Vault 404, B4 level reading room.
The holographic screen floating above the coffee table was showing footage of the airships crashing, including the sea of fire that blossomed after their fall.
Herya clicked her tongue and casually remarked, "How cruel." Then she turned and left the reading room, returning to the lab to continue her work.
War was not something that interested her.
And technology related to gravitons was not her field of research.
Yin Fang, meanwhile, stood with his arms folded, staring blankly at the two airships as though silently calculating something.
Chu Guang, seated on the sofa, was also watching the holographic screen, though his focus was somewhat different from that of ordinary people.
For example, the first thing he noticed was that the airships' descent-speed curve was not uniform. Their acceleration kept changing, fluctuating wildly up and down.
That was actually easy enough to understand.
First of all, the partial-derivative shield's deflection efficiency differed depending on the material. Generally speaking, the higher the atomic number, the stronger the deflection effect.
The partial-derivative shield was based on graviton interference, and gravitational wells operated on similar principles. By the same reasoning, materials with higher atomic numbers were more affected by gravitons, producing stronger interference effects on a macroscopic scale.
For instance, metal would fall faster than carbon-based lifeforms.
Furthermore, the uneven changes in the airships' downward acceleration might also have had something to do with an uneven distribution of gravitons across the surface of the gravitational well.
On top of that, the airships themselves experienced a certain amount of air resistance while accelerating.
But taking that discussion any further would have become overly academic and exceeded the limits of his knowledge.
Just as Chu Guang was about to ask Yin Fang beside him what he thought, Yin Fang suddenly