>>32116814Viviparous reptiles! Kino! Now this thing is really coming together. Going to copy paste this whole discussion into a file for the day I decide to write the "Underworldian Cave Ecosystem" rentry.
Chaos chuubanite... In a way, heat IS chaos, waste heat is what all ordered energy in the universe eventually degenerates into. Hmm, this might be a bit out there, but what if high concentrations of the stuff converted all energy to heat? Namely, vibrational energy, rotational energy, and stress energy, as other forms of energy are frame independent. That would give some flavour to why Bae-type chuubanite is particularly good at emitting heat, since that is a power that most chuubanite types are able to do as a base. Some applications:
Heat up a room by spinning a chuubanite crystal
Dampen the motion of a rotating shaft by attaching chuubanite to it, which absorbs its rotational energy
Brake a spinning wheel without friction by activating chuubanite attached to it
Obviously it would still have all the psychological effects as well.