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I get it, but why wouldn't it be differences?
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Well if we assume they exist, how do they work on a rough scale?
They absorb basically any energy within a certain radius, depending primarily on the size of the crystal. The size also determines how much can be absorbed. Once enough energy is absorbed, the crystal becomes "saturated", and any energy added beyond that point pushes energy already stored within the crystal out, emitting Calzantine radiation, which is uniquento these crystals. This radiation can be "filtered" through specific other materials to create interesting effects, the ones which you see used frequently in combat and, as I was going to say in one of my lore segments, Alliance prisons cells.