Limelight

> > “Is the imager ready?” Prof asked.

> > “Mostly,” Abraham said. “It’s one of the first things I set up.” He knelt beside a device on the floor connected to the wall by several wires. He turned it on.

> > Suddenly, all of the metal surfaces in the room turned black. I jumped. It felt like we were floating in darkness.

> > Prof raised a hand, then tapped on the wall in a pattern. The walls changed to show a view of the city, presenting it as if we were standing atop a six-story building. Lights sparkled in the blackness, shining from the hundreds of steel buildings that made up Newcago.

> Chapter 12, Steelheart, page 102

> > “The imager can show us anything?” I asked.

> > “Anything the basic spynet watches or listens to,” Abraham explained, standing up from the imaging device.

> > “The spynet?” I said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. I walked forward. This device was remarkable; it made me feel as if we really were standing on top of a building outside in the city, rather than in a box of a room. It wasn’t a perfect illusion—if I looked around closely I could still see the corners of the room we were standing in, and the 3-D imaging wasn’t great for things nearby.

> > Still, so long as I didn’t look too closely—and didn’t pay attention to the lack of wind or scents of the city—I really could imagine I was outside. They were constructing this image using the spynet? That was Steelheart’s surveillance system for the city, the means by which Enforcement kept tabs on what the people in Newcago were doing.

> > “I knew he was watching us,” I said, “but I hadn’t realized that the cameras were so … extensive.”

> Chapter 13, Steelheart, page 104

Of course it is, he said. What, you think projectors that magically render near three dimensional images on irregular surfaces, without causing shadows from the people inside, are NATURAL?

I honestly had no idea. But if he was offering a scan of the city, I'd take it.

I'ts one of the few I managed to mass-produce, like the technology for your mobiles, Knight hawk added. Most tech like this, it degrades significantly if you make more than one or two motivators from the cells. Not imagers though. Spark-mobiles don't even need Motivators, except the ones I keep here in the hub. Anyway, you want this imager file or not?

> Chapter 46, Calamity, pg 305