Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20130810030606/@comment-4830106-20130920185027

Alcreude-Meds wrote: BenRG wrote: ImposterParrotGrass wrote: Something I just realized: If Dust is mined, it's presumably finite. Maybe there's not much left, and humanity will need to deal with an energy crisis and the Grimm at the same time or something. Or maybe it's just the mines in the safe zones that are going dry, and people will need to venture into Grimm infested wilderness to find more. A lot depends on what Dust really is. If it's something exotic then, yes, there could be a supply issue unless it can be processed from mundane base components. That said, the human population, isolated as it is in the four City-States/Kingdoms, seems relatively small, probably less than 100 million, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue. It also kind of depends on what Dust is actually used for. So far we have seen it only used in weapons, but it's probably also the Vytal version of our Energy. If so, it would be used in a much wider range, causing it to be used up faster and leading into some kind of energy crisis. There needs to be a scientific definition of Dust. Is it a mineral, a fossil fuel (probably not) or an element? Or is it synthetic, at least in the form we see it?

Or is it something else entirely?