BBeast said
It's getting exciting.I have a few questions. One about these events specifically and a couple about this world in general.Are these shuttles armed? If so, with what?Hosts gain spirit by taking it from other hosts. When they gain this spirit, does it add to their maximum levels, or does it only stock up their supply with a finite amount of spirit meaning that it runs out and needs to be replenished by killing more hosts?It mentioned in the history that the first core found exploded, taking out a mountain. Yet despite this latent energy in cores, there does not seem to be much concern about them being harnessed by anyone as strategic weapons (ie. nukes). Why is this? And, hypothetically, if I melted down a core so it stopped being crystalline, would its ability to hold energy cease and thus it release all its energy catastrophically?
Hell yeah it's getting exciting.
1) None of the shuttles are armed, but they have sliding doors that can be opened mid-flight so mercenaries can look bad-ass shooting rifles out the side of these flying boxes.
2) Spirit regenerates automatically with rest. Just like physical energy can be completely replenished with a good night's sleep (although it may take a bit longer for spirit). Absorbing another host's spirit increases the maximum amount of spirit in a host and strengthens that host's control of spirit.
3) The first core founded was an ancient core that was a concentrated mass of extremely unstable energy. Regular cores are mined from deposits using extremely cautious equipment. They are then refined (we can say that this process "dilutes" the cores instability) into smaller gem-like shapes (every day "cores") that can only be harnessed using special reactant metal (Sparker). Of course, maybe some experts, authorized personnel, or military officials have access to more unstable cores which may have fallen into the wrong hands during the catastrophe, but other than that, people aren't carrying around "nukes" as much as batteries. Can you make a bomb out of a battery? Yes. But that's not really what everyone is doing.