Hieronymous Device/meta

Hieronymous Device Metadata

• It must be stressed that this legendary Device is first mentioned in the Galaxiad and thus must be taken with a grain of salt. Where the researchers, writers, directors and producers found this plot prop or trope is subject to debate. Though only one known appearance of the Hieronymous Device is identified and named such, it likely falls in other story lines under other names in myriad languages.
• It is conjectured that the Hieronymous Device is a radically advanced version of the Nexus Linkage Device and enhances two drives of the same type, making one the exponent of the other's rating as opposed to the Nexus being merely additive. Such Tech Levels breach TL-16 at the earliest.
• It is guessed that the Hieronymous Device most known in the Galaxiad was mistaken for a Nexus Linkage Device found aboard the legendary Annic Nova derelict starship discovered in the Golden Age circa 1105.
• It may be the Hieronymous Device was responsible for heralding the Pastoral Age breakthrough discovery of Hop-1 drive capability by further understanding of the interplay of two like fields, (Jump Bubble in this case).
• It is not known if the Hieronymous Device, perhaps found aboard the Annic Nova, is the only one of its kind. The starship and its other wonders were of no known Race's creation.
• The Galaxiad nature of this topic lends itself to discredit due to the tendency for dramatization and thus comes under further scrutiny despite the later discovery of Hop-1.

Nomenclature

• Note that Hieronymous is a misspelling, perhaps a quirk of Anglic that has changed the name Hieronymus, as in Hieronymus Bosch, to an adjective via a suffix. This can lead to further linguistic debate whether the Hieronymous Device is likened to Bosch's artwork in melding two disparate subjects of the same Kingdom into a chimera-like system, each enhanced and hindered by the contributing subjects.