Thread:PisceanWaterbender/@comment-26397825-20170726023133/@comment-25936766-20170730023957

@SYUTK has also mentioned Force Dust would be too similar to Gravity from a scientific standpoint, but I don't know what else they could call it. If Cyan powers everything electronic, and creates hardlight, then "Barrier" wouldn't cover enough of it. Speaking of me, here I am.

Gravity Dust is already Kinetic Force in practice, so, not even from a scientific standpoint but from a writing standpoint, "Force Dust" would just be a reskin of Gravity Dust.

But one way that would be more acceptable is that Barrier, is at most a different form of the same element, like Water and Ice. In this case, if Gravity is a kinetic push or burst, then make Barrier act like a Wall that stops what it touches or is touched by.

..........Of course, while that would make sense for the Barriers, there's the fact that the Mistralian trains in V4 had cyan lines too, and given their length and size I doubt that, assuming they're Barrier Dust, they're there to act as simple brakes. If Barrier stopped, why would you use it to move a train? Why would you cover a good deal of the train in it?

But that is, of course, all based on the idea of Barrier Dust being some sort of Kinetics-related Dust.

Based on the idea of Barrier = Hardlight..............it actually makes far less sense. Light exerts a certain amount of force on solid objects, sure, which is part of the idea behind Solar Sails (which, FYI if you didn't already know, actually exist), and the reason a powerful-enough laser could push things.

But, for starters, it's the kind of thing that requires an extreme amount of energy to even be noticeable. You don't feel crushed down by light everytime you turn on a lightbulb or even a dozen, after all.

Now, if we take Hardlight as "literally-solid light", then it could excuse the Barriers, and partially explain "solid holograms"....but wouldn't really explain the Cyan lines on the train.