Fun With: Higgs field manipulation (biotics)

[rhoenix]

As I'm preparing to write a Mass Effect fanfic to knock all the writer's dust off, there is a fairly significant idea that's going to be a running theme as I see it so far, and I want to make sure I'm not missing something significant before I do.

Which is, the idea of biotics - the ability to manipulate the effective mass of an area or object, and manipulate it thereof. The closest proper science-ish analogue I can find is basically Higgs field manipulation, just for terminology's sake.

In the games, it's shown that biotic humans (at least, don't know about the other species) go through many more calories than a non-biotic, heavily implying that all the energy necessary to generate the effects are effectively stored within the biotic, and not drawn from external sources of any kind.

As an extension of this idea, where I'm going with this is being able to draw energy to generate the biotic effects from external sources, using the self simply as a catalyst, instead of power source and catalyst in one.

1. If this is logically possible, what are some reasonable limits for doing so?

2. What are some possible direct side-effects from doing this? (For instance: ambient air temperature dropping, or nearby power sources getting directly drained, etc.)

3. What are some possible effects in-universe of this knowledge being discovered/rediscovered? (To elaborate - if this is a satisfying reason that Asari are more powerful biotics baseline than other species, versus this aspect being discovered that all species can take advantage of with proper training, and what political/societal effects this might have)



My thanks in advance.

[rhoenix]

Just FYI - thanks to some pointed observations by both Cynical Cat and Hotfoot, I'm dropping this idea.

The main problem is that a part of me is still irritated with how ME3 worked out, and I keep picking at it like a sore tooth - leading me to basically a creative dead-end. Due to the lack of strong story of character drivers for what I want to do, I default to the details - from which one cannot derive or craft a story.

So, I'm going to do the fanfic warm-up thing with another universe that I don't have emotional baggage with - Warframe, a universe for which there is much storytelling potential, though in-game lore and such has been rather sparse thus far.

My thanks regardless to everyone for reading, and previous assistance in these sorts of threads.