Patrikan Habaton – #15

Random letter 15

This letter was attached to your survey probe while you were surveying for energy matter near Screeching Hollow on Next Island. It seems to be in quite bad shape, as if it got lost by accident by a fellow miner that was surveying this territory. There seems to be liquid spilled over the letter.

Phlogiston

This energy matter that can only be found on Next Island captured my attention for the simple fact, that according to my knowledge it should not exist. Back in the 1700s there was a thesis from Georg Ernst Stahl that said it is a substance that exhaust during the process of burning any material. As far as I am concerned this thesis was refuted when in the 1780s people realized that Oxygen is used in the process of burning anything on earth. It is quite fascinating to find this energy matter which should theoretically not exist on a planet so far away.
Questions I need to research to this topic:

Is the refined Phlogiston more stable, so it can be used with no harm in the process of crafting?
Is the Phlogiston here on Next Island somehow linked to the special magic of the Haruspex?
Do the atmospheric properties of Next Island have any influence on the Phlogiston?
What are the reasons that Next Island seems to be the only Planet where Phlogiston can be found?

The easiest way of going about this first question is, to see what can be crafted with Phlogiston. As far as my research goes, Phlogiston in his unrefined form is not used in any crafting processes known today. This indicates that there is a core difference between that unrefined and refined state, besides the change of colour that appears when refining it. As for the refined state I saw free main categories of crafted goods that it is used for: Armours, Vehicles and Holographic Projectors.

It makes completely sense that Phlogiston is used in the process of crafting vehicles as a kind of power enhancer for the burning processes in the motor. Despite that it is quite surprising that the armours that are crafted with Phlogiston provide burn g res sta ce. A explo tion f r th..

The lower part of the letter is not readable anymore because of the brown liquid that is spilled over it.