Hard Light

Hard Light is a novel technology used heavily in Steeplechase's various layers, and is the key to Steeplechase's rapid success.

The father of hard light technology is Emerich Dreadway. It is equivalent to magic and ghosts in the Blades of the Dark system.

Description
Hard Light consists of 'solid' holograms, projected from a single prism. Each construct has its own distinct prism which it must be projected from. The nature of how 'sentient' hard light constructs are is unclear. However, Emerich's trauma (taken in episode 10) makes him believe in the sentience and humanity of hardlight constructs.

Notable Constructs

 * Eustace Chabon, the grandfather at Whittle Around (one of Emerich's first hard light constructs).
 * The Clean (the getaway truck used during the scripted Gutter City Heist).
 * Scott Boldflex (modelled after Stimpson, the central love interest of Passion's Cove).
 * The Gallspire Tower (centrepiece of Ephemera, made up of multiple prisms).
 * Hardlight Gravel (a model of Gravel made to frame her for the murder of Sticky Fingers Paul Pantry).