Last time when I was playing NC my friend visited me. She was quite intrigued about the game and world so I think we will gain one more player soon But it's not point of this thread. When I was droning in aggie cellars we met acolyte mob that naturally dropped a firebolt on my drone.
Then the discussion started - how to explain existence of such 'magic' if the neocron world is earth but many years in the future? We went through parapsychology (pyrokinesis, cryokinesis etc.) but its was not very good explanation. If its just power of the mind and such powers could be found in everyone, why use glove implant then? It would be more logical if brain implant would cause possibility of using the thermal control.
We found some logical explanation after some brainstorming - glove is a tool to produce a cloud of nanobots that can be launched in the air, causing some effects. Set of nanobots is changed by replacing core module (a spell). To not increase the weight of glove, nanobots are powered by electricity produced by human brain.
-fire: nanites emit laser light that concentrated onto object raise its temperature till self-ignite.
-poison: bots collect pollution from air and concentrated launch it at target.
-energy: bots just discharge self to launch energy bolt onto target
shields (deflector, absorber, etc): bots emit energyfield same way as energyfield belts.
buffs: bots stimulates implants of the target to achieve additional benefits. Since limited power of bots, effect is limited.