Trope-a-Day: Power Glows
Well, I’m back from my holidays, in the same place as all my source material and, possibly most importantly, my big screens and comfortable writing chair.
Normal service should, therefore, be resumed as soon as possible.
Or tomorrow, anyway.
Power Glows: Technically, it doesn’t have to. Regular vector-control effectors don’t produce light, they just quietly work, and those implanted ones used to create technological psychokinesis could do the same thing.
Of course, on one hand, it can’t be denied that shedding waste energy as photons outside the body is probably significantly more healthy than dumping it directly into the bloodstream as extra heat.
On the other hand, there are other places where it could equally well be dumped.
On the gripping hand, it looks awesome. (And under the right circumstances, intimidating.)
And that’s that pretty much decided.