I've not experienced it. Ether seems a miraculous discovery, though. The losses in the Second Great War would be even higher without it, that much seems certain.

( They aren't here to talk about science. It would be a welcome distraction, honestly. )

So... if you came back, it doesn't seem like rifters just stop existing when we disappear. And yet, if we disappear-- it sounds like electricity power on and off. It's still there, just not in use, so the bulbs don't light up.