or augmented by radianite. The use of radianite technology can often lead someone adept in using that technology to gain comparable abilities and capabilities to that of a radiant. Scaled up, radianite technology can even be used to carry out amazing feats such as the creation and powering of the geodomes in Lisbon of Ω-Earth.

It is not known how much radianite is required to power these devices, but it can be inferred from context. The defuser, for example, can function with a single radicore containing a piece of radianite about the size of one’s thumb. It can even be supercharged by vaporizing the radianite in the radicore. The geodomes, and possibly any other climate control technology of Ω-Earth, on the other hand seem to use massive amounts of radianite as can be inferred from the radianite shortage faced there.

## Uses

Radianite tech can be used for various purposes. Some of its uses are listed below:

### Weaponry and Combat

As a substance that produces quite a bit of power even from small amounts, radianite is used to power a lot of the weaponry and other utility that the Agents of VALORANT use. Most, if not all, of the tech used by them has some sort of derivation from radianite, and depending on the technology it can lead to the user being able to affect the environment as a radiant would be able to. Radianite tech can also be used to craft and operate more conventional forms of weaponry, as in the case of Chamber's *Headhunter* and *Tour de Force*.

### Increasing one’s abilities

Radianite tech can be used to strengthen one’s abilities or give them more abilities. Think of Cypher being able to directly interface into his network and increasing the distance at which he is able to collect information from or Viper’s tools that allow her to increase the area over which she is able to project her influence.

### Transportation

Radianite technology can be used to augment conventional vehicles to enhance their capabilities. At the very least, it can likely be used to increase the power of a vehicle’s engines. However, it can also provide more fantastical capabilities such as the ability to instantaneously accelerate or decelerate to, or from max speed as with the VP’s VLT/R craft in the *DUALITY* cinematic. Radianite tech also allows for the building and usage of teleportals to travel between two different locations, or even between universes.

### Control of radiance

Radianite derived tech has been used to help radiants control their radiance in cases where it is deemed necessary to allow them to live without the fear of causing harm to either themselves or the people around them. An example of this would be Neon’s Surge Protector that she wears on her back, made by her father who happens to specialize in making assistive tech to help radiants control their abilities.

### Disruption of radiance and radianite tech

Radianite derived tech can also be used to interfere, disrupt or even outright disable radianite tech and even one’s radiance. The best example of this is KAY/O’s *ZERO/point*, an anti-radianite all-purpose EMP knife that uses polarized radianite to disable both one’s radiant ability as well as the ability to deploy and use any radianite technology.

### Climate control/defence

Ω-Earth has been making use of radianite tech to control, stave off, and protect themselves from the effects of the climate crisis. We see this in the use of the geodomes of Lisbon as mentioned above. It may be possible that other measures are also employed for other situations.

## Capabilities

The capability of radianite tech mostly revolves around what the creator of the tech intended for the device. As such, the limits for radianite based tech revolve only around the amount of raw material available and the imagination of the creator. The technology can be extremely adaptable as well, being able to augment largely conventional tools, such as those used by Cypher and Sova, or being used in nanotech, such as those employed by Killjoy and Chamber.

The use of radianite tech can also lead to the enhancing of one’s capabilities. In the context of the VALORANT universe, we are mostly aware of this only in the case of combat capability. As alluded to above, the use of certain technology can allow a human to directly compete with that of a radiant. Think of Breach’s abilities, being able to cause mini-tremors, earthquakes and eruptions.

For the purpose of gameplay, the powers of most Agents in-game are watered down. This does not imply that the capabilities of the technology are limited to what is displayed, it's only there to ensure gameplay integrity. This is also the reason behind why several functionalities seen in cinematics are not available in-game, such as Killjoy’s turret being able to move in *DUALITY*.

## Ancient Radianite Tech

Some form of radianite tech seems to have existed in the past as well. While we may not think of these things as conventional technology, they do fulfill the roles that radianite tech have, namely controlling one’s radiance or giving them additional abilities. Examples of this kind of technology are currently found on Lotus and in artifacts such as Harbor's bracelet, Astra's arm, and Yoru's mask. To read the full discussion of radianite artifacts, head over to the Astral Guardians page.

## Notable Users

The most notable users of radianite tech are the tech-using agents of VALORANT. They are listed below:

VP-1 BrimstoneVP-2 ViperVP-4 KilljoyVP-5 CypherVP-6 SovaVP-12 RazeVP-13 BreachVP-17 KAY/OVP-18 ChamberVP-23 Deadlock

While this list comprises the tech users of VALORANT, you may notice that Yoru, Astra and Harbor are not on the list, despite their mask, gauntlet and bracelet being considered a form of ancient radianite technology. This is in part because of the fact that Yoru and Astra are radiants in their own right and also that the artifacts themselves are not technology in the way that one conventionally thinks about it. So, for this list we have chosen to omit them from the classification. This refers back to the classification conundrum Sage brings up with Brimstone in one of her emails sent to him. It is becoming harder and harder to classify what characterizes a radiant, and at some point it may even be the case that a radianite tech user becomes literally indistinguishable from that of a radiant.

## Media

Some in game content in relation to radianite tech used by the agents.

Killjoy's TurretViper's Snake Bite canisterSova's Owl DroneCypher's SpycamRaze's Boom BotThe VP VLT/R
## Notes

* While it is implied that all the tech used by the agents are radianite derived, and would therefore be why KAY/O is able to shut down the use of all of them without exception, it is possible that some of the tech is more radianite based than others. Raze's *Paintshells,* for example, might practically have no radianite in them. This is once again a case of gameplay first.
* The Nexus of Lotus is powered by the radianite energy stored by the plant life growing there. This is why it powered down immediately after a spike detonation, since it absorbs large amounts of radianite energy.

## References

1. ↑ The sequence in the DUALITY cinematic where the Defuser is used. Go
2. ↑ Riot ParmCheesy on the use of radianite tech by the VALORANT agents- from the June 2021 Reddit AmA. Go
3. ↑ Riot KingKut on the use of radianite tech by the VALORANT agents- from the June 2021 Reddit AmA. Go
4. ↑ Sage's email to Brimstone regarding classification of radiants. Go