Automous Microwave Power Grid

The Autonomous Microwave Power Grid or AMP grid, is a collection of satellites, reactors, and transmitters that are the source for widespread availability of power, also known more commonly as The Ether.

As their operations became more widespread during the Impact Winter, the Colony needed a way to provide power to its many autonomous robots and constructs globally. The solution was to create a satellite constellation that would beam microwave energy down to the planet, which could then be collected and converted into useable DC power.

The power would first be generated by three massive fusion generators off of the eastern coast, and then be sent to a transmission station at the top of a nearby mountain range. The power would be transmitted into space and relayed through the satellite network until it completely covered the planet. The "Magic Crystals" used to pull energy from the Ether, are in actuality just simple rectennas, rectifying the wireless microwave energy into DC.

The AMP grid was the last project to be fully completed by the colony prior to the collapse.

In the new age, the origins around the Ether and how it operates are a mystery.

The fusion reactors use seawater for both fuel and for cooling. Seawater is sucked into the reactor where heavy water and lithium are extracted. The heavy water is then stripped down into it's base deuterium, which is fed into the nuclear plasma along with the lithium as fuel. As approximately 1 in every 6,400 hydrogen atoms in seawater are deuterium, a large portion of water must be filtered to provide the necessary fuel. The seawater is also used to evaporatively cool the reactors, creating an absolutely tremendous amount of steam and water vapor that must be emitted from each reactor tower. This steam creates a fog that surrounds the reactor complex, shrouding them from observation and creating a "forbidden zone". The steam also rises high into the atmosphere where it is blown inland, eventually condensing against the Osey mountains and over the village of Rainworth. This is why the village is in a perpetual rainstorm.